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3 Feet High and Rising by: De La Soul List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0016998101926 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Tommy Boy Manufacturer: Tommy Boy Number Of Discs: 2 Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Tommy Boy Release Date: October 23, 2001 Studio: Tommy Boy Sales Rank: 2506 MPN: 810192 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Import edition of the alternative rapper's seminal and groundbreaking 1989 debut. Currently available domestically on cassette only! Standard jewel case. Amazon.com essential recording: De La's debut represented a new path for hip-hop, a reaction to conventions that had turned into clichés. 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. 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 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. --Douglas Wolk Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - much of hip-hop is so-so this is brilliantVery inspired and in a groove throughout. Happy sexy and funny. The whole album has a feel of in the right place at the right time right then or it wouldn't have happened.Out-standing Rating: - Still Rises High After Almost Two Decades"3 Feet High and Rising", the debut album by underground legends De La Soul, is a monument of creativity and brilliance in old school hip-hop. First off, Prince Paul produced the whole album with a style that's friendly to the ears of those who prefer alternative and/or jazz. It was really refreshing and set up a conscious mood to fit along with the lyrics. The lyrics are another reason why this album is a landmark. De La Soul don't care for stereotypes, and the lyrics deliver a positive message about certain things in life, whether it would be based on love ("Eye Know") or appearance ("Can U Keep A Secret" and "Take It Off"). Even in their conscious message, De La Soul aren't afraid to lighten things up with a bit of humor. "Ghetto ... Read More: Rating: - Dawn of the Daisy Age!BOTTOM LINE: Had the CASSETTE when it first dropped back in 1988! (I'm 33 ya'll) Ad-libs? Cryptic metaphors? Obscure samples? Intros? Skits? 20+ trax? conceptual? THIS ALBUM STARTED ALL OF THAT. Welcome to the Native Tongues. Oh, and 'wipe your Lottos on the mat'. A+. A hip-hop Essential. Rating: - Tread Water with the De La SoulDe La Soul was 3 feet high and rising with 3 Feet High and Rising. Alternative Hip Hop? You bet. Not only was nobody doing this during that time, nobody is doing this now. Nobody made refreshing, get up and dance, and really trippy music like this back then, and nobody is making this now. It's kick arse hip hop with creativity, and most of all, remains in my cd rotation for being great music alone (not for influence, not for it's time, not for any of the smoke machines that covers up Elvis Presley). Just try seeing a pink cover on an NWA cover. Backed by grooving, funky, infectious rhythms and the coolest, sounds good sampling, straight from Mase and Prince Paul, Trugoy and Posdnuos are carefree, seemingly loose, but ... Read More: Rating: - Easily one of my top ten albums of all timeI'm serious, I can count on ONE hand the number of songs that immediately changed my world like "The Magic Number" did the first time I heard it. I truly had no idea it was possible to make music like that. I was flipping through stations on a road trip and came across it about halfway through. My jaw literally dropped open, I made everyone else in the car shut up, and I stared at the radio and waited for them to tell me what I had just heard. I then spent an entire day going to every record store in NYC's Greenwich Village trying to find it (distribution was tiny). I've probably listened to this album 500 times over the years, and it just never ever gets old. De La Soul is Dead is also excellent, and Buhloone Mind State is very very good, ... Read More: |
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