De La Soul have revealed the title of their new album — and it commemorates their fallen member, Trugoy The Dove.

Posdnuos and Maseo appeared at a New York Comic Con panel on Friday (October 10) alongside Nas, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, DJ Premier and Slick Rick to promote Mass Appeal and Marvel’s new Legend Has It comic book collaboration.

While discussing the group’s upcoming ninth LP, which is due out in November via Mass Appeal Records, Pos reflected on Trugoy’s 2023 passing and how it impacted the recording process.

“When we lost him … I came and got [Maseo] out of the hole. We were all broken, but I kinda took on that role in Beat Street where I was like, ‘Yo, man, we gotta treat Dave like Ramon — we gotta keep him alive, we gotta celebrate him,'” he said.

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