{"id":179764,"date":"2023-03-24T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=179764"},"modified":"2023-03-18T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T17:36:31","slug":"video-de-la-soul-goes-behind-the-scenes-of-me-myself-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-de-la-soul-goes-behind-the-scenes-of-me-myself-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: De La Soul Talks About &#8220;Me, Myself and I&#8221; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YtqG7n2pJv4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">New York rap trio <strong>De La\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Soul<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0take fans behind the scenes of the official music video for <em>\u201cMe, Myself and I,\u201d<\/em> in the latest installment of Vevo Footnotes. The exclusive content is part of Vevo\u2019s celebration to honor the historic<strong> 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">During the episode, <strong>Posdnuos<\/strong> of De La\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Soul<\/span>\u00a0discusses the creation of their iconic song, and how it allowed the group to address negative media labels. He highlights how the <em>\u2018Twilight Zone\u2019<\/em> influenced the video\u2019s opening segment with producer <strong>Prince<\/strong> <strong>Paul<\/strong> and their comedic approach to the video, playing off their hip-hop style. He explains the video aimed to underscore individuality and confidence, and <strong>Posdnuos<\/strong> suggests that if they remade the video today, they might focus on inner growth instead of external independence. He also shares a standout memory from the video\u2019s scene with teacher <strong>Def Beat,<\/strong> and reveals that <strong>Ali Shaheed Muhammad<\/strong> from <strong>A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> wrote <strong>\u201cDe La Sucks\u201d<\/strong> on the bathroom wall.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"179766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-de-la-soul-goes-behind-the-scenes-of-me-myself-and-i\/dela-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?fit=900%2C506&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,506\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dela\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dela-2.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff New York rap trio De La\u00a0Soul\u00a0take fans behind the scenes of the official music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-KLq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}