According to AllHipHop, YoungBoy Never Broke Again has formerly pled guilty to his outstanding fraud cases.
During the hearing, YoungBoy Never Broke Again reportedly plead guilty to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of third-degree felony forgery and six misdemeanor charges related to unlawful pharmacy conduct.
Initially, YoungBoy Never Broke Again faced 46 felony charges. Eventually they were pled down to multiple misdemeanors. After a result of his plea, YoungBoy Never Broke Again will serve a “substantial” 27-month sentence in federal prison in connected to the federal charges. That means YoungBoy will not serve any time in a Utah state prison.
Once YoungBoy completes his sentence, he is expected to complete five years (or 60 months) of federal probation. The conditions of his probation has not yet been publicly disclosed.
Outside of his forthcoming prison sentence and federal probation, YoungBoy will be required to pay a monetary fine. According to AllHipHop, the fine was imposed at $25,000.
YoungBoy has not released a statement regarding the hearing or alleged plea.
Welcome to the Crumbl Cookie report, where every week we buy all eight new cookies dropping at Crumbl and rank them from worst to best. This week is a bit of a mixed bag. Cookies like the Oatmeal Skillet, Pink Velvet Cake, Lemon Cheesecake, and Mint Mallow are visual delights. They look so delicious that a picture alone makes your mouth water. And then there are the other cookies, which look so bland that if you unfocus your eyes just a little bit, you wouldn’t be able to tell the Classic Peanut Butter from the Confetti.
This just further reiterates our opinion that Crumbl moving from a six-cookie lineup to an eight-cookie lineup is a bad move. What have we gotten with this new change? More repeats and somehow less variety! At least having so many cookies makes it easier to zero in on the highlights.
So enough complaining, let’s talk cookies!
8. Classic Peanut Butter
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
I’m just going to come out and say it: Crumbl has too many damn peanut butter cookies. What’s the difference between this week’s Classic Peanut Butter and last month’s Ultimate Peanut Butter? A drizzle of frosting, that’s about it!
This cookie isn’t bad but it’s nothing special either. It’s just a really big, expensive, peanut butter cookie. It’s got one note: peanut butter. If you like peanut butter, you’ll like this cookie, but it’ll still come across as inessential even if peanut butter is your favorite thing on earth.
The Bottom Line:
This is an easy skip. It’s just a regular peanut butter cookie, it’s not going to change your world.
7. Confetti
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
The Confetti cookie offers a sweet, floral, and slightly earthy vanilla base loaded up with flavorless, but appetizing, rainbow sprinkles. Again, this isn’t a bad cookie, but it’s incredibly boring.
A few weeks back, Crumbl dropped a Confetti Cake, and that offered so much more. It was delicious, moist, and super sweet, this cookie on the other hand feels like a drier rendition of that same flavor profile.
The Bottom Line:
We’re sad to say that this is another skip! Crumbl has done this flavor profile in a better form factor in the past.
6. Milk Chocolate Chip
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
While I think it’s pretty boring overall, it’s hard to hate on this cookie. It has a nice balance of brown sugar, butter, and sweet milk chocolate flavors and tastes great warm and fresh out of the oven (or microwave), at room temp, and cold from the fridge.
If you’re getting a six pack and don’t feel like doubling up, this will make a welcome addition when you want something classic yet delicious.
The Bottom Line:
Even though it’s not a draw to bring us into the store, this remains one of our favorite cookies and a great candidate to spend those Crumbl points on.
5. Lemon Cheesecake
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
I’m going to reiterate what I said about last week’s lemon cake here: Lemon, while delicious and appreciated, just isn’t a fall flavor.
During the hotter months, this cookie is going to hit all the right spots no doubt, but there is just something wrong about a lemon cheesecake cookie in the fall. Call us crazy!
The cookie is built on a toasted graham cracker base with tangy and sweet cheesecake frosting, some tart lemon curd, and a lemon slice garnish. The graham crackers sprinkled along the base and frosting add a nice textural element to this cookie that makes it a true delight.
The Bottom Line:
While we think this is best served as a spring or summer cookie, there is no deny that the Lemon Cheesecake is a sweet, tangy, and bright delight.
