{"id":654197,"date":"2026-10-22T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654197\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:32:09","slug":"westside-gunn-announces-new-album-heelmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654197\/","title":{"rendered":"Westside Gunn Announces New Album Heelmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling fanatic\/Buffalo ad-lib king <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33609-westside-gunn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westside Gunn<\/a> is back with a new album called, naturally, Heelmatic. It arrives with a video of lead single \u201cZilla,\u201d which was shot on location in Egypt. The clip technically premiered on Instagram back in August, but we\u2019re showcasing it here since it just hit YouTube. Behold as Gunn rides a camel in Cairo then in front of the Great Pyramid while he raps about Oakleys, Glocks, and \u201cchoppin&#8217; bricks karate type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cALBUM OTW AND ITS ALL GRIMEY, DUSTY, SOULFUL, JAZZ INSPIRED mixed with FLYEST SHIT U EVER HEARD IN YA LIFE,\u201d he <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgjRnnRUfd\/?hl=en\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgjRnnRUfd\/?hl=en&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgjRnnRUfd\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a post<\/a> teasing the album this summer. Heelmatic is out November 13 on Griselda Records\/Mass Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Westside Gunn will be heading overseas shortly after the album\u2019s release, for his Heel the World Tour 2: \u201cStill Healing\u201d trek. Those dates, across the UK and Europe, can be found below, along with the Heelmatic tracklist and album artwork. Gunn\u2019s last full-length releases were a trio of 2025 mixtapes: 12, Heels Have Eyes 2, and Heels Have Eyes 3.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrestling fanatic\/Buffalo ad-lib king Westside Gunn is back with a new album called, naturally, Heelmatic. It arrives with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,43,5099,5101],"class_list":["post-654197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654197","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=654197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}