“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the groundbreaking 1989 debut album from hip-hop legends De La Soul.”
“De La Soul has already mastered the three j’s of postmodernism: juxtapose, juxtapose, juxtapose. Welcome to the first psychedelic hip-hop record. Throughout twenty-four tracks, the band combines a bewildering variety of sounds culled from sources as disparate as a scratchy French-language-instruction record, Steely Dan’s "Peg," Liberace and countless Seventies-soul rhythm tracks (including the obligatory James […]”
