Lil Baby has been teasing a second album on the way for 2025, essentially since the minutes after his WHAM LP arrived in January.
Baby had fans’ minds churning once again on Tuesday (Aug. 5) when he captioned an Instagram post with “8.15.25,” which is next Friday (Aug. 15).
He fanned the flames surrounding his album talk with a follow-up post of a blurry photo to his Instagram Story featuring a whiteboard hinting at a project seemingly titled THE LEAK$. The picture also includes a list of 17 songs and possible appearances from Playboi Carti, Skooly, Veeze and Rylo Rodriguez.
Fans were hyped at the influx of Atlanta rap this summer, as Metro Boomin dropped last week while JID, Gunna, Young Nudy and now Lil Baby are on the way.
“Gunna this week Lil baby next week Can thug drop on the 22nd,” one person wrote to X.
Baby set off the year with WHAM, which brought Young Thug back into the rap universe with the Future-assisted “Dum, Dumb and Dumber.” The project, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 140,000 album-equivalent units, also featured Travis Scott, 21 Savage and GloRilla.
In an interview with Complex in January, Lil Baby teased the follow-up to WHAM being Dominique, an emotional project giving fans an unprecedented look behind the curtain of who he is.
“Well, I’m dropping two projects back to back: WHAM, then I’m coming with Dominique, my self-titled album,” he said at the time. “WHAM is more like my young nigga street shit. Then I show the transition I’m taking in Dominique, the more emotional and more vulnerable side I never really gave my fans.”