De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising (Tommy Boy)
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1989
DE LA SOUL HAS already mastered the three Js of postmodernism: juxtapose, juxtapose, juxtapose. Welcome to the first psychedelic hip-hop record.
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