{"id":380407,"date":"2026-04-07T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:40:09","slug":"isaiah-rashad-announces-new-album-its-been-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380407\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Rashad Announces New Album ‘It’s Been Awful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah Rashad<\/a> is making his long-awaited return next month with his first album in five years.<\/p>\n

The Tennessee native has announced his new album It\u2019s Been Awful, which will be released on May 1 via Top Dawg Entertainment and Warner Records.<\/p>\n

Along with a cinematic trailer for the project, which depicts Rashad limping across a field after a vicious attack, the TDE MC has launched pre-saves for the lead single \u201cSame Sh!t,\u201d<\/a> set to drop soon.<\/p>\n

It also appears that Zaywop is plotting an accompanying tour, with his new interactive website<\/a> displaying an It\u2019s Been Awful Tour poster. Fans can also hear a snippet of an unreleased instrumental, presumably from his upcoming album, when they visit the site.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Rashad began teasing his new album earlier this week, posting a cryptic card on his Instagram Stories that read: \u201cEverybody wanna see you crash out, fall off, and burn out all for their entertainment. I just wanna see you smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back of the card featured the phrase \u201cit\u2019s been awful,\u201d which fans now know is the name of his next project.<\/p>\n

Fellow TDE artists Doechii<\/a>, ScHoolboy Q<\/a>, SiR<\/a> and others also lent their support to Rashad\u2019s rollout by tweeting out his album title on their respective social media pages.<\/p>\n

Zay previously discussed the direction of his third studio album in an interview with VICE<\/a> last year, naming OutKast<\/a>, Prince<\/a> and Foushe\u00e9<\/a> as inspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest inspiration for me was Foushe\u00e9,\u201d he said. \u201cPrince, I\u2019ve been having \u2018If I Was Your Girlfriend\u2019 on repeat for 2-3 months. Then, for this tail-end part of my project, this girl PLUTO from Atlanta. She\u2019s been inspiring me and this other girl BunnaB.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019m touching more [OutKast\u2019s] Stankonia and The Love Below more than anything else. I would say Top [Dawg] made compromises for the creativity on this one, so I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old also described the album\u2019s sound as a \u201csultry southern mix mixed with a deep sense of intimacy. Everything from twangy rock and psychedelia to tender intimacy to the kind of trunk-rattling you\u2019d only hear down south,\u201d according to the publication.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Been Awful serves as the follow-up to Isaiah Rashad\u2019s 2021 album The House is Burning, which itself came after a half-decade hiatus from music following his fan-favorite effort The Sun\u2019s Tirade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaiah Rashad is making his long-awaited return next month with his first album in five years. The Tennessee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-380407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}