De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip-hop group known for playful lyrics, eclectic sampling, and its 1989 debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising.

Posdnuos: Posdnuos is a rapper and founding member of De La Soul. His intricate wordplay and distinctive voice helped define the group’s lyrical style.
3 Feet High and Rising: De La Soul’s 1989 debut album combines playful rhymes, skits, and densely layered samples. Its collage-like production and buoyant tone established the group’s signature.
Sampling (music): Sampling is the reuse of recorded audio within a new musical composition. De La Soul built many early tracks from fragments of diverse recordings.
Native Tongues: Native Tongues was a collective of late-1980s and early-1990s hip-hop artists associated with Afrocentric and eclectic styles. De La Soul helped establish the collective alongside groups such as A Tribe Called Quest.
Trugoy the Dove: Trugoy the Dove was a rapper and founding member of De La Soul. His playful delivery and writing were central to the trio’s identity.
De La Soul Is Dead: De La Soul’s 1991 album uses a darker tone and a framing narrative to complicate its debut’s cheerful image. It demonstrates the trio’s willingness to resist being confined to one persona.
Plunderphonics: Plunderphonics is music made substantially from manipulated samples of existing recordings. The group’s dense, eclectic collages invite comparison with this sampling-centered approach.
Alternative hip-hop: Alternative hip-hop is hip-hop that departs from dominant commercial styles in sound, subject, or presentation. De La Soul’s playful writing and unusual samples became touchstones for the style.
Maseo: Maseo is a DJ and founding member of De La Soul. His turntablism and production contributions shaped the group’s recordings and performances.
Buhloone Mindstate: De La Soul’s 1993 album blends jazz-influenced production with reflective lyrics. Its looser, more introspective sound marks a turn from the group’s early collage style.

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