Skrilla conquered 2025 with 6 7. In a new interview, he discusses growing up in Kensington, going viral, and his upcoming ...

Minneapolis rapper Seventhirtyatmorning and producer luvxomea released two new songs that draw from Playboi Carti, Kanye West ...

Meet Precious Renee Tucker, the experimental pianist who went viral on TikTok and Instagram and counts Solange and Telfar Clemens as fans.

It’s a mild spring evening, and about a thousand young Londoners have gathered on the uneven gravel and dirt of the Holywell Lane Car Park in Shoreditch, beer cans and spliffs in hand, going ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...

Buy a print copy of the Playboi Carti issue of The FADER, and order a poster of his cover here. Playboi Carti lives in the woods — at least it feels like it at first. Almost half of Atlanta is covered ...

If 2020 was the year when pre-plague optimism and quarantine depression formed an uncomfortable hybrid on end-of-year lists, 2021 was something stranger still. We’ve shut down, opened up, sat inside ...

This year saw the return of some bona fide icons (Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Paramore), the emergence of some likely future stars (Ice Spice, Jim Legxacy, Doechii), and the success of independent artists ...

Buy a print copy of the Blueface issue of The FADER, and order a poster of his cover here. Blueface is resting his arms on a white marble table in a Beverly Hills boardroom. A Rolex cuffs the end of ...

Romeo Santos brought Dominican guitar music to the Bronx. Now he’s an ambassador for Latinos in the world’s biggest boardrooms. ADVERTISEMENT The King of Bachata deftly loads two 35-pound weights and ...

Buy a print copy of the SZA issue of The FADER, and order posters of the two cover versions here and here. Three days into 2018, SZA sits down for her last supper. Sort of. She’s leaving for Australia ...

The true story of one of rap’s most defining moments, from the projects of New Orleans to the pages of Merriam-Webster. In the early 2000s, an animated MTV spot cheekily illustrated the strange life ...