Brent Faiyaz Announces New ‘Icon’ Album: See When It Arrives
It's the singer's first studio album since 2022's Wasteland.
Move over, Cardi B. Brent Faiyaz announced his upcoming album, Icon, on Thursday (July 3), which is slated to hit streaming services on Sept. 19 — the same day as Cardi’s Am I the Drama?.
Faiyaz sent fans into a frenzy with a post to his Instagram Story featuring the album title and a possible cover art for Icon, alongside the expected release date of Sept. 19.
The R&B singer’s wasting no time kicking off the rollout on Friday (July 4) when a pair of singles, named after famed fictional characters “Tony Soprano” and “Peter Pan,” will arrive.
A snippet finds Faiyaz lending his intoxicating croon to laid-back production: “I wish that I could breathe underwater/ I’ll swim to the deepest ocean to be where you are, babe/ If I could be there, I would love you inside out,” he sings.
Icon serves as Faiyaz’s first studio album since 2022’s Wasteland, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He also released a mixtape in 2023 with Larger Than Life featuring Missy Elliott, A$AP Rocky, Babyface Ray, Coco Jones and Tommy Richman.
Ahead of the mixtape’s arrival, Billboard reported that Faiyaz inked a lucrative distribution deal with UnitedMasters and launched his ISO Supremacy record label/creative agency.
“My role musically and artistically, that’s not really up for me to interpret,” Faiyaz told Billboard in 2024. “There are still a lot more things I want to learn. But now I’m realizing how important it was to break the mold so that people can see my story, see what we did and say, ‘All right, I can do that. It’s just another way to go about it. It doesn’t really have to be so black and white.’ That has been my role: to usher in this new wave of creative freedom.”
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