De La Soul has scored a major milestone, courtesy of one of the 2000s most enduring hits. According to data from Chartmetric, the legendary rap group gained 15 million listeners after being added to the streaming listing for “Feel Good Inc,” the 2005 smash hit from Gorillaz that features De La.
“Feel Good Inc” was a standout track on Gorillaz’s classic album Demon Days. Co-produced by Danger Mouse, the track went all the way to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and landed at No. 2 in the United Kingdom. It won the Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration.
A streaming benchmark like this is especially significant for De La Soul. They’d famously fought for years to get their catalog on DSPs, with De La’s discography finally hitting major streamers in 2023. The big news came just after founding member Dave Jolicoeur (aka Trugoy the Dove) died at age 54 after battling congestive heart failure.
At the time, surviving members Posdnous and Maseo said they hoped their musical legacy would inspire younger generations to go against the grain.
“It isn’t really about, ‘We got to do something for these people who’ve never heard our music,’ it’s just that the exposure could open so much more,” Maseo said in an interview with Billboard. “We want people to hear it, and maybe run off and do something amazing that’ll impress us, and it keeps going back and forth.”
Back in February, Pos and Maseo confirmed that new De La Soul will be forthcoming.
“Mase and I had a conversation, four days after Dave’s death, and we were like: ‘We can’t stop, we gotta keep pushing,’” Posdnuous told The Guardian. “We got so much to give — for ourselves, for our legacy, for Dave. His family were adamant: ‘If you stop, Dave stops.’”
Also, earlier this year, Gorillaz frontman and founder Damon Albarn confirmed that the popular virtual band is set to return with a new album. In an interview with French publication Les Inrockuptibles, Albarn confirmed that it was very likely to drop this year.
“I’m finishing a new Gorillaz album,” Albarn explained. “One opera and one new Gorillaz album seems like enough for 2025! Unless someone accuses me of taking my foot off the gas!”
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