De La Soul — The Grind Date

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Liberated from long-time record label Tommy Boy, De La Soul completed their original 15-year run of studio albums with 2004’s <i>The Grind Date</i>, an album where the legacy act tells the raw realities of a never-ending hustle. “I got verb skills, babies and bills,” Posdnous raps on an album about label gripes, “white-collar dreams” and basically treating rap like a job. (As Trugoy the Dove says, “I’m coal-mining these mics to keep that gold nugget.”) And, for the first time, they opened a majority of an album to outside producers, enlisting J Dilla, Madlib, 9th Wonder and Jake One, whose unlikely decelerating beat on “Rock Co.Kane Flow” is the album’s highlight. A 20th anniversary reissue released in 2025 (yes, that’s 21 years, but De La Soul have never had an easy time getting their music out when they preferred) restores a skit and a handful of extra tracks and instrumental versions.

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De La Soul

Треки

  1. The Future 3:49
  2. Verbal Clap 3:15
  3. Much More (feat. Yummy Bingham) 4:05
  4. Shopping Bags (She Got from You) 3:57
  5. The Grind Date 3:22
  6. Church 5:32
  7. It's Like That (feat. Carl Thomas) 4:36
  8. He Comes (feat. Ghostface Killah) 3:44
  9. Days of Our Lives (feat. Common) 3:51
  10. Come On Down (feat. Flavor Flav) 5:01
  11. No (feat. Butta Verses) 4:34
  12. Rock Co.Kane Flow (feat. MF DOOM) 3:05
  13. Shoomp (feat. Sean Paul) 3:41