In 1991, only one album into its career, De La Soul tried to pull off an unusually audacious move. The hip-hop trio’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was a dense but accessible bricolage of ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. When De La Soul’s debut album, “3 Feet High and Rising” came out in March ...

My difficult solution is to attempt to encapsulate whole movements in their nearly four-decade-long career with songs that aren’t the group’s “best” (the big singles or personal favorite album cuts, ...

De La Soul brought a necessary playfulness to hip-hop in 1989, but battles with the music industry dimmed that light. Marcus J. Moore tells their story in "High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul." ...

Trugoy The Dove — Dave — was the soul of De La Soul. The group’s first album in nine years, Cabin In The Sky, feels like a loving celebration of one of hip-hop’s most singular voices. Though only a ...

Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite ...