Who are De La Soul?

Ultimate hip hop trio De La Soul are known for their eclectic use of samples, deft lyrical skill and incredible tracks. The jazz rap pioneers are amongst the most important forces in global hip hop.

Following the release of ninth studio album And The Anonymous Nobody… last year they thrilled audiences when they played UK dates to promote the new material.

Widely considered a hip-hop masterpiece, De La Soul’s debut album, 3 Feet High And Rising, was hailed on its release as the future of the genre. A colourful burst of neo-psychedelic samples and playful wordplay plus the trio’s trademark witty skits and lyrics, the album sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. True pioneers, De La Soul, eschewed the obvious influences of old-school rap or funk and spread their net wider, taking in pop, jazz, reggae and psychedelia.

Album of the Year on its release - a measure of 3 Feet High and Rising's cross-over appeal was the fact that it was voted Album of the Year by NME. De La Soul continue to garner awards, more recently in 2006, when they won a Grammy for their collaboration with Gorillaz on the single “Feel Good Inc”.

Their success has continued with the release of another eight incredibly studio albums including their best-selling new release And The Anonymous Nobody… which sold more than 21,000 copies in the first week alone.

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When are De La Soul playing live

De La Soul will be appearing at Innervisions Festival when it hits Indigo at The O2, London on Sunday 13th of November 2022.

You can see De la Soul smash it on stage at iconic Nottingham venue Rock City on Tuesday 15th of November 2022.

De La Soul have just announced a special show at Royal Albert Hall, London - on Saturday 8th April 2023.

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Artist Bio

At the time of its 1989 release, De La Soul's debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as the future of hip-hop. With its colorful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus the Long Island trio's low-key, clever rhymes and goofy humor, the record sounded like nothing else in hip-hop. Where most of their contemporaries drew directly from old-school rap, funk, De La Soul were gentler and more eclectic, taking in not only funk and soul, but also pop, jazz, reggae, and psychedelia. De La Soul continued the development of their innovative style as trends in rap came and went. They released albums at a steady clip up until the time of 2004's The Grind Date, but returned in 2016 with the crowdfunded And the Anonymous Nobody as well as the occasional stand-alone track.

De La Soul formed while the trio members -- Posdnuos (born Kelvin Mercer, August 17, 1969), Trugoy the Dove (born David Jude Jolicoeur, September 21, 1968), and Pasemaster Mase (born Vincent Lamont Mason, Jr., March 27, 1970) -- were attending high school in the late '80s. The stage names of all of the members derived from in-jokes: Posdnuos was an inversion of Mercer's DJ name, Sound-Sop; Trugoy was an inversion of Jolicoeur's favorite food, yogurt.

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