It's Valentine's Day—the one day of the year we all scramble to find ways to express our affection to loved ones. And while the rest of the world is busy struggling with dinner reservations, overpriced flower deliveries, or other ways to demonstrate their love to that one special person, De La Soul has declared victory over Valentine by making their entire back catalog available for free download to prove their love is real. Until noon EST tomorrow, visitors to can download 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, Stakes is High, AOI: Mosaic Thump and AOI: Bionix, as well as a collection of rare tracks, instrumentals and remixes, simply by giving the band their email address. For a long time De La's tunes haven't been available on digital music services because the group's music featured so many not-fully-licensed samples. 'We've been blessed to be,' band member Posdnuos, 'but we can't even have our music on iTunes.' The download giveaway, which the website refers to as 'Keep the Love Spinning,' helps rectify that.

Cara Menghapus File Yang Tidak Bisa Dihapus Tanpa Software Developer more. 'It's been too long where our fans haven't had access to everything,' Posdnuos. 'This is our way of showing them how much we love them.' With that kind of love on offer, it'd be rude not to download at least one of the albums. If nothing else, any chance to revisit 3 Feet High and Rising should be taken advantage of—even if you'll then feel old when you realize it first came out a quarter of a century ago. Clearly, love is pain.

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• ' Released: 1996 • ' Released: 1996 • ' Released: 1997 Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating B RapReviews.com B+ Stakes Is High is fourth full-length album, released on July 2, 1996. The album marked a change in the group's sound and direction as it was their first release not to be produced in collaboration with. Stakes Is High was mainly produced by the group themselves with additional tracks provided by, DJ Ogee, Spearhead X and Skeff Anslem. It received mostly strong reviews but little commercial success. Contents • • • • • History [ ] Stakes Is High marked the first time the group did not collaborate with long-time producer on an album. After the album's release, the group toured extensively and remained rather quiet before returning in 2000 with the first installment in their 'Art Official Intelligence' series,.

Readydriver Plus Vista. Stakes Is High dealt with many topics, including the state of hiphop, the commercialization of the hip-hop culture and criticism towards gangsta rap. This would cause great contempt with the late gangsta rapper who would later retaliate on the song 'Against All Odds' from his posthumous 1996 album.