If he would do a whole record for Ghostface I could die happy. Their tracks together are some of my favorites, he understands exactly the sounds to give Toney imo
De La Soul- Cabin In The Sky (New Album) November 2025
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ArchStanton
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Ben Eslinger (@editor66.bsky.social)
Just heard the sneak peek of @wearedelasoul.com "Cabin In The Sky" on Ebro...Mannnnnn!!!!!! Unreal. One final banger album with Trugoy (Rest In Peace Dave) is something real special. Love it. And the song with Black Thought is insanely good.
bsky.app
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
LOL!!
I've been saying on here forever that Pete never fell off. Bro never stopped working.
A lot of dudes on here turned on him when he wasn't getting along with Nas. Saying all kinds of wild sh*t about him. Now those same people love him again. Soul Brother is easily Top 5.
Prolific_1011
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Anonymous Nobody is such a dope album but it's crazy Tribes last album came out around the same time (another great album) and now De La dropping an album after the death of a member (RIP Plug Two). 
Apollo Kid
Veteran
We miss you Dave!
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I turned on Pete after that wack Smif N Wesson album in 2011 lol. He was very hit and miss in the 00s and 2010s and just fell off the radar for me. First time I felt like he did something that I liked again was that DZA/Benny collab EP in 2019. He also had dope beats on a Skyzoo collab at some point in the last 5-6 years but most of the beats were unused from the 90s iirc.
Pretty much this.
I felt like Pete did a great job on Skyzoo’s Retropolitan album in 2019, but Skyzoo said most of those beats were from 93-94. Then he gave Nas some good, albeit not earth-shattering beats on Lost Tapes 2. Then he started coming off like he was losing his mind posting crazy conspiracy theory shyt on IG and hating on Hit-Boy. Talking about suing Nas for shyt that had nothing to do with him. I thought he had finally given over to the old & bitter musician trope hollering at everybody to get off his lawn.
But the album he did with Common last year, The Auditorium, was EXCELLENT and one of my favorite albums of the decade. That album let me know that a focused Pete Rock free of bullshyt is still one of THE best the genre has to offer. That album dispelled all doubt.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I agree with all this but one thing I'll say about the Hit Boy dust up...I "get" why him and other 90s producers have issues with that sound. I was listening to Havoc's recent interview with Pete Rock and he said something about disliking some modern production because it sounds like "water in a can." When you're creating beats without samples it doesn't have the layers or warmth that make a lot of classic beats sound full. I fukk with Hit Boy but I see both sides of the argument. Sometimes his beats sound like a skeleton that a producer is going to complete by adding bass or whatever else. Other times he has undeniable dope shyt. On that Nas run there are maybe 6-8 beats I didn't like. That's out of 6 albums so the hit (no pun intended) rate is very high.
ArchStanton
All Star
I might be reading too much into things, but the fact he is wearing a jacket with Mass Appeal on it speaks volumes after all the battles he had with Tommy Boy over the years.
Mikeatris
Supreme Mathematik
It is bonkers why Wu never let Bronze Nazareth lace their albums. He could have brought the Wu sound back. Mathematics is just terrible to me
just wanna say that i am honestly grateful that we are about to get some new grown up rap that my generation can listen to in this day and age, what was said in the apple interview clip was some REAL shyt that you ONLY understand after being on this planet for a good amount of time
RIP PAC
RIP DAVE
for those of you that missed the Smoke DZA Pete Rock album, that is def recommended, the beats be "slamming", it kinda reintroduced me to modern Pete Rock cause i admit i was forgetting a little bit... supertalented
RIP PAC
RIP DAVE
for those of you that missed the Smoke DZA Pete Rock album, that is def recommended, the beats be "slamming", it kinda reintroduced me to modern Pete Rock cause i admit i was forgetting a little bit... supertalented