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"Me Myself and I" is a single by De La Soul, released in 1989. It established the group's characteristic style of combining hip hop with humor and social commentary. The group's frustration concerning their forced-upon hippie label is addressed in the typically dry humor which became the De La Soul trademark. It was the group's only number one on the U.S. R&B chart. The song also topped the U.S. Club Play chart.〔(Me Myself and I Songfacts )〕 The song's number 1 position in The Netherlands was spurred by the VPRO television station, who made a documentary about De La Soul after meeting them when they were still unknown.〔Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, 500 nr.1 hits uit de Top 40, page 262, 9023009444 (Book in Dutch)〕 The record label Indisc acquired the local rights from Tommy Boy Records, and immediately seized the opportunity to release the song as a single. This song is included in ''The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll''. It is also used in the video games ''NBA Street V3'' and ''NCAA Football 06''. It ranked number 46 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The song was used in the opening scene for the season 5 finale of the HBO original series ''Entourage''. ==Music video== The members of De La Soul sit in a high school guidance counselor's office, lamenting that they have to take a class taught by Professor Defbeat. Prince Paul briefly interrupts the scene to make a statement: "If you take three glasses of water and put food coloring in them, you have many different colors, but it's still the same old water." Trugoy, Posdnuos and Maseo arrive for Defbeat's class, in which he teaches the image-driven, mainstream style of hip-hop. Throughout the video, Posdnuos, Maceo, and Trugoy are teased by their fellow students and punished by Defbeat for sporting a unique style instead of conforming to the more popular hip-hop image. Defbeat and the other students are dressed in the stereotypical rap gear: clunky gold medallions and jewelry, sunglasses, leather jackets, expensive sneakers, jogging suits, and baseball caps worn backwards. At the end of the video, mirror images of the three De La Soul members appear from the back of the class, each sporting a T-shirt that reads "Mirror Mirror" and an "MM"-marked cap. Each mirror image gives his respective counterpart a form allowing him to drop Defbeat's class. Together, the trio stand up from their desks, throw their drop slips in Defbeat's face, and leave the classroom. The video also contains brief cameos from A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, along with a brief cameo from Randee of the Redwoods (played by actor/comedian Jim Turner), a comedic hippie character made famous in promotional spots created by MTV in the late 1980s. He is seen during the part of the video where Posdnous says "You say Plug One and Two are hippies/No we're not, that's pure Plug bull". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Me Myself and I (De La Soul song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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