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title: "Westside Gunn releases Heelmatic, a 16-track Griselda album that opens his Mass Appeal era"
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published: 2026-11-13T17:00:00+00:00
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# Westside Gunn releases Heelmatic, a 16-track Griselda album that opens his Mass Appeal era

Westside Gunn releases Heelmatic on November 13, a 16-track album via Griselda Records and Mass Appeal led by the Denny LaFlare-produced single Zilla.

Westside Gunn’s new album *Heelmatic* arrives on November 13, a 16-track set from Griselda Records in partnership with Mass Appeal, and it lands three years after the Buffalo rapper described his previous studio record as his last.

The announcement came on October 22 alongside the single “Zilla,” which the label materials call Gunn’s first release with Mass Appeal. Longtime Griselda collaborator Denny LaFlare produced the song, and its video had already premiered on Gunn’s Instagram on August 26, almost two months before anyone knew which album it belonged to.

## A new sound, by his own label’s account

According to the release from Griselda and Mass Appeal, *Heelmatic* introduces a fresh production style while keeping the trademarks fans expect: soulful loops, grimy drums and the ad-libs that have followed Gunn since his first tapes. The label sorts the songs into four moods, from hard-hitting to what it calls vibey. How far the album strays from the drumless, sample-heavy palette that made Griselda famous is the question listeners will answer this weekend.

The track titles keep up Gunn’s habit of turning fashion and wrestling into wordplay. “Tommy Heelfiger” bends a clothing label, “Grant Heel” opens the record, and “Koke Slam” and “Hurt + Heel” lean on the ring. The full running order:

- Grant Heel

- Blowdysseus

- Zilla

- Koke Slam

- Sock a Knee

- Don Pistola

- Martin 4sese

- Tommy Heelfiger

- Hurt + Heel

- Price Choppers

- Egyptian Cadillac

- Bottom Bunk Legends

- Bavettes

- Giant Leather

- The Bastard Pac

- Upstate Farms

## How Heelmatic fits a busy two years

Gunn, born Alvin Lamar Worthy in Buffalo in 1982, co-founded Griselda with his half-brother Conway the Machine and cousin Benny the Butcher. When he released *And Then You Pray for Me* in October 2023, he said it would be his final studio album and that he would keep putting out mixtapes instead. The years since have been anything but quiet.

In 2024 he dropped the tape *Still Praying* and toured with Fourth Rope, his own wrestling promotion, staging bouts at the concerts. In 2025 came the *Heels Have Eyes* run, three projects released on April 18, August 28 and October 31, which the label now frames as a trilogy of one EP and two albums. Published discographies now list *Heelmatic* among his studio albums, with a third *Flygod Is an Awesome God* project pencilled in for 2027.

Put those dates side by side and the pattern is clear: Gunn has released a new full-length project roughly every three to four months since spring 2025, a pace few rappers with a decade of catalog keep up. *Heelmatic* is the fourth project in 19 months and the first to come with a new distribution partner attached.

The Griselda story has run through Badiyaa before. Conway’s work with producer Big Ghost Ltd is covered in our piece on [Conway the Machine and Big Ghost Ltd’s track Kill All Rats](https://badiyaa.com/conway-big-ghost-kill-all-rats/), and the Shady Records chapter that briefly brought Griselda to a major label connects to [Eminem’s debut album Infinite turning 30](https://badiyaa.com/eminem-infinite-debut-album-30-years/). More from the genre sits in our [Entertainment section](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/).

## Heel the World Tour 2 heads to Europe

Gunn takes the record on the road early next year. Heel the World Tour 2: Still Healing! opens at La Madeleine in Brussels, Belgium, on January 30, 2027, then crosses to the UK for O2 Academy Bristol on February 2, O2 Institute Birmingham on February 3 and SWG3 in Glasgow on February 5. Dublin’s Vicar Street follows on February 8 before stops in Zurich, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Leipzig and Hamburg. The last date currently listed is Progresja in Warsaw on February 18.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Westside Gunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside_Gunn)

*Image: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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