Key Points
- DJ Khaled's 14th album, Aalam of God, arrives July 17 via We the Best and Republic Records.
- It is his first studio album not released through Epic Records since 2015's I Changed a Lot.
- The four-year gap since 2022's God Did is the longest of his career.
- Features include Jay-Z, Cardi B, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Future, and Burna Boy.
DJ Khaled will release his fourteenth studio album, Aalam of God, on July 17 through his We the Best Music Group and Republic Records. It is the first Khaled album not carried by Epic Records since 2015's I Changed a Lot — ending a roughly decade-long relationship as he moves distribution to Republic, part of Universal Music Group.
The album title carries personal weight: "Aalam" is the name of Khaled's son, and the phrase nods to his Palestinian heritage. Its four-year gap since 2022's God Did is the longest between albums in his career.
The tracklist is, as always with Khaled, the product. Announced features include Jay-Z, Cardi B, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Future, Lil Baby, Rick Ross, GloRilla, Burna Boy, Tems, and Ozuna — the kind of guest list that has always been the actual asset in a DJ Khaled release. His records are curation more than production; the names are what people buy.
One of those names just moved on his own: Future has released The Real Me, his first solo album in four years, keeping him in heavy rotation as the Khaled record approaches.
Which is why the label move matters more than a distribution footnote. Khaled built We the Best as an ownership vehicle, and for an artist whose catalog runs on assembling the biggest names in rap and Afrobeats, controlling how those records reach the world is the whole game. Republic gives him a larger global machine than Epic did — the same upside logic behind Uptown Records relaunching under Republic. It also places him alongside the major-label infrastructure that has shifted repeatedly across hip-hop's business, from the Cash Money and No Limit empires to the mogul catalog built by Jay-Z, one of Khaled's headline features here, who just marked the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt.
Khaled has trailed the release with its lead single, "One of Them," and a rollout leaning hard on the We the Best branding that has grown into its own franchise — a producer tag, a streetwear line, and a decade of platinum compilation albums. That machinery is exactly what makes the distributor on the spine matter: the bigger the global pipes, the more each marquee feature is worth to the person who assembled them.
Aalam of God is out July 17 on We the Best and Republic Records.
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