De La Soul "Itzsoweezee (Hot) [feat. Yankee B.] [De La Soul Remix]" [SINGLE]

A remix from 1996, issued as a single in 2026, because Stakes Is High is thirty years old and is being reissued in an expanded edition remastered, with a bonus disc, through A.O.I. Records and Chrysalis. This is one pull from it, and it is a strange and deliberate choice. " Itzsoweezee (Hot)" was the second single from the album and the one track on it rapped entirely by Trugoy the Dove. He died in February 2023 at fifty-four, after several years of congestive heart failure he had spoken about publicly. Pushing the remix the version that carries Yankee B., originally the B-side of the 1996 single as the standalone from a thirtieth-anniversary campaign means the group is leading with the song on which Dave is alone, and with a version of it that very few people own. The remix is credited to De La Soul themselves, with Ken "Duro" Ifill engineering. It opens by naming its allegiances rather than boasting: "Brick wall dedication / Yankee B affiliation / Attic representation / Beatminerz up in the location / Native Tongues appreciation." The chorus asks the question the album was built around "If money makes a man strange and dollars make the world go round? / we got to rearrange" and it lands differently three decades on than it did the first time, when the group was watching their own label situation turn into exactly that problem. Yankee B.'s contribution is the reason the track exists in this form, and he has essentially one credit to his name, which is this one. Whether the single carries the original 1996 master or a fresh mix has not been stated anywhere; the remastering is documented, a new mix of this particular track is not.

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