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Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Tate McRae continue boosting her biggest album yet and BigXthaPlug add yet another huge collaborator to his contacts. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

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Tate McRae — “Nobody’s Girl”

So Close To What is worth celebrating, as the project became McRae’s first No. 1 album upon its release earlier this year. McRae revived the project last week with a deluxe edition, which includes “Nobody’s Girl” and its accompanying lo-fi video.

BigXthaPlug — “Cold” Feat. Post Malone

A few years ago, neither BigXthaPlug nor Post Malone were making country music. Now, they find themselves among the genre’s biggest stars, and they met up last week on the emotional “Cold.”

The Kid Laroi — “A Perfect World”

Laroi had a new album finished… but then he scrapped it. In its place, he made another new album: Before I Forget, which he announced last week. He also dropped the throwback pop/R&B single “A Perfect World.”

Skrillex — “While You Were Sleeping”

Skrillex has had a surprising 2025. Earlier in the year, he came out of nowhere to drop the album F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! and last week, he delivered another surprise release, the five-track Hit Me Where It Hurts X EP.

Peso Pluma and Tito Double P — “Intro”

Peso Pluma and Tito Double P are two of the strongest forces in música Mexicana and they’re also cousins. Unsurprisingly, then, they teamed up last week on “Intro,” a cinematic number that sees Pluma returning to his roots.

Fred Again.., Sammy Virji, and Winny — “Winny”

We’re a couple months into Fred Again..’s ten-week drop of new USB songs, which means we’re nearly at the end. His latest is the bassy and thumping “Winny,” a link-up with Sammy Virji and Winny.

Tobias Jesso Jr. — “Waiting Around”

Jesso is best known as a songwriter to the stars, but a decade ago, he had some buzz of his own going with his debut solo album Goon. He just got back to that with a long-awaited new LP, Shine, which features highlights like the tender “Waiting Around.”

Rico Nasty — “Pepper”

It’s only been a few months since Rico dropped her latest album, Nasty. She apparently had more material ready to go, though, as she came through last week with “Pepper,” an intense song that sees Rico getting in her lyrical bag.

Kelly Lee Owens — “Lose Your Head”

Owens has stated that her new EP Kelly is about “embodying sound and those collective, physical experiences we only really have in clubs or at music events.” Now that the projects out, it’s clear that mission was accomplished on bangers like “Lose Your Head.”

Labrinth — “Implosion”

Labrinth has a new album, Cosmic Opera: Act I, set for the top of next year. His scope is always ambitious and he proves that on “Implosion,” which successfully melds symphonic and electronic elements.

Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. It’s time to accept it — this year in sneakers has essentially come to a close. Yes, there are six more weeks of 2025 left, but this is usually the time of year where new releases come to a halt, replaced instead by re-releases and best sellers aimed at the general holiday audience. A few gems will still slip through the cracks, but this is probably the last time this year we’re going to get a release week this strong.

But keep your eyes open, because even though traditionally this time of year is slow, there are always a handful of special surprise releases aimed at the holiday. And if you’re too busy for all of that, let us do it for you! Here are this week’s best new sneaker drops, and where to find them!

Joe Freshgoods x New Balance 2010 Cub With Eucalyptus

Price: $179.99

One of our favorite New Balance collaborators is back with the brand! Chicago based designer Joe Freshgood has linked up with New Balance this week to do what he does best — revamp classics from the 2000s era, outfitting them with modern design touches that elevate the original designs.

The ABZORB 2010 features a synthetic upper with printed bouclé textile overlays over diamond knit mesh underlays. Rounding out the design are some reflective elements throughout, and a slight yellowing and aged finish.

The Joe Freshgoods x New Balance 2010 Cub with Eucalyptus is out now for a retail price of $179.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.

New Balance Made in USA 992 Dark Ice Wine

Price: $199.99

The Dark Ice Wine 992 doesn’t have any hype or an exciting collaborator attached — it’s simply a great shoe in a great colorway. As much as we love the Joe Freshgoods release, this is kind of what New Balance does best! This 992 sports a suede and mesh upper with synthetic overlays, reflective accents, and a combo ENCAP and C-CAP midsole for a comfortable and supportive step.

