Month: June 2020

Keeping up with the best new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Lady Gaga’s return to dance-ready tunes and a whole slew of exemplary hip-hop collaborations. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

Lady Gaga — Chromatica

After much anticipation, Lady Gaga’s latest has arrived, and gone are the more stripped-down days of Joanne. Instead, she is back to her dance-pop ways, as she shows on collaborations with Ariana Grande and Blackpink to offer up one of the best new music releases of the week.

Lil Yachty — Lil Boat 3

Lil Yachty’s new album is the final release of his Lil Boat series, and he’s sending it off in style: Lil Boat 3 features guest spots from Drake, DaBaby, Lil Durk, Young Thug, ASAP Rocky, Tyler The Creator, and Tierra Whack, with those last three all appearing on one track.

Gucci Mane — “Both Sides” Feat. Lil Baby

Gucci Mane has been more productive than most rappers this decade, but the first few months of 2020 yielded no new songs from Guwop. He took care of that last week, though, when he linked with Lil Baby and dropped a video for “Both Sides,” his first single of 2020.

Young Dolph — “RNB” Feat. Megan Thee Stallion

Megan Thee Stallion is fresh off her first No. 1 song, so she’s as hot of a commodity as she as ever been. What timing this is for Young Dolph, then, who got the “Savage” rapper to join him on his boastful new single, “RNB.”

El-P — Capone (Original Motion Picture Score)

El-P has always been a versatile talent, and he has reinforced that fact with his latest endeavor: the soundtrack for Capone. Shades of Run The Jewels-style production are present on the album, and it’s a treat even as an entity separate from the movie.

Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist — Alfredo

The Alchemist has kept himself busy in 2020: He teamed up with Conway The Machine’s Lulu EP earlier this year, and now he is back with another joint project, this time working with Freddie Gibbs on their new Alfredo album. The effort is mostly feature-free, but Tyler The Creator and Rick Ross can also be found here.

RMR — “I’m Not Over You”

RMR only became a familiar (perpetually masked) face in the hip-hop community not that long ago, but he is already faring just fine for himself. For example, he just dropped a new song, “I’m Not Over You,” and the Timbaland-produced tune scored a premiere on Desus & Mero.

Juice WRLD — “Tell Me U Luv Me” Feat. Trippie Redd

The late Juice WRLD has popped up on a smattering of new tracks since his passing, but they’ve mostly been features. A posthumous album is supposedly on the way though, and if that’s the case, his estate just dropped what may be the latest preview of it, the Trippie Redd-featuring “Tell Me U Luv Me.”

Rosalía and Travis Scott — “TKN”

Now is your chance to hear Travis Scott rap in Spanish, as he does so on his latest collab with Rosalía, “TKN.” The pair first linked up on a “Highest In The Room” remix, and they’re a terrific pair, so here’s to hoping more from this duo is to come.

Blimes And Gab — “Shellys (It’s Chill)”

Disco-inspired music is having a moment right now, and Blimes And Gab have cemented themselves as a wonderful part of that with “Shellys (It’s Chill).” The latest taste from their upcoming debut album, Blimes And Gab have busted out a delightfully funky and upbeat tune that ought to soundtrack living room dance parties the world over.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Even in moments of crisis, we often don’t expect directness from the world of pro wrestling, especially not from a company as large and generally conservative as WWE. Sure, wrestlers speak up on social media (more than they used to, it seems), and WWE can release a statement that carefully avoids phrases like “police violence” and “black lives matter,” but we don’t expect to hear much on the actual TV shows.

Of course, WWE Backstage is a bit unusual as WWE programs go, because it’s a talk show rather than a wrestling show. And CM Punk’s role on it since the beginning has been to say what nobody else in the company will say.

Still, his frankness last night was pretty surprising. Talking with Renee Young, Booker T, and Mark Henry, Punk was visibly emotional as he addressed his fellow white people about the need to listen to black people, and use white privilege to protect them when possible. He also called out the President directly, which might not have gone over well with Fox TV or WWE.

