De La Soul
Biography
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. Though their style initially earned both critical raves...Read more
Discography
- The Grind Date (2004)
- Art Official Intelligence-mosa (2000)
- Stakes Is High (1996)
- Buhloone Mind State (1993)
- De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
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Lyrics
- 3 Days Later
- 4 More
- A Little Bit Of Soap
- A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
- Afro Connections at a Hi 5 (in the eyes of the hoodlum)
- All Good?
- Area
- Baby Baby Baby Baby Ooh Baby
- Betta Listen
- Big Brother Beat
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