De La Soul returned with their first full album as a trio since 2004 with and the Anonymous Nobody this summer, impressively topping the Billboard rap chart in its debut week. Of course, anyone with the slightest familiarity of the legendary crew's career knows things go much further back than that. A new thirty minute documentary produced by Mass Appeal throws things all the way back to their beginnings in Long Island in the 1980s. Twenty five years after their classic sophomore De La Soul Is Dead album, sit back and revisit the group's fascinating origin story.
Watch the New 'De La Soul Is Not Dead' Documentary
Twenty five years after 'De La Soul Is Dead,' new doc looks back at the group's inception.
Eric is the head of music at Complex. He's a writer, editor, and producer.
Sep 08, 2016
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