mollysantana00 first gained traction on social media as a fashion influencer in 2019 before starting to make music a couple years later. Now she’s a 20-year-old artist making bulldozing hip-hop that frequently pummels the listener into aural submission. Her songs can be more delicate (“What Did I Do Today”) or melodic (“Windows Up,” one of our top rap songs of 2024), but her tracks frequently feel like they would fit perfectly in a mix of eardrum-scraping bangers featuring contemporaries like OsamaSon and Nettspend.⁠ ⁠ Fastidious and frenetic, Molly And Her Week of Wonders is a world-beating album, a “pop” hip-hop record in the sense that Travis Scott and Playboi Carti make popular music. Molly says she heavily inspired by Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing Brian McKnight, and Week of Wonders is accordingly dense, deep, lush, synths extra glossy or translucent, kick drums rounded off just so. From the stuttering production flourishes on “BRB” to the groggy lurch of “Honest” to the children...