Starface

For the Game Show Network program, see Starface (TV show).

Starface
Studio album by Starface
Released	July 31, 2026
Length	30:41
Labels	Last King, Empire
Tyga chronology
NSFW (2025) Starface (2026)
Singles from Starface
"Gave U Racks" Released: July 3, 2026

Starface (stylized as $tarface) is the ninth studio album by the American rapper Tyga, released under the alter ego Starface. It is a concept album inspired by the 1983 film Scarface and 1980s music including synth-wave, pop, R&B, and funk, departing from Tyga's hip-hop work. It was released on July 31, 2026; "Gave U Racks" was released as the lead single on July 3. Tyga produced Starface using artificial intelligence, attracting controversy.

Background and composition

Tyga created an alter ego named Starface (stylized as $tarface), who lives in a fictional world inspired by the 1983 film Scarface, including its "mythology and visual language". The world in which he lives draws parallelisms to Miami during the 1980s. Tyga played the film repeatedly on the studio while recording the album.

Tyga collaborated with Fenix Flexin on the unreleased song "Lavish", which features elements heard in 1983, including synthesizers and high vocals. Flexin had previously released "Rubberz", a song created using artificial intelligence (AI) allegedly using the program Treblo.

Starface is a concept album. It has influences of "synth-wave, pop, R&B, funk" sounds. Tyga said the production team used recording equipment from the 1980s "to recreate the tone of the era", adding, "Even down to the mixing, we used a lot of the old hardware". Tyga was inspired by his mother, who died in 2025, and said the 1980s were "her era". He also said he had drawn inspiration from musicians of that time, including Prince, Michael Jackson, and Hall & Oates.

Tyga used artificial intelligence (AI) to produce elements quickly, such as the synthesizer and guitar tracks. He said this was "where technology is going" and compared the use of AI to AutoTune. He said he performed the vocals and wrote the lyrics, though Pitchfork was skeptical of this.

Release

The first single, "Gave U Racks", was released on July 3, 2026. Starface was released on July 31.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork	0.0/10
The Needle Drop	Not Music/10

Starface was panned for its use of AI. Pitchfork gave Starface a score of 0.0. It was the first Pitchfork 0.0 score since its 2007 review of the compilation album This Is Next. Its critic Drew Millard compared Starface to Rebirth (2010) by Lil Wayne, because both rappers made experiments with genres different from theirs in an attempt to reinvent their music. However, Millard was critical of Tyga's use of AI platforms, leading Millard to imitate Tyga in using an AI platform and generated "a song that sounded exactly like" one of Starface tracks. He also questioned whether Tyga sings on the album, and whether the musicians who inspired it can even be heard on the record. Millard concluded that the album "is smug and complacent, an amalgam of '80s synth-pop and disco slapped together by someone who's seemingly never cared to listen to one synth-pop or disco record in his life".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spinnin in Circles"	2:37
2.	"White Grains"	2:39
3.	"Powdered Dreams"	2:57
4.	"Just Us Tonight"	2:54
5.	"Freezing"	4:03
6.	"Gave U Racks"	3:19
7.	"Time Is Currency"	2:55
8.	"Affection"	2:48
9.	"Die 4U"	3:12
10.	"Last Forever"	3:17
Total length:		30:41