High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! De La Soul Is Dead is De La Soul`s second full-length album, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). The album was produced by Prince Paul, whose work on 3 Feet High and Rising was highly praised by music critics. The album was one of the first to receive a five mic rating in the Hip hop magazine The Source. The album was also selected as one of The Source`s 100 Best Rap Albums in 1998. The album`s cover refers to the death of the "D.A.I.S.Y." age, or a distancing from several cultures including hippies and the mainstream hip-hop.