Predicting the top albums of 2025. 

With mainstream artists like FKA Twigs and The Weeknd releasing albums in January, I decided to enlist the help of my artistic friends to get their opinions on who they believe will have the best album of 2025. 

Fresh off the highs of the 2024/2025 Grammys, each prediction is purely hypothetical and 100% fun. Enjoy.

I fell in love. This show has 100% set the bar for the rest of the year.

It has certainly been a long time coming, but Anwar Sadot has finally returned with a new single titled “Escape” featuring artist Field. Prior to this single, the last time we heard from Sadot musically was pre-Covid times and his stellar album Clarity.

It has been a great year for music. From genre debuts from all-time great artists to legendary hip-hop feuds, this year has set a new benchmark in terms of quality, success, and innovation.  These are my top 20 ….eh… 21 albums of 2024.

Vengeance Be Mine by London Beck is both an internal therapeutic release by the multi-talented instrumentalist and an audio-actual adventure that highlights Beck's ability to take listeners on a journey that's equal parts fun, invigorating, swaggering, and downright imaginative when need be.

What is it like to be a hopeless romantic and a R&B singer? 

Are your melodies captured under rain-soaked windows while your songs are written on tear-stained sheets of paper? 

Are your conversations marked by nostalgic memories with past lovers, wondering what could have been, or are they simply lovers looking to escape the dating lifestyle?

Modern Day R&B is a fun concept. Subject matter-wise, the topics remain much the same, exploring romantic relationships in different dynamics, whether sexual, argumentative, or everything in between. However, the modernity of the art comes in its deliverance, where the singer enters a more hip-hop-ish space.

Get A Taste by LOYD occupies a space needed in the music world, an album that knows it is for the club, and its mere existence is based on a party lifestyle.

As I sat back on a Tuesday afternoon, feeling uneasy about recent news, I came across a song from longtime friend Tim Blackman, an instrumental that I can only describe as emotionally adjusting.

LÂLKA (I think all caps is purposeful) music is by all means situational in the way it should be listened to or digested, I state that with the best intentions. 

Joey Tre’ is an artist bearing the burden of potential. Having a good singing voice, rapping talent, an ear for beats, and a unique style that fans can naturally gravitate towards, Tre has the potential to become one of the all-time greats. In

Would you rather have the talent of an entire community or be surrounded by a community of talent? If you are Dr. Rod Wallace, there is no need to choose because you have both. 

Lex The Radical is an interesting concept as a rapper, not that his lyrics reinvent the wheel, but as an emcee, he's a throwback to realism in hip-hop.