# Sugar Honey Iced Tea

Sugar Honey Iced Tea is the third studio album by American rapper Latto. It was released through Streamcut and RCA Records on August 9, 2024. The album features guest appearances from Young Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Mariah the Scientist, Teezo Touchdown, Cardi B, and Flo Milli. It serves as the follow-up to her second studio album, 777 (2022).
The album received generally positive reviews, and tied 777 as her highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at number fifteen. It was supported by five singles: "Put It on da Floor", "Sunday Service", "Big Mama", "Brokey", and "Blick Sum".

## Promotion

On June 22, 2024, Latto first teased the title of the album, while performing as a headliner at the Birthday Bash ATL 2024. On July 24, she announced the release date of the album with a trailer video inspired by the film, ATL (2006), featuring cameos from fellow Atlanta-native rappers 2 Chainz and T.I. On July 26, she previewed the tracklist of the album with a picture of her left hand covering a piece of paper showing a possible tracklist with only a few songs revealed, one of which is the previously released single, "Big Mama". She revealed the cover art of the album on July 30. She shared the full tracklist on August 7.

### Singles

"Put It on da Floor" was released as the album's lead single on April 21, 2023. The official remix, titled "Put It on da Floor Again", featuring American rapper Cardi B, was released on June 1. The remix peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Sunday Service" was released the album's second single on February 9, 2024. The official remix of the song, featuring American rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Flo Milli, was released on June 7. The song peaked at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album's third single, titled "Big Mama", was released on June 28. The song peaked at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Brokey" was released as the fourth single from the album on August 27, 2024 and peaked at 84 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Blick Sum" was released as the album's fifth single on January 28, 2025; the single version features Playboi Carti.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Aggregate scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100 |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Clash | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 6.1/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Sugar Honey Iced Tea received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 from 5 critic scores.
Writing for Clash in a positive review, Robin Murray stated that "Sugar Honey Iced Tea paints in the finer details", describing the project as "a work of complexity that – when it clicks into place – might be her most potent release yet". Rolling Stone's Mankaprr Conteh wrote that the album is "a careful ode to her Atlanta roots and life in the south broadly". Conteh praised how Latto's "top-notch bars flow through super smooth sequencing". Concluding her review, Conteh stated that "Latto shows she's more than a sex symbol" and that she's "charismatic, dexterous, and long prepared". On the other hand, Vivian Medithi of Pitchfork wrote that Latto's "Southern charm gets lost in an abundance of anonymous beats". AllMusic's review stated that the Latto was "stepping up significantly from the sometimes personality-light commercial sounds of her earlier work" on the album.

## Commercial performance

In the United States, Sugar Honey Iced Tea debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, marking her highest peak on the chart with 29,000 album-equivalent units.