Stakes Is High

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Mos was always around. Mind you, we always had that type of environment where it wasn't overpowered by these people being around but good vibes was always welcome, people was always welcome. Mos was one of them, whether Mos came through, Mos will come through with his brother, so someone like Medina Green would be hanging with us in the studio as well. That's how even in "Stakes Is High" we got the little dice game thing. We would all hang. On the Rift with Naughty By Nature. Offiziellecharts.de – De La Soul – Stakes Is High" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved April 23, 2021. Produced by Jay Dee Co-Produced by De La Soul Written by K. Mercer, D. Jolicoeur, V. Mason& J. Yancey Published by Tee Girl Music/Daisy Age Music (BMI)/Ephcy Music (ASCAP) Contains samples from "Mind Power" by James Brown and "Swahililand" by Ahmad Jamal

This month currently marks the 30th anniversary of De La Soul’s classic debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. Along with the Jungle Brothers’ first two projects, it was the beginning of the Native Tongues movement, which was primarily based around positive and good-natured content (some of which were Afrocentric, to be precise); and the album featured classic gems such as “ Buddy”, “ Eye Know”, “ Plug Tunin’”, and, of course, “ Me, Myself and I”. The album has gone down as one of the greatest albums of all time, bringing a new sound to the table and influencing a wide range of artists.

On The Rift With Tupac.

The weirdest time in a writer’s life is the year between handing in a book and it coming out. You feel like a fantasist. To have decades lived in that liminal space between albums must have been tortuous for the band. I imagine it didn’t mean nothing then, when during that interminable wait, Damon Albarn asked them to do Feel Good Inc with Gorillaz – and they ended up winning their first Grammy, 16 years after their debut album. Like other De La Soul albums, Stakes Is High has a running theme, which in this case is the group's concern about the state of rap, as well as the state of hip hop culture and how it is regarded in general. The following sound clips are featured:

In 2023, Billboard and Stereogum ranked the song number six and number two, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest De La Soul songs. [2] [3] Music video [ edit ] Maseo: It ended up, turning out being as successful as we needed it to be. It wasn’t really about record sales, although selling records is always a great thing. It sustains us monetarily and all that, but it was a statement that was way more important than the sales of the record and its statement. Let’s put it like this, the statement of the record, the response behind the statement let us know there’s a place in this music industry for us. That whether we sell 100,000 records or 100,000,000 records, De La has a significant place in this music business. The song was one of the earliest mainstream productions to be handled by hip hop producer Jay Dee. The B-side to the single was "The Bizness", featuring Common. This song talks about the music industry. Sprague, David (August 8, 1996). " Stakes Is High". Rolling Stone. New York . Retrieved June 13, 2012.

Salamon, Jeff (August 1996). "De La Soul: Stakes Is High". Spin. Vol.12, no.5. New York. pp.98–100 . Retrieved December 16, 2018. I didn't mean it at all in a disrespectful way. Mind you, like I said, that rhyme that was heard on Stakes Is High was written a year earlier. It was supposed to be a part of a remix. Unfortunately, after Stakes Is High came out, at some point, we realized that Naughty had a discrepancy, or maybe Treach, with that line. He thought that we were trying to diss. Mind you, we were so cool with Naughty and we were one of the first dudes, if not the first group, who put them on our show in North Carolina. We had just gained such a really cool relationship with each other, we just didn't take it seriously like it was going to go into anything bad. We was like, "Yo, whenever we run into them, we can just talk about it." I imagine there are a lot of hip-hop heads who were bright kids with undiagnosed learning difficulties, gravitating to rap as relief from the learning struggle. First music love is often a reaction to feeling like a school misfit, but in this instance, it was like my struggle with learning was reversed through the album. Cigarettes, Johnny (July 29, 1996). "De La Soul – Stakes Is High". NME. London. Archived from the original on October 10, 2000 . Retrieved December 16, 2018.