The real selling point is this beautiful colorway though, which combines purple tones with black and a contrasting orange “N” logo.

The New Balance Made in USA 992 Dark Ice Wine is out now for a retail price of $199.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.

Nike Air Jordan 10 Charred Grey and Black

Price: $215

In many ways the Jordan 10 represents a special moment in the Jordan lineage. It’s not only the first double digit Jordan, laying the groundwork for the look and feel of what was to come, but it’s also the design Jordan first wore on his return to the court after a brief retirement. It represents a new start, and for that alone it’s one of the most interesting Jordan silhouettes. It certainly helps that it looks dope as well.

This week’s version features a dark and stealthy combination of charcoal grey and black. If Darth Vader played basketball, he’d be rocking these.

The Nike Air Jordan 10 Charred Grey and Black is out now for a retail price of $215. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nigo x Nike Air Force 3 Low Phantom and Night Stadium

Price: $170

For Nigo’s latest with Nike, the designer looked to the art of kintsugi, the Japanese tradition of repairing broken pottery, for this fused together take on the Air Force 3. The sneaker sports a textured leather upper with off-center charcoal and white color blocking, with gold accents.

This release proves once again that Nigo has still got it!

The Nigo x Nike Air Force 3 Low Phantom and Night Stadium is out now for a retail price of $170. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Vomero Plus Sail and Baroque Brown

Price: $180

The Vomero silhouette has enjoyed a bit of a renaissance, whether or not that renewed interest will translate to variants like the Vomero Plus remains to be seen, but we’re rooting for the chance! The Plus takes the basic shape of the Vomero, ditches most of the plastic, and embraces a more comfort-focused lifestyle design. The sneaker sports a light mesh upper and a full-length ZoomX foam for a cushioned and responsive step.

The Nike Vomero Plus Sail and Baroque Brown is out now for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Kobę 9 Low Protro EM University Red and Metallic Gold

Price: $190.

First released in 2014, the Kobe 9 Protro EM University Red and Metallic Gold features a colorway meant to evoke China, with its vibrant red mesh upper, glittering gold accents, and snake-inspired pattern work on the tongue. But this sneaker isn’t just a show piece, it’s also designed with play in mind.

Aside from being ultra lightweight and breathable, this Protro 9 sports a React foam middle, a carbon fiber plate outfitted outsole, and multidirectional tread for fast change-ups.

The Nike Kobe 9 Low Protro EM University Red and Metallic Gold is set to drop on November 22nd at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Women’s Air Jordan 3 Sail and Pale Ivory

Price: $205

Luxurious and elevated — that’s how we’d best describe this week’s Women’s Jordan 3 Sail and Pale Ivory. The sneaker sports a tumbled leather upper with suede mudguards, a super clean icy blue outsole, and gold hardware. It’s a sneaker designed for royalty!

The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 3 Sail and Pale Ivory is set to drop on November 22nd at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $205. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

BigXthaPlug and Post Malone search for solace in the wilderness in the heartbroken video for their I Hope You’re Happy collaboration, “Cold.” Like prior tracks from BigX’s latest album, the song taps into the trappings of country music to lay the groundwork for his introspective musings on life and love.

In this case, he recalls a breakup that leaves him “cold” — one he prompted with his own actions. “At the age of 21, this life got wicked,” he remembers. “Felt all I ever needed was love, but now I beg for distance / Then love started to fade the very moment I got richer / Like I faded from the pictures, all because I made decisions.”

Despite his insistence that I Hope You’re Happy isn’t exactly a country music album, BigX has been embraced by the country music establishment in recent months, thanks to his “meet in the middle” approach on the record, collaborating with mainstays of the genre like Darius Rucker, Bailey Zimmerman, and fellow crossover artist Jelly Roll. Just days ago, he took the stage at the CMAs with Luke Combs to perform their collaboration from the album, “Pray Hard” and X is booked to play Stagecoach festival next year.

You can watch BigXthaPlug’s “Cold” video featuring Post Malone above.

I Hope You’re Happy (Deluxe) is out now via UnitedMasters. You can find more info here.

