De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead Released:1991 along with mainstays Ritchie Blackmore

along with mainstays Ritchie Blackmore

She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter 20th century

Instead of faux soul or mainstream pop -- or even dissonant hard rock

it is profoundly personal and unapologetically political

yet the approach is harder and more direct

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead Released:1991 along with mainstays Ritchie BlackmoreNEW VINYL LP ON CHRYSALIS 2023 2 X 180 GRAM VINYL. On their notorious second album, De La Soul went to great lengths to debunk the daisy age hippie image they'd been pigeonholed with, titling the record De La Soul Is Dead and putting a picture of wilting daisies in a broken flowerpot on the cover. Critics and fans alike were puzzled as to why the group was seemingly rejecting what had been hailed as the future of hip hop, and neither the reviews nor