It’s been almost three years since dvsn‘s last album, Working On My Karma. However, fans finally have an explanation behind the duo’s delayed new music.
Vocalist Daniel Daley and producer Nineteen85 revealed on Twitter/X on Monday (June 2) that they’ve found a new home with Jermaine Dupri‘s So So Def Recordings under its new worldwide distribution partnership with HYBE AMERICA.
“After working with the group on their last album, going to their shows, seeing how much their fans love them, and then when I heard they had just become free agents, I had to sign them and make dvsn my first signing at So So Def/HYBE,” Dupri said in a statement.
The group replied, “4 Everyone that’s been wondering what’s been going on and where’s the new music… It’s otw.”
Under dvsn’s new deal, HYBE AMERICA will manage worldwide distribution while So So Def oversees all creative direction and releases. They were previously signed to Drake’s OVO Sound in partnership with Warner Records.
Under OVO, the R&B duo released four studio albums: SEPT 5TH (2016), Morning After (2017), A Muse In Her Feelings (2020), and the aforementioned Working On My Karma (2022). 2021’s Amusing Her Feelings was the deluxe installment to their 2020 LP and they also released a joint EP with Ty Dolla $ign that year titled Cheers to the Best Memories.
Dupri co-produced dvsn’s “polarizingly honest” single, “If I Get Caught,” with Bryan-Michael Cox and Nineteen85.
Of their last album and what it represents for them overall, Daley told VIBE exclusively, “We are a group that tries to make sure we’re making moments, but also just tries to keep progressing the conversation of R&B. It’s the ideology of dvsn that’s still here, which is always being cool with being separate from the pack, being unapologetically on your own wave, in your own vibe. This is us trying to help reset the systems, refresh the palette, bring some more traditional R&B to the forefront as far as the sound, but then also still progress it with the writing and the topics and being very real about where we are today in the relationship in society and the human experience.”
dvsn’s new single is set to drop this summer.
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