We talk about the old school but even 1991 seems so long ago now. The question is, did hip-hop ever really get any better than this? Admittedly De La forged the blueprint for skit driven albums but K.M.D. were a perfect case of imitation is the best form of flattery, whereas other groups would have been typecast simply as biters. It’s testament to the longevity of one Daniel Dumile, now known as M.F. Doom among other guises, the supervision of Dante Ross and the executive guidance of Serch et al, (well, he did bring us Nas). So here are all the Mr. Hood segments in one consecutive chunk of audio. If anyone can tell us exactly where K.M.D. got the Mr. Hood audio from we’ll poke fun at you for being a know-it-all but secretly we’ll be impressed.

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To kick off our new skit feature we chose the illusive ‘Double Huey Skit’ by De La Soul which features Plug 3 Maseo rhyming. There’s also a guy called Double B on there, if anyone knows who that is then let us know, it’s probably obvious but ain’t got a clue. This track originally featured on the ‘Say No Go’ test pressing but didn’t make it to the commercial release due to samples. Luckily it did pop up on the re-release of 3 Feet High a couple of years back which is worth picking up, it also features the many skits off De La 12 inches that didn’t make the albums . What are you favourite skits? We’ve pulled out some killers for the site over the next few weeks.

De La Soul – Double Huey Skit
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