Charles Hamilton has released T.H.E. (The Hamilton Experience), an 11-track album that went up on streaming services on Friday, November 6, four days before the Cleveland-born, Harlem-schooled rapper and producer turns 39.
The streaming release record lists the album at 44 minutes and 40 seconds, filed under both alternative and rap and hip hop, and issued through the label B.A.K Projects. None of the 11 tracks carries an explicit-lyrics flag.
The full T.H.E. tracklist
- Make Me Crawl
- All The Way
- Whisper Supply
- Fall On Your Face
- Over You
- Clear!
- Let’s Work
- In The Name Of Love
- Burdens
- Do Not Exist
- Supernothing
The bookends were the preview. “Make Me Crawl,” the opener, and “Supernothing,” the closer, already sit on his streaming page as standalone singles carrying the same cover art, so fans who caught those two have heard the album’s first and last word.
A busy year: Hamilton’s 2026 releases so far
Hamilton has rarely been quiet, and his streaming catalog shows how hard he has worked this year. Here is the run of album-length releases under his name in 2026:
- April 19: No Questions Asked
- June 16: $OMETHING NEW
- September 25: Behind The Pink Lavalamp, a 33-track set
- November 6: T.H.E. (The Hamilton Experience)
That makes four in under seven months, the newest arriving just six weeks after the last.
Who Charles Hamilton is, in two minutes
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 10, 1987, Hamilton built his name in New York through the blog-rap era. His debut mixtape, Crash Landed, came out in June 2008. Two months later he signed with Interscope Records after Pharrell introduced him to Jimmy Iovine, then the label’s chief.
He answered with a flood: a series of mixtapes he called “The Hamiltonization Process,” capped by The Pink Lavalamp in December 2008. Pink and the Sonic the Hedgehog games became his signatures, and his soul and rock samples became his production style. He also made a hip hop magazine’s 2009 freshman class alongside Kid Cudi, Wale and B.o.B.
The Interscope deal ended in September 2009 before his planned debut, This Perfect Life, came out on the label. He returned to a major in 2015 with Republic Records and “New York Raining” featuring Rita Ora, a song placed on the TV drama Empire, and released his major-label album Hamilton, Charles on December 9, 2016. In 2025 he put most of the Hamiltonization Process run on streaming services.
What comes next
Hamilton turns 39 on Tuesday, November 10. The new album is streaming now, and his official site points fans to his Spotify and Apple Music pages.
Further reading
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