Timeless: The Singles Collection [PA]

Performer: De La Soul
Artist: Jungle Brothers; Monie Love; Q-Tip; Queen Latifah; Common; Redman; Chaka Khan; Devin; Elizabeth "Yummy" Bingham
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: De La Soul: Posdnuous/Plug Won, Maseo, Trugoy/Plug 2. Producers include: Prince Paul, Posdnous, The Mentor & His Three Sons, De La Soul, OGee. Compilation producer: Barry "Rockbarry" Benson. Recorded between 1988 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Soren Baker. Personnel: Vinia Mojica (vocals); Kyle Williams (guitar); Glen Mosley (keyboards). Audio Mixers: De La Soul; Prince Paul; Tim Latham; Troy Hightower; Bob Power. Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Steve Pokorny; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: Soren Baker. Illustrator: Joe Buck. Arrangers: Posdnuos; Prince Paul. While rap vanguards De La Soul have always been one of the most album-oriented artists in the hip-hop universe, their career as traced by their singles is no less impressive. The trio first earned underground notice with the bouncing anti-"byte"ing 12" "Potholes in My Lawn" and even grazed the pop top 40 in 1989--at a time when fewer rap songs did that--with the Parliament-thumping "Me, Myself & I." Their history up to 2003 (when this compilation was dropped) includes classics like the disco-fied "Rollerskating Jam Called 'Saturdays'," the minimalistic "Ego Trippin' (Part 2)," the introspective and jazzy "Stakes is High," and the poppy ode to fuller-figured women, "Baby Phat."

Rolling Stone (6/12/03, p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Are De La Soul the greatest rap group ever to grace the mike? The Long Island trio's first anthology certainly makes the case..."

Skit comedy, abstract rhyming, samples from pop's left field, and a self-consciously intellectual approach to rap became hip-hop staples after De La Soul's 1989 debut, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING. But despite the group's widespread influence, no one ever has ever come close to appropriating their singular style.

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