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thepermanentrainpress · 7 months

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Gallery: De La Soul @ Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC Date: October 16, 2023 Photographed by: Timothy Nguyen

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farlydatau · 8 months

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culturehazeads · 1 year

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Does CultureHaze give regular Hip Hop news?

Consider a recent example of CultureHaze’s news. DJ Drama, the Philadelphia-based producer and 'Generation Now' bossman, collaborated earlier today with XXL Magazine's former Chief Editor and Rap Radar Podcast creator Elliott Wilson and veteran Hip-Hop journalist Brian 'B. Dot' Miller.

The DJ, born Tyree Cinque Simmons, confirmed another 'Gangsta Grillz' mixtape during his long-awaited Rap Radar interview. Drama has disclosed that he is working on a debut recording with the legendary Hip-Hop trio De La Soul from Long Island, New York.

The Hip Hop news updated by CultureHaze is elaborate.

De La Soul was created in 1988 in New York and consisted of rap music's first emcees, Kelvin "Posdnous" Mercer, David "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur, and Vincent "Maseo" Mason. Trugoy the Dove sadly died earlier this year.

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mannytoodope · 9 months

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Kelvin Mercer (born August 17, 1969) one-third of my favorite rap group De La Soul. The producer, the rapper, is more commonly known by his stage name Posdnuos or Simply Pos. Pos brings clever lyrical work when he steps to the mic, which is the perfect addition to the group. He plays a big part in the Native Tongue movement of hip hop. I enjoy his lyrical work and how it works with Dave. I saw him and the other members of De La Soul with Gorillaz last fall. De La Soul recently released all their music on all streaming services. Since the loss of Dave, he and Maceo still keep him in their hearts and minds. Pos is considered one of the most consistent rappers.

#Rapper #Siongwriter #Record Producer #Hip Hop #De La Soul

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theblackprint67 · 1 year

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David Jude Jolicoeur (September 21, 1968 – February 12, 2023), also known as Trugoy the Dove, Plug Two, and Dave, was an American rapper best known as one third of the hip hop group De La Soul.

Along with the other members of De La Soul, Jolicoeur was a member of the collective Native Tongues. Jolicoeur co-wrote the Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc.", which featured De La Soul and won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

Jolicoeur was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Haitian-American parents, but he grew up in the Long Island hamlet of East Massapequa.

In his teen years, he attended Amityville Memorial High School in the Amityville area of Long Island, where he met and became friends with Vincent Mason, Kelvin Mercer, and Paul Huston. After they had separate solo spells in local groups, Jolicoeur, Mason, and Mercer eventually decided to form a rap group themselves, reuniting under the name De La Soul; they adopted the stage names, respectively, Trugoy the Dove, Maseo, and Posdnuos. Later in his career, Jolicoeur revealed that the first part of his stage name was just a humorous take on the anadrome of the word "yogurt". Huston, best known as Prince Paul, kept working with the trio as their producer.

With their eccentric fashion styles paired with the positive messages of the group's debut effort, 3 Feet High and Rising, the image led to critics and journalists labelling the members as "the hippies of hip hop" (a title that the group was quick to refute with the release of the second album De La Soul Is Dead in 1991).

Illness and Death

In the last years of his life, Jolicoeur was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and had to wear a LifeVest defibrillator machine in order to counteract its symptoms.

He revealed his health issues publicly for the first time in November 2017, in the opening scene for the music video of "Royalty Capes", a track from De La Soul's 2016 album, And the Anonymous Nobody... At the start of the video, Jolicoeur talked about how his heart problems affected his ability to perform and tour with the group consistently, saying: "(The LifeVest defibrillator) will shock me, and hopefully bring me back from the matrix. I'm ready just to get back to the stage. I miss it. I love traveling; I love being around my guys. And I want that back."

On February 5, 2023, De La Soul took part in a special performance for the 50 Years of Hip-Hop at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, performing their 1988 song, "Buddy"; however, Jolicoeur was not on stage with his group mates.

One week later, on February 12, 2023, his representative Tony Ferguson announced that Jolicoeur had died at age 54, with the cause of his death remaining undisclosed. Following the announcement, the late artist received tributes from several important figures in the hip hop industry.

