![]() ![]() 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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