DJ Drama has returned with this new album I’m Actually Like That — test it out beneath.
Launched on Friday (March 31), the mission clocks in at 14 songs and is stacked with appearances from Lil Wayne, Tyler, The Creator, Lil Child, Jeezy, Lil Uzi Vert, Offset, T.I., Rick Ross, Jack Harlow, Gucci Mane, Westside Gunn and the late Nipsey Hussle, amongst others.
It serves because the Gangsta Grillz basic’s first studio album since 2016’s High quality Avenue Music 2, which was an equally star-studded affair.
Stream I’m Actually Like That beneath.
DJ Drama first teased I’m Actually Like That in December, revealing on Instagram that he was again in album mode.
The Technology Now boss then went on to tease the mission by dropping a collection of clips displaying him reenacting scenes from the 1992 movie Juice.
Throughout a current sit-down with The Breakfast Membership, Drama stated his eagerness to get again into the studio got here after engaged on Tyler, The Creator’s Grammy-winning Name Me If You Get Misplaced in 2021.
“I used to be in a brand new gear ever because the Tyler Name Me If You Get Misplaced sparked. I felt reinvigorated and I ran with it and put this album collectively,” he stated. “I feel he kinda in a way revitalized Gangsta Grillz, simply so far as what was happening with mixtapes.
“Clearly, it was a Grammy Award-winning mission, so yeah, he introduced some life again to it — or we introduced some life again to it.”
Drama has been on a tear since 2021, releasing Gangsta Grillz collaborations with Jeezy (Snofall), Snoop Dogg (I Nonetheless Bought It), French Montana (Coke Boys 6), NBA YoungBoy (Ma’ I Bought a Household) and Jim Jones (We Set the Tendencies), to call only a few.
“I’m not ready of talking politically appropriate anymore,” Drama stated in a current interview with Cigar Discuss. “For what I’ve executed for the tradition and what I’ve given to folks and what I’ve given to Hip Hop, like n-ggas, can’t see me.”
He continued: “Second of all, don’t ever query about what I imply to Hip Hop. What number of traditional mixtapes would we not have if it wasn’t for DJ Drama?”
In different DJ Drama information, he not too long ago revealed {that a} De La Soul Gangsta Grillz tape is on the way in which.
“De La Soul’s coming to streaming. I can’t be extra excited,” he stated. “And we received a Gangsta Grillz coming! Little sidebar.”