What Happened to the Streets?

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What Happened to the Streets? (stylized in all caps) is the fourth studio album by the rapper 21 Savage. It was released through Slaughter Gang and Epic Records on December 12, 2025. The album features guest appearances from Young Nudy, Latto, Drake, GloRilla, G Herbo, Metro Boomin, Lil Baby, and Jawan Harris. Production was handled by Metro himself, Wheezy, Southside, Zaytoven, FnZ, Oz, and D.A. Got That Dope, among others. What Happened to the Streets? serves as the follow-up to Savage's previous album, American Dream (2024).

Rumors that Savage was planning to release a new album began on December 5, 2025, when an inflatable art piece in collaboration with British-Nigerian artist Olaolu Slawn was installed at an Art Basel fair in Miami Beach, Florida, with the album's acronym WHTTS, along with a pre-save link. Two days later, Savage tweeted that he would be releasing something five days later with the word: "Friday". The following day, he posted a trailer video, which features a person walking down an alley with gunmen looking for them and ending with the album's announcement. Its cover art, also designed by Slawn, was revealed when its pre-order was made available on Apple Music on the same day, revealing that it would have 14 tracks. The album's full tracklist would be revealed on December 11.

Despite original predections from chart predictors, Hits (who use data provided by Luminate), reporting first-week sales predictions of 110,000 album-equivalent units, following Billboard's official report, controversy rose regarding Billboard allegedly filtering approximately 37,000 units of the album with many fans and rappers suggesting 21 Savage and his label buying more records to boost final sales.

It has also been confirmed that Spotify removed 25 million streams from What Happened to the Streets? This removal impacted all of the tracks on the album. Spotify has not made statements on the removal. Speculation has spread that this was due to bot activity boosting stream counts through "useless" listening.

Reviewing the album for Clash magazine, Robin Murray wrote that What Happened to the Streets? "never quite lands, opting for atmosphere over definition", as well as "provides more questions than answers, and beneath the brash moments leaves you wondering about the rapper's longevity". Murray criticized the sampling of R. Kelly in the closer, "I Wish".

What Happened to the Streets? debuted at number 3 on the US Billboard 200, earning 73,000 album-equivalent units, including 25,000 pure sales.

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• Limited physical editions replace "Mr Recoup" with "Trust Nobody".
• "Ha" contains a sample of "Hit Another Lick", written by Radric Davis and Xavier Dotson, and performed by Gucci Mane.
• "Dog Shit" (stylized as "Dog $hit") contains an interpolation of "Acid", written by Patrick Lanshaw, Jordan Houston III and Paul Beauregard, and performed by Lil Wyte.
• "Code of Honor" contains a sample of "Pearls", written by Sade Adu and Andrew Hale, as performed by Sade.
• "I Wish" contains an interpolation of "I Wish", written and performed by R. Kelly.

Credits adapted from Tidal.

• IBMixing – engineering (1–10, 12–14), mixing (10)
• Verne Emmanuel – engineering (3)
• Ben Hogarth – engineering (5)
• Noel Cadastre – engineering, mixing (6)
• Dos Dias – engineering (8)
• Thank Aaron – engineering (8)
• Daniel "Shebs" Sheehy – engineering (11)
• Mattazik Muzik – engineering (13)
• Anthony R. Smith – engineering (14)
• Neal H Pogue – mixing (1–5, 7–14)
• Jess Jackson – mixing (8)
• Zachary Acosta – mixing assistance (1–5, 7–14)
• Mike Bozzi – mastering (1–5, 7–14)
• Jack Doutt – mastering (6)