On January 4, 2016, Mike Will Made It revealed the cover art for the project while also releasing the first song from the mixtape, titled "
By Chance", featuring artists
Rae Sremmurd. On January 15, 2016, Mike Will announced on his
Twitter account that he would be releasing a song the next day. The following day, "Al Sharpton", featuring American rapper
Future was released. On January 23, 2016, Mike Will took to Twitter once again to announce to his fans that
Ransom 2 would be dropping the following Friday on January 29. However come Friday, Mike Will then announced that he had delayed the project in order to obtain a guest feature from long time collaborator
Gucci Mane, and also have him host the tape. At that point, Gucci Mane was still serving a three-month prison sentence and the police wouldn't allow him to host the mixtape. This meant working with Gucci Mane wouldn't be possible until he was released from prison on May 26, 2016. On November 15, 2016,
Nicki Minaj released her own remix of the Mike Will-produced song "
Black Beatles" via her
SoundCloud titled "
Black Barbies", which was also released commercially. The song peaked at number 65 on the
Billboard Hot 100 and was also awarded the 49th spot on
Rolling Stone editor Rob Sheffield's 50 best songs of the year. On February 22, 2017, Mike Will revealed on his Twitter account that he was working on finalizing the album before announcing the release date although he teased it would be released in March 2017. Doing so, he also partially revealed the track listing with the previously released songs being absent from it. ==Singles==