Presented by Plug 1 and Plug 2

First Serve (Trugoy & Posdnuos) – Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along

Seems like more of a Jungle Brothers show than a Native Tongues reunion but I can dream right? Music by none other than Kool DJ Red Alert. link

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
De La Soul – Mr. Big Mouth / snippet

via Jay Smooth

I don’t understand this video but I watched it. Maybe in Paris De La are sex symbols? Video is from Last Night’s Party, known for highlighting sexuality & music via HipsterRunoff. Cause we all know sex gets clicks. Sex and lists.

De La Soul – The Return of DST

Peace to frolab

update: Dj Matthew Africa offers more background on the tribute here (via)

Excellent footage of De La from their recent Paris show. Link

This video focuses on Scratch’s experience. Performance featured De La Soul, Amadu & Mariam & more. Visit the official site for Africa Express. Looking forward to more footage.

Africa Express is a series of collaborative events that encourage musical exchange between African artists and their Western counterparts.

Can’t wait till they hit the NYC stop of their tour next week. link

You were 19 years old when you made 3 Feet High—and seemed so unself-conscious about the sorts of things teenage boys are normally self conscious about. Rapping about talking fish in “Tread Water,” for example…

Well, I think we were independent, but also with us being around each other, like minds help just put more confidence in what you’re doing, and you don’t feel like you need to sway away from it. And being in high school even right before, while we were even working on a lot of material, you know, we hung around a lot of really cool people, we weren’t, like, nerds or anything, but we just had our own way of thinking about things and dressing. And like I said, people around you sort of gravitate toward you because you find yourself thinking the same, trying the same things. So I mean we all love what Run-D.M.C. did or was still doing, or Rakim or all the rappers at the time. Even Public Enemy, for that matter. But we just knew that we just naturally had to come up with what we wanted to. We weren’t gonna copy or bite what someone else was doing.

How much of 3 Feet High was improvised? With a track like “Take It Off,” it sounds like you’re making it up as you go along.

Oh, definitely. Like, Prince Paul had put the beat together, and we just stood in the booth like, “What are we gonna do?” And the beat reminded us of a song by these two Philly rappers called Krown Rulers, they had a song called “Kick the Ball.” And you know, so it was the same thing, “Kick the ball!” So we was like, Yo, that beat reminded us of that song, so why don’t we do something like, “Take it off!” and we’ll be talking about certain stuff that we gotta take off, and we just took two minutes to write down different items—and we start doing it.

And on “De La Orgee,” did you brief the girls on what you wanted, or did you say, “Go for it”?

No, once again, it was something that was just a joke—that was another beat we were just playing, and we said, “What we gonna do with this particular beat?” Umm, and then I jokingly said, “Oh we should just moan and act like we’re having sex over it,” and I laughed, ha-ha—and Prince Paul was always classic for that, he would be like, “That’s it! Yeah! Do that, do that! And we’d say, “Are you serious?” Yeah! So we started doin’ it, and it just happened that friends of ours were in there at the time, and our dancers was around, and so we told them to come in the booth.

link

update: Buckshot will be performing at this show as well, which means KRS-One doing a little something isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility.

From their Nike album “Are You In?”, thanks B.

De La Soul – Big Mouf / from the Nike Album “Are You In?”

Off of J. Period’s upcoming A Tribe Called Quest tribute mix-CD.

J. Period’s – Excursions 2009 ft. De La Soul

by way of spinemagazine

20 classic covers recreated with Legos @ Format Magazine. Peace to Noyz319.

We finally have an official title and tracklist and, most importantly, a release date. Still no cover art though. But hopefully it will be along the lines of the stills from the music video. Courtesy of Anti- Records.

N.A.S.A. LAUNCHES ‘THE SPIRIT OF APOLLO’ ON FEBRUARY 17, 2009

1. “Intro”
2. “The People Tree” (feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift of Gab,& Z-Trip)
3. “Money” (feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip)
4. “NASA Music” (feat. Method Man, E-40, & DJ Swamp)
5. “Way Down” (feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch, & John Frusciante)
6. “Hip Hop” (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip, & Slim Kid Tre)
7. “Four Rooms, Earth View”
8. “Strange Enough” (feat. Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, & Fatlip)
9. “Spacious Thoughts” (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
10. “Gifted” (feat. Kanye West and others TBD)
11. “A Volta” (feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank, & Lovefoxxx)
12. “There’s a Party” (feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na)
13. “Whachadoin?” (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner)
14. “O Pato” (feat. Kool Kojak & DJ Bãboa)
15. “Samba Soul” (feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert)
16. “The Mayor” (feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, DJ AM & Scarface)
17. “N.A.S.A. Anthem”

previously:
N.A.S.A – Way Down ft. Rza, Music Video By Sage Vaughn / still images
North America South America [movie trailer]
North America South America, An Ambitious Collaboration

Here’s the press kit released for De La Soul’s “3 Feet High And Rising” album with small cameos by Prince Paul, Big Daddy Kane, DMC, KRS-One and more. Link

As he promised in the comments of the last post, Peter Divito from 2020Proof has come through in the clutch and laced me with one of the original takes of ‘Scenario’ featuring the whole Native Tongues crew.

related:
Tracks That You’d Sell A Kidney For

7/6/2008 On The Real With Chuck D

This weekend Chuck D, Matt Ianni , David ‘Dr Octopus’ Fazekas bring the noise with another Grammy winning, hip hop hall of famer Posdenous of the group De La Soul. His ideas, his works, and thoughts on a new world coming. Rosa Clemente calls in on her activism, most recently at the Media Reform Conference in Minnesota. Keith Shocklee of the Bomb Squad drops some knowledge, and JAHI talks about his new album Less Is More.

Previously: DJ Hollywood Talks About Being Written Out of Hip Hop History, Being Imitated By Other DJs, And Doing It For The Love of Music

Link (via 2dope)