Pooh Shiesty — All Eyes on Shiest

Pooh Shiesty can still write a hook that works as threat and prayer at once, and “Last Man Breathin” is the proof: piano, violin, a man counting his own release date against a friend's 75-year sentence. All Eyes on Shiest arrived on August 7 through 1017 Global and Atlantic, sixteen tracks assembled and released while he sits in federal custody in Dallas awaiting a February 22, 2027 trial on kidnapping and robbery charges involving the founder of the label that signed him. Almost all of the attention is on the case file. The record is the smaller object in the room, and it plays like a placeholder cut to fit a news cycle rather than a first album. Come back after the trial date and see whether there is a body of work behind the headline.