The Grind Date

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The Grind Date
The Grind Date cover
Studio album by De La Soul
Released October 5, 2004
Recorded  ???
Genre Hip hop
Length 52:43
Label Sanctuary
Producer(s) Posdnuos, Supa Dave West, Jay Dee, Madlib, 9th Wonder, Jake One
Professional reviews
De La Soul chronology

Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996
(2004)
The Grind Date
(2004)
The Impossible: Mission TV Series - Pt. 1
(2006)


The Grind Date was released on October 5, 2004 and is the seventh album from hip-hop group De La Soul. The album was originally intended to be the final album of the Art Official Intelligence (AOI) trilogy, but as the album quickly changed focus, the group decided to put AOI on hold and finish The Grind Date as its own work.

Contents

[edit] Overview

The album's first single, "Shopping Bags", received little recognition by the media. BET, for instance, refused to play the "Shopping Bags" music video and stated that it did not appeal to their targeted audience[1]. In addition, BET claimed that De La Soul weren't relevant to BET's viewers. Many hip-hop fans were likely outraged by this accusation, as De La Soul has an important and influential group in hip-hop history; this opinion is shared by large-audience music critics Robert Christgau, who writes "partly our ears have changed and partly theirs have, so that their brilliant hunches now sound like glowing accomplishments,"[2] and AMG's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, who notes, "At the time of its 1989 release, De La Soul's debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as the future of hip-hop."[3] The video did end up on rotation on smaller outlets such as MTV2, but it never received much (if any) airplay from MTV or BET.

Ironically, the group's collaboration with Gorillaz, Feel Good, Inc., was one of the biggest singles of 2005.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Future" – 3:49
    • Produced by Supa Dave West
    • Contains sample of "A Brighter Tomorrow" by Switch
  2. "Verbal Clap" – 3:16
    • Produced by Jay Dee
    • Contains samples of "Catherine Of Aragon" by Rick Wakeman & "Long Red" by Mountain
  3. "Much More" (featuring Yummy) – 4:05
  4. "Shopping Bags (She Got From You)" – 3:57
    • Produced by Madlib
  5. "The Grind Date" – 3:22
    • Produced by Supa Dave West
    • Contains sample of "Nous Sommes Du Soleil" by Yes
  6. "Church" (featuring Spike Lee) – 5:32
    • Produced by 9th Wonder
    • Contains sample of "Reality" by Pleasure
  7. "It's Like That" (featuring Carl Thomas) – 4:36
    • Produced by Supa Dave West
  8. "He Comes" (featuring Ghostface Killah) – 3:44
    • Produced by Supa Dave West
    • Contains sample of "Here Comes the Sun" by Eugene
  9. "Days of Our Lives" (featuring Common) – 3:51
  10. "Come On Down" (featuring Flava Flav) – 5:01
    • Produced by Madlib
  11. "No" (featuring Butta Verses and Yummy) – 4:34
  12. "Rock Co.Kane Flow" (featuring MF DOOM) – 3:06
    • Produced by Jake One
    • Contains sample of "Deliverance" by Space
  13. "Shoomp" (featuring Sean Paul) – 3:41 (European Exclusive)
    • Produced by Jay Dee
    • Contains sample of "Genius Of Love" by Tom Tom Club

[edit] Album singles

Single cover Single information
"Shoomp"
  • Released: 2003
  • B-side: Much More
"Shopping Bags (She Got From You)"
  • Released: 2004
  • B-side: "The Grind Date"
"Rock Co.Kane Flow"
  • Released: 2004
  • B-side:


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.17.05/music/delasoul.php URL
  2. ^ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=337&name=De+La+Soul URL
  3. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47C1ED248A97F20C8932C50CEB560E2518C63F2810A2D4B5CD0FB3247801121B655FBD1CFFDFB75AB7BAEE02CA45A099FC9E454FAD6633A2DED93&sql=11:5huk6jph71w0~T1 URL

[edit] External links

De La Soul
Posdnuos | Dave | Maseo
Studio albums
3 Feet High and Rising (1989) | De La Soul Is Dead (1991) | Buhloone Mindstate (1993) | Clear Lake Audiotorium (EP) (1994) | Stakes Is High (1996) | Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000) | AOI: Bionix (2001) | Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996 (2004) | The Grind Date (2004) | The Impossible: Mission TV Series - Pt. 1 (2006) 
Singles
Potholes in My Lawn| Plug Tunin'| Buddy| Eye Know| Me Myself And I| Say No Go| The Magic Number| Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)| A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"| Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa / Keepin' The Faith| Breakadawn| Ego Trippin' (Part Two)| Fallin'| Stakes Is High| Itzsoweezee (HOT)| 4 More| Oooh.| All Good?| Thru Ya City| Baby Phat| Shoomp| Shopping Bags (She Got From You)| Rock Co.Kane Flow|Feel Good Inc.
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