Lil Baby did not ease into his fifth album — he built it around a hit single, a runway premiere in Paris, and a tracklist reveal written on a whiteboard. FRESH, the Atlanta rapper's fifth studio album, arrived on Friday, November 6 through Quality Control Music Group, Wolfpack Global Music and Motown Records, and three days in it is the rap release everyone is measuring the rest of the fall against. Twin Towerz Entertainment has the full FRESH tracklist, the features, the story behind the Pharrell Williams-produced "Dead Fresh," and what comes next.
Lil Baby FRESH Release Date: Out Friday, November 6
FRESH is Lil Baby's fifth studio album, and its rollout moved fast. On Friday, October 16, he posted an Instagram carousel of himself standing in front of a whiteboard covered in song titles, with the album's title on the back of his hoodie and a caption announcing the countdown: 20 days to go. The formal announcement followed on October 20, when he revealed the release date, the cover art and the full tracklist, and pre-orders opened the same day — including signed vinyl, signed CDs and two exclusive merchandise fan packs through his official store.
The finished album runs 17 tracks, and the most striking thing about it is how lean the guest list is. For an artist who could fill an album with features, Lil Baby kept FRESH almost entirely to himself: only two songs carry guest appearances at all. That is a deliberate statement from a rapper whose last album, WHAM, stacked Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Future, Young Thug and GloRilla across its tracklist.
"Dead Fresh": The Pharrell Single That Launched FRESH
Every album era has an engine, and for FRESH it is "Dead Fresh." Produced by Pharrell Williams, the single first surfaced somewhere no rap song is supposed to debut: the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring-Summer 2027 runway show in Paris in June, where Pharrell — the house's menswear creative director — premiered it with Lil Baby watching from the front row. The single was released on July 17, and its official video, directed by Kid Art and released July 20, leans all the way into that fashion-world starting point.
The numbers backed up the spectacle. "Dead Fresh" spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 18, and reached No. 1 at both Urban and Rhythmic radio. It sits at track 10 on FRESH — almost exactly in the middle of the album, the anchor everything else is built around. It is also, notably, the only song on the album whose full credits have been released so far: written by Dominique Jones (Lil Baby's real name) and Pharrell Williams, produced by Pharrell, at two minutes and 37 seconds.
All My Partnas: Future, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez Reunite
The one true event record on FRESH is "All My Partnas," which puts Future, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez on the same track. Future and Young Thug are the headline pairing: the two Atlanta stars last joined Lil Baby on "Dum, Dumb, and Dumber" from WHAM, which reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "All My Partnas" is built to run that chemistry back. Rylo Rodriguez — Lil Baby's 4PF running mate — completes the track, and he is the album's only other guest, returning on "In Your Head" at track 13.
That restraint is the story of the album's features. Two songs, three guests, all of them from Lil Baby's own Atlanta circle. After the crossover singles and star-stacked tracklists of the last few years, FRESH reads as a deliberate return to home base — the sound and the people that made him — and it is no accident that the rollout keeps using the word "roots" in everything but name.
FRESH Full Tracklist: All 17 Songs
Here is the official digital tracklist for FRESH, as released by the label:
- Top Uh It
- Mr. Do Something
- Burnt Shit
- Be The One
- Ain't Goin
- Do It (Keep Goin)
- All My Partnas (feat. Future, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez)
- My Side
- Life Of The Party (L.O.T.P)
- Dead Fresh
- Your Fault
- All Us
- In Your Head (feat. Rylo Rodriguez)
- Like A Brat
- Televised
- Rareform
- Keep Goin
Read the titles in sequence and a theme emerges — "Top Uh It," "Mr. Do Something," "Do It (Keep Goin)," "Keep Goin" bookending the album with momentum language, while "Your Fault," "All Us" and "My Side" point at the loyalty-and-blame storytelling Lil Baby does best. Fans have also had one more recent record on repeat during the countdown: "Coast 2 Coast," his early-October video with Bally Baby and Fatt Smaxk, filmed on a school bus turned party bus rolling through Atlanta — a standalone hometown moment from the same campaign season, separate from the album itself.
The FRESH Cover Art: A Life in Photographs
The artwork deserves its own moment. Lil Baby unveiled two covers for FRESH, and both are portraits built as mosaics from dozens of photographs documenting his life — childhood snapshots, family photographs and more recent images assembled into one face, one looking directly ahead and one in side profile. It is scrapbook art with a thesis: before the fifth album, the 30-billion-stream career and the arena shows, there was a kid in Atlanta — and this era is explicitly about remembering him. On a signed vinyl sleeve, it is the kind of cover that rewards holding the physical copy.
From WHAM to FRESH: Why This Album Matters
The stakes are real because the standard is his own. WHAM, released last year, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — Lil Baby's fourth No. 1 debut on the chart — and he closed out December with the birthday mixtape The Leaks. His landmark album My Turn was the best-selling and most-streamed album of 2020 across all genres, and the label puts his career total at more than 30 billion global streams, alongside a Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance and an Apple Music Artist of the Year honor. Fall has already delivered one giant album story — read our coverage of Zach Bryan's new EP and his 2027 tour announcement — and FRESH is hip-hop's answer: all eyes now turn to its first-week chart debut, and whether it becomes his fifth No. 1.
Lil Baby Live: Fresh Prince of Atlanta on December 5
The album is only the first half of the season. On December 5, Lil Baby brings the era home with his birthday celebration show, Lil Baby: Fresh Prince of Atlanta, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta — the same birthday tradition that produced The Leaks last year, scaled up to an arena with a brand-new album to perform. Expect "Dead Fresh" and "All My Partnas" to be the night's biggest moments, in the city that every song on this album is ultimately about.
FRESH is out now on all streaming platforms, with signed vinyl, signed CDs and fan packs available through Lil Baby's official store. Twin Towerz Entertainment wants to know: three days in, which FRESH track has been on repeat for you — and does "All My Partnas" live up to "Dum, Dumb, and Dumber"?
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