4. Mint Mallow Sandwich
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
Have you ever eaten an Andes Mint and thought, “I wish I could eat 50 of these?” Well, that’s essentially what the Mint Mallow Sandwich gives you. Between two cocoa-forward chocolate cookies sits a thick layer of mint mousse that together comes across as a giant Andres Mint candy.
What makes this even better than the candy though is the texture. You get a lot of crumbly grit that melts in your mouth with this dusty cookie base. The cookie ends are thick, and the mouse is generous.
The Bottom Line:
Minty, refreshing, and very chocolatey.
3. Pink Velvet Cake
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
The Pink Velvet Cake is essentially Crumbl’s famed Pink Velvet cookie in cake form and this form factor serves the flavor much better. The Pink Velvet cake base is super moist and layered with a thick helping of sweet and sugary vanilla cream cheese frosting, with pink cake crumbles at the top.
If you’re curious about what pink velvet tastes like, imagine red velvet, but less chalky and more vanilla-influenced than the cocoa vibe of red velvet.
The Bottom Line:
Better than Crumbl’s Pink Velvet Cookie. It’s moist, sweet, yet delicate. But be warned, this is the kind of cookie that can handle transit well, so you’re better off eating it as soon as you get it.
2. Churro
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
The churro is simply one of the finest desserts ever. I would even argue that a good churro rivals some of the best cookies out there, so no brand, not even Crumbl, can capture the magic of a churro and put it into cookie form. But dammit do they come close!
The Churro cookie is a winner, it features a sweet, spicy, and earthy cinnamon base with a thick swirl of cinnamon-infused butter cream, dusted with more, you guessed it, cinnamon sugar.
It’s wonderful! It doesn’t taste like a churro and lacks that doughy goodness that its name-sake offers, but the flavor is great, and at the end of the day, concept aside, that’s all that matters.
The Bottom Line:
A great cookie. It’s not quite a churro, but the flavor is too good to deny.
1. Oatmeal Skillet Cookie
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
Our winner this week is the Oatmeal Skillet Cookie. This cookie is f*cking incredible. It features a soft and chewy oatmeal base topped with sweet and fragrant vanilla mousse, a toasty butterscotch drizzle, and crumbles of oatmeal cookies for added texture.
Biting into this thing is pure joy as your taste buds are inundated with the flavors of cinnamon, oat, caramel, vanilla, and brown sugar.
The Bottom Line:
Not just the best Crumbl cookie of the week, but quite possibly the best cookie the brand has dropped all season. Get two!
For years, Christmas Day has been the NBA’s biggest single day on the regular season calendar. The league builds its schedule around putting five marquee matchups on Christmas, and for a long time, they only faced NFL competition when Dec. 25 fell on a Sunday.
However, the NFL has played games on Christmas each of the past four years, and the big ratings they received were too tantalizing to go back to the way things were. After insisting that they wouldn’t put games on Christmas when it lands on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the NFL changed course when Netflix came calling, offering hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast a pair of NFL Christmas games each of the next three years. That was the NFL officially ending their détente with the NBA over Christmas, and making clear that they weren’t going to cede the holiday back to basketball.
If that wasn’t enough, the NFL decided to run up the score on the NBA over the weekend, announcing late Sunday night that Beyoncé will perform at halftime of the Ravens-Texans game in her hometown of Houston. The one thing the NBA has going for it over the NFL on Christmas is that they are on linear television, with games on ABC and ESPN, while the NFL is on a streamer (albeit the largest one there is). As we have seen with Thursday Night Football and playoff games on Peacock, there is a pretty sizable drop-off in viewership for similar marquee NFL games from linear TV to streaming. However, the way to get more people over there is to give the non-football fans a reason to want to tune-in, and a Beyoncé halftime show is a sure-fire way to add some serious attention.
NBA fans and media have called on the league to fight back and reclaim their place as the Christmas headliner, but the truth is, there’s just nothing to do when the NFL decides to plant its flag. The NBA could put together its absolute best teams and have every star healthy, get Drake and Kendrick Lamar to squash their beef at midcourt during halftime, and they would barely put a dent in the ratings for the worst possible NFL game. Add in the fact that the NFL has a pair of really good games this year — Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans — and there’s just no chance for the NBA to get its corner fully back.
