Month: March 2022

In just a few weeks, Machine Gun Kelly will deliver his second project as an all-out rock star. The Cleveland native made the switch from rapper to rocker in 2020 with the release of his fifth album Tickets To My Downfall. The project came with its supporters, as it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, as well as its doubters with some questioning MGK’s legitimacy in the rock world. Nonetheless, MGK is pushing full-steam ahead, and at the end of the month, he’ll release his sixth album Mainstream Sellout.

Ahead of its arrival, MGK calls on Lil Wayne for their latest single “Ay.” The track blends MGK’s punk aesthetic and a bit of a trap bounce that makes it easy for Wayne to lay some raps on the song. The new track is also delivered with a colorful visual that captures MGK sitting beside his friends as they transition through different outfits. Wayne doesn’t make an official appearance in the video, but he can be found in the form of a cardboard cutout.

The track arrives after MGK teamed up with Willow for their heartfelt collaboration “Emo Girl.” The song saw both singers showing their appreciation for a woman that they’ve grown feelings for. Prior to that, MGK teamed up with Travis Barker, who will produce Mainstream Sellout, for “Papercuts” which is the lead single from the upcoming album.

You can listen to “Ay” with Lil Wayne in the video above.

Mainstream Sellout is out 3/25 via Bad Boy/Interscope. You can pre-save it here.

We’re just a few weeks removed from DJ and fashion designer Nigo’s upcoming album I Know Nigo. The project has promised features from Tyler The Creator, Lil Uzi Vert, the Teriyaki Boyz, and more. He’s built up anticipation for the project with “Ayra” and “Want It Bad” which feature ASAP Rocky and Kid Cudi respectively. To keep the momentum alive, Nigo returns with “Hear Me Clearly,” his third single from the project. This time, the track is led by vocals from Pusha T.

The track is driven by cut-throat raps from Pusha T who uses the song’s haunting production to deliver scathing lyrical attack for listeners. Along with “Ayra” and “Want It Bad,” “Hear Me Crazy” grants enough excitement to fans for what’s to come on I Know Nigo. Additionally, it boosts the anticipation behind Pusha’s fourth solo album, which is reportedly titled It’s Not Dry Yet. So far, Pusha has released one song from the project, “Diet Coke,” which is produced by Kanye West and 88 Key. A music video featuring Kanye was also released for the track.

You scroll up to the video above to listen to “Hear Me Clearly.”

Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The show Euphoria seems to have a chokehold on the viewers who religiously watch it, and a big part of that is due to none other than rising star Zendaya. But, a star is nothing without their supporting cast, and Dominic Fike seemed to step all the way out of supporting role in a recent episode when his song performance inspired quite a few memes. Namely, the song was incredibly long, and even Fike himself had to weigh in on how epic the roasting he received turned out to be.

But that didn’t stop him and Zendaya from editing the song she wrote down a bit, and getting ready to do a studio release of it today. “We made the song shorter… “Elliot’s Song” with @zendaya this Friday,” Fike posted on Instagram yesterday. If you don’t watch Euphoria and haven’t heard the song yett, or are simply interested in hearing this new, shorter version, check it out up top. In the meantime, if you want more music from Zendaya, this is the second song she’s released so far this week! Her emotional collaboration with Labrinth, “I’m Tired,” dropped on Monday. So, does this mean she’s got more music on the way? Based on what we’ve heard so far, hopefully!

North Carolina rapper Morray released “Quicksand” at the end of 2020 and it ended up being the song that launched him into the national spotlight. Since then, he’s released his debut project Street Sermons, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, toured with J. Cole and 21 Savage, and earned a spot in the 2021 XXL Freshman Class. It’s all amounted to a successful year for Morray and he seems prepared to start the next chapter of her career. He returns with his first release of 2022 which pairs him with Cordae.

