Westside Gunn has announced the release date for his new album Still Praying.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (October 1), the prolific Buffalo, New York rapper announced the album’s release date as November 1 and also unveiled the project’s cover art, which features recently deceased professional wrestler Sid Eudy.
Gunn also commented on the upcoming release and how he expects it to birth a new era for Griselda Records.
“THIS IS FOR BIG DUMP, MICHELLE, GDAD, VIRGIL, CHINEGUN, SLY GREEN, KUTTER, SHOTS, BACON, BEHIND THE WALL and BUFFALO!!!!!!” he wrote, referencing family, friends and collaborators who have passed away. “I promise y’all about to witness a new chapter in this shit starting NOW!!!!”
He added: “STILL PRAYING is the beginning of a new era of @griseldarecords I promise y’all I’m a make sure y’all never forget this shit, just support the ART and watch how life change for the better.
“FLYGOD IS AN AWESOME GOD, when everybody thought I was just chillin I was actually curating the illest ART (WRESTLING/FASHION/MUSIC) I ever Made but now it’s time to show y’all everything I been working on. I’m a show y’all why it’ll never be another WESTSIDE GUNN.”
Westside Gunn also has a number of other projects in the works as the acclaimed MC appears to be on a burst of creativity of late.
In addition to the long-teased Michelle Records, he announced in August that he’ll be releasing a new album called Flygod Is An Awesome God III (Trilogy).
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This recording spree marks a sharp U-turn from comments that the “Euro Step” rhymer made last year when he declared that And Then You Pray For Me would be his last studio album.
“[This is] going to be the last album where I take the time to say ‘this is an album,’” he told Rolling Stone. “When I was doing the Hitler Wears Hermes series, I was doing all them projects like mixtapes. I was recording the whole shit in two, three days.
“I’m not saying I won’t come with a five-song EP with Madlib or I won’t do a seven-song EP with Alchemist or I won’t rap. I’ll do all of that, but making a studio album, I’m done with all that.”
