Drake’s jewelry collection grew yet again but this time he didn’t pay a cent. TMZ reports that the latest addition to the rapper’s collection — which was partly designed as a tribute to his son Adonis — was given to the rapper by celebrity jeweler Alex Moss as a gift rather than a purchase.
The ring, consisting of 14 karat gold and 15.7 carats of diamonds, features a rendering of the OVO owl logo with the number “11” set behind it. October 11, of course, is Adonis’ birthday (just 13 days before his dad’s), highlighting the four-year-old’s importance to his famous pops. The overall value of the piece is reportedly $77,000 — a small price to pay for the publicity that seeing Drake wear such a piece would bring to the jeweler.
Of course, Drake’s been doing just fine showing public displays of affection for his son on his own. For Adonis’ most recent October 11, Drake threw a racing-themed birthday party and posted photos online; he’s also shared videos of his son learning the game of basketball (something else Drake takes pride in sharing with him), playing around on Christmas Eve, and giving him an impromptu French lesson, which the toddler used to troll his famous dad. Drake’s certainly come a long way from “hiding a child” as he was once taunted by Pusha T.
“You Oughta Know” was a major moment for a young Alanis Morissette (yes, the one from The Great North): As the lead single from 1995’s Jagged Little Pill, it was the world’s first look at Morissette’s new rock-leaning direction. Now, the single has been taken on by another rising artist on the verge of big things: GAYLE has covered the song in a Cover Nation-exclusive performance.
Aside from a virtual rhythm section and other digital instrumental accompaniment, GAYLE tackles the song on her own with an electric guitar, busting out a rendition that packs all the angst and energy of her own rocking hit, “ABCDEFU.” She really shows off her vocal range here, too, hitting some satisfying notes and turning in a real clean performance.
Even if you’re not quite familiar with Gayle yet, you’ve almost certainly heard her work, as “ABCDEFU” has absolutely taken over TikTok and other online spaces in recent months. While most fans are hearing the song on the internet, the live performances she’s given of the breakout hit (including one on The Tonight Show in January) have shown off how capable of a performer she is outside of a studio environment. Shortly after that performance, she dropped off her similarly spirited follow-up single, “Ur Just Horny.”
Watch GAYLE cover “You Oughta Know” above.
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As the Winter Olympics wind down, Saturday Night Live has announced its next batch of hosts and musical guests for when the show returns later this month. Kicking things off is former SNL alum and stand-up comedian John Mulaney followed by Oscar Isaac and Zoë Kravitz, who will both be riding high off of Marvel and DC Comics projects, respectively.
Here’s the official rundown:
2/25 – John Mulaney w/ LCD Soundystem
2/5 – Oscar Isaac w/ Charli XCX
2/12 – Zoë Kravitz w/ Rosalía
After recently welcoming a new baby with Olivia Munn, Mulaney will kick off his new comedy tour, “From Scratch,” in March. As for Isaac, the actor’s new Disney+ series, Moon Knight, will start streaming later that same month. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige promises it will be one of the most brutal properties in the MCU and that it pushes the boundaries of what the studio has been able to do under the Disney+ banner.
Meanwhile, Kravitz is just two weeks away from making her debut as Catwoman in The Batman when the highly anticipated DC Comics film smashes into theaters on March 4. Back in December, the actress revealed that she studied the fighting style of cats and lions to prep for her turn as Selina Kyle.
“We did some really interesting floor work that incorporated different kinds of martial arts and capoeira and a kind of feline, dance-like movement,” Kravtiz told Empire.
HBO Max just released a first look at their take on The Staircase, a true-crime conundrum that has baffled viewers for over a decade thanks in large part to an incredible docuseries that originally aired on the Sundance Channel before hitting Netflix a few years ago. With a star-studded cast that includes Collin Firth and Toni Collette, the dramatic retelling of the infamous murder case will air later this year. If you are unfamiliar with the story, here is a quick breakdown.
Michael Peterson was a novelist in the ’90s, publishing a handful of novels based on his experience in the Vietnam war. Peterson claimed to have earned multiple medals of honor in the Vietnam war, which turned out to be not entirely true, so already, there is a bit of shadiness surrounding this guy.
