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Breakadawn / En Focus
Record company
Tommy Boy Music
Performing artist
De La Soul
Producer
De La Soul
Producer
Prince Paul
Publisher
Tee Girl Music
Distributor
Tommy Boy Music Inc.
Manufacturer
Tommy Boy Music Inc.
Date1993
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (Diameter): 11 13/16 in. (30.004 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1999.389.26.A,.B
Text Entries"Breakadawn" and “En Focus” are singles released in 1993 on Tommy Boy by Hip-Hop trio De La Soul, released from their third album, Buhloone Mindstate. “Breakadawn” samples "Quiet Storm" by Smokey Robinson and the intro to Michael Jackson's "I Can't Help It". Singles were produced by Prince Paul and De La Soul.
Front Cover: Three men are looking into the camera with the title of the song in top right and De La Soul printed on the bottom right. Back Cover: The track list is printed on the top and credits are listed on the bottom. Cartoon drawings and explanations are printed in the middle of the cover.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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