Key Takeaways:

• Joey Bada$$’ fourth studio album explores fame, solitude, and self-awareness with sharp lyricism and layered manufacturing.
• The mission options Ab-Soul, Rapsody, A$AP Ferg, and Ty Dolla $ign, including depth throughout 11 tracks.
• The album arrives forward of Joey’s fall run, “The Dark Aura Tour,” kicking off in October.

Joey Bada$$ is aware of higher than anybody that it’s Lonely At The Top. Friday (Aug. 29), the rapper lastly unveiled his much-awaited fourth studio album.

Joining beforehand launched singles like “ABK,” “STILL,” and “DARK AURA,” the 11-song effort has a little bit of every part. Fans count on nothing much less from an artist of Joey’s caliber, and there are fairly a couple of information certain to fulfill hip hop purists. On “SWANK WHITE,” for instance, the Brooklyn native and Westside Gunn commerce bars about Blueface and Chrisean Rock, Michael Jordan in ’95, and wrestling icons like Mick Foley and Juice Robinson.

Joey has no selection however to rise to the event, contemplating who he’s rapping alongside. A$AP Ferg reveals up on “HIGHROLLER,” Kai Ca$h and CJ Fly make for spectacular collaborators on “BK’s FINEST,” and Ab-Soul and Rapsody deliver their A-game on the aforementioned “STILL.”

Another spotlight comes courtesy of the Ty Dolla $ign-assisted “READY TO LOVE,” which appears partially impressed by Joey’s relationship with Serayah. He raps about needing a queen to match his king to allow them to be “just like the Cartеrs,” and within the second verse, he references Saweetie’s “My Type”: “Pretty young thing, yeah, that’s my type / ‘Cause she icy like Saweetie, I know that’s right.”

Lonely At The Top was initially slated to reach on Aug. 1, however in response to Joey, issues with his label precipitated it to be pushed again to the top of the month. “They really don’t f**king contribute to nothing, especially this year,” he stated of Columbia Records throughout a now-deleted video on Instagram.

Joey will hit the street with Lonely At The Top this fall. Starting in October, he’ll be part of forces with Ab-Soul and Rapsody for “The Dark Aura Tour,” which is scheduled to make stops throughout North America earlier than wrapping up Nov. 20 in Philadelphia.