Maseo (De La Soul)

I was in Flight Club and I was like, I'm about to pull a trigger.

It's a heavy price tag for it.

But I just feel like that's one of the ones like, you know, I grew up in that time.

And I just feel like that's just a staple.

I want to talk about the second album, De La Soul Is Dead.

Now that album was...

The content of it was a little different.

Obviously, Three Feet High and Rising, probably one of the most iconic debut albums in hip-hop history.

But the second album, the tone was a little different.

Y'all touched on where y'all felt like hip-hop was headed, the energy in hip-hop.

And looking back, that was 91.

How do y'all feel about where hip-hop is today?

I'm like, yo, you have to get basically exiled from the culture if you was caught biting another person's... Even their tone.

whenever I hear, you know, people say, oh, New York never fucked with the South.

I'm like, y'all are bugging.

We first saw, well, let me speak for myself.

When I first saw OutKast and just the way they was rapping and the way they wore the jerseys and this and that third, I'm like, yo, that's how they get down in Atlanta.

Like it just, it was like, oh, this is familiar.

You know what I'm saying?

Because obviously the business has changed so much, especially since y'all have been a part of it.