De La Soul

This summer's annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is moving to Brooklyn Bridge Park and organizers have just announced they are tapping De La Soul for a headlining set on July 10. Planned and promoted by Brooklyn Bodega as a means to use hip-hop as a way to promote social and political change, this is the first time De La has participated in the event in its six-year existence...

The Gorillaz closing Coachella 2010 set was marked by a lot of firsts. It was the "virtual hip-hop group"'s first live performance in five years, the first time they had the Clash's Mick Jones and Paul Simonon (in sailor suits, too) on stage with them and the first time they didn't perform backlit behind a giant screen...

In some scenes, three's a crowd, but in hip-hop it can be a magic number, as De La Soul pointed out. Having previously tackled the topic of hip-hop's top twosomes, Touré, host of Fuse's 'Hip-Hop Shop,' now turns his attention to trios. What ...

Last July, The BoomBox reported that the family of iconic hip-hop producer J Dilla won a long going legal battle over the fate of his estate. More good news on the subject surfaced this week with the establishment of the official J Dilla Foundation and newly appointed administrator for the late tastemaker's estate, attorney Alex Borden...

The new music documentary 'Copyright Criminals' takes a magnified look at samples in hip-hop and the resulting, endless copyright battles. The film, which premieres on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Toronto Film Festival, and then part of PBS' Independent Lens Series, investigates the legitimacy of famous hip-hop copyright disputes...

Super animated Brit group, the Gorillaz, have announced their return this Spring with a brand new album. Details come just one day following news that the group will headline the 2010 Coachella Music Festival with Jay-Z in April. The upcoming 16-track album, 'Plastic Beach' will debut on March 9, with an all-star line up of eclectic featured artists...

Jay-Z will co-headline his second U.S. music festival in the past year when he plays Coachella this April. Today, (Jan.19) organizers announced the line-up for the three-day music fest which is scheduled for April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif...

London-bred singer and songwriter Jay Sean is the latest addition to Lil Wayne's Cash Money family, but by no means is the R&B sensation a newbie to the music scene. After releasing two chart-topping albums and achieving pop star fame in Europe, Asia and India, the hip-hop-fanatic-turned-soulful-crooner has finally set his sights on the States. Hi...

Black Sheep, proud members of the legendary Native Tongues movement, are returning to the fold with a new EP entitled 'The Black Pool of Genius: The Prelude.' Hitting your favorite online outlet on Dec. 1, the EP serves as an appetizer for a full record in 2010 that promises to carry an absolutely insane roster of MCs...

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, De La Soul's Posdnuos discussed the legendary group's new album and upcoming collaboration with Damon Albarn and the Gorillaz. Though he didn't reveal the album's title, Pos said the followup to their 2004 album, 'The Grind Date,' will feature Public Enemy's Chuck D and Flavor Flav on a song entitled "We Are (For the People)...