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Track List
01) The Future
02) Verbal Clap
03) Much More
04) Shopping Bags
05) The Grind Date
06) Church
07) It's Like That
08) He Comes
09) Days of Our Lives
10) Come on Down
11) No
12) Rock Co.Kane Flow
01) The Future
02) Verbal Clap
03) Much More
04) Shopping Bags
05) The Grind Date
06) Church
07) It's Like That
08) He Comes
09) Days of Our Lives
10) Come on Down
11) No
12) Rock Co.Kane Flow
3:50
3:17
4:05
3:58
3:23
5:33
4:37
3:44
3:52
5:02
4:35
3:05
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Total Rating
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First Released
2004
Hip-Hop
Philosophical
Urban/R&B
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Album
93,637 copies
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The Grind Date is the seventh album from hip-hop group De La Soul, released on October 5, 2004. The album was originally intended to be the final album of the Art Official Intelligence (AOI) trilogy, but as the album quickly changed focus, the group decided to put AOI III on hold and finish The Grind Date as its own work.
The Grind Date is a notably brisker, and leaner work than the group's previous albums, and features a top of the line array of production talents including the late J Dilla (who was part of A Tribe Called Quest's production unit, The Ummah), Madlib ("Shopping Bags (She Got From You)"), and 9th Wonder ("Church"). Producer Supa Dave West, who handled the majority of the AOI albums, also contributes five tracks to the album. "Rock Co.Kane Flow" featuring MF DOOM, was produced by Jake One, and sees Posdnuos addressing some recent trends in Hip hop with the line "Unlike them, we craft gems / so systematically inclined to pen lines / without sayin a producer's name, all over the track". The well received collaboration also brought attention to the then-unknown Jake One.
The album is light on guest appearances and features a total of four guest MCs, including Common. Unlike every De La Soul album before it, The Grind Date contains no skits at all, although a short musical interlude does precede the first song "The Future". The album's conceptual cover and sleeve booklet, based on a 2005 calendar, was designed by Morning Breath Inc.
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De La Soul's 3Foot High and Rising was one of the most innovative hip hopalbums ever. The title of their second album, De La Soul Is Dead, summed up the band's unwillingness to stand still and be pigeon holed. The Daisy Age was officially declared over.
The spotlight thenmovedaway fromPosdnuos, Trugoy, and Maceo(a little something called Gangsta rap was making the headlines) and the triofocused on creating a string of classic albums. And with records like "Buhloone Mindstate" (1993), "Stakes Is High" (1996) and "AOI: Mosaic Thump" (2000), they deserve the title of the most consistent hip-hop group ever. Who else has kept up this quality for so long?
The Grind Date, their first album for Sanctuary, offers ample evidence of how they've remained at the top;making a target of those rappers who put out "wack albums" with only "two joints". Original producer Prince Paul has long since departed, but help from the likes of Madlib, Supa Dave West and J-Dilla prove that De Lacan still wipe the floor with a today'snew generation of hip hop artists.
The bandremain almost compulsively inventive, their eclecticapproach creatinga smart and soulful beauty of an album. Guests such as Spike Lee, Flava Flav, Ghostface and Commonline up to pay testament to their genius.
The album is littered with high points. Current single "Shopping Bags" sees Madlib cut up Just Ice's classic "Cold Getting' Dumb" to mimic a hundred rattling milk bottles. The title track transforms an unlikely sample of "Ritual Nous Commes De Soleil" by Yes into a glorious party loop, while "Come On Down" throws down a B-Boy gauntlet to P.Diddyand Esther Williams' "Last Night Changed It All", and the stuttering rhythms of "Rock Co.Kane Flow" are as out there and ambitious as anything by Kanye West.
At times The Grind Date is ludicrously good and on this form who's to say they won't be around for another 16 years. As they state on "Come On Down", the competition might be all Tito's and Randy's, but De La Soul are still the main Jackson.
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The Grind Date is the seventh album from hip-hop group De La Soul, released on October 5, 2004. The album was originally intended to be the final album of the Art Official Intelligence (AOI) trilogy, but as the album quickly changed focus, the group decided to put AOI III on hold and finish The Grind Date as its own work.
The Grind Date is a notably brisker, and leaner work than the group's previous albums, and features a top of the line array of production talents including the late J Dilla (who was part of A Tribe Called Quest's production unit, The Ummah), Madlib ("Shopping Bags (She Got From You)"), and 9th Wonder ("Church"). Producer Supa Dave West, who handled the majority of the AOI albums, also contributes five tracks to the album. "Rock Co.Kane Flow" featuring MF DOOM, was produced by Jake One, and sees Posdnuos addressing some recent trends in Hip hop with the line "Unlike them, we craft gems / so systematically inclined to pen lines / without sayin a producer's name, all over the track". The well received collaboration also brought attention to the then-unknown Jake One.
The album is light on guest appearances and features a total of four guest MCs, including Common. Unlike every De La Soul album before it, The Grind Date contains no skits at all, although a short musical interlude does precede the first song "The Future". The album's conceptual cover and sleeve booklet, based on a 2005 calendar, was designed by Morning Breath Inc.
User Album Review
De La Soul's 3Foot High and Rising was one of the most innovative hip hopalbums ever. The title of their second album, De La Soul Is Dead, summed up the band's unwillingness to stand still and be pigeon holed. The Daisy Age was officially declared over.
The spotlight thenmovedaway fromPosdnuos, Trugoy, and Maceo(a little something called Gangsta rap was making the headlines) and the triofocused on creating a string of classic albums. And with records like "Buhloone Mindstate" (1993), "Stakes Is High" (1996) and "AOI: Mosaic Thump" (2000), they deserve the title of the most consistent hip-hop group ever. Who else has kept up this quality for so long?
The Grind Date, their first album for Sanctuary, offers ample evidence of how they've remained at the top;making a target of those rappers who put out "wack albums" with only "two joints". Original producer Prince Paul has long since departed, but help from the likes of Madlib, Supa Dave West and J-Dilla prove that De Lacan still wipe the floor with a today'snew generation of hip hop artists.
The bandremain almost compulsively inventive, their eclecticapproach creatinga smart and soulful beauty of an album. Guests such as Spike Lee, Flava Flav, Ghostface and Commonline up to pay testament to their genius.
The album is littered with high points. Current single "Shopping Bags" sees Madlib cut up Just Ice's classic "Cold Getting' Dumb" to mimic a hundred rattling milk bottles. The title track transforms an unlikely sample of "Ritual Nous Commes De Soleil" by Yes into a glorious party loop, while "Come On Down" throws down a B-Boy gauntlet to P.Diddyand Esther Williams' "Last Night Changed It All", and the stuttering rhythms of "Rock Co.Kane Flow" are as out there and ambitious as anything by Kanye West.
At times The Grind Date is ludicrously good and on this form who's to say they won't be around for another 16 years. As they state on "Come On Down", the competition might be all Tito's and Randy's, but De La Soul are still the main Jackson.
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