Everybody from NPR Music, I'm Robin Hilton and for the first time ever, the complete back catalog

from the legendary rap group, Daila Sol, is finally out on streaming and digital services now.

After decades of legal disputes, the band is finally one back the rights to all of their master

recordings. You can stream and download all of the music now. It comes just a few weeks after

member Dave Jellicore, known to fans as Trugoy the Dove, died at the age of 54.

Contributor Matthew Richie has a great essay on the NPR Music site all about what it means to have

the music back like this. For both longtime fans and new listeners, we've also got a guide to

the music what to listen to now from Professor and DJ Oliver Wang, that's on the site for you.

NPR Music Editor Sheldon Pierce recently sat down with both Matthew Richie and Oliver Wang

to go deeper on the music, offer some context on why it took so long to be available,

and how Daila Sol sounds more than 30 years after releasing the group's debut album.

Before we dive into unpack and appreciate these iconic records, we have to address the elephant

of the room, which is the music's nearly two decade absence from any sort of digital media,

not just streaming, but like the digital items and like Amazon marketplace before that.

Oliver, can you speak a bit to like why this process took so long?

I think the easier answer, which I don't think is entirely accurate, the easy answer is because

part of what Daila was known for especially earlier in the career was their just abundance

sampling, right? They really reinvented in a lot of ways the art of sampling based production,

they're drawing from sources from everywhere, television shows, you know, kids records, I mean,

whatever, like it was all part of the fodder that went into creating those early albums,

but because sample clearances was not yet a precedent until the Turtles

Sue Daila Sol over some of that, it created a lot of legal complications for the group over time.

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