Headline : De La Soul: Their Incredible Career in 15 Songs

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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 behalf of their loyal fan base. One: that they record a reunion album with Prince Paul, producer of the group’s first three groundbreaking classics from the late ’80s and early ’90s (3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate). Two: that they finally record an album with the Native Tongues, the loosely-knit rap collective with an Afrocentrist aesthetic that counted De La Soul as one of its core acts alongside the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, and others.

“You asking for a lot!” Pos responded, with a riotous laugh.

Less than three weeks later, Dave — also known as Trugoy the Dove, or the Plug Two to Pos’ Plug One — was gone at the age of 54. His sudden death, from causes not immediately revealed (though he previously struggled with congestive heart failure), adds a bittersweet tinge to what was otherwise a celebratory interview. While we now know those fan fantasies won’t ever be fulfilled, the songs that De La Soul made live on, their words and music as essential as ever.

First collaborating as teenagers at Amityville Memorial High School in suburban Long Island, Kelvin Mercer, Dave Jolicoeur, and Vincent Mason delivered something altogether innovative in the springtime of 1988 with the “new style of speak” on their debut single as De La Soul, “Plug Tunin’.” Transformed into Posdnuos, Trugoy, and Maseo, their unorthodox lyricism (“Different in style is definite/And style which I flaunt is sure legit”) and B-boy bohemian bravura heralded a new wave of hip-hop that stood apart from N.W.A’s gangsta tropes, Public Enemy’s political polemics, and the supercool poses of Big Daddy Kane.

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