Young Nudy released his new album Just Doin Me on October 28, 2026, a 16-track project led by the Young Nudy Chicken Tender video. The Atlanta rapper’s midweek drop pairs the full album with official visuals for Chicken Tender, a track produced by COUPE that sits second in the running order and carries the rollout.
Just Doin Me tracklist and features
The Just Doin Me tracklist runs 16 songs: Hits, Chicken Tender, Let Me Show You, Who Dat Is, Nonstop, Stars In My Car featuring Fatt Smaxk, Spinnin featuring 21 Savage, War, Spaghetti, FBGM, Broke Bitch, Ya Dig, Why Would I, Judy featuring JID, Vibe Out and Cream Pie. The feature list is short and deliberate. 21 Savage, Nudy’s cousin and his most frequent collaborator, appears on Spinnin, while JID, another Atlanta lyricist with a long history in the city’s scene, closes the guest list on Judy alongside Fatt Smaxk on Stars In My Car.
The album was previewed by Who Dat Is, which arrived on October 9 with its own video and set the tone for the rollout. Where some Atlanta projects arrive with months of singles, Just Doin Me kept its pre-release window tight: one preview single, a tracklist reveal, and then the full record inside three weeks. HotNewHipHop, reviewing the album on release day, heard a rapper settled into his strengths.
These songs contain strong bars and wavy production, which is exactly what you want to hear from Nudy.
The Chicken Tender video leads the album
Choosing Chicken Tender as the video single tells you how Nudy hears his own record. The song’s title is playful, but the writing reaches back to his beginnings, and the official video brings G Herbo and 21 Savage into the visuals, surrounding the album’s second track with two of the most recognizable voices in rap. COUPE’s production gives the record its bounce, dark and unhurried, the pocket Nudy has made his own across a decade of Atlanta trap.
Reviewers who lived with the album on release day kept returning to its sense of place. The writing names the streets and blocks that raised him, from Bouldercrest Road to a Zone 6 Texaco, and treats that geography as biography rather than decoration. That is the thread that connects Chicken Tender to the rest of Just Doin Me: a rapper describing exactly where he comes from, in a voice relaxed enough to sound like conversation, over production that never rushes him.
A decade in, Nudy stays on his own path
Young Nudy has never chased the centre of rap’s attention economy. His albums arrive on his schedule, his sound changes slowly and on purpose, and his audience has grown the old way, record by record, since the Slime Ball tapes put East Atlanta on his back. Just Doin Me is the sound of that approach holding firm in 2026: sixteen tracks, three guests, one producer core, and a lead video that lets the music introduce itself.
The production stays in the family
The album’s credits underline how closed Nudy’s creative circle is. COUPE handles Chicken Tender, Luke Beasley produces Judy and shares credit on FBGM with KID Hazel, and LB and Uchi split Let Me Show You, with Alverne Emmanuel recording and mixing across the project and Joe LaPorta mastering. There is no producer shopping and no trend chasing in those names. Nudy built his sound with a small team over many records, most famously across his Sli’merre work with Pi’erre Bourne, and Just Doin Me keeps that discipline: a tight circle, a consistent low end, and room for his voice to sit on top of everything. It is part of why his albums play like albums instead of playlists, and why a midweek release with almost no warning still lands like an event for the audience that has been with him since Paradise East.
Just Doin Me is streaming now on all platforms, and the Chicken Tender video is live on Young Nudy’s YouTube channel. For listeners who want the full picture before pressing play, start with Who Dat Is for the rollout’s opening statement, Spinnin for the family collaboration, and Judy for the JID feature, then let the record run in order the way it was sequenced.
