NBA YoungBoy Teases Another Album Weeks After Saying “I Want To Quit Right Now”
NBA YoungBoy says there’s another album on the way — and the timing is what has everybody talking. On Sunday (Nov 8), the Baton Rouge star posted a short message to Instagram: “Look me in my eyes,” he wrote, closing it with two words — “Album otw.” The post, caught and shared by DJ Akademiks, was cryptic even by YoungBoy standards: no title announcement, no date, no cover. Just the message. Some fans are already reading “Look Me In My Eyes” as the album’s title; YoungBoy himself hasn’t confirmed that, or anything else about the project.
The tease lands about a month after YoungBoy told i-D Magazine, in a cover story published Oct 6, that he’s ready to walk away. “I want to quit right now, actually,” he told the magazine’s Cassidy George. “But all of this… it’s way bigger than me. I just want to make people happy, and if I can’t do that, then I just want to stay out of the way. I feel like my W will be shown through my kids, you know? It’s not about money or any of my own achievements.”
It wasn’t the first time. Back in August, on Funny Marco’s Open Thoughts — filmed in South Korea, where YoungBoy is now living — he said he has “one or two” albums left in him and plans to tour “one more time throughout my whole life.” In that same conversation, he said a doctor told him the left side of his heart was swollen while he was on the road, and that he finished the tour without telling anyone. He also named the next album: All Dogs Go To Heaven. It still has no release date, and whether Sunday’s tease is that album or something else entirely is an open question.
If it arrives before the year closes, it would be his third project of 2026 — Slime Cry, a 30-track album, landed in January, and ML2 (More Leaks 2) followed in June. And there’s more riding on the timeline: back in September, Rod Wave teased a stadium tour pairing the two of them, which would match the “one more tour” YoungBoy promised. A new album, one final tour, and then — if you believe him — done at 27. He turned 27 on Oct 20.
Reporting: HotNewHipHop (on YoungBoy’s Instagram post, via DJ Akademiks); i-D Magazine; Open Thoughts with Funny Marco.
So what is it — is this the start of the farewell run, or is “Album otw” just YoungBoy being YoungBoy? And be real: do you believe he’s actually retiring at 27? Let us know in the comments.
