DE LA SOUL - THREE FEET HIGH AND RISING VINYL LP DLSLP1 1st press 1989
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De La Soul's iconic first album, on lovely first pressing 1989 vinyl. Sleeve very good, inner and disc excellent - virtually as new. I love vinyl and treat it with respect. Your disc will be carefully cleaned and delivered in a rigid cardboard mailer. Sent with love to be enjoyed. Free post and packing and rapid dispatch.
Review This is one of those records that quite literally wrote rules. It's built around a concept that repeats through the album yet applies to none of it - a feature which has become common place in hip-hop - but that's a mere scratching of the surface. When it arrived it sounded like a spaced out gentler vision of a genre about to surrender to the harsh sounds of gangsta. In a parallel universe the people who took the De La Soul line probably reign and the gangsta groove is thought of pretty much the way the Native Tongues movement is - as an interesting side street in the world of hip-hop.
Musically this is a woozy brilliant commercial sounding masterpiece. It is the kind of rap record that people who don't really like rap can listen to. It's as crammed full of samples as "Paul's Boutique" and does pack quite a punch on the likes of "Daisy Age" and "Ghetto Thang". Oh, and it contains hits too which means it was never terribly underground - which isn't always such a bad thing either.
This record thoroughly deserves its status as a classic.
Sample sounds, to remind you that it's impossible to listen to this album without smiling ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTB-vl_Yn3o&index=12&list=PL7_creJTRlKnztLbxQmhg7x87mwXxPi6a&ab_channel=SweetJennGirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQs9gpAnRAU&list=PL7_creJTRlKnztLbxQmhg7x87mwXxPi6a&index=14&ab_channel=SweetJennGirl
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