Last night, De La Soul were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where they played two tracks from their new album, Cabin in the Sky. After leading the crowd through a chant, Posdnuos rapped his way through “Run It Back!!,” while Maseo oversaw the production boards. A horn section then walked onstage to segue into “The Package,” with De La Soul and the instrumentalists moving side to side in tandem. They also gestured to the side screen at one point to let the late Trugoy’s verse play on its own. Watch a replay of the performance below.
Cabin in the Sky came out last week, making it the rap group’s first new album in nine years, following 2016’s And the Anonymous Nobody…, and their first since the 2023 death of David Jude “Trugoy” Jolicoeur. “Cabin in the Sky lives in that space between loss and light,” Posdnuos said in a press release. “It’s about the pain we carry and the joy that somehow still finds us. This album is therapy and celebration at the same time.”
Revisit the piece “Remembering De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove With 6 Essential Tracks.”