Baby Keem is releasing a new album this month. Ca$ino, which follows 2021’s The Melodic Blue, is due out February 20 on Columbia and features Kendrick Lamar, Too $hort, and more. You can check out the cover art and a tracklist for it below.
Today, Keem also released a trailer for the record, which stitches clips of him in the studio together with home videos and interviews with his family. Interviewees include Lamar, who is Keem’s second cousin. The pair have collaborated regularly over the years on songs like “Family Ties,” “Range Brothers,” and the Grammy-winning, Bon Iver-sampling “The Hillbillies.”
“I understood the hardship before he was born — just the history of our family in general. We don’t call ourselves the hillbillies for nothing,” Lamar shares in the trailer. “This is a story of a warfare environment and a warfare, psychologically, to try and change our generational curses.” The nearly ten-minute clip ends with a snippet of an unreleased new song. Titled “Booman I,” the trailer’s co-producers include Lamar, Dave Free, and the duo’s company pgLang.
Since releasing The Melodic Blue, Keem has remained relatively quiet, aside from sharing the song “Leavemealone” with Fred Again.., Four Tet, and Skrillex in 2023. He also performed with Lamar and Brent Faiyaz at Coachella in 2022.
Read more about Baby Keem in Alphonse Pierre’s column Baby Keem Has a Lot of Hype — But Is He Any Good?