Well, I think people people talk about the need to have a conversation. And you know, I’m a white guy. I’m not here to pretend to understand how black people feel, and I don’t think it’s my place to tell them how they need to react. This country has a problem, that much I know. I’m here to tell the white people: you need to listen to your black brothers and sisters, and you need to understand where they are coming from. It’s hard to try to walk in somebody’s shoes or try to understand where they come from, but this country — there’s almost two Americas. You know, when I get pulled over, I’m nervous that I’m going to get a ticket. I don’t want to live somewhere where, Mark, if your son gets pulled over, he’s worried he’s going to get murdered. So I’m just here to tell white people, you probably need to shut up more, and you certainly need to listen more. There is a problem, and the paradox is the only way to deal with intolerance is with intolerance. If you are a white person, you more than likely are privileged. Use that privilege and support your black brothers and sisters, especially now because we need it.

We live in a time where hatred is stoked at the highest level, and I don’t like things I see. I do what I can to stop it, and I think I’m hopefully using my voice for good, but fascism and racism cannot win, and if you’re struggling to try to come up with a way that you can help, the easiest way to help is combat that intolerance with intolerance. There’s no room for it. How I relate that all to myself — even though none of this is truly about me — is that the first tattoo that I ever saw in my life was a number on my grandfather’s arm. And he rode a horseback towards Nazi Panzer tanks. And now it’s 2020, and we live in a world where a President says that Nazis are very fine people. You can’t walk that back, and you can’t tell me that you meant something different. If you’re white, use your voice, protect your black brothers and sisters, and protect the people who this country was not built for. They might say it was, but everybody has a different experience. And just listen more.

Punk’s mention of combating intolerance with intolerance is a little confusing since he doesn’t give the line much context, but he seems to be alluding to Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, which is the idea that a tolerant society can only be achieved by being intolerant of intolerance.

Fat Joe and Remy Ma’s “All The Way Up” was a big song: Although it only managed a peak at No. 27 on the Hot 100 chart, it because Fat Joe’s only 2-time Platinum single, and it earned him a pair of Grammy nominations, for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. After the initial release, Jay-Z hopped on the official remix, and it turns out that version of the single also almost included Drake. However, Fat Joe has explained why, at Jay-Z’s request, Drake was kept off the song

On a recent episode of Open Late With Peter Rosenberg, Joe told the story, saying that Jay-Z didn’t want anybody else on the remix because it was his and Joe’s first song together since ending their long-standing beef:

“I always wanted to do a song with Jay-Z. I’m honored that he got on the remix. The craziest story is that I got a FaceTime call maybe three different times while ‘All The Way Up’ was out, and it was your man, the 6 God, Drake. He called me three different occasions out of nowhere, ‘Yo, send me the instrumental, send me the instrumental to ‘All The Way Up.” But, when I told Hov we were doing the song, he said ‘Look, Joe. It means so much to our history between me and you, let’s not put nobody else on the song.’ He’s not referring to Drake [specifically]… it could have been Kanye. 50 Cent was asking me to get on the remix. […] I’m beyond a huge fan of Drake, but I had to keep my word. My word is everything. So when I told Jay-Z, ‘Nah, nobody else is on the song,’ I had to keep my word. But man, I wish it was Jay-Z, Drake, Fat Joe, and Remy [Ma].”

Watch the full Open Late episode below, with the Drake story coming at about 29 minutes into the video.

Reports have indicated that the NBA will come up with some sort of resolution for its return to play a little later this week, and on Wednesday, the plan that Adam Silver plans to present to the league’s Board of Governors gained a bit more clarity. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Silver will bring forth a 22-team plan, something that had been speculated in recent days as a full, 30-team restart and a straight jump to a 16-team postseason have fallen out of favor.

As Charania lays out, the 22-team plan will bring the 16 current playoff teams and an additional six squads that will battle for the 8-seed.

The NBA’s 22-team format at Orlando’s Disney World would bring the 16 teams currently in a playoff spot, six additional teams, and include a play-in tournament for the eighth seed, sources said. The play-in tournament would work as follows, according to sources: If the ninth seed is more than four games behind the eighth seed, the eighth seed earns the playoff spot; if the ninth seed is four or fewer games behind, then the eighth and ninth seed will enter a play-in tournament that is double-elimination for the eighth seed and single-elimination for ninth. ESPN first reported the league was working on 22-team models.

Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN added some more details, indicating that all 22 teams will play games with an eye on seeding and that the expectation is this plan will get approved by the league’s Board of Governors.

