De La Soul Plug 1 & Plug 2 are out with a new track from their ‘First Serve’ album, out Monday (April 2) on Duck Down Music. ‘We Made It’ is produced by Chokolate & Khalid. Audio at Soundcloud has since been removed.
De La Soul members Plug 1 and Plug 2 are ready to release their ‘First Serve’ album out April 2nd on Duck Down Music in North America and Pias in all other territories.
The music video for ‘Must Be The Music’, the lead single from the album, is available via YouTube below. It was directed by Matt Stawski.
Rap acts on television this week include:
Flo Rida performs on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ (NBC) on Wednesday and ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ (ABC) on Thursday.
Missy Elliot performs with Ginuwine on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ (CBS) on Thursday.
De La Soul performs on ‘The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’ (NBC) on Friday.
Planet Asia, De La Soul, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli performed at Rock The Bells with Wu Tang Clan and Mos Def at Sleep Train Pavilion on August 6th in Concord, California. Check out pictures from Corbis, GettyImages and WireImage.
Detroit musician James Yancey — also known as J Dilla and Jay Dee — was one of the music industry’s most influential hip-hop artists, working for big-name acts like De La Soul, Busta Rhymes and Common. But after just a brief career in the spotlight, he died Friday at age 32 after battling an incurable blood disease and lupus. Listen to a feature on J Dilla from ‘News & Notes with Ed Gordon’, aired Tuesday (February 14) on NPR, below.
Akon, Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, and Sean Paul were on hand for the MTV Europe Music Awards, from the Atlantic Pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal on November 3rd. Check out pictures from FilmMagic, RexFeatures, GettyImages (arrivals / backstage / awards room / studio / show), Corbis, and WireImage.
De La Soul were on hand for Current TV Stages ‘Take Back TV’ Rally on October 6th at Central Park Rumsey Play Field in New York City. Check out pictures from GettyImages and WireImage.
San Francisco Bay View’s JR caught up with Mos Def for a Q&A where the rapper revealed his favorite hip hop album was De La Soul’s ‘The Grind Date’. “The greatest Hip Hop album ever … ever … ever,” he said. “Classic forever. The greatest Hip Hop album ever recorded. When it was recorded, they were coming up on almost 20 years in Hip Hop, where people come and go like nothing … and surviving all of these trends? It’s amazing. It’s triumphant. These brothas really care about us as people; they care about Black people.”
Ahmir ‘?uestlove’ Thompson of The Roots, MF Doom, De La Soul, and Mos Def were on hand for ‘Save the Rhinos’, a benefit concert organized by Marc Echo, founder of rhino brand of apparel to support the World’s dwindling rhino population, held at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield in New York City on Tuesday (June 28). Check out pictures from GettyImages.
The Sonar Music Festival celebrated groundbreaking new artists from the world of electronic music and commercial acts like De La Soul, Chemical Brothers and Moloko’s Roisin Murphy. “We came out doing our own thing as De La Soul on another level from where rap or hip-hop could go so with the groups you just mentioned (gangster rappers), they have their own thing and we have ours. It’s looked down upon to copy but then people want to duge someone if they aren’t doing rap the way they see it so everyone should just do rap the way they see it from whatever background they come from,” rapper Posdnuos told Reuters.
