Simply shy of six years in the past, rapper FLEE and plugg producer StoopidXool modified my heat climate playlists endlessly with XOOL SUMMER, an icy bundle of narcotized nocturnes that cemented the Queens native as an IYKYK icon for followers of the MexikoDro-pioneered subgenre. He’s steadily honed his knack for earworms and constructed out his solo discography over 2021 debut RatedStar and fall 2023 ’s GHOST, though FLEE nonetheless hasn’t had landed a breakout second.

2025 would possibly lastly be the yr that every one modifications: FLEE tells The FADER that the rabidly awaited XOOL SUMMER 2 will lastly launch this August. Regardless of the duo’s prolonged hiatus, FLEE’s assured of their “timeless” joint sound, and it exhibits on current singles like “MAJOR SWAG,” which breezily picks up the place previous linkups like “Stoopid” and “SANAA LATHAN” left off. Final week’s “LITA” enlisted Surf Gang stalwart Harrison to help behind the boards, and so the drums knock a little bit tougher than Xool’s solo manufacturing, which might lean virtually ambient in texture.

“Boosie the best way she wiping me down / she mentioned, ‘FLEE I’m actually accomplished with these clowns.’” FLEE’s largely simply swag speaking, however when his voice cracks into his higher register on the insistent chorus (“Popping these beans I don’t really feel like an everyday Joooooe / Advised you earlier than I don’t want an everyday hoooooe”) it’s indelible, the form of tune you end up mindlessly whistling weeks later.