These are the best rap albums of 2025, featuring Clipse, Saba and No ID, JID, Little Simz, Tyler, the Creator, Danny Brown, ...
The Rap Report is The FADER’s column dedicated to highlights in the rap world, from megastar artists to the deep underground. I tend not to listen to a lot of new music when I’m away from home. I’m ...
Every week, The FADER's Lawrence Burney picks out the best rap songs and moments in the world right now. Here they are, in no particular order. At the beginning of the the intro on her newly released ...
The first two months of 2016 have been dominated by something that in most years doesn’t show up until much later: star power. In January, Atlantic successfully parlayed Kevin Gates’ cultish, largely ...
PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 29: Young Thug performs at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on August 29, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns) From here in Los Angeles, it feels like ...
Weather Report, the jazz fusion group co-founded by the brilliant Wayne Shorter, is integral to the rap subgenre known as jazz rap. Few musicians have left Earth with resumés that match Wayne ...
No one man can have all this power. Kool Moe Dee’s 1990 Rap Report Card – an alphabetically graded list of 90s Hip Hop stars – resurfaced on social media earlier this month and goes viral. The report ...
Some of battle rap’s nicest writers penned and voiced bars for LeBron, KD, Butler, Embiid and Jokić in the NBA superstars battle rap cypher. The worlds of Hip-Hop and basketball have collided in a new ...