2009 marks the 20th anniversary of De La Soul’s debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. The album is known for its free thinking and unique content during a time that Trugoy describes as “the gold chain era.”
Trugoy recently told Rolling Stone, "We felt like, if we wanted to look the way we looked and touch on topics we did, we shouldn't be fearful of doing it just because it was the boasting and the bragging and the gold chain era. We always felt that individualism and creativity and expressing it was most important."
The Hip h=Hop trio has a natural history of free thinking. Posdnous told The Volume that in high school they always had their own way of dressing and thinking, and even though they loved what rappers at the time were doing, they knew they had to come up with what they wanted to do.
After building a legacy, the group has recently come up with something else they would like to do, reissue 3 Feet High and Rising, but this time along with their in-the-works album You’re Welcome, which will feature artists like Public Enemy and Damon Albarn.
The reissue will consist of new interpretations of the old tracks. Posdnous told The BoomBox, “Instead of doing ‘Say No Go’ over, why not do ‘Say No Go’ over with Hall & Oates? Why not do ‘Me Myself and I’ with George Clinton and a couple members of Funkadelic? That’s how we’re trying to approach this particular project.”
De La Soul hopes to put out the album themselves. They are currently on tour celebrating the 20 year anniversary, which will end in Bellevue, Colorado on August 29th.
Reported by Kenzie Rosengreen.
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