De La Soul members Maseo and Posdnuos have damaged their silence, taking to social media on Wednesday (Feb. 22) to share heartfelt tributes to their De La Soul bandmate, David Jolicoeur a.okay.a. Trugoy The Dove, who died earlier this month at age 54.
“Though you and I’d argue like hell, we’d each admit after we had been flawed and completely come full circle and say, ‘I Love You.’ I wish to actually thanks for having the birds eye view of our collective imaginative and prescient to be a gaggle,” Maseo wrote in a emotional, prolonged put up shared to De La Soul’s official Instagram web page. “I bear in mind your mother calling you Dove, so that you’ve at all times had wings, so go on and fly into the sunshine, Merce and I’ll make certain your legacy is properly preserved.”
Posdnuos echoed in his personal tribute posted to Instagram, “You had been the guts of our group. You introduced a lot creativity, vitality, and keenness to our music, and your affect will likely be felt for years to return.”
He continued, “We wish to say thanks Dave for being a giant brother. Thanks for being a pal. Thanks for the clever phrases positioned in your verses. Thanks for the music you produced that’s liked by so many. Thanks for by no means desirous to compromise the standard of our model. Thanks for serving to us grow to be a gaggle that can stay etched within the timeline of hip hop tradition in addition to the material of music and for now on after we carry out ‘Ring Ring Ring Ha Ha Hey’ we are going to say ‘2-2-2-2-222 we obtained an angel in heaven who can speak to you.’”
With a profession spanning greater than three many years, De La Soul is called one in all hip-hop’s most revolutionary and eclectic teams. Shaped in 1988 within the Amityville space of Lengthy Island, Dave (Trugoy the Dove) and members Posdnuos and Maseo met in highschool.
See under for the touching tributes.
