Stakes Is High

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Then they tried to kill the Daisy with their follow-up, De La Soul Is Dead and then tried to find their way through the aftermath of that unnecessary act on Buh-Loone Mind State. Bigger sound and clarity is spot on, an absolute winner of a reissue (why can't there be more like this).

I’m not sure how the record itself sounds, but the cover looks amazing and it arrived protected and in perfect condition. Naughty By Nature member Treach also took serious offense at the record, creating a feud that only died down after about a decade and a half after Stakes Is High was released. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Stakes Is High was mainly produced by the group themselves, with additional tracks provided by Jay Dee, DJ Ogee, Spearhead X and Skeff Anslem.

Here, they're no longer so self-conscious and it's easy to remember why you liked them enough in the first place to stick with them through the hard times. A very sobering, serious track that differs vastly from the playful music that De La Soul has always been known for.At the end of track 15, "Pony Ride"—an excerpt from the documentary Crumb, in which Maxon Crumb discusses his struggle living on the streets, describing his periods of optimism and depression. Stakes Is High helped introduce rapper Mos Def to a wider audience, on the track "Big Brother Beat". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.