No ID & Saba Announce Release Date For Joint Album
Today, RIAA gold-selling Chicago rap virtuoso and Pivot Gang leader Saba and GRAMMY® Award-winning super-producer and the “Godfather of Chicago Hip-Hop” No ID reveal the release date for their highly-anticipated joint album, “From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID” will be March 18th, via ARTium Recordings/Pivot Gang Records, LLC.
The announcement follows on the heels of album singles “head.rap,” “How To Impress God,” and the most recent offering, “Woes of the World.” These tracks, as well as the album, are the result of Saba and No ID spending the second half of 2023 in the studio, reimagining their album from the ground up, resulting in a project more nuanced and expansive than previously imagined.
For Saba and No ID, the process of making From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID was long, involved, and not always linear. Beginning life as a mixtape, it entailed mountains of demos, months of reconsideration, and even a hard reset. Yet when the time came to push the button, there was no hesitation. “From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID” is the sort of record rap fans across generations adore: technically dazzling but thematically dense, irresistibly kinetic even as it dives deep into Saba’s psyche.
A year ago, the duo thought they were finished with the project, but Saba losing his uncle forced him to reevaluate.
“He’s the person who made me fall in love with hip-hop,” Saba says. “It made me want to re-approach things; I had to have a lot of conversations with myself that I hadn’t had to have in a long time.”
Both Saba and No ID believe that the way to build a legacy—one that honors what came before while forging new ground—is to worry about being as honest as possible in the moment, and let questions of posterity sort themselves out later.
“To be able to have a real career, you have to reinvent your thought process, reinvent your perspective,” No ID explains. “And you can’t do it sitting on the mountaintop, yelling about what you did. You think you know—and then everything changes.”
In the midst of working on the project, the two artists earned a number of notable individual accomplishments. Earlier in 2024, Saba released “Don’t Check 4 Me,” with Nascent and Duckworth, right after hopping on Valee and Harry Fraud’s “Watermelon Automobile.” Meanwhile, No ID has continued to solidify his status as one of the most influential producers in the game, co-producing “American Requiem” from Beyoncé’s latest cultural phenomenon COWBOY CARTER alongside Jon Batiste and a plethora of genius hitmakers. He also executive produced Killer Mike’s sixth studio album MICHAEL, snagging a Best Rap Song GRAMMY Award for his work on “Scientists & Engineers.”
Stay tuned for more from Saba and No ID and get ready for…”From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID.”
