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A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an "anything goes" hip-hop masterpiece hailed as a new masterwork from a bygone era of Black experimentation.Formed in Long Island in 1988 by Kelvin "Posdnuos" Mercer, Dave "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur, and Vincent "Maseo" Mason, De La Soul rebuked classification and appealed to the Black alternative. Their music was positive and psychedelic, their imagery full of flowers and peace signs. It was rap with a broad sonic palette which set the blueprint for an entire generation of artists who followed.
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Marcus J. Moore is a music journalist, editor, and author of "The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America," which will be published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on October 13, 2020. Moore works at The Nation magazine as a contributing writer and at Bandcamp Daily as its contributing editor.His writing on music can also be found at Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Atlantic, the Washington Post's newspaper and magazine, Complex, The Fader, Vox, SPIN, MTV and BBC Music. His features and reviews of mainstream albums have appeared in Rolling Stone and Billboard.
