Month: July 2025

Young Nudy is a hood tour guide in the eye-popping video for the latest single from his new album. “Iced Tea” features Nudy’s cousin and frequent collaborator 21 Savage, as well as Project Pat, as he offers a group of tourists a look at life in his hood via the local trap house. The guys are playing NBA2K23 (because why get the new one?), a dead body grows cold on the lawn, and everyone smokes the stickiest of weed while occasionally being entertained by dancers on a portable stripper pole.

“Iced Tea” is the second single from Paradise, Nudy’s upcoming fifth studio album (the first single from Paradise was “BTA”). It’ll be the follow-up to 2023’s Gumbo, which landed at No. 83 on the Billboard 200 chart, driven by the 21 Savage collaboration “Peaches & Eggplants.” He was also featured on Latto’s Sugar Honey Iced Tea track “Shrimp & Grits,” as well as fellow ATLien Childish Gambino’s Atavista song “Little Foot Big Foot.”

Paradise will be out on August 8th via PDE Records/RCA Records. In the lead-up to its release, Nudy will perform a series of free shows for fans who pre-order the album called Road To Paradise. You can find more information on the pre-order site here.

Watch Young Nudy’s “Iced Tea” video featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat above.

Few rappers these days see the kind of breakout success from a debut effort as Gelo has. But then again, few have the sort of name recognition he had ahead of the release of his game-changing first single, “Tweaker.”

LiAngelo Ball is the middle brother of NBA stars Lonzo and LaMelo Ball. To be fair, their entry into the public discourse was equally buzzy, thanks to their dad LaVar, whose boastful interviews about their potential made them a controversial hot topic while they were still in high school. Their self-created leagues and Big Baller Brand shoe line furthered the debate; some saw LaVar as a genius, others as just crazy.

In some ways, Gelo is the black sheep of the brothers; While they were able to smoothly transition into high-profile roles in college hoops and then the NBA, the middle brother was more, in his own words, “turned up.” Despite following his siblings into the NBA — he spent three years in the G League, and signed briefly with the Detroit Pistons in 2020 — he didn’t stick the same way they did.

Then, “Tweaker” happened. Fueled by a nostalgic beat and Gelo’s anachronistic, drawling flow, the song took over first NBA locker rooms, then playlists, radio, and clubs. Its success led to a deal with Def Jam and high-profile performances at Rolling Loud, the NBA’s All-Star Weekend, and just this week, the ESPY Awards.

Now, he’s released his debut album, League Of My Own, filled with even more catchy odes to a style of music that ruled the airwaves when Gelo was still learning to speak.

Everything about his career so far has been rare, so let’s throw one more thing on the list: Prior to this interview, I’d known the Ball family for years from my work at Los Angeles pro-am the Drew League. And yet, here we are, at my day job, talking about his new album, and making the leap from the court to the stage in his own unique way.

Obviously we have to start with the elephant in the room, ball player to rapper, the transition. How has that been for you? What drove you to want to really buckle down and do rap?

Everything I do, I try to do it at the highest level. So, when I was playing basketball, that was my goal at the time. I’m not even thinking about rap. I’m trying to make the NBA. This is some years past and then that’s how the transition happened. Everything wasn’t going as smoothly as I hoped it would on the hoop side. But when I went to music, I feel my talent and just the way I am is going to have me on an NBA level, but for music.

That’s how I took my swag over to the music game. And I will say, I have always been hella turned up since a little kid. I toned it down a lot to play basketball. I feel like it’s a lot more rules and stipulations in hoops. So when I came to the rap life, it’s like I could be me now, that’s easier.

I love that you said taking it to the NBA level because you did take it to the NBA level: you performed at the All-Star Weekend. Do you hold that over their heads a little bit? Because I know Lonzo had his little moment where he was trying to rap, too, and I know Melo probably got his little bars off somewhere, but you are the one that made it, so now you have something to hold over them.

Yeah, they give me support, though. They think I’m the biggest in the rap game. They want to relate to my sh*t, and it helps for real. I’ll say that.

How has your routine changed from then to now?

