6LACK Ends 2021 With 2 New Tracks, “Rent Free” & “By Any Means”

6LACK’s follow-up to “East Atlanta Love Letter” is coming in 2022.

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6LACK is back with two new singles to wrap up 2021. “Rent Free” and “By Any Means” hit streamers on Friday, December 17th, and find the alternative R&B artist addressing a lover who’s taken up tenancy in his head on the former, and showing off his “insatiable hunger” on the latter.

Earlier this year, he collaborated with Lil Tjay on “Calling My Phone,” dropped off “Let Go My Hand” with J. Cole, worked with Khalid on “Retrograde,” and linked up with Isaiah Rashad and SZA on “Score.” A press release reveals that the 29-year-old’s follow-up efforts to his last album – 2018’s East Atlanta Love Letter – is set to arrive in 2022.

“6LACK release day – my favourite holiday,” one adoring fan wrote in the comments of the Baltimore native’s latest Instagram post. “We appreciate you! Will be streaming all day,” and “so worth the wait,” others added.

Who would you like to see 6LACK collaborate with on his forthcoming album? Drop a comment and let us know.

Quotable Lyrics:

This the same world, but it's 6LACK's world
This a black world, this a tax world
I done saved up for the AP
But I walked in with the black pearl
Just a young n*gga with a gold grill
Can't believe I really made a whole mil
Then a whole mil, then some more mils
And some more mils, skippin' no meals


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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.