GRAMMY Award-winning artists and producers Hit-Boy and The Alchemist have launched their long-awaited collaborative album GOLDFISH, now out there through EMPIRE. The 15-track undertaking arrives alongside the cinematic music video for “Ricky,” directed by Issac Garcia, marking one other milestone of their evolving inventive partnership.

Following years of collaboration, together with 2023’s THEODORE & ANDRE EP and joint manufacturing on Benny The Butcher’s All people Can’t Go, the album finds each artists rapping and producing collectively. Preceded by singles “Enterprise Merger” and “Celebration Moments” that includes Havoc, GOLDFISH options appearances from Boldy James, Conway the Machine, Jonathan Hulett, Jay Worthy, and Massive Hit. The undertaking’s title displays the sensation of being trapped in a metaphorical bowl, moving into circles—a theme Hit-Boy and The Alchemist explored throughout a latest interview with Fats Joe and Jadakiss.

Accompanying the album is a forthcoming quick movie directed by Abteen Bagheri. Starring the 2 producers alongside Danny Trejo, Rory Culkin, Simon Rex, and UFC Champion Shara Magomedov, the movie follows a group of hitmen posing as carpet cleaners attempting to go away crime behind. After sold-out personal screenings in New York and Los Angeles, the movie will make its public debut at ComplexCon Las Vegas on October 25.

For Hit-Boy, GOLDFISH represents a inventive renaissance following his independence earlier this yr, aided by Jay-Z. With new music, high-profile collaborations, and a renewed sense of creative freedom, he shares, “I’ve by no means felt extra empowered as an artist… after 20 years within the recreation, I really feel like I’m simply getting began.”