Listen to a Mix Featuring Every Sample on De La Soul's 'Stakes Is High'

Revisit the samples that helped make this classic album.

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Before we celebrate the release of De La Soul’s highly anticipated new album And The Anonymous Nobody on August 26, the trio is currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic album Stakes Is High. In honor of this major milestone, Chris Read and Wax Poetics put together a special hour-long mix featuring all of the samples that helped bring De La Soul’s fourth studio album to life.

De La Soul has been steady with their recent releases building up to their new album. In April, they shared a short EP titled For Your Pain & Suffering as an appetizer of sorts to thank fans for being so patient. That has since been followed up with “Pain”—a collaboration with Snoop Dogg—and “Action,” a fun new song for the Angry Birds game. But this hour-long anniversary mix is a lovely reminder of why we still love De La Soul, and that they haven’t lost a step in the past two decades.

Listen to the full mix below.


Wax Poetics was also generous enough to breakdown the entire tracklist, view that below.

1. De La Soul – ‘Intro’

2. Milt Jackson & The Ray Brown Big Band – ‘Enchanted Lady’ (sampled in ‘Dinninit’)

3. De La Soul – ‘Dinninit’

4. Jan Hammer Group – ‘Peaceful Sundown’ (sampled in ‘Dog Eat Dog’)

5. De La Soul – ‘Dog Eat Dog’

6. Aretha Franklin – It Only Happens (When I Look At You) (sampled in ‘Long Island Degrees’)

7. De La Soul – ‘Long Island Degrees’

8. Craig Mack – ‘Get Down’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘The Bizness’)

9. De La Soul feat Common – ‘The Bizness’

10. Commodores – ‘High on Sunshine’ (sampled in ‘Sunshine’)

11. De La Soul – ‘Sunshine’

12. Bayete – ‘Free Angela’ (sampled in ‘Sunshine’)

13. Ahmad Jamal – ‘Swahililand’ (sampled in ‘Stakes is High’)

14. De La Soul – ‘Stakes is High’

15. De La Soul – ‘Stakes Is High (Jay Dee Remix)’

16. James Brown – ‘Mind Power’ (sampled in ‘Stakes is High’)

17. De La Soul feat Mos Def & Truth Enola – ‘Stakes is High (Remix)’

18. Walter Wanderley – ‘Summer Samba’ (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

19. Jimmy Spicer – ‘Adventures of Super Rhyme’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

20. Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick – La Di Da Di [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

21. De La Soul – ‘Supa Emcees’

22. Wilson Pickett – Get Me Back On Time, Engine #9 [Extract] (sampled in ‘Supa Emcees’)

23. De La Soul feat Mos Def – ‘Big Brother Beat’

24. Kurtis Blow – ‘These Are the Breaks’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘The Brakes’)

25. De La Soul – ‘The Brakes’

26. James Brown – Funky Drummer [Loop] (sampled in ‘Betta Listen’)27. De La Soul – ‘Betta Listen’

28. Jeff Beck – ‘Come Dancing’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘Down Syndrome’)

29. James Brown – ‘Talkin Loud & Sayin Nothing’ [Loop] (sampled in ‘Down Syndrome’)

30. De La Soul – ‘Down Syndrome’

31. De La Soul feat Truth Enola – ‘Pony Ride’

32. Lou Donaldson – ‘Who’s Making Love’ (sampled in ‘Wonce Again Long Island’)

33. De La Soul – ‘Wonce Again Long Island’

34. Malcolm McLaren – ‘Hobo Scratch’ (sampled in ‘Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby’)

35. De La Soul feat Jazzyfatnastees – ‘Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby’

36. Chico Hamilton – ‘A Rose for Booker’ (sampled in ‘4 More’)

37. Jungle Brothers – ‘Jimmy Bonus Beat’ [Extract] (sampled in ‘4 More’)

38. De La Soul feat Zhane – ‘4 More’

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