In 2001, Peterson called 911 after allegedly finding his wife Kathleen dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home. The investigation brought about many twists and turns, mostly due to mishandling of the case and the crime scene itself by authorities. Eventually, Peterson was tried for murder amid rumors of an unhappy marriage and a bad temper.
Coincidentally, Peterson had a friend, Elizabeth Ratliff, who was also found dead at the foot of a staircase nearly 15 years earlier. He was also the last person to see her alive, but was never found guilty of any wrongdoing. Prosecutors believed this is how he got the “idea” to stage his wife’s death.
Fast forward to 2003, Peterson was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife Kathleen, and sentenced to life in prison. But, in 2017, Peterson filed an Alford plea, which lessened his charge. Peterson has since written about his wife’s death, while insisting he is innocent.
The circumstances surrounding Kathleen’s death are mysterious and upsetting, with new theories occasionally popping up, including what’s come to be known as “the owl theory“.
Leon Bridges, who just graced the most recent Uproxx cover story with Khruangbin ahead of the release of their Texas Moon EP, it embarking on his biggest tour yet. The Boundless Tour represents Bridges’ first headlining tour of amphitheaters and arenas and he’s making US stops from coast to coast.
Little Dragon will be supporting Bridges on the newly announced summer tour which begins on July 29th in Las Vegas and concludes on September 8th in Santa Barbara. These dates come in addition to already announced Europe and US tour dates for Bridges in April and May.
The Boundless Tour presale tickets are available on Tuesday, February 22 at 10 a.m. local time, with the general on sale beginning on Friday, February 25 at 10 a.m. local time. Check out the full dates for The Boundless Tour below and get tickets here.
07/29 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
07/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
07/31 — San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
08/03 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
08/04 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
08/06 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
08/08 — Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
08/10 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
08/13 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at The Mann
08/14 — Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
08/16 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
08/18 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
08/20 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
08/21 — Columbus, OH @ KEMBA LIVE! – Outdoor Amphitheater
08/22 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
08/24 — Chicago, IL @ Credit Union 1 Arena
08/25 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
08/29 — Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center
08/30 — Seattle, WA @ Marymoor Park
09/02 — Aspen, CO @ Jazz Aspen Snowmass
09/04 — Napa, CA @ Oxbow RiverStage
09/07 — Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre
09/08 — Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
Ahead of his upcoming “+-=÷x” tour — or in simpler words, “The Mathematics Tour” — Ed Sheeran has announced a series of six “warm-up shows” beginning in London next month. These warm-up shows will allow fans to watch as Sheeran and his band fine-tune songs from his fourth studio album, =, and practice before the tour.
“I’m going to be doing some warm up shows for my tour in the next few weeks,” Sheeran said in an Instagram post. “These are very low key shows where I get to try out all the new tunes before taking them into the stadiums. Some nights there will be mistakes. But that is where the fun starts.”
The announcement comes on Sheeran’s birthday today, and just over a month after his reported plans to build a crypt were revealed by The Guardian (plans that were just approved). Although Sheeran hasn’t announced US dates for “The Mathematics Tour,” he hinted in an Instagram post last September that the tour would take place over “the next 3 years of [his] life.”
The warm-up shows will begin Monday, March 21st at London’s Electric Ballroom.
Check out the full list of warm up shows below.
03/21 — London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
03/22 — London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
03/23 — London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
03/25 — Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
03/26 — Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
03/31 — London, UK @ Alexandra Palace Theatre
04/01 — London, UK @ Alexandra Palace Theatre
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, set the Guinness World Record for the most high explosives detonated in a single film take. Michael Bay disagrees.
The BOOM-loving filmmaker spoke to Empire about his new movie with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal, Ambulance, and his “secret sauce” for explosions. “It’s like a recipe. I see some directors do it, and they look cheesy, or it won’t have a shockwave,” he said. “There are certain ways with explosions where you’re mixing different things, and different types of explosions to make it look more realistic.”
