Week 49: 50 Albums That Changed Music
Well, I'm down to the second last week and will be glad when this is over as interest appears to be on the wan, and many of the most recent selections have been suspect at best. This week is one for which I have no comment as it's from a genre that never appealed to me and never will. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989).
Ten years after hip hop's arrival, its original joie de vivre had been subsumed by macho braggadocio. Three Feet High made hip hop playful again, the light rhythms, unusual sound samples and its talk of the D.A.I.S.Y. age ('Da Inner Sound Y'all') earning the trio a 'hippy' label. Without this...thoughtful hip hop acts like the Jungle Brothers and PM Dawn wouldn't have arrived.
All right, I kind of liked PM Dawn and they were a refreshing break from the harsh rap that was seemingly everywhere, and which really turned me off. I can't say I ever heard De La Soul, so I can't make any valid comments about them.
G Swish