Trugoy the Dove (De La Soul)
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Of space on the internet that if you don't go to that space, you won't know.
So that is really hard to get used to, especially if you're not a person who goes and try to discover music.
Speaking of that era, going into stakes is high.
This must've been like 15 years ago.
I went to watch Peter Rosenberg interview 9th Wonder Infante live.
And they were talking about this theory that 1996 is when everything split
where you either went with It Was Written Nas, and then you ended up in the shiny suits, bad boy, everything.
But if you went down the De La Stakes Is High shit, that's how you got to Slum.
That's how you got to Dilla.
That's how you got to Little Brother.
Do you think the underground started in 96 with Stakes Is High?
Like, did that start the quote unquote underground hip hop wave?