FULL EPISODE: De La Soul Talk Fighting For Their Catalog, Making "Stakes Is High," Native Tongues & Losing David Jolicoeur

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode of "People's Party with Talib Kweli" filmed live at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa Valley, De La Soul talk about early days, the story behind Native Tongues, the reaction to "De La Soul Is Dead," the process behind making "Stakes Is High," why they had to fight for control of their catalog, and losing David Jolicoeur.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, and a place to be is to BKMC, the MCEO, Tyler Pqually.
0:21.5	We are live at the Blue Note, but we are not in New York City, we are in gorgeous sunny,
0:26.5	hot and a motherfucker, Napa Valley.
0:29.1	Shout out to everybody who's hanging out with us here in Napa Valley.
0:31.8	This is a very special event, the Blue Note Jazz Festival.
0:34.3	A lot of wonderful things going on, but what's most important right now is I got my family
0:40.2	in the house.
0:41.4	These guys I've wanted on people's party since it started.
0:44.3	These are my actual brothers, my actual family.
0:46.8	I exist as an artist because of them.
0:49.2	I cannot overstate how important this group is to my life.
0:53.3	We don't have a lot of time because we in between sets at the Blue Note Jazz Festival,
0:56.6	I normally give a very, very long intro, but I'm going to try to keep it as short as possible.
1:01.6	Their wordplay, their style, their music, their attention to detail, their love for the
1:05.9	culture.
1:06.9	It's all a parallel.
1:08.3	Grammy winning, award-winning group, worked with everybody from Snoop Dogg, the Queen
1:12.7	Latifah, the guerrillas, David Byrne, two-changed jungle brothers, Carmen J. Dilla, Tribequo
1:18.1	Quest, Black Ops, and ERD myself.
1:21.2	Their run on albums is unparalleled, three feet higher rising.
1:24.9	Dilla Soul is dead, blew in my state, state, society, artificial intelligence.
1:29.1	The A.O.I. series, we're going to get into that.
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