Stakes Is High

De la Soul

Genre: music4me > Urban > Hip Hop

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 1 Mar 1999

Catalogue Number: 1699811492

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Description:
Seven years after its debut album, De La Soul was still one of the most unpredictable and risk-taking groups in rap. On their fourth record, Stakes Is High, the Long Island natives continued to thrive on the abstract and the cerebral. Instead of the lightheartedness that characterized 3 Feet High and Rising, they favored a harder, tougher approach that's closer to their second album, De La Soul Is Dead. Jazz remained a strong influence for the group, who sampled the improvised works of Milt Jackson, Lou Donaldson, and Chico Hamilton, as well as classic soul by the likes of the Commodores and Sly & the Family Stone. This eclectic approach was more in keeping with alternative rock and acid jazz circles; in 1996, rap's hardcore seemed much more interested in gangster rap.

Track Listing:

1.	Intro
2.	Supa Emcees
3.	The Bizness (feat Common Sense)
4.	Wonce Again Long Island
5.	Dinninit
6.	Brakes
7.	Dog Eat Dog
8.	Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby
9.	Long Island Degrees
10.	Betta Listen
11.	Itzsoweezee (Hot)
12.	4 More (Featuring Zhane)
13.	Big Brother Beat (Featuring Mos Def)
14.	Down Syndrome
15.	Pony Ride (Featuring Truth Enola)
16.	Stakes Is High
17.	Sunshine