David Jude Jolicoeur, identified broadly as Trugoy the Dove and one of many founding members of the Lengthy Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54.
His consultant Tony Ferguson confirmed the stories Sunday. No different data was instantly out there.
Lately, Jolicoeur, had stated he was battling congestive coronary heart failure, residing with a LifeVest machine affixed to his individual. De La Soul was a part of the hip-hop tribute on the Grammy Awards final week, however Trugoy was not onstage along with his fellow bandmates.
Tributes poured in on social media shortly after the information broke Sunday.
“Dave! It was a honor to share so many phases with you,” wrote rapper Large Daddy Kane on Instagram.
Rapper Erik Sermon posted on Instagram that “This one hurts. From Lengthy Island from among the best rap teams in Hiphop # Delasoul #plug2 Dave has handed away you’ll be missed… RIP.”
Younger Guru added, “Relaxation in peace my brother. You have been beloved. @plugwondelasoul I like you brother we’re right here for you. Smiles I like you bro. That is loopy” and DJ Semtex wrote that it was “coronary heart wrenching information.”
Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker wrote on Twitter that, “You don’t perceive what De La Soul means to me. Their existence stated to me, a black geek from Connecticut that sure, hip-hop belongs to you too, and Trugoy was the steadiness, McCartney to Pos Lennon, Keith to his Mick. It is a enormous loss.”
Jolicoeur was born in Brooklyn however raised within the Amityville space of Lengthy Island, the place he met Vincent Mason (Pasemaster Mase) and Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos) and the three determined to kind a rap group, with every taking up distinctive names. Trugoy, Jolicoeur stated, was backwards for “yogurt.” Extra just lately, he’d been going by Dave.
De La Soul’s debut studio album 3 Ft Excessive and Rising, produced by Prince Paul, was launched in 1989 by Tommy Boy Data and praised for being a extra light-hearted and optimistic counterpart to extra charged rap choices like N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton and Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Hundreds of thousands launched only one 12 months prior.
Sampling everybody from Johnny Money and Steely Dan to Corridor & Oates, De La Soul signaled the start of different hip-hop. In Rolling Stone, critic Michael Azerrad referred to as it the primary “psychedelic hip-hop file.” Some even referred to as them a hippie group, although the members didn’t fairly like that.
In 2010, 3 Ft Excessive and Rising was added to the Nationwide Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for its historic significance.
They adopted with De La Soul Is Useless, in 1991, which was a bit darker and extra divisive with critics, and Stakes is Excessive, in 1996.
De La Soul launched eight albums and in March have been going to make their streaming service debut, on Spotify, Apple Music and others after a protracted battle with Tommy Boy Data about authorized and publishing issues. The 2021 acquisition of Tommy Boy Data by Reservoir, with masters from the likes of De La Soul, Queen Latifah and Naughty By Nature, helped transfer issues alongside and the total catalog was set to debut on March 3.
