De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert

How y'all doing Tiny Desk?

Well, let me start off by saying salute.

Salutatory.

Salutations.

And here come my man with the vocalization.

Let's ride.

Dave in here always.

>> >> Wake up with a voice in my head

and get cooked and fed to my feet.

Get up out of bed on the beat of a new day.

My last on the walk but the gas in the talk.

Give me the fuel I'm a hawk ready to get wild up out the

New York City apple pie right into the core.

You can never ignore a front on the shot

that you get given five respect

but the list got me at top five on the radar.

Is that good enough well played in

but the voice talked to the battery in my chest.

So I keep moving to my best.

>> >> Cindy said

if y'all stop then Dave stop

and that wouldn't be the show shot.

So we keep implementing that gift.

Daisy age live cracker jack box scratch stiff graveyard shift studio cooked up from

out of the dance of the crooks who converted to a better way

and use their own inner voice ready for wetter days.

Come out dry we more than Easter I come in the belly of the

east we were born.

Shot them in the light when they get bright drawn.

Fundamental points we not we in the chess board playing

and the appetite always weighs 10.

Raise in the sky.

Shuffle in the heat after gray clouds have a good cry.

Caught them off guard with the seeds that we drop.

When we talking that they rock and don't stop.

So we kept on going all the

while knowing they could start at the of people minds growing.

Our life be what we pledge,

but some young one don't think we got

that ass and OG we don't hear you.

Telling us you a pioneer means you have American pie.

Nowhere near you.

You broke.

Mase doing a minute yoga and pulls out.

Nah, just kidding, but he did have a razor cutting ear drums

while fingering the fader.

Sooner than later they saw the Long Island boys stood the test of the

time served raw.

Yeah, you don't stop.

And we don't stop.

Daylight we don't stop.

We real SURE SHOT.

HEY.

>> >> THANK YOU.

GOODNIGHT.

>> >> SAY THIS, what's up y'all?

Thank you for being here with us on Daylight Day.

Salute.

That's my brother Maseo.

Salute.

Salute.

Salute.

Dave always.

Dave always.

Our little sister, Yummy.

Come on.

Run it up.

That's what only makes me feel free.

The joy we bring is sharp to the touch like a boy stabbed with

art.

How I serve the ballot card.

>> >> The brother known as Plug 3.

Always on E.

Time is thank you for your patience.

Not only have the group laid long.

Cuz the move stay strong.

And the truth in the song be the pro black teachers.

Study hard and the life we live is our feature and runs synonymous.

Nobody stopping us, boy.

Get out your own way.

That's why I say that day now from day one.

Day glow fun.

Numerically three.

Two wins on one.

And we all will have our day in the sun.

>> >> Hey.

>> >> Get >> Get up.

>> Come on.

Get up.

>> Get up.

Get up.

Raise your voice.

Get up.

Get up.

Come on, mix.

Get up.

>> >> We slowing down, but get up.

We slowing down, but get up.

>> >> We slowing down, but get up.

Check it out, y'all.

Tell me that's how you feeling.

Okay.

This is De La Soul Day.

We are blessed to be here.

So, I need y'all to put your hand up in the air like this.

Put it up.

Just put it up.

Put your hands up.

And wave from side to side.

Praise.

De La Soul >> >> is blessed to be here today with y'all.

And all we need y'all to do is one thing and one thing only.

We just need y'all to have a good time.

Can y'all have a good time, y'all?

>> >> THEN WE GOOD TO GO.

EVERYBODY TAKE this hand right here.

Take this hand right here.

Bounce your hand like that.

Come on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's been a still that we sent you.

Value these moments like I value the call.

Keep the money in the bank.

A whole bank of friends who ain't got leadership skills.

We got the sheep in the eyes, so we can't sleep.

We like the lamb to lay the grand away.

Grand away.

Scam away.

Play the Xbox instead of messing with dice.

I hate losing the dough, so walk away with my dough.

Watch the eye twinkle.

One house, two house, third house.

House rules, so house take bank.

Watch they bank.

>> >> Better had them on the hawk since Atlantic extravaganza.

I'll make the hawk snap.

Jump back in the game, brown.

We don't do the liquor, we smoking up.

I don't rock the numero dose.

I got my brother Corey Calhoun, Smiles in here with his proposal.

>> Put your hands up and everybody just wave.

Come on, wave.

Just wave.

Just wave.

Please believe it.

Please wave.

Just wave.

Just wave.

Just wave.

>> We giving you much more time now.

