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Drake Announced The Night One Lineup For The October World Weekend Fest

Drake has big plans for the return of his OVO Fest. In a recent Instagram post, the Toronto fixture said, “I am currently working on bringing OVO FEST around the world in 2023 for the 10th Anniversary. But of course, we wanted to turn the city up for the summer!!!” Enter October World Weekend, a mini-festival of sorts at History Toronto that is being dubbed as part of the October World Weekend Tour. Drake has Lil Baby and Chris Brown playing on Friday, July 29th and Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and a full blown Young Money Reunion on Monday, August 1— ’cause what is a weekend anyway [Editor’s note: August 1 is Civic Holiday in Toronto, and is known by many other names throughout Canada]? But now, the “Jimmy Crooks” rapper has announced the lineup for Thursday’s big kick-off and it tips a cap to The Six, of course.

The night one lineup for October World Fest on Thursday, July 28 is what Drake calls the All Canadian Northstars. In a separate Instagram post, Drake said the lineup is, “A celebration of the music that paved the way for all of us.” Canadian hip-hop lifers on the bill include Choclair, Frank-N-Dank, Keshia Chanté, K-Os, Glenn Lewis, Maestro French Wes, Rascalz, In Essence, Jully Black, Saukrates, Kardinal Offishall, and Shawn Desman. There are also more special guests that have yet to be announced.

Tickets are now on sale here.

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Here’s What We Know About ‘The Boys’ College-Aged Spinoff

The Boys has quickly become one of Amazon’s most popular shows, and for good reason. The diverse cast and witty storylines are not only a wild ride, but also a much-needed critique on superhero culture and idol worship. Plus, they have some really stellar (and raunchy) special effects that make it one of the best shows right now. As with any other successful franchise, the series already inspired one spin-off show, and now a second one will be added got the roster this fall.

The upcoming series will be titled Gen V, a punny take on the next generation of teens and young adults, Gen Z. The show will follow a group of students at an exclusive superhero school, owned by Vought International (hence the “V”). Amazon describes the show as “an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities.” In other words, it’s a superhero take on The Hunger Games, plus more sex. So, it’s gonna be a hit.

The next generation of superheroes includes Jaz Sinclair, Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Shelley Conn, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Sean Patrick Thomas, Marco Pigossi, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, who famously auditioned to be Homelander back in the day. Of course, that role went to Anthony Starr, but Schwarzenegger will get his own time to shine (literally) as he portrays Golden Boy in the upcoming spinoff.

The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke told CBR.com earlier this year that the show will have something for everyone. “Much like Mork & Mindy spun-off from Happy Days — which is an insane and true fact our spinoff will exist in the Vought Cinematic Universe, yet have a tone and style all its own. It’s our take on a college show, with an ensemble of fascinating, complicated and sometimes deadly Young Supes,” the showrunner explained. “Michele and Tara are stone-cold geniuses, we’re thrilled to have them steer this ship, and grateful to Sony and Amazon for the opportunity. We love this show and can’t wait for you to see it.”

While the show doesn’t have a release date yet, the cast and crew are expected to finish filming later this fall, which could mean a late spring 2023 premiere, if all goes well. The fourth season of The Boys begins filming this summer, so odds are good that Gen V will hit screens before then. Either way…2021 is gearing up to be the year of The Boys.

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Kendrick Lamar Saw The Crying Security Guard From His Show And Wonders What He Was Going Through

Over the weekend, Kendrick Lamar headlined Rolling Loud in Miami, where he brought out surprise guest Kodak Black to perform their collaboration “Silent Hill” from Kendrick’s recently released album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. But while he was there, he also did something nearly equally important, granting an interview to budding juvenile journalist Jazlyn “Jazzy’s World” Guerra.

In a snippet posted to Instagram, Jazzy, whose interviews with big-name artists like Jay-Z, J. Cole, and Cardi B are rapidly taking on the cultural impact of similarly enthusiastic music reporters Nardwuar and Sean Evans, asks Kendrick about a viral video of a security guard at one of his Mr. Morale tour stops shedding a tear while K. Dot performed the song “Love” from his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2017 album DAMN.

“It’s really just about the feeling of it at the end of the day,” he replies. “Past all the politics, past all the numbers. It’s what music makes you feel, how it makes you feel. So to see that … And shout-out to him by the way because I seen bro. I was like, ‘Man, I wonder what he going through?’ But at the end of the day, that’s how you want everybody to receive your music.”

