{"id":864364,"date":"2026-08-20T00:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:34:24","slug":"anderson-paak-and-cordae-reveal-joint-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864364\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak and Cordae Reveal Joint Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33213-andersonpaak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson .Paak<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/ybn-cordae\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cordae<\/a> go way back. The two artists first linked on \u201cRNP,\u201d from Cordae\u2019s 2019 debut <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/ybn-cordae-the-lost-boy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lost Boy<\/a>, and have remained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bZeLOvGBgY&amp;list=RD4bZeLOvGBgY&amp;start_radio=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frequent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uK2kqW0_6Tg&amp;list=RDuK2kqW0_6Tg&amp;start_radio=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collaborators<\/a>. Now they\u2019ve joined forces once again\u2014this time for a whole album. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/music.empi.re\/heavyisthecrown\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/music.empi.re\/heavyisthecrown&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/music.empi.re\/heavyisthecrown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Is the Crown<\/a> drops October 23 via Apeshit\/Mass Appeal\/Empire. Below, check out the project\u2019s cover art, apparently inspired by, of all things, the 2008 Will Ferrell \/ John C. Reilly comedy Step Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Cordae\u2019s last album, The Crossroads, came out in 2024. Paak. apparently takes no days off, and so in that same span of time he has put out a second <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/nxworries-why-lawd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NxWorries record<\/a>; opened for his Silk Sonic bandmate Bruno Mars <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruno-mars-plots-sprawling-stadium-tour-of-north-america-and-europe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on tour<\/a>; and appeared on songs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0bVFEOb39vk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Again..<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvhIZDYEjw8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Mark<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZZH5Wh2MevE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Walker<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/disclosure-and-anderson-paak-share-video-for-new-song-no-cap-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read about Malibu, which turned 10 earlier this year, at No. 13 in <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/9980-the-50-best-albums-of-2016\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 50 Best Albums of 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anderson .Paak  Cordae Heavy Is the Crown\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Anderson-Paak-Heavy-Is-the-Crown.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak and Cordae go way back. The two artists first linked on \u201cRNP,\u201d from Cordae\u2019s 2019 debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,3504],"class_list":["post-864364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}