While we’ve seen just about every 2Pac verse recycled into a Bruce Hornsby sampled remix, here’s a pair of newly uncovered dis tracks from the slain rapper. Pac goes hard at Biggie, Nas, Wendy Williams, De La Soul (!), Dr. Dre on “Watch Ya Mouth”, and shots are fired with DPG at Biggie, Mobb Deep, [cont.]

DJ Maseo, Plug 3 of the legendary trio De La Soul, kicks it with Ruby Hornet’s DJ RTC about “real” hip hop, inspirations, rehearsing back in the day, and Kanye West.

Oh word? De La pay tribute to Grandmixer D.S.T. on this new track they debuted via MySpace last night. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] LISTEN: De La Soul – “The Return of D.S.T.” (MP3) De La Soul – “The Return of D.S.T.” (MP3)

New material from 4-Ize’s recent Off The Top Rope mixtape with Don Cannon, featuring Senor Kaos and De La. Produced by Morgan The Mexican. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] LISTEN: 4-Ize + De La Soul + Senor Kaos – “Concrete Jungle” (MP3) 4-Ize + De La Soul + Senor Kaos – “Concrete Jungle” [cont.]

De La Soul proved they still have, this weekend at the Hard Rock Hotel pool. Check out clips of “Stakes Is High” and “Me, Myself, and I”. Excuse the audio.

And the press release reads as follows: Brooklyn Bodega, producers of the 6th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF), is excited to announce this year’s headliner – De La Soul. Since 1989, De La Soul (Pos, Dave and Mase) have been a cornerstone of Hip-Hop music and culture. From the groundbreaking album “3 Feet High and [cont.]

Yeah, the above math problem checks out, as each Pete Rock, RJD2, and Maseo of De La Soul will collaborate on indie rock outfit Yo La Tengo’s Here to Fall Remixes, which drops on June 8th on Matador Records. The trio will remix the track “Popular Songs”. We hear Pete’s rhyming on this one – [cont.]

Wow, this is real dope. Second entry from Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach hitting March 9th…. If you were around during the 3 Feet High & Rising / De La Soul Is Dead era, this type of behavior from De La Soul is what we would expect – not, uh… “Pawn Star”. Anyway, this is a goofy [cont.]

This may just be the freshest thing we’ve ever seen. Kid Robot will release De La Soul vinyl toys next month, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut, 3 Feet High & Rising. The set will sell for $50 at kidrobot.com and select retailers. T-Shirts with images of the figures are currently on sale [cont.]

Featuring interviews with Chuck D, DJ Q-Bert, Pete Rock, Afrika Bambaataa, Aesop Rock, Mix Master Mike, De La Soul, Danger Mouse and a bunch of stuffy lawyers, this documentary examines the history of sampling in hip-hop music, and how the legalities behind it changed the entire landscape of hip-hop music. Perhaps the best quote in [cont.]

Mixtape Release; No Rating Given      Originally released as a slim-line tour only mix CD, word caught on quickly about De La Soul’s Impossible Mission release, a collection of unreleased tracks from the past 12 years. The CD was given proper treatment by Traffic Distribution, encased in a beautiful digipak for the Japanese audience. So [cont.]

If there’s one thing that De La Soul knows well, it’s consistency.  Ever since their 1989 Tommy Boy debut 3 Feet High and Rising, the Long Island trio of Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer, Dave “Trugoy” Jolicoeur, and DJ Vincent “Maseo” Mason – or Plugs One, Two and Three – have been releasing gem after gem, changing [cont.]

     Entering their 16th year and 7th album of their career, heads may joke and call them “De La Old”, but for Pos, Dave, and Maseo, it’s just another day at the office. The philosophy of Buhloone Mind State was “we might blow up, but we won’t go pop”, yet when they didn’t blow up, [cont.]

De La Soul has reached that point in their career, where they d rather not be broke, and have a whole lot of respect. As their last album hinted, the members of De La Soul are tired of being heroes for the underground, when the underground doesn’t put food on their plate (that is, at [cont.]

HipHopSite: Triple album, right? But it’s not all coming out together…. Maseo: Right, the other two will be released at the top of 2001. The second one in March, the third one around June or July. HipHopSite: Are the other albums finished yet? Maseo: No, they’re not finished yet. Truguoy: The second one, we’ve got [cont.]

 A decade has passed in the album-making careers of this trio, hip-hop’s most innovative and highly creative bunch. As the many influences and short-term trends invade and fade out of the rap industry time and time again, De La Soul on Art Official Intelligence, their fifth album to date, carefully embarrass what most emcees tried, [cont.]