Tory Lanez isn’t slowing down his release schedule, even from behind bars. The Canadian artist has announced a new double-disc album titled “MADE YOU THINK I WAS GONE…BUT,” with cover art and a full tracklist shared on his Instagram today. The project splits into two distinct halves: a 12-track rap disc and an 11-track R&B disc, 23 songs in total.
Lanez has spent his career fusing rap and R&B in the same songs, he even coined a term for it, “Swavey.” This rollout takes a different approach. Rather than mixing the two sounds track by track, he’s separating them entirely, giving each genre its own disc and its own space to breathe. For an artist known for genre-hopping mid-song, that’s a notable structural choice, and it suggests he wants listeners to sit with one mood at a time instead of bouncing between them.
The title itself reads like a direct response to fans and critics who assumed his output might be winding down. Given how active his catalog has been over the past year and a half, “gone” was never quite accurate but the album name plays into that perception anyway, then undercuts it.
Disc One, the rap side, carries the project’s only confirmed feature: “Hasty Market // Toronto” with Hollywoodsos. The two have crossed paths on record before, Hollywoodsos appeared on “580 Benz” during Lanez’s earlier Prison Tapes run . Aside from that guest spot, the rest of the tracklist appears to be Lanez solo across both discs, keeping the project close to a one-man statement.
This is far from Lanez’s first project since his incarceration began. He’s serving a 10-year sentence at the California Men’s Colony following his 2022 conviction for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, and he’s used his time behind bars to keep releasing music at a steady clip including Peterson in March 2025 and LOL: Slutty Bass in April 2026, the latter of which was described at the time as his final full-length recorded while incarcerated. This new double album complicates that narrative, suggesting he’s found a way to keep producing full-length work despite the circumstances.
His legal situation, meanwhile, hasn’t moved much. The California Supreme Court declined to review his case in February 2026, leaving the conviction intact, and his team is now pursuing a new appeal centered on alleged undisclosed evidence, alongside a clemency request to Governor Gavin Newsom. None of that has been resolved as of this announcement.
With cover art and a tracklist now public, the main gap left is the music itself. Twenty-three songs across two genre-specific discs is a bigger swing than his last few prison-era projects, and the Hollywoodsos feature gives Disc One at least one moment built around a real creative partnership rather than a solo run. For everyone else, it’s another reminder that his output hasn’t been interrupted by his sentence — a fact that continues to divide opinion given the case that put him there.
The album drops Friday. Whether it lands as a genuine artistic pivot or another entry in his prison-era release run is something listeners will be able to judge for themselves in just a few days.