Rams Head Live Music in Baltimore: With its colorful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, plus the Long Island trio's low-key, clever rhymes and goofy humor, this group of guys sounds like nothing else in hip-hop. Where most of their contemporaries draw directly from old-school rap, funk, or Public Enemy's dense sonic barrage, De La Soul is gentler and more eclectic, taking in not only funk and soul, but also pop, jazz, reggae, and psychedelia.