This Wednesday, August 16, tickets will go on sale for Gucci Mane & Friends, a one-night-only concert in Atlanta featuring the trap rap godfather and several of his frequent collaborators, as well as artists from his label, The New 1017. The show is billed for October 17th at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, coinciding with the release of Gucci’s new album, Breath Of Fresh Air. While the guest list is apparently being kept under wraps for the time being, considering Gucci’s long list of contemporaries, peers, and pupils, it’s sure to be star-studded and worth the surprise.
Artists currently signed to The New 1017 who might make appearances include BiC Fizzle, BigWalkDog, Enchanting, Hotboy Wes, KATO2X, Li Rye, Lil Zay, Mac Critter, Sett, and TLE Cinco. Unfortunately, Foogiano and Pooh Shiesty are both currently incarcerated while Big Scarr died last December from an accidental overdose. Meanwhile, former artists or acts that have collaborated with Gucci include OJ da Juiceman, Young Scooter, Peewee Longway, and Migos, while Gucci has most recently collaborated with up-and-coming talents like Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Nardo Wick, Kodak Black, and 21 Savage, so any number of the above names could put in appearances.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 AM and more information can be found here. You can pre-order Breath Of Fresh Air here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
(WARNING: Spoilers for Top Boy will be found below.)
By this time next month, the Top Boy saga as we know it will have come to an end as the show is set to conclude things once and for all after its upcoming third season. Since its debut in 2011, originally as Top Boy: Summerhouse, fans have been captivated by Top Boy and everything that the crime drama has had to offer. The last time the show delivered a collection of episodes was in the spring of 2022 for season two of Top Boy. That season ended in an extremely shocking manner as (SPOILER INCOMING) series favorite Jamie (played by Michael Ward) was ruthlessly killed by Gerard “Sully” Sullivan (played by Kane Robinson). Jamie’s death will not be taken lightly by some, and the events that come after that are what will take up season three of Top Boy.
So ahead of its release, here’s everything you need to know about season three of Top Boy.
Release Date
Season three of Top Boy will premiere on Netflix on Thursday, September 7. The entire season will be available to binge, or watch at your own pace, on the platform on that date.
Cast
The cast for season three of Top Boy includes the following main cast members: Ashley Walters as Dushane Hill, Kane Robinson as Gerard “Sully” Sullivan, Jasmine Jobson as Jacqueline “Jaq” Lawrence, Simbi Ajikawo as Shelley, Hope Ikpoku Jnr. as Aaron Tovell, Araloyin Oshunremi as Stefan Tovell, Lisa Dwan as Lizzie, Saffron Hocking as Lauryn Lawrence.
New additions to the cast this season include Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Brian Gleeson (Bad Sisters & Peaky Blinders) who will both play members of a close Irish crime family.
Plot
Here is the official synopsis for season three of Top Boy:
Sully’s actions at the end of the last series have rewritten his business rules with Dushane. As new shared problems arise, everything they’ve built comes under threat from forces outside and within their empire. Can they coexist by the rules of the road they’ve lived by their whole lives in a world that is changing before them? Or can there only be one Top Boy?
Trailer
Here is the official trailer for Top Boy season 3:
How Many Episodes?
There will be six episodes in Top Boy season 3. All of the episodes will be available to stream once the new season debuts on September 7.
Where To Stream
Season three of Top Boy can be streamed on Netflix on September 7 and 3am EST/12pm PST. All six episodes in the season will be available at this time. Seasons one and two of both Top Boy and Top Boy: Summerhouse are also available to stream now on Netflix.
‘Top Boy’ returns to Netflix on September 7. Seasons one and two of ‘Top Boy’ are available now to stream on Netflix.
For the second time in three seasons, the Philadelphia 76ers and their general manager, Daryl Morey, are entangled in a trade request from their southpaw starting point guard following a second-round, Game 7 flameout. This year, it’s the man who Philadelphia traded Ben Simmons for in James Harden, who exercised his $35.6 million player option in late June under the belief he’d be traded, with eyes set on the Los Angeles Clippers.
Nearly two months later, Harden remains a Sixer and a recent report indicated the team intends to enter training camp with him on the roster and have halted trade negotiations. That news has not resonated positively for Harden, who “has no plans” to participant in training camp. While on tour in China, the All-Star point guard empathically called Morey a “liar” and said he’ll “never be part of an organization that he’s a part of” on Monday. Those declarative comments seem to be merely the initial rollout of Harden’s frustrations and plans.
“This is only the beginning,” ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne said. “This is just the beginning of what James Harden is going to do to make life very uncomfortable for the Philadelphia 76ers going into training camp.”
“This is just the beginning of what James Harden is going to do to make life very uncomfortable for the Philadelphia 76ers going into training camp.”@ramonashelburne on the tension between Harden and the Sixers. pic.twitter.com/OCLF5ieSvf
Shelburne juxtaposed it to Simmons’ holdout two years ago, noting that Simmons was absent from training camp, stayed away from the team and didn’t make much noise.
“That’s not gonna happen here with James Harden,” she said. “This is going to be very uncomfortable. … The phrase I kept hearing was, ‘this is just the beginning.”
With two months until camp starts, we’ll have to wait to see what exactly an escalation on Harden’s part looks like, but it’ll be fascinating to watch from the outside (and likely pretty miserable on the inside for the Sixers until there’s a resolution).
Do you remember your first kiss? I don’t. Is this me being in denial over how bad it was? Possibly! But I’m 99 percent certain it wasn’t as awful as Salma Hayek‘s first kiss.
“In Coatzacoalcos, my little town in Mexico,” the actress told W magazine when asked where her first kiss took place. “It was very memorable. I wanted to taste good, so I kept putting honey on my lips. And then I said, ‘What did it taste like?’ And he said, ‘Like honey,’ but it’s the cliché — that’s what they say.”
Hayek kept putting the honey on her lips, however, and before long, the House of Gucci star had “an infestation of ants in my bedroom. I burnt my mouth. Something that started real romantic turned out to be kind of disastrous.” That sounds like a Taylor Swift lyric (if Taylor Swift wrote a song about ants biting her lips while they were slathered in sticky honey — there’s still time!).
In the same interview, Hayek also discussed her infamous bikini scene in 1996’s From Dusk Till Dawn. “I had to be in a bikini for half of the small time that I was on-screen, and I had to dance with a snake, which I have a phobia for. So it seemed like a really bad job, but that I really needed at the time,” she said. Hayek is “shocked” that people still remember the scene.
I don’t know how to continue without things getting weird, so, um, please enjoy Salma Hayek yelling “like Ricky Ricardo” on 30 Rock.
Back in May, Blxst told Uproxx that he and Bino Rideaux were working on the third installment of their popular Sixtape series. Today, we now know when exactly they plan to release it. Blxst shared the project’s artwork and release date on Twitter — never calling it “X,” sorry, Elon — and prompting a fan furor over the hotly anticipated project. The third Sixtape is due September 1, a little over two years since Sixtape 2 and a little over a year since each rapper released their most recent solo projects (Before You Go, by Blxst, dropped last April, while Bino’s Sorry 4 Tha Wait II followed in July).
https://x.com/blxst/status/1691494178612555806
While Bino has been pretty low key since releasing Sorry 4 Tha Wait II, Blxst has been in high demand as rap’s current go-to hook master. As he says in the lyrics to his fan-favorite No Love Lost single “Pressure,” “He the new Nate Dogg / He the West back bone.” He proved as much by providing catchy choruses to tracks from Tyga and YG (“West Coast Weekend“) and Roddy Ricch (“Passionate“), as well as a posthumous release from Nipsey Hussle featuring DJ Drama and Jeezy (“Raised Different“).
Sixtape III is out 9/1 via EVGLE / Out The Blue/Def Jam and Red Bull Records.
Kristaps Porzingis was part of the biggest trade of the NBA offseason (so far), as he was dealt from Washington to Boston in a three-team blockbuster that saw the Celtics send Marcus Smart to Memphis to bring in the star big man.
Porzingis is coming off of one of the best seasons of his career, as he averaged 23.2 points and 8.4 rebounds per game on 49.8/38.5/85.1 shooting splits. Boston’s hope is that Porzingis can give their offense a different dimension and alleviate some of the pressure placed on Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown’s shoulders on that end of the floor. The question with Porzingis has always been his availability rather than his ability, as he’s been highly productive when healthy, but has also suffered a number of injuries over his career.
Last year he was able to play in 65 games, the most he’s appeared in since his second season in the league, and Boston is banking on him staying healthy after giving up a key piece of their team to get him. Unfortunately, that goal is already off to a rocky start as Porzingis announced on Tuesday that he is dealing with plantar fasciitis in his foot that has forced him to withdraw from the Latvian national team ahead of the FIBA World Cup at the end of this month.
Ir grūti, es jūtos ļoti atbildīgs savu un Latvijas valstsvienības atbalstītāju priekšā, taču ir pieņemts lēmums, ka es nespēlēšu Pasaules kausā.
Pēc vairāku nedēļu atlabšanas procesa un atkārtota MRI izmeklējuma, vēl joprojām pēdas plantārais fascīts man neļauj atrasties uz… pic.twitter.com/mvyk4Dj8lU
The rough Google translation of Porzingis’ tweet reads as such:
It is difficult, I feel very responsible to myself and the supporters of the Latvian national team, but a decision has been made that I will not play in the World Cup.
After several weeks of recovery and a repeat MRI examination, the plantar fasciitis of my foot still prevents me from being on the field in full readiness.
This joint decision has been made by both the medical staff and coaching staff of the national team, as well as the Celtics team – with the advice and opinion that it is now necessary to continue the recovery process.
Such a decision is not easy to make, but I promise that I will be there and support the team as much as I can.
Hopefully Porzingis can rest and get his foot healthy by the time training camp starts in October, but it is a bit concerning for a big man who has dealt with lower body injuries in the past to be starting the season with a plantar fasciitis issue. The Celtics will be holding their breath that he can make a full recovery and not suffer any setbacks during the season, but it will be a concern after making such a bold move to bring him in this summer.
For the past few years now, Deftones have hosted Dia De Los Deftones, their own festival that’s become something to look forward to in the Southern California area. Now there’s more to get excited about as the band has just unveiled the details up the upcoming fourth annual installment.
The one-day festival is set to go down on November 4 at Petco Park in San Diego, California. Aside from Deftones themselves, the diverse lineup, which will be spread across two stages, also features 100 Gecs, Doechii, Knocked Loose, Pinback, Pieri, Rile, and Capra.
#DiaDeLosDeftones returns to San Diego on Nov 4, 2023 for our annual celebration of music and culture. This year we’ll be joined by 100 gecs, Knocked Loose, Doechii, Pinback, Pieri, Rile, and Capra. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 8/18, at 10AM PT. Our pre-sale begins tomorrow at… pic.twitter.com/kGLnspab5j
As press materials note, the event offers more than just music: “Inviting complete immersion and an inimitable experience, its concourse comprises art installations, local vendors, exclusive merchandise, and more.” Deftones describes the event as their “annual celebration of music and culture.”
As far as tickets, those go on sale on August 18 at 10 a.m. PT via Ticketmaster. Meanwhile, Deftones will have an Artist Presale from August 16 at 10 a.m. PT to August 17 at 10 p.m. PT. There will also be Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Padres, and local radio pre-sales on August 17 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. PT.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Two Roads/Dogfish Head/Lupulin/Russian River/istock/Uproxx
While there are arguments to be made about the most popular beer styles in America, it’s tough to beat the IPA in terms of overall numbers. There are over 9,000 breweries currently operating and it’s a safe bet that most are producing at least one (if not a handful of) IPA riffs. How could you possibly find the time to try them all? While there are many West Coast, New England-style, and other IPA varieties worth your time, there are many that don’t deserve your attention.
Saturation tends to do that. As a result, quality recommendations grow more vital.
With all of these great IPAs, it would seem almost impossible to pick only one to drink for the rest of your days. How could somebody possibly take on this gargantuan task? Would you look for aggressively hoppy, piney bitter bangers? Would a balance between malts and hops be key? How about juicy, cloudy, tropical fruit-filled hazies? Which IPA would you choose?
Luckily, you don’t have to. We still tasked some professionals with this question — asking a handful of craft beer experts and brewers to tell us about their picks for the one IPA they’d bring to a desert island. Keep scrolling to see them all.
Fat Head’s Head Hunter. It is everything that a West Coast IPA should be. Golden, crystal clear, with just enough body to stand up to the hop load. 7.5% might not be ideal for a desert island, but I could never choose a different IPA.
Tasting Notes:
The mix of new school hops with classic “C” varieties offers pineapple, citrus, and pine. Aggressively hopped, but perfectly balanced.
Bell’s Two Hearted always makes me happy. Partly because I can’t get it regularly, but also because it is reliable and classic. It’s a great desert island beer because of its balance.
Tasting Notes:
Centennial hops are awesome and the citrus, resinous quality they lend work exceptionally well with the honey, light caramel scone-like, malt backbone.
Founders’ Mosaic Promise is a can’t-miss IPA. It’s perfect as a desert island beer. Golden Promise is one of my favorite malts and it works well with Mosaic hops in this beer.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of tropical fruits and caramel malts lead to a palate of orange peels, bready malts, and grapefruit.
Bale Breaker Top Cutter IPA. Their brewery is surrounded by hop fields and located in the mecca of American hops in Yakima, Washington (which is one of my favorite places on the planet).
Tasting Notes:
This West Coast IPA hits all the notes of pine and citrus you want, and it’s nice and bright in the age of haze.
If forced to enjoy a single IPA, my choice would be Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA. The distinctive flavors are brought to the beer by DFH’s continuous hopping process.
Tasting Notes:
The brew just drips with citrus and pine and each sip invites another. Like the hopping process itself, it’s just wave after wave of flavor.
I am stuck on a desert island, it is likely to be hot most of the time and in that case, I don’t know if I want to be drinking beer that often, but if I had to choose, I would take as much Blind Pig from Russian River Brewing Company as possible.
Tasting Notes:
Blind Pig doesn’t get the same hype as big brother Pliny, but for my money, it is a smoother, easier-to-drink beer. Classic IPA notes of pine and citrus, with just enough malt backbone and bitterness to leave you refreshed.
Lupulin Hooey
Lupulin
Garth Beyer, certified Cicerone and owner of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
Normally when you get six plus hops into a beer, it becomes a muddy mess of competing flavors and aromatics, but Lupulin Brewing has managed to harmonize Simcoe, Citra, El Dorado, Mosaic, Amarilla and Mandarina Bavaria hops in their Hooey.
Tasting Notes:
It’s insanely juicy (tropical and citrus flavors) and it’s perfectly medium-bodied due to its unfiltered nature. There’s simply no getting tired of drinking Hooey.
Maine Beer Lunch
Maine Beer
Frederic Yarm, USBG bartender at Josephine in Somerville. Massachusetts
Maine Beer Company’s Lunch is the IPA that I would take to a desert island. Named after a whale that’s survived an attack that damaged its fin, it’s the perfect allegory for the persistence needed to survive on a desert island.
Tasting Notes:
Given its delightful tropical, melon, grapefruit peel, orange, floral, and berry hop notes that are balanced by the right level of caramel malt sweetness.
My desert island IPA would be Russian River R n D Series #18 IPA – super light and crip with a good hop aroma and flavor and assertive hop bitterness that is balanced and not over the top.
Tasting Notes:
Easy drinking yet full of hop character both in the flavor and the aroma – a total winning beer. Try it if you can find it.
Two Roads Lil’ Heaven Session IPA
Two Roads
Andrew Hueston, USBG bartender at El Vez in Philadelphia
My go-to desert island beer is Two Roads Lil’ Heaven Session IPA. It’s a sessionable, crushable 4.8% ABV, but is still balanced and full flavored. It’s definitely the kind of beer you always want in your fridge.
Tasting Notes:
A caramel malt backbone melds with floral, citrus, and gently bitter, piney hops. All in all, a well-balanced IPA.
The first few months of the 2023-24 NBA season will feature the first ever NBA In-Season Tournament, where each team has been placed into a group with four other teams, with the six group winners and two other teams advancing to the knockout rounds. All of the games up until semifinals and finals will also count as normal, regular season games, ensuring that teams that reach the finals only add two extra games to their schedule.
On Tuesday, the NBA announced the group play schedule, which runs from November 3-28, where each team will play four group stage games (two at home, two on the road). Those games will count towards their regular season record while also determining who moves on to the knockout rounds. The league will then schedule each team for a game on December 4 or 5 to fill the quarterfinal slots or round out the only unscheduled game on each team’s 82-game regular season schedule.
Here is the group stage schedule for East Group C, which includes the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, and Orlando Magic.
Boston Celtics:
11/10: vs. Nets (7:30 pm. ET, ESPN)
11/17: at Raptors (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/24: at Magic (2:30 p.m ET, NBA TV)
11/28: vs. Bulls (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
Brooklyn Nets:
11/3: at Bulls (8:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/10: at Celtics (7:30 p.m ET, ESPN)
11/14: vs. Magic (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/28: vs. Raptors (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
Toronto Raptors:
11/17: vs. Celtics (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/21: at Magic (7:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/24: vs. Bulls (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/28: at Nets (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
Chicago Bulls:
11/3: vs. Nets (8:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/17: vs. Magic (8:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/24: at Raptors (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/28: at Celtics (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
Orlando Magic:
11/14: at Nets (7:30 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/17: at Bulls (8:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/21: vs. Raptors (7:00 p.m ET, League Pass)
11/24: vs. Celtics (2:30 p.m ET, NBA TV)
The first few months of the 2023-24 NBA season will feature the first ever NBA In-Season Tournament, where each team has been placed into a group with four other teams, with the six group winners and two other teams advancing to the knockout rounds. All of the games up until semifinals and finals will also count as normal, regular season games, ensuring that teams that reach the finals only add two extra games to their schedule.
On Tuesday, the NBA announced the group play schedule, which runs from November 3-28, where each team will play four group stage games (two at home, two on the road). Those games will count towards their regular season record while also determining who moves on to the knockout rounds. The league will then schedule each team for a game on December 4 or 5 to fill the quarterfinal slots or round out the only unscheduled game on each team’s 82-game regular season schedule.
Here is the group stage schedule for East Group B, which includes the Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, Washington Wizards, and Charlotte Hornets.
Milwaukee Bucks:
11/3: vs. Knicks (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
11/17: at Hornets (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/24: vs. Wizards (8:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/27: at Heat (7:30 p.m. ET, TNT)
New York Knicks:
11/3: at Bucks (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
11/17: at Wizards (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/24: vs. Heat (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
11/28: vs. Hornets (7:30 p.m. ET, League Pass)
Miami Heat:
11/3: vs. Wizards (8:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/14: at Hornets (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/24: at Knicks (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
11/28: vs. Bucks (7:30 p.m. ET, TNT)
Washington Wizards:
11/3: at Heat (8:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/10: vs. Hornets (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/17: vs. Knicks (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/24: at Bucks (8:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
Charlotte Hornets:
11/10: at Wizards (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/14: vs. Heat (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/17: vs. Bucks (7:00 p.m. ET, League Pass)
11/28: at Knicks (7:30 p.m. ET, League Pass)
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