De La Soul Music Is Finally Going Digital: A Look Inside The Battle To Stream Their Albums

De La Soul's music may finally be coming to streaming music platforms. We discuss that, unreleased DMX music and more on episode 49 of Ambrosia For Heads' What's The Headline: 0:00 Intro 1:25 There is no catalog of music more important than De La Soul’s missing from streaming services 2:33 Tommy Boy Records, home to De La Soul’s music, was recently purchased by Reservoir 3:20 The executive who signed Nas and Big L is now in charge of De La Soul’s Tommy Boy catalog 4:10 Reservoir is a SPAC that is becoming a music powerhouse 7:41 The history of Tommy Boy Records—Queen Latifah, Naughty By Nature, Digital Underground, Coolio, House Of Pain and more 11:38 Reviewing De La Soul’s 3 Feet High & Rising and the Native Tongues era 17:35 Why the group completely changed its sound for its second album, De La Soul Is Dead 19:47 De La Soul pivoted again with Buhloone Mindstate, ditching samples or live instruments 22:20 De La Soul introduced the Hip-Hop world to J. Dilla on Stakes Is High 23:20 Why De La Soul is Hip-Hop’s version of The Beatles 24:15 De La Soul concludes is Tommy Boy Records catalog with their masterful AOI album series 26:38 Why De La Soul has stayed relevant for 30 years 31:10 Inside the heated dispute between De La Soul and Tommy Boy Records over making their music available for streaming 32:30 Many of the samples on the early albums were not cleared 33:50 Breaking down the economics of record deals and why they are so onerous 37:30 The deal De La Soul signed with Tommy Boy was very unfavorable to them 38:44 In 2019, De La Soul sat down with Tommy Boy to renegotiate their deal, with some help from AFH 40:39 The talks broke down and De La Soul went to the public 42:00 Devil’s advocate: Tommy Boy Records’ defense 46:00 The time has come for economic terms in the music industry to fundamentally change 49:10 Why Reservoir’s purchase of Tommy Boy Records finally will allow De La Soul’s music to be released on streaming services 51:10 Having De La Soul’s music on Spotify, Apple and other services will cement the group’s legacy 54:14 Producer Dame Grease says he has 50 unreleased DMX records that he want to put out 56:00 Should more DMX music be released? 57:14 Comparing Swizz Beatz’s and Dame Grease’s catalogs with DMX 59:25 The public reaction to DMX’s Exodus album has been mixed 1:01:40 Who should be in charge of DMX’s musical legacy 1:10:20 JAY-Z share his favorite stories about DMX on The Shop with LeBron James 1:18:07 New music from Lloyd Banks, Peter Rosenberg, Children of Zeus and more