So you all remember me fawning over "Much More" when I heard it on Chappelle. Well, what would you do if I told you that I just picked up the new De La Soul album (The Grind Date) upon which it is featured and that "Much More" is actually only a moderately good track compared to the FUCKING AMAZING REST OF THE ALBUM?
You'd shit your pants and I wouldn't blame you for a second.
But it's true. "Church" and "He Comes" are at least three times as good as "Much More". Crazy, right? There are two tracks that haven't gotten their hooks into me yet ("Shopping Bags" is just a bit too jaggly and MF Doom's track is a bit ploddy.) but the rest of it is stellar. They've recruited Madlib and Jay-Dee to help out behind the boards and their presence has clearly helped out Dave, because his own production has evolved tremendously since Bionix. It's definitely his best work.
Ghostface drops an amazing guest turn on "He Comes", starting a string of jaw-dropping rhymes with "Uday and Qusay" and ending it at least 6 bars later with "OJ". There needs to be Rap Academy Awards just to properly give recognition to this verse.
Also? The liner notes are an impeccably designed calendar that will have an enorous influence on how bad ass the monthly calendars in the Interstate ! Calendar Club are going to look. Whoops. I just let that top secret info out didn't I. Well, thank goodness no one reads this blog!
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