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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. Things are looking up for March. After a stumble out the gate (especially compared to the fire month that was February), we’re finally getting the sort of releases that’ll have you on the fence about where exactly to throw your money. That’s bad news for your bank account but great news for your ever-growing collection of kicks.

This week brings some new colorways on old classics and new silhouettes, like the Jordan 9 and AE 1, and a handful of dope highly anticipated collaborations, like Salehe Bembury’s latest from New Balance or BMX star Nigel Sylvester’s latest Jordan. We’ll put it this way — this week, you may be looking at a few sneakers that’ll end up on our best sneakers of 2025 list come year’s end. Yes, the collaborations are that good.

So, without further ado, let’s dive into the best sneakers of the week.

Salehe Bembury x New Balance 991v2 Colors Be The Palette

Price: $250

Salehe Bembury is one of the greatest sneaker designers of the modern era, and because of this, it frustrates sneakerheads that he spends most of his time on the Pollex Clog Crocs collaboration. It’s not that we don’t love the Pollex Clog, it’s just that clogs are a very specific niche in the sneaker market, and most people were introduced to Bembury via his New Balance collaborations. Well, good news, because Bembury has linked up with New Balance once again for a new take on the 991v2.

Dubbed “Colors Be The Palette,” this 991 features a hairy suede upper in violet with contrasting color block accents and the brand’s MADE in UK premium construction. It’s a reminder that Bembury is a once-in-a-generation sneaker designer. We look forward to his future PUMA collaboration and anything else he does with NB.

The Salehe Bembury x New Balance 991v2 Colors Be The Palette is set to drop on March 13th for a retail price of $250. Pick up a pair at Beaspunge.

Adidas Adistar Cushion SFTM

price: $160

Australian art-fashion brand Song for the Mute has teamed up with Adidas for a deconstructed and collapsible version of the Adistar silhouette. The upper is composed of unlined open mesh with nubuck overlays, a pony hair-adorned top cap, distressed midsole, and plush Adiprene cushioning. The sneaker drops in two colorways, both featuring muted industrial tones.

The Adidas Adistar Cushion SFTM is set to drop on March 13th at 10:00 AM PST for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair at Adidas.

Nike Air Foamposite One Black and Volt

Price: $230

Penny Hardaway’s Foamposite One is back with a bold new colorway that’s giving us vintage X-Box vibes. The sneaker features a lightweight foam upper in a stark black colorway with a Volt green midsole and matching accents.

Rounding out the design is Hardaway’s iconic 1¢ logo stitched into the heel.

The Nike Air Foamposite One Black and Volt is set to drop on March 14th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $230. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarkets sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

Nike Jordan 4 Nigel Brick By Brick

Price: $225

Last year, we named BMX star Nigel Sylvester’s Jordan team up as one of the best sneakers of the year, and by the looks of it, we’ll probably be including this week’s new sneaker as well. The Brick by Brick features a leather upper in Firewood Orange with a Sal midsole and Cinnabar underlays. It’s bold, bright, and calls attention to itself, a nice contrast to last year’s Nigel, which was a bit more muted.

This sneaker is inspired by Nigel’s “belief in tenacity and progress.” It’s about building up your game, brick by brick — a reminder that virtuoso talent requires dedication and hard work. It is easily our favorite sneaker of the week.

The Nike Jordan 4 Nigel Brick By Brick is set to drop on March 14th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or at aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

CNCPTS x New Balance 1000 Mile

Price: TBA

Boston Massachusetts heritage brand CNCPTS has teamed up with New Balance for the latest take on the 1000 silhouette. This silhouette is enjoying a sort of renaissance right now, and as big fans of the shape, we’re here for it!

Inspired by the 1890 $1000 Treasury Note — commonly known as The Grand Watermelon — this sneaker features an inverted 1000 design with mesh underlays and synthetic overlays, a segmented ABZORB sole, and a green color scheme with hints of hot pink (referencing the bill’s design).

Rounding out the design are embroidered details and dual branding. We’re loving the look here, definitely file this one into the “Best Of 2025” hopefuls list.

The CNCPTS x New Balance 1000 Mile is set to drop on March 14th. Enter the drawing here.

Adidas Anthony Edwards Arctic Night

Price: $110

Another week, another new colorway of the AE-1. Adidas is going hard on this silhouette, and we hope that doesn’t end up weakening the impact of how dope this sneaker looks. Take note from Nike, Adidas: scarcity sells!

This new colorway, Arctic Night, features an iridescent metallic mix of blue, green, and black tones. It looks like something out of an H.R. Giger art piece!

The Adidas Anthony Edwards Arctic Night is set to drop on Saturday, March 15th, at 12:00 AM PST for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair at Adidas.

