Me Myself And De La Soul

The song “Me Myself and I” by the hip-hop group De La Soul strongly fits into the three-step process of the gospel from chapter one of Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hop Cinema. The three steps of the gospel are “(1) acknowledging the burden;(2) bearing witness; (3) finding redemption. The burden grounds the song in the history of suffering that links individual and community experience” (Sanchez 5). “Me Myself and I” relates strongly to the three steps of the gospel by tackling criticism about their looks and who they truly are throughout this song.

“Me Myself and I” was released as a single from their debut album and the group had not been well known beforehand so they hadn’t been in the public eye that much. In the very
Dove and the rest of De La Soul are almost being mocked because the way that they appear to their audience does not line up with how they sound. This relates to the first step of the three-step process of the gospel. De La Soul is being burdened with accusations of who they are and they are being perceived as not being a ‘true’ hip hop group because of the way that they dress. This is discrediting to who they are as not only artists but also as people because their appearance is overshadowing their talents and how they look should have nothing to do with what they are capable of doing

Seeing as though De La Soul were a new group who had just released a single off of their debut album, it was also assumed that the group dressed like they did for the media and for extra exposure,”Style is surely our own thing/Not the false disguise of showbiz/De La Soul is from the soul” (“Me Myself and I. 1989. De La Soul). The group never dressed or acted a certain way for media exposure so to have been accused of doing that was disheartening. The group saw how they were being perceived by people and sought out to make it known that those impressions and assumptions were wrong, which relates to the second step of the three steps of the