Trugoy Of De La Soul Dead At 54

[Easy-E]

RIP

I love their music

And Anonymous Nobodies surprised the hell outta me and to get that along with the last Tribe albums.

 

[YakSpiller]

Losing our legends and pioneers.

 

[AkaDemiK]

Hate seeing the people who have helped molded and shape this culture pass away at such a young age. RIP

 

[morris]

Queens' own

RIP

 

[Waterproof]

Plug 2 , in a week I'll be 46 and 1989 I was 12 in the 6th grade when 3 ft High and Rising dropped and even though I was born into Hip Hop and was apart of the culture since birth because I thought if you was Black you supposed to be, do hip hop that was how the culture was, Beat Street, Breaking, Crush Groove, I was 6 when the Message to dropped and I was Rappin the lyrics, I was break dancing, graffiti, Emceeing, beat boxing, make a long story short but I was heavily into NWA, The D.O.C at that time

But in 89 when De La Soul dropped 3ft Rising with the lead single Me, Myself and I, Yoooooooooo! And I'm from The West Coast Bay Area the shyt was played everywhere, School Dance, The Block and it was a hit, but when I got the tape I was like , I had to sit and try to decipher this shyt, The Bugged out beats and samples, (Pot Hole in my lawn and Me Myself and I was banging and easy on the ears) The Abstract, undecipherable rhymes with unorthodox cadence, complex rhyme patterns and I'm a 12 year old kid and was like WTF are they saying, and I had to sit through this and give it a break, then comeback to this shyt because at that time you study and sit with the album, Yo it dropped the spring and I studied that shyt and finally got it in the fall

But after that I became a De La Soul fan. My favorite De La albums are Buhloone Mindstate and Stakes Is High.

Rest In Peace Plug 2

 

[///Vega+++]

sad....RIP

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[SonnyDecay]

RIP. De La as a group was never afraid to be different and unique. It never felt forced with them too, they were just doing their thing and having fun. Their first four albums are some of the best in hip hop, the debut especially might be the best produced album of the 80's.

 

[THE 101]

This one hurts

 

[Cadillac]

R.i.p to a legend, and one part to a great legendary group.

R.i.p Trugoy

 

[TheMailMan]

Gonna throw on break of dawn for him. Rip my guy

 

[detroitwalt]

I was listening to this yesterday. Damn.

 

[Ziploc]

I am gutted,this feels like I lost a friend frfr. I can't even describe how important De La Soul is to me and my inner circle of friends. We found kindred spirits and a outlook on life that was eerily similar to them,even their slang mirrored ours,a true love affair of musical sensibilities and the championing of the individual thought and action. The fact that neither Dave or Pos ever got their just due for being imo top 5 MC's is a crime. Live performers of the highest caliber, wordplay was extra terrestrial and don't start me on intricate concepts in their writing. The closest thing we had to a creative triumvirate not unlike the Beatles I feel they should be held in that regard. My John Lennon died yesterday and this one hurts,bad.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Heavy_Handz]

I'm sick of bytches shakin' asses
I'm sick of talkin' 'bout blunts, sick of Versace glasses
Sick of slang, sick of half-ass awards shows
Sick of name-brand clothes (Word)
Sick of R&B bytches over bullshyt tracks (Heard)
Cocaine and crack, which brings sickness to blacks
Sick of swoll'-head rappers with their sickenin' raps
Clappers of gats, makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sicker—even sicker, perhaps (Sicker, perhaps)
I Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse

R.I.P. Trugoy

You were a real one