3 Feet High and Rising

…replete with quirky interlude skits, 3 Feet High and Rising influenced not only De La Soul’s own self-constructed “family” of alternative rappers (ranging from A Tribe Called Quest to Queen Latifah) but also groups as disparate as Public Enemy (who were inspired by the collage-sampling technique of “Prince Paul”) and…

…Island, New York, whose album 3 Feet High and Rising (1989) sampled the entire panoply of pop and had a particularly big impact in Britain and continental Europe.