In the summer of 2008, the trio rented a home in Los Angeles and began recording their debut studio album, Incredibad (2009), over the course of three months.[15] The album is composed of new songs and pre-existing songs debuted and recorded for SNL. Many songs recorded for the album would later premiere as Digital Shorts in the following season of SNL.[15] In contrast to their work at SNL, the troupe went through each song in detail, taking their time to craft the album.[24] For the first time, the group incorporated professional mixing and mastering, leading to an improved sound quality of the recordings.[24] The first song they created for the record "Jizz in My Pants", was the lead single and debuted as an SNL Digital Short in December 2008.[24] It received millions of views, and was their first single to go platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[25]

Incredibad was released a dual CD/DVD set in February 2009.[24][26] Their next significant viral success was "I'm on a Boat", a collaboration with T-Pain that spoofs hip-hop excess. The trio had met T-Pain when he guested on SNL a year prior, who confirmed he was a fan of Hot Rod.[24] "I'm on a Boat" was a bigger success than its predecessor, going double-platinum and earning a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 52nd Grammy Awards.[25][27] Although not an official single, based on digital downloads, "Like a Boss" was certified gold.[25] The record sold nearly 250,000 units in 2009, making it the year's eighth bestselling hip hop album.[5]

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The group returned to Los Angeles, renting the same home and setting up a makeshift studio to record Turtleneck & Chain (2011), their follow-up to Incredibad.[15] On January 29, 2011, the group debuted "The Creep" featuring Nicki Minaj and a cameo by filmmaker John Waters, on SNL and YouTube. On March 15, 2011, Direct Current Music reported that the album would be named Turtleneck & Chain and would be released on May 10, 2011.[28] On April 1, 2011, the Lonely Island appeared as guests on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where they premiered the lead track, "We're Back!", as well as the new album cover.[29] On April 19, 2011, the group released "Motherlover" featuring Justin Timberlake as the fourth single from the album. This song was last featured on season 34 of SNL.

The group held a fundraiser to promote their new album on April 16, 2011 at Amoeba Music in Berkeley, California.[30] There were only 250 tickets available, and the only way to obtain a ticket was to preorder their album. They hosted a Q&A session and an autograph session. Shortly after, "Motherlover" was released on iTunes. On May 7, they released a new track, "Jack Sparrow", featuring Michael Bolton singing passionately about the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Turtleneck & Chain was both Emmy nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and Grammy nominated for Best Comedy Album.[31][32]

Despite these obstacles, the trio regrouped in late 2012 to begin recording their third album for Republic Records, which they titled The Wack Album (a homage to minimalist titles such as The White Album).[34] Rather than rent the same home in Encino, they cut the album in nearby Los Feliz at a home equipped with a professional recording unit.[35] Taccone and Samberg again lived together; Schaffer, now with a family, simply drove over each day to record and write.[35] For the album's production, they solidified song premises long before receiving beats for each song, which came from both high-level and low-level producers.[33] In some cases, the trio made the beats themselves.[33]

The album's lead single, "YOLO" featuring Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar, with a prominent sample from the song Whirring from the Welsh band The Joy Formidable, premiered on SNL in January 2013. The song is an anthem parodying the phrase "you only live once" and a culture lacking caution and responsibility.[33] It was their first return to SNL since their respective departures; as such, the video was co-funded by the program.[33][34] To promote the album, the trio released music videos for each song each Wednesday ("Wack Wednesdays") leading up to its release.[34] Among the music videos produced include "Diaper Money" (a trap song regarding adulthood, aging, and impending death), "Semicolon" (which spoofs the popularity of hashtag rap), and "Go Kindergarten".[33][36] "Spring Break Anthem" juxtaposes raucous and irresponsible spring break behavior with descriptions of same-sex marriage.[36] "We wanted to show just how ridiculous it is that spring break behavior is considered normal and gay marriage is insane when it's actually the opposite," said Schaffer.[36] The group wanted to mount a full-scale tour behind the album, but other opportunities (Samberg's comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine was just ordered as a series by Fox at the time) made it difficult.[34]

