In a new FADER cover story and rare interview, xaviersobased talks his new album 'Xavier,' popularizing jerk rap, his music becoming a meme, and more.
To make her sophomore album, Bird’s Eye, Ravyn Lenae had to move beyond rigid genres, beyond home, and beyond her past.
Grupo Frontera rose from Rio Grande Valley quinceañeras to sold-out arenas worldwide in less than two years. With their next album, Jugando Que No Pasa Nada, they’re aiming even higher.
En menos de dos años Grupo Frontera ascendieron de quinceañeras en Rio Grande Valley a conciertos agotados por todo el mundo. Con su próximo álbum, Jugando Que No Pasa Nada apuntan aún más alto.
On his sixth studio album, Cosmo, Ozuna ditches the plush-toy colors of past releases and leans into the underground. At home in Miami, he explains why.
The enigmatic Detroit rapper is a lifelong student of the game. With the release of his debut album Ganger, Veeze is ready to put you on some.
With their fifth album, Perfect Saviors, confounding Detroit collective the Armed has made a gigantic-sounding arena-rock record. No one is safe.
In the third and final part of his cover story, Mach-Hommy remembers going to Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s house to record a feature for Jay Electronica’s latest album and considers the influence of one of his mentors, Pierre Bernard Francillon, a close friend of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In the second part of our three-part cover story, Mach-Hommy revisits the song that pointed him on a trajectory to underground breakout stardom and speaks for the first time publicly about the extent of his interest in film.
In the first part of a three-part cover story, the elusive Haitian American rapper Mach-Hommy remembers a freestyle he recorded as an adolescent, with two older boys, over one of the most iconic beats in hip-hop history.
In the three years since she released her debut album Devotion, Tirzah Mastin has moved out of the city, started a family, and embraced quietude. On her fluid, avant-garde second album Colourgrade, the enigmatic Londoner takes a thrilling leap forward.
Five years ago, poised to cement his place as one of the most revered artists of his generation, Isaiah Rashad ghosted, winding up broke and in rehab. Now he’s ready to return, with Hell in his rearview mirror.