Being able to add a Super Bowl-caliber halftime performer (Beyoncé literally did one back in 2013) to the Christmas slate is just another example of the NFL’s embarrassment of riches. Could the NBA try and do more to add some cultural cache to their Christmas games? Sure, they could look at adding a performer in one of the marquee games, but halftime in NBA games is shorter than in the NFL, limiting the time on a performance (and for a performance set-up). That limits what you can do, and they’re just not going to get someone at the level of Beyoncé in that same spot — it doesn’t hurt the NFL that Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z curates the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime shows.
The reality is, the NBA can’t consider the NFL a direct competitor and instead needs to figure out how they can best serve the audience that would pick watching basketball over football. There is nowhere to hide from the NFL at this point. If there is money to be made and ratings to be had, the NFL has made it very clear they will be there to scoop up as much cash and as many eyeballs as they can. The NBA has tried moving off Thursdays until the NFL season ends, and held off on marquee showcase games on weekends until after football — it’s just not worth trying to challenge the NFL’s ratings superiority, particularly when there are nights when the NFL doesn’t air games. The question for the NBA now has to be, will they let their Christmas schedule become the latest casualty?
They still have some advantages in being on ABC and ESPN rather than Netflix, but the NFL moving off TV also makes it harder to benefit from the potential for fans to bounce back-and-forth because that involves the added barrier of exiting one app and opening another. As such, the best way forward isn’t to try and beat the NFL at their own game, as that’s not possible. Instead, the NBA has to keep looking at how to create the best basketball product and present that to their audience, while figuring out how to sustainably build their fan base.
The NFL, put simply, doesn’t have to worry about the same things the NBA does right now. They can send a Giants-Panthers game, featuring two of the worst teams in the league, overseas and sell it out while millions stateside wake up and tune in. They can withstand injuries and star absences and still clean up, as tens of millions of people are going to watch Cooper Rush vs. Tommy DeVito on Thanksgiving, while the NBA faces huge backlash for the same thing.
That’s because football is king in the United States. For as much as people want to come up with a magic fix that will make the NBA suddenly explode in popularity to be alongside the NFL, that just doesn’t exist because they aren’t playing football. As such, all they can do is focus on themselves and figure out what they can do to make the product as appealing as they can, with a focus on those who want to watch basketball. They can still go up against the NFL and do well on Christmas — last year was the least-watched NBA Christmas on record, and it was still their biggest viewership day of the season. The real challenge is how they build their basketball base, because you aren’t going to win a battle for casual eyeballs going up against the NFL, and especially the NFL plus Beyoncé.
As such, the NBA has to ignore the proverbial scoreboard between them and the NFL on Christmas. It’s a fight they will never win, but also, it doesn’t have to be viewed as a fight, even though on Dec. 26, there will inevitably be dozens of posts about how the NFL dusted the NBA in ratings, with a massive peak surely coming around the time of Beyoncé’s performance. But the NBA just can’t worry about that, because the NFL beats everyone and everything in the ratings game.
Instead, they have to keep the focus on the basketball and what they can do to get the best product on the court, all while accepting that the NFL is a ratings behemoth and adjusting expectations accordingly. There isn’t a quick fix that suddenly closes that gap, but one also shouldn’t be seen as necessary from the league’s point of view, because they have an 11-year, $76 billion national TV deal locked in. ESPN will certainly want to explore avenues to boost viewership — that’s their job — but the league should be taking the long view here, and that means ignoring the idea that they should be competing in the same weight class as the NFL and figuring out instead how to entertain basketball fans.
Once the NFL season ends, the NBA still becomes the biggest game in town. It doesn’t pull in football numbers (because, again, nothing does), but the Finals still pull in 10+ million viewers a game even in a down year, and there’s plenty of interest in the playoffs. I’m loathe to agree with arguments that the sky is falling and the NBA is in some terrible position in terms of people not wanting to watch basketball anymore. That said, if they are going to keep an 82-game schedule (which naturally makes each game less intriguing than a 17-game schedule like the NFL has where, every game feels vital to your chances at the playoffs) that starts in football season, they have to figure out how to raise the value of those games for the viewer, and that starts with raising their value to the players.
