GloRilla × Kirk Franklin Drop This Time — Gospel × Hip-Hop

GloRilla × Kirk Franklin This Time out Sep 25 via Uptown — Mandrill/Shawty Lo DNA; I Am What I Am Oct 30. iHeart + uDiscover + EURWeb. CONFIRMED T4 MUSIC.

Gospel and hip-hop just ran the reunion again.

Kirk Franklin released This Time featuring GloRilla on Sep 25 via Uptown Records — the lead single rolling into his double album I Am What I Am (Oct 30). iHeart (Tony M. Centeno, Sep 25), uDiscoverMusic (Sep 25), and EURWeb (Mona Austin, Sep 26) confirm the drop. The track interpolates Mandrill''s Children of the Sun — the same DNA Shawty Lo flipped on Dey Know — while GloRilla slides Memphis bars over Franklin''s choir bounce and teases her next album direction ("Blessed and highly favored / Well, I might just''ve named my album").

This is their second run after Rain Down On Me (GLORIOUS), which won the 2025 BET Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award. Angle: GloRilla''s gospel/hip-hop lane + searchable names — not another Memphis regional. Status: CONFIRMED single drop (label + multi-desk). Lane: T4 MUSIC.