Now my schedule GTA for real, I just get up and go about my days. I got a lot more free time to do things, I’ll say. Because in the NBA, I always had practice, got to be up at seven o’clock, ready to hoop, ready to shoot, and then after that, you going home, resting, and right back to practice. You know how that hoop stuff goes, so it ain’t really as much free time as what people think. So in the music world, everything’s more on my time. I could wake up at 3 a.m. and go to the studio and that’s just like working.

How do you address people or how do you respond to people who are saying that, “Oh, he coming from basketball, he don’t know nothing about rap life?”

I don’t want people to be like, “Oh, he think he a street man, he a gang banger, all this stuff.” I’m not. If you listen hard to my music, I’m not really preaching none of that sh*t. I will say I have been around that sh*t since a young age, bro. We always traveling. My cousins is a little wild sometimes.

I understand where all that came from. I give props to my pops, though, for real. Even when we was kids, he was like, “G, you could be a gang banger. You gonna die or be in jail,” or he was like, “You can go hoop and be on your own sh*t and make this money.” He’s really talking to us like that as a kid. So I always knew how to just maneuver and manage myself amongst all that type of sh*t.

Can I just say, by the way, I love your dad. He’s probably one of my favorite people that comes by the Drew. But I do have a theory about why you sound good on these old-school 2000-era… like Big Tymer, No Limit beats. You were born the year before Snoop Dogg made No Limit Top Dogg. Was that an album that got played around the house a lot? Because that’s part of my theory is that like, yeah, you were maybe a little bit too young to grow up with that, but somebody around you was playing it. There is a link between West Coast and the Southern style you like.

I just think my pops put that on us because that all he used to bump was Lil Wayne, bro. I heard Tha Carter II, III, all the way to IV, VI, all of them. And then all that Lil Wayne, The Drought Is Over, all the mixtape sh*t. Zo used to have all the mix tapes of Wayne. So I was always hearing Lil Wayne for sure. And he had the coldest lyrics. I like how he fly. I liked the sh*t he be saying. So I feel that built my sh*t up as a kid, not even knowing.

Listening to the song “Humble Abode,” it feels the way that people talk about the legacy of the family weighs on you. How do you manage all of those expectations and the things people might say?

How do I explain this? My mind hella strong. Since I was young, I feel like I have heard it all, for real. My pops even told me straight up, “Man, they’re going to hate you,” because I was the lightest one around all Black kids when I’m hooping. So they’re trying to take my head off. But he told me straight up, “They going to hate you.” He was like, “Everything you do, it is a target on your back already, so just be ready.”

And since I was young, I just always remembered that sh*t. I always just move how I move, for real. I’m going to be stepping man, that sh*t don’t be hurting me because I be getting stuff done on my own time.

What made GloRilla the right person to be the only feature on your debut album?

I was just familiar with her music at the time. I got some homies in Memphis, and then I linked up with her a couple of times, and she cool as hell. So I felt that was the perfect fit for the album, really. I mean, she was turned up. I just like how she delivered her songs and I felt it would sound great on that beat.

A lot of other NBA guys are also rappers; Do you have a favorite ball player, rapper?

Yeah, I’m going to get a song off with RTB [Miles Bridges]. He got some bangers, bro. I listen to Brandon Ingram, too. A lot of people don’t know he be rapping, but he got some sh*t in his vault, I’m telling you.

What were some features that didn’t make the album, if you’re allowed to say?

I got to keep it a secret. I am going to drop a deluxe. I got some whammers on there, bro. I’ve been working with a couple of people, bro, and I got some big names on there. We going to turn the city up, for sure, but I’m going to leave that because I’m going to probably put the deluxe out in August or something.

And one more question for me. Are you going to make an appearance in the gym?

To the Drew? Hey bro, if I do, though, it’s going to be scary. I’m coming with Zo and Melo, bro. I’m only getting in there if they do it for real. We all three going to go to that sh*t, if we do go.

League Of My Own is out now via Def Jam Recordings. Find more information here.

Tommy Richman is going for a new sound in his latest single, “Miami.” As he puts it in the song’s press release: “‘Miami’ is a song to bring in the summer, a fun uptempo pop record expressing the griefs of feeling numb in every romantic scenario.” To that end, it’s a deceptively bouncy track, whose synth-pop sonics belie Tommy’s maudlin musings.

