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In July, DJ Khaled announced God Did, his thirteenth album, the follow-up to 2020’s Khaled Khaled, which featured 21 Savage, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Big Sean, and more. But he didn’t release a single alongside this announcement, and he didn’t offer a tracklist, or even a release date. However, today he unveiled some more information.

In a new Instagram post, DJ Khaled revealed that God Did is arriving on August 26th. The first single “Staying Alive” is out this Friday, August 5, and will feature Drake and Lil Baby. Read the full caption below.

“DJ KHALED FEAT. @champagnepapi @lilbaby #STAYINGALIVE ANTHEM AND VIDEO THIS FRIDAY AUG 5TH

#GODDID
ALBUM DROPPING AUGUST 26TH 8/26 !
Win with us…or watch us win
PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM NOW! LINK IN BIO!”

In November of last year, DJ Khaled teased this song during his own birthday party, letting the crowd know that a new collaboration with Drake was in the offing. “I got some new music with Drake coming out real soon,” he said. “This sh*t sounds crazy too. The vocals are in!” In 2020, the pair also worked together on the track “Popstar,” which also featured Justin Bieber, so this isn’t their first time working alongside one another.

You might remember Mark McCloskey. He was the unhinged lawyer who, along with his wife Patricia, brandished firearms at BLM protesters marching through their gated St. Louis community. They faced felony charges, but pleaded them down to misdemeanors. Mark was immediately hailed as a new GOP star. He and his wife made video appearances at that year’s wild Republican National Convention. Mark was so emboldened that he ran for Senate. Well, anyway, sometimes dreams, they simply don’t come true.

As per The Daily Beast, in the Republican primary held on Tuesday, McCloskey nabbed a mere 3% of the vote. That means he came in a distant fifth. Besides, the race was already dominated by one even more out-there candidate, who also lost.

Like McCloskey, Eric Greitens — the state’s former governor, who resigned in disgrace in 2018 — released a campaign video in which he toted big guns. Unlike McCloskey, Greitens went so far as to fantasize about using them to hunt RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only. Greitens came in third, with only 19% of the vote, with the nomination going to the state’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt.

The general public is notoriously fickle and easy to forget. So it goes with McCloskey, who thought he could ride a deranged public outburst into a position making laws in D.C. Instead, his law license was suspended indefinitely, and an appeal was shot down back in June. Let this be a lesson that pointing guns at people later revealed to be unarmed won’t make you a superstar, not even with the Republican Party.

(Via The Daily Beast)

The greatest to ever sit behind a microphone and take listeners on a journey throughout a baseball game died on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Dodgers announced in a statement on their Twitter account that Vin Scully, who spent 67 seasons calling games for the team before his retirement in 2016, passed away.

“We have lost an icon,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said in a statement. “The Dodgers’ Vin Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports. He was a giant of a man, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian. He loved people. He loved life. He loved baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his family. His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever. I know he was looking forward to joining the love of his life, Sandi. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family during this very difficult time. Vin will be truly missed.”

Scully began his time with the team in 1950, when the Dodgers will still based out of Brooklyn. He joined them when they moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and continued to call their games until he decided to end his career when he was 88. While Scully called NFL games and golf tournaments during his career, and did national baseball broadcast for a period of time, he’ll forever be known for lending his voice and unparalleled storytelling to the Dodgers.

Scully’s final game came on Oct. 2, 2016, the team’s regular season finale against the San Francisco Giants. At the conclusion of the game, Scully said the following to the loyal listeners as part of his final sign off: “You and I have been friends for a long time, but I know in my heart that I’ve always needed you more than you’ve needed me, and I’ll miss our time together more I can say. But you know what? There will be a new day, and eventually a new year. And when the upcoming winter gives way to spring, rest assured, once again, it will be time for Dodger baseball. So this is Vin Scully, wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon, wherever you may be.”

Even before he recorded a violent and disturbing campaign ad in which he hunted RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only, with shotguns, Eric Greitens was bad news. He used to be the governor of Missouri…until he resigned in disgrace following a flurry of disturbing accusations, including sexual misconduct. But if you were worried he’d wind up in the Senate, don’t worry because he got his butt handed to him in the primary.

