According to a post from the streaming platform, Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers earned the most first-day streams for a 2022 album on Apple Music. While the platform did not provide exact numbers for Kendrick’s new record, it still speaks to the anticipation and focused that was placed on the rapper’s long-awaited fifth album. With Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers headed for a probable debut at No. 1 on the charts, it’s expected that the project will set more records
You can view the announcement from Apple Music in the post above.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is out now via PgLang/TDE/Aftermath/Interscope. You can stream it here.
Kodak Black is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Released last month, Camila Cabello’s latest album, Familia, is one that celebrates the strength of her family in getting through difficult times. The Havana-born pop singer put out a slew of notable singles including “Bam Bam” featuring Ed Sheeran and “Psychofreak” featuring Willow. There’s star power on the album alongside Cabello, but she also made sure to tab an emerging artist who’s making her own unique rise in global Latinx pop music: Argentinian singer Maria Becerra.
Becerra, whom you might remember from her explosive Grammys performance alongside J Balvin on his track “Qué Màs Pues?” joins Cabello on “Hasta Los Dientes,” and the new video is an intergalactic affair. In the brand new clip, the pair star in an alien cabaret show that’s being broadcast to galaxies far, far away. A lavishly adorned Cabello dances in an elaborate stage set up, tossing in the arms of space hunks. Becerra waltzes feverishly down the steps and joins Cabello for a tightly choreographed routine. The pair complement each other vocally incredibly well over guitar-laden production by Ricky Reed, before they’re met with extraterrestrial applause.
Watch the video for Camila Cabello’s “Hasta Los Dientes” featuring Maria Becerra above.
Familia is out now via Epic Records. Listen to it here.
Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s hard to believe that 29 years ago, Billy Corgan was driving around in an ice cream truck in the iconic video for The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Today.” Off of the band’s breakthrough 1993 album Siamese Dream, “Today” is perhaps the song that hardcore Pumpkins fans cite as the band’s finest hour. Now with their newly announcedSpirits On FireTour with Jane’s Addiction, the Chicago band went on The Late Late Show With James Corden to play the classic tune.
Corgan’s beautiful bald head was as smooth as ever as he fronted the stage with noticeable beard stubble on his face. He was flanked by original band members in guitarist James Iha to his left and sleeveless drummer Jimmy Chamberlain behind him. Newer addition guitarist Jeff Schroeder was to his right and a different bass player was in the background following the band’s messy split with D’arcy Wretzky. By all accounts, Corgan’s high-pitched voice was perfect, although he’s clearly not the youngster who could hit the impossible note on the song’s bridge anymore and it took a new shape for this rendition. Regardless, “Today” is still as gorgeous of a song as ever, and it’s clear that despite Schroeder telling the Audio Ink Podcast last month that the recording of the band’s 12th album was complete, that they’ll still be playing the #hits on this upcoming tour.
Watch The Smashing Pumpkins perform “Today” on the Late Late Show With James Corden above.
The Smashing Pumpkins is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Towards the end of 2021, Snail Mail (aka Lindsay Jordan) treated her fans to the release of her sophomore album Valentine. The project arrived three years after her debut, Lush and it also became her first full-length body of work to appear on the Billboard 200 chart. Jordan called the 2021 album her “child” and noted that calling the project’s creation “the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I have ever experienced would be a huge understatement.” Six months after the arrival of Valentine, Jordan brings her talents to The Tonight Show.
It’s here that she gave a spirited performance of “Glory.” Jordan was backed by a band and a stage flooded in purple lighting and an assortment of flowers for her performance. It’s not the first late-night set she’s delivered for a song from Valentine as she stopped by Colbert to sing “Valentine” shortly after the album’s release back in November.
Despite her highs over the past few months, there have been some brief low moments for Jordan. Last fall, she was forced to postpone her tour in support of Valentine after doctor’s found massive polyps in her vocal cords. It required surgery and a recovery time of three months and speech therapy. The dates that fell within her recovery window were pushed back to August and September of this year.
You can watch Snail Mail perform “Glory” in the video above.
Valentine is out now via Matador. You can stream it here.
