Stakes Is High

We are three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these cartoons for you.

I'm Dino Wright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan, and my favorite De La album is Stakes is High.

I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long time hip hop fan, and I placed Daylight Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising in my top five hip hop albums of all time.

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You can make a whole episode about any of their songs, really, like Potholes in My Lawn or Say No Go, which has the Hall & Oates sample.

There's a lot of message.

Stakes is High has a strong message.

Stakes is High, yes.

We were at Roseland and I was like jumping.

This was around Stakes is High after that record came out.

and I was like jumping off my friend's shoulders and I kept holding my license up to show them where I was from, my permit.

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producer credit gets you 50 not a fourth 50 percent

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so maybe they were like yo we make two million dollars off record sales or off of you know publishing you're getting half of it when we're bringing together mad idea maybe it just got weird and they wanted to get out before it got weird because after this they produce all their own getting into stakes is higher record that's very big with you but to to look he does this record with them the source gives a four and a half which at this time they are the source and four and a half is like Yo, that's close.

Someone wanted to give it a five.

Pasta noose.

His first verse on Stakes is High from the same album, I just wanted to read it and then I'm going to explain why it's amazing and then what that motherfucker could have just said plainly.

Okay, so here's, and this is why it lights me up because a lot of people are like, you could have just said you like this.

No, I'm about to explain.

Then eventually, I think it's like going into the second verse where he's like, you know, "Alibis ain't matching up, bullshit catching up," he, like, Ski filters that bassline so you have that.

Another example is Dilla's Stakes Is High for De La Soul.

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Same thing, you know what I mean?

I gotta find it, but it was, um, the City Paper, this joint right here.

And um, you can see how old this shit is.

But this was, um, they was talking about stakes is high, 'cause they basically were saying like, if things fall apart, if they, if that didn't blow, it was a wrap.

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