As per NBC News, Eric Schmitt, the state’s sitting attorney general, handily clinched the Republican nomination for the Senate seat soon to be vacated by GOP lawmaker Roy Blunt. His predecessor in his current role was no less than macho man Josh Hawley. His positions aren’t much better. He wants to overturn the Affordable Care Act, he’s been against public health restrictions during the pandemic, he’s against protecting LGBTQIA+ people from workplace discrimination, and more.

Still, at least he doesn’t openly fantasize about hunting down people he disagrees with for sport. As of this writing, The New York Times reports that Schmitt has nabbed 46% of the Republican vote, while Greitens came not in second but in third, with only 19%. Schmitt will now face the winner of the Democratic primary, which will either be Trudy Busch Valentine or Lucas Kunce. Thus comes the end of a bizarre GOP primary, which featured such highlights as Donald Trump having to choose which Republican Eric to endorse, only to go with…both of them.

(Via NBC News)

While there were some uninspiring moments during the 2022 NBA playoffs, the first round matchup between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Memphis Grizzlies was highly entertaining. Eventually, the Grizzlies prevailed, in part by making fewer mistakes than the Wolves.

Minnesota standout Anthony Edwards is seemingly baffled by what transpired. In fact, he recently spoke to Zion Olojede of Complex and indicated a belief that the Wolves “handed” the series win to Memphis.

“Man, I feel like we handed it to them, man. It was like taking candy from a baby, and they took the candy,” Edwards said. “We had every game won, man, and I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what happened.”

This is not hard to believe, especially when considering the factors in play during the series. Game 3 is the shining example when the Wolves blew two different 25-point leads before losing a pivotal contest. On the whole, Minnesota held a halftime lead in the majority of games during the series, and the Wolves were mistake-prone throughout the contest.

It wasn’t as if Memphis was a fully playoff-tested team when the series began, but the Grizzlies did benefit from a young Minnesota team that may not have been quite ready to win a series like that. Of course, the future is bright with Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns, and the newly acquired Rudy Gobert on board, and expectations are sky-high for the Wolves this season. Beyond that, Edwards is always candid and refreshing in his public comments, and this is an example of that.

In June, Drake released Honestly, Nevermind as a surprise, and it received a wide range of reactions. Now he’s unveiling the music video for the track “Sticky.”

Directed by Theo Skudra, the video opens with a massive crowd hyping up Drake as he walks onto the stage. It then follows him in cars, parking lots, airports, clubs, and even on boats. The words “Free YSL” appear across the screen for a brief moment, referring to the ongoing racketeering case against Gunna’s label that has Gunna, Young Thug, and 28 other members hit with several federal charges.

Shortly after unleashing the LP, the rapper mentioned on a radio show that he has lots more projects that will be arriving soon. “Me and Kenzo have a book coming out this year. Yeah, we have a book coming out this year, a poetry book. So I hope you guys tune into that, too, because that’s going to be some sh*t.” He added, “I got another Scary Hours pack coming, too, in a little bit. Maybe not, like [laughs]… maybe not right now; I need you to just take this [Honestly, Nevermind] in right now. But I have a Scary Hours, I’m gonna slap some head tops off with a Scary Hours pack.”

Watch the video for “Sticky” above.

Last month, the filmmaking duo who made Everything Everywhere All At Once shot down a rumor that they’d be doing a sequel, in which Michelle Yeoh’s multiverse-tripping hero gets radicalized by social media and has to be rescued by her daughter. Sorry! But here’s something probably better: Its directors just scored a big deal to make more original stuff.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — who collectively go by “The Daniels” — are signing a five-year exclusive partnership with Universal. It’s the same deal they cut with Jordan Peele back in 2019, after he’d gifted them with both Get Out and Us. (Nope is his first big movie out of the deal.)

The news comes as Everything Everywhere All At Once continues to rake in the bucks, some 19 weeks into release. It’s still in the top 20, and its North American haul is approaching $69 million, and it’s nearing $100 million worldwide, making it the biggest hit for indie label A24.

The Daniels’ previous film together was Swiss Army Man, which garnered a lot of attention in 2016, probably because it starred Paul Dano as a sad man who befriends a farting corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe. Who needs an Everything Everywhere sequel when they know their way around original ideas.

