A darker, denser follow-up that rejected the hippie label. Sharp and ambitious. A grower among fans. Released in 1991, it's a key entry in De La Soul's run.
On vinyl: Vinyl can be scarcer than the CD from this era, so it's worth looking for a recent repressing.
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