De La Soul’s forthcoming crowd-funded and the Anonymous Nobody album is set to feature a number of high-profile guests, including Usher, Pete Rock, Estelle, Snoop Dogg, Roc Marciano, 2 Chainz and Little Dragon.
The group, which is comprised of Posdnuos, Dave and Maseo, says it went about selecting its features as it has done throughout its career.
“Whatever music we’re working on, one of us will say to the others, ‘You know, this sounds like it could have this person or that person on it,’” Posdnuos says during an interview with Ambrosia For Heads. “So it really came about that way, even with these artists. One track that we had, Dave was like, ‘Yo, I hear 2 Chainz doing the chorus, like I can hear it.’ So we reached out, and he was like, ‘I don’t wanna do the chorus, I wanna rhyme.’”
As for the and the Anonymous Nobody title, Dave says it applies on a grand scale.
“It’s the individual that steps up and stands for something, you know?” he says. “I thought it was a nice set of words. That’s how it really started. I basically used the name when I do donations and stuff, anonymously. So I brought it up to the guys and it kinda made sense with what we were doing. You know, you’ve got a group of people who come together, selfless, who just say, ‘I wanna get down with this project,’ and stood up for something that’s cool. I don’t think people do that too much anymore. For me, personally, I think the anonymous nobody is the person who doesn’t need to say, ‘I was part of it. I’m this person. I’m an every day person who just wants to contribute.’”
De La Soul raised $600,874 from 11,169 backers via Kickstarter to record and the Anonymous Nobody.
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De LA fans don’t wanna hear no mother fucking country ass Jimmy crack corn ass 2cheap chains
Shout out to De la Soul first an foremost @king timeo i feel what your saying about titty boi but the dude will actually say something halfway intelligent from time to “im hoping this is one of those” time. Happy to see the Crowdfund/Support that real it is Hiphop History Month..
Nobody wants to hear 2Chainz and Usher. They want to hear Drake and the Weeknd.
Could we raise more money to take 2chains and usher off?
just release the damn album already
Trying to sale records or get radio play but it will be a fail, why sell out at the end of your career, these are the type artist that you would clown in your music. Good luck and I hope they get paid.
It is DLS:s and only DLS: s bussines how they are working with.
You don’t have to buy album or go to kicks.
If you are backer in kickstarter project like i’m, it won’t give us some extra right for whining.
Just do(DLS ) what you got to do and i’m pleased.
HHH since-86 and greetings from Finland!