De La Soul- Stakes is High

[84sonicdestroyer]

A meteor has more right than my people!

No that is som strong words!

[miltman17]

wish it was a dislike button to dislike the dislike..shit this song shouldnt have any 0_o

[TheDistrict644]

De la! Cemented as all time favorite.

[hex147]

J Dilla beat, Soul on top; can't lose.

[Felisette]

i think thats my favorite hip hop music of all time, becouse its from my both favorites producer and group, the lyrics are dope and the fuckin beat is J Dilla period

[TrickJazzMusic]

If you like hip hop and jazz.....or real hip hop in general

listen..... /watch?v=rjumRqguz80

.....or not

peace

[Eweezie415]

People don't get it, this world is too camouflaged. People who understand whats happening like these brothas in this song need to unite. We aren't strong alone, we need unity before we are wiped out and "Idiocracy" happens.

[dudeitspaulina]

Real hip hop

[TheRover221]

On a whole other level. Damn this is the real shit.

[MarianaTrench83]

Long Live DILLA!!!!!!!!

[madrecka]

This song came out in 1996 and its prophectic about today. Interesting.

[stardelorian]

@madrecka the realness and truth is timeless....

[madrecka]

@stardelorian Thats real talk! 

[stecsworld]

Doesn't here know the hip hop producer Dela? He has a song called "Stakes is High" and he even samples the little "vibe" vocal sound heard in this track. It's kinda ironic how his name is Dela, kinda like De La Soul haha

[Junglist1996]

@stecsworld don't forget: dela - dil la

[ThePharmacistRx]

You know its real when Jay Dee is the producer. R.I.P. James Dewitt Yancey aka J. Dilla.

[MrGeorgeyS]

You know i never really acknowledged dillas scope as a producer but time and time again his name appears on some ofy favourite tracks. Great song.

[jmj540]

One of the most lyrical songs in Hip Hop. I would never expect such lyricism from a group like De La Soul.

[telj1]

@jmj540 You've been a sleep then. You must be on some 3 feet high and rising ish because they have Ls for day, even more now. That's what happens when you're on your craft. PUT any of these mcs from back in the day that are still doing shows against your Drakes on some real L ish toe 2 toe......they will kill it!!!

[dagr8rylz]

@telj1 Yo drake is not wack, I know you want to bash the whole new school but, Drake got bars, concepts, and decent hooks, not those simplest form of brainwashing(repetitive) joints, dude has actual hooks, people dont pay attention to what he actually be doing but a real hip hop head is going to pay attn and respect it. only thing I can say he is missing is storytelling, (TBH) he didnt have a rough life from what I see, but he is still a dope MC.

[telj1]

@dagr8rylz Didn't say he was wack. He's got bars no doubt but they pop bars. How you gonna even comment back defending Drake on some real hip hop shit. REAL hiphop heads know. Ask Common...lol. My point wasn't even to bash Drake. It was to state that if you put these kats on a beat, it'll open your mind. I'm not talking about no singing raping auto-tune using mc...C'mon son, he sing to women 90% of the time. He got bars...lol

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[fakeyellow]

so fucking Classic yo! 

[ashezketchum]

Dilla daaaaaaawg.

[acidpower13]

I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses

I'm sick of talkin' about blunts,

Sick of Versace glasses,

Sick of slang,

Sick of half-ass awards shows,

Sick of name brand clothes.

Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks,

Cocaine and crack

Which brings sickness to blacks

RESPECT

[kovayzla]

DILLA DILLA BEATS BEATS

[Pariso12]

does anybody knows the kid sublime rmx from stakes is high and may can upload it or show me where to get it

[CamBoyle1]

You know them steaks is hot

[GamingFreeForAll]

GFFA rep Alpyne D here: i guess the stakes was too high for 13 folks.

real heads recognize real shit. guess they couldn't. guess they aren't. tragic.

