| Sugar Honey Iced Tea | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Latto |
| Cover: | Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea.png |
| Alt: | Latto squatting in high heels and short shorts, carwashing a brightly colored lowrider. |
| Recorded: | 2023–2024 |
| Length: | 62:00 |
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| Prev Title: | 777 |
| Prev Year: | 2022 |
Sugar Honey Iced Tea is the third studio album by American rapper Latto. It was released through Streamcut and RCA Records on August 9, 2024.[1] It is supported by three singles: "Put It on da Floor", "Sunday Service", and "Big Mama". The album features guest appearances from Young Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Mariah the Scientist, Teezo Touchdown, Cardi B, and Flo Milli. It serves as the follow-up to her second studio album, 777 (2022).
On June 22, 2024, Latto first teased the title of the album, while performing as a headliner at the Birthday Bash ATL 2024.[2] On July 24, she announced the release date of the album with a trailer video inspired by the film, ATL (2006), featuring cameos from fellow Atlanta-native rappers 2 Chainz and T.I.[3] On July 26, she previewed the tracklist of the album with a picture of her left hand covering a piece of paper showing a possible tracklist with only a few songs revealed, one of which is the previously-released single, "Big Mama".[4] She revealed the cover art of the album on July 30.[5] She shared the full tracklist on August 7.[6]
"Put It on da Floor" was released as the album's lead single on April 21, 2023.[7] The official remix, titled "Put It on da Floor Again", featuring American rapper Cardi B, was released on June 1.[8] The remix peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[9] "Sunday Service" was released the album's second single on February 9, 2024.[10] The official remix of the song, featuring American rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Flo Milli, was released on June 7.[11] The song peaked at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[9] The album's third single, titled "Big Mama", was released on June 28.[12] The song peaked at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[9]
Writing for Clash in a positive review, Robin Murray stated that "Sugar Honey Iced Tea paints in the finer details", describing the project as "a work of complexity that – when it clicks into place – might be her most potent release yet". Rolling Stones Mankaprr Conteh wrote that the album is "a careful ode to her Atlanta roots and life in the south broadly". Conteh praised how Latto's "top-notch bars flow through super smooth sequencing". Concluding her review, Conteh stated that "Latto shows she's more than a sex symbol" and that she's "charismatic, dexterous, and long prepared". On the other hand, Vivian Medithi of Pitchfork wrote that Latto's "Southern charm gets lost in an abundance of anonymous beats".
In the United States, Sugar Honey Iced Tea debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 with 29,500 album-equivalent units, marking her highest first-week sales thus far and tying with her highest placement on the chart as her sophomore album, 777 (2022), which sold 24,000 copies in its first week.[13] It also debuted at number one on the Top Rap Albums charts, marking her first ever number one, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, marking her highest placement on the chart besting her previous No. 8 peak of 777. As of August 2024, Sugar Honey Iced Tea has sold over 300,000 units in the U.S. alone.
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