Month: May 2021

Russ has been one of the most active artists in the game for some years now. The Atlanta native released a boatload of music before his breakout album, There’s Really A Wolf, arrived in 2017. Since then, Russ has continued to keep his growing fan base satisfied with new releases which include his Shake The Snow Globe and Chomp projects, both of which arrived last year. While Russ is certainly worthy of a break, he doesn’t plan on taking one as he returns with a brand new single for fans.

His latest track, “Small Talk,” is a solo effort dedicated to the folks, like himself, who like to keep things strictly about business. On the deflective cut, Russ makes it clear that the non-productive chatter is not something he has the energy for. “Please shut the f*ck up if you don’t have the deal ready,” he raps. “I really don’t want to waste my time.”

The quick-paced track also arrives with a new announcement from Russ. “DROPPIN A SONG A WEEK AND IGNORING EVERYBODY STARTING THIS FRIDAY,” he wrote in a tweet. “FRIDAY MAY 7 THE FLOOD BEGINS.” It remains to be seen how long the weekly releases will go on for. The news also comes after he joined Blxst for a video to their “Fck Boys” collaboration.

Check out Russ’ new song in the video above

Nowadays, it’s hard to move through social media or dig through a list of today’s most popular acts without running into Coi Leray’s name. After years of working on her craft, the 23-year-old New Jersey rapper is finally relishing her moment under the spotlight. While her rise is certainly one to take notice of, it isn’t a sign for Leray to take her foot off the gas, something the young act is aware of as she returns with her new single, “Bout Me.”

On it, she questions why she’s the focus of haters. Leray makes it clear that they won’t learn much about her by watching the rapper’s every move, so paying extra attention to her is practically pointless. The new track will hopefully extend what’s been a career-making year for Leray. It first began with the release of “No More Parties,” a track that quickly gained popularity on TikTok thanks to a snippet she shared before the track was officially released. A further boost was provided when Lil Durk remixed the song and joined Leray for the track’s music video. Looking to continue her streak, she returned to social media to tease her next track, “Big Purr (Prrd),” with Pooh Shiesty, and once again, it proved to be a successful effort for Leray after the track was released.

You can check out the new track in the video above.

Slayyter, aka Catherine Slater, has slowly but steadily blaring her way into the internet star role with a rolodex of dark and glitchy, hyper-pop, and today’s latest single builds on her past work while taking it as close to punk-rock as pop can get. “Over This” is a classic kiss-off track that goes after an ex with zero remorse, letting a regretful lover from her past know that she’s not ready to get back into it. In fact, she’s over it… who saw that coming? With massive guitar riffs to prove her point, I’m getting major Avril vibes off this song.

Slayyyter announced her official debut album, Troubled Paradise back in January, and has been giving fans a taste of the sometimes bubblegum, sometimes frenetic direction she’s heading in over the last few months. Earlier this year, another early single “Clouds” veered into 2000s bubblegum nostalgia with a dreamy chorus. Then, last month she dipped her toes into a country-flecked track with the campy “Cowboy,” a song that has about as much to do with country music as “Old Town Road.”

Following up 2019’s self-titled tape, it’s obvious the growth Slater has undergone over the past two years, look for the full record coming out June 11 and hear her latest single above.

The two artists on TDE who have gone the longest without dropping a new album are Isaiah Rashad and Ab-Soul, as both of their most recent projects came in 2016. While Ab-Soul has already promised his new album is on the way, Rashad has been rather quiet since he dropped his debut album, The Sun’s Tirade. There we slight pokes of the head from him with tracks like “Why Worry” and a guest feature with Kaash Paige on “Problems.” Now, Rashad is back and he’s here to stay for a while as he drops off his newest single, “Lay Wit Ya” featuring fellow Tennesse rapper Duke Deuce.

