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.]