Westside Gunn Reveals Upcoming Album Heelmatic

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Westside Gunn Announces New Album Heelmatic

Lead single “Zilla” features rapping on a camel in front of the Great Pyramid By Alex Suskind October 22, 2026 Save this story Save this story

Wrestling fanatic/Buffalo ad-lib king Westside Gunn is back with a new album called, naturally, Heelmatic. It arrives with a video of lead single “Zilla,” which was shot on location in Egypt. The clip technically premiered on Instagram back in August, but we’re showcasing it here since it just hit YouTube. Behold as Gunn rides a camel in Cairo then in front of the Great Pyramid while he raps about Oakleys, Glocks, and “choppin' bricks karate type.”

“ALBUM OTW AND ITS ALL GRIMEY, DUSTY, SOULFUL, JAZZ INSPIRED mixed with FLYEST SHIT U EVER HEARD IN YA LIFE,” he wrote in a post teasing the album this summer. Heelmatic is out November 13 on Griselda Records/Mass Appeal.

Westside Gunn will be heading overseas shortly after the album’s release, for his Heel the World Tour 2: “Still Healing” trek. Those dates, across the UK and Europe, can be found below, along with the Heelmatic tracklist and album artwork. Gunn’s last full-length releases were a trio of 2025 mixtapes: 12 , Heels Have Eyes 2 , and Heels Have Eyes 3.

Heelmatic: 01 Grant Heel 02 Blowdysseus 03 Zilla 04 Koke Slam 05 Sock A Knee 06 Don Pistola 07 Martin 4sese 08 Tommy Heelfiger 09 Hurt + Heel 10 Price Choppers 11 Egyptian Cadillac 12 Bottom Bunk Legends 13 Bavettes 14 Giant Leather 15 The Bastard Pac 16 Upstate Farm

Westside Gunn: 01-30 Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine 02-02 Bristol, United Kingdom – O2 Academy Bristol 02-03 Birmingham, United Kingdom – O2 Institute Birmingham 02-05 Glasgow, United Kingdom – SWG3 02-08 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar St. 02-09 Zurich, Switzerland – X-TRA 02-10 Munich, Germany – Backstage München 02-11 Stuttgart, Germany – LKA Longhorn 02-14 Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp 02-15 Leipzig, Germany – Felsenkeller 02-16 Hamburg, Germany – Große Freiheit 36 02-18 Warsaw, Poland – Klub Progresja 02-19 Stockholm, Sweden – Fryshuset 02-21 Copenhagen, Denmark – VEGA

Alex Suskind has overseen music coverage for New York magazine’s Vulture and, before that, Entertainment Weekly . He has written about TV, film, technology, politics, and tons of other stuff for The Guardian , Vanity Fair, and The Fader. ... Read More News Director

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/story/westside-gunn-announces-new-album-heelmatic/)._