De La Soul

De La Soul is one of the most revered and most influential groups in the history of hip-hop, and for good reason: 3 Feet High and Rising and De La Soul is Dead remain seminal works, loose enough to read just as fun and evocative in any era. As their career pr...

On this day, Mar. 3, in hip-hop history, three influential albums dropped: De La Soul's '3 Feet High and Rising', KRS-One's 'Criminal Minded' and Scarface's 'My Homies.'

After news broke yesterday of the Nike SB Dunk High "De La Soul," another silhouette from the "De La Soul" pack gets a confirmation date for later this year. The original high top “De La Soul” sneaker that was released in 2005 in a brown and green colorway, will drop this May 2015 in a low-top version. The shoe c...

In 2005, Nike collaborated with legendary hip-hop group De La Soul to produce a series of limited kicks on the Nike SB silhouettes. Fast forward ten years later, the Swoosh has decided to release one of those silhouettes, but in a high top version...

De La Soul's comeback efforts have been well-received thus far as the group plans to drop its first album as a trio in a decade, next year. Today, we get a new track titled "The People" that features Public Enemy front man Chuck D. The foursome put all games aside tackling pressing issues of the black community with the socially aware tune...

The mixtape has come a long way from being sold on street corners and out of the trunk of the family car to the Internet warehouses of Datpiff and LiveMixtapes. But now, with the help of another platform that has gone through its own set of changes—one of the formerly derided scourges of the record industry, BitTorrent—mixtapes as we know them may soon become obsolete; or, at the very least, compl

Earlier this year, both De La Soul and Pete Rock confirmed that a new project, set to be called Premiem Soul On The Rocks, was in the works which would be entirely produced by both Rock and DJ Premier. Originally scheduled to be an EP, the collection will now take the form of a mixtape, which the famed Long Island trio consisting of Posdnous, Dave and Maseo will begin working on this September. &q

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De La Soul hijacked the moves of the Easter bunny with their latest crusade by hiding 100 vinyl instrumental mixed versions of their J Dilla tribute mixtape, Smell the D.A.I.S.Y., throughout record stores in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. "The reason we choose to release an all-instrumental version of Smell The Da...

Glastonbury Festival is known for bringing an eclectic mix from all corners of the music world. Thi year seems to be no exception. The largest music festival in the UK and one of the key fests in the world has a bit of everything this go-round...

Tribute albums are about as old as music itself. In almost every music genre known to the world, there are tribute albums made, then remade again, to honor a particular artist's work. Hip-hop is no exception. While few projects can live up to the quality of the original, many have done an exceptional job of paying homage and pleasing loyal fans...

As promised, De La Soul drops new music in the form of the project Smell The Da.I.S.Y. (Da Inner Soul of Yancy) The J. Dilla tribute project entirely produced by the late beat maker contains 13 tracks. No features. As previously reported, the golden era trio have two more projects in the works...