The Gentlemen's Club

On May 27, 2026, YG announced The Gentlemen's Club for release on June 19 and entered a label partnership with 10K Projects for the album.^[1] The album was released as a 15-track project on June 19, 2026, with a total running time of 54 minutes and 34 seconds.^[6]

Speaking to GQ after a live performance of the album at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, YG said that he had not previously performed one of his albums from front to back. GQ's Frazier Tharpe wrote that the album had been in development for two years, which YG described as the longest he had worked on a project.^[2] The album includes "Hollywood", a collaboration with Shoreline Mafia released as a single on May 22, 2025; "Gang Bizness", with PayGotti, released as a single on May 29, 2026; and "Insecure", with JID and Ab-Soul, released as a single on June 12, 2026.^[7][8][9]

YG is scheduled to embark on the North American "The Gentlemen's Club Tour" in support of the album, beginning in Boston on September 10, 2026 and concluding in Honolulu on November 7, 2026. Mozzy, Kalan.FrFr, Chef Boy, and Natalie Nunn will open for the tour.^[10]

Tharpe characterized The Gentlemen's Club as an album about YG's public image, self-worth, and insecurities, with songs that also preserve his club-oriented rap style.^[2] Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone wrote that the album treats the title less as a strip-club reference than as an imagined space where men speak about uncomfortable subjects, and described it as a return to narrative writing within YG's aggressive persona.^[3] In Beats per Minute, Chase McMullen wrote that the album uses the idea of the club as a concept, including linked songs with a fictional hitman premise in which YG's target is a version of himself.^[4]

Several reviews singled out "Tiffany", a story song about a man who becomes violent after learning that the woman he brought home is transgender. Reeves compared the song's attempt at empathy to Kendrick Lamar's "Auntie Diaries", while McMullen described it as ambitious but unsuccessful in its handling of transphobia.^[3][4] Writing for Them, Quispe López reported that trans creators criticized the song for repeating narratives associated with the trans-panic myth, while noting that the song is a fictional story rather than an autobiographical account.^[5]

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Beats per Minute	70%[4]
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Tharpe wrote in GQ that The Gentlemen's Club was YG's strongest album since My Krazy Life (2014), emphasizing its self-critical framing and his performance of the album in a black-tie setting.^[2] Reeves, reviewing the album for Rolling Stone, said it showed a renewed focus on narrative and highlighted "We Know the Truth" and "Hollywood" as examples of YG's strengths, while also describing parts of the album as odd and difficult.^[3]

McMullen gave the album a score of 70% in Beats per Minute. He wrote that YG sounded focused and serious across the album, but considered some of its conceptual swings uneven, particularly "Tiffany".^[4] López's Them article focused on "Tiffany" and reported criticism from transgender people including Kat Blaque, who argued that the song repeated stereotypes used to justify violence against trans women.^[5]

Credits are adapted from Tidal.^[11]