[sr20freak1]

my favorite verse:I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses I'm sick of talkin' about blunts, Sick of Versace glasses, Sick of slang, Sick of half-ass awards shows, Sick of name brand clothes. Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks, Cocaine and crack Which brings sickness to blacks, Sick of swoll' head rappers With their sicker-than raps Clappers and gats Makin' the whole sick world collapse The facts are gettin' sick Even sicker perhaps Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse

[ChaosCat79]

And you what's crazy about that verse? It was uttered in 1996!?!? It's almost as if De La Soul could see the dire direction rap was headed towards and tried to warn people about it.

Unfortunately what they predicted happened anyway.... dudes were already being brainwashed by the latest trash from Puff Daddy and thus this album, this song and it's message were largely ignored. =/

[eblancor]

Why is De LA Soul not on iTunes?

[fleshnbone187]

@eblancor Because Warner Bros are a bunch of pussies that are scared to put 3 Feet High and Rising up in case the artists they sampled beg for a paycheck to clear the samples. No idea why they don't just add their post-3 Feet High albums at least, though. These ones have definitely been cleared. But I guess it's just that Warner Bros suck. Look at EMI, they have Paul's Boutique up on iTunes and everywhere else and that album has more samples than 3 Feet High.

[littlelonnie14]

Soul for ma dukes......... such a good version if this songs

[ayoitsmeeeh]

LIFE CAN GET ALL UP IN YA ASS!

[westside159]

Yo i think smiling in public is against the law , becuz love dont get you through life no more

Every line i say should be a hip hop qouteable

[westside159]

investing in fantasys and not god , you see shit like that will make ya momma cry

[westside159]

wasting time scream who they hated thats why the native toungues have officially been reinstated

[Josephjoel3]

I'm not even mad at them using the N-word, they used it to prove a point instead of arbitrarily and wantonly for no reason other than to say the word.

[ikaican]

Thirteen rappers finally realized they can't rap!!! There should be more dislikes damn it!!!! LMAO

[XPhycoSoldierX]

Saw these live with the gorillaz, best concert ever

[epd0123]

Damn, we'll miss you Dilla

[andyct5]

Fail that a track as un-commercial as this has a related video about America's Got Talent.

[MrBjnelson]

FUCKING BOB MY HEAD AND CRY TO THIS SHIT!!! SO BEAUTIFUL.

[Oddity4040]

"I think a smile in public is against the law...Cuz love dont get i thru life no more" Yes!!!!! Stakes is High. I am super crunk on this today

[Oddity4040]

"Life can get all up in you A---- baby u betta work it out, lemme tell you whats it all about, our skin not considered equal. A meteor has more rights than my people..." YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[ThePoWerleng]

saw them yesterday at the indigo 02 in the UK, was fucking amazing! there so dope

[Soflyboy10]

dope

[simpleplan4lyfe]

these homo thugs hate bitchs shakin asses LOL

[17thwonder]

thank you pandora for recommending this album to me, I wouldn't of otherwise or this song in that case

[fuenzameme]

j.Dilla R.I.P

[OPL21stJS]

First time i heard this i cried, because this song is so deep and powerful. We need to change rap music TODAY, they make blacks look like idiots and hypnotize them with stupidity. Music like this will give Blacks a better name instead of making music that includes booty shaking, or some stupid dance. This is Poetry at its finest!

[PsychadelicBananas]

@OPL21stJS Or:

A) Stop putting yourself in a group fabricated by nationalism and regressive racial pride

B) Realise that you shouldn't bother with people who would ever view someone as a stereotype

[OPL21stJS]

@PsychadelicBananas im hispanic bro. i just find it absurd on how shit rap music is nowadays.

[stardelorian]

@OPL21stJS most of the blame goes the the illuminati and puppets for the illuminati like lil wanye..

[DankulousTV]

@OPL21stJS thanks for posting that, it made me appreciate the track in a new light.

[STEEZEMCGEE]

@OPL21stJS dude all music is done realize that dont categorize only blacks white people make shitty music to fool

[raddiesNIPNIPS]

RIP Dilla you were a huge part of real rap de la, the tribe, common, the list goes on.