The NBA Cup is a great example of that, as they’ve gotten the buy-in from the players necessary to give November and December basketball some stakes that it previously lacked, and the result has been really fun basketball. The Christmas Day games also still matter to players, even if they’re no longer in a complete standalone spot on the sports calendar, but the truth is, the NBA has to be even smarter about who they put on the Christmas schedule. They can’t risk a repeat of last year’s Heat-Sixers game without Joel Embiid or Jimmy Butler, which made that the least-watched Christmas game in history, and this year they seem to have learned a lesson, pairing a team whose interest is driven by a single star (the Spurs with Victor Wembanyama) against a legacy franchise (the Knicks) that have a built-in floor for viewership.
I also think the NBA can look at this as an opportunity now to take some swings, knowing the NFL is going to hold casual eyeballs, and give some up-and-coming teams (say, the Thunder) a little bit of shine in hopes of delivering better games. Bank on better basketball to bring people in, rather than just hoping for star power, especially as the generation led by LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant that has always been able to bring in eyeballs ages out. And of course, try to provide a highly-competitive game for your basketball diehards to enjoy, because who knows? If the NFL game is a dud, you might even get people flipping over once Beyoncé steps off the stage.
Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they love in its true form, we’ll be offering a digest of the best new R&B songs that fans of the genre should hear every Friday.
Since the last update of this weekly R&B column, we’ve received plenty of music and news from the genre’s artists.
Here are the new releases you need to have your eye on this week:
FLO — Access All Areas: Unlocked
FLO long-awaited debut album is finally here. The British girl group released Access All Areas: Unlocked complete with 21 songs and features from GloRilla, Chloe x Halle, Kehlani, Bree Runaway, and DIXSON. Access All Areas: Unlocked will certainly fulfill the appetite of fans thanks to strong production and an impressive vocal performance from Stella, Jorja, and Reneé.
Highlights: “Soft,” “On & On,” & “Bending My Rules”
Jessie Reyez — “Just Like That” Feat. Ari Lennox
Jessie Reyez continues her productive 2024 year with yet another collaboration. “Just Like That” arrives with a guest verse from Ari Lennox as the two singers recover from heartbreak with the sultry, honest, and sweet record.
Mahalia — “Pick Up The Pace” Feat. Bayka
Mahalia is ending the year on an upbeat note with her new record “Pick Up The Pace.” The track features Jamaican artist Bayka for the track that is a reggae-influence tune meant to “celebrate artists like Bayka – these incredible Jamaican voices – and give the U.K. a moment to reconnect with the dancehall and reggae that helped shape our sound,” as revealed by Billboard.
Nao — “Elevate”
Nao continues to give us plenty of reasons to be excited about her upcoming album Jupiter. Her new single “Elevate” is another example as she glides over sky-scraping synths and a groovy bass line for a record that reflects on the surreal moments of life.
Tiana Major9 — “Alone”
British singer Tiana Major9 has one of the best voices you’ll hear today and it’s evident thanks to her new record “Alone.” The song is evocative and intense as Tiana recalls the feelings she had while living alone for the first time in her life. “‘Alone’ is such a vulnerable offering to the world, through the lyrics, my vocal performance,” she said in a press release. It feels like a re-introduction to Tiana Major9 and an exclusive look into the world of TM9.”
Odeal — Lustropolis
Fresh off a new deal with LVRN (home of 6lack, Summer Walker, and more), singer and producer Odeal returns with his new EP Lustropolis. The 7-track delivers one guest appearance from Summer Walker. “Lustropolis is the culmination of all the music I’ve created over 2024
Following a career filled with strong singles and EPs, including 2021’s Digital Tears, Eritrean-born and Amsterdam-based singer RIMON finally emerges with her debut album. Children Of The Night graces the ears of listeners with 12 tracks and features from Dylan Sinclair, Mereba, and BEAM. RIMON impresses from start to finish on the album thanks to records that are ethereal, vengeful, and elegant.
