Ransom 2

Background

On January 4, 2016, Mike Will Made It revealed the cover art for the project while also releasing the first song from the mixtape, titled By Chance featuring his own artists Rae Sremmurd. On January 15, 2016, Mike Will took to Twitter to announce he'd be releasing a song the next day. The following day, Al Sharpton featuring Atlanta rapper Future was released. On January 23, 2016, Mike Will Made It took to Twitter once again to announce to his fans that Ransom 2 would be dropping the following Friday on January 29. However come Friday, Mike Will then announced that he had delayed the project in order to obtain a guest feature from long time collaborator Gucci Mane and also have him host the tape. At this point in time, Gucci Mane was still serving a three year prison sentence and the police wouldn't allow him to host the mixtape. This meant working with Gucci Mane wouldn't be possible until he was released from prison on May 26, 2016. On November 15, 2016, Nicki Minaj released a remix of the hit Mike Will produced song Black Beatles via her Soundcloud titled Black Barbies. The song reached #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also awarded the 49th spot on Rolling Stone editor Rob Sheffield's 50 best songs of the year. On February 22, 2017, Mike Will revealed via his Twitter that he was working on finalising the mixtape before announcing the release date although he teased it would be released in March 2017. Doing so, he also partially revealed the tracklist with the previously released songs being absent from the tracklist.

Singles

The first single from the project, "Nothing Is Promised" with Barbadian singer Rihanna, was released on June 3, 2016. The song peaked at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 On March 3, 2017 Mike Will released the second official single from the project titled "Gucci On My". The song features guest appearances from 21 Savage, YG and Migos.

Track listing

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