Nike Air Jordan 9 Cool Grey

Price: $210
Closing out the week is the return of the Cool Grey AJ-9. One of the silhouettes best colorways, the Cool Grey features a monochromatic design with a mixed nubuck and patent leather upper, a padded collar, and Nike’s “one-pull” lacing system for quick wear-ability. In keeping with the OG design, the sneaker features Air cushioning, Jumpman emblem branding, and a “23” at the heel.

The Nike Air Jordan 9 Cool Grey is set to drop on Saturday, March 15th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $210. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

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Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they love in its true form, we’ll be offering a digest of the best new R&B songs that fans of the genre should hear every Friday.

Since the last update of this weekly R&B column, we’ve received plenty of music and news from the genre’s artists.

Jessie Reyez announced her new album Paid In Memories with her “Psilocybin & Daisies” single and Sabrina Claudio made her return with “Need U To Need Me.” Miguel joined J-Hope for “Sweet Dreams” while Wizkid dropped an elegant video for “Kese (Dance).” Elsewhere, SiR announced he Step Into The Light Tour, Tyla released the video for her “Push 2 Start” remix with Sean Paul, and Angie Stone tragically passed away at 63 following a car crash.

Here are the new music releases you need to listen to:

Jessie Reyez — “Psilocybin & Daisies”

Jessie Reyez announced her third album Paid In Memories with her new single “Psilocybin & Daisies.” The song, which interpolates Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979,” is the sixth single from Reyez’s upcoming album, is one that the singer uses to plead for an everlasting love. As for Paid In Memories, it will arrive on March 28.

Sabrina Claudio — “Need U To Need Me”

This year marks the start of a new chapter for Sabrina Claudio as she begins a new partnership with independent record label Empire. That partnership was brought forth her new vulnerable single “Need U To Need Me.” “I wrote ‘Need U To Need Me’ as a fear-based admission,” Claudio said about the song. “A romanticized translation of longing and yearning to be a necessity to the ones you love most.”

Kyle Dion — “No Gravity”

Kyle Dion has a new album on the way, and while we’ll have to wait some time for information on that, his new single “No Gravity” is here to hold us down in the meantime. With this record, Dion’s trademark contemporary blend of R&B, funk, and soul leads the way as he sings of break free from life’s restrictions. “This song is about hitting a low point and craving freedom — to dance, to escape, to just feel nothing but the moment,” Dion said about the song in a press release. “It’s about letting go of everything weighing you down, shedding it all, and floating into the night.”

Mack Keane — Entries

After nearly three years without a project, following 2022’s Intersections with producer ESTA., LA singer Mack Keane is back with his second solo project, Entries. The 10-track came about as Keane was “jotting down my feelings to a beat that I made,” he told Uproxx. He continued, “It just came about naturally where I was like, I can make this a thing. I could do a little mixtape, or a tape, or a project that’s these journal entries to reintroduce Mack in a way.”

Dende — “Need U Like”

Dende has been a mainstay on this column over the years, and following a newly-inked Def Jam deal, he’s a name you’ll have to keep your eye on in R&B in the next upcoming months. Start with “Need U Like,” Dende’s infectious new single that serves as a profession of love to a significant other that he just can’t keep his hands and his eyes off of.

Iyla — “Wild”

For her second record of the year, LA singer Iyla checks back in with “Wild.” The sultry record captures the burning passion and desire that can exist in a relationship, whether it be for better or for worse. ‘Wild’ unleashes the story of a once innocent relationship that quickly turns dark,” Iyla said in a press release. “I used nature as a way to reflect our own animalistic senses, and to show the tug of war between desire and danger wrapped up in a woman’s need to break free from toxicity and control.”

JAY1 & Hunxho — “Prettier”

At the end of 2024, UK rapper JAY1 released his project Sorry I’m Late, which spawned the hit record “Prettier.” To extend the song’s life, JAY1 tapped Hunxho to deliver a remix of the song. Hunxho gives the song a boost with a slick verse that fits perfectly with the song’s narrative.

Byron Juane & Omeretta The Great — “Atlanta Girls”

With his deluxe reissue of A Night About You out on March 21, Byron Juane returns with “Atlanta Girls” alongside Omeretta The Great. The North Carolina singer teams up with Atlanta’s Omeretta, who went viral in 2022 for her “Sorry Not Sorry” single, for the track that shouts out the best women in the famed city down south.

Aaron Page — “Pretty Girls Like R&B”

Connecticut-bred and Houston-based singer Aaron Page is back to work in 2025 with his new song “Pretty Girls Like R&B.” Over a sexy drill beat, Page glides with ease as he sings about a woman who’s caught his eye and his hope to use his R&B skills to win her over.

LALA — “Pressure”

After ending 2024 with her Lalaland EP, UK singer LALA gets back to work with her new single “Pressure.” The sweet and passionate record finds Lala pouring her heart out over a new partner as she sings, “You give me space, I give it too / You make love to me, I make love to you.”

