THE DAISY AGE

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The beginnings of Hip Hop, R&B from the late 80s/early 90s With: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digital Underground, Naughty By Nature, ...Compilation of the year. It wasn't really a movement, barely a moment, but 'Daisy Age' was a philosophy that permeated pop, R&B, and hip hop at the turn of the 90s. Joie de vivre and good humor are at the heart of De La Soul's debut album, released in 1989, '3 Feet High And Rising', which would cast a long and colorful shadow over rap. In Great Britain, the timing for '3 Feet High And Rising' couldn't have been better. The acid house explosion of 1988 would lead to a radical breaking of musical barriers in 1989, and its associated look (baggy clothes, bright colors, smiling faces) matched the positivity of 'De La Soul' and the rise of New York rap acts like 'The Jungle Brothers' and 'A Tribe Called Quest', all at the heart of a growing collective called 'Native Tongues'. The charismatic summer aura of 'The Native Tongues' quickly spread westward from the Bay Area to bands with similarly minded hieroglyphics (Mistadobalina by Del Tha Funky Homosapien); Canada's Dream Warriors (My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style) who used '3 Feet High's color palette and borrowed riffs from Count Basie and Quincy Jones; 'Naughty By Nature' (OPP) was sponsored by 'Native Tongues' heroine, 'Queen Latifah', while Londoner Monie Love was also adopted by the collective, earning her a Grammy nomination, It's A Shame (My Sister). It wasn't built to last, but 'Daisy Age' reintroduced Rock multiplication, bubbly songwriting, and psychedelia to the charts. It was a brief, but extraordinarily warm and optimistic moment. The songs in this collection promised that the 90s would be much easier to live than the 80s.