Isaiah Rashad has mastered the art of starting over. His music has historically found him crawling back from some form of rock bottom. He’d battle substance abuse and mental health woes, all while tackling fatherhood and the mundanities of everyday life. This often coincided with lengthy absences that left his label TDE and all of his fans waiting on him for years at a time.
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This reality hadn’t changed by the time the Chattanooga bred rapper released It’s Been Awful on May 1st, 2026. His sex tapes leaked, he found himself struggling with drugs and alcohol again, impacting the relationships around him. “Never been sober, But I’m trying/Last time that I told ya that I was, I was lying/Methamphetamines was f—ing with my mind,” Rashad raps on the album’s “Do I Look High?”
It took a radical honesty with himself and others to help him complete It’s Been Awful, his most transformative record to date. Rashad dove into his past to try and root out what brought him to this point, whether that was diving into his family’s history of sex addiction or how substances became a crutch that inevitably impacted his relationships. It’s an extremely sobering listen that saw Rashad strip himself bare in order to move forward with his life.