The news comes on the heels of some reporting about the NBA’s plan to have these games occur in Orlando. On Tuesday, Wojnarowski added some additional details on a timeline, saying that the plan is for the league to restart on July 31 (something that was confirmed by Charania) and have mid-October as the latest possible date for the season to reach its conclusion.

There are still some logistical questions that would need to be sorted out, like timelines for a return, how all of these games will be scheduled out, and how this will impact the 2020-21 season. But while we’ll have to wait for Thursday for this plan to become official, all signs are pointing to the NBA’s return.

TMZ reports that the 17-year-old rapper Danielle Bregoli — aka Bhad Bhabie — has entered rehab for prescription medication abuse for the “next few weeks” as she also copes with childhood trauma. According to TMZ’s sources, Bregoli decided to seek treatment at an undisclosed location for 30 to 90 days on the advice of her management, which stated, “We are very proud of Danielle for recognizing that she needed help and seeking it out.”

The news comes just days after Bregoli was again called out for appropriative behavior as part of a discussion about allyship stemming from ongoing protests of police brutality. In the wake of several highly-publicized incidents of police brutality — police officers in Louisville killed Breonna Taylor while serving a warrant on the wrong person, while video shows officers in Minnesota choking George Floyd to death with a knee on his neck as he struggled to breathe — the importance of non-Black people being allies arose on social media. Commenters noted that many celebrities who rely on Black culture and music for a paycheck, including Bregoli, were suddenly silent on issues that deeply affected Black people and communities.

Bregoli, who was one of the earliest flashpoints in the ongoing debate when she first debuted her viral catchphrase on an episode of Dr. Phil, has been a target of criticisms ever since, parlaying her viral ubiquity into a rap career and a label deal with Atlantic Records. She often defends herself by claiming “no one can act a color,” which only makes things worse for her.

Bhad Bhabie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Our current situation has led to months-long shutdowns for almost every place a crowd can gather, including concerts, restaurants, and movie theaters. In the case of the latter, the in-person experience can’t be entirely replicated at home, but movies like Trolls World Tour have proven that people are more than willing to give it a go (with AMC Theaters reacting with a Universal ban). Now the largest U.S. theater chain is declaring “substantial doubt” that it can continue operations after months of closures for over 1,000 multiplexes.

The theater chain’s public regulatory filings were noted by CNN, which reports that AMC Theaters will have lost up to $2.4 billion in this year’s first quarter. Continuing for months with “effectively no revenue” this quarter could lead to bankruptcy and eventual closure for the company. Although U.S. states are lifting restrictions in stages right now, and theaters are allowed to open in many places, the company still faces another great challenge — a barren release schedule:

“Even if governmental operating restrictions are lifted in certain jurisdictions, distributors may delay the release of new films until such time that operating restrictions are eased more broadly domestically and internationally, which may further limit our operations,” the company said.

The release-schedule issue won’t be solvable overnight, given that when tentpoles like Fast and Furious 9 began pushing back nearly a year on the calendar, other moneymakers soon followed suit. At this point, a few big titles (a Russell Crowe road-rage movie, along with Tenet and Wonder Woman 1984) still appear to be holding firm on release dates for summer, but will audiences return to theaters before fall? Hollywood Reporter quotes an analyst (Wedbush Securities’ Michael Pachter) that notes previous doubt about the theater chain’s liquidity, and he predicts that the company will “have to restructure completely” if the situation doesn’t dramatically improve by November. Many high-profile movies are lined up for fall, when the ball will be in theatergoers’ courts.

(Via CNN & Hollywood Reporter)

While protests are one way to bring about change, another is by voting in local and national elections. There are a lot of those happening this month, so Lizzo, Rihanna, and Camila Cabello (among others) are encouraging fans to make their voices heard via the ballot box.

Tapping out a beat on a drum machine, Lizzo offered a simple rap about voting, and as she rapped, text on the screen read, “Hey you! Do you know how you can help make a change today? Vote! Presidential primaries today. DC. Iowa. South Dakota. Rhode Island. Maryland. New Mexico. Indiana. Montana. Pennsylvania. There are many ways to protest. Find your voice and use it. We need you.”

