#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Photos by Sarafina the Great; Stephanie Pia; Marlon Lenoble Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and…

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#The FADER’s most anticipated albums of 2025

#The FADER’s most anticipated albums of 2025

The FADER’s most anticipated albums of 2025 As the year begins, here are the LPs we’re most looking forward to spinning. By The FADER Getty images/ design Cady Siregar/ The FADER Even before the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2025 was already packed with exciting new projects. Across 2024, thousands of artists from the…

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#On WHAM, Lil Baby refuses to wake up and go

#On WHAM, Lil Baby refuses to wake up and go

The Atlanta rapper’s fourth studio album WHAM suggests his best days are behind him. Lil baby. Photo by Kevin Mares.   Lil Baby’s fans have grown restless. He’s aware: “I’m nowhere near falling off [but] if I was, I wouldn’t be mad,” he told Lil Yachty in an interview last month, a curiously circumspect statement…

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#Vybz Kartel praises Drake as “more in tune with Jamaica and the culture” amid Kendrick Lamar beef

#Vybz Kartel praises Drake as “more in tune with Jamaica and the culture” amid Kendrick Lamar beef

The dancehall legend also called Drake “a better and bigger artist” in a Billboard cover story. (L) Vybz Kartel. Photo by Tizzy Tokyo. (R) Drake. Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images   Drake has faced persistent accusations of stealing other sounds and styles throughout his career, especially Jamaican Patois circa 2016. When Kendrick Lamar called Drake…

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