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. It was released on November 17, 2022, through

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and Question Everything. The release of a final album during 2022 was announced during the band's performance at the 2022

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festival. ''The Family'' was thought to be this final studio album, and was advertised as such, until the announcement of '' TM'' in a promo image that was released alongside ''The Family''.

Background

In January 2022, Brockhampton announced their disbandment via social media, which was to follow their scheduled performances at O₂ Academy Brixton and Coachella. During their performance at Coachella on April 16, 2022, they announced a then unnamed final album, to be released in the same year. Two days later, the video projected during the performance would be released to their

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page, titled "Message from Brockhampton".

Promotion

In October 2022, Brockhampton created a private

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user name
@imissthebandalready
An image of the unfollowed state of this page would be reposted on the band's official Instagram page's story in the latter half of October. On October 27, 2022, Brockhampton posted a one-minute video titled "I Miss the Band Already" to their YouTube and Instagram pages, teasing a final album announcement. In the comments of the Instagram video,

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stated that there would be a follow-up in "one hour..." As such, an hour later, an album teaser for ''The Family'' was released to their YouTube and Instagram pages, announcing a release date of November 17, 2022, and the album cover was posted to their various social media accounts. On November 4, 2022, "Big Pussy" was released as the first single from ''The Family''. On November 11, "The Ending" was released as the second single from the album. On November 16, 2022, Brockhampton posted a final teaser for the album titled "It All Comes Out In The Wash" to their YouTube and Instagram pages. One day later, on November 17 2022, the album released alongside a music video for the final single RZA.

Track listing

Samples

* "Take It Back" contains excerpts from "Miracle", written by Raymond A. Myles. * "RZA" contains excerpts from "The Big Draft", written by

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and

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. * "Big Pussy" contains excerpts from "Victim", performed by

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, "Bulan", written by Mario Candido Rusca, "Love Is the Reason", written by William A. Keyes and samples from "Hustlin", performed by

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. * "All That" contains interpolation from "All That", written by

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and Arnold Hennings. * "Southside" contains excerpts from "You Are So Brave (Funeral Dirge)". * "Good Time" contains a sample of the recording "Jesus Is the World to Me", performed by Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir. * "37th" contains excerpts from "

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", written by

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and

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. * "Boyband" contains excerpts from "In God's Own Time (My Change Will Come)", written by John W. Hason. * "The Family" contains excerpts from "New Day", written by Donald Breedlove and Napoleon Crayton, "September in the Rain", written by

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, and samples from "New Day" by Band Of Thieves. * "The Ending" contains excerpts from "Let Me Be the One Baby", performed by

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. * "Brockhampton" contains excerpts from "I Can't Fake It Anymore", performed by

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Personnel

Production and arrangement *

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– production (2–5, 10, 15, 17), additional production (1), executive production * Boylife – production (6–9, 11–12, 14–17), additional production (1, 13), executive production * Nick Velez – production (1, 4, 13), additional production (2–3, 14) Musicians *

– lead vocals * Bearface – additional vocals (13, 15), background vocals (11) * Boylife – additional vocals (1, 6, 13, 16) *

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– additional vocals (2, 11) * Caitlyn Harris – additional vocals (2, 5) *

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– additional vocals (5) * Vanessa "Nettie" Wood – additional vocals (9) * Erik Shiboski – upright bass (4) * "Robot" Scott Carter – piano (13), programming (13) Technical personnel * Bearface – recording (1–5, 10, 17) * Boylife – recording (6–9, 11–16) *

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– mixing * Honey Canin – mixing assistant *

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– mastering Design * No Tricks – art direction, design * Chris Albo – art direction, design * Leslie Qi – art direction, design * Amanda Alborano – art direction, design

Charts

References

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