For years, De La Soul wrestled with the frustration of invisibility and lost revenue. In 2014, the group gave away downloads of its original albums without Warner’s authorization.

When David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur of influential rap group De La Soul died last month, fans who wished to hear their work on music streaming services would have been unable to do so due ...

De La Soul said, “We can’t believe this day is finally here, and we are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new. Golnar, Rell, Faith and the Reservoir team have been great ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by De La Soul (@wearedelasoul) On Friday (March 3) at the magical hour of midnight ET, the missing De La Soul music was finally uploaded to DSPs.

De La Soul has a history of dispute with labels, and it has sung about lack of control over their music and label pressure as early as its second album. “Head full of dreads / But knowledge inside / ...

On De La Soul Is Dead, I feel like they reminded listeners that they were indeed Black men.” The absence of the group’s catalog from streaming was, on one level, a cultural tragedy, but Moore ...

Time For Heads To Get Flown: De La Soul Is Dead (1991) Imagine debuting with a gold record, lauded as darlings of "alternative" rap, and then using your follow-up LP to unceremoniously kill off ...