Summer Lovin’…

How’d they get my name and number?

[Photo Credit Anthony Gerace via MPD]

New De La:

Picture by Bags

Funski. Move your body.

[Photo Credit: Marcelo Montecino via This Isn’t Happiness]

Just good enough for the one they call Fife.

25 years ago today: De La dropped their debut album.

[Illustration by Owen Phillips]

For the next 25 hours you can download De La Soul’s entire catalog over at their site.

Oliver Wang on De La’s third album Buloone Mindstate. 

And more De La, here.

Here’s a pair of mixes for you aging B-Boys and B-Girls:

Tip and Busta.

De La.

You played yourself.

[Painting by Kelly Reemtsen]

“Long Island Degrees”–De La Soul

[Photo Via: Film is God]

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]

De La on the Jimmy Fallon Show. 

I can’t be your lover.

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]

Take that Kangol off.

[Photo Via: -Circa]

I Can’t Be Your Lover…

[Illustration by MH Jeeves via This Isn’t Happiness]

“I Be Blowin'”–De La Soul (with Maceo Parker)

[Picture Via: This Isn’t Happiness]

Give her good lovin’…the kind she understands.

[Painting by Jesus Leguizamo]