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De La Soul<\/a> have officially announced the new album Cabin in the Sky<\/em><\/a>. The group\u2019s follow-up to 2016\u2019s And the Anonymous Nobody…<\/em><\/a> is out November 21 via Mass Appeal<\/a>. Leading the 20-track effort is the Pete Rock<\/a>\u2013produced single \u201cThe Package.\u201d Listen to the new song below; scroll down to see the album cover by artist Hebru Brantley<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cabin in the Sky<\/em> is the first album from De La Soul since the 2023 death<\/a> of David Jude Jolicoeur<\/a>, the founding member who was also known as Trugoy, Dave, and Trugoy the Dove. It features contributions from producers DJ Premier, Super Dave, and Pete Rock, as well as guests Killer Mike, Little Dragon\u2019s Yukimi, Common, Nas, and the Roots\u2019 Black Thought.<\/p>\n \u201cCabin in the Sky<\/em> 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 In an additional statement to Pitchfork, Posdnuos explained that he and Maseo started working on Cabin in the Sky<\/em> in February 2025 after Mass Appeal\u2019s Peter Bittenbender approached them about participating in the label\u2019s \u201cLegend Has It\u201d campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had some music, of course, with Dave\u2019s voice on it, like \u2018Good Health,\u2019 that was produced by Supa Dave West,\u201d Posdnuous said, \u201c\u2018The Package,\u2019 which was produced by Pete Rock, which was originally supposed to be a part of an idea for an album we had called Premium Soul on the Rocks<\/em> that would have been exclusively produced by Pete and Premier. And then we had the song \u2018Pattycake,\u2019 which was produced by Jake One. That was just something we had did a while back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo those are the tracks we chose to use,\u201d he continued. \u201cAt first, with some of the tracks we did have with Dave\u2019s voice on it, we thought to maybe have certain producers now make music to it, but then we just realized, you know what, let\u2019s leave those tracks as is. With the energy that Dave had written to that track, let\u2019s allow that marriage to still exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n