For years now, a essential element of hip-hop historical past has been lacking from the streaming music panorama: De La Soul. Lastly, although, the trio’s music hit Spotify, Apple Music, and the remainder final month. Tragically, nonetheless, this all lastly got here collectively shortly after the loss of life of member Trugoy The Dove. To rejoice their streaming debut, although, surviving members Posdnuos and Maseo visited The Tonight Present yesterday (March 16) to speak about it.
A pair minutes into the dialog, Jimmy Fallon spoke about how the trio’s debut album, 1989’s 3 Toes Excessive And Rising, has modified the lives of so many music followers and requested Questlove to share how the album modified him. Quest defined, “For the primary time, we simply noticed, like, ourselves. That is how the group bonded, Tariq [Black Thought] and I. We noticed three buddies 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.”
Elsewhere in the course of the dialog, Fallon began by acknowledging Trugoy’s loss of life and the way laborious the present De La Soul revival should be in mild of that. Posdnuos famous that it’s been “bittersweet.”
Later within the episode, the pair teamed up with The Roots for a efficiency of “Stakes Is Excessive.”
Watch the interview above and the efficiency under.