>> Plus the new guy's something to say, okay?

>> I got bird skills, babies and bills, a brother who smoked krills,

still trying to get himself together from it.

No one can quite run it like me.

I'm on a cut and ass or what?

>> A legend to be.

>> When you rock just impersonations of me,

the writer's MC and beat with the beat in the middle of a little

your plan.

>> I heard the seat of NY dirty seat, my man.

>> >> My base of fans is made up of many, kids allergic to belts,

then minors drinking Henny,

and the straight and narrow types waiting to hear the drums say the revolution

is near.

>> ARE YOU LISTENING?

ARE YOUR eardrums open for christening?

>> God-body MCs with the tool.

Others play God >> It's just god damn fools with it.

>> I don't cuff mics, I rough mics up rough and rugged.

Get the girls to love it.

>> Still in all five old came in my mic check.

>> Telling me I left last traces around my mic.

>> Domesticate the student and you just might get >> Everybody >> Disputed, y'all.

>> When we say vibe, we want Y'ALL TO SAY VIBRATION.

>> COME ON.

>> STAKES IS HIGH, Y'ALL.

>> So what?

You know what I'm saying?

>> When we say vibe, WE WANT Y'ALL to say vibration.

>> Come on.

>> Stakes is high, y'all.

>> So what?

You know what I'm saying?

>> WHEN WE SAY VIBE, WE WANT y'all to say vibration.

>> Come on.

>> Stakes is high, y'all.

>> You know what I'm saying?

>> No, we talking >> The instamatic focal point,

bringing damage to your borough be some brothers peace.

>> From the beast that be your row.

>> Got solar gravitation, so we're bound to pull it, yo.

We gets down like brothers of found.

>> Ducking from bullets.

>> Gun control means using both hands in my land

and it's all about cautious living in my great too.

Higher form of consequence.

Compliments >> >> Hey yo.

Up in your ass, baby.

You better work it out.

Now let me tell you what it's all about.

Skin not considered equal.

A meteor has more right than my people.

Everybody, Tiny Desk, we need you to help us out.

Come on, Y'ALL.

WHEN WE SAY VIBE, we want Y'ALL TO SAY >> VIBRATION.

>> WHEN WE SAY VIBE, we want y'all TO SAY >> VIBRATION.

>> WHEN WE SAY VIBE, we want Y'ALL TO SAY >> VIBRATION.

>> ONE MORE TIME.

ONE MORE TIME, EVERYBODY.

WHEN WE SAY VIBE, we want y'all to say >> vibration.

>> >> I think we've done this before.

>> I think we did.

That's it.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are a new group called De La Soul.

>> >> We so happy TO BE ON TINY DESK.

>> WORD.

>> I'D LIKE TO SAY, "MA, MADE IT.

MA, I MADE IT, MA."

COME WITH THAT VOCALIZATION, SIR.

>> YEAH, IT WAS FUN, Y'ALL.

>> >> HEY, sunny side up awake the pride

and I stretch my prayers right up beside the sky

and that's the God green without the suit.

But don't get it twisted up.

He's still supreme to you.

Full heights in the big city,

where we launched from living in a skin place under the gun,

but on a straight path, never a detour.

Surviving in life's paint, that's what we for, taking a knee for.

Synergy reset.

Check out the energy we get.

The three-man plan help you come out changed forever better.

Nuke the noise like a silencer, making a pistol hiss.

See the blessings giving you a way to take a crisis in mid flight,

turn it to a chrysalis.

And as we got older, talked healthier.

Loud attitude, crave to be stealthier.

We cooked up enough putting emphasis on broke with a friendship that won't budge.

Every now and again out of place we get nudged,

but we day one fitters, so we stay a day with it.

Most won't get it.

Trying to live out the dreams without someone adding a nightmare

and owning a right pair to walk away from it.

Not fairly easy, so some can plumb it.

Got to learn to you fall outside the lines.

That's how I do it with binds.

Tiger eyes under the eyelid to every single viewer is what I'm teaching my

kids to skip around the globe.

No longer waiting for a place.

We used to starve,

so we allowed to bite off more than we could chew.

Hey, yo, team, what we going to do?

Now, seriously, what we going to do?

>> Do.

Do.

Do.

>> We going to do this.

>> Do.

Do.

Do.

>> Yeah, we doing this.

>> All right.

All right.

Tiny desk, how y'all feeling, y'all?

>> >> Thank you for allowing us to come into y'all world.

Okay?

Because when you did that, we can bring you into our world.

