De La Soul is one of the most culturally significant and musically influential hip-hop groups from the late ’80s and ’90s, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the current digital realm of music that actually gets listened to. That’s because, by and large, De La Soul isn’t there. Thanks to a messy thicket of legal…
Stephen Hopkins’ Judgement Night is a decent enough action-noir, but more people remember the soundtrack than they actually do the movie itself, which was shuffled out of theaters quickly due to poor box office return and a well-publicized shooting that unfolded during a screening. A new oral history of the soundtrack…
I accidentally destroyed my phone during a run yesterday, so I called my old iPod up from the reserves. It’s a modified 300-gig monster that I still update, even though I rarely use it. Scrolling takes forever, so I stopped in the Ds for De La Soul’s classic 3 Feet High And Rising. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard…
De La Soul’s contributions to hip-hop over the past three decades are mighty, but the Long Island trio has often been challenged by its own creativity. In an era where music is becoming increasingly accessible, De La’s catalogue has been noticeably absent from iTunes, Spotify, and other free and subscription-based…
Rap-rock, nu-metal, rap-metal, shit-metal, douche-rock. Whatever variably damning epithet you wanted to call it (just don’t call it late for its shift at Lids), the hybrid genre broke out in the mid- to late 1990s as a cathartic, unintelligible yaaaargh youuuu reaaadyyyy against the increasingly strained earnestness…
It warms the heart to see the three Plugs from Long Island popping more often in headlines lately. Though De La Soul has been around since the Reagan administration (they formed in 1987, when they were still teenagers), the legendary group seems to disappear from the cultural landscape for great swaths of time.…
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost immediately. For most music consumers, it’s almost too much information, and save for those precious few who spend their hours glued to reviews sites and release calendars, it’s hard to know what’s coming out…
Seminal hip-hop group De La Soul was born from the suburban streets of Long Island almost 30 years ago now. Since releasing the classic 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989, they’ve recorded seven more albums of varying critical and commercial success, with a ninth one on the way. Their new single, “Royalty Capes,” off the…
The Angry Birds Movie didn’t really set the world on fire, but the mobile game still seems to be going strong. In fact, it’s going so strong that De La Soul wrote a song for it for some reason. That’s according to Stereogum, and though we don’t really know if the song was actually made just for Angry Birds, it is…
De La Soul is using Kickstarter to fund a new record. The legendary hip-hop trio is trying to raise $110,000 for its eighth LP, its first since 2004’s The Grind Date. While the album isn’t recorded yet, the group says it’ll feature appearances from Damon Albarn, David Byrne, 2 Chainz, and Little Dragon. The record…
