Alex Isley released “Westside (Remix)” with Snoop Dogg on Friday, November 13, 2026, through Free Lunch Records and Warner Records, handing a verse on her fan favourite to the most famous West Coast voice in rap. The Alex Isley Westside Remix revisits track six from her album When The City Sleeps, released March 20, 2026, and the official audio is live on her own YouTube channel, with both artists credited as writers. Hear it below.
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The Album Cut Fans Picked
Some songs announce themselves as singles, and “Westside” did it the slow way. Sequenced sixth on the 15-track When The City Sleeps, Isley’s major-label debut, the song became the record listeners kept returning to, a love letter to Los Angeles from a singer born in New Jersey and raised in the city the album is named for. The album itself was assembled with unusual care: all six songs from her April 2025 WHEN EP, including the Camper-produced “Hands,” sit alongside nine new recordings, and the rollout included the Valentine-season single “Sweetest Lullabye.” The year kept furnishing receipts, including a nomination for Outstanding Female Artist at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards, in a field alongside Cardi B, Teyana Taylor and SZA. A remix arriving eight months later is the classic second wind for an album with legs, aimed at pulling new listeners back to the full project.
A Bloodline Meets Its Student
The pairing carries a lineage no booking agent could manufacture. Isley is the daughter of Ernie Isley, the Isley Brothers guitarist, and the Isley Brothers are among the most sampled artists in hip hop history, their records forming the backbone of classics across three decades of rap. Snoop Dogg’s G-funk blueprint was built from that same well of funk and soul, in conversation with the tradition since Doggystyle in 1993. The remix credits tell the story plainly: the song is co-written by Alexandra Isley and Calvin Broadus Jr. Rather than rebuild the record, the remix crowns it, with the region elder statesman settling into the role of co-signer on a song that already carried the region name.
The Long Build Behind The Moment
None of this happened overnight. Isley released her self-produced debut EP The Love/Art Memoirs in 2012 while studying jazz at UCLA, then became one of R&B’s great collaborators, singing alongside Scarface, Kendrick Lamar, Masego, 9th Wonder and Rapsody. Her featured and background work ran from Scarface and Kendrick Lamar to PJ Morton, and her own catalogue kept deepening in parallel, from Dreams in Analog in 2013 to L U X U R Y in 2015. She made Marigold with producer Jack Dine in 2022 and I Left My Heart in Ladera with Terrace Martin in 2023, and her duet with SiR on Robert Glasper’s “Back to Love” helped carry her to two Grammy nominations as a featured artist. A Tiny Desk performance followed as a live album in 2025, and her Free Lunch signing in February 2025, distributed through Warner Records, turned that reputation into a platform. “Westside” the album cut was a promise her audience found on its own. The remix is the city co-signing it, and it gives her live shows a natural centrepiece: the hometown song, from the hometown album, now carrying a Snoop Dogg verse.
