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De La Soul - Change in Speak
De La Soul - Change in Speak


De La Soul - Change in Speak Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
Released: 1989

Change in Speak Lyrics


Once again it's time to buy more soul
A flavor you will savor in your soul
Wax is distributed and then sold
So watch it turn, bring your next of kin soul
P.A. Mase has rocked it on the console
Scream real hard until you blow your tonsils
Bang-oh-bang until you burn your shoe soles
Cause you are now dancing to the new soul

Live is the motion of the soul step
Set the exposure to my one step
This scene'll last to the next step
All those in favor take a big step
True to the Soul, we'll never back step
In sense to that, we don't half step
Just as a reminder from the last step
Negative ones are lost in footsteps

Levels we've set will never go down
Competitions commence the step down
Those involved with peace who know the Soul's down
Can see that the Soul has got a new sound
Dance until you find yourself a new part
If you don't then I'll give you the True part
When received you'll see the real small part
Of the new way is no part at all

Pos and Dove is rarely caught not dressed in peace
Movements always walking round now stressing peace
When this biter should know true in peace
Instead they cause violence and shoot out beef
Still we are professing to be on a roll
Public cause this party going on the road
And if you crave sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
Sent by the Quest, Jungle and De La Soul

Give 'em a taste, Mase

Writer/s: SCIPIO, STEVE / PATTERSON, PATRICK / HUSTON, / JOLICOEUR, / MASON, / MERCER,
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Change in Speak
  • This song blended the horns from the Mad Lads "No Strings Attached" and the syncopated drums from Cymande's "Bra." De La Soul's Posdnous recalled to Rolling Stone: "There was a record I found that had a whole bunch of great songs from the Mad Lads on it. Then we just decided to put the 'Bra' song from Cymade on it, we just started mashing things. We all worked together really well as a foursome, just trying to add different things."

  • De La Soul - Transmitting Live from Mars
    De La Soul - Transmitting Live from Mars


    De La Soul - Transmitting Live from Mars Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1989

    Transmitting Live from Mars Lyrics


    Ecoutez: "A midi"
    Quel heure est-il?
    Il est midi
    C'est l'heure de dejeuner
    Qu'est-ce qu'il y a a manger?
    Il y a saucisse, sans doute

    Ecoutez et repetez: "A midi"
    Quel heure est-il?
    Quel heure?
    Quel heure est-il?
    Est-il?
    Quel heure est-il?

    Il est midi
    Il est midi
    Il est midi

    C'est l'heure de dejeuner
    C'est l'heure
    C'est l'heure de dejeuner
    De dejeuner
    C'est l'heure de dejeuner

    Qu'est-ce qu'il y a a manger?
    Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?

    Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MASON, VINCENT / MERCER, KELVIN / HUSTON, PAUL
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Transmitting Live from Mars
  • The original concept behind De La Soul was that Mase was PA and Posdnuos and Dove were the microphone plugs, transmitting messages from Mars. The idea was quickly abandoned but was used for the title of this short skit.
  • The short interlude is basically a French language lesson merged with a loop culled from The Turtles "You Showed Me" and Wilson Pickett's version of "Hey Jude." Posdnous recalled to Rolling Stone: "My pops had this 45 - I don't know why he had this record - it was this French instructional record. I thought it would sound cool with this Wilson Pickett cover of 'Hey Jude,' and then Paul had the Turtles record ['You Showed Me'], so he said let's put that with it, so we just added it all together."
  • The Turtles sample resulted in a $1.7 million copyright-infringement lawsuit that was eventually settled out of court. The legal action also set a precedent, which stymied Hip-Hop's methods of production. The new laws delayed a number of albums, including the trio's follow-up, De La Soul is Dead. When the record was finally released it was stripped of many samples and struggled to repeat the success of 3 Feet High.

  • De La Soul - Intro
    De La Soul - Intro


    De La Soul - Intro Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1989

    Intro Lyrics


    Hello boys and girls. Welcome to your De La Soul readalong storybook!
    When you hear this sound...
    (Ding)
    That means turn the page
    And now we begin our exciting adventure of
    De La Soul is Dead

    (Ding)

    (Girls)
    Oh my God, Vanilla Ice, oh oh
    He's so fly!
    The boy is slamming
    Did you see his body?
    Yes, yes! And his dancing!
    That boy is slamming!
    He can dance too!
    He could
    He can dance better than any rapper I ever seen!
    And plus his dancing! I'm just saying!
    Yeah baby!
    He's so jammin'!

