Nav aims to continue his prolific artistry into the new year. Following 2019’s record Bad Habits, the Toronto rapper is ready to usher in a new era. Nav unveiled his upcoming record Good Intentions, and it features verses by his frequent collaborators Gunna and Travis Scott, as well as a posthumous feature from the late Pop Smoke.

Nav announced his upcoming release via an album trailer. Compiled from home-recorded clips, Nav’s Good Intentions trailer gets fans excited for his fourth studio release, which is out everywhere May 8. “I had goals written down of going No. 1,” Nav said in the trailer. “I had a vision board in my room with all the things I want. This year, I pretty much got all of them. I believe in [the] law of attraction a lot.”

Ahead of announcing his forthcoming album, Nav joined forces with Gunna and Travis Scott for the widely energetic track “Turks.” The song was a quick hit and expeditiously appeared near the top of the Billboard charts upon its debut. But “Turks” isn’t Nav’s last collaboration with the two rappers, as Good Intentions will see guest verses from both Gunna and Scott.

Watch Nav’s Good Intentions album trailer above.

Good Intentions is out 5/8 via XO. Pre-order it here.

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

Once upon a time, two of rock’s great Davids — Dave Grohl and David Bowie — had an email exchange, and it seems like it wasn’t so positive. That’s the story Grohl tells, anyway, in an upcoming post on his “Dave’s True Stories” Instagram page.

Billboard has an exclusive early look at Grohl’s next tale (which is set to drop this week), and in it, he starts writing about how he got an email from Bowie, in which the legend told him to “f*ck off”:

“‘Well, that’s settled. Now f*ck off.’

Frozen in my living room chair, my stomach dropped like a lead weight as I stared down at my laptop screen in horror. Fingers trembling above the cold keyboard, I read and re-read those two sentences over and over again, praying that perhaps it was just some sort of typo, some kind of cruel autocorrect disaster. But…it was no mistake.

David Bowie had just told me to f-ck off.

Believe me, it wasn’t the first time my battered ears had heard such colorful language, but from the ‘Thin White Duke’ himself? What could I have possibly done to illicit such a soul-crushing reaction? Was it something I said? Or, had I done that thing that I always do when faced with a bonifide legend, nervously displaying all of my most annoying tendencies? (There are many, trust me) I retraced all of our brief encounters together over the years, digging back into….My Life with David Bowie (God, how I wish that were the title of my book….).”

If you’re not caught up, check out Grohl’s other story posts here, and follow the account to learn soon what peeved Bowie so much.

The NBA 2K League, like every other sports entity, has been preparing for the upcoming season with uncertainty about exactly how it will look. However, unlike the NBA, WNBA, NHL, and MLB, being an eSports league affords them an opportunity to craft a plan for starting on time with their players all participating from home.

On Monday, the 2K League announced they would indeed be starting their season on May 5, with six weeks of planned remote gameplay with players from all teams, as well as announcers, all working from home. All 23 teams will participate in the remote season, with games being broadcast on the league’s YouTube and Twitch channels.

“We are thrilled to officially tip off the 2020 NBA 2K League season remotely and hope the excitement of NBA 2K League competition provides both new and returning fans with a fun way to stay connected and engage with our league during these unprecedented times,” said NBA 2K League Managing Director Brendan Donohue. “Our players have been quarantining with their teammates as they prepare for the season and will now have the opportunity to compete against one another and show they are the best players in the world.”

The remote season schedule will take place as follows, with four matchups happening each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, starting at 7 p.m. ET.

May 5 – 8 Regular Season – Week 1
May 12 – 15 Regular Season – Week 2
May 19 – 22 Regular Season – Week 3
May 26 – 29 Regular Season – Week 4
June 2 – 5 Regular Season – Week 5
June 9 – 12 Regular Season – Week 6

Each team will play eight matches over the six week remote period, with matches played in a best-of-three format and each series win counts as a regular season win and each series loss will count as a regular season loss.

On the latest episode of People’s Party With Talib Kweli, Soul Plane director Jessy Terrero stops by the Uproxx offices to detail his peculiar rise through the entertainment industry. After getting his start as an extra in Juice, Terrero became a highly sought music video director for 50 Cent, G-Unit, and more, actually taking a pay cut to get in on the ground floor with the Queens rap crew. Videos directed by Terrero include Lloyd Banks’ videos for “I’m So Fly” and “On Fire” and 50’s videos for “Candy Shop,” “Outta Control,” and “Wanksta.”

