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6lack<\/a> originally planned for his latest project to be a Gangsta Grillz<\/em><\/a> mixtape with DJ Drama<\/a>. <\/p>\n The R&B singer and rapper, who released his new LP Love Is the New Gangsta <\/em>on Friday (May 22), spoke to Pigeons and Planes<\/em><\/a> about intending for the project to be a mixtape hosted by DJ Drama. The producer and DJ famously hosted mixtapes with Jeezy<\/a>, Lil Wayne<\/a>, and Gucci Mane<\/a> throughout the 2000s. In 2021, Drama even hosted Tyler the Creator<\/a>\u2019s seventh album, Call Me If You Get Lost<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n “It started with me going back to Atlanta and I go link with Drama and the energy is like, I’ve never done a Gangsta Grillz and like what would it be like to do a R&B Gangsta Grillz or a rap Gangsta Grillz<\/em>?” 6lack posed. 6lack was impacted by a multitude of things, including the 2025 birth of his son with singer Qui\u00f1. The singer also has an older daughter, Syx, 9, from a previous relationship. DJ Drama may not be featured on Love Is the New Gangsta<\/em>, but the album is stacked with appearances from Leon Thomas<\/a>, Young Thug<\/a>, Odeal and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.complex.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 6lack originally planned for his latest project to be a Gangsta Grillz mixtape with DJ Drama. The R&B singer and rapper, who released his new LP Love Is the New Gangsta on Friday (May 22), spoke to Pigeons and Planes about intending for the project to be a mixtape hosted by DJ Drama. The producer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2429807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6lack-Says-He-Originally-Planned-New-Album-to-Be-a.37_PM_ogrn3q.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429808,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429806\/revisions\/2429808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The vocalist added that he and Drama were already in the process of crafting the mixtape, which the DJ provided ad-libs on. “At the same exact time, simultaneously, life just got very personal it got very sad and it got very reflective,” 6lack said. “One day I just came in the studio and I was just like, I don’t think anybody needs to narrate this story right now besides me.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“And life is getting too personal for anyone else to pop into my story right now. Like, that is reserved for a different time,” he added. “And whenever I make it there, it’ll be great. But for now, I was like, this is me, this is mine, and nobody else can touch it. Ultimately, I think it was best choice. So that could still happen someday. … But that’s just not the season I’m in right now.”<\/p>\n