    (Ding)

    Jeff: Yo, what's up?
    Girls: Yo, Jeff, where you been, man?
    Jeff: Guess what I just found, I just found a De La Soul tape in the garbage
    Girls: For real? Let's hear it!
    Jeff: Naw! No!
    Girls: Aww, be like that!

    (Ding)

    Bully: What's up, cocksnot? How ya doing, buddy?
    Girls: Cocksnot? You gonna let him call you that? Sucker!
    Jeff: Leave me alone! Don't Touch Me! Don't Touch Me!
    Bully: What do we have here? What do we have here, buddy?
    Jeff: Nothing!
    Bully: Listen, you little Arsenio Hall gum having punk!
    Girls: Oooh! You let him call you Arsenio! Oooh!
    Bully: I want the tape!
    Jeff: It's mine!
    Girls: Oh, he played you! Jeff's getting played! Jeff! Jeff! Bodyslam him, Jeff!

    (Ding)

    Bully: Now! I've got the new De La Soul tape! Hey dicksnot, buttcrust, get over here!
    What's up baby?
    Bully: I just got this De La Soul tape, man, slamming. Where's the box? The box!
    So, yo, let's get with the ?
    I got the bidox, let's do this like ?

    (Ding)

    ...28. For those who have all four answers correct, you will recieve
    A specially selected Grand Prize. Thanks, and goodnight, for Three Feet
    High and Rising, this is Don Newkirk

    Writer/s: KELVIN MERCER, DAVID JOLICOEUR, VINCENT MASON JR., PAUL HUSTON
    Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC
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    Intro
  • 3 Feet High and Rising opens with this skit featuring De la Soul as contestants on a game show. "'Intro', the game show thing, the idea cropped up when we were mixing down, the recording supposedly finished," Posdnuos explained to Melody Maker."I don't even remember how that track with all the whispering on it came about. I guess we were just buggin' out, started the tape rolling and there it was."

  • De La Soul - A Little Bit of Soap
    De La Soul - A Little Bit of Soap


    De La Soul - A Little Bit of Soap Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1989

    A Little Bit of Soap Lyrics


    Please listen to this simple De La style I'm gonna sing
    It's strongly directed to all the misery you're bringing
    Now I'm not all about dissing someone else personnel
    But there's no quota on your odor
    That's right, you smell
    Now you might feel a little embarassed, don't take it too hard
    And don't make it worse by covering it up with some Right Guard
    Before you even put on your silk shirt and fat gold rope
    Please take your big ass to the bathroom
    And please use
    (A Little Bit of Soap)

    Okay contestent #2, do you have the answers?
    No, no I don't

    Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MASON, VINCENT / MERCER, KELVIN / HUSTON, PAUL
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    A Little Bit of Soap
  • This samples The Jarmels' 1961 hit "A Little Bit Of Soap." Posdnous told Rolling Stone: "The original song was called 'Little Bit of Soap,' so we just decided to flip it in a funny way to talk about how someone could smell bad."

  • De La Soul - Potholes in My Lawn
    De La Soul - Potholes in My Lawn


    De La Soul - Potholes in My Lawn Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1988

    Potholes in My Lawn Lyrics


    (Yo, something's wrong here, no, not again!)
    (Get the daisies for the)

    Potholes in My Lawn

    Everybody's sayin'
    What to do when suckin' lunatics start diggin' and chewin'
    They don't know that the Soul don't go for that
    Potholes in my lawn
    And that goes for my rhyme sheet
    Which I concentrated so hard on, see
    I don't ask for maximum security
    But my dwellin' is swellin'
    It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
    Into a spot
    Where no ink or an ink-blot
    Was on a scroll
    I just wrote me a new 'mot'
    But now it's gone
    There's no
    Suckers knew that I hate
    To recognise that every time I'm writin'
    It's gone

    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

    Potholes in my lawn

    I've found that it's not wise
    To leave my garden untended
    Cause eyes have now pardoned all laws of privacy
    Even paws are after my writer
    See, I've found that everyone's sayin'
    What to do when suckers are preyin'
    On my well-guarded spreadsheets
    Oh why, hell does it send up fleets
    Of evil-doers through the big hole
    To get to evil-doers who dig holes
    Which leaves my lawn with lawn-chew
    I think I'd better plant traces to give clues
    Or better yet call 911
    And when they get here I inform them I'm the Plug One
    Open a chair and let them realize the reason
    For concern of the Soul
    Cause we've come down with a case of potholes

    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

    Potholes in my lawn

    (Who stole, who stole, who stole the cookie
    From the cookie jar?)

