It's difficult to overstate the impact De La Soul has had on this podcast. Simply stated De Le raised us. The three brothers from Long Island and their left of center aesthetic helped shaped who we are as rap fans and human beings. Our original artwork was a homage to their second album De La Soul is Dead. We got the late great Don Newkirk, who voiced the skits on 3ft High and Rising, to be a part of our intro. Our first guest on the podcast was legendary producer Prince Paul who played a huge role in the first three De La Soul albums. All of this to say De La is a part of us. So of course we were devastated to hear Trugoy's recent passing. Dave's death coming right as De La's music comes to streaming feel particularly cruel.

On this week's episode we do our best to honor the legacy of Plug 2 and give new listeners a guide to De La Soul's first four albums. How do the Dad Bods rate each of these masterworks? How have the albums aged? These questions and many more will be answered during this special episode. That in an of itself would be one hell of an episode but we were also fortunate to get De La Soul's first A&R Dante Ross to join us and talk about the early days of the group and who Dove was as a person.

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Big ups to Stony Island Audio massive!

p.s. shout out to the DJ Cutso for producing a new beefier theme song!

RIP TRUGOY

RIP DON NEWKIRK