Yeat has turned his own vault into a release. Luh Leakyz Vol. 1, out on Friday, October 23, gathers 14 songs that had only been heard through unofficial uploads and gives them a proper release under his name. It has been billed as a “grail tape” of fan favorites from his unreleased catalog, and the “Vol. 1” in the title points to more installments.
The tracklist runs “Lil Krazy,” “Time Passëd,” “Liv Dis Lyfe,” “Real Trendsettër,” “When tha World Ends,” “MARCHING,” “SKLUB,” “u could,” “X with the boot up,” “Diseasë,” “HeliMAn,” “Countup,” “Martian” and “Last Day.” Only one song carries a guest: Summrs appears on “Countup,” which leaves 13 of the 14 tracks as Yeat alone.
Why an official leak tape matters
For an artist with a large leak culture around him, an authorized collection changes who controls the music. Fans who passed around rough copies on social media and video sites now get clean versions of songs they already know, and that listening moves onto official services, where it shows up in the artist’s own numbers.
Yeat has done a version of this before. “Already Rich,” a song fans often call by the unofficial name “ard up,” first leaked in 2021 and then came out properly as a single on May 3, 2023, after it had already found a small following on TikTok. Luh Leakyz applies that logic to a whole batch at once. The title also echoes Luh Geeky, one of the alter-ego names that turn up across his catalog.
A busy 2026
The tape lands in the middle of a crowded year for the Irvine, California, rapper, who turned 26 in February:
- February 26: “Made It on Our Own” with EsDeeKid.
- March 27: the album ADL, which reached No. 5 on the US albums chart, his seventh top-10 entry there.
- May 14: a feature on Bnyx’s “Fuëgo” with Bizarrap and Peso Pluma.
- June 17: “Million Dollar Minion,” tied to the film Minions & Monsters.
- October 15: a Fortnite skin, with “Get Busy,” “Money So Big” and “If We Being Real” added as in-game tracks.
- October 23: Luh Leakyz Vol. 1.
Counting the EP Cocoon, which his catalog also lists for 2026, the leak tape is at least his third project of the year. The timing is neat: eight days after the game started serving his older hits to players, he gave longtime fans the deep cuts.
How it sounds
Early reactions have been warm rather than rapturous. One early review scored it 3.5 out of 5, naming “HeliMAn” the best track by a clear margin and rating “X with the boot up” (2 out of 5) and “MARCHING” (2.5) the weakest. What it describes is Yeat in his usual lane: booming low end, processed vocals, hooks built on repetition and a sleepy delivery broken up by sudden shouted ad-libs. A fan-voting tally on one hip hop site stood at 3.67 out of 5 from three ratings when we checked, too small a sample to mean much.
That is also the honest limit of a leak tape. These songs never made it onto his official releases before, and Yeat has not said why, so the project works better as a document of his vault than as a statement. Its success will be measured less by reviews than by whether fans who already had rough copies switch to the official ones.
No date or tracklist has been announced for a second volume, so for now the count stands at one tape and 14 songs.
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