>> Remember March 3rd, International Day of Laugh Day.

Remember that.

>> These brothers right here in our world, this beautiful band, this goddess over here,

Gina Lyons, she's in our world.

Gina, how you feeling?

>> All right.

All right.

>> All right.

All right.

So, Gina, let's tell them what it is to be in our world.

Come on, girl.

Come on.

>> I'm in a different world.

>> A world where we living.

>> A world I I I'm in a different world.

>> A world worth living.

>> A world so sweet and true, I'm in a different world.

>> A world worth giving.

>> I'm in a different >> A world worth living.

>> I'm in a different world.

>> There was a time

when my mind was

so caught up in the bind cuz the ground was

so in my face,

but now I'm in the place where the taste for the grit is no

longer what I'm craving.

Taste the life and them grace is up.

The view is bright when them shades is up.

And I don't mean what sits on Dwayne Wayne is,

but the dark thoughts of my baby then.

Now caught behind come what may.

Free spirit residing where the gut lay.

A hippie at heart like Freddy, so I keep a smile steady.

Negativity out of my focus, no longer at odds, feeling all right in life.

Greener the sod when your garden's light.

Blessed to be intact with change and having insight to aim.

I'm in a different world. >> world.

>> >> A world worth giving.

>> A world I never knew, I'm in a different world.

>> A world worth >> A world so sweet and true, I'm in a different world.

>> A world worth >> I'm in a different >> A world worth living.

>> I'm in a different world.

>> Talk to them, Gina.

>> Gravity would have us walk heavy,

but we who read the wind know the freedom of levity.

We live in the now moment when the beat drops.

We march to the beatbox of our own frequency, field of light ascension,

where friends become ancestors, ancestors become friends.

We in a different world where the connection transcends.

>> We digging the sound.

We digging the sound.

>> We digging the sound.

>> We digging the sound.

>> Yo.

>> We digging the sounds coming from block one, block two, block three.

We digging the sound.

We digging the sounds coming from block one, block two, block three.

So digging the sound.

>> I was born in a boogie down cat.

>> Yeah.

>> My building fell down on the rack.

>> Yeah.

>> My super won a trip to the P now.

I set it off the shores of Long Isle product clean up in me.

My mind is clear when I transmit.

I'll be that man cuz the pants fit.

I want the left forensics prove I can make screws thread.

>> We will take >> Tell your taste it to my nation of Nubians.

We about to place you in a three feet I got frequency to shout

out Mr.

Jones turn.

I had a girl.

Other honeys caught me short turn.

Score for my shorty in a jacket.

I'll be that when he packs.

We going to do it.

Do it.

>> >> Do it.

Do it.

We going to do it.

Do it.

Mess up my mind.

Do it.

Do it.

Mess up my mind.

Do it.

Do it.

Mess up my mind.

Sweet as a lady.

But not my baby.

Shorty, that's how you feeling?

Listen.

Let me hear you say thank you Dame.

Say thank you Dame.

Come on Dame.

>> Yo, rule with the mayor.

As it on the sayer.

Weigh the 18 mil.

What do you say?

Sack the bag.

Make the singles double.

Loop the coin and join the minimum wage.

I had a plan if I was the man.

I froze the jet.

Lay it low and lay I condition my ways of the everyday sunset.

Wager my days to the ones The brakes I have the cabin of cakes

where the mind I don't mind.

Preaching to the early Freak the wake call I get a tap on my

shoulder cuz the days of the breaks Just about The odds of six won't

play in my bag of chips.

I got the sevens in my pocket We smoke chill.

I'll be the fab be the fabulous to see I'm like the chief.

I got the flea up in the name.

Tune up in my cousin from the beat up.

I got a lot of other latching on to when I call the name.

Faster faster ask about the game.

>> Yo.

>> Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, come on.

>> Just throw your hands in the air

and wave them like you got no care.

And if you're ready to take this to the break, somebody say, "Oh, yeah."

Oh, yeah.

And you don't you don't you don't you don't you don't you don't you

don't you don't you don't

and you don't stop.

>> >> Tiny, that's how you're feeling?

How you feeling?

>> >> Now, look.

Me and him, we feeling so good.

We want to go on a little ride.

Y'all want to go on a ride with us?

Seriously.

Okay.

So, I need you to get in your own car.

I hope you got a license.

Put your hands out.

Put your hands out.

Everyone put their hands out.

Lean back a little and let's ride.

>> >> Drive with a chauffeur.

Now, you know how when you're in the car, you like to sing.

So, let's sing for a minute.

