The release slate for September 25 is compact at the album level but far from empty. Tinashe is listed with Popstar, Tee Grizzley with They Forgot, and Leon Bridges with Happiness Anytime. Alongside those headline projects is a long, varied run of songs and collaborations that moves across rap, hip-hop-adjacent electronic music, R&B and remix territory.
That distinction matters. A weekly release list can look quiet if the only question is how many full-length projects are arriving. It looks much more active if the focus is on individual tracks, features and producer-artist pairings. September 25 lands squarely in that second category: fewer explicitly identified albums, plenty of potential playlist additions.
The headline projects listed for September 25
Three releases are specifically presented as the major projects in the lineup:
- Tinashe — Popstar
- Tee Grizzley — They Forgot
- Leon Bridges — Happiness Anytime
These names also demonstrate why a simple genre label does not quite capture the night. Tee Grizzley is the clearest fit for listeners approaching the slate from a rap-first perspective, while Tinashe and Leon Bridges broaden the field beyond a narrow definition of hip-hop. For listeners who use new-release Fridays as a discovery routine rather than a single-genre checklist, that variety is a strength.
The supplied lineup does not provide track lists, running times, production credits, release formats or platform details for these projects. It is therefore best read as an arrival list, not as an indication of what each record sounds like or how it will be structured.
Rap and collaborative tracks to queue first
The song list contains several high-profile pairings, including Landstrip Chip featuring Pusha T on Sin For Me, G-Eazy and Ty Dolla $ign on JFK, and Bruiser Wolf with Twista on Barbiturates. Features are a simple but useful signal for listeners navigating a crowded release night: they can point fans of one artist toward somebody they might not otherwise check out.
A feature is a credited guest appearance, generally meaning an additional artist contributes vocals or a verse. It does not automatically reveal how large that role is, nor does it establish that the guest shaped the full recording. Still, it provides an immediate entry point when dozens of titles arrive at once.
Apollo Brown and Skyzoo’s Luxury Tax is another notable collaboration on the list. Elsewhere, Your Old Droog is listed with Bread & Butter, Flatbush Zombies with Felony Ring, Sleepy Hallow with Loaded, DDG with Hit-A-Thon, and BunnaB with Gimmie What I Ask.
There are also several releases where an artist pairing is central to the billing rather than presented as a conventional feature. Che & Tezzus appear with RICHPHØNKS; bdifferent and MARCO PLUS are listed for Disrespectfully; and Samad Savage’s All Types includes Ben Reilly. Taken together, those credits make the night feel less like a single blockbuster-album drop and more like a network of artists crossing into one another’s audiences.
Electronic, R&B and genre-blurring picks
Listeners looking outside traditional rap structures have several clear options. 2hollis is listed with Warhorse, slayr with remember them days, whereisreef with Audiopaint, and Bktherula and underscores with ADDICTED2U. KAYTRANADA and Shay Lia appear on SO GOOD, while Rochelle Jordan and KAYTRANADA are listed for TTW (Kaytranada Remix).
A remix is a new version of a pre-existing track. The parenthetical credit identifies this as a KAYTRANADA remix, but no further information is provided about how extensively the original has been changed. That uncertainty is worth preserving: remix can describe anything from a light revision to a substantially rebuilt arrangement.
These entries are important to the overall character of the release slate. The lineup is catalogued through a hip-hop lens, but it is not confined by one sound. The inclusion of Tinashe, Leon Bridges, KAYTRANADA, Shay Lia, Rochelle Jordan and underscores points toward a more porous listening queue where rap, pop, R&B and electronic music overlap.
Other September 25 releases on the list
The rest of the announced titles offer plenty of room for listeners who prefer to avoid the obvious starting points:
- Lil Peep — heaven sent
- Sematary — GLOOMROOM featuring Ghost Mountain
- Damien Styles — STAY ALiVE [PART iii] ($uicideboy$ Remix)
- Dean Blunt — RIPyellowranger
- 2slimey — D*e for this
- Babe Dylan — Heart Sleeve
- Zaylevelten — Tease Me
- Nickatnite — Count Up
The title formatting is part of the release information and has been retained here, including stylized capitalization, symbols and featured-artist credits. That can be especially useful when searching in a music library, where a small difference in spelling or punctuation may affect results.
How to approach a dense release night
There is no evidence here for declaring a winner before the music has been heard, and a list of titles cannot substitute for criticism. But the lineup does support a practical listening strategy. Start with the project that best matches your existing tastes, then use collaborations to branch out.
- Choose a full project first. Popstar, They Forgot and Happiness Anytime are the releases explicitly identified as projects, making them natural anchors for a longer session.
- Follow a feature or collaborator. Pusha T, Ty Dolla $ign, Twista, Ghost Mountain, Ben Reilly, Shay Lia and underscores create multiple paths through the single releases.
- Keep remixes separate from new originals. A remix can be rewarding on its own terms, but it serves a different purpose from a brand-new song; it revisits an existing musical idea rather than introducing one from scratch.
- Save the unfamiliar names. A quieter project week can be ideal for giving titles such as Audiopaint, Disrespectfully, Heart Sleeve and Count Up a fair first listen rather than rushing past them.
For a broader entertainment watchlist beyond music, readers can also browse our weekly streaming guide.
The complete listed release slate
- Che & Tezzus — RICHPHØNKS
- Landstrip Chip featuring Pusha T — Sin For Me
- Apollo Brown & Skyzoo — Luxury Tax
- Tee Grizzley — They Forgot
- DDG — Hit-A-Thon
- 2hollis — Warhorse
- Tinashe — Popstar
- slayr — remember them days
- Leon Bridges — Happiness Anytime
- G-Eazy & Ty Dolla $ign — JFK
- Lil Peep — heaven sent
- Your Old Droog — Bread & Butter
- KAYTRANADA & Shay Lia — SO GOOD
- whereisreef — Audiopaint
- Flatbush Zombies — Felony Ring
- Sleepy Hallow — Loaded
- BunnaB — Gimmie What I Ask
- Bktherula & underscores — ADDICTED2U
- Rochelle Jordan & KAYTRANADA — TTW (Kaytranada Remix)
- Bruiser Wolf & Twista — Barbiturates
- Sematary — GLOOMROOM featuring Ghost Mountain
- Damien Styles — STAY ALiVE [PART iii] ($uicideboy$ Remix)
- Samad Savage — All Types featuring Ben Reilly
- Dean Blunt — RIPyellowranger
- 2slimey — D*e for this
- bdifferent & MARCO PLUS — Disrespectfully
- Babe Dylan — Heart Sleeve
- Zaylevelten — Tease Me
- Nickatnite — Count Up
The central takeaway is not that September 25 is dominated by one release or one scene. It is a scattered, collaboration-heavy music drop with three named projects at its center and a sizable supporting selection of tracks. If the top-line album count feels restrained, the listening options do not.
