DJ Scratch and Planet Asia just confirmed their new collaborative album Kings Dominion is arriving October 24th, and they kept the reveal extremely minimal. Both artists posted the track list as plain white text over a black background on Instagram — nine titles, no extra captions, no rollout theatrics — a fittingly old-guard way to say “album on the way.” The cover art follows the same stripped-back energy: a detailed silver crown floating against black, stamped with both names and the release date.
The project lands through DJ Scratch’s own Albany Park Records, the label he launched in 2023 and named after the Albany Houses in Brooklyn where he grew up.
DJ Scratch is an icon in Hip Hop and has had a long career. Linking with Planet Asia promises something dope. Asia’s catalog has been one of the most consistent veins in underground rap for more than two decades, with a reputation for uncompromising pen work.
The nine-track set is entirely Planet Asia-driven, opening with “Not Allowed,” followed by the title cut “Kings Dominion,” then “Big Guns,” “Knowledge Is Power,” and “Coming For The Title.” The back half features “You All Know,” “Produce A Seed Through You,” “St Johns Park,” and closes with “Ghetto Gospel,” the only cut with extra voices, bringing in Rome Streetz and Rigz.
Scratch and Asia are both products of eras where sequencing and premise still mattered, and the way Kings Dominion is being framed, crown imagery, title language, sparse but intentional track names, it reads like a statement album, not a batch of loose joints. No teasers, no deluxe promises, no track-by-track commentary. Just a date, a crown, and a concrete list. If the single is any indicator, Kings Dominion is designed to live on bars, not branding.
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