That was “The Package” from De La Soul, the lead single from their new album “Cabin In The Sky.” If progressive hip hop like ...

Before De La Soul, says Hank Shocklee, “‘beautiful’ and ‘rap’ weren’t two words that went together.” Shocklee would know: As a founding member of Public Enemy’s production team, the Bomb Squad, he’s ...

It’s been 10 years since the release of De La Soul's last record And The Anonymous Nobody … and in every aspect Cabin in the Sky is a sharper offering. While I was listening I kept smiling — it's a ...

When David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur of influential rap group De La Soul died last month, fans who wished to hear their work on music streaming services would have been unable to do so due to legal ...

Last month, toward the end of a lively, hour-long conversation with rappers Pos and Dave — the idiosyncratic duo at the heart of De La Soul, together with DJ Maseo — we delivered two requests on ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer speaks to Kelvin "Pos" Mercer, of the hip hop group De La Soul, about their new album "Cabin In The Sky." It's the first since one of their members died almost 2 years ago.

De La Soul member Trugoy The Dove (real name David Jolicoeur) died on February 12 at just 54 years old. The week before, De La Soul had been part of the 10-minute performance commemorating the 50th ...

Music journalist and author Marcus J. Moore‘s new book about De La Soul, High and Rising, came out this week via HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books. It’s Moore’s second book — he published The ...

Trugoy the Dove, one-third of the iconic hip-hop group De La Soul, has died. He was 54 years old. DE LA SOUL: (Rapping) Greetings, girl, and welcome to my world of phrase. I'm right up to bat. It's a ...

The rapper, born David Jude Jolicoeur, was battling congestive heart failure in recent years. By The Associated Press David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding ...

Fans of De La Soul recall how the trio turned an unfettered taste in music and an irreverent sense of humor into one of the most jubilant debuts in rap history, 1989’s “3 Feet High and Rising.” In ...