De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
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Dog Beats was De La Soul’s first album. It is also the most successful in terms of sales, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album was certified platinum in 1997, six years after its release. Dog Beats was certified 4x platinum in August 1998, just three months after the release of “Stakes Is High” (an album that produced five hits on the Billboard 200), a move that was an attempt to re-establish their commercial standing.
As a concept album, Dog Beats is the antithesis of the A Tribe Called Quest album The Low End Theory. Whereas AQ’s album is a battle between two competing personalities, De La Soul’s is a battle between two different musical styles. This concept is evident in the album’s sequencing. It begins with a short skit in which the bully mocks the album with the words “You can’t get no De La Soul.” After the second track, “Me Myself & I” (in which the narrator says he’s more interested in doing battle than in getting high), the third track, “Brain Washed Follower,” reprises the subject matter from the first track and serves as a final take-down to the narrator’s dream of achieving greatness. The final two tracks are live versions of the first and second, respectively; the first, “Eye Know,” reworks “Brain Washed Follower” in a manner that makes it more contemporary. The second, “The Mack Daddy on the Left,” reprises the mad rap battles featured on the first track. The final track, “The South Bronx,” is an industrial, hard-edged version of “I Can’t Get With This,” with a similar spoken word intro and similar chants.
The title, De La Soul Is Dead, was also a play on the titles of Public Enemy's 1988 album Fear of a Black Planet and the comedy album The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, which was released a few months later. It was created by De La Soul and their manager, Richard Darman of Priority Records. The title was a play on the common usage of the phrase, and a play on the future and the past tense, in that the future had already happened for the group.
The art design includes a collective portrait of De La Soul with all the other members of the group, and the various album cover items, such as the cassette tape player. As with the cover of De La Soul Is Dead, the stylized font used here is modeled after the Soulsonic Force logo. The booklet features a series of photographs of each member of the group, a series of stills from a music video, and a series of drawings based upon the album's skits. There are also interviews with the members of the group, who discuss the album.
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