Album Review: De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody

4/5

De La Soul have spent the past three decades trying to escape the shadow of their remarkable debut 3 Feet High And Rising — one of the foundational texts of hip-hop, alongside the Beastie Boys’s Licensed To Ill and NWA’s Straight Outta Compton.

This elusive goal has finally been achieved, with an album as much influenced by the Long Island crew’s participation in Damon Albarn’s genre-hopping Gorillaz project as by their own catalogue.