Spring continues to shower us with new hip-hop releases that will serve as the soundtrack for 2025. This week, we get the highly anticipated fourth solo album from an artist on the Opium roster, a collab project from a genre-bending rapper, the fifth project this year from one of the game’s busiest MCs and more.
Ken Carson Drops More Chaos Album
It’s Ken Carson’s time to shine. Coming on the heels of his label boss Playboi Carti’s new release, the Opium artist delivers his highly anticipated four-studio album, More Chaos. The follow-up to 2023’s A Great Chaos, Ken delivers 21 head-bangers on the new offering. “I’m the lord of chaos! I’m the lord of the mosh!” Carson declares to open the album. Rage on.
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KayCyy Releases Saddest Truth LP
KayCyy is back. After dropping loose tracks over the past couple of years, the Minnesota artist returns with his first project since 2022, Saddest Truth, a collab release with Sign Crushes Motorist as Hiibryd. The new genre-bending offering contains 12 songs. It will precede KayCyy’s debut self-titled album, which is slated to drop later this year.
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LaRussell and Mike G Beatz Deliver Make Hip-Hop Fun Again! Album
California’s LaRussell is one of the busiest men in show business. He delivers album No. 38, Make Hip-Hop Fun Again!, with the help of producer Mike G Beatz. Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Busta Rhymes and more make appearances on the project, which is LaRussell’s fifth release of 2025. “This is my 38th album! I’m still shooting,” he recently wrote on social media. “Still putting points up. Still passing the ball.”
Listen to all the new projects from Yung Bans and more below.
More Chaos
Ken Carson
Opium/Interscope
Saddest Truth
KayCyy and Sign Crushes Motorist
BuVision/Columbia
Make Hip-Hop Fun Again!
LaRussell and Mike G Beatz
Good Company/EMPIRE
Before RR
Yung Bans
Newilluminessence/1of1Records
Carbon EP
Berner
Bern One Entertainment
