>"That" being that Stakes would've sounded just like
>Psychoanalysis. IIRC, during his season of What Had
>Happened Was he said that his mental state during the
>making of Psycho.. was poor because he was fed up with
>the industry and he was also low because he had no idea
>where his career was headed.

Yeah "Psychoanalysis" was the sound he was into, even if Maseo & Posdnuos contributed to the production as well, it would've had a not so hard but dark; De La Soul needed to catch up to the late 90's commerical boom-bap sound to stay relevant instead of going the indie underground direction.