R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Toosii & YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Danny Brown, Syd, Cardo Got Wings & More

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9/29/2025

After 7 years, Cardi B has made her long-awaited instrumentality to the Billboard 200 with Am I the Drama?

Bardi’s sophomore workplace medium opened atop the all-format ranking with 200,000 first-week units, making her the archetypal pistillate rapper successful past to debut astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 with her archetypal 2 albums. Housing the Hot 100-charting singles “Outside” (No. 10) and “Imaginary Playerz” (No. 70), Cardi’s 23-song caller acceptable besides includes the No. 1 hits “Up” and “WAP” (with Megan Thee Stallion). Over the weekend, Cardi graced NYC’s Global Citizen Festival alongside Shakira, Rosé, Tyla and Ayra Starr.

“Thank you sooo overmuch everybody that supported my album!! Two weeks agone the medium was projected to bash 115k disconnected of [“Outside”] and [“Imaginary Playerz”],” Cardi wrote connected X (Sept. 28). “I didn’t cognize what the result was gonna be. I didn’t enactment retired [an] medium successful 7 years, and haven’t enactment retired arsenic overmuch euphony successful the past year, but we conscionable surpassed each [those] expectations. Thank you to everyone who gave the medium a listen, did a video to the songs and everything!! You don’t cognize the assurance and boost you gave maine successful my euphony to support pushing. I can’t hold to spot you guys connected tour. Tonight we celebrate!!! I can’t popular nary champagne… but possibly I tin unfastened up immoderate cranberry foodstuff oregon something!”

Outside of Cardi’s Billboard 200 return, this play besides boasted a slew of caller albums, including releases from Mariah Carey (Here for It All), Doja Cat (Vie) and Young Thug (UY Scuti). From ’80s tributes to whiteface medium artwork, September surely went retired with a bang. Of course, the biggest quality of the period arrived Sunday nighttime (Sept. 28), with the authoritative announcement of Bad Bunny arsenic the headliner for adjacent year’s Apple Music-sponsored Super Bowl LX halftime amusement successful California (Feb. 8, 2026).

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to item immoderate of the champion and astir absorbing caller sounds crossed R&B and hip-hop — from a caller Syd associated to Toosii and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s caller collaboration. Be definite to cheque retired this week’s Fresh Picks successful our Spotify playlist below.