For De La Soul rapper Trugoy the Dove — who died at 54 on Sunday — the group’s biggest hit, 1989’s “Me Myself and I,” was created under duress. “ ‘Me Myself and I’ was almost like a punishment,” the ...

Last month, toward the end of a lively, hour-long conversation with rappers Pos and Dave — the idiosyncratic duo at the heart of De La Soul, together with DJ Maseo — we delivered two requests on ...

The Long Island rapper David Jolicoeur, known for his freewheeling rhyme style, has died at 54, just weeks before his trio’s catalog arrives on streaming services. By Christopher R. Weingarten David ...

“You got Pos, Dave, and Mase online,” David Jolicoeur told me on a conference call last month. The artist formerly known as Trugoy the Dove had joined his collaborators (and former high school ...

Pioneering hip-hop group De La Soul landed the kind of song placement in a blockbuster film that most artists dream of: A major spot for its 1989 song “The Magic Number” in the end credits of ...