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KB Announces New Album TODAY WE REBEL To Be Released October 20
“Monster” Ft. Aha Gazelle Available Now With Album Pre-Order
Billboard chart topping Christian Hip Hop artist, KB, announces the release of his latest effort, Today We Rebel, available for pre-order today, September 15, and releasing October 20 via Reach Records. Leading up to the album announcement, KB unveiled a series of visuals across his platforms sparking social conversations and giving fans a look ‘inside the mind’ of what turns a man into a rebel.
In 2017— with the world in a social and political frenzy—KB is redefining what that rebellion truly means. “To me, resistance carries with it a certain posture,” KB says. “But I’m trying to infuse a spiritual element into it. I’m so free that it comes across as an act of rebellion.”
Sonically, Today We Rebel is a mixture of emotion and aggression, which KB describes as “cinematic trap” and throughout the 14-track album you can feel the urgency in KB’s tone. “It’s a lot more introspective,” he explains. “The older you get, the more aware you become of the human struggle, and the struggle in your own heart.” This kind of clarity is what makes KB such a necessary voice for today’s generation, “I’m just a man being honest about the world as he sees it.”
From start to finish Today We Rebel is chock-full of wordplay, intricate flows, and chest-pounding production from the likes of KB’s production team Cobra, among others including Cardec, Mykallife and Halo Hitz. It all comes across effortlessly, a testament to KB’s grind and respect for the craft.
The LP also boasts stellar features from Lecrae, Andy Mineo, For King and Country, and Aha Gazelle who appears on the lead single “Monster.” The hard-hitting track is available as an instant gratification download with the album’s pre-order.
Pre-Order Today We Rebel: smarturl.it/todaywerebel
Listen To “Monster” Ft. Aha Gazelle: youtu.be/1i1Mv-cNy3w
Today We Rebel follows the release of 2015’s Tomorrow We Live, which garnered both critical and commercial acclaim earning a Stellar Award nomination for Rap/Hip-Hop Gospel CD of the Year and debuting on the Billboard charts as the No.1 Christian Album and the No. 4 Rap Album overall. Additionally, the title track “100” from KB’s EP took home the Dove Award for Rap/Hip-Hop Song of the Year in 2014.
KB is gearing up to embark on The HOMETEAM Tour this fall with Trip Lee, kicking off October 18 with stops in Jacksonville, Orlando, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis and more. To stay up to date on KB and for ticket information, be sure to visit WhoIsKB.com.
The HOMETEAM Tour Dates
10/18 – Plant City, FL
10/19 – Jacksonville, FL
10/20 – Orlando, FL
10/21 – Charlotte, NC
10/22 – Cleveland, TN
10/25 – Laurel, MS
10/27 – Fairfield, OH
10/28 – Frankfort, KY
10/29 – Davenport, IA
11/1 – Roseville, MN
11/2 – Des Moines, IA
11/3 – Chicago, IL
11/4 – Holland, MI
11/5 – Columbus, OH
11/7 – St. Louis, MO
11/9 – Waco, TX
11/10 – San Antonio, TX
11/11 – Dallas, TX
11/12 – Oklahoma City, OK
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IRENE MICHAELS JOINS THE RECORDING ACADEMY — AND WHAT THAT VOTE ACTUALLY MEANS
Awards nominations tell an audience an artist’s work has been noticed. Recording Academy Voting Membership tells a different story: that the artist has been recognized as a peer within the industry itself. Irene Michaels was recently named a Voting Member of the Recording Academy — the organization behind the Grammy Awards — and the distinction carries weight well beyond a title on a bio page.
Voting Membership isn’t handed out casually. It’s reserved for performers, songwriters, producers, engineers, and other creators actively working in the recording industry, and it comes with real influence: Voting Members are the people who ultimately determine Grammy nominees and winners each year. For an artist to be recognized at that level is, in effect, the industry saying her work belongs in the same conversation as the artists and professionals shaping the awards themselves.
That’s a meaningful marker for Michaels’ ongoing music career, which has moved from EPs and singles to Josie Music Award recognition and now into this kind of institutional standing. It reframes her not just as an artist building a catalog, but as a working member of the community that evaluates and honors that catalog industry-wide — someone whose judgment on music now carries an official vote.
It also adds context to everything else happening in her 2026: a triple nomination at the 12th Annual Josie Music Awards, an EP in Golden that’s earning recognition on its own merits, and a career that has spent the last several years steadily building credibility as a serious recording artist rather than a novelty comeback story. Recording Academy membership doesn’t arrive for artists still proving themselves — it arrives for artists the industry has already decided are part of it.
For Irene Michaels, whose career has spanned modeling, acting, publishing, and now music across multiple decades, the Recording Academy recognition is less a single headline than another data point in a larger pattern: an artist whose reinvention keeps being met, at every stage, with the industry taking her seriously.
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