Month: August 2024

Each week our staff of film and television experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.

15. The Decameron (Netflix)

Tony Hale has a pretty solid track record when it comes to comedies. Buster in Arrested Development, Gary in Veep, FORKY in Toy Story 4 (do not hold Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip against him). Next up is The Decameron, which is like if The White Lotus took place during the bubonic plague pandemic (or as actress Jessica Plummer described it, “Love Island, but back in the day”). The social satire is getting rave reviews for being “the best apocalyptic ensemble comedy since Clue.” Grab your juice and start watching.

Watch it on Netflix

14. Futurama (Hulu)

Last season on Futurama, Fry, Leela, Bender, & Co. took on an Amazon-like company formed by Mom; caught a rage virus; and got turned into toys (that was a weird one). In season 12 (which is technically the second half of season eight if you go by production order, but let’s stick with Hulu’s season designations for the sake of ease), the gang “embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, A.I. friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true 5 million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee.” Guest stars include Danny Trejo, Cara Delevingne, and Kyle Maclachlan. (Read more about the new season here.)

Watch it on hulu

13. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Hulu)

A while back, I remember seeing someone online make the case for Planet of the Apes as the most consistently good movie franchise. That’s overstating things (how soon we forget Ape Lincoln?), but there are more keepers than stinkers in the series, especially among the recent films. Surprise box office hit Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes needed to justify its existence following the strong conclusion to the Caesar trilogy — and it did. The 10th overall Planet of the Apes features typically CGI work and a stirring story about determination. You won’t hate every ape you see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z.

Watch it on hulu

12. Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount Plus)

2023’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem made a decent amount of money at the box office and received strong reviews — but doesn’t it still feel under-appreciated? It’s a really good movie (and should have been nominated for an Oscar over Elemental)! Paramount Plus spin-off series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is set in the same universe as Mutant Mayhem, and the animation looks just as cool as it does in the film. The voice cast of the Turtles (Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon) is back, too, as well as Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil.

Watch it on Paramount Plus

11. Mr. Throwback (Peacock)

It’s a Happy Endings reunion! (Kind of!) Mr. Throwback brings together Happy Endings creator David Caspe and star Adam Pally in a mockumentary series about a memorabilia dealer who reunites with a member of his sixth-grade basketball team: a fellow named 10-time NBA all-star Steph Curry. The cast also includes SNL favorite Ego Nwodim and The Afterparty’s Adyen Mayeri.

Watch it on Peacock

10. Emily in Paris (Netflix)

She’s still Emily, she’s still in Paris, and she still has questionable outfits.

Watch it on Netflix

9. Immaculate (Hulu)

Still not on the Sydney Sweeney bandwagon? You will be after watching Immaculate. The horror film stars Tank’s mom as a devout American nun who travels to a convent in Italy where things aren’t quite as they initially appear. Hate it when that happens. The wild ending, in particular, is pretty great.

Watch it on Hulu

8. Solar Opposites (Hulu)

Solar Opposites doesn’t get as much love and attention as Rick and Morty, another science-fiction/comedy animated series, but it should. The show goes to some truly unexpected places, including The Wall and SilverCops side-stories, and the voice cast of Dan Stevens, Thomas Middleditch, Sean Giambrone, and Mary Mack do fine work as the chaotic former residents of Planet Shlorp. I would die for the Pupa (assuming it doesn’t kill me first).

Watch it on Hulu

7. Industry (Max)

This third season of Industry, overall, convinces me that there will be a future moment when this series will move beyond scoring critical acclaim and maintaining a loyal but relatively modest audience. Years into the future, this show could catch on with a whole new audience and be streamed into oblivion in a Suits-like way. That USA Network show maintained a dedicated enough audience to last a decade, but years later, the show’s exploding popularity on Netflix led NBC to double back and find new life in the franchise. It’s very easy to imagine Industry someday harnessing broad streaming appeal in the same way. (You can read our review here.)

Watch it on Max

6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Max)

The world did Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga dirty. Maybe it’s not a stone-cold masterpiece like Mad Max: Fury Road, but few films are. The George Miller epic deserves better than making less money at the domestic box office than It Ends With Us. It has the best action sequence of the year, Anya Taylor-Joy rules, and Chris Hemsworth gives a genuinely Oscar-worthy performance. Also, there’s a character named Pissboy. Fire up Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on Max and make it the hit it should have been when it was in theaters.

