De La Soul’s back catalog has been stuck in digital purgatory for years thanks to various legal issues. Chief among them: The myriad uncleared samples that defined the sound of De La Soul’s classic records, but made them a legal minefield when it came to making them available digitally. In 2014, De La Soul decided to bypass official channels andfor a brief period of time since it was about all they could do.
For several years as well, the rights to the band’s catalog were tangled up in major label red tape from their time at Warner Bros. Records. In 2019, that seemed to get cleared away when De La Soul’s first label, Tommy Boy, regained control of the trio’s catalog — but negotiations over the streaming rights were fraught, ultimately leading De La Soul to
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I’ll be listening- just me, myself and I
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