BIANCA
As both a rapper and an R&B artist, BIA has spent more than a decade building up to the 2025 release of *BIANCA*. While the Massachusetts native’s well-received 2020s EPs *FOR CERTAIN* and *REALLY HER* received tracklist-expanding Deluxe Edition treatments, this 2025 outing marks her first proper album. Rising to the occasion with some of the strongest material of her career to date, she straddles her twin vocal skill sets, sometimes on the same song. Switching between earnest singing and frank bar-slinging, she contends with romantic regret on “SAD PARTY” and steps confidently into the reggae space of “ONE THING.” On the guest front, she’s joined by an impressive and eclectic group that enhances her strengths across genres and styles. Latin power-players Becky G and Young Miko amplify her bilingual might on “HARD WAY” and “BIRTHDAY BEHAVIOR,” respectively, while Southern rap stars Key Glock and Denzel Curry each match her lyrical energy on the booming pair “DADE” and “WE ON GO II,” the latter also featuring an especially animated A$AP Ferg.