Future — Mixtape Pluto

Future has been dropping collaborative albums with Metro Boomin of late, but he’s serving up something new today. After We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You, the ATLien delivers his newest project, Mixtape Pluto.

Longtime collaborator 808 Mafia’s Southside executive produced this project alongside Wheezy. It is “an homage to the Dungeon Family and the late Rico Wade,” according to a press release. “The cover showcases the original Dungeon Family house in Atlanta.”

Despite that inspiration, Pluto still delves into his signature topics outside of the tribute. “You must have forgot who had her before you had her; Future had her,” he raps on “Push the Button.” “There’s no need to go through the data / My new b-tch is badder.”

To go along with the album, Future delivers the “Too Fast” music video. Kid Art directed the clip, which features motor bikes popping wheelies, fancy rides, and New York shopping sprees. The fast-paced video is above and the project is below.

Lil Tecca — Plan A

Lil Tecca is sticking with his first and only option. That’s the foundation of his newest album, Plan A. Following 2023’s TEC and last year’s deluxe edition, the “Ransom” hitmaker delivers a new 18-track project.

Don Toliver acts as the album’s only guest. He appears on “I Can’t Let Go.” Otherwise, Tecca handles the project on his own with the vocals. Meanwhile, Taz Taylor, Rio Leyva, Nash, and Census are among the LP’s producers.

Tecca says the album title is personal. “I think it summarizes where I was at in my life when I was 14 and I decided I wanted to rap and only rap,” he recently told Billboard. “There would be people in class saying I should have a backup plan. I was like, ‘Not really, bro. I don’t got a backup plan.’”

But, he also says that the album has a universal quality that can apply to others who may look up to him: “Besides it being about me, the message is: decide what you wanna do and do it.”

GloRilla — “Hollon”

GloRilla has been on fire. Her Ehhthan Ehhthang mixtape spawned hits like “Yeah Glo!” And “Wanna Be” with Megan Thee Stallion. Then, she unleashed “TGIF” in the heat of the summer. Now, she’s prepping for her album Glorious with its first official single, “Hollon.”

FNZ, SkipOnDaBeat, and DJ Montay produced this banger. “Do my dance on them folks / It gets tough, it goes down soon as I land on them folks,” she says with the intensity she’s known for. Then, she adds a splash of even more confidence in the second verse: “Hear the engine roar, switch to sport / I got somewhere to be, lil’ baby, I’m important.”

Glo spoke about her creative energy with Shannon Sharpe earlier this year, explaining her album mode zone. “My thought process is not thinking too hard,” she explained. “I told myself to stop overthinking. I was just trying to stretch out. But the whole time, I got big off being me. So I was like, ‘I don’t need to try to be bigger than what I really am. People like me for me.’ So I’m like, okay. I don’t need to be bigger than what I already am. People like me for me.”

Now Glo is gearing up to drop more music. “So grateful to be sharing this with y’all,” she wrote on social media. Glorious is due Oct. 11.

Lecrae — “Die for the Party”

When Kendrick Lamar released his recent untitled song, he pondered “What Lecrae would do.” Fans have been calling the song “Watch the Party Die” due to the song’s refrain. Now, Lecrae unleashes his response in the form of “Die for the Party.”

The veteran rhymer says he was conflicted about his release at first. “I was wrestlin’ like, ‘Should I write a verse?’ / The culture got enough clout-chasing vultures out here tryna prove their worth,” he raps. “They need attention / They can’t imagine me not tryna make myself look bigger off of this Kendrick mention.”

Soon, he reveals pieces of his backstory. “My daddy ran with Compton Crips, my uncle’s Piru / Stuck in the middle of this madness, what should I choose? / I should be choosin’ between Howard and Hampton / I love the people that I ran with but look at the damage.”

Finally, he shares some religious symbolism. “I walk through valleys full of evil, I’m aware of it / I can’t condemn the world and burn all of the heretics / Love is patient so I’m trustin’ in the narrative / And Christ ain’t watch the party die, He died instead of it.”

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