As he explains to Kweli, the budgets for G-Unit’s videos were much lower than Terrero’s rate, but the Queens-bred director saw potential in the hometown hero. “I’m jumping on this because I believed in this from my neighborhood and the rest is history,” he elaborates. “We created a good chemistry and just started rocking from that point.” Terrero says, at one point, he was so closely associated with G-Unit that, “I used to go to the club and people used to run up on me. People don’t be running up on Dave Myers because he’s working with Jay-Z… Me and 50 just built a great relationship.

People’s Party is a weekly interview show hosted by Talib Kweli with big-name guests exploring hip-hop, culture, and politics. Subscribe via Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

The star of Sunday night’s episodes of The Last Dance was Dennis Rodman, as the eccentric Hall of Fame forward took center stage as the documentary dove into the Bulls-Pistons rivalry, Rodman’s addition to the team, how much he helped Jordan and Pippen, and how Phil Jackson managed Rodman’s unique personality and needs.

The story that stuck out for most was Rodman being granted a 48-hour vacation to Las Vegas in the middle of the season, but not returning on time and forcing Michael Jordan to go get him. Carmen Electra, Rodman’s ex-wife, recalled how that went down, with Jordan banging on the door and dragging Rodman back to the team while she hid behind a couch.

The documentary only scratched the surface of Rodman’s off-court escapades, but luckily for those wanting more Rodman-Electra stories, Greg Braxton of the Los Angeles Times spoke with Electra recently to get even more insight into her relationship with The Worm and reveal some more wild stories. There are many in the interview, but the one that sticks out the most is Electra recalling the time Rodman blindfolded her and drove her, on his motorcycle, to the Bulls facility and then they had sex all over the place.

“One day when the Bulls had an off day from practicing, Dennis said he had a surprise for me,” she said. “He blindfolds me and we get on his motorcycle. When he finally takes my blindfold off, we’re standing at the Bulls practice facility, center court. It was crazy, like two kids in a candy store. We were eating Popsicles from the fridge and pretty much having sex all over the damn place — in the physical therapy room, in the weight room. Obviously on the court.”

She bursts out laughing. “To be honest, I don’t think he’s ever worked out so hard in his life.”

I’m really not sure there is anything else to add to this, other than it’s extremely Rodman and I would pay really good money to watch Michael Jordan read this story and realize he probably sat on those training tables the next day. I imagine it would look something like this.

It’s entirely possible that someone has rapped Dr. Seuss stories before, but I’ve never seen it. Now that I have seen it, the rhyming children’s classics I’ve read over and over to my kids are never going to be the same—and not in a bad way.

Filmmaker Wes Tank has taken some of Dr. Seuss’s most popular stories and rapped them over Dr. Dre beats in a mashup so perfect it’s a wonder it hadn’t been done a million times before.

Check out his rap of the tongue-twisting Fox in Sox. If you’ve ever tried to read this book out loud, you know how challenging it is not to flub, especially the second half. To rap it like Tanks does is an incredibly impressive—and enjoyable—feat.

FOX IN SOX | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

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The comments on the videos are almost as entertaining as the videos themselves. Here’s what people are saying about the Fox in Sox rap:

“All of a sudden the coronavirus isn’t the illest thing out there.”

“Am now convinced Dr.Seuss was some rapper’s ghost writer.”

“I’ve listened to this maybe 7 times so far. Still not sick of it.”

“Yo, the tweedle beetle battle bit was fire.”

Tank also rapped the cautionary environmental tale, The Lorax.

THE LORAX | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

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And people loved it.

“I’m devastated to think that there are only a finite number of Dre beats & Seuss books. Please don’t ever stop.”

“I didn’t think rapping dr Seuss books was something I needed in my life but now I know better.”

“This is way better than the movie was.”

“Omg I just told my seven-year-old there was a new Doctor Seuss rap video, and now he’s jumping up and down screaming with excitement, and begging to go to bed… 😂😂😂 Thanks?!”

How about a little One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish?

ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

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And the comments keep on coming:

“This guy just filled a niche I didn’t even know existed.”

“Dr. Seuss’ books weren’t part of my childhood. Rap isn’t really my thing. Why do I find these videos so awesome? Because they are amazing!”

“You are frighteningly good at this.”

“3:05 is the literal definition of how to hit a beat with ferocity.”

So far, it looks like Tanks has six Dr. Seuss/Dr. Dre videos on his YouTube channel, which you can check out here.

Well done, Wes Tanks. (Personal request—do The Sneetches next, please and thank you.)

Game night = the best entertainment.

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That did not go as planned.

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“You can kiss this butter buyer’s ass!!”

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