Playboy Feb. 1989". Robert Christgau. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011 . Retrieved 2011-08-16. a b c Azerrad, Michael (March 23, 1989). "3 Feet High And Rising". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 14, 2022 . Retrieved June 13, 2012. Billboard Japan Hot Albums: 2023/03/08 公開". Billboard Japan (in Japanese) . Retrieved March 8, 2023.

The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 22, 2020 . Retrieved August 4, 2021. Feet High and Rising has been included on numerous "best-of" lists. In 1998, the album was included in The Source 's "100 Best Albums" list. [35] It was ranked number 346 on Rolling Stone 's 2003 list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [36] maintaining the ranking in a 2012 revision of the list, [37] then rising to number 103 in a 2020 revision. [38] 3 Feet High and Rising was voted number 138 in the 2000 edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums, [39] while in 2005, it ranked 88th in a survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. [40] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [41]

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a b Ayiku, Vernon (March 7, 2023). "De La Soul's Albums Ranked from Worst to Best". Exclaim! . Retrieved March 9, 2023. The album sounded like a hip-hop version of the novelist Dos Passos’ America, crowded with voices, rhythms, rhymes, and the wit, joy, and pain of becoming aware of one’s power to change the world. And De La Soul felt like the closest hip-hop equivalent to Parliament and Funkadelic: high-concept, hilariously genuine, generously human. Dejected and besieged, they returned to New York to their management’s office one day and stared up at a whiteboard full of upcoming tour dates for all the acts, including their own. Trugoy decided he had had enough. Taking an eraser, he wiped off all their dates, and wrote instead: “De La Soul is Dead.” The guys laughed. Now they had something to look forward to—album two. Dutchcharts.nl – De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 15, 2021.

Lydia Slater (9 September 2010). "Toby Mott, from the punk of Pimlico to power player". Evening Standard. Sampling artists as diverse as Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and The Turtles, 3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap). 3 Feet High & Rising was chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry for its cultural significance and general excellence. The album will finally be available on streaming services and in-stores on its anniversary, March 3, 2023. Feet High and Rising emerged fully formed, offering a world as richly imagined as anything American pop has ever produced. Just as hip-hop was firmly establishing itself as the most avant of pop’s garde, the best of their peers—from smooth operator Big Daddy Kane to Blastmaster KRS-One to Living Colour’s Vernon Reid—showed up at their release party to salute their achievement. Even KRS, who had just dropped what would come to be recognized as one of the best albums in hip-hop history, said it couldn’t compare what De La Soul had just made. While huddled in Los Angeles to finish their own sample-heavy Paul’s Boutique, the Beastie Boys reportedly listened to 3 Feet High, despaired, and briefly considered starting all over again. Feet High and Rising received widespread critical acclaim upon its release. "An inevitable development in the class history of rap, [De La Soul is] new wave to Public Enemy's punk", wrote Robert Christgau of the album in his 1989 "Consumer Guide" column for The Village Voice. "Their music is maddeningly disjunct, and a few of the 24-cuts-in-67-minutes (too long for vinyl) are self-indulgent, arch. But their music is also radically unlike any rap you or anybody else has ever heard— inspirations include the Jarmels and a learn-it-yourself French record. And for all their kiddie consciousness, junk-culture arcana, and suburban in-jokes, they're in the new tradition— you can dance to them, which counts for plenty when disjunction is your problem." [28] Rolling Stone magazine's Michael Azerrad called 3 Feet High and Rising "(o)ne of the most original rap records ever to come down the pike", and described it as an "inventive, playful" record which "stands staid rap conventions on their def ear." [14] When The Village Voice held its annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1989, 3 Feet High and Rising was ranked at number one, outdistancing its nearest opponent ( Neil Young's Freedom) by 21 votes and 260 points. [29] Source Magazine's 100 Best Albums". Raquenel.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24 . Retrieved 2011-08-16.An NPR retrospective, published in 2023, stated that 3 Feet High and Rising "reshaped the public imagination of what hip-hop could be", and that it "still sounds wondrous and weird" in the musical landscape of the 2020s. [11] a b Jenkins, Craig (March 7, 2023). "De La Soul's Music Is Here to Stay (For Now)". Vulture . Retrieved March 8, 2023.

The album was a critical and commercial success. It is consistently placed on lists of the greatest albums of all time by noted critics and publications, with Robert Christgau calling it "unlike any rap album you or anybody else has ever heard". [4] In 1998, it was selected as one of The Source 's "100 Best Rap Albums" [5] and in 2020 was ranked 103 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. [6] It was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. [7] As of 2023, it is the only De La Soul album to be certified platinum by the RIAA. [8] Greatest Albums of All Time: 3 Feet High and Rising – De La Soul". Rolling Stone. December 11, 2003. Archived from the original on December 20, 2010 . Retrieved July 27, 2022. Offiziellecharts.de – De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 24, 2023. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at No. 20 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s". [42] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 9 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". [43] Spex listed 3 Feet High and Rising at No. 5 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the Century. [ citation needed] The album has also been ranked as among the top albums of 1989 by publications including Rolling Stone, The Face, Record Mirror, Sounds, OOR, and Melody Maker. [ citation needed]

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Questlove told New York Times reporter Finn Cohen, “I mean, 3 Feet High and Rising is very much in danger of being the classic tree that fell in the forest that was once given high praise and now is just a stump.” We are left to ask: as history is made and remade, who can be heard in America?