Camden Malik has a new album out, and Spotify now lists 40 Acres as his latest release, the second full-length the underground rapper has put on the platform in 2026 after You Can’t Land A Plane Anywhere.
The guest list is the part drawing attention. A release post on Reddit’s r/hiphopheads forum credits Niontay, Leardo Khalil, Cletus Strap and Rockitneedspace as features and says the record came out through 10k Global, the label run by the rapper and producer MIKE. A comment from the same poster says most of the beats come from the SURF GANG crew, naming Harrison, Flea Diamonds and Eliproperr, with DVNTBEATS and Dylvinci handling one track each. Those credits come from that post alone. We could not open the album’s own listing to check them line by line, so treat them as reported rather than confirmed.
A long paper trail with MIKE
The 10k link makes sense on the record. MIKE, born Michael Jordan Bonema, co-founded the online-rooted New York collective [sLUms] and releases his music through 10k, the label and publishing company he owns. Malik shows up repeatedly in that orbit, and the two have traded verses for years.
Here is the shared history as it appears in MIKE’s published discography:
- 2019: MIKE guests on “If I Ain’t Have Grace” from Malik’s More Than Ca$h.
- 2020: “Vibe Wit Me,” with Darryl 10k, Diani and King Carter also credited, lands on Spaceship Symphonies.
- 2022: MIKE appears on “Dip” from Faithfully.
- 2025: “Thinkin’ I Won’t,” with DvntBeats, closes the run on Paperweight.
Read that list and a pattern emerges: six years of guest spots turned, if the Reddit post has it right, into a label home. That is the Badiyaa reading of the credits, and no one involved has laid it out in those terms in anything we read.
Why the producer credits fit
SURF GANG is not a random pull either. The production crew handled all of Pompeii // Utility, the collaborative album MIKE released with Earl Sweatshirt on April 3 this year, which came out through 10k alongside Tan Cressida and Surf Gang Records. Niontay also has history in the same circle, having brought MIKE onto “Wheredeyat???” from Dontay’s Inferno in 2023 and onto “Real hiphop” from Demon Muppy the same year.
So the reported lineup reads less like a batch of outside favors and more like a small scene working with its own people, which is how much of this corner of New York rap has operated since MIKE started releasing short-run EPs on Bandcamp in 2015.
Where Malik stands right now
Malik has kept a steady pace. Spotify shows full-lengths including Faithfully, Nobodies and Love & Evol in 2022, High In The Evening and THERAPEUTIC in 2024, and PAPERWEIGHT in 2025, with the singles “What U On” and “Immediately” arriving this year.
The audience is still modest, which is the honest context for a release like this. His Spotify page showed 15,191 monthly listeners and 4,439 followers when we checked it, with his most-played track at 3,482,591 streams.
Further reading
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