Bay also revealed that his favorite explosion from one of his films comes during the attack scene in Pearl Harbor. (I saw Pearl Harbor the weekend it came out, and I remember the audience being checked out for everything but the December 7 sequence. This is why James Cameron’s Titanic — which draws you in even before the ship starts sinking — earned $2.2 billion and Pearl Harbor “only” made $450 million.)
“Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie. And the quote from Scott] was, ‘F*ck me.’ No one knows how hard that is. We had so much big stuff out there. Real boats, 20 real planes. We had 350 events going off. Three months of rigging on seven boats, stopping a freeway that’s three miles away.”
He added, “James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world.’ Bullsh*t. Ours is.” I want to love anything as much as Michael Bay loves blowing things up.
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A little over two years ago, Boston’s Cousin Stizz was Trying To Find My Next Thrill. The title of his 2019 sophomore album presented a man searching for the next excitement in his rap career. He’d won the hearts of those in his hometown through his first two mixtapes, 2015’s Suffolk County and 2016’s Monda, and well as his 2017 major-label debut One Night Only. He’d collaborated with some big names in music like Offset, Smino, Freddie Gibbs, Yung Miami from City Girls, and more. So a search for his next thrill through two albums and two mixtapes made sense.
In 2022, though, Stizz returns with his third album, Just For You. The 13-track project is a mostly solo effort, with just one guest feature from Curren$y. While the Boston native’s search for his next thrill is ongoing, he continues this journey with a project crafted for those who adore him the most. Stylistically, it’s quite reminiscent of Suffolk County and Monda. Backed by strong production from Kal Banx, Charlie Heat, Latrell James, Luke Crowder, and more, Cousin Stizz runs the show from start to finish with equal amounts of precision and finesse.
Fresh off the release of his new album, we caught up with Cousin Stizz to talk about the project, how it’s been searching for his next thrill, the Boston hip-hop scene, and more.
Pandemic things aside, what have you spent the last two, going on three, years doing that brings us Just For You.
Learning bro, literally. Just been learning the game, where I want to be, and where I see myself in the game. Learning life things, you know, things for myself to just help me grow and put us here.
I really liked the idea and concept behind Trying To Find My Next Thrill. Where do you feel like you are on that journey and what place does ‘Just For You’ have on this journey?
Ironically, I feel like Just For You is filling that void. I feel like right after I made Trying To Find My Next Thrill, the world shut down. I went on my own about the business, so that and all the things that happened in the midst of that, it kind of just ironically became that.
Speaking about Just For You specifically, what was/were your biggest intention(s) with this project?
Man, I just wanted to really put something out. My biggest intention was just to get some music out and really just kind of see how people feel about it. My biggest intention was just to get my point across and see how people felt about it because it’s been a while.
You released two projects under RCA, and now you’re back on the independent route, what went into this decision especially ahead of this project?
I think it was just where I saw myself in my journey and where I want to be. I feel like I kind of have to build my foundation just to make sure everything is done the way I want it to be done.
The scarcity of features on this album reminds me of Suffolk Country and Monda. Why did you choose to completely lock in with yourself this one?
I like making music, you know? And I make a sh*t ton of music that doesn’t get out there for people to hear, but I like making music. It’s not even a thing that I do intentionally. I just make music and everybody ain’t there when I’m making music. I make music a lot of time at my crib around like one or two in the morning. I’m rapping from like, 10 pm to 6 am in my crib. So it’s like who am I really around during those times, but myself?
So it’s not really like an intentional thing because I like the people I like and I like working with the people I’ve worked with, we’ve made great music. I make music for myself and I tried to keep my fans in mind when I’m making the music as well because, without them, there’s no me, but I really make music for me.
What are some things you wanted or tried to do differently on Just For You compared to your previous releases?
I kind of try to always do that. I know what I’m good at. I know what I do well. I always leave pieces of that in records because that’s what you should do. I know what people want to hear from me, for the most part, but at the same time, in order to keep it exciting for me, I always gotta just try things and let that part of me go.
Being able to put out five albums and still get the attention you get is a blessing. What keeps the love alive for crafting projects each time around?
