{"id":10005,"date":"2026-05-15T16:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:50:41","slug":"hieroglyphics-drop-new-single-drum-talk-announce-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/05\/hieroglyphics-drop-new-single-drum-talk-announce-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Hieroglyphics drop new single &#8220;Drum Talk&#8221; \/ announce new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>HIEROGLYPHICS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW SINGLE \u201cDRUM TALK\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANNOUNCE NEW LP (9\/3\/26)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHieroglyphics remain ever relevant\u201d-<strong>Pitchfork<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hiero is back!\u00a0 Fresh off their international\u00a0<strong>Hiero 360 Tour<\/strong>, the Oakland, CA super-crew has announced their first release in over thirteen years!\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>All Said And Done<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will be released on 9\/3\/26 and the album\u2019s first single \u201c<strong>Drum Talk<\/strong>\u201d is now available\u00a0on all streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrum Talk\u201d features an all-out lyrical smoke session from\u00a0<strong>Casual<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Souls Of Mischief<\/strong>\u00a0members\u00a0<strong>Phesto Dee<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tajai<\/strong>\u00a0as well as\u00a0<strong>Del The Funky Homosapien<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to \u201cDrum Talk\u201d:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/promo.theorchard.com\/OTf4THL8AWSMaUDoZPgu\">https:\/\/promo.theorchard.com\/OTf 4TH 8AWSMaUDo Pgu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the forthcoming album\u00a0(the first official Hieroglyphics release since 2013 mixtape\u00a0<strong><em>The Kitchen<\/em><\/strong>)\u00a0Del beamed \u201cIt\u2019s like the best-case scenario, the way it\u2019s working.\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 It&#8217;s working better than I even could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formed out of the Bay Area, Hiero includes Casual, Souls Of Mischief (a quartet composed of A-Plus, Opio, Phesto and Tajai), Del The Funky Homosapien, Domino, DJ Toure and Pep Love.\u00a0 The crew announced their presence to the world on the track &#8220;<strong>Burnt<\/strong>&#8220;, the B-Side to Del The Funky Homosapien&#8217;s 1991 single &#8220;<strong>Mistadobalina<\/strong>.&#8221; However, it was the 1993 release of Del\u2019s sophomore album,\u00a0<b><em>No Need For Alarm<\/em><\/b>,\u00a0Souls Of Mischief\u2019s debut album,\u00a0<strong><em>93\u2019 Til Infinity<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Casual&#8217;s 1994 debut,\u00a0<strong><em>Fear Itself<\/em><\/strong> that solidified their skills to hip-hop fanatics worldwide. Label frustrations and politics spurred the formation of their own label,\u00a0<strong>Hiero Imperium<\/strong>.\u00a0 In 1998\u00a0Hieroglyphics released their debut album\u00a0<strong><em>Third Eye Vision<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This was followed by 2003\u2019s offering,\u00a0<strong><em>Full Circle<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Info:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hieroglyphics.com\/\">https:\/\/hieroglyphics.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIEROGLYPHICS NEW SINGLE \u201cDRUM TALK\u201d \u00a0 ANNOUNCE NEW LP (9\/3\/26) \u201cHieroglyphics remain ever relevant\u201d-Pitchfork &nbsp; Hiero is back!\u00a0 Fresh off&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-straight-westcoastin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}