De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising flac album

3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by American hip hop group De La Soul, released on March 3, 1989 by Tommy Boy Records. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. The album title comes from the Johnny Cash song "Five Feet High and Rising". The album contains the singles "Me Myself and I", "The Magic Number", "Buddy", and "Eye Know".

De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising was released on March 3, 1989 through Tommy Boy Records. It peaked at on the Billboard 200 and on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. The album yielded a number of popular singles, including Potholes in My Lawn, Say No Go, Plug Tunin', and their most popular single, Me, Myself and I, which hit on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, Hot Rap Singles, Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, and Dance Music/Club Play Singles charts

3 Feet High and Rising emerged fully formed, offering a world as richly imagined as anything American pop has ever produced. Just as hip-hop was firmly establishing itself as the most avant of pop’s garde, the best of their peers-from smooth operator Big Daddy Kane to Blastmaster KRS-One to Living Colour’s Vernon Reid-showed up at their release party to salute their achievement. Even KRS, who had just dropped what would come to be recognized as one of the best albums in hip-hop history, said it couldn’t compare what De La Soul had just made. From this odd detail, De La Soul developed an album concept: They were transmitting their music live from Mars through microphones-Pos on Plug One, Trugoy on Plug Two. It was an audacious step away from both Old School party-rocking and New School realism.

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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

Me Myself and I. sampled. Not Just) Knee Deep by Funkadelic (1979). Three Is a Magic Number by Bob Dorough (1973). Five Feet High and Rising by Johnny Cash (1959). Different Strokes by Syl Johnson (1967). see 13 more connections.