![]() ![]() Well y’all, it’s time for me to start catching up at long last – October 12th is now my OWN grind date as I grind out the first of three overdue reviews. Aww shit, for a man who confessed to be their biggest fan, my track record was turning out to be pretty lousy. ![]() Hot damn! “The Grind Date” did indeed arrive, so now I was behind on three De La Soul albums instead of just two. Then a few days later I got an electronic message from Archmage – did you start typing up the De La lyrics for OHHLA yet? “I wish, the store didn’t have any.” He procedes to inform me it did in fact drop as (re-)scheduled, so I decided to try again. Perplexed and not pleased, I copped the only other new album I was aware of ( I-20) and tried to make the best of it. ![]() And yes y’all, I knew the release date had been bumped up a week thanks to a >Best Buy ad in the Sunday paper, but suspiciously the store closest to where I live didn’t have any on the shelf that fateful Tuesday morning. De La Soul has been hella busy this year so busy in fact that as of this writing three albums have come out this year: “Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996” came out on May 25th (Tommy Boy), “Remixes, Rarities and Classics” came out on June 8th (Rhino Records), and “The Grind Date” was released on October 5th. ![]()
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