(Via THR)

Emu’s are interesting birds that kind of look like an angry ostrich with different feathers. Thank goodness they don’t fly because that would be terrifying to witness while driving across a bridge or trying to take your pooch for a walk around the neighborhood. But an emu named Karen is terrifying enough without the gift of flight. This emu who wears the moniker “Karen” proudly seems to have it out for her owner, the Useless Farm Lady who runs the Useless Farm that Karen calls home and posts about their interactions on the TikTok. It seems that every time farm lady turns her back on the fuzzy bird, Karen sees it as her opportunity to strike.

Though it’s not clear what Karen would do if she got her beak on the farm lady. Karen gets caught every time, partly because she’s not in the least bit quiet and I’m not totally sure stealth is a word I’d use for a bird the size of an SUV. Farm lady seems to have the patience of a thousand monks when it comes to Karen’s shenanigans. But interestingly enough, Karen isn’t the only one trying to delete farm lady from the farm. There’s also a silkie chicken named Brad that chases the farm lady around when Karen is in her pen.

@useless_farm

I live for Karen’s little yellow calming hat. Literally.

Maybe it’s a team effort but it’s truly biting the hand that feeds you in probably the most entertaining way. Of course we don’t know why several of the animals have a plot against the farm lady and animal experts always claim that animals don’t hold grudges. Pretty sure farm lady would beg to differ. In their defense, she does dress them in silly hats and wigs which could be the source of animosity if animals could seek revenge.

@useless_farm

Replying to @tonia_j every day, i am inspired and motivated Karen’s tireless dedication.

If the Useless Farm animals have it their way, farm lady better continue to sleep with one eye open because Karen is coming and she doesn’t skip leg day.

Texas-native rapper Erica Banks recently dropped her new album Diary Of The Flow Queen. Today, she’s back with a new music video for the track “Trick.”

The video goes well with the song, which is a relentlessly confident anthem with a catchy beat. It takes place at a strip club and is full of cash, smoke, and skin. The press release states that it “might just be her wildest and definitely most bodacious video yet,” and it’s not wrong.

Last year, Banks went viral with her hit “Buss It,” which was so massive that DaBaby’s label Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment offered to take her on. She turned it down. “I had already turned everybody down,” she said in an interview. “I personally did not sign with DaBaby because I was very excited, it was my second offer, I was like, ‘Hell yeah.’ I was about to get all the planning done. But then I called my mom, like, ‘This is what I’m about to do, I’m about to go sign with DaBaby.’ She’s like, ‘Oh no, we need to slow down. This is only the second offer. We’re not gonna just jump on whatever.’”

Watch the video for “Trick” above.

Erica Banks is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

On last year’s Far In, Helado Negro’s Roberto Carlos Lange reflected on his journeys around the world and across the US that helped shape the artist he is today. The Ecuadorian-American grew up in South Florida and the track “Agosto” especially harkens back to the senses of his hometown. Featuring Puerto Rican duo Buscabulla — who were recently featured on Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, on the gorgeous “Andrea” — the track now has a surreal video to accompany Lange’s the lush soundscape.

What begins as a reflective focus on Lange sitting on a couch, soon zeroes in on a painting behind him of a beach. The camera zooms in on the scene, making the whole visual construction feel like a pointilist landscape. The lens crashes into the ocean blue of the painting and the new reality is now the water, where Buscabulla’s Raquel Berrios is swimming underwater. The video’s vantage point shifts from under to above water, prodding at the blissful release that Lange paints with summer on the shore. It’s a beautiful clip for the serene song from Helado Negro.

Watch the video for “Agosto” above and check out Helado Negro’s 2022 tour dates below.

08/03 – Central Park SummerStage – New York, NY *
08/20 – Regent Theater – Los Angeles, CA #
08/21 – The Glass House – Pomona, CA #
08/23 – The Ritz – San Jose, CA #
08/24 – 08/Hall – San Francisco, CA #
08/26 – Revolution Hall – Portland OR &
08/27 – THING Festival – Port Townsend, WA
08/29 – Mohawk – Austin, TX %
08/31 – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX %
09/01 – HOCO Fest – Tucson, AZ
09/04 – ALLCALL Music Festival – Traverse City, MI
11/05 – Primavera Sound Festival – Sao Paulo, Brazil
11/07-11 – Primavera Sound Festival – Buenos Aires, Argentina
11/07-11 – Primavera Sound Festival – Santiago, Chile

* with Silvana Estrada & Doris Anahi
# with Kacy Hill
& with Lido Pimienta
% with KAINA