From Drake’s ‘ICEMAN’ to Playboi Carti’s ‘Baby Boi’- All rap albums anticipated to drop before 2026

From Drake’s ‘ICEMAN’ to Playboi Carti’s ‘Baby Boi’ - All rap albums anticipated to drop before 2025
Drake is one of the rappers expected to release an rap album this year (Image via official Instagram @champagnepapi)

Rap album releases are some of the most anticipated releases every year, with fans and critics alike clamoring for the latest work from the modern-day street prophets and hip-hop gurus. This year will be the same, with a bevy of releases from the biggest names in the rap and hip hop scenes set to release sometime in the latter half of 2025.

The list of rap albums anticipated to drop before 2026 is as follows. All release dates are scheduled dates and may change. Interested fans can look up the artists' official socials for release updates as and when they are provided:

TBD/TBA:

  • A$AP Rocky's Don't Be Dumb
  • Baby Keem's Child With Wolves
  • Chance The Rapper's Star Line
  • Drake's ICEMAN
  • Doja Cat's VIE
  • Doechii's next album
  • Future's eighteenth mixtape (still untitled)
  • Gunna's The Last Wun
  • Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele 2
  • Jay Rock's Eastside Johnny
  • Lil Baby's Dominique
  • Lucki's Drugs R Bad
  • Metro Boomin's A Futuristic Summa
  • Megan Thee Stallion's Megan Act III
  • Nas & DJ Premier's untitled project
  • Offset's Kiara
  • Playboi Carti's BABY BOI
  • Quavo's Sacramento
  • Rosalia's next album
  • Skepta's Knife and Fork
  • Westside Gunn's Flygod Is An Awesome God III
  • Young Thug's UY SCUTI
  • Yeat's A Dangerous Lyfe
  • Young Nudy's Paradise
  • Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist's Forensics

August 1, 2025:

  • Saweetie's Hella Pressure
  • Homixide Gang's Homixide Lifestyle 2
  • Joey Badass's Lonely At The Top

August 8, 2025:

  • JID's God Does Like Ugly

August 22, 2025:

  • Kid Cudi's Free

September 19, 2025:

  • Cardi B's Am I The Drama?

October 17, 2025:

  • Gucci Mane's Episodes

October 24, 2025:

  • Roddy Rich's The Navy Album

Rap albums that have come out so far in 2025

While the second half of 2025 looks jam-packed with Rap Albums and their releases, there have already been a few notable Rap Albums releases in the preceding months of 2025. Given below is a list of such Rap Albums:

  • Mac Miller's Balloonerism
  • Playboi Carti's I Am Music
  • OsamaSon's Jump Out
  • Westside Gunn's 12
  • Central Cee's Can't Rush Greatness
  • BigXthaPlug's Take Care (Deluxe)
  • 2 Chainz, Larry June, & The Alchemist's Life Is Beautiful
  • Slick Rick's Victory
  • Lefty Gunplay and Jason Martin's Can't Get Right
  • Tyler The Creator's Don't Tap The Glass
  • Lil Wayne's Carter VI
  • FearDorian's Leaving Home
  • Tyga's NFSW
  • Lil Tecca's Dopamine
  • Raekwon's The Emperor Has New Clothes
  • Ray Vaughn's The Good, The Bad, & The Dollar Menu
  • Wretch 32's Home?
  • Mike & Tony Stelzer's Pinball 2
  • John Glacier's Like A Ribbon
  • Backxwash's Only Dust Remains
  • Little Simz's Lotus
  • Rico Nasty's Lethal
  • 1300Saint's All Hail
  • Pink Sifu's BLACK’!ANTIQUE
  • Clipping's Dead Channel Sky
  • Lil Durk's Deep Thoughts
  • Saba and No ID's From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
  • Key Glock's Glockaveli
  • Clipse's Let God Sort Em Out
  • Ye's Bully
  • Ken Carson's More Chaos
  • Pi'erre Bourne's Made In Paris

A few other notable rap albums this year include Drake and PartyNextDoor's Some Sexy Songs 4 U, which was released in 2025. Some rap albums are long-awaited, but little information is available on them. These include Lil Uzi Vert's next project, Doechii's possible next project, and other rumored projects.

In conclusion, 2025 is set to be filled with rap projects of all shades and varieties, with the second half of the year set to feature releases in the genre from the biggest names of the industry, adding to what has already been a long list of releases.

Edited by Sroban Ghosh