A Look At De La Soul's Achievements As Co-Founding Member David Jolicoeur Dies At 54

David Jolicoeur aka Trugoy the Dove passed away Sunday aged 54, after years of battling congestive heart failure. While the exact cause of his death is under wraps, at the time of writing, Jolicoeur had told fans about the diagnosis in the "Royalty Capes" music video back in 2016.

Jolicoeur was one of the founding members of the hip-hop trio De La Soul which originated in 1988 in Long Island, New York. Some of the biggest hits of the six-time Grammy-nominated group include "The Magic Number," "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa," and "Me, Myself and I." The group's official YouTube channel boasts 166K subscribers and their videos have more than 26 million views.

With Kelvin Mercer and Vincent Mason making up De la Soul alongside Jolicoeur, the three are cult heroes of the jazz rap and alternative hip-hop subgenres and they struck gold with their ability to seamlessly weave jokes into their lyrics.

As fans continue to share their tributes for the late rapper on social media, here's a look at the achievements of De la Soul as a whole.

The trio had managed to captivate their fans with fun music and achieve critical acclaim. Their 1993 album "Buhloone Mindset" was received positively, as the late influential music critic Greg Tate wrote for the NYTimes, "De La Soul has dared to go where few hip-hop acts would follow, rejecting Five Percenter polemics and gangster rap for reflections on an array of topics: ecology, crack-addicted infants, Black suburbia, roller-skating, harassment by fans, male sexual anxiety and even gardening as a hip-hop metaphor."

In 2018, Pitchfork did a throwback special review, and picked the group's 1989 hit album "3 Feet High and Rising." The review reads, "The album sounded like a hip-hop version of the novelist Dos Passos' America, crowded with voices, rhythms, rhymes, and the wit, joy, and pain of becoming aware of one's power to change the world. And De La Soul felt like the closest hip-hop equivalent to Parliament and Funkadelic: high-concept, hilariously genuine, generously human."

Apart from spitting bars, Jolicoeur also famously co-wrote Gorillaz's hit song "Feel Good." His writing prowess and career as a performing artist earned him a lot of love and support from fans. His net worth was estimated between $1 to $ 5 million.

Details regarding his funeral are yet to be disclosed by his family. This article will be updated with new information when made available.