Last week, it was reported that America First — a white nationalist movement inspired by the rise of former president Donald Trump — had been thrown into turmoil. Why? Because one of its highers-up got himself a girlfriend. When the movement’s treasurer found a romantic partner, it enraged honcho Nick Fuentes, who has described himself as both “just like Hitler” and a “proud incel,” the term for those who are “involuntarily celibate.” (Why one would be “proud” to be “involuntarily” anything is another discussion.) Now Fuentes has doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on his stance, arguing that there’s nothing more “gay” than hooking up with girls.
On his video podcast, Fuentes railed against “people calling me gay because I’ve never had a girlfriend.” Au contraire, he argued. “I think if anything — if anything — it makes me less gay. If anything, it makes me not gay — as opposed to less gay, not that there’s any gay, but it makes me not gay.”
He then claimed he was “more hetrosexual than anybody” because he’s never had a romantic relationship nor had sex with a member of the opposite sex.
“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman, really makes you more heterosexual, because honestly, dating women is gay,” Fuentes claimed. “And if you want to know the truth, the only really straight, heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.”
Back in February, Fuentes gained some notoriety after getting Marjorie Taylor Greene to speak at one of his white nationalist events. She claimed she had no idea who he was, despite pictures of them smiling together — and despite him giving a speech in which he joked, not really, that comparing Putin to Hitler isn’t such a bad thing.
Money fascinates us all, but how does it really work? How do you accrue it? Where does it come from? How does it fuel economic systems and pyramid schemes and billion-dollar industries? What role does it play in our everyday lives, from investing to buying to building credit? For something that’s practically a necessity to live on this planet, there’s a lot they just don’t teach us when it comes to money.
Luckily, there are some great documentaries and docuseries streaming right down that give us some inside knowledge when it comes to the way financial institutions work (and don’t work). These are the best of the best — ones that might actually teach you a thing or two about how money really moves so it doesn’t roll you over.
Some entries on this list double as classroom lessons in finance we never got in grade school but others, ones like this fascinating and depressing look into the lifestyles of the rich and richer, are here to remind us that more is not always better — even when it comes to money. Photojournalist Lauren Greenfield turns her camera first on the affluent kids who made up her 90s childhood in L.A. before sitting down with all kinds of money-chasing subjects — from Wall Street execs and fraudulent stock traders to historical experts that predict that our current obsession with excess might lead to our societal downfall. It’s a fun watch until it’s not but it does pose some probing questions that might have you re-examining your own attitudes towards wealth.
Despite what its title might suggest, this informative breakdown of America’s current economic system is actually sounding the alarm on all the ways capitalism (as we know it) is destroying our workforce. That sounds bleak and some parts of this doc certainly are, but it’s filled with rich history lessons on how capitalism built up so many countries and hopeful avenues for how we can change things now so that workers — not multi-billion dollar corporations — get their due. It’s narrated by economic savant Robert B. Reich who worked under Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton, and Obama. Reich has the ability to break down even the most complex abstracts in ways that are entertaining and digestible, but it’s the undercurrent of hope in this film — that there might be a way to change the flow of wealth despite capitalism’s tendency to concentrate it on a lucky few — that makes it worth a watch. Just, you know, keep in mind that that hope is coming from a film made 5 years ago.
Perhaps the most entertaining look at how many different economies around the world function, this Kal Penn-hosted series is a wild ride filled with episodes on everything from how people launder money to why we’re all reliant on the rubber industry. It’s produced by Adam McKay, which should set the stage for some of the more stylistic choices — there are lots of narrated infographics and comedy skits to be found here — but Penn is a good interviewer and he’s given some really fascinating subjects to talk to. It all combines to make a docuseries that’s as fun to watch as it is informative.
Technically, this idiosyncratic odyssey of human habits isn’t focused solely on finances. There are plenty of episodes dedicated to exploring how (and why) people do certain things — and they’re all worth watching. But, for the purposes of this streaming guide, we’re recommending two episodes. The first is a fairly micro view of money, one that examines the intricate social dance of splitting the check. It’s cute and quirky and oddly revealing about how we view money and how much we should contribute to everything from a shared meal to taxes designed to make our lives better. The second episode worth watching for financial reasons pops up in season two, as host, John Wilson goes on a real estate journey every millennial — or commitment-phobic New Yorker — dreads: the act of buying a home. Will you be more likely to once Wilson’s experience ends? Probably not, but you’ll know a hell of a lot more about mortgages and loan approval, and credit scores.
