It’s funky, it’s hip-hop, it’s disco and its classic. De La Soul’s Plug 1 & Plug 2 present ‘First Serve;’ a dynamic hip-hop group, an album, a concept.

First Serve is man things, but at its heart it is the story of two young boys from Queens, New York in the late 1990’s with big dreams and larger rhymes. It follows two friends, Deen Whitter (aka Plug 2 / Dave) and Jacob ‘Pop Life’ Barrow (aka Plug 1 / Pos), throught their struggles in a basement  to start their musical career and the battles they face after years of laying demos and mixtapes on the hustle in the hip hop game.

But all the hard work has finally paid off – Jacob and Deen have hit the big time signing to Goon Time Records, and quickly enjoying their first hit with the bouncy orchestral flourish of ‘Must Be The Music.’

The story plays out from the ‘Opening Credits,’ through to the tracks like the funky euphoric ‘We Made It,‘ following Deen and Jacob’s original success, through the darkly hung break up ode of ‘Clash Symphony,’ to their eventual, tender reunion on the irresistible ‘Tennis‘ -with some of De La’s most irrepressible rhymes in years and a succession of hilarious skits. The pair find themselves “bound together with a handshake, not a contract.”

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