{"id":720364,"date":"2026-04-08T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/isaiah-rashad-announces-new-album-its-been-awful-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:25:09","slug":"isaiah-rashad-announces-new-album-its-been-awful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/isaiah-rashad-announces-new-album-its-been-awful-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Rashad Announces New Album \u2018It\u2019s Been Awful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah Rashad is making his long-awaited return next month with his first album in five years.<\/p>\n

The Tennessee native has announced his new album It’s Been Awful<\/em>, which will be released on May 1 via Top Dawg Entertainment and Warner Records.<\/p>\n

Along with a cinematic trailer for the project, which depicts Rashad limping across a field after a vicious attack, the TDE MC has launched pre-saves for the lead single “Same Sh!t,”<\/a> set to drop soon.<\/p>\n

It also app<\/a>ears that Zaywop is plotting an accompanying tour, with his new interactive website<\/a> displaying an It’s Been Awful Tour poster. Fans can also hear a snippet of an unreleased instrumental, presumably from his upcoming album, when they visit the site.<\/p>\n

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Isaiah Rashad began teasing his new album earlier this week, posting a cryptic card on his Instagram Stories that read: “Everybody wanna see you crash out, fall off, and burn out all for their entertainment. I just wanna see you smile.”<\/p>\n

The back of the card featured the phrase “it’s been awful,” which fans now know is the name of his next project.<\/p>\n

Fellow TDE artists Doechii, ScHoolboy Q, SiR and others also lent their support to Rashad’s rollout by tweeting out his album title on their respective social media<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n

Zay previously discussed the direction of his third studio album in an interview with VICE<\/em><\/a> last year, naming OutKast, Prince and Foushe\u00e9 as inspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest inspiration for me was Foushe\u00e9,” he said. “Prince, I\u2019ve been having ‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’ on repeat for 2-3 months. Then, for this tail-end part of my project, this girl PLUTO from Atlanta. She\u2019s been inspiring me and this other girl BunnaB.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I\u2019m touching more [OutKast\u2019s] Stankonia<\/em> and The Love Below<\/em> more than anything else. I would say Top [Dawg] made compromises for the creativity on this one, so I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old also described the album’s sound as a “sultry southern mix mixed with a deep sense of intimacy. Everything from twangy rock and psychedelia to tender intimacy to the kind of trunk-rattling you\u2019d only hear down south,” according to the publication.<\/p>\n

It’s Been Awful<\/em> serves as the follow-up to Isaiah Rashad’s 2021 album The House is Burning<\/em>, which itself came after a half-decade hiatus from music following his fan-favorite effort The Sun’s Tirade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The post Isaiah Rashad Announces New Album ‘It’s Been Awful’ appeared first on HipHopDX.<\/p>\n