Watch it on Max

5. Bad Monkey (Apple TV Plus)

Scrubs, Ted Lasso, and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence’s comedy empire expands with Bad Monkey, a good show with a fun premise: Vince Vaughn plays a former cop who is now a health inspector in the Florida Keys. “But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in. He just needs to get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey,” according to the plot synopsis. The show is based on author Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name, and has fun summer binge written all over it.

Watch it on Apple TV Plus

4. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Max)

The Yellowstone fans did not show up for the theatrical run for Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, Kevin Costner’s passion project that cost him a lot of money but made very little of it at the box office. Maybe now that dads don’t have to leave the couch to watch it, they’ll give the Western a shot, and Warner Bros. Pictures will finally announce a release for Chapter 2.

Watch it on Max

3. The Killer (Peacock)

Michael Haneke. Takashi Shimizu. George Sluizer. What do these directors have in common? They all remade their own films. John Woo is the latest addition to the list. The legendary filmmaker directed both 1989’s The Killer, one of the greatest action movies of all-time, and 2024’s The Killer, which stars Omar Sy and Nathalie Emmanuel. “It’s hard to not look cool when you have two guns and you’re sliding or jumping,” the Game of Thrones actress said. In other words, it’s hard not to look cool in a John Woo action movie.

Watch it on Peacock

2. Incoming (Netflix)

A Superbad-style teen comedy from a pair of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writers? OK! Directed by Dave Chernin and John Chernin (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Incoming is about a group of freshman boys attending their first high school party with drinking, fighting, and drugs. The cast is a mix of relative newcomers, including Mason Thames, Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro, Isabella Ferreira, and Bardia Seiri, and long-time favorites, like Bobby Cannavale and Kaitlin Olson. The TikTok teens will lose it for Loren Gray; I’m here for Sweet Dee.

Watch it on Netflix

1. Pachinko (Apple TV Plus)

Pachinko was widely hailed as one of the best shows of 2022. Now it’s back for another season of multi-generational drama. In season 2, “the parallel stories pick up in Osaka in 1945, where Sunja is forced to make dangerous decisions for her family’s survival during World War II, and in Tokyo in 1989, which finds Solomon exploring new, humble beginnings,” according to Apple TV Plus. Maybe this time the Emmys will pay attention.

Watch it on Apple TV Plus

As summertime winds down into the fall brisk, streetwear aficionados will be sure to pop out and show their best fits. Luckily, there’s a few Black-founded streetwear events to cater to their fashion needs. In Los Angeles, monthly affair Black Market Flea, often hosted at community hub The Beehive, hosts the finest Black-owned businesses specializing in style, beauty, and food – artists might even surprise guests with a performance set. Similarly, festival Black On The Block, which has roots in LA and Atlanta, brings out attendees seeking new threads, immersive pop-ups, and maybe a topical panel or two. Annual Brooklyn happening ENVSN Festival caters specifically to POC women and femmes, recognizing their contributions in the fashion, culture, and wellness spaces.

But while the aforementioned occasions have held it down for some time, the Ohio-originated Streetwear Flea and Atlanta-based Atlanta Streetwear Market are both nearly a decade in, and prove that Black-founded events are necessary for the streetwear industry to keep building. Marginally-owned businesses aren’t frequently given the tools to promote and uplift fellow creators, Streetwear Flea, founded by Sole Classics owner Dionte’ Johnson and multi-hyphenate creative and marketing strategist James ‘JD’ Drakeford, and Atlanta Streetwear Market, founded by entrepreneur Chris Peeples, operate on the intention of bringing community cultivation to the forefront.

Peeples, who began as a designer, launched Atlanta Streetwear Market in 2017, partly off the strength of his brand, Full Clip Global, but it was in November of that year when the biannual event started to catch traction. Seven years later, and approaching its fall 2024 installment, the streetwear convention doesn’t just have regional impact, but a global reputation.

“Since then, from 2017 to now, we’ve just amplified everything we’ve been doing,” Peeples tells UPROXX. [We’ve] just been really diligent on just trying to serve two sides of the coin; get tons of people that are looking for not just new clothes, but they want to connect with brands, they want to connect with community.”

