King Iso Unleashes New Album "Ghetto Psycho" and New Single w/ E-40 Out Today
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September 12, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA) Speaking up for an entire generation, King Iso unleashes his anxiously awaited new album, Ghetto Psycho, out now via Strange Music.
Listen HERE.
On this 24-track epic, the Omaha spitter wages a lyrical war against a broken system, which has left behind millions of people around the world. He tackles the ripple effects of poverty, splintering into addiction, mental health, violence, and hopelessness. At the same time, he breaks down the walls and allows light to shine through in the form of clever humor and a constant reminder that life can and will get better.
This is hip-hop at its most poignant, pure, and potent. This is the album Iso was always meant to make—so he not only rapped on every song, but he also produced the entirety of the project.
This is Ghetto Psycho.
About the record, he commented, “There are things that happened to people growing up in my community and similar communities. A lot of individuals wind up getting involved in gangs, hustling, or abusing drugs. These things happen when you’re in the ghetto, but it’s not limited to our ghetto. It could be overseas in a third-world country or in a trailer park. We need to have conversations about these traumatic experiences, leading to healing rather than accepting them as the norm. What makes you go crazy? You may go through a mental health crisis, but you’re told it’s normal. It shouldn’t be normal to see fentanyl overdoses, so many shootings, and people dying on Instagram. This shit has created a whole bunch of Ghetto Psychos who don’t know they’re hurting. I’m getting to the root of the problem.”
Among many highlights, the single “Crash Out” [feat. E-40] brings the Bay Area to the Midwest! A rumbling bassline thumps through 808s as an automobile alert chirps. Iso and E-40 lock into a bold and highly quotable back-and-forth punctuated by the latter’s undeniably true observation, “They don’t make ‘em like me no more!” It’s as hypnotic as it is hard-hitting.
A cinematic music video for “Crash Out” is in the works to accompany the track this fall.
King Iso recently teased the album with “Normal.” The latter has impressively collected nearly 1 Milion YouTube views on its heart-wrenching music video in barely a month’s time. It also garnered looks from Hip Hop Over Everything and others.
To cap off a busy year, Iso will support Tech N9ne on a string of tour dates in December. Check out the full confirmed itinerary below.
He bulldozed the way for Ghetto Psycho with “Concrete Box Spring” [feat. Don Trip] and “Beat Box.” The music video for the latter reeled in over 658K YouTube views, while the song eclipsed 227K Spotify streams. VIBE also plugged it on “New Hip-Hop Releases For Your Weekend Groove.” Prior, he served up “Hell’s Architect” with Matt Phoenix. The latter is nearing 125K streams already in addition to receiving looks from I’M MUSIC MAGAZINE and more.
It landed in the wake of his fastest-rising banger yet “Travis O’Guin.” It has stacked up 1.1 million YouTube views thus far. Listen HERE and watch the music video HERE.
“Travis O’Guin” marked Iso’s first new music since the arrival of his latest album iLLdren back in 2023. The latter piled up millions of streams fueled by “Feel” [feat. Tech N9ne & Matt Phoenix], “Nightmare,” and more. Upon release, V13 touted iLLdren, while Music Existence also plugged it. Underground Hip Hop Blog rated it “9-out-of-10,” going on to rave, “there is no question in my mind that this dude has become the best artist on Strange Music other than Tech himself for the way he addresses topics that aren’t covered too often in hip-hop today like mental health.” Folk N Rock summed it up best as “one of the most powerful albums this year.”
Experience Ghetto Psycho now!
TOUR DATES w/ TECH N9NE:
12/3 Joliet, IL The Forge
12/4 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
12/5 East Moline, IL The Rust Belt
12/19 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium
12/20 Colorado Springs, CO Sunshine Studios Live
GHETTO PSYCHO TRACKLISTING
Law 6126
Element
Butcher Knife [feat. Snake Lucci]
Hell’s Architect [feat. Matt Phoenix]
Giving Down [feat. Starlito]
Top of the Morning (Skit)
Check In
Beat Box
The Gas Station (Skit)
Crash Out [feat. E-40]
SDGAF [feat. Kuniva]
Trip
Checking In (Skit)
Bloody
High
Bad [feat. JB]
Concrete Boxspring [feat. Don Trip]
On The Way (Skit)
Travis O’Guin
Talk To Me
Normal
Ghetto Psycho
Against The World
WOOTS [feat. Taebo Tha Truth]
MORE ABOUT KING ISO:
King Iso starts conversations. He isn’t afraid to speak his mind, tell his story, make people a little uncomfortable with his honesty, or body any beat in his path. By projecting such fearlessness, he challenges everyone to grow with him. He already knows where he’s been and who he is, but he’s really creating who he will be (and how he’ll be remembered) via his music. With a rough childhood, stints in the hospital, seasons of homelessness, addiction, and suicide attempts in the rearview, he pushes forward out of the darkness and ignites his own light as a Gold-certified rapper, producer, and entrepreneur. That light only grows brighter on his seventh full-length LP, Ghetto Psycho [Strange Music]. Rising up out of Omaha, he has steeled his nerves and vision to make this kind of statement. You can follow his quiet rise across World War Me [2020], Get Well Soon [2022], and iLLdren [2023]—hailed by Kansas City’s The Pitch as “his most personal endeavor so far.” He punctured the mainstream by appearing on one of the most successful independent rap songs in history, “Face Off” with Tech N9ne, Joey Cool, and Dwayne Johnson. The Gold-certified anthem has generated over 215 million Spotify streams. Additionally, he produced Tech N9ne’s “Red Kingdom,” which has surpassed 57 million Spotify streams and achieved Platinum status. He has additionally received acclaim from VIBE, Rolling Out, V13, Music Existence, AllHipHop, HotNewHipHop, Rock The Bells, and others. He cuts deeper than ever in 2025 though. Not unlike Patrick Bateman, he makes a deep incision in the guts of the culture, reaches in, and pulls out a raw truth that’s bloodied, brutal, and beautiful from Ghetto Psycho.
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