New York rapper Joey Bada$$ has detailed his new album today, including the album’s title, and it’s features. The project, titled All Amerikkkan Bada$$$ will be the follow up to 2015’s B4.DA.$$, will arrive on April 17, released through a collaboration of Pro Era and Cinematic Music Group. Joey took to Twitter to show the full tracklist, and guests on the album.
In terms of features, Joey has enlisted some of the top names in US hip-hop to guest on the album, including J. Cole, Schoolboy Q, Styles P, Chronixx, and Flatbush Zombies’ Meechy Darko. Alongside this, fellow Pro Era members Kurt Knight and Nyck Caution, which is unsurprising considering Joey’s passion for remembering his roots, which he has shown on previous projects.
The album will also include previously released songs ‘Devastated’ and ‘Land of the Free’. Given some of the titles of the tracks on the upcoming project, it might be fair to assume that Joey will bring some political lyricism and commentary, especially when enlisting similarly vocal artists like J.Cole.
As well as working on hist latest album, the 21 year old has also recently made his acting debut, the Brooklyn-set, Golden Globe-winning Amazon Prime show Mr. Robot, and spoke to Rolling Stone about his long-held passion for acting, in an interview before the second season’s premiere.
“I decided that, if music works out, acting will be relatively more easy. I could just use music as a leverage to get into acting. ‘Cause, especially coming out of New York City, there’s so many people trying to get into acting, just like there’s so many people trying to get into music. It’s almost like the same amount of people in the pool of it, you know. So if one is taking off already, I just decided I’d rather use that one to leverage to get to the other one. But they’re both things that I’m really passionate about. Of course, music being my number one, but I’ve always been passionate about acting.”
Joey also revealed that he had initially been cast in the Netflix-produced Obama documentary Barry, but he due had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts, elaborating that “I missed out on the Obama movie for Coachella. That’s one hell of a story to tell.”