March Madness had a different definition for Young Nudy and producer Coupe this year. Nudy and his “Peaches & Eggplants” collaborator locked in for a month straight, relentlessly recording in the East Atlanta rapper’s basement studio of his Georgia mansion.

“Non-stop,” Coupe insists to Billboard of the duo’s creative process for PARADISE. “We were at his house, locked in the basement. I was sleeping in that motherf—ker every day, on the floor.”

Less than a year after 2024’s Sli’merre 2, PARADISE arrived on Aug. 8, a crowded hip-hop release day, filled with 14 tracks and features from Memphis titan Project Pat, 21 Savage, Latto and Babydrill, while also enlisting Kid Hazel on the production side.

“PARADISE means a lot for me, the good and the bad,” Nudy says. “It takes a lot to get to PA

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