De La Soul’s seventh album The Grind Date was originally supposed to be the final chapter in a trilogy with Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump and AOI: Bionix. For their first indie album, they pulled out all stops enlisting production from Madlib, J. Dilla, and 9th Wonder. According to De La, after a few songs were recorded, they decided to take a turn and make an entirely new album with a new theme. The set spawned the singles “Shopping Bags (She Got From You)” and the time-shifting “Rock Co.Kane Flow”. Grind Date turned out to be a great career move, one of the groups most successful albums, and the last before their 12 year hiatus. A 10th anniversary edition was issued with the bonus track “Shoomp” featuring Sean Paul formerly only available on the European release of the album.