But competition is stiff among even the most determined vendors, as Atlanta Streetwear Market makes the perfect space to meet those in micro-communities of photography, design, graphic design, and influencing. This year alone, the event attracted 4,000 vendor applicants. Peeples, who names CAVEMPT, Stone Island, and G-Star RAW as some of his closet staples, has a “global mission” for Atlanta Streetwear Market and reaches vendors with the same purpose.

“It’s kind of a mix; we pull applications for people that kind of meet the threshold, and we also have our own network, as well, from brands that we meet when we’re out and about,” he says. “Our thing is trying to do things on a national scale but make Atlanta a hub for that.”

With past visitors including artists Rubi Rose, Trinidad James, K Camp, and BMF alum Myles Truitt, Atlanta Streetwear Flea generates increased attention yearly as more than your usual shopping experience.

“It’s not a flea market, hell, it’s not even a pop-up, but a whole immersive experience that people that are coming, not just from Atlanta, but people are getting plane tickets to come shop,” Peeples explains. “[People are] waiting in line, wrapped around the building. For the back of the line, it takes 45 minutes to get in. Brands [have] waited two, three years to finally get accepted. It’s that serious.”

To summarize the excitement, “The Atlanta Streetwear Market is like a streetwear Disney World to our community,” says Peeples.

As for Streetwear Flea, which turns ten in 2025, the quarterly event has undergone a series of coast-to-coast transformations, launching in Columbus, Ohio before establishing sister spaces in New York and Austin. On the curation side, the adroit Drakeford directs each festival with a DIY mindset, inviting rising artists, brands and crafters to comingle and network.

“It started off more as a big closet sale. That’s kind of what inspired the whole event, like routine needs to offload shoes and clothing from my closet,” said Drakeford. “Then I was like, ‘I have a lot of friends that need to do the same thing. Let me put together an event where we can all come together and buy, sell, trade personal items from our collections.’ Then it turned into more up-and-coming brands and sneaker resellers and vintage dealers.”

But unlike streetwear conventions, which are traditionally a gathering point for hypebeasts and sneakerheads, Drakeford wanted diversity to be their selling point, with each vendor having their own niche.

“I noticed that people with the best collections weren’t actually selling; they were just displaying shoes and being exhibitors or just showing exhibitions,” he explains. So when I first created Streetwear Flea, that was one of the rules [for] the vendors is that everything that you bring and show is also available for sale.”

Streetwear Flea, which recently collaborated with ENVSN for the festival’s latest edition, looks to build Ohio’s fashion reputation on a worldwide scale, with Drakeford’s skill as organizer and curator serving as an aesthete into the local scene. Although the Dayton native is currently Harlem-based, his eye gives Streetwear Flea followers a look into the community that supports hometown brands like Made by NGO, General Public Streetwear, FriskMeGood, Small Victories, and Ransom Supply.

“There was already a scene in a culture there that I enjoy and I participated in, and that also helped make Streetwear Flea what it is today and what it is in Ohio,” he says. “Our first event was very different from what it looks like now and it was a little smaller, but, from what I remember, it was really good because that community was already there.”

He continues, “The only thing that I would say is missing from the scene is just respect. But we’re used to that in Ohio and the midwest in general; we don’t come from a major market city that gets a lot of eyes and attention for what we do. But also the presence of some of the major brands and the more popular designers and creators, but that’s also what makes Streetwear Flea in Ohio special is that it’s really made up of grassroots creators, brands and entrepreneurs.”

With Streetwear Flea hosting talk engagements from the likes of marketing strategist and influencer Bimma Williams and Midwest Kids founder Darryl Brown, it’s also gotten fanfare from current and past Ohio State Buckeyes, namely Ezekiel Elliott. While footwear line ASICS occasionally holds a booth at the Columbus location, in addition to streetwear, there’s purveyors whose focuses are tattoos and rugs–making Streetwear Flea a diverse shop. Through Johnson and Drakeford’s partnership at Sole Classics, which will have an Inglewood location this winter, Ohio was given the launchpad it needed to bring Streetwear Flea to life.

“I believe the culture is alive and well here, just like it is in most other places. When you compare it to New York or Chicago, LA, it’s a lot different,” says Johnson. “However, that gathering point of where people who share the same passions and ideas could actually be in front of each other, that was really missing.”

