Features | Baker's Dozen | Baker's Dozen: UNKLE'S James Lavelle On His 13 Favourite Records". The Quietus. 2011-04-20 . 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.

Lydia Slater (9 September 2010). "Toby Mott, from the punk of Pimlico to power player". Evening Standard. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (7 February 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5. 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.De La Orgee: contains excerpts from "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" written by Barry Eugene White and published by Unichappell Music Inc. (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "De La Orgee" contans excerpts from "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" performed by Barry White under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. a b Jenkins, Craig (March 7, 2023). "De La Soul's Music Is Here to Stay (For Now)". Vulture . Retrieved March 8, 2023. Me Myself And I: contains excerpts from "(Not Just) Knee Deep" written by George Clinton and Philippe Wynn and published by Bridgeport Music Inc. (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "Me Myself and I" contains excerpts from "(Not Just) Knee Deep" performed by Funkadelic courtesy of Warner Music Group. Used by permission. Contains excerpts from "Rapper Dapper Snapper" written by Edwin Birdsong and published by Birdsong Music Pub (ASCAP). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "Me Myself and I" contains excerpts from "Rapper Dapper Snapper" performed by Edwin Birdsong courtesy BMG Rights Management. Used by permission. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical 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.

amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Transmitting Live From Mars: contains excerpts from "You Showed Me" written by Gene Harold Clark and James Roger McGuinn and published by BMG Platinum Songs (BMI), BMG Bumblebee (BMI), Reservoir Media (BMI), Reservoir One America (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "Transmitting Live from Mars" contains excerpts from "You Showed Me" performed by The Turtles courtesy of Concord Music Group. Used by permission. Playboy Feb. 1989". Robert Christgau. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011 . Retrieved 2011-08-16. Say No Go: contains excerpts from "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" written by Sara Allen, Daryl Hall, John Oates and published by Hot Cha Music Co (BMI)/BMG Platinum Songs (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "Say No Go" contains excerpts from "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" performed by Daryl Hall and John Oates courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment. Used by permission. Contains excerpts from "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)" written by Abril Tilmon and published by Bridgeport Music Inc. (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. "Say No Go" contains excerpts from "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms) performed by The Detroit Emeralds courtesy of Westbound Records. Used by permission.

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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. Turner-Williams, Jaelani (2021-12-28). "Gen-Z is Learning About De La Soul Due to 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' ". Okayplayer . Retrieved 2022-01-05. This is from a New York Times article from March1. 2023 in case you wondered what's different to previous versions of the album: Spanishcharts.com – De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 15, 2021. Rabin, Nathan (March 29, 2002). "Prince Paul: Prince Among Thieves". The A.V. Club . Retrieved July 22, 2021.

Sampling artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, 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). [30] Writing in retrospect for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin credits Prince Paul for helping "create progressive hip hop" with his production on 3 Feet High and Rising, [31] while author John Riordan says "its comedy skits and positive lyrics established the group as a progressive hip-hop act at odds with the increasingly violent image of mainstream rap." [32] Phil Witmer of Noisey cites De La Soul's " sampledelia" on the album as an "old-school" example of sampling being applied to "jarring, collage-like effect". [33] 3 Feet High and Rising is also credited with introducing the hip hop skit, a style of comedic sketch used both to introduce rap albums and as interludes between songs. [34] Along with their Native Tongues peers, they were as generative as sunshine, spawning fertile new scenes around the world, including LA’s True School, the Bay Area’s indie underground, Atlanta’s Dungeon Family, Detroit’s network of Dilla and his acolytes, and subsequent generations of self-identified indie rappers, including Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common. More broadly, 3 Feet High and Rising helped secure a new alignment of hardcore street heads with an emerging global audience of fans, the foundation of the soon-to-be-named “hip-hop nation.” Thirty years later, it remains one most influential records of the storied class of 1988-89.Kriticos, Christian (March 3, 2023). "A Guide to the Music of De La Soul". Paste . Retrieved March 8, 2023.