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Do As De La Does

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Mar. 14, 19891 viewer5.5K views

Do As De La Does Lyrics

(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Uh-huh! All right now! Oh yeah! Yo! Word! Oh! Yeah!
Uh-huh!)

MASE:
Yo yo yo yo! We got De La Soul in the house, the producer Prince Paul
P.A. Mase, and I wanna know one
Thing! Yo, yo! You gotta show right up your hands, let me hear you say
Aa-ow!
(AA-OW!!)
Aa-ow!
(AA-OW!!)
Come on! Come on! Come on!

POS:
Plug One on the mic, P-L-U-G-O-N-E, yo what's up, you know about Jimmy
You know about Jenny, I want
Everybody in this place, c'mon, say Plug it up!
(PLUG IT UP!)
Say Plug it up!
(PLUG IT UP!)
You got somebody next to you with some bad-ass breath, I want you to
Tell that brother, come on, tell him "Take
A Luuden!"
(TAKE A LUUDEN!)
Say take a Luuden!
(TAKE A LUUDEN!)
Plug Two!
DOVE:
What's up! Here we go!
If you like to drink some soda, let me hear you say Coca-Cola!
(COCA-COLA!)
Coca-Cola!
(COCA-COLA!)
Stop!

PAUL:
Ah yeah, pump it, pump it, ah yeah, pump it up!
You if you got doo doo in your pocket, you got doo doo in your pocket
Put one hand in the air like this, wave it
Back and forth, say doo doo!
(DOO DOO!)
Say doo doo!
(DOO DOO!)
Come on! Ah yeah!

MASE:
Yeah yeah this is Plug Three! This is Plug Three! Yeah! Say hoo!
(HOO!)
Hoo!
(HOO!)

POPMASTER HIGHT:
Hey De La Soul, you fucking lasagna heads, that's better than my mama's
Lasagna! Hey! Hey, come on! That was
Freakin' A, man! I really wanna take it back home with me, you know! I
Really get into your fuckin' music! It's so
Excellent! Ah, you big sconzilli heads! De La Soul's so fuckin' great!
DOVE:
Let me hear you say 'I like to eat that...'

[Skit]
Al Watts: Okay, Contestant 3. Do you have the answers?
Contestant 3 (Pos): Nada nunca

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People at a show will shout out some seriously dumb stuff just because the performers on stage tell them to.

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What did De La Soul say about "Do As De La Does"?
Genius Answer

Our sessions became notorious and people would say, ‘Let me go through there, because if I go through there I’ll wind up on the record.’ So, that day, Red Alert, MC Lyte were there, so we all jumped in the booth and started call and response in the silliest way we could.

— Posdnuos, Rolling Stone, 2009

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Recorded At
Calliope Studios (New York City)
Release Date
March 14, 1989
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