{"id":76933,"date":"2025-12-21T06:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:17:25","slug":"joey-bada-asserts-brooklyn-excellence-on-new-hip-hop-mixtape-lonely-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76933\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Bada$$ Asserts Brooklyn Excellence On New Hip-Hop Mixtape ‘Lonely At The Top’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joey Bada$$ has officially reclaimed his position as a vanguard of East Coast rap with the release of his new 11-track mixtape, \u2018Lonely At The Top\u2019. Marking his first full-length project of 2025, the Brooklyn native delivers a potent demonstration of true lyricism that unpacks the unfiltered realities of success and the vulnerability required to stay at the summit. The mixtape serves as a transformative document for the forward-thinking artist, trading in comfortable tropes for a deep dive into his innermost thoughts and the life experiences that have shaped his trajectory from a Pro Era phenom to a global powerhouse.<\/p>\n

The project is bolstered by a heavy-hitting guest list, including elite bars from Westside Gunn, Ferg, and Rome Streetz, as well as the soulful textures of Ty Dolla $ign. A major highlight is the Statik Selektah-produced track \u201cSTILL,\u201d which finds Joey trading verses with lyricists Rapsody and Ab-Soul in a masterclass of technical flow. Following the success of the lead single \u201cDARK AURA,\u201d \u2018Lonely At The Top\u2019 reinforces Joey\u2019s core essence as a student of the game who remains play-to-his-strengths sharp. It\u2019s a bold kick-off to the final quarter of the year, proving that for Joey Bada$$, the view from the top is as clear as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Bada$$ has officially reclaimed his position as a vanguard of East Coast rap with the release of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38543,98,100,99,38544,38545,38546,38547,9,24,63,38548,38549,38550,38551,38552],"class_list":{"0":"post-76933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-ab-soul","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-ferg","13":"tag-joey-bada","14":"tag-kai-cah","15":"tag-kelz","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-rapsody","20":"tag-rome-streetz","21":"tag-statik-selektah","22":"tag-ty-dolla-ign","23":"tag-westside-gunn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}