Trugoy the Dove (De La Soul)

Slick Rick as well.

Yeah, Slick Rick.

Because, you know, we talk about the void in hip hop and I was no, you know, the originality is kind of lacking.

And then, you know, now coming out, there's no, you know, hip hop rap songs in the top 40 for the first time in 30 something years, which essentially means the labels are not putting money behind the songs and things like that.

A lot of these artists are not really making the money back for these labels.

You may have a big song, but it's like, you're not selling no tickets.

You get back, it's like, yo, bro, we're not selling no seats.

But to hear De La in 2025 and what y'all did with this project, with this album,

I think it speaks to just a different attention to detail that I think comes from the era that y'all came from when it came to, you know, the art of hip hop and making sure that certain things always remain.

Like we have to have this.

We have to pay attention to that.

Yeah.

And I talk to it a lot.

I don't know if it's.

because of the way we consume music i love the fact that i can open my phone and listen to any song i want to but i also recognize the detachment in it yeah like if somebody if i'm listening to the daylight album and i'm playing it from my phone and i got on the speakers in the house somebody called my phone yeah it interrupts it interrupts the whole thing and i might not go back to the album today yeah because that phone call might be like yo meet me downstairs

Now I'm not even going back to that way as before.

I went to the Wiz to buy the album.

Exactly.

I go home.

I bust it open.