The two rappers bring their talents together for “Still Here,” a track that arrives as a consistent reminder to overcome all the odds in front of them as they’ve been able to do just that in the past. The song is also delivered with a matching video that sees Morray enjoying time with friends when’s unfortunately arrested which leaves him another obstacle to overcome. It’s a strong follow-up to “Never Fail,” which Morray released with Benny The Butcher at the end of last year. Prior to that, he connected with Tyla Yaweh for “Hands Up.”

As for Cordae, he’s fresh off the release of his second album From A Birds Eye View. That project delivered 14 songs and features from Gunna, Lil Wayne, HER, Lil Durk, Freddie Gibbs, Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Roddy Ricch, and Ant Clemons.

You can listen to “Still Here” in the video above.

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

Nearly a year after she released her second album Romance, Camila Cabello revealed that she began work on her upcoming third album. “Been writing a lot of new music and it’s coming from a really pure place,” she said in the summer of 2020. Now, nearly two years later, we now have a title for that third album which is Familia. Since that announcement in 2020, Cabello has debuted two singles from the project: “Don’t Go Yet” and “La Buena Vida.” Now, we’ve received a third track and it comes in the form of a collaboration with Ed Sheeran.

Together, Cabello and Sheeran join forces for their second collaboration, “Bam Bam.” The track is a warm effort that finds Cabello sharing a heartfelt goodbye for a former lover. “You said you hated the ocean, but you’re surfin’ now,” Cabello sings on the track. “I said I’d love you for life, but I just sold our house.” The song, which many believe is about her recent breakup with Shawn Mendes, also finds Cabello singing in English and in Spanish. While Sheeran contributes an all-English verse to the song, he also flexes some Spanish towards the end of the record. Cabello and Sheeran first joined forces back in 2019 for “South Of The Border.”

“Bam Bam” arrives after Cabello confirmed that her third album Familia would arrive next month on April 8. She also revealed the cover art for the album, which she called her “whole f*cking heart.”

You can listen to “Bam Bam” in the video above.

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

FX’s hit series Atlanta has been on a major hiatus over the last few years, and fans were beginning to wonder if it would ever come back. Finally, we got a first look at the third season, which is right around the corner. But with such a long gap between the seasons, many fans were wondering if this would be the last season with the Atlanta crew.

The good news is that the upcoming season of the hit show isn’t the last! But the bad news is that the end is coming. Season three and season four will air later this year, with the fourth season wrapping up the series for good. The two seasons were shot back to back last summer, and they will air in the same way, with season three beginning March 24th on FX (and the following day on Hulu), and the fourth and final season later this fall.

“After a four-year absence, we’re graced with the return of Atlanta. Donald Glover and his team have shot the final two seasons of the series,” FX chairman John Landgraf said earlier this year. “The fourth and final season is slated to debut in the same manner in the fall. The new season is everything you’d expect from Atlanta – which is to say expect the unexpected. Sit back and enjoy the trip.”

So, while the show is coming to an end, we still have a few more months and probably some pretty wild storylines to get through, as the third season was infamously shot in the strange land of Europe.

The Los Angeles Lakers are having a very bad season, but because they are the Lakers and have LeBron James, they continue to find themselves on national TV nearly every other game.

On Thursday, they were once again on TNT’s airwaves for their matchup with the Clippers in what is currently a possible play-in preview between two teams missing stars. It is certainly not the marquee showdown that Turner was hoping to have when they nabbed it on the schedule release, and at halftime, Charles Barkley continued his months-long campaign to get the Lakers off of national TV.

Barkley has now decided that he will protest the Lakers being on TNT by simply refusing to say the name of their team, instead calling them “the team from Southern California,” “geezers,” and “losers.” When asked what the Lakers can do to change his mind, Chuck told Ernie Johnson that there’s nothing they can do until they win a playoff game.

It’s vintage Chuck, who also takes aim at his own network and ESPN for being “nitwits” and talking about the Lakers non-stop despite the fact that they aren’t relevant in the title picture. We’ll see how long Chuck can keep this bit up, but the Lakers don’t have another Thursday TNT game until March 31 when they play the Jazz, so he might just have a shot.

