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Featuring production from Doc McKinney and Illangelo and the essential tracks "The Zone" with Drake

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hit the gray skies of the pandemic’s year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow

De La Soul - AOI: Bionix coloured Shortly thereafter2LP, Reissue Chrysalis (2023) WW 2001's Bionix served as the second installment in Da La Soul's Art Official Intelligence series following 2000's Mosaic Thump and sixth studio effort overall. Lead single "Baby Phat" (feat. Yummy Bingham and Devin the Dude) is an ode to larger sized women while "Held Down" (feat. Cee Lo) finds Posdnuos in an introspective mood as he muses on fatherhood, religion, and fame. Slick Rick also makes an appearance here on