The album title came from the Johnny Cash song "Five Feet High and Rising". It is
listed on Rolling Stone's 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source's 100 Best Rap
Albums. When Village Voice held its annual Jazz & Pop Critics Poll for 1989, 3 Feet
High and Rising was ranked #1. It was also listed on the Rolling Stone's The 500
Greatest Albums of All Time. Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which
gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Soul's uniquely
positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, "Me, Myself and
I".
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