“I don’t wanna be prone to the suffering,” he sings. “Life is a mess, I’m steady buffering / Don’t open up the gates, don’t let that in / I’ll tell it who you are you’re a sex addict / It’s been a long time, don’t let the bad in.” Meanwhile, the video is simple and straightforward, appearing to take a lot of cues from Drake’s viral 2016 video for “Hotline Bling.” It’s Tommy in a lightbox (whose walls are made of shoji, or Japanese rice paper on a wooden lattice), dancing and posing.

It’s fairly in line with the content of his last few offerings, such as “Actin Up” and its remix with Sexyy Red.

After taking a fair degree of flak for proclaiming himself to not be (just) hip-hop, the new single is a step in the right direction for an artist looking to prove he can do more than “Million Dollar Baby.” While it may not appeal to all of his day-one fans, it’s a promising sign of musical growth.

After becoming a leading force in modern shoegaze, Wisp is nearing a milestone as her new album If Not Winter is out in early August. Before that, Wisp has shared “Breathe Onto Me,” which is set to be the final pre-album single.

Wisp says of the song, “‘Breathe onto me’ is a fun play on affection, touch, and love on the surface. It’s about the simplicity of physical relationships and how they can totter between innocent and lustful.”

Wisp previously said of working on the project, “It’s definitely a very hard challenge going from writing singles to making a cohesive album just because the songs have to make sense together, and I want my album to tell a story. […] I’m sticking to the ethereal, fairy tale-esque stuff [that] circulates around Greek mythology, the mermaids and the angels, and I really want to incorporate more mystical creatures into my music, which will be fun to experiment with.”

Listen to “Breathe Onto Me” above and find Wisp’s upcoming tour dates below.

Wisp’s 2025 Tour Dates

08/22 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
08/23 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
08/24 — Boston, MA @ Royale Boston
08/25 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
08/27 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (supporting System Of A Down & Korn)
08/28 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium (supporting System Of A Down & Korn)
08/31 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (supporting System Of A Down & Avenged Sevenfold)
09/01 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field (supporting System Of A Down & Avenged Sevenfold)
09/03 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium (supporting System Of A Down & Deftones)
09/05 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium (supporting System Of A Down & Deftones)
09/06 — Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall
09/07 — Detroit, MI @ El Club
09/08 — Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
09/10 — Chicago, IL @ Metro
09/11 — Saint Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall
09/13 — Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
09/16 — Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
09/18 — Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
09/19 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
09/21 — San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
09/23 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
09/26 — Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
09/27 — El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
09/29 — Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
09/30 — Austin, TX @ Mohawk
10/01 — Houston, TX @ Numbers
10/03 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
10/04 — Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
10/06 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
10/07 — Saint Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
10/08 — Kansas City, MO @ recordbar
10/22 — Glasgow, UK @ The Garage
10/23 — Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
10/24 — London, UK @ EartH
10/25 — Paris, FR @ Maroquinerie
10/27 — Brussels, BE @ Botanique
10/28 — Cologne, DE @ Luxor
10/29 — Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Old Room
10/31 — Hamburg, DE @ headCRASH
11/01 — Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
11/02 — Warsaw, PL @ Klub Hybrydy

If Not Winter is out 8/1 via Music Soup/Interscope. Find more information here.

Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week is a special one for ‘90s and ‘00s sneaker fans as we have the return of the Jordan 8 Aqua and the Total Orange Kobe 6 Protro. Both of those releases are essentially sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, if you’re not paying attention to those, then you must have some weird kind of beef with two of the greatest players to ever play the game.

Or maybe, you just aren’t into throwbacks. That’s a position we can respect! And for those people, this week brings the women’s exclusive Jordan 3 Starfish (a new colorway) and an Arrow & Beast and Adidas link-up. There isn’t a lot to get to, but what we have are gems! Here are this week’s best sneaker drops.

Women’s Jordan 5 Wings

Price: $215

Made in celebration of the Jordan Wings academic scholarship, this black and metallic silver Jordan features a shiny satin upper, an icy outsole, and toe embroidery that reads “In This Family” on one shoe, and “No One Flies Alone,” on the other. Rounding out the design is an embroidered “10” representing the scholarship’s 10-year anniversary.