    Now you got the message
    What to do when you die
    The death that I predict in 'Plug Tunin'
    It's a shame that you deny to claim
    That you stole my words of fame
    That I wrote in my rhyme sheet
    Which I concentrated so hard on, see
    I don't ask for a barbed wire fence, B
    But my dwellin' is swellin'
    It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
    Into a spot
    Where no ink or an ink-blot
    Was on a scroll
    I just wrote me a new 'mot'
    But now it's gone there's no
    Suckers knew that I hate
    To recoginse that every time I'm writin'
    It's gone

    Potholes in my lawn

    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
    (Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

    Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MASON, VINCENT / MERCER, KELVIN / HUSTON, PAUL / ALLEN, THOMAS / BROWN, HAROLD / DICKERSON, MORRIS / GOLDSTEIN, GERALD / JORDAN, LEROY / LEVITIN, LEE / MILLER, CHARLES / SCOTT, HOWARD
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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    Potholes in My Lawn
  • The second single released by De La Soul, "Potholes in My Lawn" was their first song to chart, reaching #22 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles.
  • The song is about other rappers thieving De La Soul's rhymes. Trugoy told Rolling Stone: "'Potholes in my Lawn' was like another way to say beat-biter or sucker MC, like songs from Run-DMC, songs from MC Lyte. The lawn was our rhymes and the potholes were the pieces missing."
  • This samples Eric Burdon & War's 1976 song "Magic Mountain" as well as the yodeling and Jew's Harp on Parliament's 1970 track "Little Ole Country Boy."
  • This became the first ever hip-hop song played on Mars when NASA's Opportunity Rover broadcast it in 2004.

  • De La Soul - Plug Tunin
    De La Soul - Plug Tunin'


    De La Soul - Plug Tunin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1988

    Plug Tunin' Lyrics


    And now for my next number
    I'd like to return to the classics
    Perhaps the most famous classic
    In all the world of music

    The first time around you didn't quite
    Understand our new style of speak
    (Don't worry, we can fix that right now)
    So, why don't you all just grab your bags?
    (Come on aboard, hoist the anchor and we'll be off)

    Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two
    Plug one, plug two, plug one

    Answering any other service
    Prerogative praised, positively I'm acquitted
    Enemies publicly shame my utility
    After the battle they admit that I'm with it

    Simply soothe, will move vinyl like glue
    Transistors are never more shown with like
    When vocal flow brings it all down in ruin
    Due to a clue of a naughty noise called, 'Plug Tunin''

    Flock to the preacher called Pos
    Let him be the stir to the style of your stew
    Sit while the kid of the plug form aroma
    Then grab a daisy to sip your favorite brew

    Lettin' this soul fire be your first prior
    But don't let the kick drum stub your big toe
    See that the three will be your thread
    But like my man Chuck D said, ?What a brother know?

    Dance while I play and the cue cards sway
    From my flower girls China and Jette
    The button is pressed in '89 we'll start the panic
    From De La Soul and a prince from stet

    Negative noise will be all divided
    Dangerous to dance, Posdnuos will croon
    Ducks and kizids will all be rid
    When paying position to the naughty noise called, 'Plug tunin''

    Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two
    Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two

    Freeze, 'cause these are the brothers
    Brothers of the soul who present a new flick
    Every last viewer is tuned to the method
    Known to be a method, no magicians, not a trick

    Bitten by the spoken who been titled plug two
    Swallowed by the loonies who are jealous with the showbiz
    Dove'll teach the truth, Posdnuos will preach the youth
    To the fact that this will bring an end to the negative

    Flow to the sway 'cause I say, ?Fa So La Ti?
    At the top we will dwell
    Difference is fame and we rise then we build
    Where we are set we get fat and we swell

    Motions of the soul is a positive stride
    One step forward is the space we consume
    Vivid as the moon, you have yet to assume
    How the soul found the motto of a naughty noise called, 'Plug tunin''

    Vocal is local so believe that
    This chant shan't rely on the strong lap
    Trying and live so you best realize
    That the gift that I present, I say gift wrap

    Style of the tune is personal
    And defining what's the rhyme is worst of all
    Stop, sit and study 'cause the meaning isn't muddy
    Just preach and do the gear as the first of all

    Watch while the pitcher is pitching
    'Cause this is the pitch of the year
    Sing a simple song but keep the swing strong
    Though you heard dove crying 'I ain't fair'

    Those who think De La's on the flip tip
    Try to flip this and you're doomed
    Watch for the be be, 'cause if you try to grieve me
    You'll be hung by the wire of the plug tune

    I can't twist your arm and make you stay with me
    (Are you ready for this?)

    Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MERCER, KELVIN / MASON, VINCENT / HOUSTON, PAUL
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Plug Tunin'
  • De La Soul's debut single alluded to group members Kelvin "Posdnous" Mercer and David "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur's alternative monikers: Plug One and Plug Two, respectively. The nicknames referred to the microphones each member rhymed into ( Posdnous was one, Trugoy was two). Trugoy explained to Rolling Stone: "That was an important record, because I think that sorta signed how we were gonna approach writing rhymes, in terms of style. We were always impressed by KRS-One and how he always had a style, so instead of saying 'Mic check one, two' we would say 'Plug one, plug two.' It was a routine."

    "A lot of people listen to that song and say, 'What the hell are you guys talking about? I don't understand a word,' but if you listen to it, you can get it," Trugoy continued. "What's really cool about that record is the style, the pattern and the cadence of the rhymes."
  • Both the original 12" version and an updated mix, titled, "Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)" was included on 3 Feet High and Rising. The remix has different lyrics and the drums are featured more prominently.
  • The song is sampled on the Gravediggaz' 1994 track "Defective Trip.", which like "Plug Tunin'" was also produced by Prince Paul.

  • De La Soul - Budd
    De La Soul - Buddy


    De La Soul - Buddy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
    Released: 1989

    Buddy Lyrics


    Hello

    Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?)
    Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?)
    Meany, meany, meany, meany, mean
    Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?)
    Meany, meany, meany, meany (Say What?)
    Meany, meany, meany, meany, mean (Okay)

    Hello it's the Soul
    Troopin' in wit the Jungle patrol
    And this one's about the KO's the knockouts out there
    Who's holdin' my Buddy
    Hold up
    (Wait a minute)

    Now just wait
    We're gonna talk about Buddy on this plate
    But before we let the herd out the gate
    Make sure the all the levels are straight out the jungle
    (The Jungle, the Jungle, the Brothers, the Brothers)

    De La Soul, from the soul
    Black medallions no gold
    Hangin' out wit Pos hangin' out wit Mase
    Buddy buddy buddy all in my face

    For the lap Jimbrowski must wear a cap
    Just in case the young girl likes to clap
    Ain't for the wind but before I begin
    I initiate the buddy with a slap

    Now for the next
    I'm the Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest
    And when I quest for the buddy I don't fess
    For my jimmy wants nothin' but the best (the best)
    The best (ooh wee!)
    Let's stick out jimmy and see what we can catch
    (Stick em up, stick em up jimmy)
    Nets won't be needed unless
    (Jenny wanna get right to the flesh)

    (Sweet little woman, sweet little woman)

    I won't lie, I love b-u-d-d-y (why)
    Cause I never let it walk on by
    When it comes to me and Jenny
    I seem (very serious) like a Peek Freen
    Buddy is the act that occurs on the lip
    When Jenny and jimmy start shootin' the gift
    Boy let me get shot I won't even riff

    Buddy buddy, don't you know you make me go nutty
    I'm so glad that you're not a fuddy duddy
    Not too skinny and not too chubby
    Soft like Silly Putty
    Miss Crabtree I hope that you're not mad at me
    Cause I told you that it was your buddy
    That was making me ever so horny
    Junglelistically horny

    On the dial my buddy talks to me for a while
    Plug Two is the

    Q to her tip

    On the A side and sometimes the flip
    (Gotta gotta flip this record)
    Buddy is the bud to my daisy tree
    And the Luden to my do-re-mi
    And the pleaser to my man Plug 3
    (Plug 3 gets all the buddy)

    Behind my bush my buddy likes the way that I push
    And like a champ just knock it on out
    Never ever once sellin' out
    (Oh let loose the juice)
    My buddy helps me to
    (De La my Soul)
    Keepin' jimmy in total control
    Without Jimmy I'd be on a roll

    (La la la l-la la la la, la la la l-la la la la)