Maybe someday soon, Kendrick will get to ask — or the security guard himself will come forward with his real explanation. Meanwhile, the full episode of Jazzy’s World hits YouTube tomorrow.

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‘Better Call Saul’ Couldn’t Go Out Without A Classic Con Episode

Better Call Saul knows exactly how to deliver the completely unexpected in a way that also feels like it was the only way forward. Just as the series accelerated its pace in the past few episodes, it took a step forward in time and slowed down a bit. Season six, episode ten, “Nippy,” the fourth to last episode of the series, shifts the setting even more forward in time than where the last episode ended to Omaha, Nebraska, following Gene Takovic, the mustachioed persona of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman takes on following the events of Breaking Bad. Gene, whom we’ve gotten glimpses of throughout the series, is lonely in his new, isolated life. The black and white photography adds to the bleak and lifeless mood, making even Cinnabon less appealing than usual. All of the brief moments we’ve had with Gene over the years have led to this.

The episode takes classic elements that defined Better Call Saul’s earlier seasons, which differentiated it from Breaking Bad and places it entirely in Gene’s black and white world. Like earlier episodes, “Nippyis a generally self-contained episode in terms of its storyline, with memorable side characters we’ll likely never see again. The incomparable Carol Burnett plays Marion, an old woman Gene schmoozes with an ulterior motive: she is the mother of Jeff, the cab driver who recognizes him as Saul Goodman. His intentions are twisted, but Marion brings out the best of Jimmy’s skills, the charm that made us fall in love with the character so quickly despite his certain future. Jimmy has taken advantage of old people but at the same time has a natural, well-meaning rapport with them as he does with Marion. For some reason, they seem to bring out the real Jimmy McGill, even when he’s performing. Parks and Recreation’s Jim O’Heir fits seamlessly into the Better Call Saul universe as Frank, the security guard who takes three entire minutes to eat a cinnamon roll. Like so many characters who came on the show before him to represent citizens of Albuquerque who were ignorant of the plot, Frank, a guy so normal he cannot even say he has ever felt sad, is intertwined in one of Slippin’ Jimmy’s cons.

From the beginning, Better Call Saul established that it loves nothing more than a montage. Its montages often focus on mundane tasks and repetition, such as Gene closing the Cinnabon every night, then following him as he takes out the trash and travels through the deserted mall to bring cinnamon rolls to the security guards, all as a part of an elaborate scheme to plan the perfect robbery — it’s quintessential Better Call Saul. “Nippy” uses the montage to communicate the banality of Gene’s existence. At a certain point, you start to feel his frustration. He needed to do something to feel alive again, to feel a sense of purpose. Even though you know it’s bad for him, and will likely lead to his downfall, you’re rooting for him once again.

“Nippy” lets the audience exhale after a couple of intense episodes that forced us to hold our breath, waiting for the worst (and getting it). My awareness of the episode being one of the final episodes of Better Call Saul instilled anxiety in me that something terrible would happen at any time even though this was, save for a moment, a standard episode of the series. Even though it’s so classic Better Call Saul to its core, the awareness of the endgame hovers over you. At any point, it feels like someone from Jimmy/Saul’s past could come to haunt him.

The episode proves it’s essential to the final stretch when Jimmy’s plan goes awry. Jeff slips on the floor of the department store and hits his head, and lays on the floor unconscious in front of the security camera. Jimmy has to save his ass. Thankfully, he has done this many times and under many different personas: Jimmy, Saul, and now Gene. Jimmy’s feigned sadness over the emptiness of his life is more distraction than confession but is the closest the character has ever gotten to being real outside of his relationship with Kim Wexler. Jimmy tells Frank that his parents are gone. His brother is dead, and he has no wife. He obviously leaves out the part where he did have a wife who left him, but he’s not ready to confront that yet. That will hopefully be in an episode to come.

While “Nippy” was built around a pivotal emotional moment for Jimmy McGill, it felt like an early episode of Better Call Saul: a contained story with quirky supporting characters and most importantly, a little con. Slippin’ Jimmy as we knew him in the show’s earlier seasons and before Kim left him was lurking beneath the surface, and he just had to come out for one last classic con.

