Westside Gunn Announces New Album Heelmatic

Wrestling fanatic/Buffalo ad-lib king Westside Gunn is back with a new album called, naturally, Heelmatic. It arrives with a video of lead single “Zilla,” which was shot on location in Egypt. The clip technically premiered on Instagram back in August, but we’re showcasing it here since it just hit YouTube. Behold as Gunn rides a camel in Cairo then in front of the Great Pyramid while he raps about Oakleys, Glocks, and “choppin' bricks karate type.”

“ALBUM OTW AND ITS ALL GRIMEY, DUSTY, SOULFUL, JAZZ INSPIRED mixed with FLYEST SHIT U EVER HEARD IN YA LIFE,” he wrote in a post teasing the album this summer. Heelmatic is out November 13 on Griselda Records/Mass Appeal.

Westside Gunn will be heading overseas shortly after the album’s release, for his Heel the World Tour 2: “Still Healing” trek. Those dates, across the UK and Europe, can be found below, along with the Heelmatic tracklist and album artwork. Gunn’s last full-length releases were a trio of 2025 mixtapes: 12, Heels Have Eyes 2, and Heels Have Eyes 3.

Heelmatic:
01 Grant Heel
02 Blowdysseus
03 Zilla
04 Koke Slam
05 Sock A Knee
06 Don Pistola
07 Martin 4sese
08 Tommy Heelfiger
09 Hurt + Heel
10 Price Choppers
11 Egyptian Cadillac
12 Bottom Bunk Legends
13 Bavettes
14 Giant Leather
15 The Bastard Pac
16 Upstate Farm

Westside Gunn:
01-30 Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine
02-02 Bristol, United Kingdom – O2 Academy Bristol
02-03 Birmingham, United Kingdom – O2 Institute Birmingham
02-05 Glasgow, United Kingdom – SWG3
02-08 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar St.
02-09 Zurich, Switzerland – X-TRA
02-10 Munich, Germany – Backstage München
02-11 Stuttgart, Germany – LKA Longhorn
02-14 Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp
02-15 Leipzig, Germany – Felsenkeller
02-16 Hamburg, Germany – Große Freiheit 36
02-18 Warsaw, Poland – Klub Progresja
02-19 Stockholm, Sweden – Fryshuset
02-21 Copenhagen, Denmark – VEGA

Alex Suskind has overseen music coverage for New York magazine’s Vulture and, before that, Entertainment Weekly. He has written about TV, film, technology, politics, and tons of other stuff for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, and The Fader. ... Read More