“Youthful Expression”–Tribe

[Photo Via: The Absolute Best Photography]

Speaking of Tip…Funski.

[Image Via: The Complications You Could Live Without]

It’s hotter n July so let’s cool out with some classic De La:

Who’s Skatin’ Promo

A Roller Skating Jam Named ”Saturdays”

What Yo Life Can Truly Be

A Roller Skating Jam Named _Saturdays_ (Ladies Nite Decision)

[Photo Via: Worship the Feminine]

Coolin’.

[Painting by Dirk Dzimirsky]

De La on the Jimmy Fallon Show. 

Clap your hands now.

[Photo Credit: Onigiri-Kun]

I can’t be your lover.

Straight to the hole like my man Malik Sealy.

Fun.

“What Yo Life Can Truly Be”–De La Soul

[Photo Credit: Saint Courtney]

Phil Hughes pitched his best game of the year, Chris Stewart and Lyle Overbay hit solo home runs (Overbays was a bomb) and Mariano Rivera was the last man standing–though he didn’t earn a save–as the Yanks beat the A’s yesterday afternoon, 4-2.

Smiles all around.

Today gives another afternoon game and Game 1 of the Knicks-Pacers, which proves to be dramatic, dumb, aggravating, and other clumsy adjectives to describe hardship and pain.

But first, listen to this:

“Fallin’”–Teenaged Fan Club with De La Soul

[Photo Credit: Katherine Squler]

Nine times out of ten I used to start this way.

[Image Via Je Suis Perdu]

 “I Got A Love”–Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

[Photograph by Matt Molloy]

Hard to imagine it’s been three years since Guru passed away. Now, he’s gone but still, it’s mostly the voice…

Take that Kangol off.

[Photo Via: -Circa]

Happy 49th, Biz.

And the remix.

[Featured Image Via: It's a Long Season]

Boom.

Bap.

Pick up a book and read now I’m wise.

[Picture by Bags]

Lucy, I remember Lucy…

[Image Via: Immagini]

Picking up on yesterday’s Beat of the Day thread where Bluenatic and Chyll Will listed their 20 favorite Hip Hop albums, I figured I’d pick 20 more, careful not to repeat any of their selections. They already took many of my favorites records: from Slick Rick and EPMD–damn you Will for making it a tie!–Tribe, Pharcyde, Nas, Common Sense.

So, with all due respect to killer records by Biz, P.E., Ice T, Dr. Dre, Uncle L, Snoop, 3rd Base, Leaders of the New, Black Sheep, Ultramag, Jay Z, MC Lyte, Ice Cube, Artifacts, Quasimoto, Nice and Smooth, Kurious, and J-Live, here’s my 20:

“Any Any Means Necessary” BDP

“Straight Out the Jungle” The Jungle Brothers

“Unfinished Business” EPMD

“The Sun Rises in the East” Jeru the Damaja

“Three Feet High and Rising” De La Soul

“Funky Technition” Lord Finesse

“Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop” Diamond D

“Daily Operation” Gang Starr

“Life of a Kid in the Ghetto” Ed O.G. and the Bulldogs

“Breaking Atoms” Main Source

“Muddy Waters” Redman

“The Beatnuts” Beatnuts

“It’s a Big Daddy Thing” Big Daddy Kane

“Straight Outta Compton” N.W.A.

“21 and Over” Tha Alkaholiks

“Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)” Wu Tang

“People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm” A Tribe Called Quest

“The Infamous” Mobb Deep

“Enter Da Stage” Black Moon

“Runaway Slave” Showbiz and AG

“Word Life” O.C.