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Tuesday
D'Angelo, seen here performing a concert in Chicago in 2000. Paul Natkin/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
Mick Jenkins' A MURDER OF CROWS, a collaboration with the producer Emil, is one of a handful of recent rap releases that prize concision and focus over algorithmic strategizing. LeFilmmm hide caption
Tuesday
Dominic Fike Lucas Creighton hide caption
Saturday
Am I The Drama?, Cardi B's second album, arrives seven years after her Grammy-winning debut. Jora Frantzis hide caption
Thursday
That's Showbiz Baby! is the solo debut by Jade, who rose in the 2010s with the blockbuster U.K. girl group Little Mix. Conor Cunningham hide caption
Friday
A native of Washington, D.C., El Cousteau centers the city on Dirty Harry 2, even when rapping about his journeys outside of it. Tyra Mitchell hide caption
Tuesday
Sudan Archives Yanran Xiong hide caption
Monday
On the The Passionate Ones, his second album as Nourished by Time, Baltimore native Marcus Brown plumbs the ways that class and labor become inseparable from creativity. Lauren Davis hide caption
Friday
STAR LINE comes six years after Chance the Rapper's studio debut, The Big Day, which ended the hot streak he'd enjoyed on his 2010s mixtape run, but may have set him on a radical new path. Keeley Parenteau hide caption
Thursday
Since 2020, Amaarae has made a case for being the most dynamic avant-pop artist the world over. Jamie Boyd hide caption
Monday
British rapper and singer Jim Legxacy's latest project, black british music (2025), slams together sounds from across and beyond the current U.K. rap scene. Igoris Tarran hide caption
Tuesday
Jeff Tweedy calls his new triple, solo album, Twilight Override, "a response to the feeling that we're stuck in the worst part of the day." Shervin Lainez hide caption
Thursday
Sean "Diddy" Combs performs in 2023 at Howard University's Yardfest in Washington, D.C. Thaddaeus McAdams/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Defense attorneys confer with Sean Combs in this courtroom sketch. The jury began deliberations at Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York City on Monday. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters hide caption
The FKA twigs cut "Room Of Fools" is on our shortlist of the year's best songs (so far). Jordan Hemingway hide caption
Tuesday
Timbaland speaks at the 2023 A3C conference in Atlanta. The Grammy-winning hip-hop producer has launched an AI music company, Stage Zero, with the goal of creating a stable of digital "artists." Prince Williams/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Wet Leg's Moisturizer is one of the summer's most anticipated albums. Alice Backham hide caption
Saturday
Common and Kanye West on the set of the music video for "The Corner," a single from Common's 2005 album, Be, which West executive produced. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives hide caption
Tuesday
Laufey's "Tough Luck" is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Emma Summerton hide caption
Monday
Miles Caton as aspiring bluesman Sammie Moore in a pivotal scene from Sinners. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Tuesday
Jane Remover's "Dancing With Your Eyes Closed" is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Brendon Burton hide caption
Thursday
Jane Remover, a 21-year-old musician whose youthful interest in online gaming transformed into a music career, is a central figure of digicore, an emerging offshoot of the hyperpop culture that took off in the 2010s. Brendon Burton hide caption
Tuesday
PlaqueBoyMax attends ComplexCon in Las Vegas in November 2024. Already an online celebrity for his livestreams, he released his debut EP, LONDON, on March 20. Sara Jaye/Getty Images for Complex hide caption
Monday
Over just a few months, the four members of the K-pop group BLACKPINK (left to right: Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé) have all debuted new releases as solo artists. Photos by Jisoo/Mok Jung Wook/Wontae Go/Kenneth Cappello hide caption