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Vinyl Records London are on cloud nine, we are now spinning in a brand new copy in Double Vinyl from De La Soul The album title came from the Johnny Cash song “Five Feet High and Rising”. It islisted on Rolling Stone’s 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source’s 100 Best RapAlbums. When Village Voice held its annual Jazz & Pop Critics Poll for 1989, 3 FeetHigh and Rising was ranked 1. It was also listed on the Rolling Stone’s The 500Greatest Albums of All Time. Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, whichgravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Soul’s uniquelypositive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, “Me, Myself andI”. Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a ‘hippie’ group, based of their declaration of the ‘D.A.I.S.Y. Age’ Da. Inner. Soul. Yall.S&ling artists as diverse as Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and The Turtles, 3 Feet Highand Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop and especially jazz rap.An absolutely essential slice of Hip Hop history thats been unavailable for some time.