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Inside Leon Thomas’ Doghouse: Grammy Winner Unpacks New ‘Mutt’ LP, Navigating Singlehood & Amplifying His Rock Influences


As he readies his sophomore album, Leon Thomas prepares for "war." Read the Billboard interview.

Mutt finds Thomas fully stepping into his love for rock music – from the influence of his parents while growing up in Brooklyn to his recent obsession with Black Sabbath’s 1970 Paranoid LP. Featuring collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign, Masego, Wale, Baby Rose, Axlfolie and Freddie Gibbs, Mutt brings Thomas to the frontlines of another kind of war. Back in June, Thomas told Billboard that he was “happy being single and wanted to document that.” Now, the R&B maestro offers up Mutt as a sort of musical anthropologic survey on the state of love and courtship in the 2020s.

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