Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present... First Serve
| Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present... First Serve | ||||
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| Released | April 3, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2010–2012 | |||
| Genre | East Coast hip hop, alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 65:26 | |||
| Label | Duck Down Music Inc. PIAS | |||
| Producer | Chokolate & Khalid Filali a.k.a. 2&4 | |||
| De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | StarStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[2] |
| The A.V. Club | B[3] |
| Clash | 7/10[4] |
| Consequence of Sound | StarStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[5] |
| HipHopDX | StarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[6] |
| Mojo | StarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[7] |
| PopMatters | 6/10[8] |
| Q | StarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[9] |
| RapReviews | 8/10[10] |
| Rolling Stone | StarStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[11] |
Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present... First Serve is an album from hip-hop group De La Soul members Kelvin Mercer (a.k.a. Plug 1), and David Jolicoeur (a.k.a. Plug 2), in collaboration with French DJ duo Chokolate and Khalid,[12] released on April 3, 2012.
In the album the duo adopt the persona of "First Serve" a hip-hop band making it in the music industry in the late 1990s. Mercer takes the persona of "Jacob 'Pop Life' Barrow", and Jolicoeur takes the persona of "Deen Witter". The album details the fictional band making it in the music industry, their success, breakup, and eventual reformation.[13]
Jolicoeur and Mercer have been interviewed in character as Barrow and Witter, often quoting De La Soul as an "influence", and describing De La Soul as "those guys".[14]
Track listing
[edit | edit source]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Opening Credits" | 3:39 |
| 2. | "Pushin' Aside, Pushin' Along" | 4:15 |
| 3. | "The Work" | 4:07 |
| 4. | "Small Disasters" | 2:40 |
| 5. | "We Made It" | 4:29 |
| 6. | "We Made It – Interlude" | 0:49 |
| 7. | "Must B the Music" | 4:09 |
| 8. | "Goon TV – Interlude" | 1:22 |
| 9. | "The Book of Life" | 4:01 |
| 10. | "Clash Symphony" | 3:25 |
| 11. | "Pop Life" | 5:17 |
| 12. | "Tennis" | 4:15 |
| 13. | "The Top Chefs" | 3:00 |
| 14. | "Backstage – Interlude" | 1:32 |
| 15. | "Move 'Em In, Move 'Em Out" | 5:08 |
| 16. | "Ending Credits" | 3:08 |
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- ^ Joyously propulsive... [Yet] there's little deviation from a straightforward palette of sticky basslines and boom-bap rhythms. [May 2012, p.95]
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