De La Soul’s de facto “comeback” has been bittersweet; whereas the group’s groundbreaking catalog has finally come to streaming platforms, it solely did so after one member of the trio, Trugoy The Dove, died on the age of simply 54 years outdated.
Nonetheless, the remaining members, Posdnous and Maseo, are trucking alongside as greatest they’ll. They stopped by The Tonight Present this week, the place they took the stage with the band to carry out certainly one of their signature songs, “Stakes Is Excessive,” with The Roots. Black Thought helped fill the void left by Dave’s passing, rapping his verses with good chemistry alongside Pos — an unsurprising growth, contemplating the influence “Stakes Is Excessive” has had on hip-hop. Who doesn’t know these iconic rhymes?
Forward of the efficiency, home band chief Questlove gave De La some flowers, telling them how a lot they influenced The Roots. “For the primary time, we simply noticed, like, ourselves,” he stated. “That is how the group bonded, Tariq [Black Thought] and I. We noticed three mates simply having enjoyable with one another, sensible jokes and all that stuff, and we had by no means seen that in hip-hop earlier than.”
In the meantime, De La’s entree to the streaming world has been fairly profitable; their game-changing debut, 3 Ft Excessive And Rising, re-entered the Billboard 200 with a brand new peak of No. 15.
Watch De La Soul and The Roots carry out the traditional “Stakes Is Excessive” above.
