№ 53 of 100
3 Feet High and Rising
3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul (1989), № 53 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Prince Paul and three teenagers from Long Island who hadn't been told you couldn't sample everything. The album that opened the sampling vault and got it sued shut six months later.
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