DRIFT INTO THE VOID

Artist  | De La Soul
Title   | Bigger / Respect

Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Single
Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 14:30

Label   | Daisy Age, Inc.                      Store   | 2025
Catalog | 964143111                            Rip     | 2025

Bitrate | 2766 kbps                            Size    | 301.81 MB
Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1

A1. Bigger (Feat. Choklate)                                     4:49
B1. Rock Cokane Flow (Instrumental)                             3:05
C1. Respect                                                     4:12
D1. The Future (Instrumental)                                   2:24

When Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul arrived in 1989 with debut
album, "3 Feet High And Rising", they sounded like nothing else. The
album's colorful, almost collaged production aesthetic and the
rappers' rhyme styles that were equal parts clever and goofily
humorous made De La Soul a gentler, more inventive one-of-a-kind
presence in a rap landscape largely defined by aggression and
righteous anger.

De La Soul were inventive and eclectic, bringing not only funk and
soul, but also pop, jazz, reggae, and psychedelia samples into their
strange and alluring patchwork of sounds. The group continued down
their own path on their own terms as trends in rap came and went.
Their output throughout the '90s was entirely formative for hip-hop
on the whole, with works like 1991's "De La Soul Is Dead" and 1996's
"Stakes Is High" providing a wealth of inspirational starting points
that entire generations of other artists would build from.

After 2004's "The Grind Date", De La Soul went on hiatus, but
returned in 2016 with the crowd-funded And the Anonymous Nobody as
well as the occasional stand-alone track. In 2023, after years of
legal battles over rights and ownership, De La Soul finally regained
access to their back catalog and made plans to finally get some of
their classic albums released on streaming services for the first
time.

Rest in peace Dave, forever respect!