    Hey girl I heard ya lookin' for some good times
    If you Quest from the Soul here's what we'll find
    A whole lot of fun lots of fun together
    Just like kissin' cousins (yeah that's kinda clever)
    Close like bosoms, bosoms stay close
    If you be my buddy I will toast
    That we're like Ethel Merts and Lucille MacGillicuddy
    You can be mines and I can be your buddy

    The best buddy's in evening wear
    Long lovin' less Tru know (he's in there)
    I feel sorry for those who pay a fare (a fee) word to the D
    I don't beg I just tease my buddy with my right leg
    And when it's ready what's said is buddy is best in bed

    Fly buddy told us all to get into a circle
    Said don't worry cause I won't hurt you
    All I really wanna do is freak you (she freaked us)

    And I watched and then I checked my swatch
    To see the time
    The Soul had formed a buddy line
    And that buddy was (mine all mine)

    Now when Tribe, the Jungle, and De La Soul
    Is at the clubs our ritual unfolds
    Grab our bones and start swingin' our hands
    (Then Jenny start flockin' it everywhere)
    Cause Jenifa just wants to stay aware
    Yo fellas should we keep her aware
    (Mmm Hmm, yeah!)

    Writer/s: VINCENT, STAN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, SCHUBERT MUSIC PUBLISHING INC.
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    Buddy
  • The original version of this song heard on 3 Feet High and Rising featured the Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest. Posdnous recalled to Rolling Stone: "Mase would always play the Commodores record ['Girl, I Think the World About You'] and we figured, let's make a song out of it. We didn't know what it would be called, the idea of 'Buddy' had come up and we had a session planned in about to week to record it, and we had a show with Q-Tip and Jungle [Brothers], meeting them for the first time."

    "It was never planned for Jungle Brothers to be on that first album," he added. "They happened to come to that session while we were recording that song and we were like, 'Hey, you want to get on it?' and lo and behold, that's how we became the Native Tongues."
  • The New York-based Native Tongues posse was a collective of like-minded Hip-Hop artists who would often collaborate together. This song's remix included all the major members of the Native Tongues crew, adding Queen Latifah and Monie Love to the already featured Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip.

  • De La Soul - Pease Porridg
    De La Soul - Pease Porridge


    De La Soul - Pease Porridge Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: De La Soul Is Dead
    Released: 1991

    Pease Porridge Lyrics


    My name, my name, my name is the Pasta
    Now I like, I like I like to plug the real thing
    So loose, so loose, so loose with the tap dance
    The funk, the funk, funky funky stuff I bring
    My tribe, my tribe, my tribe is known as Native Tongues
    Consists, consists, consists of Jungle, Quest and others
    Get played, get played, played a lot on radio
    And also, and also, and also by some foul brothers
    The Pease, the Pease the Pease Porridge never failed
    It kept, it kept us calm, our stylin' merry
    But late, but lately loonies acting real bold
    Can't sip in luxury my apple cranberry
    Girls watch, and watch, and watch I dance the big tut
    Our home, our home our homeboys has to plan tricks
    Don't real, don't real, don't realise the Native Tongue
    Is rollin' strong and we're startin' in the megamix

    Question, and that's if only I can ask this question
    Can I? (Yes you can!)
    Why do people think just because we speak peace
    We can't blow no joints?
    (I-I-I don't know)

    Mase, this is the ninth day I've reheated this porridge. You know it
    Keeps me peacefully, no?

    Yeah, but my tolerance level has now peaked
    And now it's time for some heads to get flown

    We bring, we bring, we bring, we bring the peace of course
    But pack a nine inside, inside my De La drawers
    A picture, picture, picture, picture painted pink
    Could turn to red, to red, to red in blooded quick
    But in a single file my Native Tongue is calm
    I'd rather, rather pass a brother a pound or palm
    I kick, I kick, I kick a verse of unity
    And shack, and shackle steps to the beat, beat
    I click, I click the TV to the Simpsons
    And sip the Porridge deep into my system
    So mel, so mellow mode is my day mode
    Inside the studio or on a road
    The Shwing, the Shwingalo is the now step
    It's murder if you bet cause you're life's jep
    To praise, to praise the Soul is on a down drag
    It's false, because I'll spray you with the Black Flag

    (Pease Porridge in the pot)
    (Pease Porridge in the pot)
    (Pease Porridge in the pot)
    (Nine days old)

