Babyface Ray Has Too Much Paper to Count in ‘Rubberband Man’ Video

Detroit’s Babyface Ray is one of the smoothest rappers doing it and luckily for us, he set to drop a new project. Yesterday, he posted the trailer for this video on his Instagram account and ended the caption with “album coming soon.”

Directed by Gerard Victor, “Rubberband Man” — a nod to T.I.‘s 2003 hit record of the same name —opens with a Blow reference as Ray is in an apartment with so many boxes of cash, he doesn’t know where to store a box that’s in his hand. He also counts bread with fellow Detroit rappers, Samuel Shabazz, Peezy, and Boldy James in a kitchen and burns a stack of $100s after what looks like a successful score.

Speaking of scores, Big Treeze’s production gives this a sleek ’80s action TV series feel (think Knight Rider) as Babyface nonchalantly tells the listener and his foes to get their money up. “I got conversation pieces, so I let my wrist show,” he raps. He then refers to himself as “Mr. Put-That-Sh—t-On” and “Mr. Go-And-Get-That-Bag-And-Show-These-N—s-How-To-Do-It,” and brags about his vintage whip, “Candy on the Old School, look just like a Prada shoe.”

Babyface Ray has been active this year. He’s dropped a bunch of loosies and has been on a handful of features, most notably with Lil Yachty on YG‘s single “Stupid” in an unlikely pairing that was so crazy, it worked.

There’s still no word on an album title, tracklist, or release date for this upcoming project, so we’ll keep you posted.

The Detroit rapper’s last album, Summer’s Mine, dropped in July of 2023.