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| Artist: De La Soul
Label: Tommy Boy
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 2081
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 810192
UPC: 016998101926
EAN: 0016998101926
ASIN: B000000HHE
Publication Date: 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | Intro | | • | The Magic Number | | • | Change in Speak | | • | Cool Breeze on the Rocks - De La Soul, Mercer, K. | | • | Can U Keep a Secret? | | • | Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge) | | • | Ghetto Thang | | • | Transmitting Live from Mars | | • | Eye Know | | • | Take It Off | | • | A Little Bit of Soap | | • | Tread Water | | • | Potholes in My Lawn | | • | Say No Go | | • | Do as De La Does | | • | Plug Tunin' | | • | De la Orgee | | • | Buddy - De La Soul, Houston, Penelope | | • | Description | | • | Me, Myself and I - De La Soul, Prince Paul | | • | This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.) | | • | I Can Do Anything (Delacratic) | | • | D.A.I.S.Y. Age | | • | Plug Tunin' |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
De La's debut represented a new path for hip-hop, a reaction to conventions that had turned into cliches. 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
Album Description
Import edition of the alternative rapper's seminal and groundbreaking 1989 debut. Currently available domestically on cassette only! Standard jewel case.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered. Includes a Limited Edition Bonus CD with 15 Additional Tracks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 76 more reviews...
much of hip-hop is so-so this is brilliant November 4, 2008
a reader (Gloucester MA USA)
Very 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
Still Rises High After Almost Two Decades April 23, 2008
Bill Lumbergh (Initech)
"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 Thang" is the only track that's no so uplifting, being based on poverty and social issues, but it is still given in a way that only De La would give it (they even use limericks). There is even a game show that is "played" throughout this album, which is played by Posdnous, Trugoy, Maseo, and Prince Paul (the first three being members of the group) and while it may sound a bit dated, it's something that represents the group's style. Let me also tell you that in the song "Buddy", you get a guest appearance with some other Native Tongues style rap members, the Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip, so you get another taste of the first group mentioned and an insight of what ATCQ would be the year following this CD.
This CD is fun, it lays off the vulgarity in the majority of the songs, and it was something else back in 1989. Make sure to give this a good listen, because there is nothing like it.
Dawn of the Daisy Age! February 8, 2008
Will Johnson (Austin, TX)
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.
Tread Water with the De La Soul February 3, 2008
Untitled (nowhere)
De 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 flow with ease. They go as slow as they want, as fast as they want. Rapping about drugs (Say No Go), the ghetto (Ghetto Thang), and the current state of being only you (Me, Myself, and I), Love (Eye Know), and treading "water", by talking to monkeys! (Tread Water). Quirky, a bit surrealistic, I feel like I'm smothered in flowers! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
And I got a bonus disc! The best value ever? Well I think The Complete Studio Recordings has something to say about that. But it's close.
And Soulja Boy passes for rap? No matter, we'll see through it. Classic. Worthy of the lame "Amazon.com Essential Recording" (Along with 311 and Grassroots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
10/10
Easily one of my top ten albums of all time October 8, 2007
Joel P. (Brooklyn, NY)
I'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, and they kind of lost me after that, but I truly believe everybody I know should own this one.
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