Buhloone Mindstate

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Buhloone Mindstate
Buhloone Mindstate cover
Studio album by De La Soul
Released September 24, 1993
Genre Hip hop
Length 48:14
Label Tommy Boy
Producer De La Soul, Prince Paul
Professional reviews
De La Soul chronology
De La Soul Is Dead
(1991)		 Buhloone Mindstate
(1993)		 Clear Lake Audiotorium (EP)
(1994)

Buhloone Mindstate is De La Soul's third full-length album. It was the last De La Soul album to be produced with Prince Paul. In 2005, comedian Chris Rock named it as the 10th greatest hip-hop album ever, in a list written for Rolling Stone magazine.[1]

Contents

[edit] Overview

[edit] Title significance

The title refers to the group's efforts to remain grounded after acquiring a name. On the album's intro, the group repeat the phrase, "it might blow up but it won't go pop", then, to end the track, they repeat the line a final time with a balloon popping replacing the word pop. They do the same at the end of "Patti Dooke". These are references to the group's refusal to change their style of music for anyone else, even if it were to become popular.

[edit] Songs and guests

De La Soul continued the early 90's experimentations with jazz by featuring jazz veterans Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Pee Wee Ellis, on "Patti Dooke" and "I Am I Be". The song "Patti Dooke" deals with what the group sees as the mainstream's efforts to control the direction of black music. Posdnous raps:

I'm known as the farmer
Cultivatin' mate without mendin'
Bendin', compromising any of my styles to gain a smile
Listen while you hear it
There's no pink in my slip
I reckon that the rhythm and the blues in the rap got me red
While the boys from Tommy playing bridge crossin' to a larger community
Yet they're soon to see I have a brother named Luck

Japanese rappers, SDP and Takagi Kan make an appearance on "Long Island Wildin'" while Biz Markie drops by on "Stone Age" and Guru makes a spoken cameo on "Patti Dooke" ("...So guard your trenches 'cause we runnin' through 'em. Peace to my man Premier"). Dres of Black Sheep appears, and the album heavily features Shortie No Mass of Philadelphia. The album was preceded by the single and video "Breakadawn", which featured a sample from Michael Jackson's "I Can't Help it".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Intro" – 0:52
  2. "Eye Patch" – 2:27
  3. "En Focus" (featuring Shortie No Mas and Dres of Black Sheep) – 3:15
  4. "Patti Dooke" (featuring Guru, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Pee Wee Ellis) – 5:54
  5. "I Be Blowin'" (featuring Maceo Parker) – 4:58
  6. "Long Island Wildin'" (featuring SDP and Takagi Kan) – 1:30
  7. "Ego Trippin' (Part Two)" – 5:23
  8. "Paul's Revenge" – 0:43
  9. "3 Days Later" – 3:23
  10. "Area" – 3:31
  11. "I Am I Be" (featuring Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Pee Wee Ellis) – 5:03
  12. "In the Woods" (featuring Shortie No Mass) – 4:01
  13. "Breakadawn" – 4:14
  14. "Dave Has a Problem...Seriously" – 0:55
  15. "Stone Age" (featuring Biz Markie) – 5:08

[edit] List of Samples

The following is a list of songs and sound footage sampled in the songs on Buhloone Mindstate.

Intro

  • "Deep Gully" by The Outlaw Blues Band

Eye Patch

En Focus

Patti Dooke

Long Island Wildin'

I Be Blowin

  • "You've Made Me So Very Happy" by Lou Rawls

Ego Trippin' [Part Two]

3 Days Later

Area

  • "The New Rap Language" by Spoonie Gee & The Treacherous Three
  • "I Call My Baby Pussycat" by Parliament
  • "Come Dancing" by Beck

I Am I Be

In the Woods

Breakadawn

Stone Age

  • "Lonely Days" by Gregory Isaacs
  • "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss (drums)
  • "A Little Soulful Tune" by Taj Mahal

[edit] Album singles

Single cover Single information
"Breakadawn"
  • Released: 1993
  • B-side: En Focus
"Ego Trippin' (Part Two)"
  • Released: 1994
  • B-side: "Lovely How I Let My Mind Float"

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://rateyourmusic.com/list/tha_flu/chris_rocks_top_25_hip_hop_albums
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