FEATURED DROPVirginia Creeper
Nettspend
VANDAL VERDICT Six tracks, no filler. Nettspend keeps his strange, weightless Richmond sound tight and on purpose, and 'same language' is the way in. Short enough to loop twice before you notice.
ISSUE 01 / OCT 30 — NOV 5, 2026
THE
DROP
NEW NOISE. NO SKIPS. NO RULES.
Halloween weekend: Nettspend, BKTHERULA and the internet underground
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N5ON
BKTHERULA
Fourteen tracks of dancefloor rap via Warner Records, built around the focus track "2002".
EVILSLIME 2
evilgiane & Slimesito
Slimesito and evilgiane run it back. Glittery, lo-fi Atlanta underground built for the car with the windows cracked.
BETTER OVER TIME
BigXthaPlug
After a year of crossover detours, the Dallas heavyweight comes home to rap: eighteen tracks of slow, booming Southern weight.
Nu Zamrock
Sampa the Great
Zambian rap built on the psychedelic rock her family helped invent. Rap, poetry and fuzz-guitar soul in one record.
this wolf may cry
nomi.
A debut that sounds like a late-night voice memo turned all the way up. Moody, close and very much its own thing.
Sailor Goon
Maliibu Miitch
The Bronx rapper finally delivers her debut album, ten tracks of bite and swagger.
Young Nina
Nines
A surprise Halloween drop from the Church Road MC — fifteen tracks, no warning, out on his own Zino Records.
The Hollow
Snoop Dogg & Kurupt
Death Row family business: Snoop and Kurupt trade verses across eight tracks of pure West Coast.
It Takes A Village
Che Noir
Buffalo-raised, Atlanta-based and newly a mother — twelve tracks of her sharpest, most reflective writing yet.
El Pin Jefe
SlimeGetEm
Fifteen tracks of self-released underground pressure — no label, no filter.
BINE
Young Eman
Sixteen tracks from one of the UK underground’s most restless voices.
Luxury Tax
Apollo Brown & Skyzoo
Brooklyn bars over Detroit soul — fourteen tracks on the cost of chasing the dream.
Wit 3 iii's
Kaliii
Nine songs, twenty-one minutes, nothing wasted — the Atlanta rapper keeps it lean.
KILL YOUR IDOLS
bleood
Seventeen tracks of blown-out, rage-adjacent chaos. Distorted, emotional and loud on purpose: the sound of the internet underground right now.
BELOW
THE RADAR
no co-signs needed
LAZER DIM 700
Zombies
WHY LISTEN: Atlanta's most unpredictable voice keeps dropping off-kilter one-offs. 'Zombies' crawls and stutters in the best way.
BabyBartier
HIT YOUR PHONE
WHY LISTEN: Sugary, glitched-out plugg from a name that keeps showing up in the right playlists. Two minutes of pure replay.
9lives
9
WHY LISTEN: Five tracks from the New Zealand producer-rapper leading the sigilkore wave.
Young Nudy
Just Doin Me
WHY LISTEN: Atlanta’s most relaxed menace back on a loose, unbothered run — no features chasing, just Nudy’s slurred pocket over smoky beats.
zorza
internet niche fame
WHY LISTEN: Ten tracks of terminally online rap — the title is the thesis.
1K Phew & Timbaland
SEVEN TRUMPETS
WHY LISTEN: Twelve tracks linking the Atlanta underground with a production legend.
VANDAL
ROTATION
updated OCT 30
- 01
Janice STFUDrakeTwenty-two weeks at No. 1 and still not moving. - 02
Dead FreshLil BabyHolding the top three since summer. - 03
QuebecDrakeAlready spent a week at the top. - 04
WTF GOINBelly Gang Kushington & 21 SavageThe climber — up to No. 4 and still gaining. - 05Cold ShoulderDrake, Don Toliver & YebbaThree voices, one top-five debut.
- 06
BURN (feat. Ava Max)BigXthaPlugThis week’s crossover swing, off BETTER OVER TIME. - 07ACTIVATEDBKTHERULAJuicy J on the assist, off the new N5ON.
- 08
JuicyThe Notorious B.I.G.The blueprint. 1994. - 09
California Love2PacWest Coast forever. 1995. - 10
C.R.E.A.M.Wu-Tang ClanCash rules. 1994.
THE NEXT WAVE
LINER
NOTES
things worth knowing
- STEVE LACY
Built much of his first solo project, Steve Lacy’s Demo, on an iPhone.
- WU-TANG CLAN
Pressed exactly one copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, sold privately as a single art object.
- SKEPTA
Won the 2016 Mercury Prize with Konnichiwa, a self-released grime album.
- GRISELDA
Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine are brothers who built the label out of Buffalo, New York.
- AESOP ROCK & BLOCKHEAD
Their partnership goes back to Labor Days in 2001; Trouble Mountain extends a run of more than two decades.
- NETTSPEND
Comes out of Richmond, Virginia, the home state behind the name Virginia Creeper.