Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 22, 1994 TAG: 9403220174
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARK MORRISON
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Formed in Amityville, N.Y., De La Soul are Posdnuos, Trugoy the Dove and Baby Huey Maseo. They have made a career out of skewering gangsta rap and hip-hop stereotypes in three critically praised albums, "Three Feet High and Rising" (1989), "De La Soul is Dead" (1991) and "Buhloone Mind State'' (1993).
Their music combines such topics as the ecology, black suburbia, roller-skaking, even gardening, with a loopy assortment of sampling that includes Otis Redding, Johnny Cash, Funkadelic, Steely Dan and Sly Stone.
A Tribe Called Quest includes members Q-Tip, Phife Dog and Ali Shaheed, and also has released three discs, "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm" (1990), "The Low End Theory" (1991) and "Midnight Marauders" (1993). Tribe has been described as art house or bohemian rappers because of their sampling of John Coltrane, Roy Ayers and other jazz artists.
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