This week’s New Music Friday is bringing the heat from all corners — emotional R&B, pop chaos, nostalgic rap collabs, and alt-rock reinventions. Whether you’re processing heartbreak or just need something for the drive, I have you covered.
6LACK – Love Is The New Gangsta
Three years after Since I Have a Lover, 6LACK is back with his fourth studio album and a title that reframes everything. For the Atlanta singer-rapper, being rooted in love, family, and community is the realest kind of gangsta there is — and this 15-track project is him putting that belief to work across moody, atmospheric R&B that pulls equally from his rap instincts and melodic range. Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Leon Thomas, and Mereba are among the collaborators along for the ride.
Olivia Rodrigo – “The Cure”
The second single from Rodrigo’s upcoming third album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (June 12) is the one she’s been most eager for the world to hear — calling it her favorite song she’s ever made and the thesis statement of the whole project. The track wrestles with the idea that someone else’s love can’t fix what’s broken inside you, and the video drives it home, casting Rodrigo as a midcentury nurse in a cardboard hospital who ends up the patient herself. And no — despite being friends with Robert Smith, she confirmed it has nothing to do with The Cure.
Charli XCX – “SS26”
Standing for spring/summer 2026, Charli’s latest single leans further into the stripped-back guitar direction she introduced with “Rock Music,” this time wrapping it in fashion world cynicism and end-times dread. She walks a Paris runway in the video — dressed to the nines — while essentially arguing that none of it, not music, not fashion, not film, is going to save anyone. Dark, dry, and very much on brand for wherever this next era is headed.
MGK & Wiz Khalifa – Blog Era Boyz
Over a decade after their first collab “Mind of a Stoner,” MGK and Wiz Khalifa are back together — this time with a full nine-track mixtape built on nostalgia, friendship, and the carefree energy that put both of them on the map in the early 2010s. The project arrives just as the two are mid-tour on MGK’s Lost Americana run, which Wiz joined for the second leg. Think of it as a victory lap for the blog era kids who never really left.
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