AllHipHop

EXCLUSIVE: De La Soul’s Music Finally Lands On DSPs—But Without Trugoy Here, It’s Bittersweet

Speaking to AllHipHop in what would become one of his final interviews, Trugoy The Dove revealed the best thing Prince Paul did for De La Soul was encourage them to fly on their own. On Friday (March ...
Slate

De La Soul’s Trugoy Is Dead, and With Him Goes One of Music’s Greatest Groups

David Jolicoeur, better known to music fans as Trugoy the Dove, Plug Two, or most recently simply Dave, died on Sunday at age 54. It was shocking news that meant that we had just lost one-third of De ...
Los Angeles Times

The timeless creativity of De La Soul, now (finally) available for the streaming generation

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 ...
CNN

De La Soul’s music catalog makes streaming debut

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 ...
The New York Times

De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory.

The influential rap trio’s catalog has long been absent from streaming services. Now its first six albums will be available, just weeks after the death of one of its members. By Ben Sisario At the ...