De La Soul Drop New Track “Drawn” Featuring Little Dragon

The legendary De La Soul delivers a new track called "Drawn" featuring Little Dragon. The record will appear on their upcoming album And the Anonymous Nobody...  which is due out on Aug. 26. The song finally gives De La Soul and Little Dragon a chance to work together after connecting a few years ago.

"We met De La on the Gorillaz tour in 2011," Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon said. "I guess there is a mutual creative respect. We've kept in touch since then, naturally, collaborating was bound to happen."

It is an exciting time for De La Soul and their fans as the group is about to release their first album in 12 years. But when it comes to the trio's classic catalog, De La's legacy is stuck in digital limbo as demonstrated in a new piece by the New York Times.

De La Soul's 2004 album The Grind Date is their only LP available on any digital outlet. That's because Warner Music Group, which controls the distribution of most of De La's catalog, is concerned with making it available due to the sampling involved in those projects.

"My understanding is that due to allegedly uncleared samples, Warner has been uncomfortable or unwilling to license a lot of the De La Soul stuff," Deborah Mannis-Gardner, a sample clearance agent who worked on De La Soul's new album, said. "It becomes difficult opening these cans of worms — were things possibly cleared with a handshake?"

It looks like fans are a long way from hearing De La Soul's classics on streaming services. But listeners can take some solace in getting to hear Posdnuos, Dave and Maseo's new LP on Aug. 26.

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