--- title: De La Soul's Valentine's Day Gift: Its Entire Music Catalog for Free description: The 3 Feet High and Rising hip-hop group will give fans the chance to download tracks for 25 hours starting on Valentine's Day canonical: https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/ author: Eric Dodds article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-14T15:02:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:26:07.245Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: De La Soul's Valentine's Day Gift: Its Entire Music Catalog for Free og:description: The 3 Feet High and Rising hip-hop group will give fans the chance to download tracks for 25 hours starting on Valentine's Day og:url: https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt619da52b24afba55/698682c713c79f840e190bcb/146133127.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: De La Soul performs at Parklife festival at Platt Fields Park on June 10, 2012 in Manchester, England. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: De La Soul's Valentine's Day Gift: Its Entire Music Catalog for Free twitter:description: The 3 Feet High and Rising hip-hop group will give fans the chance to download tracks for 25 hours starting on Valentine's Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt619da52b24afba55/698682c713c79f840e190bcb/146133127.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # De La Soul to Release Entire Catalog for Free (But Only for 25 Hours) by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Feb 14, 2014 3:02 PM CUT  De La Soul performs at Parklife festival at Platt Fields Park on June 10, 2012 in Manchester, England. De La Soul performs at Parklife festival at Platt Fields Park on June 10, 2012 in Manchester, England.Nathan Cox—Getty Images by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Feb 14, 2014 3:02 PM CUT It’s Christmas on Valentine’s Day for hip-hop fans. The legendary hip-hop group De La Soul will reportedly make its entire catalog available to download for free at 11 a.m. EST on Feb. 14\. to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut album, _3 Feet High and Rising_. “It’s about allowing our fans who have been looking and trying to get a hold of our music to have access to it,” De La Soul member Posdnuos [told](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/de-la-soul-to-make-entire-catalog-available-for-free-20140213 "undefined") _Rolling Stone_. “It’s been too long where our fans haven’t had access to everything. This is our way of showing them how much we love them.” That’s a whole lot of love for De La Soul, which first got together in 1987, to show to supporters. The group’s music has been notoriously difficult to acquire (legally, anyhow) on the Internet, thanks in large part to the heavy use of copyrighted samples on its tracks. Posdnuos also pointed to the revolving door of executives at the group’s record labels and murky contract language to explain why De La Soul music is largely unavailable at iTunes and other online vendors, even though the venerable group has “been blessed to be in the Library of Congress.” (_3 Feet High and Rising_ was added to the National Recording Registry in 2010.) De La Soul, which won its first, long-overdue Grammy Award in 2006 for the group’s collaboration with Gorillaz on “Feel Good Inc.,” is also moving forward with plans for _You’re Welcome_, its first studio album since 2004’s woefully underappreciated _The Grind Date_. The music will reportedly be available for download for just 25 hours on the group’s website: wearedelasoul.com. \[via [_Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/de-la-soul-to-make-entire-catalog-available-for-free-20140213 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/"},"headline":"De La Soul to Release Entire Catalog for Free (But Only for 25 Hours)","datePublished":"2014-02-14T15:02:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:26:07.245Z","description":"The 3 Feet High and Rising hip-hop group will give fans the chance to download tracks for 25 hours starting on Valentine's Day","url":"https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/","keywords":["Music","Valentine's Day","Hip-Hop"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt619da52b24afba55/698682c713c79f840e190bcb/146133127.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt619da52b24afba55/698682c713c79f840e190bcb/146133127.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"De La Soul performs at Parklife festival at Platt Fields Park on June 10, 2012 in Manchester, England.","caption":"De La Soul performs at Parklife festival at Platt Fields Park on June 10, 2012 in Manchester, England.","creditText":"Nathan Cox—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/8414/de-la-soul-catalog-free/","name":"De La Soul to Release Entire Catalog for Free (But Only for 25 Hours)"}}]}] ```