For the past few months, I’ve been arguing that more people should be paying attention Johnstown, Pennsylvania rapper Eem Triplin, who is for my money one of the most innovative young voices in hip-hop today. I’m not the only one who thinks so; he was included in the 2025 XXL Freshman Class just a few months after releasing his debut album Melody Of A Memory on RCA Records in February.

His new song, “If I Wanted To,” is a prime example of why I think so highly of his talent. He finds a clever, cheeky way to expend the sort of flexes that would sound tired coming from someone else, with a bouncy, singsongy flow both inspired by 106 & Park-era rap mainstays and distinct from them in key ways. The track really works, and its simple but colorful video continues to display Eem’s affable personality as he crams extras into an elevator, both celebrating and poking fun at the trappings of music biz success.

The rapper has also shown a firm grasp of the mechanisms of virality; his last single, “Coming Undone,” garnered plenty of buzz thanks to his lighthearted back-and-forth with labelmate SZA. Keep your eye on Eem Triplin; he’s a star in the making.

You can watch Eem Triplin’s “If I Wanted To” video above.

Tommy Richman is his own worst enemy in “Bother Me,” the breakout track from his new EP, Worlds Apart*, which dropped today via ISO Supremacy and PULSE Records. Richman reunites with ISO head honcho Brent Faiyaz in the song, as the two kings of toxic R&B ponder the consequences of their own noncommital to relationships that felt bothersome at the moment, but might have been worth considering in hindsight.

“I was in my head last week / And I want you to bother me / There’s not another me / And that’s been bothering me,” Richman croons on the chorus. Meanwhile, the music video dives all the way down the nostalgia rabbit hole, throwing every ’90s R&B video trope on the screen at once: black-and-white, looking sad in the rain, a romantic interest staring wistfully out the window… It’s glorious, honestly.

The track appears on Richman’s Worlds Apart* EP, which dropped today, about a year removed from his debut album, Coyote. Features on the project include Faiyaz, mynameisntjack, and 03 Greedo, and in the press release, Tommy explains the inspiration behind the EP. “It’s a mixtape that I made while spending time in Miami,” he said. “I wasn’t planning on making it, but I was there for about three months and there was a lot of chaos and in that chaos, all these songs were created. This is a point in my life that was encapsulated into a body of work – Something fun and vibrant and something to dance to.”

You can watch the “Bother Me” video above.

Worlds Apart* is out now via ISO Supremacy and PULSE Records. You can find more info here.

R&B breakout Sailorr made waves this spring with the release of her debut album, From Florida’s Finest and its accompanying tour. With the new year on the horizon, and a pair of splashy features (with Jordan Ward and Summer Walker) just in the rearview, Sailorr prepares to close out her breakout year with the deluxe edition of From Florida’s Finest, the cheekily titled From Florida’s Finest Delu/xxx [For My Delusional Ex]. The reissued project is set for release on December 5. It will add four new tracks and one feature, from rising rapper Eem Triplin.

Ahead of the release of the first track from the deluxe, “Locked In,” Sailorr shared a humorous trailer for its music video. As the clip opens, Sailorr signs in at a support meeting, introducing herself and proudly declaring she’s “30 days crash-out free” before receiving a text guaranteed to threaten her streak. Then, there’s a flash forward, depicting the singer going HAM with a Louisville Slugger, likely making her fellow Jacksonville native Jason Mendoza proud (the Good Place was sooo good, right?).

After releasing Florida’s Finest Delu/xxx [For My Delusional Ex], Sailorr’s next move will be joining Doja Cat on her upcoming Tour Ma Vie tour, raising her profile alongside the pop-rap star — just like fellow Florida citizen Doechii.

You can listen to “Locked In” below, and stay “locked in” for the video.

Florida’s Finest Delu/xxx [For My Delusional Ex] is out 12/5 via BuVision/10K Projects. You can find more info here.

Tems fans in Los Angeles were disappointed to learn the Nigerian singer would not be able to perform at Camp Flog Gnaw this weekend, after the festival was postponed due to dangerous weather. However, all of her fans got a nice consolation prize this week in the form of a new EP, Love Is A Kingdom.