Man, that is a blessing and I’m super grateful for it. I think that’s half of it, just knowing that it’s been since 2019 and I’m still getting some type of love and that’s crazy to me. I’m just super appreciative of that, and that alone helps me love this sh*t a lot. It shows me people care, and when people tell me that they care — those real person-to-person interactions where a motherf*cker come up to you and they tell you “This record helped me” or “This record did this for me or that for me” — that keeps the love in the game for me every single trip. Plus, I just like making music, it’s something I was doing for free, it’s something I would do for free. They say if you don’t love your job, you should quit and it’s like I just like making music.
Looking back at your days of doing cyphers at 12For12 and dropping Suffolk Country to where you are now, you’ve accomplished plenty in your career. What are some personal goals you what to check off for yourself and your legacy?
I want to be the best in my eyes. When I feel like I’ve accomplished that — and I got a long way to go — but when I feel like I accomplish that, then I’ll be okay. I don’t even know what that means because we always feel like we can get better, especially with music or with any art, you feel like something can be better with something. But whenever I feel like I’ve got to this point and I can look back and say I’ve done something, I’ve helped a lot of people, and I’ve taken care of everybody that I needed to be taken care of, then I feel like I could be like, right.
When we look at the Boston scene, acts that you came up with (Latrell James, Avenue, Kadeem, etc.) are still working. Then there are acts like Van Buren Records, Sean Wire, BIA, Najee Janey, and more who are getting their shine now. How does what you see going on in the scene feel to you? Is it reminiscent of what you experienced in the city during your own come-up?
Shoutout to everybody that you named. I think it’s super f*cking dope. I think around the time that we were doing what were doing, it was really me and all my friends. I remember booking venues that we were going to and sh*t like that, I remember being there for all of that. Now, it’s a bunch of different cliques and crews doing their thing and that sh*t is fire. I think that’s super important. You need a bunch of different energies in order to make a scene and I think that’s what’s starting to happen. I think that’s what is happening. Shoutout to all those kids, keep doing y’all things, keep going, keep being consistent, and don’t stop. Literally, just don’t stop.
In these few years, as you’ve worked on the latest chapter of your career, what was the best advice that you received?
There’s been a couple of different gems, but really one of the best [pieces of] advice that anyone’s ever given me is that this sh*t does not stop. Once you get to what feels like your goal, it just kind of restarts. You put a new goal on yourself, just so just know that when you’re in this, there’s no break. So if you’re willing to understand that and you’re willing to make those types of sacrifices, then this is for you. If you’re not willing to be that then, maybe you should try something else.
Just For You is out now via Stizz Music Inc. You can stream it here.
This probably isn’t breaking news for you, dear reader, but no two people are exactly the same, even if they share similar backgrounds. That’s why it’s doubly important to tell different kinds of stories, ensuring that people aren’t being treated like a monolith. And that’s very very true when it comes to telling Black stories. You have to use the whole board, and the move toward opening up new genres through which to tell these stories is absolutely leading to a lot of fantastic and thought-provoking results.
As our Obsessed hosts, Britt Ellis and Taylour Chanel, point out, it can be refreshing to see Black people adventuring in space, fighting in the Old West, or even being terrified in a horror film. They even cite The Foundation, The Harder They Fall, and Jordan Peele’s films.
After this reflection on Black genre storytelling, the pair welcome actress Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays Taissa in Showtime’s breakout genre hit Yellowjackets. The on-the-rise actress talks about what it means to portray a queer, Black woman in media. Brown speaks on the safety of working on shows with a large female presence and the importance of her characters being allowed to do things like wrapping their hair before bed.
For years, you have been squinting, licking your fingers, or doing whatever you can do get a really tiny end of a thread into an even tinier hole, and thinking, [infomercial host voice] “THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!” Well, kids, there is, and you’re about to feel both relieved and dumb.
Twitter user John Bick shared a video from a crafting site that went viral for being extremely helpful.
People couldn’t believe it. Instead of threading the needle through the hole, shake it down and go from there.
Good grief. After 50 years of going cross-eyed 😢
— Dàibhidh🏴Saor Alba (@Bell32796) April 3, 2018
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