The Course of the Inevitable is the fourth studio album by American rapper Lloyd Banks.

On May 14, 2021, a similar teaser was released, this time with a brief spoken-word monologue from poet Rashan Brown recorded over the same piano backing.

[6] Three days prior to the album's release, on June 1, the track listing was then updated with a Freddie Gibbs feature on the song "Empathy".

AllMusic's Andy Kellman called the album "a conspicuous return, the reclamation of a lane the rapper started to navigate with proficiency in the early 2000s", while Chase McMullen from Beats Per Minute stated, that the album "is just about the most lyrically dense statement in hip hop in recent memory, layered from top to bottom with fatigue and meaning to the extent that you'd think he was writing sentences over one another".

In the United States, the project debuted at number 84 on the Billboard 200, selling 12,000 copies in its first week.