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 Jneiro Jarel, Arrested Development, Talib Kweli, J-Live, Little Brother, Digable Planets, Alliance Ethnik, Basehead, Black Sheep, Company Flow, Euphon, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, Black Eyed Peas, Artfull Dodgers, Darc Mind, Moka Only, Jay Dee, 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: January 13, 2008
Label: Rhino/WEA UK, Warner Platinum, WEA/Rhino
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Release: October 24, 2006
Label: Red Lion, Roar
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