Kehlani Shares Cover & Release Date For ‘While We Wait 2’ Mixtape

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Kehlani has not taken her foot off the gas all year, and after dropping a new album just a few months ago, she’s now gearing up to drop a mixtape.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday (August 21), the Oakland native revealed While We Wait 2 – the sequel to 2019’s While We Wait – will be dropping on August 28.

She also shared the cover art, which features a very mindful, very demure Lani amid a backdrop that shares the same pattern as the original tape.

Check out the cover below.

Kehlani first hinted at the tape last month by posting a photo of a journal to her Instagram Story with “While We Wait 2” written on the page.

Just two months ago in June, the singer’s released her fourth studio album, Crash. It follows 2022’s Blue Water Road, which featured appearances from Blxst, Justin Bieber, Syd, Jessie Reyez, Ambré and Thundercat. The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, earning 22,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.

Before that, Kehlani hinted at doing a collaborative album with Russ.

In footage shared by HipHop-N-More in 2021, the two were spotted at a club making plans for a possible LP.

“I just told Russ I would make an album with him in the club,” Lani said in the clip. “Listen, hold her accountable, because I doubt it,” Russ responded.

After HHNM shared the clip, it surfaced on X (formerly known as Twitter). Russ responded to the tweet in a since-deleted post writing, “Russ x Kehlani project” followed by pair of eyes emojis.

 

And while nothing came of it, it wasn’t the first time a project from the pair was floated around.

Back in 2020, Russ had already pondered a potential joint effort with Kehlani but his vision featured more players than her. After releasing his CHOMP EP in November 2020, he spoke with Ebro Darden on Beats 1 and detailed why an R&B follow-up would be the right move after strictly rapping on CHOMP.

“I might have to come with five songs and it’s me and Keyshia Cole, and Kehlani, and Ari Lennox, and there’s not an ounce of rap on it,” Russ told Ebro. “And you put that right next to CHOMP and it’s like, enjoy.”

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Tory Lanez's 'Prison Tapes' Hits Roadblock As Recording Equipment Gets Seized

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Tory Lanez‘s Prison Tapes series has likely come to an end as his recording equipment has been confiscated.

According to TMZ, the rapper’s studio equipment was seized by prison guards during a raid of his cell block at the California Correctional Institution, where he’s serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.

The news was confirmed by Ceasar McDowell, CEO of Unite the People and chief deputy on Tory’s legal team, who was informed by prison officials that inmates are strictly forbidden from having recording devices for various reasons.

Lanez launched Prison Tapes in July and released nine songs that were recorded behind bars, along with several other previously unreleased tracks from his Lost Tapes and Twitch Tapes series.

When announcing the weekly series, Tory said he had figured out a way to record music in prison while achieving the same high-quality sound as a professional studio.

“After about 20-something to 30-something fuck-ups and mistakes, me and my engineer have finally figure out how to record music over the jail phone and still keep the quality as professional as I had it on the street,” he said in a recorded phone call posted on Instagram.

“It’s over. I done cracked the fucking code, man. This means that not even these prison walls can stop me from dropping new music. It’s crazy! That being said, I’m about to start dropping hot heaps of coal on y’all head top. I’m dropping the all new ‘Free Tory’ playlist — it’s gon’ be updated every week with new music that I’m recording from prison in real time.”

He added: “This is the first of its kind and although God has already shown me that this moment is only temporary, it speaks testimony to the fact that no matter where they put me they can’t lock down my spirit, my ambition, my soul my passion nor my destiny!”

 

Tory was not exaggerating as fans were immediately stunned by the sound quality of his first Prison Tapes offerings, “Cell 245” and “Wish I Never Met You.”

“Tory Lanez really got some crazy quality on this song. You dead can’t even tell he did this over a prison phone,” one impressed listener wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Another said: “How is Tory lanez song quality this good from jail[.] he wasn’t lying he cracked the code,” while a third fan joked: “They gave Tory Lanez a whole studio.”

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