The 100 Greatest Native Tongues Songs
By Complex Magazine | Dec 15, 2010 | 1:23 pm | Permalink
#92. De La Soul "Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)"
Year: 1989
Produced By: 3 Feet High and Rising
Album: Prince Paul and De La Soul
Label: Tommy Boy
This is yet another crazy De La Soul song that reduces grown-ass men and women to talking like little kids recounting a field trip, running through a list of "and then ______, and then _____" until they turn blue. The sample sources are left-of-center even for De La, ranging from African psychedelic rock to spacey '60s sex kitten Maggie Thrett. Over this zany mixture, Pos and Trugoy talk about the fast times of Jenny, who was "known as a garden tool," and then their virginal friend Derwin plays "Chopsticks" in the middle of the song, and then...you get the picture.
Rel December 15th, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Wait no God lives through, are you serious.
R. Poole December 15th, 2010 at 12:59 PM
ha-ha... remember PM Dawn thought they were dissin' them with this?
Eloh December 15th, 2010 at 01:14 PM
Ya'll should post a download link.It is Christmas you know!
joe December 15th, 2010 at 01:47 PM
my mental is excelling cause i dabble in the books
seymour glass December 15th, 2010 at 02:48 PM
Little low. Jimbrowski for president.
ox December 15th, 2010 at 06:50 PM
#63 used to be my joint...bumped it in the whip constantly...that is an example of a hip-hop song that is perfected, stripped down beats and rhymes....crazy
FTW December 15th, 2010 at 07:46 PM
I don't care who you are—if you were even remotely curious about the process of producing hip-hop music, your mind was blown the second you realized that Tribe had turned Minnie Ripperton's whistle-pitch vocals into an instrument ^^^^^ This.
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:38 PM
Greatest Complex List EVER
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:40 PM
the greatest complex list ever created.
Slick Savage December 16th, 2010 at 03:31 AM
Simply classic... But yo, WTF iz,"Subbups, subbups..."???