After two decades of being one of the most underappreciated groups around, De La Soul is getting a bit of its due tonight at VH1's Hip-Hop Honors at Hammerstein Ballroom.
"They were poets of that time and were the basis for a lot of other movements," the show's executive producer Lee Rolontz told me earlier this week. "It's long overdue that they be honored."
I'm heading to the show and plan to tweet from the Strong Island celebration, which will feature Chuck D and Flavor Flav and EPMD paying tribute. (You can follow along here if you don't wanna get a Twitter account.) The show will also honor Cypress Hill, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick and Too $hort.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays"