“You got Pos, Dave, and Mase online,” David Jolicoeur told me on a conference call last month. The artist formerly known as Trugoy the Dove had joined his collaborators (and former high school classmates) Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer and Vincent “DJ Mase” Mason for a telephonic celebration of De La Soul’s 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising. 34 years after its release, that landmark album—and five other seminal De La projects—are set to finally his streaming services this coming Friday.

“If you’re ready to begin this,” Dave said, “we can make it happen!”

To mark the occasion, GQ asked each member of De La Soul to pick one song to discuss from each of their first six albums. Amidst much laughter and real talk about the group’s enormous (yet somehow still slept-on) legacy, we made it most of the way through their third album Buhloone Mindstate before we had to break.

SEE THE LIST AT GQ