De La Soul‘s Trugoy the Dove Dead: Late Singer Featured Posthumously on Gorillaz's New Album

De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove became part of Gorillaz's newly-released album.

Weeks after Trugoy the Dove's death, Gorillaz dropped the deluxe version of "Cracker Island" album. Part of the music project is a song that has a posthumous verse of the late rapper.

The new song, titled "Crocadillaz," also features Dawn Penn and De La Soul.

The same album include MC Bin Laden on "Controllah" and Del the Funky Homosapien on "Captain Chicken."

It serves as Trugoy the Dove's posthumous track. The rapper, whose real name is David Jude Jolicoeur, died at a hospital in Maryland. Unnamed insiders said he appeared to have passed from natural causes and claimed he struggled due to an undisclosed disease.

While Trugoy the Dove's cause of death remains unknown, reports brought back the rapper's statements regarding his congestive heart failure battle that made him wore a LifeVest defibrillator machine.

Johns Hopkins Medicine explains that congestive heart failure (also called heart failure) is a serious condition in which the heart pumps blood less than it should. Having CHF does not mean a person's heart completely fails. Rather, it happens when that organ's muscle becomes weaker over time. Thus, there is a limit to its original capacity to help in the circulation of the blood.

Before his death, Trugoy the Dove sparked worries when he missed De La Soul's appearance at the Grammys. The group, which he founded in 1988 in New York, was honored during an all-star hip-hop tribute.

Trugoy the Dove To be Honored By De La Soul

Following his death, De La Soul confirmed on its Instagram page that the surviving members of the hip-hop group would hold a special tribute concert in New York City. The venue will reportedly be "transformed with artwork from the group's classic album, '3 Feet High and Rising'."

Titled "The DA.I.S.Y. Experience," the event will give way to Trugoy the Dove's friends, fans, and family as they celebrate his life. The group will also mark the release of its full catalog on streaming platforms after years of waiting.

The performance will happen on March 2, and there will only be 333 tickets available for fans to get. The number references De La Soul's hit 1989 song, "The Magic Number."

Trugoy the Dove's celebration of life will also be live-streamed on Amazon Music's Twitch channel on the same day at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Tags

De La Soul