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Key Takeaways:
- The mixtape consists of 18 tracks with manufacturing from Cxdy, Lil 88, and Bhristo, plus a Ken Carson function.
- Followers are praising the nostalgic sound and calling it Destroy Lonely’s greatest work but.
- The challenge marks a return to the Damaged Hearts collection after almost 5 years.
Destroy Lonely is again to breaking hearts together with his latest launch. On Friday (Sept. 19), he dropped his long-awaited ᐸ/3³, which contains a lone visitor look from frequent collaborator Ken Carson.
“Bein’ a boss ain’t arduous / We gon’ take the enterprise far,” he declares on the opening observe, fittingly titled “aint arduous.” The 18-song challenge consists of beforehand launched singles “not the mayer” and final week’s “jumanji.” As for the brand new songs, followers might be excited to listen to Destroy Lonely revisiting a few of his earlier sounds. He additionally labored with some fairly acquainted faces like Cxdy, Lil 88, and Bhristo, amongst others, on the manufacturing aspect.
“No person does intros like Destroy Lonely,” one X person wrote, alongside a screenshot of “aint arduous” and previous openers like “FOREVER” and “how u really feel?” One other individual mentioned he’s “formally the perfect Opium member.” See extra fan reactions beneath.
Destroy Lonely admitted he wasn’t positive if he needed to revisit his Damaged Hearts collection, at the least at one level. “For a minute, I didn’t know what I needed to do subsequent,” he instructed CLASH in 2024. “It is a challenge that I actually simply wish to be for my followers. Like, it’s simply my outdated producers on there, and outdated shit that I might do. Simply me being fully myself, nothing else.”
ᐸ/3³ marks Destroy Lonely’s third installment within the collection and the primary in almost 5 years, following 2020’s acclaimed ᐸ/3 and its deluxe (billed as ᐸ/3²). The sooner initiatives gave followers favorites like “Miley Cyrus,” “Prime Ground Boss,” and “Oh Yeah.” After all, the rapper additionally dropped LOVE LASTS FOREVER simply final yr.
Quickly, Destroy Lonely will get to take ᐸ/3³ on the highway as part of subsequent month’s “Antagonist Tour.” Alongside Playboi Carti, Carson, and the remainder of Opium Data, he’ll sweep throughout North America beginning Oct. 3 at Salt Lake Metropolis’s Delta Middle. From there, they’ll make stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and extra earlier than wrapping up in Atlanta on Dec. 1.
Within the meantime, take heed to the brand new mixtape beneath.