    Can't stand, can't stand, can't stand the pop music
    Brother, brother, brothers pop a lot of pow
    Don't watch, don't watch, don't watch a lot of basketball
    Don't und, don't understand the act of being foul
    Hey D, hey D, hey DJ set the record up
    It's time, it's time, it's time to tame the naughty pups
    Throw on the Touching Fingers serenade
    So we can throw our lemonade
    In their face and kick their little butts

    People wanna get ragged with the reruns
    Me not, me not, me not scared to trudge a bit
    They can't, they can't, they can't get close to none
    I tap, I tap, I tap a dance war skit
    The por, the por, the Porridge got crazy cold
    We won't, we won't eat until the heads are flown
    Take advantage to a cool one's peaceful ways
    But when, but when we fly that head all the people say

    Here in Frogland, we always eat our Porridge, cause it keeps us frogs
    Real peaceful like

    In my land, my people adore Porridge. And I don't understand why De La
    Soul is so violent
    And we are so peaceful, we sit by the camp fire and listen to our rituals, and
    They are so violent. I don't understand
    I don't understand

    (Pease Porridge in the pot)
    (Nine days old)

    (Pease Porridge in the pot)
    (Nine days old)

    (Pease Porridge in the pot)

    Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MASON, VINCENT / MERCER, KELVIN / BIRTHWRIGHT, BRIAN / HUSTON, PAUL / GOODHART, AL / HOFFMAN, AL / MAGIDSON, HERBERT
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Pease Porridge
  • This song is based around a deceptively jaunty sample of American whistling and bone-playing recording artist Brothers Bones' "Black Eyed Susan Brown." You may know Brother Bones from his recording of the standard "Sweet Georgia Brown," which became internationally famous after being adopted as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in 1952.

    Other samples in the song include James Browns' "Make It Funky," the Headhunters' "God Made Me Funky" and Harrell & Sharon Lucky's "Pease Porridge Hot" and "Finger Fun."
  • The lyric finds De La Soul pointing out that just because they are laid-back, it doesn't mean they'll let any one walk over them. Trugoy the Dove explained to Melody Maker: "That song's just saying that if people want to test us, we're not gonna stand for it. Just 'cos we spoke about being peaceful and positive, it doesn't mean we're gonna let ourselves be trampled on. We will do whatever it takes to defend ourselves. There have been situations where people tried to test us, and we defended ourselves, and whether it was worse for us or for them, it doesn't really matter."

    Trugoy added that he's not talking about gangsta rappers but kids of different ages that the band met in clubs. "They'd come to see our show, so it wasn't to do with music, it was just them wanting to test us as so-called peaceful people." he said.

  • De La Soul - My Brother Is A Basehea
    De La Soul - My Brother Is A Basehead


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    Album: De La Soul Is Dead
    Released: 1991

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    My Brother Is A Basehead
  • De La Soul's Posdnuos wrote this anti-crack narrative out of anger from his own older brothers' problems with drugs. The song is basically a true story but one detail is changed from real life: Unlike the track's subject, Posdnous' sibling went into rehab. He explained to Melody Maker: "Basehead is slang for someone who freebases or smokes crack. When he was basin', I had strong feelings about it."

    "Some people might have thought it was too personal for them to write about, but I really didn't care," Posdnous added. "It helped get it off my chest, plus I thought a lot of people could identify with it and it could help people. Word by word, it's not following what actually happened, but it's close. It relates how we grew up together and how his downfall began."

  • De La Soul - Shopping Bags (She Got from You
    De La Soul - Shopping Bags (She Got from You)


    De La Soul - Shopping Bags (She Got from You) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Grind Date
    Released: 2004

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    Shopping Bags (She Got from You)
  • The lead single from The Grind Date is a diatribe about gold-diggers. The beat was supplied by the California-based producer, Madlib, who has also supplied assists on albums by Erykah Badu and Ghostface Killah. His collaboration with rapper MF DOOM, 2004's Madvillainy, was well-received, topping many critics' year-end lists. In addition, Madlib has released several hip hop records under the alter ego of Quasimoto, which are noted for the raised pitch of his voice as if he was inhaling helium.
  • De La Soul's 1989 debut 3 Feet High and Rising was crucial to Madlib's own development, convincing him to sample from a broader pool of music. "I grew up on them dudes. That album actually changed my production. That's kind of where my whole style for Quasimoto came from," he told Spin magazine.

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