Rapper AKA Dead at 35 After Shooting in South Africa ... 12, 1968 in Brooklyn, Jolicoeur launched De La Soul in 1988 with two friends from his high school in Long Island, Kelvin Mercer (a.k.a ...

Many fans will stand by their debut, “3 Feet High and Rising,” as their best work, though their follow-up, “De La Soul is Dead,” provides stiff competition. Both are produced by the legendary Prince ...

The group’s “bleak and acerbic” 1991 follow-up, “De La Soul Is Dead,” launched their humorless campaign against commercial rap and the conformist pressures exerted by their label ...