Through Drakeford’s curatorial lens and Johnson’s pulse on streetwear and sneaker culture, the latter has his attention on vendors with a knack for growth and professionalism, which shows in its assemblage of go-getters.

“I look for people who take it seriously, and then he turns it into who actually looks good and would look good next to certain people,” he says. “So we knew from day one that we didn’t want to have ten sneaker vendors because it looks like a sneaker show. My whole thing is just, I want people that are going to carry through on business. They’re going to have enough product. They’re going to show up on time.”

To the point of why streetwear events are an ongoing movement, Johnson explains, “We’re moving so quickly into this digital age where everybody wants stuff fast and on their phones, like, people are longing for that physical touch.”

It’s this yearning for seller-to-consumer connection that keeps streetwear events afloat, and allows shoppers to express their freely fashionable selves. If Peeples, Drakeford, and Johnson have taught us anything, it’s that Black expression will never go out of style.

So much has happened since the release of Sabrina Carpenter’s most recent album, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send. Most notably, she’s become a major star thanks to hit singles like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” the latter of which was her first No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Basically, she’s come a long, long way from her roots as an actor with roles on Disney Channel.

Those two hits both come from Carpenter’s upcoming album, Short N’ Sweet, which is shaping up to be one of 2024’s biggest releases. As for when you can enjoy it on your preferred streaming platform, here’s what to know.

When Will Sabrina Carpenter’s New Album Short N’ Sweet Be On Spotify?

The album is set to release on August 23. So, like most major releases, Short N’ Sweet should become available on Spotify, and other streaming services and DSPs, at midnight ET on August 23 (9 p.m. PT on August 22).

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet Album Cover Artwork

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet Tracklist

1. “Taste”
2. “Please Please Please”
3. “Good Graces”
4. “Sharpest Tool”
5. “Coincidence”
6. “Bed Chem”
7. “Espresso”
8. “Dumb & Poetic”
9. “Slim Pickins”
10. “Juno”
11. “Lie To Girls”
12. “Don’t Smile”

Short N’ Sweet is out 8/23 via Island Records. Find more information here.

The MTV Video Music Awards have been hosted by some of the biggest names in pop culture, including Eddie Murphy, Miley Cyrus, and Jamie Foxx. Now Megan Thee Stallion will join the fun. The “Mamushi” rapper was announced as the host of the 2024 MTV VMAs. A promo for the ceremony promises that she’ll bring “thee heat,” “thee body,” and “thee savagery.”

You can watch it here.

This is Megan Thee Stallion’s first time hosting an awards show, but she has related prior experience: she previously hosted SNL and co-hosted The Tonight Show.

Along with her hosting duties, Megan Thee Stallion is also nominated in five categories: Best Collaboration (“Wanna Be” with GloRilla), and Best Hip Hop, Best Visual Effects, Best Direction, and Best Art Direction, all for “Boa.” Taylor Swift has the most nominations among all artists, with 10 nods, followed by Post Malone with nine and Sabrina Carpenter, Eminem, and Ariana Grande with six each.

The list of performers at the 2024 ceremony includes Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Camila Cabello, GloRilla, Rauw Alejandro, Lisa, Halsey, Benson Boone, Lenny Kravitz, and Katy Perry, who is receiving the Video Vanguard Award. Will Megan Thee Stallion join them? We’ll find out soon enough.

The 2024 MTV VMAs air on MTV on September 11 at 8 p.m. ET.

This year, Burger King has been experiencing — DARE I SAY IT??? — a sort of renaissance. This year’s Mozzarella Fries and Fiery Buffalo Nuggets are two of our favorite new side orders of the year and, trust us, we continually rank Burger King last or near last in our various fast food rankings and blind taste tests. So that’s really saying something!

Now, in the midst of summer, Burger King has unveiled an all-new spicy-infused remix of a few fan-favorites staples. And they’ve dubbed it the Fiery Menu.

The full menu consists of a Fiery Whopper, Fiery Bacon Royal Crispy Chicken sandwich, Fiery Strawberry Sprite, Fiery Mozzarella Fries, and Fiery Chicken Fries. Those first two definitely deserve their own individual reviews (we’ll skip the drink), but for the sides, we decided to lump them together into one review to help you decide which side dish is essential to whatever your current BK order is.

