it s not like anything else out right now. onwhat to say mate de la soul. the great artist de la soul. we are the others from a brother planet. it s making a soul effort. amp plink was another feature of de la soul. because they were just mad geniuses, had an entire catalog that wasn t cleared or clearable. 15 years went by, this entire body of incredible music is completely lost. we will be celebrating they will be available on spotify and amazon. this is going to shift an entire generation who may not even be in streaming. me myself and i and back, here they are after this long and sometimes
super special. de la soul is back in the news. they burst onto the rap scene initially in the late 1980s, and broke grounds with a sound, look and style that was innovative, fresh at times, nerdy, definitely breaking with what some people said rap was about. the three of them trailblazing this sub-genre, building it into a wider culture that i can say ricochets around the world to this day, and now at times this has been become mainstream. mirror mirror on the wall tell me what is wrong i like to call them the hippies of hip-hop. one of the greatest hip-hop group ever. it s the new fink.
the encouragement of the kind of pr mastery of trump. trump made it into an us and them in black and white. there was no question that he had a self-consciousness of a past to whipping up resentment. and, on was a black president. toward the end of obama s presidency, i received an invitation to what was billed as a celebration of black music at the white house. there was bel biv devoe, de la sol, bradley cooper was there, which was mild, but
besides bradley cooper, everybody was black. it was at the end of obama s presidency, and people know it is the end. you can tell what kind of night this is. that was not john philip sousa right there. this is our final musical evening as president and first lady. i know. it s going be all right. it became very clear that this was on the one hand, a recognition of the african american contributions to american musical culture. give it up, ladies and gentlemen for de la sol! but in another sense, it was really a punctuation for what the obama s had represented in the united states for the previous eight years.