Highlights: “Children Of The Night,” “Hotel Ruby,” & “All In My Mind”
Raiche — Making My Room
Less than a year after releasing Loveland, Massachusetts-bred singer Raiche is back with another project. Making My Room is a shorter project with just five songs to its name, but it’s still a strong effort from Raiche nonetheless. I realized I have the power to restructure my thinking and change any relationship,” Raiche said about the project in a press release. “I learned you can be like, ‘I want to be happy today,’ and be happy.”
Highlights: “Thinking Of You” & “Burn Your Clothes”
Felix Ames — “Loose Ends & New Friends” Feat. Dende
Milwaukee singer Felix Ames teams up with Houston native Dende for their new collab “Loose Ends & New Friends.” The somber record touches on the realization that a new love interest only had short-term intentions for a romance they hoped to be long-term.
Destin Conrad — “Nosebleed”
Destin Conrad is still hard at work on his upcoming debut album, but that isn’t stopping him from treating his fans to new music. He released “Nosebleeds” as a sweet and soft offering to hold listeners down in the meantime. The acoustic-leaning record speaks to Destin’s vulnerability and the occasional emergence of old habits and signs of the past.
Chase Shakur — “2OfUs”
Chase Shakur has young love on his mind and it runs wild and free on his new track “2OfUs.” It’s another sign of what’s to come with the Atlanta singer as he continues work on his upcoming album, but for now, we can enjoy “2OfUs” and the sweet blend of R&B, soul, funk, and rap.
Shantel May — Triggered, But Here
Toronto singer Shantel May checks in with her new album Triggered, But Here. The project is her first full-length release since her 2021 effort Don’t Let Them See You Cry. This time around her, May gives us 17 tracks and features Lola Brooke, Ambré, Rain 910, Maliibu Miitch, and Tone Stith.
Highlights: “Fiend,” “The Call” Feat. Ambré & “Rotation”
Loony — The Lost Tapes
Loony made a great discovery recently, and it led to the release of three new songs. The singer returns with her The Lost Tapes EP, which she described as the result of finding “3 songs I thought had been lost forever on a corrupted hard drive today.” She added, “I love them so much and am so happy they came back to me – and now they’re yours.”
Highlights: “Love, But Whatever”
Jordan Ariel — “Time Doesn’t Heal”
New York singer Jordan Ariel is back with “Time Doesn’t Heal,” her second single of the year following April’s “F*ck You (Freestyle).” On the new record, Ariel asks a lover to be honest with her and themselves about their readiness to begin a new foray into love. Ariel knows this special someone isn’t ready, but she want them to accept it and do the work necessary to one day be ready.
Denzel Curry has some major plans for 2025: Today (November 18), he announced the Mischievous South Tour.
The shows span from February to July and will be everywhere from Australia to North America to Europe. Curry will also be joined by Kenny Mason, 454, and Clip.
Tickets are set to go on sale on November 22. Find more information on Curry’s website.
Check out Curry’s tour dates below.
Denzel Curry’s 2025 Tour Dates: Mischievous South Tour
02/21/2025 — Brisbane, AUS @ The Tivoli
02/22/2025 — Sydney, AUS @ The Hordern Pavilion
02/27/2025 — Auckland, NZ @ Shed 10
03/01/2025 — Wollongong, AUS @ Yours & Owls
03/02/2025 — Melbourne, AUS @ Palace Foreshore
03/04/2025 — Perth, AUS @ Metro City
03/31/2025 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
04/01/2025 — Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater
04/03/2025 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
04/04/2025 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Haller Creek
04/05/2025 — Dallas, TX @ The Factory Deep Ellum
04/08/2025 — Tampa, FL @ Jannus Live
04/10/2025 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
04/11/2025 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
04/12/2025 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle
04/14/2025 — Washington, DC @ The Fillmore Silver Springs
04/16/2025 — New York, NY @ Terminal 5
04/17/2025 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
04/18/2025 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
04/20/2025 — Toronto, ON @ History
04/21/2025 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage Ae
04/22/2025 — Columbus, OH @ Kemba Live!
