Mouse Powell has released “Fucked Up,” a new collaboration with Grieves and the final advance single from Powell’s forthcoming album Cherry.
Released August 21 through Ineffable Records, the track reunites two rappers whose creative relationship has developed well beyond the occasional guest verse.
Powell and Grieves already have two collaborative projects behind them. Their first WHY NOT? project arrived in 2023, followed by WHY NOT 2? in 2024. That history makes Grieves’ appearance on “Fucked Up” feel like part of an ongoing musical partnership rather than a feature assembled specifically for Powell’s new record.
The album contains 10 tracks and continues Powell’s increasingly fluid relationship with genre. Its guest list connects several different corners of his musical world, with Shwayze appearing on “Left Hand Side,” Tropidelic joining him for “Complicated” and Grieves appearing on “Fucked Up.” Current digital listings confirm the Grieves feature and the October 16 release date.
Powell is firmly a rapper, but his catalog has repeatedly absorbed elements of alternative music, soul, reggae-rock and singer-songwriter material. That flexibility has made him increasingly comfortable moving between the independent hip-hop world and the reggae-rock community surrounding Ineffable.
The record opens with “Left Hand Side,” Powell’s collaboration with Shwayze, before moving into “Light as a Feather” and “I Didn’t Get This High.” Tropidelic appear on the fourth track, “Complicated,” immediately before “Fucked Up.” The second half includes “Good Work,” “Dog Food,” “Waistband,” “How Did I Get Here” and “Look At Me Now.”
“I Didn’t Get This High” arrived earlier in 2026, while “Light as a Feather” and “Left Hand Side” continued revealing different pieces of the project. Rather than making each single sound like a variation on the previous one, Powell has used the rollout to underline the range that has increasingly become central to his work.
“Fucked Up” brings Grieves back into that picture.
Their history together matters because both artists know how to balance humor, self-awareness and heavier subject matter without drawing hard lines between them. Powell can make an offhand observation feel central to a song, while Grieves has built a long independent career around writing that can move from sharply funny to deeply personal with little warning.
There is also a hometown component to the period surrounding the album. Powell currently has Phoenix performances scheduled around Cherry‘s release, including an October 15 show at The Rebel Lounge with Grieves and a second Rebel Lounge date on October 16, the day the album arrives.
It is an appropriate setting for a record from an artist whose connection to Phoenix has remained central throughout his career.
More broadly, Cherry appears to represent where Powell has been heading for several years. The record does not abandon hip-hop for reggae-rock or alternative music. It simply treats those communities as compatible.
Shwayze, Tropidelic and Grieves occupy different musical spaces, but all three make sense on a Mouse Powell album because Powell himself has spent years living in the overlap.
With “Fucked Up” now available, the advance campaign is complete. The next step is the full record.
Mouse Powell and Grieves’ “Fucked Up” is out now through Ineffable Records. Cherry arrives October 16.
