Serving as his first independent release since 2015’s Suffolk County, Boston-bred rapper Cousin Stizz returned on Friday with a new album called Just for You.
The album comes after his 2017 RCA debut Trying to Find My Next Thrill and Trying To Find My Next Thrill, which dropped in 2019. Just for You includes 13 featureless tracks including the previously released singles “Say Dat,” “Lethal Weapon,” “Blessings,” and “LBS,” which Stizz dropped the music video for last week. The new album finds Stizz after his two-year hiatus as he speaks on the lessons learned from years of abiding by major label restrictions while trying to still maintain a creative inspiration to make music.
While Cousin Stizz didn’t drop a new project in 2021, he did appear as a featured artist on a few tracks including the Jonah Lennox collaboration “Phases,” and “Nothin 2 Me” with Jazz Cartier.
Cousin Stizz also announced his upcoming tour when the “LBS” video dropped, which is set to kick off in Seattle on March 16. The 17-date tour will feature Tony Shhnow and will head through Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. before concluding in Stizz’s hometown of Boston on April 22.
In an interview with Complex in 2019, Stizz said his goal as a rapper was to make authentic music that was both fun and reflective of his experiences.
“I make music about life, and my life in general,” he said. “It’s all stuff I’ve been through. I don’t wanna have that shit on me all the time. I can make music to have fun. I originally made music to have fun. I don’t wanna keep putting myself in my mind all the time. It’s important, sure, because it’s real and a real life I go through.”
Listen to Just for You below.