Larrenwong — 4th & Long

Nearly a year after releasing the deluxe edition of Greenroom EP, California singer Larrenwong delivers another project in the form of his 4th & Long EP. Six songs make up this project for another showcase of Larrenswong’s blossoming talents.

Lil Nas X has shared a new song from his upcoming album Dreamboy every day this week, beginning with the title track, then “Big Dummy” and “Swish.” On Thursday (March 13), he released “Right There!” in which he details a particularly wild night out.

“Late to the party, come on / In the club, get ghetto (bitch, get ghetto),” Lil Nas X raps over a bouncy beat. “Three bitches on me, man, the night can’t get no better (can’t get no better) / That’s it right there (yeah), that’s it right there (yeah) / that’s it right there, that’s it right there.” He also includes references to Remy Ma and Papoose (“To tell you the truth, n***a, I’m Papoose, I’ma need my Rеmy”) and Jimmy Neutron (“Need that brand Neutron like Jimmy”).

In a video shared to his Instagram, Lil Nas X said, “Do y’all ever think about how great it is that we get to be on Earth? And we get to, like, do stuff? Like, we get to go on all of these fun adventures and stuff! And we get to try new stuff, and be really bad at it, and eventually be good at it. And we get to fall in love with people, and fall in love with stuff… Oh, and I’m not high, bitch!”

You can listen to “Right There!” above. Next up: “Hotbox.”

Apple TV+‘s water-cooler show, Severance, will soon air a second season finale. How did that happen so quickly? Only a few months ago, the cast was teasing Collider about how they imagined that people would take the next cliffhanger ending. Adam Scott guessed, “I hope they’ll say the exact same thing, ‘Holy F, I need Season 3.” To which creator Dan Erickson suggested, “I hope that they’ll all race to the bathroom because they will have been holding it the whole time. So, they’ll be like, ‘Get out of the way!’” And Scott wrapped that thought up in a bow by exclaiming, “So it’s wild peeing, all in unison saying, ‘Holy F, I need Season 3.’”

Probably accurate? We’ll soon find out, but first, we gotta talk about the penultimate episode’s arrival.

When Will Severance Season 2, Episode 9 Be Available?

March 14. This week’s episode, “The After Hours,” will arrive with this description: “Outie Mark and Devon team with an unexpected ally to enact a plan. Innie Helly investigates Mark’s absence while Dylan receives hard news.”

Following last week’s Ms. Cobel-centered story, Patricia Arquette spoke with Variety and danced around the subject of Mark’s successful reintegration procedure. However and when quizzed about the odd way that Ms. Cobel pronounces “Mark,” Arquette believes that this pronunciation is driven by “an old world-ishness” of where Harmony originated, and how “authority has this certain tone. If you think about a drill sergeant, there’s a certain kind of meter and a certain kind of tone and a certain kind of authority… I think she had formed a sound based on her idea of what that is.” Fair.

And now, back to the Innie world and a frantic Helly.

Severance streams on Apple TV+

Freddie Gibbs, it would seem, wants smoke: Yesterday (March 12), he shared a new song called “The Big 2,” which sees him directing his ire towards a handful of his fellow rappers.

The first perceived slight is with the song title itself, as “The Big 2” could be seen as dismissing J. Cole after he backed out of the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef.

As HotNewHipHop notes, Gibbs seems to go after Benny The Butcher, with whom he’s had beef for some time now, when he raps, “I seen my ex ho with the opps, I never get into drama / They both got crackhead mommas, they got some sh*t in common.” The publication also highlights the line, “My naked ass got more promo than your album / Man, this really ain’t no challenge,” supposedly a reference to how a leaked nude photo of Gibbs from earlier this year got more attention than Jpegmafia’s 2024 album I Lay Down My Life For You.

This comes after Gibbs dissed Cole over his recent song “Clouds,” writing on social media, “N****z be rapping about how they kill rappers and kill they careers and blah blah blah but he backing outta rap beefs [laughing emoji][thinking emoji][yawning emoji].”

Listen to “The Big 2” above.

At 8 p.m. ET today (March 13), Chappell Roan is set to release her new country-inspired single, “The Giver.” However, this doesn’t mean she’s moving away away from the pop her fans have come to love.

In an Instagram post shared earlier this month, Roan explained, “I have such a special place in my heart for country music. I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bon fires, grocery stores and karaoke bars. Many people have asked if this means I’m making a country album??? My answer is.. hmm right now I’m just making songs that make me feel happy and fun and The Giver is my take on c*ntry.”

As Billboard notes, in an upcoming Apple Music interview, Roan says the track was inspired by Big & Rich’s hit “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy),” saying, “I was like, ‘I want to feel that way on stage. I want to feel that.’ Because that’s how I write. I’m like, ‘How do I want to walk around on stage and sing?’ And I was like, ‘I want to write that song, but Chappell’s version.’”

