On the interview segment of the show, Pos described De La's recent streaming victory as "bittersweet" while Maseo reminisced on his class-cutting days when 3 Feet High And Rising was created.
"I was supposed to graduate in '88, but I graduated in '89 because I cut so much to make that record," he shared. Mase also revealed that the group members met in summer school. "We were all failing English, we had to take an English class."
The Roots drummer Questlove shared the effect that De La Soul had on the members of The Roots. "For the first time, we saw ourselves," he remembered. "This is how Tariq [Black Thought] and I bonded. We saw three friends just having fun with each other, playing practical jokes and all that stuff, and we'd never seen that in Hip-Hop before."
After rallying calls to support the arrival of De La Soul's first six albums (3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, Stakes Is High, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump, and, AOI: Bionix) on major streaming platforms after years of legal delays, the group's pivotal debut, 3 Feet High & Rising has re-entered the Billboard 200, landing at #15.
Check out De La's performance above and their interview below.
