Quick Verdict 3 Feet High and Rising arrived on March 3, 1989, and immediately opened up a lane in hip-hop that had not previously existed: playful, psychedelic, sample-dense, and utterly unconcerned with the posturing and aggression that defined the genre’s dominant modes. De La Soul’s debut album — produced by Prince Paul, one of the most creative and underappreciated producers in hip-hop history — is built on the Daisy Age aesthetic: loose, digressive, funny, and warm, s