{"id":574463,"date":"2026-08-20T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:48:12","slug":"anderson-paak-cordae-announce-collaborative-album-heavy-is-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574463\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak, Cordae Announce Collaborative Album Heavy Is the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/anderson-paak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anderson .Paak<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/cordae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cordae<\/a> have announced a new collaborative album, Heavy Is the Crown, arriving October 23rd via APESHIT\/Mass Appeal\/EMPIRE. Watch the project\u2019s trailer below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivid-seats.pxf.io\/c\/1882189\/952533\/12730?subId1=bruno-mars%2Aanderson-paak-cordae-album-button&amp;subId2=&amp;subId3=&amp;sharedid=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vividseats.com%2Fbruno-mars-tickets%2Fperformer%2F24388\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Find Anderson Paak Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The record builds on a partnership that dates back to \u201cRNP,\u201d their collab on Cordae\u2019s 2019 debut album, The Lost Boy. The pair have reunited a few times since then on \u201cTwo Tens\u201d and \u201cSummer Drop,\u201d a performance at the BET Awards, and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. For Heavy Is the Crown, they\u2019ve leaned into that brotherhood even further, with album artwork playing off the iconic 2008 comedy Step Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Physical copies of\u00a0Heavy Is the Crown are currently available for <a href=\"https:\/\/music.empi.re\/heavyisthecrown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pre-order<\/a>, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0HFDCQM3G?&amp;linkCode=ll2&amp;tag=conseofsound-20&amp;linkId=3a33f356971d333c2ebb88411ab4084f&amp;language=en_US&amp;gaOptInStatus=true&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amazon-exclusive vinyl<\/a>.\u00a0.Paak is also currently on the road with <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/bruno-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bruno Mars<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-tour-setlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe Romantic Tour,\u201d<\/a> opening shows under his DJ Pee .Wee moniker and joining Mars during the headlining set for a run of their Silk Sonic songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson .Paak and Cordae have announced a new collaborative album, Heavy Is the Crown, arriving October 23rd via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-574463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}