Sugar Honey Iced Tea
2024 studio album by Latto
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Sugar Honey Iced Tea is the third studio album by American rapper Latto. It was released through Streamcut and RCA Records on August 9, 2024.[2] The album's standard edition features guest appearances from Young Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Mariah the Scientist, Teezo Touchdown, Cardi B, and Flo Milli, but the bonus edition includes Playboi Carti. It serves as the follow-up to her second studio album, 777 (2022).
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| Released | August 9, 2024 | |||
| Recorded | 2023–2024 | |||
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| Length | 62:00 | |||
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The album received generally positive reviews, and tied 777 as her highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at number fifteen. It was supported by five singles: "Put It on da Floor", "Sunday Service", "Big Mama", "Brokey", and "Blick Sum".
Promotion
On June 22, 2024, Latto first teased the title of the album, while performing as a headliner at the Birthday Bash ATL 2024.[3] On July 24, she announced the release date of the album with a trailer video inspired by the film, ATL (2006), featuring cameos from fellow Atlanta-native rappers 2 Chainz and T.I.[4] On July 26, she previewed the tracklist of the album with a picture of her left hand covering a piece of paper showing a possible tracklist with only a few songs revealed, one of which is the previously released single, "Big Mama".[5] She revealed the cover art of the album on July 30.[6] She shared the full tracklist on August 7.[7]
Singles
"Put It on da Floor" was released as the album's lead single on April 21, 2023.[8] The official remix, titled "Put It on da Floor Again", featuring American rapper Cardi B, was released on June 1.[9] The remix peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[10] "Sunday Service" was released the album's second single on February 9, 2024.[11] The official remix of the song, featuring American rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Flo Milli, was released on June 7.[12] The song peaked at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[10] The album's third single, titled "Big Mama", was released on June 28 alongside a music video.[13] The song peaked at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[10] A music video for "Georgia Peach" was released on August 9, 2024.[14] A music video for "Brokey" was released on October 11, 2024.[15] "Blick Sum" was released as the album's fifth single on January 28, 2025 alongside a music video; the single version features Playboi Carti.[16]
On the album's one year anniversary, Latto released a music video for "Chicken Grease" and announced a vinyl release of the album.[17][18]
Tour
On August 14, 2024, Latto announced the North American dates of the "Sugar Honey Iced Tea Tour", with Mariah the Scientist and Karrahboo as supporting acts.[19] The North American leg of the tour began on October 26, 2024 in Tampa, Florida and concluded on December 7, 2024 in Denver, Colorado.[19] She announced the dates for the European leg of the tour in April 2025.[20] The leg began on June 7, 2025 in St. Paul's Bay and concluded on July 6, 2025 in Liège.[20] The African leg of the tour is planned to take place in Winter 2025.[21]
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100[22] |
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| AllMusic |   [23] |
| Clash | 7/10[24] |
| Pitchfork | 6.1/10[25] |
| Rolling Stone |  [26] |
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Sugar Honey Iced Tea received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 from 5 critic scores.[22]
Writing for Clash in a positive review, Robin Murray stated that "Sugar Honey Iced Tea paints in the finer details", describing the project as "a work of complexity that – when it clicks into place – might be her most potent release yet".[24] Rolling Stone's Mankaprr Conteh wrote that the album is "a careful ode to her Atlanta roots and life in the south broadly". Conteh praised how Latto's "top-notch bars flow through super smooth sequencing". Concluding her review, Conteh stated that "Latto shows she's more than a sex symbol" and that she's "charismatic, dexterous, and long prepared".[26] On the other hand, Vivian Medithi of Pitchfork wrote that Latto's "Southern charm gets lost in an abundance of anonymous beats". AllMusic's review stated that Latto was "stepping up significantly from the sometimes personality-light commercial sounds of her earlier work" on the album.[23]
Commercial performance
In the United States, Sugar Honey Iced Tea debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, marking her highest peak on the chart with 29,000 album-equivalent units.[27]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Georgia Peach" |
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| 2:27 |
| 2. | "Big Mama" | Stephens |
| 2:53 | |
| 3. | "Blick Sum" | Stephens |
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| 3:11 |
| 4. | "Settle Down" |
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| 2:42 |
| 5. | "Shrimp & Grits" (featuring Young Nudy) |
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| 2:44 |
| 6. | "There She Go" | Stephens |
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| 2:41 |
| 7. | "Brokey" | Stephens |
| Coupe | 3:37 |
| 8. | "Mimi Interlude" | Stephens |
| Parker | 0:38 |
| 9. | "H&M" | Stephens |
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| 2:26 |
| 10. | "Copper Cove" (featuring Hunxho) |
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| 3:26 |
| 11. | "Ear Candy" (featuring Coco Jones) |
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| 3:15 |
| 12. | "Liquor" | Stephens |
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| 3:03 |
| 13. | "Squeeze" (featuring Megan Thee Stallion) |
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| 2:44 | |
| 14. | "Good 2 You" (featuring Ciara) |
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| 3:09 |
| 15. | "Look What You Did" (featuring Mariah the Scientist) |
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| 2:58 |
| 16. | "Prized Possession" (featuring Teezo Touchdown) |
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| 3:41 |
| 17. | "S/O to Me" | Stephens |
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| 4:02 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 18. | "Put It on da Floor" |
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| 3:02 |
| 19. | "Put It on da Floor Again" (featuring Cardi B) |
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| 3:05 |
| 20. | "Sunday Service" |
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| 2:46 |
| 21. | "Sunday Service" (remix featuring Megan Thee Stallion and Flo Milli) |
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| 3:27 |
| Total length: | 62:00 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 18. | "Chicken Grease" | Stephens |
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| Total length: | 64:41 | ||||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 18. | "Chicken Grease" | Stephens |
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| 23. | "Blick Sum" (featuring Playboi Carti) | Stephens |
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| 3:12 |
| Total length: | 67:53 | ||||
Notes
Personnel
Disc 1
Musicians
- Latto – vocals
- The Stereotypes – programming (track 13)
- Jeremy Reeves – background vocals, bass
- Jonathan Yip – background vocals, synthesizer
- Ray Romulus – background vocals, percussion
- Ray Charles McCullough II
- 3onawav – background vocals (track 13)
- Kameron Glasper – background vocals (track 13)
- Jeff Baranowski – drums (track 13)
- Luke Milano – keyboards (track 13)
- Saint Mino – keyboards (track 17)
- Julius – vocals (track 17)
Technical
- Joe LaPorta – mastering
- Ben Hogarth – mixing, engineering
- Leslie Brathwaite – mixing (track 13)
- Kyle Kashiwagi – engineering (track 13)
- Ronald "RD" Estrada – engineering (track 13)
- Shawn "Source" Jarrett – engineering (track 13)
- Andrew Keller – vocal engineering (track 16)
Disc 2
- Latto – vocals
- Sage Skolfield – mastering, mixing (1, 2)
- Jaycen Joshua – mastering, mixing (3)
- Joe LaPorta – mastering (track 4)
- Ben Hogarth – mixing (track 4), engineering (1–3)
- Leslie Brathwaite – mixing (track 4)
- Javier Valverde – engineering (tracks 3, 4)
- Mike Seaberg – engineering (tracks 3, 4)
- Shawn "Source" Jarrett – engineering (track 4)
- Chris Bhikoo – engineering assistance (track 4)
- Christopher Weaver – engineering assistance (track 4)
- Dominique "Cookisdope" Cook – engineering assistance (track 4)
- Maysin Sexton – engineering assistance (track 4)
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[31] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||