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Best New Tracks: Playboi Carti, The Alchemist, Feid and More
As the week in music comes to a close, Hypebeast has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks.Albums come from The Alchemist and PlaqueBoyMax, with singles landing from Playboi Carti, Rich Brian x Ski Mask The Slump God, Burna Boy x Travis Scott, Turnstile, YG x Shoreline Mafia, Feid, Maxo, AKTHESAVIOR x Leon Fanourakis x Taka Perry x Yeek x Denzel Curry, Larry June x Cardo Got Wings, and Joey Purp x Theolonius Martin.The Alchemist – Mixed Fruit Series Vol. 1: Pineapple GingerWhile not on streaming services, The Alchemist unveiled his fully instrumental Mixed Fruit Series Vol. 1: Pineapple Ginger. Spanning 15 tracks, the offering is a fully solo LP from Alc.PlaqueBoyMax – ATLANTAThe streamer continues his come-up with his second EP of 2025: 5$TAR SESSIONS...
Heavy Song of the Week: Sinsaenum Honor Late Drummer Joey Jordison on “In Devastation”
The extreme metal supergroup also announced a new album of the same name that arrives August 8th. Heavy Song of the Week: Sinsaenum Honor Late Drummer Joey Jordison on “In Devastation” Jon Hadusek
2025 Mercedes-AMG G 63: Understanding the Cult of GELÄNDEWAGEN
There are very few cars on the market that have an indestructible image to it, one so strong that a cult following builds and lives on for generations. The G-Wagon is one of those vehicles.We recently got our hands on a 2025 Mercedes-AMG G 63 for a week long review. We are more than familiar with the exterior appeal of it, its timeless style, and the history of its origins as a military transport. We could examine it on the freeways of OC, the streets of LA and even a bit of off-road dirt track till the cows come home. What we can't do however is act like we've ever owned one, or express the feeling of being part of a cult following for one. Because of this, we asked a few of our friends who currently or previously owned one to focus on three core aspects of G-Wagon ownership: the design, ...
Takashi Murakami Heals With History in ‘Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow’
On a rainy mid-May morning, Takashi Murakami arrived at the Cleveland Museum of Art to inaugurate Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, one of his biggest American exhibitions in 20 years. With more than 100 paintings and sculptures, the exhibition offers not only a more complete understanding of the famed Japanese artist today but also brings his converging timelines and aesthetics full circle.The exhibition was originally presented at Los Angeles’s The Broad in 2022, and since then it's been expanded with new works — most notably, a replica of the ancient Yumedono temple in the museum’s atrium.While the sounds of hammers and drills reverberated through the still-unopened exhibit, Murakami was calm and focused, seated in a quiet dining room in the back of the museum. As what some might call ...
Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Tackles Autism — Thanks to a Consequence Article
On the latest episode of the HBO series, Fielder's quest to fix aviation safety takes a personal turn. Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Tackles Autism — Thanks to a Consequence Article Sam Rosenberg
The Last of Us Gives Pedro Pascal’s Joel the Eulogy He Deserves
We get to understand Joel and Ellie better than ever before in Season 2 Episode 6, "The Price." The Last of Us Gives Pedro Pascal’s Joel the Eulogy He Deserves Liz Shannon Miller
Best New Tracks: Aminé, Rico Nasty, Little Simz, and More
As the week in music comes to a close, Hypebeast has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks.Albums come from Aminé, Rico Nasty, Chuckyy, Snoop Dogg and Ekkstacy, with an EP landing from Erick The Architect.As for singles, Little Simz, SoFaygo, Latto, GIVĒON, and TiaCorine shared new tracks, as well as Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge's NxWorries, Bktherula x Ty Dolla $ign x 9lives, 2 Chainz x Lil Yachty and Joey Bada$$ x Big Sean x Ab-Soul.Aminé – 13 Months of SunshineAminé has ushered in ’13 Months of Sunshine.’ The multi-hyphenate is back in his music bag with his first album since 2021, which an expansive, genre-blurring offering that comes with a stacked lineup of lyrical and production features including Lido, Leon Thomas, 454 and Toro Y Moi.Spotify | A...
Song of the Week: Step Into the New Jersey Honky Tonk with Bruce Springsteen on New Song “Repo Man”
New songs by Girl Tones, Rocket, Folk Bitch Trio, and many more have also gone live this week. Song of the Week: Step Into the New Jersey Honky Tonk with Bruce Springsteen on Newly Released Song “Repo Man” Consequence Staff
Rico Nasty at Her Realest
Real Rico Nasty fans know that the rapper hasn’t always embodied just Rico Nasty. Equipped with two boisterous alter egos, Tacobella and Trap Levigne, named after one of her go-to pregnancy cravings and Avril Lavigne, respectively, the 28-year-old has woven the two personalities throughout the majority of her discography.Seated on the sunny side of the Hypebeast roof – after turning it into her runway for an effortlessly easy shoot of photos – I ask Rico who exactly is rapping on LETHAL, her third studio album and first project under new label Fueled by Ramen, that doesn't quite resemble either of her egos.“I think this is Maria,” she says, referring to her birth name, Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly. “I stepped out of character and into myself.”Just ahead of her “One Night Only” Le Pere perfor...
Against the Scroll: Yehwan Song and the Internet We Forgot
Written by Charlie Kane for HypeartThe early internet is back—or at least, how it looks. Pixelated fonts, chaotic cursors and glitchy graphics have become popular once again amid a wave of Y2K nostalgia. The lo-fi charm of late-’90s and early-2000s digital culture has become a visual language of its own: clunky on purpose, retro without the dial-up. But much of the revival stops at the surface. The nostalgia is easy. The critique is missing.Yehwan Song’s work doesn’t stop there.While others borrow the web’s early graphic language, Song returns to the instability of that era, when the internet felt messier, more personal and less predictable. A Korean designer, artist, and developer, she’s spent the past several years building experimental websites and installations that resist the polish o...
Hailun Ma Documents Youth Culture in Kashgar
Photographer Hailun Ma’s new series, "Kashi Youth," focuses on a generation of young people in Kashgar, a historic city in China’s Xinjiang region. The project captures how local youth channel identity through fashion and cultural heritage.Ma, who was born in Xinjiang and is now based in Shanghai, uses portraiture to explore the contrasts between traditional and contemporary issues. Her subjects are photographed in everyday settings, dressed in localized ensembles that highlight the blend between local customs and contemporary aesthetics.The series is part of Ma’s broader effort to challenge dominant narratives about Xinjiang. Rather than presenting the region as isolated or static, she positions it as a place where change is visible and youth play an active role in shaping cultural identi...
In Conversation With The Weeknd and Jenna Ortega
When Abel Tesfaye lost his voice at SoFi Stadium, it was the perfect storm.Though The Weeknd lost his on-stage “superpower,” something that’s never failed him before, Tesfaye found just the inspiration he was searching for to close out his After Hours and Dawn FM trilogy. He always wanted to wrap up the saga with something “really personal,” and here it was. “I wanted the audience to feel and see what I was going through subjectively,” he shared with Hypebeast. “And I felt an album wasn’t enough.”After closing out the sonic aspect of the trilogy with the Hurry Up Tomorrow album back in January, the album’s companion film of the same name is now just days away from its global premiere.Directed by Trey Edward Schults and starring Tesfaye himself alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, Hurr...
