The Needle Drop

Hi everyone, Anthony Fantano here, internet's busiest music nerd, and welcome to another fun ranking video where I am going to go over, interestingly enough, and rank every single music project, album, what have you, that got a 10 out of 10 or a 10.0 rating on the infamous and polarizing music publication Pitchfork Media dot net.

On Friday, September 4, Kid Cudi took the stage at Ye's second hometown show at Soldier Field in Chicago, publicly squashing their long-standing feud. In a social media post the next day, on September 5, the New York radio host, Peter Rosenberg, criticized various entertainers and expressed disappointment in fans' forgiveness of Ye, after releasing a song titled "Heil Hitler," less than a year and a half ago.

Okay, uh, horrible performance from Mr. AI himself, Fenix Flexin, doing his legendary "Rubberz" track in person, and I think with this performance we are seeing what for the near future is going to be the separation between artists who actually are making music with their minds and their hands and their hearts and their souls, versus whatever the hell this is.

A man passed away at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, on Thursday. The attendee, who was in his mid-50s, was transported to an on-site emergency care center after receiving lifesaving measures due to a "medical emergency." The man's official cause of death has not yet been revealed. The festival said in a statement released on its website: The man's death comes on the same day that festival organizers made the decision to close the entrance and exit gates due to severe weather.

As if Elon Musk could not be a bigger loser, he is on Twitter requesting that his CSAM-generating chatbot roast Billie Eilish on his behalf for selling perfume because of comments she made about billionaires months ago – comments that were true, by the way, and apparently are still living in his head rent-free. Crazy to have the richest small-penis man in the world still obsessed with you over one thing that you said one time.

Yeah, I've heard enough. I've heard enough. We can pass on the Lil Baby, Mr. Beast, Mr. Lean remix. Also, does Lil Baby not have anything else better to do in his career right now other than make Mr. Beast look cool? Or at least try to do that because, I mean, they are failing. They are failing at this.

Okay, it is 2026, and we now have white pride reggae. I will preface this by saying I am white myself. And maybe not the biggest reggae fan in the world. I love some Jimmy Cliff. I love some dub too, some King Tubby, some Lee "Scratch" Perry. So for sure I'm not an expert on reggae or Rastafarian culture, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is not it. I think this strange bearded man may have lost the plot at some point.

Last night, Christopher Davey, son of dancehall producer Powerman died at 25 after being stabbed to death in East Flatbush Brooklyn, New York. Powerman described to DancehallMag the situation that got his son killed stating, “His mother had sent him to the laundry, and he was less than a block away when he got into an altercation with two men armed with a knife and cutlass.” The suspects have not been identified yet. Tragically, this is not the first time Powerman has lost a child.

Californian rapper Yeat dropped a new track, "On Nothing," Friday, which appears to take jabs at Travis Scott, otherwise known as "La Flame". On the track, Yeat not-so-subtly disses Scott, spitting, "I don't fuck with Flame, not a lot to say, if I saw a candle, I'd shush it / What more could I say?

Welcome to another installment of Today's Release Highlights, where the TND writers room gathers up some brand new projects they want to draw your eyes and ears to. This week, we have four new releases we'd like to key you into as you head into the weekend. Check them all out below.