Rihanna shared a similar message, taking to Instagram to share the same list of states and write, “VOTE. Ya ain’t got sh*t else to do man! Get yo ass off the couch and go vote!!! I don’t wanna hear another excuse!! Stop believing that your vote and voice don’t matter! This the illest way to protest…vote for the change you want!!!”

Somebody wrote in the comments, “Voting ain’t gon change sh*t,” and Rihanna was having none of that. She responded, “sick of hearing this. Ya know what ain’t gon change sh*t? not doing sh*t!!!!”

Camila Cabello also hopped on Instagram and shared a message, in both English and Spanish, about voting, writing, “We promised to use this time to prepare for ACTION – so one of the most important things you can do right now is VOTE. 23 states have elections this month. Your vote has the power to create lasting change and you’re voting for more than just the president. Don’t let this moment pass you by. Verify your voter registration, get vote-by-mail info, know your ballot: headcount.org.”

While the elections mentioned took place yesterday (June 2), as Cabello alluded to, there are still plenty of others coming up this month. In June, states that will be holding state primary and/or presidential primary elections include Georgia, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Virginia, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Those three weren’t the only music figures to implore their fans to explore their right to vote, so check out posts from Ariana Grande, Snoop Dogg, and others below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of all the new albums coming out in June 2020. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, June 5

• Baauer — Planet’s Mad (Mad Decent)
• Black Rainbows — Cosmic Ritual Supertrip (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Blanco White — On The Other Side (Yucatan Records)
• Bruce Brubaker And Max Cooper — Glassforms (InFiné)
• Bruno Major — To Let A Good Thing Die (AWAL Recordings)
• C. Diab — White Whale (Injazero)
• Camille Delean — Cold House Burning (E-Tron Rec)
• Corey Harper — Overcast EP (AWAL Recordings)
• Currents — The Way It Ends (SharpTone Records)
• Discovery Zone — Remote Control (Mansions And Millions)
• Eben — Honeydew EP (Atlantic Records)
• Ebonivory — The Long Dream I (Wild Thing Records)
• Emilie Nicolas — Let Her Breathe (Mouchiouse Music)
• Flatbush Zombies — Now More Than Ever EP (Glorious Dead)
• The Fox Sisters — Bust Out! (Dive Records)
• Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs! — 65 Million Beers Ago (self-released)
• G-Eazy — Everything’s Strange Here (RCA Records)
• The Gay Agenda — Penetrating (La Escalara Records)
• The Ghost Inside — The Ghost Inside (Epitaph Records)
• GoGo Penguin — GoGo Penguin (Gondwana Records)
• Gordon Koang — Unity (Music In Exile)
• Gorlvsh — New City Vibe (Ancient Temple Recordings)
• The Harmed Brothers — Across The Waves (Lackpro Records)
• Hinds — The Prettiest Curse (Mom & Pop)
• Iann Dior — I’m Gone EP (10K Projects/Caroline Australia)
• JayDaYoungan — Baby23 (Atlantic Records)
• Jennifer Touch — Behind The Wall (FatCat Records)
• Jockstrap — Wicked City EP (Warp)
• Joe Louis Walker — Blues Comin’ On (Cleopatra Blues)
• Kaleo — Surface Sounds (Atlantic Records)
• Katie Malco — Failures (6131 Records)
• Leifur James — Angel In Disguise (Late Night Tales)
• Mare Berger — The Moon Is Always Full (self-released)
• Matt Lovell — Nobody Cries Today (Daddy Kool Records)
• Michael McDermott — What In The World (Continental Record Services)
• Molly Joyce — Breaking And Entering (New Amsterdam)
• Momma — Two Of Me (Danger Collective Records)
• Mr Eazi — One Day You Will Understand EP (Empawa Africa Limited)
• Mt. Joy — Rearrange Us (Dualtone Music)
• Muzz — Muzz (Matador)
• Natalie Slade — Control (Eglo Records)
• Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets — Lay It On Me EP (Yep Roc Records)
• Nicole Mercedes — Look Out Where You’re Going (self-released)
• No Age — Goons Be Gone (Drag City)
• Paisley Fields — Electric Park Ballroom (Don Giovanni Records)
• Paul Kalkbrenner — Speak Up EP (B1 Recordings)
• The Prison Music Project — Long Time Gone (Righteous Babe Records)
• RMR — Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art EP (Warner Records)
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Sideways To New Italy (Sub Pop)
• Roxy Girls — A Wealth Of Information EP (Moshi Moshi Records)
• Run The Jewels — Run The Jewels 4 (BMG Rights Management)
• Sarah Jarosz — World On The Ground (Rounder Records)
• Soft Plastics — 5 Dreams (Paper Bag Records)
• Sondre Lerche — Patience (PLZ)
• Stepson — Help Me Help You (SharpTone Records)
• Tenci — My Heart Is An Open Field (Keeled Scales)
• Trash Talk — Squalor EP (Trash Talk)
• Trickfinger — She Smiles Because She Presses The Button (AcidTest)
• Vinyl Williams — Azure (Requiem Pour Un Twister)
• Working Men’s Club — Working Men’s Club (Heavenly Recordings)
• Yoste — A Few Brief Moments EP (Spinnin’ Records)