Lizzo might be the modern expert on twerking, never afraid to get her “heinie” (as she calls it) out there and get it shaking. And that’s especially important because of the Black history of twerking that has been all but erased from the modern understanding of it, where young white teens are imitating the dance on TikTok with no real understanding of the context they’re appropriating.

That’s part of why Lizzo felt so compelled to make a whole TED Talk about the history of the dance, rather gently bringing up how Miley Cyrus’ lighting rod performance, which included some twerking, at the 2013 VMAs catapulted the dance to mainstream attention — and did so in a way that didn’t do the best job of honoring its origins. And apparently, Miley actually took the conversation in stride, mentioning to Lizzo that she watched the TED Talk herself and “really loved it.”

“I mention Miley Cyrus in my TED Talk,” Lizzo told People in a recent interview. “And I’m very delicate with how I mention her because, at the end of the day, I didn’t want to have any bias in the way I talked about how she brought twerking to mainstream. The messenger is kind of how this thing spread like it did — seeing her at the VMAs. And I saw her recently and she was like, ‘I watched your TED Talk and I really loved it. Thank you for that.’”

Stay classy Miley, that’s the appropriate response. If you haven’t watched it yet, check out Lizzo’s love letter to twerking up top.

Last fall, Petey arrived with his debut album Lean Into Life. The project arrived after a string of singles that dated back to the fall of 2020 as well as his project, Other Stuff, which he released in June 2021. Lean Into Life originally delivered 12 songs for listeners to enjoy, but the number was upped to 13 when he recently added “Perfect Teeth” to it. Luckily for those who have grown fond of Petey, he has more content for you to enjoy in relation to his debut album.

Six months to the date of his debut’s arrival, Petey returns with an original film that’s tied to Lean Into Life. Petey described the film as “an original drama based off the songs from my album” and there’s plenty of content to enjoy with it as the movie clocks in at just shy of 23 minutes. The Lean Into Life movie is also directed and co-written by William Crane.

Shortly after the release of Lean Into Life, Petey shared his approach to crafting records. “The music and the comedy are all wrapped up together as part of the same thing for me,” he said. “Someone told me that a great way to create something original is to combine all of your favorite things and then fill in the gaps with your own personality.” He then listed influences that include Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse, Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie, Kanye West, and Travis Barker before adding, “All those approaches get combined with my own story in my songs.”

You can check out the Lean Into Life film in the video above.

Lean Into Life is out now via Terrible Records. You can stream it here.

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

The Major League Soccer season got underway last week. It was a rough start for the league’s newest franchise, Charlotte FC, which learned the hard way that being an expansion side is not easy — Charlotte traveled up to the nation’s capital to take on D.C. United and got shellacked, 3-0, in the first match in club history.

The bad news is that things won’t get easier in their second match, as the team will take on the Los Angeles Galaxy, which won its season debut in dramatic fashion and boasts a dynamic attack spearheaded by Mexico legend Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. The good news, however, is that they’re slated to have one heck of a home field advantage.

As reported by Alex Andrejev of the Charlotte Observer, the team has sold 73,500 tickets at Bank of America Stadium for the game, which means it will break the league’s single-game attendance record. While they have not sold the game out — the stadium seats 74,867 — it will eclipse the previous record, as Atlanta United held the previous top mark when 73,019 fans attended the 2018 MLS Cup final against Portland.

“It kind of reinforces everything we always thought, which is that this is truly a huge soccer market and that the growing fanbase for the team would show up by the time we hit our first match,” Charlotte president Nick Kelly said. “I think even with all the challenges we’ve faced over the last two years that Saturday should prove that there is a very promising future for soccer here in Charlotte.”

Charlotte’s home debut against the Galaxy is slated to kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday evening. The game will be broadcast on Fox.