{"id":2140681,"date":"2025-11-07T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2140681"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:41:06","slug":"de-la-soul-announce-new-album-cabin-in-the-sky-with-joyful-single-the-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/de-la-soul-announce-new-album-cabin-in-the-sky-with-joyful-single-the-package\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Soul announce new album &#8216;Cabin in the Sky&#8217; with joyful single &#8216;The Package&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/de-la-soul\">De La Soul<\/a> have announced a new album, \u2018Cabin in the Sky\u2019, and released a new single, \u2018The Package\u2019. Find all the details below.<\/p>\n<p>The album, which marks the follow-up to 2016\u2019s \u2018And the Anonymous Nobody\u2026\u2019, will be released on November 21 via Mass Appeal, as part of the label\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mass-appeal-announce-seven-new-albums-from-iconic-rap-stars-nas-dj-premier-de-la-soul-ghostface-killah-raekwon-and-more-3855894\">seven new albums from iconic rap stars this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be their first record since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/david-trugoy-the-dove-jolicoeur-from-de-la-soul-has-died-aged-54-3397051\">the 2023 death of founding member David Jude Jolicoeur<\/a>, who was also known as Trugoy, Dave, and Trugoy the Dove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Cabin in the Sky\u2019 lives in that space between loss and light,\u201d Posdnuos said in a press release. \u201cIt\u2019s about the pain we carry and the joy that somehow still finds us. This album is therapy and celebration at the same time. There\u2019s a vulnerability in these songs, because everything we\u2019ve been through has brought us to this moment, to this album, honoring what we\u2019ve lost and lifting up what still remains. That duality. That\u2019s life, and that\u2019s De La.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cabin in the Sky\u2019 is led by the single, \u2018The Package\u2019, which you can listen to below. The rest of the album includes\u00a0contributions from producers DJ Premier, Super Dave, and Pete Rock, as well as guests <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/killer-mike\">Killer Mike<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/little-dragon\">Little Dragon<\/a>\u2019s Yukimi, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/common\">Common<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nas\">Nas<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-roots\">the Roots<\/a>\u2019 Black Thought.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"De La Soul - &quot;The Package&quot; (Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9N994FmnxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/de-la-soul-announce-new-album-cabin-in-the-sky-share-new-song-the-package-listen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pitchfork<\/em><\/a>, Posdnuos said that he and Maseo started working on the record in February 2025 after Mass Appeal\u2019s Peter Bittenbender approached them about participating in the label\u2019s \u201cLegend Has It\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Through the campaign, there have been new albums from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/slick-rick\">Slick Rick<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/raekwon\">Raekwon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ghostface-killah\">Ghostface Killah<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/mobb-deep\">Mobb Deep<\/a>, and the late Big L. The label is planning one more record, a collaboration between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nas\">Nas<\/a> and DJ Premier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my mission to make sure that Dave\u2019s true energy was felt throughout the entire record,\u201d he Posdnuos said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/de-la-soul-interview-grind-date-new-music-mac-miller-trugoy-dove-3849255\"><em>NME<\/em> spoke to De La Soul last March<\/a>, where the band opened up on the loss of Trugoy The Dove. Speaking about his favourite memory of Trugoy, Maseo said: \u201cOne of our favourite movies was Beat Street. It was something we cherished over our career, and it would always come on the tour busses. The conversations and quotes from the movie and all of that, we would throw back and forth through the years, me, Pos and Dave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for Pos to come to me and be like, \u2018Yo, Dave is our Ramon, man. We have to celebrate Ramon. We have to turn this whole release of the catalog into celebrating our Ramon.\u2019 When he said that, he was right. The moments are still bittersweet, but that was definitely something that was able to give me some light and inspiration to want to continue to carry the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other news, De La Soul <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/gorillaz-announce-new-album-the-mountain-with-uk-and-ireland-tour-and-theatrical-single-the-happy-dictator-featuring-sparks-3892035\">are set to feature on the new<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/gorillaz\">Gorillaz<\/a> album, \u2018The Mountain\u2019, and have been announced as headliners at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/maribou-state-de-la-soul-orbital-lead-stacked-snowbombing-2026-line-up-3900865\">the 2026 Snowbombing Festival in Austria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De La Soul have announced a new album, \u2018Cabin in the Sky\u2019, and released a new single, \u2018The Package\u2019. 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