Friday, June 12

• The Aces — Under My Influence (Red Bull Records)
• Becky And The Birds — Trasslig EP (4AD)
• Bibio — Sleep On The Wing (Warp)
• BPMD — American Made (Napalm Records)
• Connie Han — Iron Starlet (Mack Avenue)
• Cory Smythe — Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic Records)
• Death Valley Girls — Breakthrough EP (Suicide Squeeze Records)
• DJ Boring — Like Water EP (Technicolour)
• Dougie Poole — The Freelancer’s Blues (Wharf Cat Records)
• Drab City — Good Songs For Bad People (Bella Union)
• Electric Mob — Discharge (Frontiers Music)
• Ellen Allien — Aurra (BPitch)
• Ellie Goulding — Brightest Blue (Interscope)
• Elliott Waits For No One — Elliott Waits For No One (Dark Star Records)
• Eric Hutchinson — Class Of ’98 (Let’s Break Records)
• fish narc — WiLDFiRE (Gothboiclique Records)
• Flying Horseman — Mothership (Unday Records)
• The France — Indie Kate EP (Fear Records)
• Francesa Blanchard — Make It Better (Tone Tree Music)
• Healing Potpourri — Blanket Of Calm (Run For Cover Records)
• John Craigie — Asterisk The Universe (Thirty Tigers)
• Larkin Poe — Self Made Man (Tricki-Woo Records)
• Leah Senior — The Passing Scene (Flightless Records)
• Liam Gallagher — MTV Unplugged (Warner Records)
• Louis The Child — Here For Now (Interscope)
• Louise Goffin — Two Different Movies (Majority Of One Records)
• Melody — Teachers Pet EP (Lauren Records)
• Mondo Cozmo — New Medicine (Last Gang Records)
• Nate Lee — Wings Of A Jetliner (Adverb Records)
• Norah Jones — Pick Me Up Off The Floor (Blue Note Records)
• Oliver Tree — Ugly Is Beautiful (Atlantic Records)
• Orville Peck — Show Pony EP (Columbia)
• Paper Idol — Money For Flowers EP (Lowly)
• Paul Weller — On Sunset (Polydor Records)
• Photay — Waking Hours (Mexican Summer)
• Retro Color — Arcadian (Daddy Kool Records)
• Sammy Brue — Crash Test Kid (New West Records)
• Shape Of Water — Great Illusions (Eclipse Records)
• The Silver Field — Sing High! Sing Low! (Crossness Records)
• The Sounds — Things We Do For Love (Arnioki Records)
• Spacey Jane — Sunlight (AWAL Recordings)
• Unwed Sailor — Look Alive (Old Bear Records)
• Video Dave — Week 1560 (AutoReverse Records)
• Wargirl — Dancing Gold (Clouds Hill)
• Wild — Goin’ Back EP (Nettwerk)

