New Music Friday: New Albums From Yeat, Benny The Butcher, 03 Greedo & More

This new’s New Music Friday highlights Hip Hop’s regional and sonic diversity — from the rugged raps of its birthplace to and the trunk-rattling trap flavor of the South to the modern innovations from some of its youngest and hottest stars.

Yeat continues to prove himself as one of the most intriguing artists of the current generation with his fifth album LYFESTYLE, while veterans such as Benny The Butcher, 38 Spesh and 03 Greedo further feed their fanbases.

Elsewhere, Memphis’ Big Boogie caps off his breakout 2024 with the star-studded Ether and Jennifer Hudson reminds fans she’s not just a TV host these days.

See the full list of new albums below and check out this week’s stacked New Music Friday singles spotlight featuring new tracks from Drake, Gunna, Wizkid, Ab-Soul, Danny Brown and more.

Yeat — LYFESTYLE

Features: Lil Durk, Kodak Black, Don Toliver, Summrs

Production: Synthetic, Sharkboy, Primo, Rafeprod, Yeat

Label: Lyfestyle Corporation / Field Trip / Capitol

The enigmatic masked superstar releases his fifth album before even turning 25 and continues to show his evolution and maturation as an artist. Buoyed by some big-name features, LYFESTYLE finds Yeat playing with sounds that range from ’80s disco to electro dubstep and just about everything in between.

Benny The Butcher & 38 Spesh — Stabbed & Shot 2

Features: Busta Rhymes, Dave East, Ransom, Elcamino, Klass Murda, OT The Real

Production: Harry Fraud, Bink!, Daringer, V Don, Aesthetic

Label: T.C.F. Music Group / Black Soprano Family

Over a decade of working together has not meant Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh have gotten lazy — in fact, quite the opposite as their chemistry is as electric as ever on the sequel to their 2018 collaborative album.

03 Greedo & Helluva — Hella Greedy

Features: G Herbo, Rob49, Maxo Kream, Vae Vanilla

Production: Helluva, Twizz, Whitlock Beats, Swshr, Rizzo

Label: Alamo / Sony

His whopping 17th mixtape, the West Coast lynchpin shows no signs of slowing down as he appears to be better than ever following his release from prison last year.

Big Boogie — Ether

Features: GloRilla, Moneybagg Yo, 42 Dugg, DJ Drama, YTB Fatt, Lakeyah

Production: Real Red, Carter Z, YPM Carter, UncleFinesse, Lil k33 Beats

Label: CMG

Jennifer Hudson — The Gift of Love

Features: Common, The Joy

Production: James Poyser, Ryan Tedder, Kirk Franklin, Greg Phillinganes, David Foster

Label: JHUD Productions / Interscope

Jean Dawson — Glimmer of God

Features: Lil Yachty, BONES

Production: Jean Dawson, Wyatt Bernard, Hoskins, Biako, Johnny May

Label: P+

TisaKorean — In Silly We Trust

Features: Don Toliver, TiaCorine

Production: TisaKorean

Label: JaZZZy / Nice Life

ian — Goodbye Horses

Features: Chief Keef, Lil Yachty

Production: Chief Keef, WondaGurl, Taz Taylor, Sxprano, ian

Label: Bu Vision / Columbia

DJ Muggs, CRIMEAPPLE & RLX — Los Pollos Hermanos

Features: T.F., Primo Profit

Production: DJ Muggs

Label: Soul Assassins

Jaden Smith — 2024: A Case Study of the Long Term Effects of Young Love (EP)

Features: N/A

Production: Askel Arvid Hauge, Omarr Rambert, LastNght, LeXoskeleton, Ayo, LeauxFi

Label: MSFTSrep / Three Six Zero