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Julio Jones Is Headed To The Bucs On A 1-Year Deal

After spending the first decade of his prolific NFL career as a member of the Atlanta Falcons, Julio Jones spent last season as part of the wide receiver room in Tennessee. His year with the Titans was not as prolific as one might have anticipated heading into the campaign, and now, Jones is making his return to the NFC South.

The catch: The veteran free agent pass catcher will not return to Atlanta. Instead, Jones will become the latest veteran to join forces with Tom Brady in an attempt to win his first career Super Bowl as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.

Schefter reported that the Green Bay Packers were likewise is on Jones, but ultimately, the Bucs did the best job in making him a priority.

Despite Rob Gronkowski’s retirement, Jones will join a talented group of pass catchers in Tampa Bay. Mike Evans is one of the league’s most difficult covers due to his size and catch radius, while the team got some good news on Tuesday when it was announced that Chris Godwin will be ready for training camp after tearing his ACL on Jan. 3.

Jones, a seven-time Pro Bowl selection, caught 31 balls for 434 yards and one touchdown in 10 games last season and was released at the end of the year.

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De La Soul Are Returning To ‘Teen Titans Go!’ In Season 8

Last year, alt-rap pioneers De La Soul made their animated debut on Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go!, appearing as themselves to help the titular superhero team defeat a giant octopus monster. Over the course of the episode, it’s revealed that the Titans were actually huge fans of the group, so Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, Robin, and Starfire would be excited to learn that their rhyme heroes are set to make their return to the show in its upcoming eighth season, according to Cartoon Network’s Winner Take All panel at San Diego Comic-Con this past week.

In the previous De La Soul guest episode, Robin gave his fellow Titans — dressed as old-school rap figures, naturally — a lesson in music royalties, a moment that held special meaning for the guest stars, who had been fighting to disentangle themselves from their original 1989 recording contracts over the past few years. Ironically, superhero fans encountered the fallout of that struggle in late 2021, after falling in love with De La’s musical stylings in the credits sequence of Spider-Man: No Way Home only to discover that the song is unavailable on DSPs, along with the bulk of the trio’s catalog.

And while De La has finally gained control of their masters as of August 2021, they’ve still got to unravel a labyrinth of sample clearances to avoid any legal issues in bringing those albums to streaming. Until then, they’ll keep fighting the forces of evil, and perhaps even offer some new musical renditions alongside the Teen Titans when the episode airs during season eight, whose start date has yet to be announced.

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Mike Pence’s Former Top Aide Sounds Pretty Certain That Matt Gaetz Will Be In Prison Soon

While Matt Gaetz is keeping busy making jokes about how no one would want to f**k most pro-choice activists and conveniently ignoring the fact that he’s under investigation for sex trafficking, political insiders within the congressman’s own party seem pretty confident that the brash Florida man may soon have to do all his body-shaming from behind bars.

On Monday, as The Daily Beast reports, Mike Pence’s former chief of staff Marc Short appeared on CNN to chat with Erin Burnett about his former boss and the possibility of Pence making a run for president in 2024. Burnett also wanted to get Short’s thoughts on Gaetz’s very public diss of Pence over the weekend, when he appeared at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit and (in addition to branding pro-choice women unf**kable) stated that “Mike Pence will never be president. Nice guy, not a leader.”

While Short responded that he didn’t think the presidency was necessarily something Pence was angling for, he also made sure to note that whatever Matt Gaetz thinks would in no way factor into any decision the former VP makes.

“In fact, I would be surprised if he’s still voting,” Short shot back. “It’s more likely he’ll be in prison for child sex trafficking by 2024. And I’m actually surprised that Florida law enforcement still allows him to speak to teenage conferences like that. So I’m not too worried about what Matt Gaetz thinks.”

In addition to being investigated for his ties to a sex trafficking ring, Gaetz has also been cited as a key player in the events of January 6th and the attempts to overturn a completely legitimate presidential election. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who offered explosive testimony in front of the January 6th committee, stated that Gaetz had reportedly been pushing for a presidential pardon since long before the Capitol riots—albeit unsuccessfully.

