Connie Diiamond released her new album UNLEASHED on Friday, November 13, 2026, through her own Hair by Connie D imprint under exclusive licence to MNRK Records LP. The Connie Diiamond UNLEASHED album runs 12 tracks in about 27 minutes, and it is the full-length payoff to the Wait single with DreamDoll that opened the rollout two weeks earlier, as stupidDOPE reported this morning.
The ownership line is part of the story. The album copyright reads Hair by Connie D, her own imprint, and her legal name, Constance Burns, appears in the songwriting credits, including on Wait and on the closer Pay Route. This is the follow-up to her Underdog Szn run, and the framing has shifted with the business: the underdog posture is still in the writing, but the record itself is built like an arrival, short, direct and sequenced with almost no wasted motion. Only one song on the whole album runs longer than three minutes. Press play on the closer, Pay Route, in the official audio here:
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Connie Diiamond UNLEASHED Album Tracklist, In Full
The complete sequence is: Unleashed (2:07), BIG DAWG (1:39), Lay it Down with Symba (3:39), Look What You’ve Done with Shantel May (2:38), Do With (2:35), On Me featuring Trap Manny (1:57), Back It Up featuring Journey Montana (2:41), FACE (2:10), LIL BIT with Ron E (2:15), Spicy (1:41), Wait with DreamDoll (2:15) and Pay Route (2:09). Eleven of the twelve songs land under three minutes, and several barely pass ninety seconds. That brevity is a choice rather than a shortcut: verses that get in, say the thing plainly and leave before the energy dips. The title track opens the record and BIG DAWG, already issued as an advance single, hits second at a lean 1:39, so the thesis is stated before the guest list even starts rotating.
Six of the twelve tracks carry a second voice, and the features are curated rather than crowded. Lay it Down, the album’s longest song, pairs Connie with Symba, one of the most respected pure lyricists in the game, a co-sign that says plenty about how she wants to be judged. Trap Manny, Journey Montana and Ron E keep the middle of the record moving, and Wait sits at track eleven, near the end, so by the time the familiar single arrives the album has already made its own case.
Toronto Singer Shantel May Carries The Melodic Turn
The album’s one real melodic breather carries a Toronto connection. Look What You’ve Done, at track four, features Toronto R&B singer Shantel May, whose own debut single with MNRK Music Group, Love It Here with Lola Brooke, arrived in 2024. That makes the collaboration a label-family link as well as a musical one: May gives the record its softest moment inside a tracklist otherwise built on direct, cash-first confidence, and the contrast is exactly why the song sits where it does, early enough to widen the album’s range before the run of short statement records resumes. For Canadian listeners, it is the door into this Bronx album, a Toronto voice on the only song built to slow it down.
Wait Set The Table Two Weeks Early
Wait arrived on October 30, 2026, two weeks ahead of the album, produced by DJ AaronOndabeat and built to move. Connie said around the release that the aim was to give the girls something they could dance to, and the 2:15 record does that while both Bronx rappers trade confident, funny, unfiltered bars. MNRK billed the single as a link-up of two Bronx rap queens, and DreamDoll came into it with her own momentum, having joined Usher onstage at a sold-out MetLife Stadium over the summer and released her own single OKAY. Heard in October, Wait sounded like a fun one-off. Heard at track eleven on UNLEASHED, it reads as the front door to the whole project.
From Underdog Szn To A 27 Minute Statement
The clearest sign of growth is the edit. Underdog Szn landed in 2023 and Underdog Szn 2 followed on September 12, 2025, running 20 songs in about 45 minutes, with records like Jodeci featuring Vontee the Singer and Cash Cobain and a Ghetto & Ratchet remix with Remy Ma, both earlier projects arriving through Def Jam. UNLEASHED cuts that nearly in half: 12 songs, 27 minutes, nothing that does not earn its place. The night before release, on November 12, Connie previewed the project at an Audiomack Connect event in New York, playing the record for a room before the rest of the world heard it, part homecoming and part victory lap. XXL included UNLEASHED in its November 13 projects coverage, placing the release in the week’s album conversation alongside far bigger rollouts. Start with BIG DAWG for the thesis, Lay it Down for the lyric test, Look What You’ve Done for the Toronto turn, and Pay Route, produced by HomeyHill, for the closing word.