Friday, June 19

• Angela Muñoz — Introspection (Linear Labs)
• Bad Touch — Kiss The Sky (Marshall Records)
• Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (Captured Tracks)
• Bob Dylan — Rough And Rowdy Ways (Columbia Records)
• Braids — Shadow Offering (Secret City)
• Cat Clyde — Good Bones (Cinematic Music Group)
• Chew — Darque Tan (Stolen Body Records)
• Clint Black — Out Of Sane (Black Top Records)
• Commonwealth Choir — No End EP (Know Hope Records)
• Constant Smiles — Control (Sacred Bones Records)
• Don Bryant — You Make Me Feel (Fat Possum)
• Etuk Ubong — Africa Today (Night Dreamer)
• Fran Lobo — Brave EP (Slow Dance Records)
• Gabby Barrett — Goldmine (Warner Music Nashville)
• Gordi — Two Skins (Jagjaguwar)
• Gum Country — Somewhere (Burger Records)
• Imaginary Tricks — Art Flakey EP (Park The Van)
• Japandroids — Massey Fucking Hall (Anti-)
• Jenny O. — Truth (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
• Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure? (Interscope Records)
• John Legend — Bigger Love (Columbia Records)
• John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch — John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch OST (Drag City)
• Jonah Yano — Souvenir (Innovative Leisure)
• Juke Ross — Chapter 2 (RCA Records)
• Kacy Hill — Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again (self-released)
• Lamb Of God — Lamb Of God (Epic)
• Llynks — Become The Root (584231 Records DK2)
• Local Nomad — Local Nomad EP (Warner Music)
• Mac DeMarco — Here Comes The Cowboy Demos (Mac’s Record Label)
• Mac DeMarco — Other Here Comes The Cowboy Demos (Mac’s Record Label)
• Maya Hawke — Blush (Mom + Pop)
• Michael Franti & Spearhead — Work Hard And Be Nice (Boo Boo Wax)
• The Microdance — Our Love Noire (Somewherecold Records)
• Moon Panda — Make Well EP (Fierce Panda)
• Mounika — I Need Space (MaJu Records)
• Nana Grizol — South Somewhere Else (Arrowhawk Records)
• Nasty Cherry — Season 2 EP (Vroom Vroom Recordings)
• The National Parks — Wildflower (self-released)
• Neil Young — Homegrown (Reprise)
• Ocean Alley — Lonely Diamond (self-released)
• Owen — The Avalanche (Polyvinyl Record Co)
• Permanent Collection — Nothing Good Is Normal (Strangeway Studio)
• Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher (Dead Oceans)
• Protest The Hero — Palimpsest (Spinefarm Records)
• R Beny — Seafoam & Dust (Dauw)
• Riches Of The Poor — The Long Way Down (Crocodile Tears Records)
• Ryan Langdon — Lit In The Sticks EP (Hidden Pony Records)
• Scarlet Pleasure — Garden (Copenhagen)
• Shirley King — Blues For A King (Cleopatra Blues)
• Solaris — Un Paese di Musichette Mentre Fuori c’è la Morte (Bronson Recordings)
• Sports Team — Deep Down Happy (Island Records)
• Switchfoot — Covers EP (Fantasy Records)
• Trapt — Shadow Work (The Label Group)
• Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile — Not Our First Goat Rodeo (Sony Classical)

