Pos, Maseo and Dave's stack of superior albums is three feet high, and
e's rising to the next level with their newest, Stakes is High. De La Soul is
one of the few hip hop groups that comes with artistic, intelligent, and
relevant music every trip, never taking the turn-off towards gangsta crap
and misogynistic lyrics. Jon Stain and Dave shoot the
breeze about trying to please, what Dave reads, and
Presidential nominees.
-Nico
BUFFALO BAUGHTER
BUFFALO DAUGHTER
Where did you come from?
We came from Mother p and we happen to be une
of her fast bees But you know we're here just trying to
our peers, our brothers and sisters, that we need to
e de a le bit more straight
Are you attempting to educate do you want to preach
mean, it's not actually he preaching or educat
learned with
s lie when we it back and look at
whole and be as a whole, people
rious as possible. For us, we take
have children we farve fame
urder
what we love it for. But, you
successful and survive
about making money
mally about concentrating on how beautiful
sn if that's what is about, ler's concentrate
ves that and do it the right way
What is your musical direction?
int's posity. It's not the we would ever pitt
point a specific group, we're just trying to pinpoint and
talk about the mentality. You find a lot of goorant men
tality is the rap game, like brothers and sisters don')
really we to look at what they're saying and how
easily influe cing the young
omen, and acting like fools All
dey re doing is setting an image for the young to look at
between ages si through as, and they're j
learning right now, for them to look
vulgar and so negatise that's what they're going
they should at least feed a positive light about
these kids could copy something positive
You never Jumped on the gangsta rap bandwagon as
many have. Why not?
For
it's a creative thing. We don't want to limit
rselves to what a rap record is supposed to be
We just want to try to expand
as much as possible, whether it's saxophone, xylophone
or even harp or opera. To me, it seems like those who
follow a fod themselves where the leader is, and if she
leader happens to find himself at the end
time well then, the followers will be in the same place
as the leader for us, we just try to do things sponta
neously and away from what everybody else is doing Just
Is your music intentionally universally acceptable?
That's what we try to do. We look for meaning in
everyone else's fries, so we wouldn't settle for anything
less than doing that ourselves Sometimes I feel like peo
ple definitely do try to fake it, like they try to be as sin
cere as possible but dat's everydder for us We've always
been down to earth brothers, regardless if we sell mil
hons sif records or just one record, that's just our
alte We like to extend what we've seen in
share it with everybody else so that they can learn from
our mistakes even give us advice of where
lng makes We're just doing from ourselves direct and
a truthfal
possible.
What was the last book you read?
Letters by a brother named Ron Hughes It's about life
He was just writing leners to God to a homosexual
friend, to a policeman around the corner, just fictional
levers just more or less sending a message in each letter
about these different individuals
What influences do you hear in your music?
Influences in our music have been what friends have
negative or positive, warching our
children, books, relegion, just a lot of different things We
den't gr predetermened ineo the studio saying "Okay, this
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song is about A. B and C It's when we
step in the studio, and whatever we went
through that day, we try so implement n
idea and lyrics on our records
What festivals have you played?
We've done a lot of festivals overs
seas The Reading Festsal, the Tibetan
Freedom Festival in San Francises, so it's cool being a part
of these differes festivals for the differens causes No
only do we represent ourselves as a part of the cause bot
it's also good to absorb some information if we did
know anything about it such as the Tibetan Freedom
Festival, Sting down and being able to listen to Buddist
monks and understand clearly what was happening with
the Chinese government suppressing the people in Tiber,
using them as work slaves to get products back and forth
from the US, one of the biggest traders with China, and
knowing how cruel and heartless people can be just for a
dollar it was good to be part of the struggle for the people
the US renew China's Most Favored
Nations trade status?
Je obviously that the dollar is bigger than em
tions and morality. For me, to know that people are being
killet, and people are suffering daily just for your coure
try just for your shirt. I guess overall, Bill Clinton
looking at the stability of the country, and unfortunately
he feels that in order for this country in be srable, for us
to be making money, trading and doing huminess some
body has to suffer. To me that's pitiful
Who do you want for President?
I can't really say 'e for anybody in partiodac I think
it would be a great thing to know that a black man made
into the presidency Bud how much will be be able to
do? i think it would be something that
be proud of and maybe it will per a binde bit of excite
all of our hearts 10 strive for more and maybe
work harder for someshing. A black Vice President like
Colin Powell
And to the readers of Thrasher?
Just enjoy rap music and take it as an entertainment
thing Don't be too influenced by the negative stuff, ad
If yiare going to be influenced by anything, let it be the
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