Genres: Hip-Hop, Alternative Rap, East Coast Rap, Golden Age Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1987 in Amityville, NY
Arrested Development, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, P.M. Dawn, Camp Lo, Def Jef, Beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, Digable Planets, Leaders of the New School, Black Sheep, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Digital Underground, Dream Warriors, Boogie Down Productions, The Beatnuts, Urban Dance Squad, Me Phi Me Arrested Development, Little Brother, J-Live, Talib Kweli, Alliance Ethnik, Jneiro Jarel, Digable Planets, Black Sheep, Basehead, Vending Machine, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, Black Eyed Peas, Artfull Dodgers, Moka Only, Darc Mind, Euphon, Company Flow, Groove B Chill |  |
At the time of its 1989 release, De La Soul's debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as the future of hip-hop. With its colorful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus the Long Island trio's low-key, clever rhymes and goofy humor, the album sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. Where most of their contemporaries drew directly from old-school rap, funk, or Public Enemy's dense sonic barrage, De La Soul were gentler and more eclectic, taking in not only funk and soul, but also pop, jazz, reggae, and psychedelia.
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Release: September 5, 2008
Label: Rhino, Warner Music
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Release: January 13, 2008
Label: Rhino/WEA UK, Warner Platinum, WEA/Rhino
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