Album
Stakes Is High
1996 · Hip Hop
6 collectors on Gatefold own this
Stakes Is High is a Hip-Hop album by De La Soul, originally released in 1996. On Gatefold: 17 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.
About
On their fourth album, <i>Stakes Is High</i>, De La Soul provide the missing link between their unconventional attitude toward ’80s hip-hop and the upcoming revolution in ’90s “indie rap”—the idiosyncratic rappers like Black Star and Company Flow that took their ball and ran with it. It marked a moment where they could have just as easily fallen off—stakes were indeed high, and they subsequently moved away from Prince Paul’s screwball energy toward self-produced boom-bap and classically technical lyricism and punch line. “I think when Paul was leaving, it was a little scary,” Trugoy the Dove told Apple Music in 2018. “The approach, being on our own, it was scary. It was the first time we invited that many outside producers into our space.” .
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Stakes Is High (Album Version)
- A2Stakes Is High (Instrumental)
- A3Stakes Is High (A Cappella)
Side B
- B1The Bizness (Album Version)
- B2The Bizness (Clean Version)
- B3The Bizness (Instrumental)
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Boom Bap
- gritty
- earnest
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
6 collectors on Gatefold own this · 17 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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