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Inspiration seems to come from the strangest of places.

De La Soul's Posdnuos has revealed the unlikely inspiration behind the group's 1988 single 'Plug Tunin'' and it stemmed from a head injury.

One third of the influential hip hop trio, Maseo, reflects on the bittersweet victory of having De La Soul's music available digitally following the death of Dave 'Trugoy' Jolicoeur. And what comes next...

Today In Hip Hop History: De La Soul Dropped Their '3 Feet High And Rising' LP 34 Years Ago

Though gangsta rap was in the ascendant they moved in a more upbeat direction and became known as ‘the hippies of hip-hop’

Founding member of the US hip-hop trio De La Soul who performed under the stage name Trugoy the Dove

David Jolicoeur of De La Soul, the rap trio that expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early ’90s with eclectic samp

The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the group’s longtime exclusion from streaming.

Today in Hip-Hop History: De La Soul Dropped Their '3 Feet High And Rising' LP 33 Years Ago De La Soul '3 Feet High And Rising' 33 Years Ago

Skip to main content Currently Reading De La Souls Music Will Be Coming Back to the Fans - and Streaming Services - New Label Owner Pledges Jem Aswad, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With 1989’s “Three Feet High and Rising,” the Long Island rap trio De La Soul created one of the truly groundbreaking albums in hip-hop history, bringing a happy, psychedelic, flower-bedecked vibe — dubbed “the D.A.I.S.Y. Age” — to a genre that had largely been musically and lyrically aggressive and...