Buhloone Mindstate

Buhloone Mindstate
Studio album by De La Soul
Released September 21, 1993
Recorded 1992-1993
Genre Hip hop
Length 48:14
Label Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records
01063
Producer De La Soul, Prince Paul
De La Soul chronology
De La Soul Is Dead
(1991)		 Buhloone Mindstate
(1993)		 Clear Lake Audiotorium (EP)
(1994)
Singles from Buhloone Mindstate
  1. "Breakadawn"
    Released: 1993
  2. "Ego Trippin' (Part Two)"
    Released: 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA+[3]
NME8/10[4]
Pitchfork9.1/10[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
The Source4.5/5[7]

Buhloone Mindstate is the third studio album by American hip hop group De La Soul. It was released in 1993 and was the group's last record to be produced with Prince Paul.

Overview

Title significance

Buhloone is a phonetic spelling of the English noun "balloon". This theme is laid out in the intro track, which starts with the sound of a balloon being inflated; then the hookline "it might blow up, but it won't go pop" is repeated over and over, until the sound of a balloon popping replaces the final word "pop". This lends itself to the interpretation that the group hope to expand their popularity with their third album without selling out.

Songs and guests

De La Soul continued the early 1990s experimentations with jazz by featuring jazz veterans Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Pee Wee Ellis, on "Patti Dooke" and "I Am I Be". The song "Patti Dooke" deals with what the group sees as the mainstream's efforts to control the direction of black music. Posdnous raps:

I'm known as the farmer
Cultivatin' mate without mendin'
Bendin', compromising any of my styles to gain a smile
Listen while you hear it
There's no pink in my slip
I reckon that the rhythm and the blues in the rap got me red
While the boys from Tommy playing bridge crossin' to a larger community
Yet they're soon to see I have a brother named Luck

The Japanese rappers Scha Dara Parr and Takagi Kan make an appearance on "Long Island Wildin'" while Biz Markie drops by on "Stone Age" and Guru makes a spoken cameo on "Patti Dooke" ("Peace to my man Premier''...So guard your trenches 'cause we runnin' through 'em. "). Dres of Black Sheep appears, and the album heavily features Shortie No Mass of Philadelphia. The album was preceded by the single and video "Breakadawn", which features samples from Michael Jackson's "I Can't Help it" and Smokey Robinson's "Quiet Storm."

Critical reception

At the end of 1993, Buhloone Mindstate was voted the eighth best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide, published by The Village Voice.[8] Robert Christgau, the poll's creator and supervisor, ranked it fifth best on his own year-end list.[9] In a contemporary review, Rolling Stone critic Paul Evans said the record was more focused than De La Soul's previous albums and also more ambitious sonically: "Musically, Buhloone Mind State raises the stakes; it gets to something rap seldom achieves — a truly gorgeous groove."[10] In 2005, comedian Chris Rock named it the 10th greatest hip hop record of all time in a list published by Rolling Stone.[11]

Track listing

All tracks written by K. Mercer, D. Jolicouer, V. Mason, P. Huston; except where indicated. 

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Intro"  K. Mercer, D. Jolicouer, V. Mason, P. Huston, L. Dickens 0:52
2. "Eye Patch"    2:27
3. "En Focus" (featuring Shortie No Mass and Dres of Black Sheep)  3:15
4. "Patti Dooke" (featuring Guru, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis)  5:54
5. "I Be Blowin'" (featuring Maceo Parker)  4:58
6. "Long Island Wildin'" (featuring Scha Dara Parr and Takagi Kan)  1:30
7. "Ego Trippin' (Part Two)"    3:52
8. "Paul's Revenge"    0:43
9. "3 Days Later"  K. Mercer, D. Jolicouer, V. Mason, P. Huston, A. Snyder, T. George 2:39
10. "Area"    3:31
11. "I Am I Be" (featuring Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis)K. Mercer, D. Jolicouer, V. Mason, P. Huston, B. Gordy, B. Davis, F. Wilson, P. Holloway 5:03
12. "In the Woods" (featuring Shortie No Mass)  4:01
13. "Breakadawn"  K. Mercer, D. Jolicouer, V. Mason, P. Huston, R. Jones, W. Robinson, S. Wonder, S. Greene 4:14
14. "Dave Has a Problem...Seriously"    0:55
15. "Stone Age" (featuring Biz Markie)  4:13

Samples

The following is a list of songs and sound footage sampled in the songs on Buhloone Mindstate.

Intro

Eye Patch

En Focus

Patti Dooke

I Be Blowin'

Long Island Wildin'

Ego Trippin' [Part Two]

Paul's Revenge

3 Days Later

Area

I Am I Be

In the Woods

Breakadawn

Dave Has a Problem...Seriously

Stone Age

Album singles

Single cover Single information
"Breakadawn"
  • Released: 1993
  • B-side: En Focus
"Ego Trippin' (Part Two)"
  • Released: 1994
  • B-side: "Lovely How I Let My Mind Float"

References

  1. ↑ Huey, Steve. "De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "De La Soul". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Bernard, James (8 October 1993). "Buhloone Mindstate: De La Soul". Entertainment Weekly (#191).
  4. ↑ NME. London: 37. September 25, 1993.
  5. ↑ Nosnitsky, Andrew (24 July 2016). "De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  6. ↑ The new Rolling Stone album guide - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  7. ↑ Johnson, Brett (October 1993). "Buhloone Mindstate: De La Soul". The Source: 67.
  8. ↑ Pazz & Jop 1993: Critics Poll
  9. ↑ Pazz & Jop 1993: Dean's List
  10. ↑ Evans, Paul (23 December 1993). "Buhloone Mind State". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "Chris Rock's Top 25 Hip Hop Albums". rateyourmusic.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-07. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
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