Lil Baby boldly released his new album, WHAM, in the first week of 2025, a move that many rappers don’t consider. The music industry is typically dormant in the opening week of a new year due to the holidays,

Lil Baby's WHAM brings Young Thug's first verse since incarceration and marks a triumphant return to Atlanta's hip-hop scene. Why this album changes everything.

With features from the likes of Young Thug, who offers up his first verse since being released from jail late last year, to Travis Scott and 21 Savage, who many think might’ve used his guest verse to throw some subliminal at Kendrick Lamar, WHAM is officially the year’s first major rap release, setting the tone for the months ahead.

Fast-forward to December 20, 2024, when Lil Baby took to Instagram to reveal WHAM’s official cover art 15-song tracklist. The post showed more than half a dozen featured artists, like Young Thug, GloRilla,

Lil Baby is back with his highly-anticipated new album, WHAM. It’s a star-studded 15-song project featuring some of the Georgia rapper’s most prominent collaborators.

Lil Baby’s “WHAM” to become his fourth straight number one album Lil Baby is back, and he’s dominating the rap scene in 2025. His fourth studio album, WHAM, dropped on January 3 and quickly became the talk of the town.