''Immigrant'' is the second studio album by Palestinian-Canadian rapper

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. It was released through

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and

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on 12 October 2018. The album features guest appearances from Zack,

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, M.I.A.,

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, and Nav.

Background

The album was teased numerous times late 2017, with the album title then being "Midnight Zone". Belly also shared in studio images of himself working alongside American rapper

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, which speculated the two working on a song together. Following the release of " Maintain", featuring Canadian rapper and fellow labelmate Nav, Belly was attacked by security guards at the

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event, during

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's headlining set. Belly responded with a number of tweets; "20 of you pussies couldn’t take me off my feet" and "no negative bullshit can steal my joy.. I performed the best show of my life, on 4/20 at Coachella ‼️I really came from nothing, and I’m still here.. it’s gotta mean something." The album was officially announced on social media on 2 September 2018, with a new album title and an official release date, where he stated the following; "With everything going on, I can’t sit by and say nothing. I decided to speak my truths. my album is now called , , IMMIGRANT , , out on October 12 , , xotwod , , RN"

Singles

The lead single of the album, " Maintain", featuring Canadian rapper and fellow labelmate Nav, was released on 6 April 2018. The second single, " What You Want", featuring Canadian singer-songwriter and fellow label boss,

, was released on 24 May 2018.

Commercial performance

''Immigrant'' debuted at 169 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart and at 31 on the

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Track listing

Notes * signifies a co-producer. Sample credits * "Who Hurt You" samples " The Zone", performed by

featuring

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Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and

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Musicians

– primary artist * Zack – featured artist *

– featured artist * M.I.A. – featured artist *

– featured artist *

– featured artist * Nav – featured artist

Technical

* Jaycen Joshua – mixing , studio personnel * Chris Athens – mastering , studio personnel * Faris Al-Majed – recording , studio personnel , programming , engineering * Jacob Richards – assistant mixing , studio personnel * Mike Seaberg – assistant mixing , studio personnel * Rashawn Mclean – assistant mixing , studio personnel * Ben Billions – programming * Baruch "Mixx" Nembhard – mixing , engineering , studio personnel * David Nakaji – assistant mixing , studio personnel * Iván Jiménez – assistant mixing , studio personnel * Richard Muñoz – programming *

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– programming * Rex Kudo – programming * Anthony Cruz – recording , studio personnel *

– programming *

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– programming * Shin Kamiyama – engineering , studio personnel * Nav – programming *

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– recording , studio personnel * Austin Powerz – programming * TrakGirl – programming

Charts

References

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