Westside Gunn has unveiled the release date for his Pray For Paris sequel, & THEN U PRAY FOR ME, and he’s already labeled it “a classic.”
The Griselda rapper celebrated the third anniversary of his 2020 Pray For Paris LP on Monday (April 17) by announcing that & THEN U PRAY FOR ME will be arriving on June 23 in the midst of Paris Fashion Week.
“HAPPY BDAY to a MASTERPIECE, this album changed my life forever,” Gunn wrote on Instagram. “I wanna thank the Late Great my brother @virgilabloh for everything he has done for me and continue to do for me, “& THEN U PRAY FOR ME” drops Jun 23rd.
“YES this is PRAY FOR PARIS 2 releasing Fri during FASHION WEEK June This will be a diff kindve ART piece something special something diff, I also want to thank EVERYONE that was involved in this project we made a classic.”
Fans flooded the FLYGOD’s comment section reminiscing on the 2020 album.
“This album helped me get through quarantine,” one person wrote, while another added: “the first time i heard the legendary ‘BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOM!'”
While teasing the sequel in February, Westside Gunn explained he’d been living overseas for the last month and been hard at work on his forthcoming album, while also sharpening his skills as a fashion designer and becoming the best version of himself.
“40Days 40 Nights… SUPER FLYGOD has RISEN!!For the Past month I’ve been living overseas learning and building becoming the best designer I could possibly be, making my new album ‘& THEN U PRAY FOR ME’ and traveling with my son FLYGOD JR.,” he wrote.
“I haven’t been on social media, I’ve been living a healthy, sucka free life and I just have a new energy.. I wanna thank the fans for there concerns and truthfully I feel better than I ever have… stronger, smarter!!!”
The Buffalo native continued: “I can’t wait to show u the new designs, drop the new music, and see the curations I’ve been putting together… GOD IS THE GREATEST now it’s ‘SUPER FLYGOD’ WSGUNN doesn’t even exist anymore more I LOVE YALL.”
Pray For Paris arrived in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic with much of the globe in lockdown mode on April 17, 2020.
The project peaked at No. 67 on the Billboard 200 and featured assists from Tyler, The Creator, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Freddie Gibbs, Joey Bada$$, Boldy James, Wale and more.
More recently, Westside Gunn joined Conway The Machine to assist on his double-single “Quarters/Brucifix.” Earlier this month, the pair of Griselda rhymers turned opulent scenes from a recent trip to Paris into the footage used for the track’s luxe music video.
It’s for others to say an album is a classic
Don’t know how people can sit and listen to a Westside Gunn album in full. I can’t even get through the first song without his nails-on-chalkboard voice assaulting my eardrums. People say he picks great beats but voice also matters. He’s the modern day Master P if anything.
I agree listening to a whole WSG album isn’t an easy thing to do. In the beginning I couldn’t stand his voice but it grew on me after a while. However, his corny gun adlibs are unbearable and cringy as hell. I’ve listened to basically his whole solo catalog and for the most part the beats are split like 60 percent dope and 40 percent not so dope. He’s definitely an acquired taste and not for everyone and this is coming from someone who used to not feel him at all until I listened to his whole catalog and changed my opinion of him a bit.
Dope. Can’t wait for this. He has the best ish. Voice is dope too.
Nah
Pray for Paris was an outstanding album. I understand all the criticisms this guy gets for his adlibs etc., but at the end of the day, can you rap? Is the beat dope? Is the track still playable years later? That album had FIRE production. Preem, Alchemist, it’s actually slept on IMO.