Long Island high school friends Posdnuos, Trugoy, and Maseo linked up with Stetsasonic DJ Prince Paul to create a left-field hip-hop masterpiece, heralding a "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" and weaving samples of Steely Dan, Malcolm McLaren, and Johnny Cash with raps about everything from Public Enemy-style politics ("Ghetto Thang") to individualism ("Take It Off") to body odor ("A Little Bit of Soap"). "There was no plan back then," Trugoy told Rolling Stone in 2009. Indeed, De La Soul's anything-goes spirit sparked generations of oddballs to rise up and get theirs.
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