De La Soul visit our loft where we lay them down on the floor facing up, their heads making a triangle. Mott describes the process of designing the album cover in his essay 'Hip Hop in The Daisy Age': "We have come up with the 'Daisy Age' visual concept. GO also began designing album covers for groups such as Information Society and De La Soul, most notably 3 Feet High and Rising.
By 1989, GO were exhibiting their paintings around the East Village and working as art directors for Tommy Boy Records and MTV (among others) making music videos for various groups, such as Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Rolling Stones. In 1986 Mott and Spencer had moved from London to New York after GO's infamous paint attacks on Cork Street art galleries, where they began working as bicycle messengers. The album's artwork was designed by Toby Mott's and Paul Spencer's radical British art collective the Grey Organisation (GO). It was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In 1998, it was selected as one of The Source 's "100 Best Rap Albums". It is consistently placed on lists of the greatest albums of all time by noted critics and publications, with Robert Christgau calling it "unlike any rap album you or anybody else has ever heard". The album contains the singles " Me Myself and I", "The Magic Number", " Buddy", and " Eye Know".Ĭritically, as well as commercially, the album was a success. The album title comes from the Johnny Cash song " Five Feet High and Rising". It is the first of three collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties.
3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by American hip hop group De La Soul, released on Ma by Tommy Boy Records.
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