Will Smith singles on a ground ball to left fielder Brandon Nimmo. Shohei Ohtani scores. Mookie Betts to 3rd.

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Here are the best new rap songs from May 2025 including a Playboi Carti and NBA Youngboy collab, AZ Chike's "Game Time," Latto's "Somebody," and more.

The internet has been flooded with speculation that Will Smith testified against P. Diddy, sending shockwaves through social ...

Here are the Top Rap Songs of April 2025 ... a duet with Marino signee LuLu P, the tape’s peak has to be “Mr & Mrs Smith,” where a moody synth line props up evocative chords and sparsely ...

The song, which has been laced ... I’m only human,” Smith said on the track. “Will has been out of the music game for so long, rap fans just don’t seem to think he’s relevant anymore ...

Smith just released his first full-length rap album in 20 years ... begins with the words “Will Smith is cancelled” in a song called “Int. Barbershop Day,” where a bunch of voices go ...

Paired with his exuberant pop-song-sampling production ... native DJ Jazzy Jeff, Smith helped to commercialise hip-hop, even winning the first ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance.

The song, titled “Int ... The next track on the album, “You Lookin’ for Me?”, sees Smith rap: “Took a lot, I’m back on top/ Y’all gon’ have to get acclimated/ Won’t stop ...

It surely can’t help that the new songs sound nothing at all like the feel-good rap with which he made his reputation in the Nineties. Smith’s early movie star persona was of a natural-born ...

(Smith kept his King Richard Oscar ... t need” his Oscar because “he the first to win a Grammy for rap.”) Where the new song differs is the explicit language. After spending most of his ...