In an exclusive interview, De La Soul discuss why J Dilla beat tapes were treated as the holy grail amongst his peers and contemporaries, how they pulled off a heist to secure the instrumental for ...

De La Soul tends to get left out of the best-ever conversation — especially alongside their fellow Native Tongue members A Tribe Called Quest — despite having a comparable, if not superior, career.

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 ...

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This week’s No Skips album review is “De La Soul is Dead.” Photo courtesy of @wearedelasoul/Instagram Hi everyone! Welcome to No Skips, where we see if an album has any skippable tracks from start to ...

The history of hip-hop is populated by many distinct and memorable characters, and David Jolicoeur was certainly one of them. Even among the like-minded artists of the Native Tongues collective, the ...

DE LA SOUL: (Rapping) Now let's get right on down to the skit. A baby is brought into a world of pits. DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. David ...