The new effort is a mellow track that presents Rashad at a near-mumble over a head-knocking bass while Duke Deuce arrives in the song’s second half with his trademark heavy-muscled energy. Its accompanying video sees Rashad prepare for a night out filled with partying, drinking, and dancing. The visual also ends by previewing a new track that samples Three Six Mafia’s “Ridin In Da Chevy,” one that will hopefully appear on Rashad’s upcoming album The House Is Burning. The project will arrive at some point in June as revealed in a profile the rapper did with The Fader, which dove deep into the highs and lows within the last five years of Rashad’s life.

You can press play on the new single in the video above.

Isaiah Rashad is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The arrests keep coming for people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6 in an effort to stop Joe Biden from being elected president at Donald Trump’s behest. With those arrests will come dozens of legal cases and arguments about what happened in Washington, who did what and how those involved in the deadly MAGA riot will be punished.

The sheer number of arrests, more than 440 so far, inevitably means that a number of different defense strategies will be used. And apparently at least one will be that watching too much Fox News is the equivalent of contracting an illness. As The Daily Beast detailed on Thursday, one rioter’s lawyer tried to claim that their client had “Foxitus” from watching too much conservative TV.

According to the story, a man named Anthony Antonio had his attorney try this defense. The moment came as part of what was a chaotic hearing over Zoom, largely thanks to another accused rioter, Landon Kenneth Copeland, who screamed and reportedly invited friends to join the call and troll the proceedings.

The chaos began even before Copeland’s hearing, as he shouted while other accused rioters made their appearances before the judge, forcing court officials to put him on mute. At one point he tried to object to another defense lawyer claiming his client had “Foxitus” after watching six months of Fox News during the pandemic.

The second he was taken off mute, Copeland began to scream, “I’m going to tell the truth.”

“I don’t like you people… you’re a robot to me… you can’t come get me if I don’t want you to… F*ck all of you… F*ck all of you,” he shouted during his tirade, at which point a judge put him in a separate Zoom room so that he could no longer interrupt the proceeding. “I wanna talk in open court you motherf*ckers!”

Copeland’s expletive-filled ranting was obviously a major story as well, but the idea that watching too much Fox News could be grounds for a real legal defense is what lit up Twitter as the story circulated. “Foxitus” started to trend in some regions, as people had plenty of jokes about the idea that watching Fox News can make people delusional.

And it may not actually be a bad defense considering the network’s own on-air talent has tried to argue that no one should believe what they say in the past. So perhaps this attorney is on to something, though that doesn’t exactly fix the problem of the network continuing to broadcast misinformation in the first place.

[via The Daily Beast]

It’s been almost eight years since J. Cole released a single before an album. His last three full-length efforts, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only, and KOD all arrived with little promotion beforehand, none in the form of new music. While many thought the Dreamville rapper would stick to the script that’s worked so well for him in the past, Cole decided to go against his grain and share a new song before next week’s The Off-Season album. “Told myself I would drop the album all at once,” he wrote in a tweet. “Sometimes you gotta say f*ck it tho.” With that declaration comes “Interlude,” the first taste of his forthcoming release.

The new track is carried by a soulful sample and a heavy drums that are a bit distant from the sound Cole has given us over the years. Just a few days ago, Cole announced that The Off-Season would officially arrive on May 14. The news came after months of teasing from himself and fellow Dreamville artists. Prior to this, Bas shared a now-deleted image of Cole working on the album in the studio. “The Off-Season,” he wrote in the caption. “pack your bags. [rocket emoji] in two weeks.” Cozz also shared his thoughts on the album, calling it Cole’s “best sh*t to date.”

The Off-Season will be Cole’s first full-length album since 2018’s KOD, and while fans are definitely happy to have him back, it’s not all that Cole has in store for them. He also plans to follow up the project with The Fall Off, an album he’s been teasing since 2018.

Press play on the video above to hear “Interlude.”

Conan Gray has been on a tear for a couple years now, but after the release of his debut album Kid Krow last year right before the advent of COVID-19 and quarantine, the pop star has been in a holding pattern until he can get back to doing what he does best — grace stages. In the meantime, he’s released a couple of singles to help tide fans over, the most recent being “Overdrive,” an arena-ready pop anthem accompanied by a joyride video that only makes sense during a time when one of the only ways to get out of the house is to go cruise (at least if you live in a car city, sorry New York).

