Wasteland (Brent Faiyaz album)

Wasteland (stylized in all caps) is the second studio album by American R&B singer Brent Faiyaz, released on July 8, 2022, through Lost Kids, Venice Music, and Stem Disintermedia. The album features guest appearances from Alicia Keys, DJ Dahi, Drake, Joony, Tre Amani, and Tyler, The Creator, while the album's production was primarily handled by Faiyaz himself and Jordan Ware, with assistance from Beat Butcha, Che Pope, DJ Dahi, Jake One, No I.D., Paperboy Fabe, Raphael Saadiq, |The Neptunes, and the album's executive producer, Jonathan "Freeze" Wells. The album serves as a follow-up to the EP Fuck the World (2020).

Wasteland received "generally favorable" reviews from music critics who praised the album's "smooth" production and Faiyaz's vocals. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, in which it earned 88,000 album-equivalent units, of which 6,000 were pure album sales while nine out of the seventeen album tracks debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album was supported by four official singles: "Dead Man Walking", "Gravity" with DJ Dahi featuring Tyler, The Creator, "Wasting Time" featuring Drake, and "Price of Fame".