Isaiah Rashad Teases Return With Its Been Awful

Isaiah Rashad is back. In a teaser video shared today, a bloodied Rashad stumbles across an open field before collapsing to the ground. The words “It’s Been Awful 5/1/26” appear on screen. As a new Instagram page confirms, that’s the title and release date of the TDE rapper’s new album—his first in five years. Watch the teaser below.

Rashad’s last LP, The House Is Burning, dropped in 2021. The following year, a leaked video showed the rapper having intimate physical encounters with men. He has since said he identifies as “sexually fluid.” Following the release of It’s Been Awful, Rashad will hit the road for the second leg of his Clivia Demo 10th anniversary shows, which he first launched in 2024. You can find those dates below.

Read about Cilvia Demo, Rashad’s 2014 debut, at No. 25 in The 50 Best Rap Mixtapes of the Millennium.