De La Soul Announce New Album Cabin in the Sky, Share “The Package”

De La Soul have officially announced their new album, Cabin in the Sky, out November 21st via Mass Appeal. As a first preview, they’ve unwrapped the first single, “The Package.” Stream it below.

Part of Mass Appeal’s “Legend Has It…” series featuring seven new albums from New York hip-hop pioneers, Cabin in the Sky marks De La Soul’s first new album since their Grammy-nominated 2016 LP, and the Anonymous Nobody. It’s also their first project since the tragic death of co-founder Trugoy the Dove in 2023, though he contributes multiple verses to “The Package.”

The project also includes features from Killer Mike, Nas, Black Thought, Common, and Yukimi of Little Dragon. Production was handled by DJ Premier, Super Dave, and Pete Rock, the latter of whom produced “The Package.”

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“Cabin in the Sky lives in that space between loss and light. It’s about the pain we carry and the joy that somehow still finds us,” Posdnuos said in a press statement. “This album is therapy and celebration at the same time.”

He continued, “There’s a vulnerability in these songs, because everything we’ve been through has brought us to this moment, to this album, honoring what we’ve lost and lifting up what still remains. That duality. That’s life, and that’s De La.”

DJ Maseo added, “The music on this record is not old, just seasoned. It’s what we call adult hip-hop: something rooted in the culture but speaking to where we are now. The beauty is that it still connects with the younger heads, too. They can feel the honesty, the craft, and that De La Soul DNA running through it. We’re bridging generations with this one.”

With vintage production from Pete Rock, the first verse of “The Package” finds Pos rapping about moving forward rather than looking back: “If some wanna take it back to whеn a B-boy first became a C-note chasеr/ Nah, you staying right here/ Talk less, listen more/ That’s the saying right here.”

Trugoy chimes in on the second verse with lyrics like, “The difference between doing the job, and just your nature/ Understand birthright over labor/ Still working like two thumbs up/ Be mouse humble if you two crumbs up.”

Earlier this year, De La Soul looked back at the 20th anniversary of their seventh studio album, The Grind Date, with a special reissue and released a new animated video for their 2004 MF DOOM collaboration “Rock Co. Kane Flow.”

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