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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Intro | |||
| 2. The Magic Number | |||
| 3. Change In Speak | |||
| 4. Cool Breeze On The Rocks | |||
| 5. Can U Keep A Secret | |||
| 6. Jenifa (Taught Me) | |||
| 7. Ghetto Thang | |||
| 8. Transmitting Live From Mars | |||
| 9. Eye Know | |||
| 10. Take It Off | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Freedom Of Speak (We Got Three More Minutes) | |||
| 2. Strickly Dan Stuckie | |||
| 3. Jenifa (Taught Me) | |||
| 4. Skip To My Loop | |||
| 5. Potholes In My Lawn | |||
| 6. "Me, Myself And I" | |||
| 7. Ain't Hip To Be Labeled A Hippie | |||
| 8. Whats More | |||
| 9. Brain Washed Follower | |||
| 10. Say No Go | |||
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Product Description
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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
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
De La Soul's albums have always changed the sound of rap biz and 3 feet high and rising is no acception. The trio from Long Island New York are def on this stunning debut using samples, quality comedy skits and clever rhymes to create a laid back groove which delivers strong messages on "say no go" and "ghetto thang".Even though this album was released 13 years ago the tracks are still as fresh and funky as the day the album was released.
The stand out cuts on this Lp are "Buddy","eye know","Potholes in my lawn" and "Plug Tunin" but two of my personal favourites are "Me Myself and i" and "The Magic Number.
The Bottom line is this is a fresh, funky and farout album a must for old skool rap fans and rap fans alike.
The stand out cuts on this Lp are "Buddy","eye know","Potholes in my lawn" and "Plug Tunin" but two of my personal favourites are "Me Myself and i" and "The Magic Number.
The Bottom line is this is a fresh, funky and farout album a must for old skool rap fans and rap fans alike.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By pjr
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Format:Audio CD
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 undergrond - which isn't always such a bad thing either.
I purchased this shortly after it's release and still (after buying more music than I want to think about) return to this even now. A record thoroughly deserving it's status as a classic.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By John Tree
Format:Audio CD
Aah De La Soul, you've just gotta love these guys. This was their debut album, and at the time the level of Rap and Hip Hop was pretty much like it is now...full of macho male bravado.
These performers were full of Hip hop culture, but wanted FUN. There is an infectious quality to these tunes which forces you to smile. They lauded the coming of The Daisy Age, short lived but enjoyable paving the way for Arrested Development etc. but nobody topped this joint.
Producing a few golden moments: Eye Know (with Steely Dan sample and Dock of The Bay whistle), The Magic Number (Three!), Me Myself and I, Jenifa Taught Me (Jenifa, oh Jenny). Tunes that you carry round all day in your head. Wonderful, lovable, irrepressible music.
These performers were full of Hip hop culture, but wanted FUN. There is an infectious quality to these tunes which forces you to smile. They lauded the coming of The Daisy Age, short lived but enjoyable paving the way for Arrested Development etc. but nobody topped this joint.
Producing a few golden moments: Eye Know (with Steely Dan sample and Dock of The Bay whistle), The Magic Number (Three!), Me Myself and I, Jenifa Taught Me (Jenifa, oh Jenny). Tunes that you carry round all day in your head. Wonderful, lovable, irrepressible music.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
There's SO many good tunes on this album, it could almost be a compilation of their best tunes rather than their first album. The running theme of a TV show provides humerous interludes & the continuation of this theme on the beginning of their second album, "De La Soul is Dead" shows they have not only thought about the tunes on the album but the actual ORGANISATION of it! AND this is only their first album! The scratching of Prince Paul combined with the vocal skills of De La Soul (with appearences from Q-Tip from Tribe & The Jungle Brothers) is a recipe for MAGIC. This album has a summer feel and is best listened to whilst chillin' with your friends with a BBQ in the background, & De La playing at a medium volume (not blaring out) with everyone drinking, toking & generally being chilled & mellow. Buy this NOW!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
What can I say? A real classic, any discerning hip hop fan should have this album, but so too should anyone who loves silly rhymes and great tunes - just excellent for cheering yourself up if you're having one of those days. All the best ones are here - "The Magic Number", "Me, Myself and I" as well as the excellently short and silly "A Little Bit of Soap". But best of all for cheering yourself up has to be "Tread Water".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By bish
Format:Audio CD
Don't get me wrong-I'm predominantly New Wave/Indie but I remember De La Soul for making infectious,catchy tunes and there are many on this album.Whenever I need a lift I play this-it is quite simply impossible not to enjoy.I'm listening now after a couple (or so!) beers and I'm grinning from ear to ear.
Fantastic.Buy It.
Fantastic.Buy It.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Do yourself a favor! Buy this disk! When did this come out? late eighties? All I know is I lost my LP to a flood. I took my brother's copy of the cassette and it has since succumbed to being played endlessly. So very glad am I to see this disk once again available, I am buying it immediately. This has foolishly gone out of print in the US.
But to the matter of the content of the album. Exceedingly clever lyrics. GREAT beats, social commentary and responsible messages.
Unlike anything else you have in your CD collection. Even subsequent De La Soul albums.
It's at a great price, too... even with the exchange rate.... buy it Buy It BUY IT!
You will be thankful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This album is essential listening for any hip-hop fan and is a wonderful reminder of the days not so long ago when rap/hip hop wasn't too afraid/stupid to have a positive message. Cool, inventive, funny, poetic - a hip hop masterpiece. The 'daisy age' will never end...
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De La Soul - CD 3 Feet High And Rising
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Look, I just wanted to buy a CD. It was delivered fine, I don't want to have to write a dissertation everytime I make a pucchase.
Published 11 months ago by Mr. William A. M. Boulby
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De La Fun
First heard this in the late 1980's and bought it on vinyl (long vanished), complete with superimposed scratches which didn't impress me. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kaz
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Can't wait to play it!
I loved reading through everyone else's review of this. Came across the album quite by accident a few days ago and thought it must be a new compilation. Read more
Published 16 months ago by radiojock
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Excelllent
This is an excellent CD. TO those who bought it originally, you will know the album suffers from too many skits: there seem to be more skits than songs. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Damien
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Don't make em like they used to
This is really good, all the tracks are fun and it's still fun to listen to even after all these years. This fully warrants its status as a classic. Read more
Published on 29 April 2011 by Ciaran H
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A Gem From the Golden Age
The most unique hip hop album you will ever listen to, while N.W.A. were making ultra-violent gangsta rap and Public Enemy were making politically charged attacks on the man De La... Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2009 by Ocean Size
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great
Listening to this album for the first time as I write this review. Tis album is great. Buy it!!
I don't care if these guys are commercial because wvwn the most... Read more
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