The audience for this sneaker isn’t wide, but it’s a great design regardless.

The Women’s Jordan 5 Wings is out now for a retail price of $215. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Women’s Jordan 3 Starfish

Price: $205

It’s not every day we get a brand new colorway on a classic Jordan silhouette, so we’re thrilled about this week’s all-new Jordan 3 Starfish. The orange accented design takes inspiration from a jersey Jordan wore during a legendary 1985 exhibition game in Italy in which he shattered the backboard during a dunk. It’s the sort of stuff that made Jordan an absolute legend right at the start of his career.

The sneaker sports a canvas and suede upper with a beige color and hints of bright orange. Welcome to the family Starfish!

The Nike Women’s Jordan 3 Starfish is out now for a retail price of $205. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Jordan 8 Aqua

Price: $215

If the new Jordans just aren’t doing it for you, one of the AJ 8’s most famous colorways, the Aqua, is making a return! The sneaker features a swirling upper that combines aqua and concord color tones with a leather build and textile and synthetic leather accents.

First released in 1993, this sneaker screams ‘90s fashion — look at that mudguard! It looks straight off the set of Fresh Prince or Saved by The Bell in the best way possible. If we were back in the ’90s, people would be asking who wore it better between Zach and Will! This is a real time capsule piece for diehard ‘90s Nike fans.

The Nike Jordan 8 Aqua is set to drop on July 19th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $215. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Kobe 6 Protro Total Orange

Price: $190

Bright, bold, and impossible to look away from, we’re not sure if there is another Protro that better reflects Kobe’s game than this Total Orange Kobe 6. The sneaker sports a snakeskin textured upper, metallic accents, and a translucent outsole for a nice icy twist. Kobe fans are staying well fed this year.

The Nike Kobe 6 Protro Total Orange is out now for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Adidas x Arrow & Beast Superstar ADV

Price: $110

Adidas has linked up with the Stuttgart, Germany based brand Arrow & Beast for a skate-ready take on the iconic The Superstar. The sneaker features a reinforced woven suede upper with debossed details, Adituff technology, and a classic cupsole. The sneaker drops in two colorways, each representing Arrow & Beast’s locations in Stuttgart and Paris.

The Adidas x Arrow & Beast Superstar ADV is out now for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.

Experimental rapper Yeat reintroduces himself with his latest single, “Im Yeat.” In a frenetic video, he details his travels by bus, private plane, and Lamborghini, and captures behind-the-scenes moments from the studio, his live performances at festivals like Summer Smash, and hotel room stays, where he still puts in work to pay off the massive buzz behind his name.

Admittedly, I don’t really “get” said buzz, but Yeat’s got a pretty rabid following of almost exclusively teens and twenty-somethings who have driven the viral favorite to Coachella-level notoriety. For what it’s worth, his last album, 2024’s Lifestyledebuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in October, despite mixed reviews from critics, so maybe there’s some secret sauce you can only understand if you grew up with a screen three inches from your face. Coming only eight months after its predecessor, 2093, the album at least proved he’s got the drive to keep up with modern demands for increased output, so a follow-up could be right around the corner.

Yeat’s also earned co-signs from the likes of Drake, Future, Lil Wayne, and Young Thug, so he’s obviously doing something right. You can check out the video for “Im Yeat” above and stay tuned for more from burgeoning star.

For all their focus on futuristic visuals and space-age tech, the Black Eyed Peas were really always just down-to-earth LA natives doing what they loved and paying homage to the hip-hop and freestyle records of their youth.

But hey, if you wanted something a little more roots-y, will.i.am and Taboo have you covered with their new single, “East LA.” As its title suggests, it’s a gritty ode to their hometown, built around a sample of Santana’s monster 1999 hit “Maria Maria.” As the Product G&B sing “East LA” on loop, will and Tab detail their experiences growing up in “el barrio,” standing up for and celebrating the immigrant and indigenous population that provides so much of Los Angeles’ vibrant culture.

