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Pharrell Addresses The Killing Of Keith Scott By Police On New N.E.R.D. Album

N.E.R.D. premiered the new album — featuring Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran and more — Saturday in Long Beach, California.
N.E.R.D.'s new album will mark the first LP by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley since 2010's Nothing. / Sean Gardner / Getty Images

"We're here right now because no one ever really dies."

Coming from anyone other than the superproducer Pharrell Williams, that might've sounded like the opening incantation of some esoteric religious experience. But on Saturday night, Williams' pulpit was ComplexCon, where his genre-bending band N.E.R.D. made a surprise reveal.

Two days after returning from, Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley took the stage of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Complex to premiere the new album, in its entirety.

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