Can the Fiery Mozzarella Fries and Fiery Chicken Fries live up to the promise of a Burger King renaissance, or do they fall flat? We found out by ordering both of them so that you don’t have to.

Fiery Mozzarella Fries

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

Imagine the biggest sigh you’ve ever heard in your life — that’s how I feel about the Fiery Mozzarella Fries. So much promise, squandered by bad execution. I desperately wanted these to be good. Aside from French fries, mozzarella sticks are one of my favorite side orders. It’s hard to f*ck up deep-fried cheese, and yet… Burger King did it (congrats, I guess?).

There are two issues with the Fiery Mozzarella Fries. First, they’re way too thin. You want a mozzarella stick to have a good amount of cheese, about as thick as string cheese. These are pencil-thin, which creates an unbalanced breading-to-cheese ratio. The other issue is that the cheese isn’t melted enough, which leads to this:

It was impossible to bite and tear a piece of this cheese stick without the entire thing unraveling. That means if you really want to enjoy the flavor, which is an admittedly delicious mix of cayenne and black pepper, you’re going to have to shove the entire stick in your mouth and eat it all at once.

Now, you could make an argument that I’m being too harsh on this mozzarella stick. That maybe I waited too long to eat it because if you’re an avid cheese stick eater you know that time is mozzarella cheese’s greatest enemy, but that’s not the case here. Not only is Burger King literally across the street from where I live, but the order was still piping hot when I bit into it. The exterior wasn’t the issue, it’s the cheese itself. I’m not sure what changed between these Fiery Mozzarella Fries and the non-spicy version we ate earlier this year, but the quality seems to have dipped.

Is the cheese too shoddy to sufficiently heat? Are the binders and cellulose that are famously added to industrial cheese to keep it from sticking together too prominent to allow for silky meltage? We can’t say for sure, but as it stands, this is a very promising dish flavor-wise that has some quality control issues. Because of that, we can’t recommend it.

The Bottom Line:

The flavor is there, but the execution falls flat.

Fiery Chicken Fries

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

If you’re a hardcore BK fan and you were hoping the Fiery Chicken Fries were going to get a glowing endorsement from us, well… unfortunately, these miss the mark as well. Chicken Fries are a weird menu option, they’re not quite nuggets, they’re not quite chicken tenders, but, despite all of that, they have an interesting and zesty flavor and are incredibly dip-able. They’re a great side item, so you’d think a spicy version would pop off, unfortunately, the emphasis on cayenne pepper is a bit too strong here.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the level of heat these deliver, but that’s pretty much all you can taste. The chicken slurry that is encased in the batter here is flavorless, this dish just tastes like pure cayenne. If Burger King was going for the spiciest chicken side in all of fast food, they’ve done it, but they forgot that spice is a feature, it can’t be the whole show.

Because of that, I think they’re probably better off ordering the regular non-spicy Chicken Fries. I’d gladly trade in the Fiery Chicken Fries for the buffalo-sauced nuggets BK dropped earlier this year.

The Bottom Line:

Pure cayenne, which isn’t quite as delicious as it sounds.

Sabrina Carpenter began starring as Maya on Disney’s Girl Meets World in 2014, the same year she started releasing music. She had just turned 15 when the Boy Meets World spin-off series premiered, but her star power was already evident. So, it makes sense that Carpenter is wholly unsurprised by the world-beating position she’s found herself occupying in 2024.

“When you’re a child and you just have a feeling of, I know I’m going to do this someday,” Carpenter told Paper. “I know I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I’m destined for.”

The multi-platinum-certified artist continued, “I have dreams and goals, and I will say I’m a little bit of a freak manifester sometimes, which is a blessing and a curse, depending on how you look at it. I always knew deep down that this was something I would do with my life, and I didn’t ever really doubt that, even when sh*t was hitting the ceiling fan.”

Carpenter culminated as a ubiquitous star this summer when “Please Please Please” became her first career No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, after “Espresso” took the world by storm and peaked at No. 3 on the chart. Carpenter will release Short N’ Sweet, her sixth full-length album, on Friday, August 23.

Sexyy Red is getting ready to launch the Sexyy Red 4 President Tour, but fans in some cities have been faced with disappointment as upcoming dates have been canceled.

