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Rapper Pooh Shiesty performs onstage throughout 2021 Shiesty Season Spring Fest at Central Station on April 11, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Key Takeaways:
- Pooh Shiesty is rebuilding his rap profession after serving three years in federal jail.
- His new single “FDO” hit No. 12 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, marking a robust return.
- A brand new collaboration with GloRilla is producing buzz and signaling his inventive momentum.
Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty walked out of federal jail in October 2025 after serving three years of a five-year sentence for a 2022 firearm conviction. Ever since, he’s been working to get his rap profession again on observe, which incorporates pushing new music and linking up within the studio with GloRilla.
Again in December, the Memphis rapper assured his followers by telling Ebro Darden on Apple Music {that a} new album was “on the way in which, on the way in which.” Nonetheless, he refused to offer a selected timeline.
Pooh’s final album was 2021’s Shiesty Season, a industrial mixtape that has since been licensed double platinum. Lately, he dropped a brand new single, “FDO” (an acronym for “First Day Out”), and the track hit No. 12 on Billboard’s Scorching 100 chart in early January.
The artist born Lontrell Denell Williams, Jr. spoke to Billboard in a latest interview and defined his hit single is just the beginning contemplating his profession remains to be in its infancy. “You gotta give it some thought, I used to be in jail extra time than I used to be rapping,” stated Pooh, who had solely been rapping severely a few years earlier than he received locked up. “The instances I used to be rapping versus the time I received out is method totally different. I discuss method totally different. I received extra lingo and received far more expertise. I’m 5 years older. Quicker, smarter, sober [and] wiser.”
After “FDO,” followers received excited when Pooh and GloRilla have been noticed within the studio collectively (together with an obscene quantity of $100 payments) in early January. The Memphis natives teased a brand new track that swiftly received social media excited to listen to the complete course. Thus far there’s no phrase on when or the place the observe will formally land (Huge Glo additionally has a brand new album due in 2026), nevertheless it appears like they’ve extra within the tank.
“That’s my canine. I’ve been f**king with Glo for a minute, so it was identical to we are able to’t wait to see one another to get that chemistry up and construct that bond,” Pooh instructed Billboard. “We’ve a variety of s**t in widespread. We shifting like we’re relatable. S**t good. She’s like just a little feminine model of me. She exhausting. I f**okay with Glo robust.”