[hiphophood51]

"I think that smiling in public is against the law!"

[VehnNarn]

probably the best hip hop track ever...

[kb420ps]

One of my favorite De La Soul tracks ever!!!!!!!!!!

[losojackson]

"gun control means using both hands in my land".... stakes is high

[damntrav34]

"Neighborhoodz are just called the hood bcuz nobody is neighbors!"

[damntrav34]

"Listenin to them fantasies and not the Lord!" HOTTTT Lyrics!!!

[lffrancis]

DILLLLAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrCommenterguy]

@lffrancis GOAT.

[theonlyherpescure]

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[TheOfficialBlackTear]

Yes the stakes is high...especially in this life

But

I only have one song on my page and I'm just looking for some people that don't mind listening to upcoming music from an artist that really puts his all into his music. Justin Bieber among others got discovered off Youtube, through people like you, that gave their video a chance. All I'm asking for is a chance and a few minutes of your time for my video. Send me a friends request

[interestingtheory414]

Who know about about 96". The summer if I'm not mistakin. Now I might have slept on Ras Kass' "Miami Life" played on "The Box", but I caught this when it was being played. This is that native tongue fuh rel son. WORD UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CrayahnTV]

No one is probably gonna read this

Im just gonna write it any way because i feel at least one person will,

i'm a young rapper whos just trying to keep real music alive..

im different to other rappers and if you check me out i can prove it

I would love nothing more than to have some real fans for my team and a buzz around our music

if anyone who reads this could press the THUMBS UP other people will see it if people didnt give DLS a break then they wouldnt be big now.thanks

[SUG0175753]

Experiments where needles and skin connect,

no wonder where we live is called the projects.

[philanderadriaan]

I like wayne and wiz as well as de la soul. I guess I got nothing to hate.

[kbellshs1]

@philanderadriaan Same with me, I hate these wanna be hip hop heads who think hating on mainstream rappers make them sound smart or well versed on hip hop.

[philanderadriaan]

@kbellshs1 Well I don't think they are really hating. I think they are just thumbs up hoes.

[kbellshs1]

@philanderadriaan Fishing for thumbs up is even lamer.

[DoTheMathOne]

Music is a matter of opinion. Do remember that.

De La are genius though.

[nightman333]

I downloaded this by mistake...the BEST mistake I made with music...pure hip hop....

[Tusknia]

@nightman333 Great now buy the CD.

[Sensarmy300]

hip hop heads, we need to bum rush the local hot stations and occupy that shit the same corporate greed that's destroying the humanity and the planet is the same greed that's watering down the music we love until it becomes impossible to distinguish between the music and commercials that play in between. Stakes is High!

[mjn76]

@Sensarmy300 The people who accuse others of "greed" NEVER include themselves in that judgment. In reality, everyone is greedy to some degree, but greed will not increase your salary ONE PENNY. Your salary is based on what someone else wishes to pay you based on your talents and your abilities and desire to work. A bum on the street can be "greedy" and yet have nothing. Stop parrotting the poorly thought cliches of economic illiterates. Stakes is high!

[cheatedxxhearts]

@Sensarmy300 hip hop is getting good again...relax. We got curren$y, wale, j. cole, childish gambino....all phenomenal so relax.

[TxNormlmembr19]

@Sensarmy300 Real Talk bro.

[reddaugkj]

@Sensarmy300 im with ya! get some things organized and ready, ill be down for the hip hop revolution!

[antmayfield]

@Sensarmy300

That is the most beautiful comment I have read on youtube. That might have actually changed my life. Stakes is high, time to OCCUPY

[indunwood]

OCCUPY WORLDWIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IamMANMANMAN]

@chasezdad actually like a sinusoidal wave... but you are correct.. lol

[chasezdad]

I cant wait till hip hop comes back around to this.....and it will....everything comes in circles.....Dilla still the GOAT of this beat shit....

[jerzy862]

Who killed Robert Kennedy?