In a statement on the video’s YouTube, will writes: “We are Los Angeles. We are Angelenos. We are Americans. Some of us born here, some of us migrated here. We are a great country and our borders should be protected. You would think that the idea of border control would make residents feel safe – but it’s pumped fear into our communities.”

“They’re going after people that make our city beautiful. People who put food in our supermarkets, take care of other people’s kids, work two to three jobs so they can take care of their families. It breaks my heart. I wanted to make this video to change the vibe and celebrate the folks that make our cities great. The very same people who are being disregarded, dehumanized, and demoralized.”

“Thank you for your contributions. Thank you for your work. We will get through this.”

Watch will.i.am and Taboo’s “East LA” video above.

Zach Bryan is prone to being mysterious, and now he’s at it again.

Back in February, Bryan teased on Instagram, “With Heaven On Top the EP is out sooner than not,” but did not offer a firm release date. But, today, he shared what is presumably the cover art for the project, which includes the title and a photo of Bryan and a dog in the woods by a body of water. In the post’s caption, Bryan indicated the project is set to be released on January 9, 2026.

He also released a song featuring Gabriella Rose called “Madeline.” The single art uses similar typography to the With Heaven On Top cover, so seemingly, the new song is set to be included on the project.

This is presumably on top of the album Bryan teased in January (or maybe With Heaven On Top is a new title for the album), sharing some spoken-word audio from Matthew McConaughey in which the actor says, “This is not a film about a band. This is a film about a boy from Oklahoma, a boy who joined the Navy with a love of writing. That writing connected with people — a lot of people. This film is about a group of best friends taking a two-week motorcycle ride across America while recording one final major-label album. Oh, and the title of the film, you ask? Motorbreath.”

After sharing a teaser for her latest single last week, Saweetie returned to the spotlight this week with “Boffum,” an upbeat, luxurious, materialistic single that gets back to the things she does best. In this case, it’s name-checking expensive goods, boasting about her romantic prowess, and refusing to choose between all the options on the table, because, as she says on the hook, why not “boffum?”

Produced by J White Did It, “Boffum” utilizes an interpolation of Young Buck’s 2004 Straight Outta Cashville single “Shorty Wanna Ride,” reintroducing a staple of Saweetie hits going back to her very first one, “Icy Grl.” It seems most fans agree, she’s at her best when utilizing samples of songs from her youth; those fans should be more than satisfied with the results of this new effort.

Whether this means that Saweetie will finally release her long-awaited debut(!) album, Pretty Bitch Music, remains to be seen. Truthfully, although there are still plenty of “albums artists,” Saweetie has not only been surviving but thriving when it comes to releasing singles every few months (her last one, “Is It The Way,” also tapped into her usual hit-making formula, albeit from a slightly different angle). Either way, the Icy Princess will always find a way to win.

Watch the visualizer for Saweetie’s new song “Boffum” above.

Does Kevin Parker have a new Tame Impala album on the way? Maybe! In the meantime, his 2015 classic Currents just turned ten years old and Parker marked the occasion with a retrospective Instagram post.

In the post, Parker says it doesn’t feel like the album is a decade old, and that while he was making it, he “couldn’t tell if it was great or embarrassingly bad.” The post reads in full:

“Currents is 10 years old today. Really?? It doesn’t feel like that at all. I guess because it’s stayed such a big part of my life since then it still feels fresh. When we play Let It Happen live these days I still feel it deep in my soul. I guess also because it’s taken me this long to really appreciate the music. I had more than one existential crisis during the making and release of this album. I couldn’t tell if it was great or embarrassingly bad, not to mention the fans I would lose by switching up music styles so heavily. People recently have asked me if i was feeling pretty chuffed with myself after making this album and the answer is always absolutely not! There was often so much doubt, but I knew it was an album I had to make. The lows were low but the highs were high. And during the highs, when I had forgotten to care what people were going to think I’d be driving in my car listening to mixes feeling like it was pure magic, and in those moments I remember thinking whatever the outcome I just had to go through with it, and believe in it even if it felt totally blind. Glad I did. Happy 10th Bday Currents. Emotional thanks to all my peeps who believed in it with me, you know who you are [purple heart emoji]”

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