Six new full-lengths landed on November 13, alongside two notable catalog events: a 10th-anniversary reissue and a 30th-anniversary remix tape, both timed to the same Friday. Offset, Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher, and Snoh Aalegra all released albums; Danny Brown and DJ Green Lantern revisited older work. (Last week's lineup is in the November 6 roundup.)
Offset — GMFU
GMFU is Offset's second solo album since Migos' run ended, following 2023's Set It Off. It arrives on EMPIRE after a run of singles released across 2026, and keeps him working mostly without his former group for the first time on a full project.
Westside Gunn — HEELMATIC
HEELMATIC is Westside Gunn's first release through Mass Appeal rather than his own Griselda imprint, and his first full-length since shelving plans for Flygod Is An Awesome God 3. The 16-track project leans on longtime collaborator Denny La Flare, who produced lead single "Zilla."
More from the Westside Gunn archive.
Benny The Butcher — A Friend of Ours 2
A Friend of Ours 2 is the sequel to Benny The Butcher's 2018 mixtape that first introduced Black Soprano Family, arriving eight years later as a 10-track crew compilation co-headlined by Fuego Base. Elcamino, who appeared on the original, returns for three features; newer B$F signee OT The Real gets his first appearance on a Benny-fronted project.
Snoh Aalegra — Legendary Love
Legendary Love is Snoh Aalegra's fourth studio album and her first since 2021's Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies, written and recorded over two and a half years. It's a sonic turn away from her usual neo-soul toward '80s and '90s R&B, with writing and production credits from Babyface, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Nile Rodgers, Raphael Saadiq, and Daniel Caesar across its 13 tracks.
Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition (10th Anniversary Edition)
Danny Brown marked ten years of Atrocity Exhibition with a reissue carrying new alternate cover art, a reflective CD package, and instrumental versions of the album's tracks. He's performing the record in full for the first time on a run of shows that includes a November 19 New York date; the album's 2016 release followed 2013's Old and drew on his struggles with substance abuse and mental health.
DJ Green Lantern & Snoop Dogg — Doggfather 30: The Long Game
DJ Green Lantern built a 22-track remix tape around Snoop Dogg's 1996 sophomore album Tha Doggfather for its 30th anniversary, splicing in Charlie Wilson, Run-DMC, N.W.A, Dr. Dre, The Notorious B.I.G., and Parliament-Funkadelic alongside new exclusives. It follows the pair's 2025 Live From The Mothership II release and continues Green Lantern's run of anniversary tapes built around classic West Coast albums.
More from the Snoop Dogg archive.
Singles & tracks worth pulling
- 2 Chainz — "Situation" (feat. Big Sean, Erykah Badu & Aasher Saintt): a one-off single on Million Dollar Habits/EMPIRE, his first new recording since 2023's Welcome 2 Collegrove with Lil Wayne. Apple Music · Spotify
- Sarkodie & Rémy Adan — "Nobody": a new single on Ziiki Media from the Ghanaian rapper, continuing a run of one-off collaborations since 2025's "Violence" with Kweku Smoke. Apple Music · Spotify — more from the Sarkodie archive.
- Juls x Projexx — Junction: not a new release this week, but the Accra-Kingston collaborative album (TABOM/GRIM Records) is still in rotation and worth a mention for anyone who missed its August run — it pairs Juls' Ghanaian production with Projexx's Jamaican dancehall delivery across the "Rarri" and "Target" singles.
The week in context
Three of the day's releases were anniversary projects rather than new work — Danny Brown's 10th-anniversary Atrocity Exhibition reissue, DJ Green Lantern's 30th-anniversary Doggfather remix tape, and a new Craft Recordings remaster of John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden's Savoy sessions — landing on the same Friday as four actual new full-lengths from Offset, Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher, and Snoh Aalegra. That's a heavier-than-usual catalog push stacked directly against new-release day, rather than spread across the calendar the way labels usually schedule reissues.
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