Yung Miami announces debut solo album ‘Watch Dis,’ a 20-track LP due Oct. 23 with Lil Baby, Quavo, G Herbo, Kodak Black and more
Yung Miami is done waiting for permission. The Miami rapper, one half of the now-dissolved City Girls, has officially announced ‘Watch Dis‘, her debut solo album, a 20-song project landing Oct. 23 with features from Quavo, G Herbo, Lil Baby, Kodak Black, Shenseea, Vybez Kartel and more. It arrives two years after the duo split to pursue solo careers, and Caresha is treating it like the statement it needs to be.
She set the tone with a dramatic trailer shared on Thursday. The clip opens with public criticism from Joe Budden and Akademiks, the latter dismissing both her life and her music, before Miami answers back. She admits there were days when finding the courage just to walk into the studio felt impossible, and says she poured every emotion and ounce of energy she had into the album. It is less a hype reel than a rebuttal.
No Playing It Safe
Miami could have eased back in. She chose not to. “I could’ve come back with one song and played it safe, but why?” she told Pitchfork, adding that she is confident in what she made and ready to show out with everybody watching. It is a pointed answer to anyone who expected a cautious comeback.
The confidence is earned. Her 2026 run has been led by ‘Spend Dat’, a summer contender that climbed to No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the biggest solo moments of her career. She kept it alive with a remix featuring Shenseea and Davido, and released ‘News Flash’ and ‘Tea Time’ as further previews of the album. Today, she added two more, ‘F U’ and ‘2008’, to the rollout.
The album has been on the horizon for a while. Back in June, at the BET Awards, Miami confirmed to That Grape Juice that a debut was coming, with a summer release originally in mind. The window slipped, but ‘Spend Dat’ kept her name in heavy rotation, and the extra time turned a promise into a full campaign.
Life After City Girls
For many fans, Yung Miami’s story starts in 2018, when City Girls broke into the mainstream through an uncredited feature on Drake’s ‘In My Feelings’, with Miami appearing in the video. That cameo helped turn a regional duo into a national force. The duo’s final album under the name, ‘RAW’, arrived in 2023. After the split, Miami shifted focus to her talk show ‘Caresha Please’, which aired its last season in 2024.
That gap matters. For two years, the conversation around Miami has been as much about her personal life and online critics as her bars. ‘Watch Dis’ is her chance to move the conversation back to the music, on her own terms and under her own name. Debut albums rarely carry this much backstory.
The Stakes on Oct. 23
The guest list reads like a map of where her sound lives. Quavo and Lil Baby bring Atlanta polish, G Herbo carries Chicago grit, Kodak Black represents her home state of Florida, and Shenseea and Vybez Kartel pull the album toward the Caribbean, a lane she already tested on the ‘Spend Dat’ remix. It is a wide net, and a deliberate one.
Twenty tracks is also a bold number for a debut. Many artists coming off a hit play it safe with a short, tight project. Miami is betting on range and endurance instead, and in an era when women have become some of rap’s biggest stars, she is stepping in without apology. On Oct. 23, the critics in her trailer will get their answer.