As HipHopDX notes, the tour was originally set to kick off in Seattle today (August 22), but that date was canceled and the tour is now set to start in Atlanta on August 24. Red’s August 23 date in Portland and August 26 date in Oakland were also called off. Red herself hasn’t made an announcement about the cancellations, but rather, ticketholders were notified by Ticketmaster.

This comes after some tour drama in July. In response to a report that claimed Red’s tour was “on the verge of being canceled,” she tweeted, “My fans are buying tickets we’re doin just fine we not canceling no tour dis cancelling sh*t all cap.”

She added in a pair of other tweets, “Dis how Dey try to do u wen u go wit an independent promoter n the bigger companies try to sabotage u we not cancelling sht. I did my touring deal with a black promoter black owned company AG Entertainment and now Dey playin dirty paying pages spreading fake news to discourage my fans from buying tickets.”

Coldplay‘s massive Music Of The Spheres World Tour took them to Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Wednesday. It’s where Taylor Swift was scheduled to play three shows during The Eras Tour, but they were canceled due to a thwarted terrorist attack. As a surprise for the Swifties in attendance, singer Chris Martin and opening act Maggie Rogers covered Swift’s “Love Story.”

“We sing this song with so much love for Taylor, with so much love for Swifties,” Martin said, according to Billboard. “And we sing this song with love for young people who are brainwashed into doing stupid sh*t and we send them our love too.” He also joked, “If this is not good, please, please don’t put it on YouTube because I don’t want to get in trouble with Taylor.” He has nothing to worry about: it’s good. You can watch the performance above.

Swift acknowledged what happened — and what didn’t happen — in Vienna in a lengthy Instagram post this week. “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating,” she wrote. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows. But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives. I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together.”

Cardi B frequently changes her appearance, whether she’s trying out a new hairstyle or a wild outfit. She is, however, shutting down one claim that she has been bleaching her skin.

Yesterday (August 21), an X (formerly Twitter) user re-posted a photo Cardi had shared. The user apparently thought Cardi looked paler than usual in the image, as they wrote, “Has Cardi been bleaching her skin?” Cardi shared the tweet and replied, “Bleaching while pregnant [unamused face emojis]? Why must yall be so dumb ? Actually NO ! I’m pregnant I’m slightly anemic ,this baby suckin all the energy off my body to the point I’m pale,eyes sunken ,veins green ASF,can’t tan under the sun cause I get hot super fast and dizzy ….PLEAE STOP THINKIN WITH YOUR ASSHOLE!”

Meanwhile, fans are anticipating the release of Cardi’s long-awaited second album, which she insists will be released in 2024. She may have even accidentally let spill what it’s going to be called: It was reported earlier this mark that she had filed trademark applications for the phrases “Defamation Of Character” and “Intrusive Thoughts,” and the filings noted that potential uses for the phrases included music albums, music videos, and downloadable music files, among some others.

Flying Lotus has been in your pocket for years.

On Wednesday, August 14, the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast released its “The Sound Of Apple 2.0” episode, which revealed that Flying Lotus had created two Apple ringtones released with the iOS 13 update in September 2019. On Wednesday, August 21, Flying Lotus reposted on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Apple leaked it so I can say it. I wrote some ringtones that have been in ur iPhone since ios13. ‘Daybreak’ + ‘Chalet.’”

Four-plus minutes into the Twenty Thousand Hertz episode, FlyLo broke down how he came to produce “Daybreak” and “Chalet” for Apple.

“At first, I didn’t know how to feel. I was like, ‘What? They want me to be a ringtone maker now? What is that all about?’” the Grammy-winning artist said. “The one thing that was in my benefit was that I actually had made ringtones for myself before. So, I kind of feel like I knew what was pleasing to hear as a loop, over and over and over and over and over again. Something that alerts you, but isn’t abrasive. Something that’s musical, but isn’t cheesy. Just finding that balance where it’s a bit ambient, but also something that cuts through.”

Flying Lotus added, “It’s nice to have these tones that I can associate with people who give me this warm feeling and this nostalgic feeling. If my girl calls me, and I hear the ‘Chalet’ ringtone, it’s like, ‘Awww.’ There’s something really nice about it.”