YoungBoy Never Broke Again will (potentially) release his ninth studio album before the end of the week.
Via Instagram Stories on Monday (Jan. 12), the Baton Rouge rapper teased the release date of his upcoming album, Slime Cry, by posting a countdown with three days remaining until the drop. NBA YoungBoy would go on to delete the post promoting the album, which is among Complex's most anticipated albums of 2026.
Slime Cry, the follow-up to Youngboy's 2025 projects MASA, More Leaks and Deshawn, was originally scheduled to drop on November 28, 2025, until the rapper tweeted that he "forgot" about it. Nearly two months before, Youngboy caught up with Complex's Jordan Rose during the Brooklyn date of his Make America Slime Again (MASA) Tour, where he refrained from sharing the length of Slime Cry and featured artists but revealed he recorded thirty songs for the album.
Youngboy wasted no time hopping back into the recording booth last year after he was formally pardoned by President Donald Trump and landed an early release from jail. The 26-year-old was serving 23 months for a federal gun charge.
"I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building - as a man, as a father, and as an artist," YoungBoy said in a statement last May. "This moment means a lot. It opens the door to a future I've worked hard for and I am fully prepared to step into this."
To hold fans over until Slime Cry, Youngboy's most recent single, "Top Cobain," was released in December.
