Time Will Tell
Time Will Tell Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Finesse2tymes
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Black Tape N.W.O
Black Tape N.W.O Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Sada Baby Sada Baby Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Lyricism and musicality matter, but star power is undeniable—and one glimpse of Sada Baby's magnetic presence proves he's special. Growing up on Detroit's east side, Sada Baby (born Casada Sorrell in 1992) developed a diverse music palate for street rap, Southern crunk, and rock music. As a kid, he sang in a church choir but turned to hip-hop in his early 20s after winning a local competition inspired him to take his career from playful freestyling to full-time. In his most extraordinary form, Sada Baby lays elastic, scratchy snarls over pounding pianos and stuttering drums, and often spits unsparing threats with bristling machismo while mixing in obscure animé references and outrageous jokes. In short, Sada is unafraid to let his animated side loose—spotlighted on his 2017 mixtape Skuba Sada and his star-turning 2018 hit with Drego, "Bloxk Party," where he spews hilarious, hedo...
Black Hole Superette
Black Hole Superette Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Aesop Rock Aesop Rock does not talk or tour. He has not been on a stage since 2017 or been interviewed since 2020. Instead, what one of his generation’s most recognizable and masterful voices continues to do as he enters the back half of his forties is rap—four albums since 2020 alone, each filled with his most harrowing or humorous experiences and a seemingly dauntless supply of esoteric or obvious enthusiasms. When he barks, “Anomaly in the algorithm, do the algebralculus/I’m all of Alexandria’s information in aggregate” at the start of “Checkers,” from his sprawling Black Hole Superette , it feels like he’s supplying a thesis statement of one—to be one of rap’s great outsiders, his rhymes free to do whatever they want. Would anyone else dare, after all, to spend three minutes chronicling the exponential growth curve of the snail population inside the aquarium he bought for his girlfriend, as he does on the dazzling “Snail Zero”? O...
BĒYĀH
BĒYĀH Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Damso Damso Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Combining a brooding wit with a flair for technical rhyme, Damso rode his ruminant couplets to become one of the most celebrated artists in francophone rap. Born William Kalubi in 1992 in Kinshasa (in what’s now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and raised in Brussels, Belgium, Damso spearheaded his adoptive homeland’s emergence into the neighboring French rap scene with his morose trap debut Batterie Faible in 2016. A year later, his sophomore LP Ipséité shattered the records for Belgian rap sales and intricately underlined his view of social ills, a theme he would further with 2018’s Lithopédion , an elegiac coalescence of conceptual allegories and relationship cynicism that boasted the dexterous ode to tainted love “Feu de bois.” Damso expanded his musical and lyrical palette on his 2021 album QALF Infinity , declaring a life-shifting change as a new father and sharing renewed reflec...
Five Forever
Five Forever Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 PlaqueBoyMax PlaqueBoyMax Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Alternating between icy menace and detached coolheadedness, PlaqueBoyMax pursues rapping and production as an extension of his fame as the streamer behind the popular series Song Wars and In the Booth. The New Jersey native built a large following with his own series -- the latter of which features him recording tracks with his guests -- shortly after he started with esports brand FaZe Clan. After a batch of unassisted singles during late 2023 and early 2024, Max became more collaborative by using his platform as a way to make studio connections. He teamed with Summrs on "Rino Hercules," with Nino Paid and BabyChiefDoit on "Cooln," and was a featured artist on DDG's "Pink Dreads." Max branched out further in 2025 with London, an EP spotlighting U.K. MCs including Skepta and Nemzzz. He soon teamed up with Sexyy Red, BabyChiefDoit, LAZER DIM 700, and Baby Kia for ...