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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 06/07/2026

"The central ethos of 'Stakes Is High', and what makes it such a crucial inflection point for De La Soul, is that instead of tackling what they deemed to be the co-option of hip hop by the music industry via satire, like they had done on their previous three releases, they confronted it directly."

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The Price of Integrity: 30 Years of the Stakes is High by De La Soul | The Quietus

Stakes Is High, De La Soul's fourth album, was the first time hip hop questioned its own growing sectarian nature in the 1990s

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