![]() ![]() They’re maintaining and having fun, not trying to break any new ground but still creating music that is distinctly their own.įrom start to end, the feel of Mosaic Thump is loose and fun. Here, with the help of an even larger gang of talented guests, De La Soul is relaxing a bit and throwing a hip-hop party, instead of trying to make statements. Mosaic Thump, the first edition in the three-disc Art Official Intelligence project, continues stylistically in the path of Stakes Is High, with a straight-ahead hip-hop sound, but has much more of a laid-back feel. It also featured a few great collaborations with some of the hottest MCs at the time, like Common and Mos Def. That album found them transferring their energy away from abstract poetry, toward straightforward, no-nonsense rhymes over sparse, powerful beats. Every album after the first has received less praise even the fantastic about-face they did on their fourth LP, Stakes Is High, was fairly widely panned or ignored. ![]() ![]() Yet despite the legendary status given their debut album Three Feet High and Rising, De La Soul is still one of the most underrated groups in hip-hop. The chorus to a song on De La Soul’s new album, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump is a great summary of what could be their credo: “You can do whatever you want, whatever you like, it’s your own life.” They’ve always been staunch individualists, doing whatever they like despite trends or fads. ![]()
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