3 Feet High and Rising

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This album release looks and plays great, hopefully a whole new generation will be exposed to this masterpiece! All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

Weaving clever wordplay and deft rhymes across two dozen tracks loosely organized around a game-show theme, De La Soul broke down boundaries all over the LP, moving easily from the groovy my-philosophy intro "The Magic Number" to an intelligent, caring inner-city vignette named "Ghetto Thang" to the freewheeling end-of-innocence tale "Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge). Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Soul's uniquely positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, "Me, Myself and I". Seminal hip-hop group De La Soulhave gained control of their back catalogue which will finally be available on streaming from March this year.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'".

It is listed on both Rolling Stone’s 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source’s 100 Best Rap Albums. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.If it was easy to believe the revolution was here from listening to the rapping and production on Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, with De La Soul the Daisy Age seemed to promise a new era of positivity in hip-hop. Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Soul's uniquely positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, "Me, Myself and I. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul and contains the singles, “Me Myself and I”, “The Magic Number,” “Buddy,” and “Eye Know. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.

Time for a trip down the technicolor road of the Daisy Age with De La Soul’s magnum opus, “3 Feet High and Rising. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. So innovative and fresh, at the time it blew away every other rap record and even now manages to sound new and groundbreaking.I'm so happy I got a copy it really does sound amazing to hear this after all these years, what difference in sound. The album also features guest appearances from artists such as Damon Albarn, Little Dragon, David Byrne, 2 Chainz and Snoop Dogg.

De La Soul's seminal debut album 3 Feet High and Rising was released on March 3, 1989 and is widely considered among the most influential hip-hop albums of all time. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. 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. I thought they had come to an agreement on all the samples but Cool Breeze on The Rocks is not on this album. It was friendly and playful enough to cross over to a pop audience (thanks to Prince Paul's production, which found the funk hiding inside Steely Dan and "Schoolhouse Rock"), but complicated and tough enough to be hugely influential in the hip-hop world.

The hits, including "Say No Go" and "Me Myself And I," are delightful, but the little sketches and sound-experiments between them make the whole disc flow effortlessly.