De La Soul paid tribute to their late bandmember Trugoy The Dove with a efficiency on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that includes The Roots.
The rap legends appeared on Thursday evening’s episode (March 16) to carry out ‘Stakes Is Excessive’ from their basic 1996 album of the identical title.
Trugoy The Dove died on the age of 54 final month. He had been affected by a number of well being points in recent times, though no explanation for demise was revealed.
De La Soul had been on Thursday joined by The Roots – Fallon‘s home band – with Black Thought standing in for Dove’s verses on the observe.
Earlier than the efficiency, surviving De La Soul members Posdnuos and Maseo opened up concerning the 15-year technique of bringing their catalogue to streaming providers. In addition they mirrored about their early days in Lengthy Island and recording their 1989 debut ‘3 Toes Excessive And Rising’.
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Final month Posdnuos and Maseo broke their preliminary social media silence with two Instagram posts paying tribute to their bandmate.
Each posts consisted of prolonged messages from every surviving member, accompanied by a carousel of photographs depicting the rapper all through his profession. Within the first, Posdnuos paid his respects, writing: “You had been the guts of our group. You introduced a lot creativity, vitality, and fervour to our music, and your affect will probably be felt for years to return.”
Referencing Trugoy’s opening verse from their 1991 ‘De La Soul Is Useless’ reduce, ‘Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)’, he continued: “Thanks for serving to us change into a gaggle that may 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 acquired an angel in heaven who can discuss to you’”.
Maseo adopted with a heartfelt message reflecting his shut relationship with the deceased emcee, stating: “Dave – thanks a lot for being in my life. Though you and I might argue like hell, we’d each admit after we had been flawed and completely come full circle and say, “I Love You.”
