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* Audio CD (May 13, 1991)
* Original Release Date: 1991
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Tommy Boy
* Catalog Number: 1029
* ASIN: B000000HHR
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette
* Average Customer Review: based on 49 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,288 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Intro Listen
2. Oodles Of O's Listen
3. Talkin' Bout Hey Love Listen
4. Pease Porridge Listen
5. Skit 1 Listen
6. Johnny's Dead Aka Vincent Mason (Live From The BK Lounge) Listen
7. A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays' Listen
8. WRMS' Dedication To The Bitty Listen
9. Bitties In The BK Lounge Listen
10. Skit 2 Listen
11. My Brother's A Basehead Listen
12. Let, Let Me In Listen
13. Afro Connections At A Hi 5 (In The Eyes Of The Hoodlum) Listen
14. Rap De Rap Show Listen
15. Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa Listen
16. Who Do U Worship? Listen
17. Skit 3 Listen
18. Kicked Out The House Listen
19. Pass The Plugs Listen
20. Not Over Till The Fat Lady Plays The Demo Listen
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De La Soul burned out on their own hype fast, and their dark, strange second album is a counter-blast to their image and hip-hop culture: perverse, dissatisfied, sometimes brilliant, sometimes out of control. Occasionally it seems mean-spirited--the single "Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)" finds them grousing about getting deluged by demo tapes, and "Kicked Out The House" is a nasty (if very funny) parody of hip-house. But no one's ever made a rap album that sounds like this. Sickly out-of-tune loops drift in and out; songs derail themselves with loud sneers, or give way to bizarre dialogues; Posdnuos and Trugoy chant together like the words have lost all meaning. The concept that ties the disc together---an imaginary radio station called WRMS--gives it an extra kick. --Douglas Wolk
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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
hip hop classic of the first order!, January 29, 2004
Reviewer: C. Roark "tri-zeta" (from under the floorboards and through the woods...) - See all my reviews
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Here it is- the album that got me into hip hop, summer of '94. This album has it all- thematic flow, classic rhymes, unbelievable (as in you will not believe it) production (damn it's dense, almost Paul's Boutique dense), smart-ass silly skits, and an unerring ear for samples and references... It Showcases Prince Paul at the height of his abilities. This is one of those albums that knocks you over.

My second semester in college I even used the "Hey, How ya doin, sorry ya can't get through" line as my answering machine message... yeah, well, it seemed clever at the time...

As an angry little punk rock kid from the early nineties, I possessed an deep-seated knee-jerk twinge of 'uhg.' to hip hop in general- This album changed that. I still have the tape that I *aherm* 'borrowed' from my girlfriend that summer. Before I was into KRS-ONE, before I could tell the 'funky drummer' beat from the 'Sing a Simple Song' beat, before Paul's Boutique, before ATCQ, before Wu-Tang and Digable Planets and all my indie hip hop faves from the college years, before all of them there is De La Soul is Dead.

I'm sure that one day I'll be old and senile, unable to recall my grandchildren's names correctly, and under my breath I'll be wheezing the back and forth insults/rhymes from "Biddies," and the "Here in frogland, we always eat our porridge cuz it keeps us frogs real peaceful like," from "Peas Porridge."

Classic golden age hip hop. But it remains to be said that De La (unlike everyone else) have not put out one lame album. Not ONE. ( )