3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul
Label: Tommy Boy
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Audio CD
Release date:23rd October 2001

Original recording reissued Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}	$5.84

Original recording reissued Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}

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Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Magic Number
3. Change in Speak
4. Cool Breeze on the Rocks
5. Can U Keep a Secret?
6. Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)
7. Ghetto Thang
8. Transmitting Live from Mars
9. Eye Know
10. Take It Off
11. Little Bit of Soap
12. Tread Water
13. Potholes in My Lawn
14. Say No Go
15. Do as De La Does
16. Plug Tunin' [Last Chance to Comprehend]
17. De la Orgee
18. Buddy - De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Q-Tip
19. Description
20. Me, Myself and I
21. This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)
22. I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)
23. D.A.I.S.Y. Age
24. Plug Tunin' [Original 12" Version]

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 clichÃ©s. 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

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