Transfer over, Cardi B. Brent Faiyaz introduced his upcoming album, Icon, on Thursday (July 3), which is slated to hit streaming providers on Sept. 19 — the identical day as Cardi’s Am I the Drama?.
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Faiyaz despatched followers right into a frenzy with a submit to his Instagram Story that includes the album title and a attainable cowl artwork for Icon, alongside the anticipated launch date of Sept. 19.
The R&B singer’s losing no time kicking off the rollout on Friday (July 4) when a pair of singles, named after famed fictional characters “Tony Soprano” and “Peter Pan,” will arrive.
A snippet finds Faiyaz lending his intoxicating croon to laid-back manufacturing: “I want that I may breathe underwater/ I’ll swim to the deepest ocean to be the place you’re, babe/ If I could possibly be there, I’d love you inside out,” he sings.
Icon serves as Faiyaz’s first studio album since 2022’s Wasteland, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He additionally launched a mixtape in 2023 with Bigger Than Life that includes Missy Elliott, A$AP Rocky, Babyface Ray, Coco Jones and Tommy Richman.
Forward of the mixtape’s arrival, Billboard reported that Faiyaz inked a profitable distribution take care of UnitedMasters and launched his ISO Supremacy report label/inventive company.
“My function musically and artistically, that’s probably not up for me to interpret,” Faiyaz advised Billboard in 2024. “There are nonetheless much more issues I wish to be taught. However now I’m realizing how vital it was to interrupt the mould so that individuals can see my story, see what we did and say, ‘All proper, I can do this. It’s simply one other method to go about it. It doesn’t actually should be so black and white.’ That has been my function: to usher on this new wave of inventive freedom.”