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Cool Hip Hop: De La Soul De-flowered

Steven Daly, Spin, May 1991

Declaring that De La Soul Is Dead, the beat-box beatniks turn ornery. Have they lost the plot? Or are they writing it? STEVEN DALY explains.

Total word count of piece: 3207

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