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\n\tMove over, Cardi B. <\/a>Brent Faiyaz <\/a>announced his upcoming album, Icon<\/em>, on Thursday (July 3), which is slated to hit streaming services on Sept. 19 \u2014 the same day as Cardi\u2019s Am I the Drama?<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tFaiyaz sent fans into a frenzy with a post to his Instagram Story<\/a> featuring the album title and a possible cover art for Icon<\/em>, alongside the expected release date of Sept. 19. <\/p>\n \n\tThe R&B singer\u2019s wasting no time kicking off the rollout on Friday (July 4) when a pair of singles, named after famed fictional characters \u201cTony Soprano\u201d and \u201cPeter Pan,\u201d will arrive.<\/p>\n \n\tA snippet finds <\/a>Faiyaz lending his intoxicating croon to laid-back production: \u201cI wish that I could breathe underwater\/ I\u2019ll swim to the deepest ocean to be where you are, babe\/ If I could be there, I would love you inside out,\u201d he sings. <\/p>\n \n\tIcon serves as Faiyaz\u2019s first studio album since 2022\u2019s Wasteland<\/em>, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.<\/a> He also released a mixtape in 2023 with Larger Than Life <\/em>featuring Missy Elliott,<\/a> A$AP Rocky<\/a>,\u00a0Babyface Ray<\/a>,\u00a0Coco Jones<\/a> and Tommy Richman.<\/a> <\/p>\n \n\tAhead of the mixtape\u2019s arrival, Billboard<\/em> reported<\/a> that Faiyaz inked a lucrative distribution deal with UnitedMasters and launched his ISO Supremacy record label\/creative agency.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy role musically and artistically, that\u2019s not really up for me to interpret,\u201d Faiyaz told Billboard<\/a><\/em> in 2024. \u201cThere are still a lot more things I want to learn. But now I\u2019m realizing how important it was to break the mold so that people can see my story, see what we did and say, \u2018All right, I can do that. It\u2019s just another way to go about it. It doesn\u2019t really have to be so black and white.\u2019 That has been my role: to usher in this new wave of creative freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n