Episode 61: The De La Soul & A Tribe Called Quest Discographies, featuring Elwyn M. Grimes, Jr.
Hey, hi, and hello!
Episode #61 of the Badass Records Podcast was a very special one, in that the one and only Elwyn M. Grimes, Jr. made a return appearance to the show, and he did so under the guise of tackling two of the most important discographies in hip-hop history, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.
Twas no small feat, but we got after it and had a good time doing so, especially considering that -- as of March 3, 2023 -- the De La catalog is finally available via streaming services. 'Bout. Damn. Time.
The list looks like this:
3 Feet High and Rising (1989), DLS
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990), ATCQ
De La Soul Is Dead (1991), DLS
The Low End Theory (1991), ATCQ
Buhloone Mindstate (1993), DLS
Midnight Marauders (1993), ATCQ
Stakes Is High (1996), DLS
Beats, Rhymes & Life (1996), ATCQ
The Love Movement (1998), ATCQ
Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000), DLS
A.O.I.: Bionix (2001), DLS
The Grind Date (2004) DLSPlug 1 & Plug 2 Present...First Serve (2012), DLS
...and the Anonymous Nobody (2016), DLS
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service (2016), ATCQ
And you'd better believe there was a Ric Flair, "Woo!" gettin' through all that.
I talked too much on this one and probably bored Elwyn to pieces, but boy did we appear to be having a good time, so many thanks to him for coming and hanging with me a second time. Catch him on Episode #3 if you missed him the first time around.
Peace!
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro audio. They are samples from the best one-two punch in hip-hop history, "Dinninit"--> "Brakes," which are tracks off of Stakes (c/o A.O.I., LLC Under Exclusive License to Chrysalis Records Limited, a.k.a. not Tommy Boy Records).