04-07-2025
Brent Faiyaz Announces New ‘Icon' Album: See When It Arrives
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.
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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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