04/24/2025 — Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
04/25/2025 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
04/26/2025 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fillmore Minneapolis
04/28/2025 — Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
04/30/2025 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
05/02/2025 — Seattle, HA @ Showbox Sodo
05/03/2025 — Vancouver, BC @ Pne Forum
05/04/2025 — Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
05/06/2025 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
05/09/2025 — Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall
06/03/2025 — Amsterdam, NL @ Melkheg Max
06/05/2025 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/09/2025 — Prague, CZ @ Roxy
06/10/2025 — Munich, DE @ Theaterfabrik
06/11/2025 — Berlin, DE @ Huxleys
06/13/2025 — Porto, PT @ Nos Primavera Sound
06/18/2025 — London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
06/20/2025 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
06/23/2025 — Dublin, IE @ National Stadium
07/01/2025 — Frankfurt, DE @ 200M
07/02/2025 — Cologne, DE @ Carlswerk Victoria
07/03/2025 — Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
07/07/2025 — Vilnius, LI @ Lukiskes Prison 2.0
07/09/2025 — Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit
After many hours of preparation it’s finally time to enjoy Howard University’s 100th Homecoming celebration featuring a collaboration between the school’s talented marching band and legendary hip-hop producer, Just Blaze.
We pick up the HBCU Homecoming series with only a day left before Director of Bands Chancellor Mills gets to prove himself in his first year in the position with the help of more than 100 band members and his staff. “It’s all in the planning, first and foremost,” Mills said in preparation for the event. “We don’t want to throw anything together and just put it out there; it’s huge this year.” As Mills said, the planning is critical, as the pressure of the occasion couldn’t be any higher, with current students and alumni all expecting a great show.
“This performance is just going to signify where this program is,” said Mills. “It’s going to dictate how we’re going to move for the next 3-5 years. It’s significant in terms of what we want to give back to our community.”
Fortunately, the hard work pays off as the band comes out at halftime to give the crowd their best with renditions of hip-hop classics produced by Just Blaze, including Joe Budden’s “Pump it Up” and “What We Do” by Freeway, who appeared to perform the song in-person. “I’ve had my songs played at a million sporting events,” Blaze said of the performance. “This is just kind of a great add-on to that part of the legacy. It sounded amazing.”
As Blaze says in the episode, the party was far from over after the performance. Check out additional footage from the band’s night performance and more to see how the performance was received.
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Shaboozey drop a new song amid his historic No. 1 run and Tate McRae launch a new era. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Is “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” the biggest song ever? It could be soon! In the meantime, Shaboozey is pushing a new tune, last week’s “Good News,” which is more of a somber ballad than his big hit.
Tate McRae — “2 Hands”
2025 is shaping up to me Tate McRae season: Last week, she announced a tour and a new album, then followed that by dropping a new single, the catchy and vibrant “2 Hands.”
The BTS boys have been crushing it during the group’s “hiatus.” The latest member to drop some solo material is Jin, who delivered last week with “Running Wild,” a soaring bop.
The Kid Laroi and Quavo — “Slow It Down”
The Kid Laroi and Quavo look to the past on their new collaboration, “Slow It Down“: As Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes, the tune is “built over an interpolation of Destiny’s Child’s ‘Independent Women, Part 1’ and also draws inspiration from Juvenile’s “Slow Motion.”
Lil Nas X — “Light Again”
Fans first got to hear Lil Nas X’s “Light Again” (in demo form) was back in March, but now the track is officially out. It’s not so much the hip-hop that Nas usually busts out, but is more indebted to dance music.
Waylon Wyatt — “O.D.”
17-year-old Waylon Wyatt is making moves as the first country/Americana artist signed to Darkroom (the same label as Billie Eilish, yes): He has an EP, Til The Sun Goes Down, under his belt, and last week, he shared “O.D.,” an acoustic number that shows off mature vocals and songwriting.
FKA Twigs — “Drums Of Death”
FKA Twigs is set to drop one of the first must-listen releases of 2025 with Eusexua, due in January. Last week, she previewed the project with the Koreless-produced “Drums Of Death,” a jittery, dance-inspired single.
