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A Visual Preview of Kanye West's Graduation July 2007: This fall Kanye West will release his third album, Graduation. On it, the synths are the size of alien warcrafts, the boasts are as tall as ... read more �

We’re the ‘hip-hop band’ but we’re just making our next album, which is going to be an amalgamation of every personality that’s in the whole ensemble read more �

May 2013: Today, on Ghostface Killah's 43rd birthday, we take a look back at his 2006 FADER #37 cover story, which coincided with the release of his album, Fishscale. April 2006: All Ghostface Killahc can ... read more �

May 2013: Kevin Garnett, the Boston Celtics' power forward, is a longtime friend of The FADER. Today, before the Celtics and the New York Knicks meet up for a big game 6, we take a ... read more �

May 2013: Kevin Garnett, the Boston Celtics' power forward, is a longtime friend of The FADER. Today, before the Celtics and the New York Knicks meet up for a big game 6, we take a ... read more �

April 2013: Over the weekend, Pharrell Williams turned 40, celebrating with an airbrushed sheet cake in the shape of a fashion-forward black Stewie. Below, in honor of Williams' seemingly eternal youth, read FADER's 2002 cover ... read more �

March 2013: Last night, the Diplomats—Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey—celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2003 major label debut with a reunion show in Manhattan. Below, take a look back at the ... read more �

March 2013: Last night, the Diplomats—Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey—celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2003 major label debut with a reunion show in Manhattan. Above, take a look back at Marc ... read more �

We have just kicked off the 12th year of The FADER FORT. Through the years we've had innumerable artists play on our various stages and we're proud of our history. Photographer Piper Ferguson has been ... read more �

January 2013: In 2005, Wesley Pentz bka Diplo went down to Atlanta to hang out at home with Maceo, the guy behind minimal anthem (and "Niggas in Paris" blueprint) "Nextel Chirp" as well as a ... read more �

January, 2013: After abruptly cancelling his upcoming album and quitting Twitter, Lupe Fiasco was booted from the stage at a concert in Washington DC. His mic was cut after he repeated a phrase from 20082s ... read more �

Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, received cautiously upon its release in 2008, remains one of the most experimental and prescient moments in Kanye's career. Today, we mark the four years that have passed since its ... read more �

Today, America votes to elect the president who'll serve for the next four years. In 20092s FADER #59, Philly-born and Brooklyn-based DJ Cosmo Baker selected this group of old songs to celebrate the beginning of ... read more �

Earlier this week, Solange released a colorful video for her new single "Losing You," filmed in South Africa and starring a group of Sapeurs, the infamous society of Congolese fashion dandies. Today we take a ... read more �

Today, Lil Wayne turns 30. He celebrated by opening a skate park in New Orleans. We're marking the occasion by re-sharing FADER #47 cover story from 2007, where Nick Barat went down to Miami during ... read more �

Machel Montano is just your everyday genre-mashing, world-saving, hook-obsessed secret soca megastar. I first see Machel Montano after being in his country for the sum total of five hours. I leave the sundappled Piarco International ... read more �

Returning to the roots of Southern rap, Killer Mike found his own extraordinary future. Despite it’s mythology, Stankonia is actually just a big studio in a plain office building on a particularly non-descript stretch of ... read more �

Today, Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch aka MCA passed away. In this feature from 20042s FADER #23, Eric Ducker remembers his first encounter with the group's music and considers their wide influence. A postscript to ... read more �

Today, Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch aka MCA passed away. In this feature from 20042s FADER #23, Eric Ducker remembers his first encounter with the group's music and considers their wide influence. The boys are ... read more �

Today, it was announced that D'Angelo will give his first US performance in ten years, this summer at the Essence Music Festival. To celebrate, we're looking back more than a decade into our archives at ... read more �