American hip hop collective founded in 2010 as AliveSinceForever in San Marcos, Texas Brockhampton is back with its long-teased final album, The Family. It will be out November 17, the hip-hop boy band announced via two teaser trailers. One, titled “I Miss the Band Already,” shows moments throughout Brockhampton’s history — from the Saturation shoots to the group’s final performances at Coachella — with leader Kevin Abstract singing, “I love these n—-s so much / God please don’t make me grow up.” Another shows two men getting robbed and the thief trying to take an mp3 player that seems to have The Family on it.
The group made the announcement on Instagram with two visual trailers. The first, titled “I Miss the Band Already,” delivers a bevy of black-and-white, behind-the-scenes moments from the making of the band’s debut studio album, Saturation, as well as clips from their recent Coachella performance. The second is an official album teaser, which sees vocalist Kevin Abstract pull a number of comical items out of his backpack, including a rubber duck, whoopie cushion and a chattering teeth toy, before revealing an iPod Nano that subsequently plays a snippet of new music, per Hypebeast.
After sharing the two teasers, BROCKHAMPTON dropped the official album cover, which dons a kaleidoscopic collage, alongside the following caption: “THE FAMILY NOVEMBER 17 EXEC PRODUCED BY BEARFACE AND BOYLIFE.”
The Family will follow the band’s 2021 record, Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine. According to a release, the new album is “a story about BROCKHAMPTON.”
BROCKHAMPTON announced an “indefinite hiatus” in January of this year, canceling almost all of their previously-scheduled 2022 shows, aside from two at London’s O2 Academy Brixton and Coachella. The album will mark their last body of work as a band.
Look out for BROCKHAMPTON’s final record, The Family, on November 17, and watch the group’s teaser visuals below.
Get ready to get saturated one more time. Brockhampton is back with its long-teased final album, The Family. It will be out November 17, the hip-hop boy band announced via two teaser trailers. One, titled “I Miss the Band Already,” shows moments throughout Brockhampton’s history — from the Saturation shoots to the group’s final performances at Coachella — with leader Kevin Abstract singing, “I love these n—-s so much / God please don’t make me grow up.” Another shows two men getting robbed and the thief trying to take an mp3 player that seems to have The Family on it.
Brockhampton teased The Family at Coachella earlier this year, after previously saying they’d be on an indefinite hiatus from performing after the festival. The band said in interviews around their last album, 2021’s Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, that they were planning to release a final one. The Family, Brockhampton’s seventh album, will cap off an improbable run for the collective, including 2017’s prolific Saturation trilogy and 2019’s hit “Sugar.” They may have formed as strangers from an online Kanye West forum, but they’re leaving as a family, according to Vulture.