From Clipse to Tyler, the Creator to billy woods to Ovrkast to Bruiser Wolf, here are our favorite rap albums of 2025.

This year's champion wears unique Audemars Piguet designs and finally found his perfect Rolex “Paul Newman” Daytona.

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — seen both in the best games of the year and in the culture around them ...

Welcome to Derry tonight on HBO, but that doesn't mean we have to stop thinking about it. Over the course of eight episodes, ...