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Always did love this classic album!!!!
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Lost its flavour.
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Poor quality copy
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By the late eighties hip hop was fragmented and ghetto-ized. Gangster rap was on the ascendency and Black America was still looking to Public Enemy to voice its concerns. Then along came De La Soul with a completely different take on the African American experience. DLS used breaks and samples in a way that no hip hop artist had even thought about. Splashes of Hall & Oates collided with fragments of French Linguaphone records, and created something extraordinary. They took the art of rapping off on a tangent with stories of underage sex and teenage pregnancy, afrocentric positivity, and surreal word play. This was all brought together under the masterful production of Prince Paul. Presented in a format not dissimilar to early Zappa records, the album required the listener to take in the whole experience. Still sounds fresh today, and without a doubt one of the best hip hop albums of the eighties.Read full review
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