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  Pooh Shiesty's debut album arrives while he's in custody, and it's the most complete hour he's given us — here's where to start with it. Pooh Shiesty · All Eyes on Shiest 7 August 2026 · 1017 Global / Atlantic Records There is a song on Pooh Shiesty's new album called "JPay & CorrLinks." If you know what those two names are, you already know where he is while you're listening. That is the frame of All Eyes on Shiest : a Memphis rapper's debut LP, out while he is in federal custody, with a track list that doesn't pretend otherwise. I have not heard a note of it. What follows is a reading of the catalogue, the credits and the release-week coverage, which is the only kind of piece I can honestly write about a record I can't play. The circumstances, briefly, because you'll meet them everywhere else. Wikipedia's entry on Shiesty says he was arrested in April 2026 and charged with federal conspiracy to commit kidnapping and ro...

  Twenty-two songs, fifty-eight minutes and not one guest verse — what Future's tenth album actually is, and why its physical copies are a different record. Future · The Real Me 10 July 2026 · Freebandz / Epic Records Twenty-two songs, fifty-eight minutes and fifty-six seconds, one voice. The Real Me is Future's tenth studio album by the Wikipedia entry's count, out 10 July 2026, and the first thing worth saying about it is what it doesn't have: guests. Every one of the twenty-two tracks in the iTunes catalogue for this record is credited to Future alone. What this actually is The catalogue date is 10 July 2026, and the track dates mostly agree — the first ten carry 8 July, the last eleven carry 10 July. The exception is track eleven, "Radio", which carries 26 June 2026, matching the entry's infobox, where "Radio" is the lead single, released 26 June. So this is an album with a single sitting at eleven, two weeks ahead of everything else. The ...

Eighteen tracks, a producer list eighty names long, three guests and a release date that was hidden inside a block of ice — what Drake's ninth album actually is. Drake · ICEMAN 15 May 2026 · OVO Sound / Republic Records Eighteen songs, just under sixty-nine minutes, and a producer list eighty names long. That is the shape of ICEMAN , Drake's ninth studio album: tagged Hip-Hop/Rap, carrying an explicit advisory, out on 15 May 2026. It is one of three Drake albums released that day, alongside Maid of Honour and Habibti , per the Wikipedia entry. The useful question is not whether it's good. It's whether eighteen tracks of Drake rapping is what you came for. What this actually is The catalogue date is 15 May 2026, and it's the one worth trusting: the collection carries it, and so does every track but one. The exception is track eleven, "What Did I Miss?", dated 5 July 2025 — it came out as a single nearly a year early, the day after Drake began teasing sol...