Friday, June 26

• Absolutely Yours — Natural Wonder (Universal Music)
• Arca — Kick I (XL Recordings)
• Bananagun — The True Story Of Bananagun (Full Time Hobby)
• Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (Captured Tracks)
• Blimes And Gab — Talk About It (B.A.G. Enterprises)
• Bluey — Tinted Sky (Shanachie Records)
• Bobby Watson — Keepin’ It Real (Smoke Sessions Records)
• BOYO — Where Have All My Friends Gone? (Park The Van)
• Brian McKnight — Exodus (Caroline/SoNo Recording Group)
• Civic Center — The Ground Below (American Dreams Records)
• Country Westerns — Country Westerns (Fat Possum Records)
• The Dead Tongues — Transmigration Blues (Psychic Hotline)
• Derrick Hodge — Color Of Noize (Blue Note Records)
• Dirty Projectors — Flight Tower EP (Domino Recording Company)
• Evening Hymns — Heavy Nights (Shuffling Feet Records)
• Grand Pax — PWR EP (Blue Flowers Music)
• Grey Daze — Amends (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Haim — Woman In Music Pt. III (Columbia)
• James Krivchenia — A New Found Relaxation (House Arrest)
• Justine Brown — Wander Feeler (Loantaka Records)
• Kansas — The Absence Of Presence (Insideout Records)
• Khruangbin — Mordechai (Dead Oceans)
• Lionel Boy — Who Is Dovey EP (Innovative Leisure)
• Long Distance Calling — How Do We Want To Live? (Insideout Records)
• Magick Touch — Heads Have Got To Rock’n’Roll (Edged Circle Productions)
• Melissa Sullivan — Late Last Night (Daring Sparrow Entertainment)
• Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink (Infectious Music)
• Neon Trees — I Can Feel You Forgetting Me (Thrill Forever)
• Nick D’Virgilio — Invisible (Sweetwater Sounds)
• Ola Runt — Beggin 4 A Body (Front Street)
• Phoebe Ryan — How It Used To Feel (Columbia)
• Prof — Powderhorn Suites (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
• Ray Lamontagne — Monovision (RCA Records)
• Remo Drive — A Portrait Of An Ugly Man (Epitaph Records)
• Sam Spiegel — Random Shit From The Internet Era (Spectrophonic Sound)
• Sara Rachele — Scorpio Sun (Angrygal Records)
• Soccer96 — Tactics EP (Moshi Moshi Records)
• Space Kamp — Electric Lemonade (RHM)
• Tenille Townes — The Lemonade Stand (Columbia Nashville)
• Thad Cockrell — If In Case You Feel The Same (ATO Records)
• Various Artists — Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (Soundtrack) (Arista Records)
• Will Hoge — Tiny Little Movies (EDLO Records)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

After a week of violent protests following several high-profile deaths of Black people at the hands of police — and ex-cops — YG crystalizes the mood of the moment with his latest song, “FTP.” Following in the vein of his Compton predecessors NWA and his own protest of Donald Trump, YG chants “f*ck the police” over a sparse, piano driven, G Funk beat.

YG, who previously responded to criticisms of the ongoing protests with his typical blunt approach, gets straight to the point on the new track as well, advocating for self-defense in the face of a violent oppressor. “Fuck the police, that’s how I feel / Buy a Glock, break down the block, that’s how I feel,” he snarls, “Murder after murder after all these years / Buy a strap, bust back after all these tears.”

While the Compton-bred rapper may be primarily known as the heir to the torch of gangsta rap, he’s been known to address social issues in similar fashion in the past as well. On his 2016 album, Still Brazy, he spoke again on police brutality with “Police Get Away Wit Murder,” stressed the need for solidarity among minorities on “Blacks & Browns,” and famously expressed the feelings of many toward Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric on “FDT.”

Listen to YG’s “FTP” above.

One of the more interesting developments in the upcoming TV season is, what’s going to happen with Brooklyn Nine-Nine? Is anyone really in the mood for a wacky cop comedy? That’s a conversation I’m sure creators Dan Goor and Michael Schur, producer Andy Samberg, and the writers are currently having, but on Twitter, one of the show’s stars is asking other actors who have played cops to donate to help arrested protesters.

Stephanie Beatriz, who plays Rosa Diaz on B99, gave $11,000 to the Community Justice Exchange and shared the receipt on Twitter. “I’m an actor who plays a detective on TV. If you currently play a cop? If you make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in residuals from playing a cop? I’ll let you do the math,” she tweeted, thanking The Tick star and Blank Check co-host Griffin Newman for the inspiration. “I’m an out-of-work actor who (improbably) played a detective on two episodes of BLUE BLOODS almost a decade ago,” he wrote. “If you currently play a cop? If you make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in residuals from playing a cop? I’ll let you do the math.”

Others have joined in, from reasons ranging from “My wife loves Paul Blart” to “I’ve tweeted this meme twice where Al Pacino plays a member of the LAPD! I’m sorry!” to “I played Sgt. Fogarty in my high school’s production of Chicago. I did a *very* bad job.”

The rest of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast and Goor also chipped in with a $100,000 donation to the National Bail Fund Network. “The cast and showrunner of Brooklyn 99 condemn the murder of George Floyd and support the many people who are protesting police brutality nationally,” Goor wrote. “Together we have made a $100,000 donation to the National Bail Fund Network. We encourage you to look up your local bail fund: the National Bail Fund Network is an organization that can lead you to them. #blacklivesmatter.”

You can donate here.