Clocking in at seven tracks, Love Is A Kingdom is described in its press release as an “exploration of love, power, and spiritual clarity.” The focus track is “Big Daddy,” an upbeat, questioning track in which she braces a flaky lover. She calls him “Big Daddy,” but he never comes through for her; “Where were you when there was no one around? / Where were you when I needed someone down? / What were you doing when nobody gave a damn?” she wonders.

Tems is a little under 18 months removed from her debut album, Born In The Wild, which dropped last June and featured the tracks “Me & U,” “Love Me JeJe,” “Burning,” “Turn Me Up,” and “Get It Right” featuring Asake. It peaked at No. 56 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and No. 2 on US World Albums, making it the highest-charting album by a female Nigerian artist, and was nominated for Best Global Music Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. “Love Me JeJe” was nominated for and won Best African Music Performance.

With the bar so high, Love Is A Kingdom is a great start for her to build up the momentum to top Born In The Wild with its follow-up. You can listen to “Big Daddy” above.

Love Is A Kingdom is out now via Since ’93 and RCA Records. You can find more info here.

The White Stripes received one of music’s highest honors earlier this month when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Jack White spoke solo at the ceremony, as since their break-up in the 2010s, the duo’s other half, Meg White, has stayed out of the spotlight. In their heyday, though, the two-piece were the rock band to beat.

As Uproxx’s Joypocalypse explains in a new video, The White Stripes were at the forefront of the 2000s garage rock revival.

She says:

“The 2000s garage rock revival was a return to stripped-down rock music. It was a reaction to the more polished, radio-friendly rock music that was popular at the time. The White Stripes had that stripped-down sound and also production-wise, especially on that first album because of the tiny budget, they’re using older gear. It also is coming through in their recordings and their production. Jack White is not shy when it comes to fuzz use, leading to that very raw, fuzzed-out garage rock sound.”

She goes on to call them “a defining pillar of the revival” and names them as one of her favorites from that scene, because they “held on to garage rock’s blues roots and its confrontational simplicity.”

Check out the video above.

Keeping up with music news and resources like Spotify’s giant and regularly updated New Music Friday playlist are great ways to keep your listening habits from getting stale. Sometimes, though, you need a deeper dive. That’s where Uproxx’s Baylee Lefton comes in as she routinely offers quick-hit lists of songs you need to add into your rotation this week.

She came through with a new drop today (November 21), and the vibe is chill hip-hop.

The mix kicks off with Mustard and Nipsey Hussle’s “Perfect Ten,” the title track from Mustard’s 2019 album. The project dropped just months after Hussle’s untimely death, making it one of the rapper’s first posthumous releases.

Next is another collaboration: Maxo Kream and Anderson .Paak’s “The Vision,” which sees the two operate on a glacially paced beat. .Paak is regularly a high-energy guy, but he sounds at home in slower environments like this, too.

Deema picks up the tempo a little bit with “Rainbow,” which isn’t quite as sleepy but is still undeniably chill. Cammo17th and Twelve’len follow with “Sometimes” and bringing up the rear is Le$ with “In The Whataburger Drive Thru.”

Check out the video above and to listen to the full songs yourself, hit up the link in Lefton’s Instagram bio.

Rico Nasty is only about five months removed from the release of her third album, Lethal, but it looks like there’s no rest for the nasty. Rico is already back with new music, in the form of her new single, “Pepper.”

Reuniting with Kenny Beats — who is now going by his government name, Kenneth Blume — Rico gets all the way back in her lyrical bag, spitting a succession of spicy punchlines to knock some sense back into those who may have thought her switch to the rock-focused label Fueled by Ramen would dull her rap edge.

“Pop out rockin’ that Anne Demueler, bitch, I’m super chula,” she boasts in her rapid-fire flow. “You look basic, sis, come get a tutor, I f*ck around and school ya / I don’t need a ruler, dunk his head, I teach him how to scuba / We don’t bob and weave, I play for keeps, I’m slicin’, no Krueger.”

The video catches Rico rocking out and cutting loose ahead of a show in an empty venue during her recently concluded Lethal Tour, intercut with clips from the actual concert, where fans rock out with her.

Rico might be done with tour, but you’ll be seeing more of her soon enough if you’ve got Apple TV, where she’ll make her acting debut in the new series Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

You can watch Rico Nasty’s “Pepper” video above.