{"id":2444450,"date":"2019-05-21T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838357"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:14:32","slug":"flying-lotus-denzel-curry-complete-trilogy-with-black-balloons-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flying-lotus-denzel-curry-complete-trilogy-with-black-balloons-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Lotus, Denzel Curry Complete Trilogy With \u2018Black Balloons Reprise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flying-lotus.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/flying-lotus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_flying-lotus\" data-tag=\"flying-lotus\">Flying Lotus<\/a> and Denzel Curry have teamed to complete the latter\u2019s \u201cBlack Balloons\u201d song trilogy with \u201cBlack Balloons Reprise,\u201d set to appear on FlyLo\u2019s new album, <em>Flamagra<\/em>, out May 24th via Warp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denzelcurry\/status\/1130851082496692225?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, Curry wrote, \u201cThe trilogy is complete,\u201d acknowledging the song\u2019s place among his two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/how-denzel-curry-reinvented-himself-on-ta13oo-704467\/\"><em>TA1300<\/em><\/a> tracks \u201cBlack Balloons\u201d and \u201cThe Blackest Balloon.\u201d Like those cuts, \u201cBlack Balloons Reprise\u201d finds Curry painting a vivid portrait of depression and pessimism as he spits, \u201cThe day the black balloon explodes, we all die\/Nobody couldn\u2019t handle the truth, we all lie\/They wait to see the real exposed\/Till then I kick that funky shit until my casket closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Flying Lotus also spoke about the song\u2019s beat on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flyinglotus\/status\/1130841689969516544?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, dedicating the track to Madlib and Now-Again Records founder Egon. \u201cWhen I was in college I heard [Quasimoto\u2019s] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_5edxArGT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u2018Come on Feet\u2019<\/a> it relit my love for sampling and eventually changed my world,\u201d FlyLo said. \u201cLove to you legends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBlack Balloons Reprise\u201d follows previously released <em>Flamagra<\/em> tracks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-anderson-paaks-more-video-834460\/\">\u201cMore,\u201d<\/a> featuring Anderson .Paak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-david-lynch-new-song-fire-is-coming-video-823372\/\">\u201cFire Is Coming\u201d<\/a> featuring David Lynch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-delivers-funked-out-space-jams-spontaneous-takashi-825675\/\">\u201cSpontaneous\u201d and \u201cTakashi.\u201d<\/a> <em>Flamagra<\/em> marks Flying Lotus\u2019 first studio album since 2014\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/youre-dead-100886\/\"><em>You\u2019re Dead!<\/em><\/a> and also features contributions from Solange, George Clinton, Tierra Whack, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces and Toro y Moi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Flying Lotus will embark on a North American tour in support of <em>Flamagra<\/em> with a set at Outside Lands in San Francisco August 9th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-denzel-curry-new-song-black-balloons-reprise-838357\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Lotus and Denzel Curry have teamed to complete the latter\u2019s \u201cBlack Balloons\u201d song trilogy with \u201cBlack Balloons Reprise,\u201d set to appear on FlyLo\u2019s new album, Flamagra, out May 24th via Warp. On Twitter, Curry wrote, \u201cThe trilogy is complete,\u201d acknowledging the song\u2019s place among his two TA1300 tracks \u201cBlack Balloons\u201d and \u201cThe Blackest Balloon.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 13:03:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}