Playlist: 2026.2 | All the Beauty in the World
This is W Department, translated into sound
All the Beauty in the World, our second playlist of 2026, is not about perfection. It is about resilience. About rhythm as inheritance. About joy that exists within tension. This playlist gathers voices that have shaped culture — and those who are reshaping it — into a single, continuous conversation.
The artists in this playlist treat language as art form and testimony, rhythm as architecture. Their work carries memory, critique, and clarity — confident, experimental, and self-defined; rooted yet constantly becoming.
But in addition to celebration, there is a weight, an ever-present acknowledgment of the realities that surround us, because beauty without awareness is mere decoration, artifice.
In the world we believe in, beauty must be cultural, authored, collective, and there is much of it — so much beauty in the world.
Track List
Superstition- Stevie Wonder
Beauty in the World- Macy Gray
Lost Ones- Ms. Lauryn Hill
Devil’s Pie- D’Angelo
No Sense- Crown City Rockers
9th vs. Thought- Black Thought
Help Yourself- Joan Armatrading
It Aint Hard to Tell- Nas
Free- Little Simz
Float- Samm Henshaw
No Limitations- L*Roneous
Kiss of Life- Sade
The Blowup- Blackalicious
People- Libianca
Got to Give It Up – Pt 1- Marvin Gaye
Riverdance- Beyonce
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution- Tracy Chapman
So Fresh, So Clean- Outkast
Earfquake- Tyler, the Creator
No More Parties- Coi Leray
People Everyday – Metamorphoses- Arrested Development
Feel Me Flow- Naughty By Nature
Sponaneity- Bahamadia
UMI Says- Mos Def