In 2014, the troupe signed a deal with Fox to develop serial comedy programming for digital platforms[37] and were listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 YouTube Channels, ranked at number 70.[38] Later that year, Universal Studios acquired a pitch from the trio for a second feature film, which was co-produced by Judd Apatow. Schaffer and Taccone co-directed the film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which was released on June 3, 2016[39][40] along with a corresponding soundtrack album.[41] The trio promoted the film by airing a Digital Short for the track "Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song)" during the Saturday Night Live season 41 finale.[42]

In 2017, the group released Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special, a Netflix special starring Michael Bolton and featuring numerous cameos from celebrities and SNL cast members. On May 23, 2019, the group released a Netflix special, advertised as a "visual poem" to go with a new album, The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, itself framed as a rap album written and performed by baseball players Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire in the 1980s, while the pair were known as the Bash Brothers while playing for the Oakland Athletics.[46]

The comedic influences of the group include SNL forebears such as Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, the Monty Python troupe and the Marx Brothers.[52] While the group is most strongly inspired by hip-hop and R&B, the lyrics are commonly rooted in self-deprecation as is reflected in a 2011 interview conducted shortly before the release of Turtleneck and Chain.[53] The Lonely Island's debut Incredibad was produced with the goal in mind to make an impact on listeners just as They're All Gonna Laugh At You (1993), a musical comedy album by Adam Sandler, had heavily influenced Samberg.[54] Songs by the Lonely Island rarely exceed three minutes, as brevity is very important to the troupe, who believe that is "about as much as the audience can stand."[55]

The discography of American comedy music troupe The Lonely Island consists of three studio albums, two soundtrack albums, twenty-four singles and thirty-six music videos. Group members Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone began creating live skits, comedy shorts and music parodies together in the early 2000s, having met the previous decade, during their high school years.[1] The Lonely Island later caught the attention of television producer Lorne Michaels, who was impressed by their material.[1] Michaels subsequently hired Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone as cast members and writers for his live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.[2] Two musical shorts created by the group for the show, "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", gained popularity on the Internet and garnered much media attention.[1]

The Lonely Island's 2008 single "Jizz in My Pants" later became the group's first entry on the United States Billboard Hot 100 record chart, where it peaked at number 72.[3] Incredibad, their debut studio album, was released on February 10, 2009, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200.[4] It topped the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart and has sold 358,000 copies in the United States.[5] "I'm on a Boat", the album's third single, peaked at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2010 Grammy Awards.[3][6] The single was later certified two times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[7]

However, Samberg left "Saturday Night Live" in 2012, and there was only one more Lonely Island album that was released after that. "The Wack Album" arrived in 2013 and it featured new original songs alongside some other tunes that had premiered on "SNL" before Samberg's departure. Since then, The Lonely Island has reunited for the mockumentary "Popstar: Never Stop Stopping." Though it's not an official Lonely Island album, Samberg, Shaffer, and Taccone all starred in the movie (with the latter two also directing) and wrote the music for Samberg's fictional rapper Conner4Real.

"Every time one of us finishes something, they start texting the other two, being like, 'When are we going to make another album? What are you guys doing?' Then as soon as they start something else, then it's someone else's turn. So between kids, and Jorma lives on the East Coast, and projects and eight years of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' we're doing our best. But it has been hard, and we know that we're dumb asses for not doing it more, because it's always our favorite stuff in a lot of ways. But even this, they're producers on 'Digman!,' so we get feedback. But yeah, I don't have a good answer. I'm hoping soon is the short answer."

As someone who went out of their way to catch The Lonely Island in Detroit (they snubbed Chicago for some reason), I would be thrilled to have The Lonely Island get back together with a new album. After all, we don't get regular material from them on "Saturday Night Live" anymore, and even though the three are always collaborating on something, it would be wonderful to have their go back to their hip-hop comedy roots. We'll keep our fingers crossed that they'll creep back into our ears soon enough. 0852c4b9a8

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