3 Feet High and Rising

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Seminal hip-hop group De La Soulhave gained control of their back catalogue which will finally be available on streaming from March this year. 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. It’s really nice to have the tracks across two records and the reason why this is 4 and not 5 stars, is because a track is missing. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.

Sucks that a lot of samples had to be cut/changed (Cool Breeze on the Rocks is absolutely GUTTED), but you gotta do what you gotta do. This album release looks and plays great, hopefully a whole new generation will be exposed to this masterpiece! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. They were influential in the early stages of rapper/actor Mos Def's career, and are a core part of the Spitkicker collective. Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a 'hippie' group, based on their declaration of the 'D.If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. I know Cool Breeze is only a 48 second track, but it showed some excellent sample cutting DJ skills and was a favourite of mine. Feet High and Rising was chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry for its cultural significance and general excellence. 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. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.

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. 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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 have a tb 1019 pressing from 89 but the runout matrix only reads tb 1019-a on the a side and is empty on the b side. Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a “hippie” group, based on their declaration of the “D.

Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip-hop trio De La Soul, and was released on March 3, 1989. Cryptic but ecstatic, and sometimes sexy (especially the ingenious double-entendre "Buddy"), Trugoy and Posdnuos's lyrics invented a "new style of speak," dense with self-invented slang and metaphors. 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'". So innovative and fresh, at the time it blew away every other rap record and even now manages to sound new and groundbreaking.Rappers Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove talked about anything they wanted (up to and including body odor), playing fast and loose on the mic like Biz Markie. 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.