--- title: De La Soul Smashes Kickstarter Goal for New Album in 1 Day description: The new LP will be its first studio album in 11 years. canonical: https://time.com/3766104/de-la-soul-kickstarter/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-31T20:47:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:46.434Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: De La Soul Smashes Kickstarter Goal for New Album in 1 Day og:description: The new LP will be its first studio album in 11 years. og:url: https://time.com/3766104/de-la-soul-kickstarter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb666a81db9042a6/6987861935ba6f85c1c07d3e/de-la-soul-album-kickstarter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: (L-R) Maseo, Trugoy and Posdnuos of De La Soul perform on stage at The Arches in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: De La Soul Smashes Kickstarter Goal for New Album in 1 Day twitter:description: The new LP will be its first studio album in 11 years. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb666a81db9042a6/6987861935ba6f85c1c07d3e/de-la-soul-album-kickstarter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # De La Soul Smashes Kickstarter Goal for New Album in 1 Day  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 31, 2015 8:47 PM UTC  (left-right) Maseo, Trugoy and Posdnuos of De La Soul perform on stage at The Arches in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2014. (left-right) Maseo, Trugoy and Posdnuos of De La Soul perform on stage at The Arches in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2014.Ross Gilmore–Redferns/Getty Images  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 31, 2015 8:47 PM UTC Hip hop trio De La Soul has [smashed](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/30/de-la-soul-kickstarter) its Kickstarter goal to fund the group’s first album in 11 years. The untitled LP’s campaign for $110,000 was launched on Monday, and by Tuesday afternoon nearly double that figure had been pledged, according to the group’s [Kickstarter page](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1519102394/de-la-souls-new-album). Instead of sampling from other artists’ work—and getting in trouble with the “sample police,” as De La Soul says—the trio has created over 200 hours of original sounds and vibes. 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