As for her country pivot, Roan says it’s not permanent: “I really just did it for fun. I’m not switching genres or anything.”

Oasis — a notoriously chill band — are going on tour for the first time since 2009 beginning this July. Along the way, they will be filmed for a movie about the reunion, produced by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (Meet Me In The Bathroom).

A release date hasn’t been announced yet, but Sony Music Vision will distribute the movie, and it’s being produced by Magna Studios, which has also produced Beastie Boys Story and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now.

Earlier this week, Liam Gallagher got into a tiff, as he is wont to do, with an NME report over the band that will join him and Noel on tour. “NME tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about OASIS and I’ll give you an exclusive interview about up n coming OASIS tour you can have it all but how much do you want it LG x,” he wrote on X. In a follow-up post, he added, “It’s not the lineup reveal I’m bothered about I’ll reveal that to you in a minute I’m more bothered about the line where it says a source close to the band and tour that really causes me a great deal of concern LG x.”

Liam then revealed the lineup himself: Tony McCarroll, Alan White, Zak Starkey, and Chris Sharrock — except those are all former Oasis drummers.

This movie is going to be great.

Tool are one of the great rock bands of the era, with classic albums like Ænima and Lateralus. But everything seemed to go wrong at Live In The Sand, the group’s all-inclusive destination music festival at Hard Rock & Royalton Resorts in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Tool promised to play “two unique sets,” but on night two, “they only played an hour and mostly repeats from the first night,” according to a fan on the band’s subreddit. “Why fly to the DR on a 3 night ticket to watch an hour of repeat songs from the night before? Not sure what to say but this was a very disappointing show.” The band was booed and heckled by the crowd (there’s video), and now one attendee is reportedly trying to put together a class-action lawsuit against Maynard James Keenan & Co. and festival organizers.

“The potential lawsuit against the promoters of Tool In The Sand is indeed being investigated,” Georgia-based lawyer Stas Rusek told Louder Sound. “We have had lots of interest from Tool fans who attended the festival, a category which I personally fall into. These were my 27th and 28th Tool shows. There was a palpable sense of betrayal in the air as the show began the second night, and it lingered throughout the remainder of the weekend.”

He continued:

“What it boils down to is that purchasers of the festival package were promised ‘two unique sets’ by Tool. While the comments on these posts argue about what ‘unique’ means, the reality is that the opportunity to see Tool play two unique sets, ie no repeats, was the determining factor for most attendees to pull the trigger on spending thousands of dollars to attend. Most Tool fans, like me, have attended multiple shows on the same tour, and we know that, due to the spectacular and complex nature of their show, most songs will be repeated. However, this is not what festival attendees were promised.”

Tool has yet to respond to the controversy.

Hollywood Park (by SoFi Stadium in Inglewood) is the place to be this weekend, as Rolling Loud California 2025 is going down from March 15 to 16. The festival boasts a lineup led by ASAP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Peso Pluma, Quavo, BossMan Dlow, Sexyy Red, Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, and YG.

Press materials previously teased that aside from music, there will also be other attractions, including carnival rides, immersive experiences, and art installations. For a more visual look at what the festival grounds will be like, Rolling Loud just shared a sitemap.

Aside from the main stages, there are a handful of zones, featuring everything from karaoke to dance parties to a Ferris wheel to a bunch of food and drinks.

Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, co-founders and co-CEOs of Rolling Loud, previously said in a statement, “We’re excited to switch things up with a two-day format that keeps all the energy of Rolling Loud but makes it more affordable for our fans. By cutting down a day, we can offer the same epic lineup, dope activations, and unforgettable vibes at a price that’s easier on the wallet. At the end of the day, it’s all about making sure everyone can come together to celebrate hip-hop without breaking the bank.”

Check out the map below.

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Fans have been waiting a long time for Playboi Carti’s I Am Music, his first album since 2020’s Whole Lotta Red. There has been talk about the project for some time now, but it appears it’s finally, officially on the way.

A few days ago, Carti said the album is officially finished. Now, it has a release date: Last night (March 12), Carti announced on X and Instagram that I Am Music is set to drop this Friday, March 14.

Spotify also shared a promo video, as well as a billboard.

The tracklist has not been revealed yet, but Akademiks, who claims to have heard the whole album, says the project has features from Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, Future, Travis Scott, and The Weeknd. Others have indicated the album will feature 25 tracks. But, none of that has been confirmed by an official source.

Some are skeptical that I Am Music is actually coming tomorrow, but we’ll know for sure soon.

This comes after Carti played a bunch of new songs during his set at Rolling Loud Miami in December 2024, including tracks featuring The Weeknd and Scott. Carti also popped up on the Grammys stage in February, to join The Weeknd for their collaboration “Timeless.”