This docuseries from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney gives audiences a melange of true crime stories all set within the world of corporate corruption and capitalist greed, from payday loan scammers to big bank scams, maple syrup heists, illegal gold mining, and slumlord millionaire Jared Kushner. The show interviews some of the subjects at the center of these criminal exploits, which makes this all the more compelling.
You’ve likely heard the term “pyramid scheme,” but this deep dive really helps you understand how insidious these money-making scams truly are and why people so often fall victim to them. Spread over four episodes, this series focuses on the beloved legging empire that was LulaRoe. It’s filled with bizarre sitdowns with the company’s CEOs — a couple of megalomaniacs named DeAnne Brady and Mark Stidham — as well as heartbreaking accounts from people who got roped into the mess in this cautionary tale.
This series focuses more on consumerism than personal finance but watching it will likely have you questioning your own purchasing power and how you wield it. From how influencer culture is helping fuel the makeup black market to how unrecycled plastics are literally consuming villages in Malaysia and hazardous cost-cutting maneuvers by cheap furniture makers, there’s a horror story behind every industry and it all relates to our wallets in one way or another.
Yes, you could watch whatever Jared Leto’s doing on the fictionalized version of this entrepreneurial scandal or you could dive deeper with its documentary counterpart to truly understand how backward the Silicon Valley investment model is — and why that’s bad for everyone’s business. WeWork founder Adam Neumann wanted to change the world by creating a company that essentially rented overpriced desks to millennial workers. Add a dash of corporate malfeasance, some shady tactics, a late-stage capitalist bubble ready to burst, and a cult, and you’ve got this financial mess. Again, it’s more of a “what-not-to-do” for any would-be investors and prospective CEOs but you’ll learn a lot about what it takes to sell your idea (and yourself) for your dream.
It’s been a month since Elon Musk declared he was going to buy Twitter. When the news broke, there was much rejoicing, at least among the far right. But the deal has yet to go through, and it appears the richest man in the world is now trying to wriggle out of it. And the owner of another, far less successful social media platform thinks it simply won’t go through.
That person is Donald Trump, former president and owner of the comically flailing Truth Social, which even he didn’t much use until recently. After Musk claimed that a major sticking point is the large number of bots and spam accounts on the service (an issue he previously claimed he wanted to fix), Trump posted a lengthy screed on his Twitter clone, casting doubt on Musk ever going through with the purchase.
“There is no way Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price, especially since realizing it is a company largely based on BOTS of Spam Accounts,” Trump wrote. “By the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have? Not much?”
He then speculated as to why Musk hadn’t pulled out earlier. “If it weren’t for the ridiculous Billion Dollar breakup fee, Elon would have already been long gone,” Trump wrote, pointing out that Musk would lose $1 billion if he pulls out of the deal.
Trump also took some time to sing the praises of his own social media service, which has been a disaster from the start. “Just my opinion, but Truth Social is MUCH better and is absolutely exploding, incredible engagement!” he wrote.
Last week, Musk vowed to reinstate Trump’s Twitter account, which he lost shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The ex-president claimed he had no interest in returning.
Hours after the world clocked out of work and shifted their attention to the weekend, the music community was met with shocking news. It was announced that YSL rapperLil Keed had died at just the age of 24. The news was shared by his younger brother and fellow YSL rapper Lil Gotit on his social media pages. “Can’t believe I seened u die today bro I did all my cries,” he wrote in a post. “I know what u want me to do and that’s go hard for Mama Daddy Our Brothers Naychur and Whiteboy.” A cause of death for Keed was not revealed as of press time.
Lil Keed began making music back with Lil Gotit in 2017. He released his first project at the beginning of 2018 with Trapped On Cleveland. That year he would go on to release three more projects, Slime Avenue, Trapped On Cleveland 2, and Keed Talk To ‘Em, with the latter two coming after he inked a deal with YSL Records. In the summer of 2019, Keed released his debut album Long Live Mexico which delivered 20 songs and features from Young Thug, Roddy Ricch, Lil Uzi Vert, YNW Melly, Moneybagg Yo, Nav, Gunna, and more.
The following year, he released Trapped On Cleveland 3 and was inducted into the XXL Freshman Class. The 2020 project gave listeners 19 songs with Young Thug, Gunna, Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Future, Ty Dolla Sign, and more. Trapped On Cleveland 3 was extended to 37 songs with a deluxe reissue in fall 2020.
