SKINS is XXXTENTACION’s third studio album and his first full-length posthumous release. It is also a follow-up to his second studio album, ?, which was released almost eight months prior. The ten-track album boasts a sole vocal feature from Kanye West. On January 5, 2015, X tweeted the album’s title for the first time: He first officially announced the album on December 28, 2017. He further teased the album on April 28, 2018, when he posted what was presumably the album’s cover, captioning the post: skins “the album” coming soon Amidst working on SKINS, X was tragically murdered at gunpoint on June 18, 2018. On July 8, 2018, The New York Times reported that X had signed an approximately $10 million album deal for SKINS with EMPIRE Distribution shortly before his unexpected death. Times also reported that X had finished “a significant amount of material” for the album, according to Ghazi Shami, the founder of EMPIRE. The full article can be read here. On October 3, 2018, Genius published an interview with John Cunningham, one of X’s most trusted producers. In the interview, he stated: We basically started making this next album right after ? came out. The songs and the ideas and the vision of it all was done or very close to being done. The whole idea, the concept, the songs, was done. On October 14, 2018, Cleopatra Bernard, X’s mother, met with Travis Barker and John Cunningham to work on the album. On the evening of November 8, 2018, the album’s true artwork was revealed, and a few hours later, the album’s lead single, “BAD!,” was released. SKINS also became available for pre-order, confirming its release date and track total. The album’s tracklist was officially revealed on December 3, 2018. Unfortunately, the album was leaked in its entirety on the following day.