Big Bro Speaks on Hip Hop (Dirty South edition) pt .1

On my trip to "Da Ville" aka Music City, I got a chance holla at my older brother(yes same Mom type of brother) "D". He's a Educator-Photographer in da M-I-S-S and my 1st OFFICIAL tour guide to the culture of Hip Hop as a snotty-nose. He dropped some knowledge on me of how Hip Hop(local crews-clothes-shows) influenced the scene in the Nashville growing up and later on, influenced my friends and me. Dirty South has definitely progressed(thank gawd) since then in regards to the culture but its still not where we think it should be but hey..we def got more than mountains, sweet tea, and country music...fa sho! -K;EZ

Prince Paul and 3 ft. High and Rising for 20 years

Alright for those of you who missed it because you weren't an "80's baby", didn't quite mess with them, or you just didn't know. It has been 20 years since De La Soul(my fav rap group of all time) released their 1st and classic album(yes a-l-b-u-m) 3 Feet High and Rising. I recently went to see DJ Prince Paul do his thang @ Zentra night club in which he tore it down for 2 hrs straight playing cuts from Apache/Sugar Hill Gang to Black Moon, Special Ed, 50 Cent, Gangstarr, (90's)Snoop Dogg. He had everybody sweating in that joint. I digress, Prince Paul is responsible for finding, signing, and producing their breakout album. The members Trugoy, Posdnous, and Baby Huey aka Plug one, two, and three have continued puttin it down and this was our first glimpse into their world of daisies, physcadelic, quirkiness-off the beaten path intelligence mixed with pure silly, to produce songs that we still love to hear comin thru any speaker. Joints like "Me,Myself and I", "Buddy", "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa", and Potholes in my Lawn" I can say growing up they were NOT the norm of gold rope necklaces, velour track suits, and fly rides. They were more your African medallions, regular tshirts/dashikis, and bus/train riders type of cats which made them more tangible to the ever growing hip hop community back then. It's still the reason why people love them to this very day. I can't lie. As a shorty of age 10 coming up then I thought "potholes" song was wack. I didn't really get into them until their second single "Me Myself and I" and i've been "pluged" ever since.
Below is an audio link from the De La about how they made 3ft High and everything else that made it a classic...take time to listen and enjoy. d.a.i.s.y.!


http://hiphopblips.dailyradar.com/story/behind_the_making_of_de_la_soul_s_3_feet_high_rising/

De La Soul x Nike Project: "Are You In"

One of our fav groups De la Soul gettin up with Nike on the collab tip again. Just keepin ya'll posted on the culture being represented on the corporate level. By the way If you don't have their "Grind Date" album/cd/music file...u are doin ur self an injustice...If you have whats ur favorite song???

"K-Easy"