Angel Olsen — “The Takeover (Poppy Jean Crawford cover)”
Olsen is taking an interesting approach for her next project: Cosmic Waves Volume 1 features a handful of songs by other artists, then Olsen covering some of those artists’ songs. For example, Poppy Jean Crawford contributed “Glamorous,” while Olsen covered her “The Takeover.”
Lil Baby — “5AM”
Lil Baby just went through, in his words, “the darkest period of my life these last two years.” He came out the other side, though, and he did so with a new album in the bag, which he teased last week as he released the introspective single “5AM.”
Back in July, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” became his first-ever No. 1 song. Now, it’s November, nearly December, and the song is still on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That remains true on the latest chart, dated November 23 and revealed today.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has now been No. 1 for 18 total weeks, which means it’s just one week shy of matching the all-time record for the most weeks spent on top: 19, previously achieved by Lil Nas X and Billie Ray Cyrus’ 2019 hit “Old Town Road.” The song is also No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the 22nd week, the longest run this year.
Meanwhile, this week also has good news for Gracie Abrams: Her surging single “That’s So True” rises from No. 13 to No. 6 on the latest chart, making it her first-ever top-10 song on the Hot 100. Her previous high was at No. 19 with “I Love You, I’m Sorry” in October. Both songs come from Abrams’ latest album, The Secret Of Us (“That’s So True” was released on the deluxe edition). Both tracks were co-written and co-produced with Aaron Dessner.
Shaboozey, meanwhile, is starting to look towards post-“A Bar Song” life, as he just released a new single, “Good News.”
The Queen Of Pop needs your help. Madonna took to Instagram to ask her followers whether a biopic about her life and career, which supposedly stars Julia Garner as the “Express Yourself” singer, should be a movie or TV show.
“After struggling for days in LA,” Madonna wrote, “listening to producers and agents Tell me why I couldn’t make my film –I (been working on it for 4 years!!!) downsize-down scale -think smaller-they say–I realized that everything in my life is going to be challenged. No easy rides for me.”
She continued, “I cannot make this in the normal way. Spending time with my creative friends was just the fuel I needed to keep going! We all agreed that we need to be even more fearless!!! Art =Survival We cannot shrink and make ourselves smaller. If you want something badly enough in life– the whole universe will conspire to hel you get it.”
Madonna then posed a question to her followers: “Should I make the story of my life into a series or a feature Film.”
Nearly every reply is begging for a series because, as one person put it, “A movie wouldn’t be long enough to cover everything.” A movie would have to condense four decades of hits into two hours, but a TV show could dedicate an entire episode to her song for the Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me soundtrack (it’s a good one).
The wait for more Outlander has been, to be blunt, seriously long. The first half of the Starz historical fantasy-drama premiered over a year ago in June 2023. Since that time, Diana Gabaldon readers have heard plenty about eighth season filming while receiving no satisfaction on finishing the seventh season. Also, those teases about the prequel series, Blood Of My Blood (revolving around Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser’s parents getting it on), are only making anticipation feel both more tantalizing and frustrating, no doubt.
However, Outlander‘s return is nearly upon us, for real.
When Does Outlander Season 7 Part 2 Debut On Starz?
On Nov. 22, Claire and Jamie will return (with Young Ian in tow) to Jamie’s ancestral stomping grounds with the first of eight new episodes, which will conclude on Jan. 10, 2025. However, this homecoming will be a bittersweet happening, so expect the temporary happiness to be torn to shreds.
Hopefully, this experience won’t leave bodice-ripping fans completely gutted while waiting for the final season, for which Starz hasn’t provided a release date. Surely, that span of time will be less than a year, but the aforementioned prequel series should help fill the void sometime in 2025 (fingers crossed).
The Starz historical drama audience hasn’t had an easy time of things after recently seeing The Serpent Queen get cancelled after two seasons, although a Queen Elizabeth spin off remains in the works. Additionally, Starz has plenty more to offer including the Ella Purnell-starring Sweetpea and about 73 TV shows from 50 Cent. If you start watching those now, you can maybe finish before Outlander‘s eighth season arrives. Consider it a challenge.
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