DAY 559
De La Soul - Me Myself and I
From "3 Feet High and Rising"
De La Soul is my favorite hip hop group of all time. It's not even a contest. 'Me Myself and I' was my introduction to the group, and it was like nothing I had ever heard before. After hearing it on the radio and seeing the music video it didn't seem like a matter of 'wanting' the album, I felt like I NEEDED it. In this case I was probably right. Years later I still feel like it's one of the greatest albums that I have ever heard in ANY genre. Then they followed it up with 'De La Soul is Dead' which is probably just as good, if not BETTER, amazingly enough.
I heard 'Me Myself and I' long before I heard the song it sampled: Funkadelic's '(Not Just) Knee Deep'. My appreciation for Parliament, Funkadelic and George Clinton would come from recognizing the sources of the samples upon hearing them.
It's a shame that sampling became such an involved and expensive practice. I don't know that I would have been nearly as interested in older music as I am if it hadn't been for albums like this.
Click here to watch the music video on YouTube
ROCK!
Glenn Case
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