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.