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De La Soul, Stakes Is High

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1636060

Disk length: 1h 8m 20s (17 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1996

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Intro 2:35
2. Supa Emcees 3:40
3. The Bizness 5:41
4. Wonce Again Long Island 3:39
5. Dinninit 4:20
6. Brakes 4:06
7. Dog Eat Dog 3:38
8. Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby 2:08
9. Long Island Degrees 3:27
10. Betta Listen 4:27
11. Itzsoweeze (HOT) 4:48
12. 4 More 4:18
13. Big Brother Beat 3:42
14. Down Syndrome 3:03
15. Pony Ride 5:27
16. Stakes Is High 5:30
17. Sunshine 3:40

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Review

The De La Plugs created the D.A.I.S.Y. (Da Inna Sound, Y'all) philosophy on their brilliant and weird debut, Three Feet High and Rising (making them the first--and probably only--hip-hop act to appropriate a Johnny Cash song for their album title). 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. Finally, a full three albums from their first, De La finds their footing with Stakes Is High. 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. With unfaltering lyrical dexterity, they get to ask the question, "Whatever happened to the Emcees?" ("Super-Emcees"), skewer the industry ("The Bizness," with some help from that super MC, Common), and even shout out to their birthplace, Long Island, twice (on "Long Island Degrees" and the break-down-funky "Wonce Again Long Island"). --Todd LevinThe De La Plugs created the D.A.I.S.Y. (Da Inna Sound, Y'all) philosophy on their brilliant and weird debut, Three Feet High and Rising (making them the first--and probably only--hip-hop act to appropriate a Johnny Cash song for their album title). 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. Finally, a full three albums from their first, De La finds their footing with Stakes Is High. 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. With unfaltering lyrical dexterity, they get to ask the question, "Whatever happened to the Emcees?" ("Super-Emcees"), skewer the industry ("The Bizness," with some help from that super MC, Common), and even shout out to their birthplace, Long Island, twice (on "Long Island Degrees" and the break-down-funky "Wonce Again Long Island"). --Todd Levin

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 1h 8m 20s

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 1h 8m 20s

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 1h 8m 19s (-1m 59s)

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 1h 8m 21s (+0m 1s)

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 1h 7m 32s (-1m 12s)

Stakes Is High

Tracks: 4 (-13 tracks), Disk length: 20m 8s (-49m 48s)

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