The best albums of 2025 so far

The best albums of 2025 so far

The best albums of 2025 so far From projects by billy woods to YHWH Nailgun, these are the records we can’t stop spinning. By The FADER Illustration Sabrina Kaune art by Sabrina Kaune Around June is when we start to get a good sense of what this year in music will look like. So far,…

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#The 8 best rap songs of January 2025

#The 8 best rap songs of January 2025

The FADER’s rap columnist Vivian Medithi selects the month’s best singles. It may be because I’m getting better at my job, but 2025 already feels like a particularly exciting year in rap. There have been excellent albums by MIKE, OsamaSon, Pink Siifu, Edward Skeletrix, and plenty of others, as well as a whole raft of…

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#Watch Lil Yachty’s Video for New Song “Royal Rumble”

#Watch Lil Yachty’s Video for New Song “Royal Rumble”

“#Watch Lil Yachty’s Video for New Song “Royal Rumble”” Lil Yachty, who’s immersed himself in the Michigan rap scene, has shared a new song featuring a number of the state’s up-and-coming artists. The track, “Royal Rumble,” features Dc2Trill, Detroit’s Babyface Ray and Icewear Vezzo, and Flint’s Krispylife Kidd, RMC Mike, and Rio Da Yung OG….

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#Rio Da Yung OG Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

#Rio Da Yung OG Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

“#Rio Da Yung OG Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison” Rio Da Yung OG, the Flint, Michigan rapper who released City on My Back last year, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for a charge related to a January 2019 arrest over possession of a gun with “intent to distribute controlled substances.” In…

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