I don’t remember what I offered the guy in return (the sender’s name has been lost to time as well), but I do know I pleaded with the guy to send me the cassette ASAP. So, when someone offered to send me a bootleg promo version of the legendary Long Island crew’s fourth album in the mail, I leapt at the chance. I made the connections with like-minded hip-hop heads on listserv-based message boards, which is a great indication that this all happened a quarter of a century ago. I was in the midst of my tape-trading days, and I was in the habit of trying track down unreleased material and/or other soon-to-be released albums by artists that I loved. When I first heard De La Soul’s Stakes Is High, it was spring of my junior year at the University of Pennsylvania. Happy 25th Anniversary to De La Soul’s fourth studio album Stakes Is High, originally released July 2, 1996.
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