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De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo

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It was my second after Ton Loc's "Loc'ed after dark". "3ft High and Rising" is timeless though and still sounds good today

The Funky Cold Medina one? Olllllld school...

yeah the funky cold medina one

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I worked on 3 feet high and rising as a sound engineer. They were a total riot, I had absolutely no clue they would go on to such renown. All the records they sampled had their labels blacked out with marker. I freaked them out a bit by recognizing Hall and Oates and Steely Dan samples. I don't know anything about the clearance problems, but it's true that this was one of the first records that used samples so extens…

Almost forgot: http://imgur.com/DG58lkO
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