Larry June's Who Coppin: Uncle Larry Keeps Cooking

Sixteen tracks, zero rush — the Bay Area's healthiest hustler drops his second album of the year

Larry June doesn't sound like he's in a hurry, and that's the whole point. Born Larry Eugene Hendricks III in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood, raised partly in Atlanta before finishing school back in the Bay, June built his name the slow way — nineteen self-released projects deep before most casual fans caught on, with a brief stint at Warner Records in the mid-2010s that he walked away from to keep doing things his own way. These days he's independent again, releasing through his own imprint The Freeminded, and that independence is the whole engine behind his catalog: no label calendar to answer to, no filler to pad a rollout — just steady, well-made albums on his own schedule.

The other half of the June story is the one that made him a Bay Area icon beyond rap circles entirely: he's arguably the genre's first true wellness rapper. Long before "clean living" was a hip-hop talking point, June was rapping about fasting until 1pm, fresh-squeezed orange juice, and morning walks instead of trap-house war stories — trading crime narratives for spreadsheets and smoothies, basically. The orange became his whole visual language, down to the merch and the album art. Albums like Orange Print (2021, which topped Billboard's Heatseekers chart) and Spaceships on the Blade (2022) built the template; The Great Escape with The Alchemist (2023) and last year's Life Is Beautiful with 2 Chainz and The Alchemist widened his audience further.

Who Coppin, released July 17, 2026 on The Freeminded, is June's second full-length of the year — landing just five months after Spiral Staircases, his joint album with Curren$y and The Alchemist. Sixteen tracks, about 49 minutes, and true to form for an artist who treats consistency as a personality trait rather than a marketing strategy.

What stands out on Who Coppin is how sparingly June uses his guest list. Motivational speaker and podcaster Wallo267 opens the record on "Go Outside Intro," setting a tone that's part pep talk, part scripture. Jhené Aiko shows up on the airy "California Dream," floating over production from Cardo Got Wings. R&B veteran Musiq Soulchild brings a softer, more vulnerable register to "Pretty Green Eyes," produced by Jay Versace. Bay Area veteran B-Legit adds a rawer voice on "Win or Lose." None of it feels like a guest-chasing exercise — each name earns its spot rather than padding the tracklist.

The album closes on "God Got Us (Ain't Too Many)," which critics have singled out as June at his most effective: part hustler, part motivational speaker, closing the record the same way he's built his whole career — one steady step at a time, no shortcuts implied. It's the throughline of everything June makes: the luxury-rap surface stays intact, but the actual message underneath is discipline, patience, and doing the work quietly until the results speak for themselves.

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Sources & Further Reading

Album Info — Apple Music — Who Coppin
Wikipedia — Larry June
Ratings Game Music — Who Coppin (Album Review)
HipHopVibe — Larry June Drops "Who Coppin" Album
Shatter the Standards — Album Review: Who Coppin
KQED — The Bay Area's healthy rap wave

Official Artist Links

larryjunetfm.com — official website (listed as his site in his Wikipedia infobox)

larryjune.bandcamp.com — official Bandcamp store, distributed via EMPIRE

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