Album
The Grind Date
2004 · Hip Hop
23 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Grind Date is a Hip-Hop album by De La Soul, originally released in 2004. On Gatefold: 23 pressings tracked, owned by 23 collectors.
About
Liberated from longtime record label Tommy Boy, De La Soul completed their original 15-year run of studio albums with 2004’s <i>The Grind Date</i>, an album where the legacy act tells the raw realities of a never-ending hustle. “I got verb skills, babies, and bills,” Posdnous raps on an album about label gripes, “white-collar dreams,” and basically treating rap like a job. (As Trugoy the Dove says, “I’m coal-mining these mics to keep that gold nugget.”) And, for the first time, they opened a majority of an album to outside producers, enlisting J Dilla, Madlib, 9th Wonder, and Jake One, whose unlikely decelerating beat on “Rock Co.Kane Flow” is the album’s highlight. A 20th anniversary reissue released in 2025 (yes, that’s 21 years, but De La Soul have never had an easy time getting their music out when they preferred) restores a skit and a handful of extra tracks and instrumental versions.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1The Future
- A2Verbal Clap
- A3Much More
Side B
- B4Shopping Bags (She Got From You)
- B5The Grind Date
- B6Church
Side C
- C7It's Like That
- C8He Comes
- C9Days Of Our Lives
Side D
- D10Come On Down
- D11No
- D12Rock Co.Kane Flow
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Alternative Hip-Hop
- gritty
- earnest
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Dave JolicoeurVOCALS
- Kelvin MercerVOCALS
- Bonz MaloneVOCALS
- Butta VersesFEATURING FEATURING, WRITTEN-BY VOCALS
- Carl ThomasFEATURING FEATURING, VOCALS VOCALS
- ChoklateFEATURING VOCALS
- CommonFEATURING FEATURING, WRITTEN-BY
- Daniel DumileVOCALS
- Daniel WallaceVOCALS
- Dave WallaceVOCALS
- Dennis ColesVOCALS
- Elizabeth "Yummy" BinghamBACKING VOCALS FEATURING VOCALS
- Flavor FlavFEATURING FEATURING, VOCALS VOCALS
- Ghostface KillahFEATURING FEATURING, WRITTEN-BY
- John CullenVOCALS
- John Joseph CullenVOCALS
- Ken ChaneyWRITTEN-BY
- L.T.D.
23 collectors on Gatefold own this · 23 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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