>> Just stop taking me for a ride.

>> >> All I want to do is take my time.

>> >> Just stop taking me for a ride.

>> >> All I want to do is take my time.

>> >> Hey, yo, Mason, what are you driving?

What are you driving?

>> I'm driving Uber XL.

>> Uber XL?

>> Yes.

I have a few rideshares right now.

>> I drive for DoorDash, brother.

>> You drive DoorDash?

>> DoorDash.

>> You got to get it how you live.

>> Got to get it how you live.

>> Got to get it how you live.

>> But you know, seriously though, while we driving Uber XL and DoorDash,

the music remind me of my mom's being >> Oh, okay.

I I can feel that.

I can feel >> She used to play this in the crib, so Tiny Desk,

we would like to do something like this.

Since it remind me of my mother,

I would like to kick a quick 16 for you about my mama.

Can I do that for y'all?

All right, let's do it.

>> Mama said if you want things >> What she say?

>> You got to hustle for it.

>> Let me let me say hi to my mother real quick.

>> You got to hustle.

>> >> Hi mama.

>> Hustle.

>> >> Tiny Desk, mama.

Yeah.

Well, see, my mama was from Waynesboro, Georgia,

where glasses struggled like a show pony.

So, she migrated up to New York, where I was born.

The BX, where burning buildings seemed to be the norm.

Her heart was filled with love and kindness, and kept family in front,

never behind us.

And her words had a compass in them to help course correct.

They moved us around the world without venom in our hearts.

And ain't no surprise, she made us walk with humbleness in our eyes.

She said, "No wanting this and that.

Be clear on what you need,

and know that blood and sweat may accompany the bleed.

And she would rather us not send prayers up for things our own hands

could gather.

And since we all sprouted up from out of God's good dirt,

she valued getting dirty if God was in the work."

Thank you, mama.

>> Mama said if you want things >> What she say?

>> You got to hustle for it.

>> What she say?

>> to you got to hustle.

>> Say what?

>> You got to hustle for it.

Always said if you want things bad enough,

you got to have a little faith.

>> Put your hands up if you love your mama.

Sing it, girl.

>> Don't you know we love you, sweet lady?

There's no one above you, sweet lady.

Don't you know we love you, sweet lady?

>> Tiny Desk, we love our mamas.

>> There's no one above you, sweet lady.

Don't you know we love you, sweet lady?

>> Fear mama.

>> There's no one above you, sweet >> You are appreciated.

>> Don't you know we love you, sweet lady?

>> Fear mama.

A quick 16 for mama.

>> >> You are appreciated.

Thank you.

>> >> Hey!

Tiny Desk.

I know you're somebody.

Everybody, let me hear you say party.

Cuz we're about to party to a song that's called and for me,

myself >> Here we go.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me, mirror, what is wrong.

Can it be my day la clothes

or is it just my day la soul?

What I do ain't make-believe.

People say I sit and try when it comes to being day la soul.

And for me, myself and >> Come on, sing it.

It's just me, myself and I, y'all.

I need to hear y'all sing louder now.

Come on, y'all.

It's just me, myself and I.

Hey, check it.

Now you tease my plug-one style.

And me without my spectacles, you say Plug One and Two were hippies, man.

>> >> No, we're not.

That's real plug bull.

Always pushing that we formed in image, there's no need to lie.

When it comes to being Plug One, hey, it's just me, myself, and I.

Sing it, y'all.

Come on, come on, Tiny Desk.

It's just me, myself, and I, y'all.

I need y'all to sing loud, uh, come on, sing along, y'all.

>> >> This has been Tiny Desk.

I need y'all to do this, though.

Let me hear you say day la la la.

>> >> Say day ay la la la.

>> >> Say day Say me, myself, and I.

Come on.

>> >> Proud of proud of what I am.

Pos to think that plug too tight.

Please, oh, please, that plug to me himself not what you read, all right.

Hyped on what I preach.

On the soul, they lie, that is.

Now they surely own thing.

Not the false disguise of soul they lost soul and found the soul.

And the fact they can't deny, strictly from the damn Posse.

And from me, myself, and I.

Come on, SING ALONG, Y'ALL.

IT'S JUST ME, MYSELF, and I, y'all.

Sound beautiful.

Let me hear y'all sing it.

Yeah, y'all sound beautiful, y'all.

>> >> Thank you.

Peace.

Peace.

>> >> PEACE.

>> >> WOO.

PEACE.

PEACE.

PEACE.

>> >> PEACE.

>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.