Day 636 - De La Soul - Stakes is High

For those who don't know, I am listing my 10,000 favorite songs in this blog. This will take just under 30 years from start to completion. This blog can be found at Blogger, Livejournal, and Myspace for your convenience.

DAY 636
De La Soul - Stakes is High
From "Stakes is High"



Every word I say should be a hip hop quotable

I watched VH1's Hip Hop Honors 2008 last night. This year the honorees included Cypress Hill, Naughty By Nature, Too Short, Slick Rick and De La Soul. There was also a tribute to Isaac Hayes that stood out as one of the highlights of the evening. I was particularly impressed with Cee-Lo's vocals, Mos Def's harmonies, and Chuck D and Flava Flav's stellar rendition of Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos with the Roots providing the instrumentation.

Mos Def, Chuck D and Flava Flav were also involved in another one of my favorite parts of the evening. They performed a portion of "Stakes is High" during a tribute to De La Soul.

Click here to watch the music video on YouTube

Click here to watch the tribute to De La Soul from Hip Hop Honors '08

ROCK!

Glenn Case

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Here's my choices sorted by Artist, by album cover, and by year.