Stoic has released PAELLA!, a 14-track album the Staten Island producer built around guests. It came out on 19 August 2026, and HotNewHipHop wrote it up the same day. Almost every track on it carries a feature.
MAVI, Ovrkast, Mick Jenkins, Deante' Hitchcock and Nyck Caution are the names the site pulled out first, and the tracklist runs deeper than those five. Blvck Svm and Max He open the record on PEGAO, Kaicrewsade joins Mick Jenkins on UP & AWAY!, and jev. turns up on HUNTING SEASON alongside Nyck Caution and CJ Fly before taking PAY NO MIND on his own.
LIFEOFTHOM appears more than anyone else: on HAIRCUT with Wynne and Samant, again on BY MY SIDE, and once more on the closer OUTTATHEWAY!. Samant also sings LOVER. Mick Jenkins is on twice, on UP & AWAY! and on HEAT UP.
MAVI and Ovrkast share FREEFALL. Deante' Hitchcock and Nina Taylor take LOSING TIME, which Stoic put out as a single before the album. Trevor Spitta has COULD NEVER BE ME, and BIG LUKE and Q THA HERO close out GANG SAMBA.
One track carries no guest at all. THE RECIPE sits seventh in the running order, between HUNTING SEASON and HEAT UP, and is the only entry on the tracklist with nothing after the title.
Stoic trailed the album with singles through the summer. We covered LOSING TIME, with Deante' Hitchcock and Nina Taylor when it arrived. The album is filed under hip-hop in the release calendar, alongside Young Chris's EP Brief Intermission.
Alexander Cole, writing for HotNewHipHop, said the guest turns merge with Stoic's production style and told readers to spend time with the project across the week. Fourteen tracks, thirteen of them carrying a feature, out on 19 August.
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- PAELLA! came out on 19 August 2026.
- Stoic is a producer based in Staten Island.
- The album runs to 14 tracks.
- MAVI and Ovrkast appear together on FREEFALL.
- Mick Jenkins features on UP & AWAY! and HEAT UP.
- LIFEOFTHOM appears on three tracks.
- THE RECIPE is the only track with no guest listed.
- Deante' Hitchcock and Nina Taylor feature on LOSING TIME.
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