Revisiting De La Soul’s ‘3 Feet High And Rising’ 30 Years Later

We unpack the genesis, creative process, legacy, and complicated legal history behind one of rap music’s most important albums.

Gino Sorcinelli
Still Crew
Published in
10 min readMar 4, 2019

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The ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ album cover.

Though Prince Paul attended the same Long Island high school as De La Soul members Dave (Trugoy the Dove), Maseo, and Posdnuos (Plug One), the…

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