Dangerous Summer is the seventh extended play (EP) by American rapper Yeat. It was released on August 1, 2025 through Field Trip Recordings, Lyfestyle, and Capitol Records. Following the release of his fifth studio album Lyfestyle in 2024, Yeat began working on new material later that year. While recording Dangerous Summer, he worked on material using his laptop collaborated with multiple record producers including Jasper Harris, Synthetic, Bnyx and Jahaan Sweet.
Dangerous Summer is a hip hop EP that explores themes of personal growth, improved well-being, and coming-of-age, as well as his signature themes of wealth, and global dominance. The EP was promoted with one single "I'm Yeat" and a cover art shot by American filmmaker Harmony Korine.
During the composition of his fifth studio album Lyfestyle (2024), Yeat would wake up at 7 in the morning recording tracks by his bedside, as confirmed by his manager Zack Bia. Yeat had recorded the album using his laptop and collaborated with multiple record producers; Bnyx, Sapjer, Jahaan Sweet, Synthetic, Jasper Harris.
Yeat released the music video for "Loose Leaf" on August 5, directed by EDGLRD and executive produced by Harmony Korine, featuring Yeat in a Florida motel surrounded by alligators. The cover art was shot by filmmaker Harmony Korine, using live alligators. Yeat announced the details for the release of the EP, following his festival appearances with Drake and Don Toliver on Instagram. It was preceded by single "I'm Yeat," released on July 18, 2025, alongside its music video, with Bnyx credited as a featured artist, and contains additional contributions from NGeeYL, FKA Twigs, Don Toliver, and SahBabii. The CD was released through Complex Networks.
Upon release, Dangerous Summer received "general favorable" reviews from critics. Robin Murray of Clash felt that the EP "reaffirms Yeat's vitality," singling out Don Toliver and FKA Twig's features for praise. While Staff at TiVo found the project to be "looser and more casual" than Yeat's previous releases.
Complex named the EP as the 21st best album of 2025, with Jon Barlas calling it "the sharpest [Yeat] has sounded in his career." HotNewHipHop ranked the EP as the 39th best Rap album of 2025. Crack Magazine listed had listed it at #24, with writer Robert Kazandjian discussing how Yeat's voice sounded like a "lump of neon Play-Doh, manipulating it over psychedelic beats that feel like they were cooked up on board a tesseract." Kazandijan also praises the rapper's "nursery rhymes," stating how they're "downright hilarious", with an example of this being on the track "Loco", on "Put It Ong", Kazandijan writes "25 seconds of sweet choral harmonies give way to intergalactic synth blasts before Yeat enters the fray with a breathy growl." Outside of the rage, the writer also writes how there is some form of "refreshing soulfulness to his unselfconscious crooning", and an example of this would be on the track "Fly Nite", where he lastly wrote how the track "blooms from woozy purple trap into liquid drum âÂÂnâ bass."
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