Keed preparing to release his fifth solo mixtape Keed Talk To ‘Em 2 prior to his death. He leaves behind one daughter named Naychur.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It wasn’t always pretty, but the Golden State Warriors are on their way back to the Western Conference Finals. Thanks to a vintage performance from the Splash Brothers, Golden State beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 110-96, on Friday night to pick up a win in Game 6 and secure their spot in the next round of the postseason.
Both teams got off to hot shooting starts — Golden State knocked down seven of its 13 attempts from deep, while Memphis went 5-for-12 from downtown. Because it was a Game 6 in the playoffs, Klay Thompson had one of his best individual quarters in the first, scoring 11 points on 3-for-3 shooting from three, while Steph Curry had six and knocked down a pair of triples.
Despite the hot shooting by Thompson continuing to the second quarter, Memphis was able to rip off a 14-0 run to go up, 51-44, but it was a short-lived lead. At that point, Golden State was able to compose itself and respond with a 9-0 run of its own to take a 53-51 lead into the locker room. Brooks’ 18 was a game-high, while Thompson had 17 and Curry had 14.
For years, the Warriors have punished teams in the third quarter of home playoff games. That wasn’t the case this time around, as neither offense seemed to be able to really get a feel of things for long stretches in the period. Shots you might expect both teams to hit were not falling, the Warriors kept turning the ball over, and for much of the quarter, Golden State simply won a war of attrition, thanks in large part to Thompson’s continued hot shooting.
They never really slammed the door shut, though, and thanks to a 7-0 run late in the third that featured a lovely Bane layup through contact, Memphis was able to take a brief lead.
While the Warriors were able to immediately respond, their lead was only 78-77 at the start of the game’s final frame. Once again, neither team was able to get a leg-up on the other, but the first big haymaker came halfway through the period. After Bane hit a triple to put the Grizzlies up by two, Andrew Wiggins and Curry combined for a 8-0 Warriors run to give them some much-needed breathing room.
Draymond D. Draymond board. Draymond push. Steph triple.@warriors 8-0 run to surge back in front in Game 6…get to ESPN now pic.twitter.com/rpqWODaLRT
To continue the boxing analogy, Golden State realized it had Memphis on the ropes and kept pummeling its opponent, knowing the end was near. The knockout blow came with just under three minutes remaining, when a pair of Kevon Looney offensive rebounds led to Thompson hitting his eighth three of the night.
In all, Golden State went on a 21-3 run over more than five minutes of action to emphatically shut the door on this series and get back to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2019. Thompson’s 30 points and eight rebounds led the way for Golden State, while Curry had 29 points, seven rebounds, and five assists. Wiggins had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Green nearly had a triple-double with 14 points, 16 rebounds, and eight assists, while Looney gave them four points, five assists, and 22 rebounds, half of which came on the offensive glass. Brooks scored 30 points to lead the Grizzlies, while Bane had 25 with seven rebounds.
Now, the Warriors will wait to see if they’ll play the Phoenix Suns or the Dallas Mavericks. The two teams will square off on Sunday with the winner securing the other spot in the conference finals.
In 1888, Ernest Thayer wrote the poem “Casey at the Bat.” One of the greatest poems in all of American literature, “Casey at the Bat” tells the story of the baseball team in the town of Mudville. As the team entered the ninth inning down by two, the fans found themselves hoping, praying, that Casey — the team’s star player who was scheduled to hit fifth — would get one chance to step up to the plate with a chance to win the game. After two outs, a pair of poor hitters did the unthinkable by getting on base and giving Casey an at-bat, only for the local hero to strike out swinging.
Now, imagine you are there for that game, only instead of a fictional stadium in 1888, you’re at an Arkansas-Vanderbilt game in Fayetteville on Friday night. And instead of waiting for Casey to step up to the dish with the hopes that he can carry your team to a win, a pair of raccoons ran into the stands while you were trying to watch a gosh dang baseball game. Well, you don’t have to imagine, because that happened!
It seemed like it was going to be a one raccoon evening — which, let’s face it, far too many raccoons — but as it turned out, a second raccoon saw the first one do its thing, must’ve thought that was pretty awesome, and did the same.
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
(@RonFilipkowski) 