[idontblaze]

@jerzy862 your a rasclart don. i hope u get to the top homey, cah we all kno who did it. viva la revolucion

[jerzy862]

@idontblaze rasclart don? :/ sorry bro, I dont follow?

[idontblaze]

@jerzy862 DUN KNOW WE HERE FOR THE TAKE OVER ME N MY BOY JERZY GIVIN IT LARGE. TRY IT ON URBAN DICTIONARY. EACH WORD SEPERATELY THO. OR USE A BIT OF COMMON SENSE, NO DISRESPEC

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[MrFrsh2010]

12 people read dis-i-like.

[Argyrakis]

I just came back here after going on a youtube run of about 200 videos, so glad i'm back. nothing compares to the 90s god damn

[OPL21stJS]

om my god i just started hearing these guys today on Pandora and im so fuckin happy i did. They speak Truth and Knowledge and love the part where he exposes those fake rappers talkin bout guns, cocaine, and cloth brands.

"Cocaine and crack

Which brings sickness to blacks,

Sick of swoll' head rappers

With their sicker-than raps

Clappers and gats

Makin' the whole sick world collapse

The facts are gettin' sick

Even sicker perhaps"

[Oddity4040]

J Dilla is the Motha Lovin TRUTH

[RicanSoundz]

Dilla Produced One Of My Fav Beats With This Song <3

[dennisama]

What the fck does the first comment say? xd

[spideymayne]

Nas, Tribe, and de la all in the same summer. All fantastic albums. (That Tribe was great--I don't care who was disappointed by it.) Man, 96 was a -damn good- summer.

Then in September, rap changed forever. Depressing.

[seboufdu59]

impossible to dislike, 10 are just haters.

[MegamanX1993]

@seboufdu59 the reason why they disliked it is because it hit them right where it hurts. Those 6 hater are probably the same people that think wayne, wiz, etc. "go hard" when they CLEARLY don't

[Apennoot1]

@MegamanX1993

Or they disliked because they didnt like the song ?

Youre in idiot like all the others with your stupid plan's about lil wayne fans.

I dont like lil wayne to but im not spending my time on that its to pathetic so man up and stfu.

[MegamanX1993]

@Apennoot1 lolz woah, woah, WOAH!!! heheeey slow ur roll man, that's just my opinion. It's not like I'm BASHING them if that's what ur thinking. And one other thing, if ur gonna try to insult me, the "idiot" that I am.....at least bother to think through what ur trying to say before you type it. XD Ur lucky I could BARELY make out what you were trying to say to me, otherwise I woulda just passed the comment right on by without even a thought. hey my man, just sayin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[asfarasino]

@MegamanX1993  LIL WAYNE I FEEL YOU ON THAT ONE BUT WIZ IS DOPE

[dutchmaster8889]

@MegamanX1993 - Truest shit ever. Amen.

[ThatJuggalo420]

@MegamanX1993 lolol!!!! lil wayne and wiz going hard...LMAO omg i think i just peed myself a little!

[MegamanX1993]

@ThatJuggalo420 exactly

[phantom954rr]

oh hip hop how you've lost your way.... breaks by heart. it had so much promise.

[illal77]

Yup

[solidussnakess]

dice rollin'.....

[ikkarachi]

I heard this on Shade45 the other day. Never knew that Game's song "Compton" sampled from this.

[Seeckay]

dilla

[Futang808]

Bring this back!

[neosouljazz]

CHECK OUT MY REAL HIP HOP BEATS PPL

[Rappatiligoe0419]

James Dewitt Yancey!

[seboufdu59]

James Yancey.

[IggyDaKid]

"life can get all up in your ass, baby you better work it out"......~plug1~

[fivestar902]

I will never forget this song as long as i live

[az43696]

@fivestar902 fuck yes!!

