Me, Myself, and I – De La Soul

A 1989 track that hit particularly hard in the Netherlands, De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and I” is a Classic Hip-hop favorite. Making a killer use of George Clinton’s funky party jam “Not Just Knee Deep”, the De La trio, as usual, creates a good-time record for the Hip-hop golden age:

Why so big in Netherlands? Supposedly, a Dutch television station made a documentary about De La Soul in their days of relative ambiguity, spurring interest in the group, highlighting by default the universal message and nature of true Hip-hop.

Some background from SongFacts:

This was a single taken from 3 Feet High and Rising, the debut album by the New York hip-hop group, De La Soul. The long player was one of the most innovative records of the late 1980s, its merging of traditional hip-hop with humorous lyrics, abundant samples and jazz elements went on to inspire numerous artists. It was helmed by hip-hop producer and DJ Prince Paul, who at the time was keyboard player with Stetsasonic and the album was released on the Tommy Boy label. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the album’s release De La Soul were interviewed by Rolling Stone. Pasemaster Mase of De La Soul recalled: “When I met Paul, he was trying to express a lot of different ideas with Stetsasonic and it wasn’t working out too well. We were looking to be professionals at making records and he was a professional. It just really sparked.”