(Via The Daily Beast)

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‘A Bunch Of Whores’: Rudy Giuliani Says He Isn’t Afraid Of The Jan 6 Committee

Things are not going great for Rudy Giuliani right now. After ignoring a subpoena to testify in Fulton County, Georgia about his alleged attempts to overturn a perfectly legitimate presidential election—then skipping out on a hearing about why he shouldn’t have to testify—the former New York City mayor has been ordered to testify in front of a grand jury next month. If he skips out on that, the judge can issue a “material witness warrant,” which could see Rudy arrested and detained until he is able to appear before the grand jury (and who knows how long that could be). But if you think Rudy’s running scared, then you know nothing about the Borat 2 star who married his own cousin.

On Monday night, Rudy chatted up Greg Kelly on Newsmax, which seems to be the only network where he’s still welcome. When Kelly asked Giuliani whether he’s fearful of the future and whether he might be facing any charges in the wake of the piles of evidence being gathered against him by the January 6th committee and witness testimony, Rudy went full tough guy:

No! Why should I be fearful of that? If they do, I’ll fight it. I’ve fought everything they’ve done so far. So far, every single thing they’ve accused me of, I’ve been right… I was accused of knowing about Russian collusion. I said, ‘There was no Russian collusion,’ they say there was. They were lying, I was telling the truth. Then I was accused of being a Russian agent by the top intelligence people in the Democratic Party — a bunch of whores — and it turns out they’re a bunch of liars. And I’m not a Russian agent.

Wow — Rudy with the W-bomb. Just the kind of badass antics you’d expect from a man who equated being lightly patted on the back to attempted murder.

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The ‘Stranger Things’ Writers Respond To Whether A Scene Was Edited To Make A Character Look Like Less Of A ‘Perv’

Jonathan Byers is still a creep, but not as much of a creep as we were led to believe.

Yesterday, we learned of a conspiracy theory in the Stranger Things fan community on TikTok that a scene from season one where Jonathan is spying on his crush, Nancy Wheeler, while she takes her shirt off was George Lucas-‘d to make him seem like less of a pervert. “Some fans have said he raised the camera once more, and claim they saw him deliberately take more pictures of Nancy while she was in this vulnerable position. Instead, he raises his camera and the edit makes it look like he chose to photograph Barb (fully clothed and sitting by the pool) instead,” Insider reported.

The Stranger Things writers’ room Twitter account has settled the issue:

“PSA: no scenes from previous seasons have ever been cut or re-edited. And they never will be,” @strangerwriters wrote. When a follower asked if that “also counts for the Jonathan spying on Nancy scene in s01,” they responded, “Yes.” He was still stalking Nancy, but at least he had the decency to… yeah, no, it’s weird, even without the edit.

“Previous seasons” does not include the most recent season, as Stranger Things editor Dean Zimmerman confirmed to Variety that “the editors are still uploading new shots to the episodes out on Netflix with updated VFX, as the series creators the Duffer Brothers want the show to be as perfect as possible.”

(Via Variety)

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Vladimir Putin Issued A One-Word Statement While Russia Announced That They’re Leaving The International Space Station

Vladimir Putin probably has a lot on his mind lately. He’s waging war on a country that did nothing to Russia. And he’s a a global pariah to the point where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan president recently kept him waiting and fidgeting through his Botox in front of the whole world. And now, Russia’s quitting the International Space Station.

Yep, it’s true, and this is not a scrapped pilot script for Apple TV+’s All For Mankind. Rather, Putin’s guys are severing Russia’s longstanding relationship with NASA, and the current plan is for Russian astronauts to abandon the orbiting ship in 2024. Granted, Putin didn’t make this official call. Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov did so, and then he informed Putin, who (according to CNN) had one word to say: “Good.”

So much excitement from Putin. Meanwhile, CNN seems skeptical about whether this will really happen:

This is not the first time that Russia has threatened to abandon the ISS amid crippling US and European sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Borisov’s predecessor, Dmitry Rogozin, repeatedly threatened to do so before he was ousted earlier this month.

But this most recent threat has more teeth, and the apparent approval of Putin himself. According to the transcript of a meeting posted to the Kremlin’s website, Putin said “good” after Borisov told him that Roscosmos will begin to build its own space station after 2024.

It’s truly the end of an era of international space cooperation, which somehow lasted for decades but is no more. Perhaps Putin’s actually looking to escape Earth at some point. Stranger things have happened! Even more so than a world leader lashing out while defending shirtless horseback riding photos. He’d better make sure and pack his beloved Botox for the ride.

(Via CNN)