[SOULJATWIN]

The Legendary Respected De La Soul

[TheManie25]

real hip hop 

[Thefreshprince06]

ADAM ZOMBiE "KICK KICK PUNCH" Aug16

[mlew96]

love old school rap. loev this song



[jamhotels]

"Sick of swoll head rappas wit dey sicka than raps"

[jules5434]

True School

[1onefix1]

african americans had in 1996, and still have, plenty of rights. just as many as anyone else in america that is a legal citizen.

[JoeslovoDC]

Experiments where needle and skin connect -

No wonder where we live is called the projects

[XiuTheFeared]

RIP J Dilla

[Raz0r688]

kooley is high is so similar with this track

[tcahyulcocr]

Dilla Dawg..

[kjosiah5]

Straight up, 9 people don't know what the F$*# they're listenin' to. Louisiana all day.

[iburyyoass]

Dela sampled the living shit out of this track.

[WestAfricano]

@iburyyoass "Dela" or Dilla? Dilla, son.

[iburyyoass]

@WestAfricano Both, bro.

[JJack887]

@WestAfricano Dela is the French producer that produced Atmosphere Airlines. Dilla is the dude that produced this track, and he's been gone for a while now. Dela pays homage to De La Soul through his name and sampling. Hope that cleared things up for you.

[mlefrere]

epic !!

[NBA58760]

At 1:10-1:33, that part describe today's rappers.

[rgeezee]

SO SO HOT.  dang i miss these dudes.

[airvucen]

@rgeezee me 2 :(

[harris1201]

There's a resurgence of real hip hop now. Hip hop is bck. Kendrick Lamar, Cyhi, J cole, Kanye, jus 2 name a few r puttn out some great musik. Ur local radio station will only play mostly the commercial bullshit though

[JJack887]

@harris1201 Can I just help you out, man? Search up Dela. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Just spreading around what's real out there.

[TheRojotoro]

Would I be bragging if I mentioned my autographed copy of "De La Soul is Dead" that Pos signed for me at their S.F. show ? This is probably among the top 5 best / most important hip hop albums ever laid down.

"The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets Gun control means using both hands in my my land."

[D1rtyDuck]

DeLaDilla

[dopeHC3city]

classic shit !!!!!!

[Baaaaaaaaadboy]

str8 fire made me think bout my friends or shud i say..... acquaintances

[TheHaro260]

fuck all nine of them , whack as 9 marks

[SteezySchleezy]

@TheHaro260 they were thinking of it as "dis I like"

[AeroTheRipper]

In my opinion, one of Dilla's finest.... R.I.P.<3...

[getduloh]

9 people can ess my dee

[EternusDesiderium]

1,786 likes and 9 dislikes....yeeaah



[panzercat39]

@EternusDesiderium 9 people suddenly went deaf after listening,now they mad and hit dislike,it was just to ill!

[EternusDesiderium]

@panzercat39 lol it blew their mind....POP like a gat hear the sound of they brains go splat. All these wanna be thugs are just...gay

[MsHarlembred]

this whole cd was hot when it came out

[cKunke2]

@MsHarlembred You say it like it still isn't! haha

[jeffmangumisgood]

@MsHarlembred man this cd is hot now, it's relevant and still sounds fresh.

[ostrich015]

9 people don't know shit about gud fuckin music when they hear it

[creationbeats]

This is probably the sickest beat ever!

[fruitbatrepublic]

"I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses I'm sick of talkin' about blunts, Sick of Versace glasses, Sick of slang, Sick of half-ass awards shows, Sick of name brand clothes. Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks, Cocaine and crack Which brings sickness to blacks, Sick of swoll' head rappers With their sicker-than raps Clappers and gats Makin' the whole sick world collapse The facts are gettin' sick Even sicker perhaps Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse" (even more relevant today)

[kthhrrsn]

@fruitbatrepublic - It doesn't get any better than that! Or more relevant than that! Or more TRUE than that!!

[wwf8499]

@fruitbatrepublic Soooooo true!!!!!!!!! BET Award shows, MTV Award Shows, Grammys, Much Music awards shows just sucked period....by the way I'm Canadian straight outta T-Dot aka, Toronto