Tragedy of a Landmark Album: 3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising is a landmark album for multiple reasons. But one of the elements that is so groundbreaking is also the thing that nearly erased De La Soul from music history entirely.

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SOURCES
Maseo and Prince Paul talking about sampling on the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVwtIb4HSA
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/de-la-soul-3-feet-high-and-rising/
https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/de-la-soul-3-feet-high-samples.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi1qYf7DyhQ
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/29/how-we-made-3-feet-high-and-rising-de-la-soul
https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-de-la-soul/
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/hip-hop-skits-history

TOPICS COVERED
De La Soul
3 Feet High and Rising
The Magic Number
Me Myself and I
Maseo
Posdunos
Dave
Trugoy the Dove
Music History
Sampling
Streaming
Prince Paul
Native Tongues
#delasoul #hiphop #musichistory

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