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deepartnature · 1 year

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Hear De La Soul’s Highly Acclaimed & Influential Hip-Hop Albums Streaming Free for the First Time

“If you don’t listen to rap, you’ve heard the same questions over and over in response to that confession. One of the most common is ‘But have you heard De La Soul?’ — which in recent years was easier said than done, at least on streaming platforms. ... One complication had to do with sampling, a standard hip hop practice conducted in such a far-reaching, freewheeling, and elaborate manner by De La Soul that the prospect of renegotiating each and every sonic snippet they’d cleared in the CD-and-tape era inspired untold corporate intransigence. ...”

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

From left: Posdnuos (Kelvin Mercer), Maseo (Vincent Mason) and Trugoy the Dove (David Jolicoeur) in the early 1990s.

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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De La Soul: Eye Know David Jolicoeur, who performed as Trugoy the Dove with seminal hip-hop group De La Soul, has sadly passed away at 54 years old. Rapping in a leisurely, thoughtful and soft-spoken manner, Trugoy played a crucial role in what would become “alternative rap,” and hip-hop culture as a whole. In 1988, high schoolers Jolicoeur, Vincent Manson (aka Pasemaster Mase or Maseo) and Kelvin Mercer (aka Posdnuos) … https://coolhunting.com/culture/de-la-soul-eye-know/

#Culture #De La Soul #Hip-Hop #ListenUp #Music #Music Videos #Obituaries #Rap #Trugoy The Dove #Katie Olsen #COOL HUNTING®

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cyarskj1899 · 1 year

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I’m not a huge fan of their music but I loved the fact that all their albums are now on streaming services so I can’t wait until March of this year

After Years Of Roadblocks, De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Coming To Streaming Services In 2023 [Video]

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January 03, 2023 9:49 AM PST

With a platinum plaque, two gold records, and a Grammy Award to their names, you would think rap trio De La Soul’s catalog would be available for enjoyment across streaming platforms. But, unfortunately for the Library Of Congress inductees, due to several legal issues — including potential earning disputes with their record label, Tommy Boy — emcees Posdnuos (real name Kelvin Mercer), Trugoy (real name David Jude Jolicoeur), and Maseo (real name Vincent Lamont Mason Jr.) never signed off on the agreement.

via: HotNewHipHop

“We can’t believe this day is finally here,” the band said in a statement, “and we are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new”.De La Soul’s Posdnuos explained the hold up during an interview with BBC in 2016.“Our contracts on those early albums said specifically ‘vinyl and cassette,’” he said. “The wording wasn’t vague enough to lend itself to [new] music technology.”He continued: “So once the whole age of digital music came into play, new deals needed to be cut for those entire albums.”All-in-all, Posdnuos says that Warner Bros. “just don’t want to deal with it.”“They’re like, ‘Is it worth it?’ They’ve got to go through almost every song with a fine comb to make sure this sample or that sample was cleared. It’s been a very lengthy, draining process.”The group released 3 Feet High and Rising back in March 1989. The album features many of De La Soul’s biggest songs including “Me Myself and I”, “The Magic Number”, “Buddy”, and “Eye Know.” It’s frequently cited as one of the best rap albums of all time. In 2010, the Library of Congress’ National Recording

Registry deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

As for when specifically De La Soul’s music will be available, the group announced on social media that March 3, 2023 is the date. Check out their announcement below on Twitter.

Alexa, what's the magic number. Full catalog release 3.3.2023 #delasoul@amazonmusic pic.twitter.com/657U845cwf

— De La Soul (@WeAreDeLaSoul) January 3, 2023

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history105rockandrollblog · 1 year

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Lecture 20: Plenty of rap in the late 1980s or early 1990s wasn’t either overtly political rap or gangsta rap. De La Soul, a trio of Rappers – Maseo (Vincent Mason), Posdnuos (Kelvin Mercer), and Trugoy the Dove (David Jude Jolicoeur) – from Long Island, New York, released their debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, in 1989. De La Soul specialized in thoughtful and sometimes humorous jazz rap and alternative or alt-hip hop. The trio would evolve in fascinating ways throughout the 1990s and 2000s. This is an example from their early period, “Me Myself and I” (1989), off of their first album.

#De La Soul #Maseo #Posdnuos #Trugoy the Dove #Rap #Hip Hop #Alt-Rap #Me Myself and I #1989

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vampyr-bite · 3 years

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