3 Feet High and Rising

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The 1989 album marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, and was a massive commercial and critical success. It features guest spots from Grian Chatten, Lianne La Havas, Confucius MC, assia and Kevin Abstract. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.

The debut album from De La Soul (Trugoy, Maseo and Posdunos) gets another reissue here, pretty much ensuring this longstanding Long Island hip-hop trio never stay out of the limelight. Renowned for its uniquely positive spin on hip-hop amid a harsher world of dark, hardball gangster rap, classics such as 'Me, Myself And I' are known the world over, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a soul who doesn't have so much as an inkling as to how it sounds.

While they were labelled as 'hippies' at the time, they've since gone on to influence many hip-hop artists internationally. In early 2015, they announced plans to release a Kickstarter funded upcoming 9th studio album and the Anonymous Nobody. This album release looks and plays great, hopefully a whole new generation will be exposed to this masterpiece! We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.The pair didn't just use those samples as hooks or drumbreaks -- like most hip-hop producers had in the past -- but as split-second fills and in-jokes that made some tracks sound more like DJ records. The most inventive, assured, and playful debut in hip-hop history, 3 Feet High and Rising not only proved that rappers didn't have to talk about the streets to succeed, but also expanded the palette of sampling material with a kaleidoscope of sounds and references culled from pop, soul, disco, and even country music. Seminal hip-hop group De La Soulhave gained control of their back catalogue which will finally be available on streaming from March this year. I tend to shy away from coloured vinyl as the quality of pressings tend to vary hugely but I'm pleased that I pulled the trigger on this Rough Trade green as it sounds great. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

The artwork is bloody awful, sorry, but was it photocopied (badly) from an old copy with the saturation maxed out?Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a 'hippie' group, based on their declaration of the 'D. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. Samples that are pure genius, coupled with a rhyme style which on certain tracks, even 25 years later, I'm still finding new nuances with, make this outstanding.

I'm so happy I got a copy it really does sound amazing to hear this after all these years, what difference in sound. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Prince Paul with a demo tape of the song "Plug Tunin'". We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. Time for a trip down the technicolor road of the Daisy Age with De La Soul’s magnum opus, “3 Feet High and Rising. UPDATE FROM DISTRO: Due to a manufacturing fault, the magenta LP will be delayed for a couple of weeks at max. Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip hop trio De La Soul and was released on March 3, 1989 It marked the first of three full- length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties.