Month: November 2023

Nearly seven years since the release of their last collaborative album, Collegrove, Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz have reunited for its sequel, Welcome 2 Collegrove. They’ve been hinting at its creation since 2018 and even plotted a release in 2020 that went unfulfilled. But now, the album is finally ready for release, and the duo has been promoting it with late-night appearances on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Here is everything to know about Welcome 2 Collegrove.

Release Date

Welcome 2 ColleGrove is out 11/17 via Def Jam Recordings. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Scene 1: Welcome 2 Collegrove”
2. “G6”
3. “Big Diamonds” Feat. 21 Savage
4. “Presha”
5. “Long Story Short”
6. “Scene 2: Duffle Bag Boys”
7. “Million From Now”
8. “Crazy Thick”
9. “Transparency Feat. Usher
10. “Significant Other”
11. “Scene 3: Ladies Man”
12. “PPA” Feat. Fabolous
13. “Oprah & Gayle” Feat. Benny The Butcher
14. “Shame”
15. “Bars”
16. “Scene 4: No Fent”
17. “Godzilla” Feat. Vory
18. “Crown Snatcher”
19. “Can’t Believe You” Feat. Rick Ross
20. “Scene 5: Never Was Lost”
21. “Moonlight” Feat. Marsha Ambrosius

Features

The features on the album will include 21 Savage, Benny the Butcher, Fabolous, Marsha Ambrosius, Rick Ross, Usher, and Vory.

Singles

The first single released was “Presha.” Future singles have yet to be released.

Artwork

Tour

While no tour has yet been announced, Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz did tour for their 2016 Collegrove project, so another tour wouldn’t be out of the question.

Seth Rogen has been naked in many TV shows and movies, but only once did the scene involve a dog sniffing his butt because it smelled like beef jerky.

Rogen, Nick Offerman, and Paul Dano dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to discuss Craig Gillespie’s Gamestock biopic, Dumb Money, as well as how they met, working with Pete Davidson, and failed auditions. It’s a fun time, especially when the topic of nude scenes came up. “I’ve been naked many times on camera, mostly to comedic effect,” Rogen said. The “worst” instance was for The Interview, his 2014 comedy with James Franco and Randall Park that almost led to a nuclear holocaust. Weird times.

“There’s a scene in the film where I’ve shoved a rocket up my ass. I’m concealing it from North Korean guards and I get stripped down by the guards and they have a German Shepherd who’s supposed to… the joke is that the German Shepherd is smelling me and it smells my ass,” Rogen explained. The dog handler and a representative from PETA were on set, but the dog refused to, um, stick his nose up there until they found a solution: beef jerky.

“I end up shoving beef jerky in my ass,” he said.

You can watch the rest of the interview, including the PETA representative’s reaction to the beef jerky trick, in the video above.

With the SAG-AFTRA strike tentatively settled, actors can resume to work, which is great news for Stranger Things fans. The fifth and final season (a.k.a. Stranger Things 5) was just about to start filming when the strike hit. While it’s bad news that production got delayed, the good news is that Stranger Things will be one of the first Netflix series to fire back up and race towards a release date.

On the heels of the strike being resolved, Deadline reported that Stranger Things 5 would start filming in a “couple of weeks.” David Harbour, who plays Chief Jim Hopper on the hit series, corroborated that reporting in an interview with PEOPLE:

“I mean, I don’t know if we’ll be shooting next week, but yeah, as soon as possible,” he told PEOPLE, adding that he heard from showrunners immediately after news of the strike’s conclusion hit social media.

“They literally called me, I think it was 10 minutes after the SAG thing on Twitter,” he explained. “The first AD [assistant director] is like, ‘So, get the flight for you on Monday, right? We’ll be acting in Atlanta.’”

As for the Stranger Things 5 release date, Netflix hasn’t even announced a window, which is understandable given the delays caused by the strike. However, even with the rush to start filming, the final season is most likely dropping in 2025. The epic scale of the show requires months of filming followed by even more months of editing and special effects.

Given Stranger Things‘ penchant for May and July premieres, we’d probably say Summer 2025 is the most likely release date.

Stranger Things 1-4 are available for streaming on Netflix.

Today, it was announced that Rolling Loud California will have a stacked group of headliners when it returns for 2024. Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, and Lil Uzi Vert will be the main performers for next year’s festival. As expected, fans of all the artists are now scrambling to find out how to get tickets.

Passes for Rolling Loud California 2024 will have a presale on Thursday, November 16 at 10 a.m. PT. From there, they will open for general sale this Friday, November 17 at 10 a.mm. PT.

Right now, those interested in going can enter their information to sign up for the waitlist, which would allow first access to tickets. The pass options include GA, GA+, VIP, and VIP+ — with the lowest starting at $299 for all three days.

The festival will be held on March 15 to 17 at Hollywood Park, near Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. Other key performers on the lineup include YG & Tyga, Don Toliver, Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller, Flo Milli, Rae Sremmurd, Big Sean, NLE Choppa, Sexyy Red, and many more.

Next year marks the tenth anniversary of Rolling Loud as a festival brand, so according to a release, there will be other surprises in store for attendees.

Check out the full lineup for Rolling Loud California next year below. More information can be found on their official website.

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

Seth Rogen has been naked in many TV shows and movies, but only once did the scene involve a dog sniffing his butt because it smelled like beef jerky.

Rogen, Nick Offerman, and Paul Dano dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to discuss Craig Gillespie’s Gamestock biopic, Dumb Money, as well as how they met, working with Pete Davidson, and failed auditions. It’s a fun time, especially when the topic of nude scenes came up. “I’ve been naked many times on camera, mostly to comedic effect,” Rogen said. The “worst” instance was for The Interview, his 2014 comedy with James Franco and Randall Park that almost led to a nuclear holocaust. Weird times.

“There’s a scene in the film where I’ve shoved a rocket up my ass. I’m concealing it from North Korean guards and I get stripped down by the guards and they have a German Shepherd who’s supposed to… the joke is that the German Shepherd is smelling me and it smells my ass,” Rogen explained. The dog handler and a representative from PETA were on set, but the dog refused to, um, stick his nose up there until they found a solution: beef jerky.

“I end up shoving beef jerky in my ass,” he said.

You can watch the rest of the interview, including the PETA representative’s reaction to the beef jerky trick, in the video above.

Today, it was announced that Rolling Loud California will have a stacked group of headliners when it returns for 2024. Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, and Lil Uzi Vert will be the main performers for next year’s festival. As expected, fans of all the artists are now scrambling to find out how to get tickets.

Passes for Rolling Loud California 2024 will have a presale on Thursday, November 16 at 10 a.m. PT. From there, they will open for general sale this Friday, November 17 at 10 a.mm. PT.

Right now, those interested in going can enter their information to sign up for the waitlist, which would allow first access to tickets. The pass options include GA, GA+, VIP, and VIP+ — with the lowest starting at $299 for all three days.

The festival will be held on March 15 to 17 at Hollywood Park, near Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. Other key performers on the lineup include YG & Tyga, Don Toliver, Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller, Flo Milli, Rae Sremmurd, Big Sean, NLE Choppa, Sexyy Red, and many more.

Next year marks the tenth anniversary of Rolling Loud as a festival brand, so according to a release, there will be other surprises in store for attendees.

Check out the full lineup for Rolling Loud California next year below. More information can be found on their official website.

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

Last week, John Oliver crashed the website for Forest and Bird, a New Zealand conservation group that runs an annual Bird of the Year vote. The late night host launched what he’s admittedly called an “alarmingly aggressive” campaign urging people to vote for the pūteketeke, a rare water bird that may just be Oliver’s spirit animal.

“They have a mating dance where they both grab a clump of wet grass and chest bump each other before standing around unsure of what to do next,” Oliver said. “I’ve never identified with anything more in my life.”

However, Oliver’s attention to the contest not only caused the website to crash, but the results had to be delayed as Forest and Bird struggled to keep up with the overwhelming amount of votes pouring in. But to be clear, Forest and Bird aren’t mad. They are absolutely loving the chaos.

“It’s been pretty crazy, in the best possible way,” Chief Executive Nicola Toki told the Associated Press.

Turns out, Oliver had asked the group for permission before launching the campaign. Forest and Bird gave him the green light and severely underestimated Oliver’s zealousness:

Toki said that when the contest began in 2005, they had a total of 865 votes, which they considered a great success. That grew to a record 56,000 votes two years ago, she said, a number that was surpassed this year within a couple of hours of Oliver launching his campaign.

Toki said Oliver contacted the group earlier this year asking if he could champion a bird. They had told him to go for it, not realizing what was to come.

“I was cry laughing,” Toki said when she watched Oliver’s segment.

Not only did Forest and Bird embrace the chaos, but so did Oliver. After learning that he’d crashed the site and delayed the winning results, the Last Week Tonight host taunted his fellow competitors who were about to be crushed by pūteketeke fever.

“For the record, all of your birds are great. And it would be an honor to lose to any of them when results are announced on Wednesday,” Oliver said. “And the reason it’s so easy for me to say that is, we’re not gonna lose are we? We’re gonna win, and we’re gonna win by a lot. And when we do that, the pūteketeke will be your Bird of the Century, and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop that right now.”

(Via Associated Press)

Rolling Loud California always brings it with the festival lineups, and now we know that this is true for 2024 as well. The Los Angeles-based fest announced its 2024 lineup today, and headlining are Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, and Lil Uzi Vert.

Also featured on the poster are YG & Tyga, PartyNextDoor, Rae Sremmurd, Lil Tecca, Sexyy Red, Suicideboys, Summer Walker, Big Sean, Don Toliver, Bryson Tiller, Ski Mask The Slump God, Chief Keef, NLE Choppa, 03 Greedo, Luh Tyler, Bones, Flo Milli, Pi’erre Bourne, Kaliii, Mozzy, Sukihana, and plenty of others.

Additionally, there’s one name on the poster that’s been blurred out, so expect that announcement to be made at some point before the festival’s run from March 15 to 17, 2024 at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park Grounds.

For those looking to attend, pre-sale passes will be available starting November 16 (this Thursday) at 10 a.m. PT, while passes will be available beginning the next day, November 17, at 10 a.m. PT. The link for both of those is here. That site also has helpful links for securing hotel accommodations as well as parking passes, although as of this post, the link to book parking is not yet active.

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

Hip-hop’s 50th anniversary reminded fans of the genre just how much they’ve missed André 3000. For weeks, Killer Mike teased that the former Outkast member would soon drop his long-awaited solo debut studio album. However, given the false flags in the past, supporters took it as a joke. It turns out the joke is on the public because Mike ended up being right.

Today (November 14), André revealed to NPR Music that his forthcoming project, New Blue Sun, is due out this Friday, November 17. Although the body of work isn’t a stand-alone rap release, the wild tracklist alone was enough to spike interest; The listing mentions everybody from Beyoncé to Jesus. Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy are also named in the record’s titles. Without any new verses or bars coming from André on the upcoming album, he had to find a way to verbalize his inspiration somehow.

View the artwork and tracklist for New Blue Sun below.

1. “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time”
2. “The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina . Do You Agree?”
3. “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild”
4. “BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears A 3000 Button Down Embroidered”
5. “Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé”
6. “Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy”
7. “Ants To You, Gods To Who ?”
8. “Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens”

New Blue Sun is out 11/17 via Epic Records. Find more information here.

House of the Dragon had no issue shaking off the final Game of Thrones season that disappointed plenty of viewers. Surely, the new show’s writers observed what story elements are good to avoid regarding the Targaryen gang, and a few strategic changes from George R.R. Martin‘s source material have surfaced in HotD already during the first season. Naturally, it was excellent news to learn that HBO swiftly greenlit a second season, so that we will be able to see Team Black and Team Green go to war after Aemond ^^^ unintentionally kicked the next phase of the Targaryen civil war off.

Irresistible jackass Aemond did so while erroneously believing that he could control Vhagar while taunting Luc and Arrax. As viewers witnessed, however, Vhagar refused to stop the aggression and made a tasty meal out of the smaller dragon and his rider. In the final scene of the season, Daemon informed Rhaenyra of this tragedy, and she reacted by putting on her game face. In other words: It. Is. On.

When will we see Season 2 happen? The Dance of the Dragons will get things started on the most fiery HotD foot, and we can expect this to happen in Summer 2024. That window has been confirmed by HBO, and even though this seems like a long wait, production hammered hard to deliver a faster turnaround than the final GoT seasons. We will keep our eyes open for a precise release date.

House of the Dragon is based upon the Fire and Blood novel, and Season 2 will pick up right after the midpoint of the book. That’s not relative to the pages covering Season 1. As readers know, Viserys and Daemon don’t become prominent figures until well over the 40% point. There’s a lot of Targaryen family history, after all, and fortunately, showrunner Ryan Condal (along with former co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik) guided the show right into the middle of the source material and pushed those dragons right into motion in an authentic way. Well, as authentic as CGI-adorned dragon stories can be.

The Season 2 premiere title, “A Son For A Son,” means that Aemond needs to watch himself. He’s on Team Green with the Hightower side of the family, and yes, he’s got the biggest dragon, but he is clearly out of his depth as a rider. King Viserys would be so disappointed, and at least he won’t have to suffer through watching Rhaenyra and Aegon II battling over the Iron Throne.