De La Soul- Cabin In The Sky (New Album) November 2025
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De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky review – a full-colour celebration of Trugoy the Dove that never feels heavy
The first release since the death of their founding member dwells on the afterlife, yet doesn’t forsake their perpetually sunny sound
www.theguardian.com
You couldn’t tell me that “El-Rukn and El DeBarge” shyt wasn’t the hardest shyt ever, back then
The last “newer” artist I really liked and put in my regular rotation was JID and he’s 34 lol
I keep telling myself that as we age out of what is considered “cool” or “genre-defining” thats just how its naturally going to go. I didn’t get anything from artists like Pop Smoke, XXXTencion, Kodak, Glorilla, Sexy Redd, Juice World, 21 Savage, NBA Youngboy, Ice Spice, drill rap in general, etc. In no way, shape, form or fashion does anything about their music or movement speak to or move me. I hear one of their songs and i’m just hearing noise. To that end i’m happy that the legend has it series is something I can look forward to. And that for the most part all the artists have released projects that were enjoyable. Thats SEVEN albums worth of material I can consistently bump, with at least two albums so far being legit AOTY contenders. Add on to that Clipse releasing an incredible reunion project. Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist dropping heat, GNX still being in rotation from last year, LL Cool J’s The Force still being in rotation. Common & Pete Rock’s The Auditorium still being in rotation. I have NOTHING to complain about when it comes to quality Hip Hop music. I’m not a Ransom fan, but I can tell he puts his all into his projects and thats great for fans of his. Same thing for Griselda. RZA is about to help The Juice Crew drop an album. The elder statesmen are kicking ass and taking names and thats just FINE with me. Imagine if Nas had retired after 2012 and Jay never dropped 4:44 and all we had was Kendrick and J.Cole to uphold any standard of lyricism within the mainstream. shyt would be HORRIBLE. We need the legends and icons of the genre to continue showing that there ARE real rewards and dividends to be reaped through craft and care regarding the whats and hows of presenting an album.
I really hope fans show up and show out for Nas & Premo. Any and everybody who had anything REMOTELY negative to say about the Hit-Boy era should be on their knees thanking God Almighty that Nas apparently feels the juice is worth the squeeze in “taking it back” to golden era for at least one final project.
Reading the thread, I told cats this had a high probability of being the best out of this run. The only album that really has a chance to challenge it, is Nas.
De La Soul does not f*ck around. I'm not saying every album they dropped is classic but you can't objectively look at any of their albums as lazy or phoned in.
I see people saying "Stakes Is High" is their favorite album, it's not a crazy opinion. A lot of Millennials prefer it because they aren't old enough to remember the first three in real time. I am old enough to remember their first 3 in real time but "Stakes Is High" hit particularly hard because they were supposed to be washed at that point. Nobody expected them to fall off on their 2nd or 3rd album. "Stakes" is where people were like
for the first time. Before it came out I mean.
Also Pos saying "every word I say should be a hip-hop quotable" and then The Source giving them Hip-Hop Quotable for "Stakes Is High" was some legendary sh*t.
Fred.
De La Soul does not f*ck around. I'm not saying every album they dropped is classic but you can't objectively look at any of their albums as lazy or phoned in.
I see people saying "Stakes Is High" is their favorite album, it's not a crazy opinion. A lot of Millennials prefer it because they aren't old enough to remember the first three in real time. I am old enough to remember their first 3 in real time but "Stakes Is High" hit particularly hard because they were supposed to be washed at that point. Nobody expected them to fall off on their 2nd or 3rd album. "Stakes" is where people were like
for the first time. Before it came out I mean.Also Pos saying "every word I say should be a hip-hop quotable" and then The Source giving them Hip-Hop Quotable for "Stakes Is High" was some legendary sh*t.
Fred.
Man this is such a good road trip album, the whole thing just flows so nicely front to back and the different sounds, beats and voices really keep your attention the whole way through.
This is my album of year, easily at this point.
This is my album of year, easily at this point.
That, a quick 16 for mama & run it back have been getting played non-stop since the album dropped.
And who is that wailing the background vocals on cabin in the sky? I figure it's bilal uncredited but I don't know.