Switching gears tonight for another new track, “Astronomy” is a tender, slow ballad that walks through the unraveling of a relationship that is coming to a close. Although he’s often working in a high-key, celebratory tone, Gray has made it clear he can do downtempo just as well, with previous tracks like “The Story” (not a Brandi Carlile cover) that covers how bullying and closeting can lead to suicide and heartbreak. “Astronomy” isn’t quite as heartbreaking as that one, but it comes close. Listen to the new song above and look out for a video coming later on.

After dropping a new song for fans every now and then, Saweetie seems ready to flood the streets with music as the Bay Area rapper is already back with a new track. Her latest drop is an energetic banger titled “Fast (Motion)” and on it, Saweetie has her eyes on nothing but first place. She boasts about keeping things at a quick pace just like the life she lives, while leaving her competition in the dust behind her. The song arrives with a video that features the rapper as a soccer player, racecar driver, and skydiver, thus proving there’s nothing she can’t excel at.

The new track arrives after she dropped off her Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1 project last month. Its seven tracks saw appearances from Drakeo The Ruler, Lourdiz, Kendra Jae, Bbbyafricka, and Loui. While the real full-length effort that the rapper’s fans are waiting for is her upcoming debut album, Pretty B*tch Music, they’ll have to exercise their patience for a bit longer as it’s set for a release at some point this summer. In the meantime, Saweetie has been working on her crafting at an artist development boot camp she attended. “For me, I’m gonna focus on what I struggle with,” she said about the camp. “I struggle with breathing control, I’m gonna work on my dance moves, my details, all that good stuff, my body, my stamina, everything.”

Press play on Saweetie’s energetic new track above.

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

If anyone has had a year of it with COVID-19, it’s Pink. The pop star got sick with the Coronavirus in early spring last year, back when potential outcomes for surviving the virus were still so unknown, and her three-year-old song also caught it. Luckily, they both came through unscathed, but she initially called the experience “terrifying,” and revealed earlier this week that she rewrote her will when sick, that’s how severe it was.

During her illness, the primary thing on her mind was her daughter Willow, and making sure if anything happened that her young child knew exactly how loved she was. That was part of the impetus behind the singer’s brand new single, “All I Know So Far,” which is dedicated to Willow. A bit more of a country-pop feel for Pink, with lots of acoustic guitars and bouncing choruses, the song makes it clear that no one knows exactly what they’re doing in life, and staying true to your own heart is part of surviving. If Pink is about to go acoustic for a whole album, or team up with Chris Stapleton like she did back in 2017, I’m definitely here for it. After all, she already has a folk side project with Dallas Green in You+Me, so it’s totally possible.

Listen to the new song above and look for a video sometime tomorrow morning.

It has been an injury-plagued second half of the 2020-21 season for the Los Angeles Lakers. Frank Vogel’s team continues to operate without LeBron James, even as the playoffs loom, and Anthony Davis missed more than two months with a leg injury. From there, the Lakers are locked in a genuine battle for playoff positioning, trying desperately to avoid the play-in tournament and the volatility that can be associated with a win-or-go-home scenario. With that as the backdrop, another injury hiccup is the last thing that anyone in Los Angeles wants, and a bit of a scare arrived on Thursday.

Davis left a nationally televised game against the L.A. Clippers with what appeared to be an ankle tweak in the first quarter.

The ailment did not immediately sideline Davis, who played nine minutes in the first half, but he was not present when the Lakers emerged from the locker room. Ultimately, it was not an ankle injury according to the Lakers, with Davis instead exiting with back spasms.

It should be noted that Davis does have a history of getting banged up with relatively minor ailments and, if that is all this is, there will be heavy exhales of relief. At the same time, the margin for error is incredibly small for the Lakers right now, particularly with James dealing with an ankle issue that could theoretically limit him when the bright lights come on. Further information will likely emerge after the game but, for now, Davis is dealing with a back issue and the Lakers need all the help they can get.