On Thursday, June 29, Humberstone announced that her debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, is due out on October 13.
“My debut album Paint My Bedroom Black will be yours October 13th [black heart emoji],” she captioned an Instagram post that reveals the album’s cover art. “[Producer/songwriter Rob Milton] & I poured our hearts into this album, it’s my favourite thing I’ve ever made and I literally can’t wait another second for you guys to hear it. Available to preorder now through the link in my bio [black heart emoji] I love you and I can’t fucking wait for October [four crying emojis].”
The album announcement was preceded by two single releases, “Antichrist” and Room Service.” The album itself is preceded by EPs Falling Asleep At The Wheel (2020) and The Walls Are Way Too Thin (2021). Humberstone spent the first portion of 2022 opening on tour for Olivia Rodrigo, and she’s scheduled to deliver a headlining performance at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on August 11.
“This album is an exploration of the two sides of myself that coexist,” Humberstone said in a statement. “One side, the introvert who wants to board the windows up and shut the world out, writing about wanting to escape my surroundings and the confusion of life on the road last year. The other side of me, the extrovert, writing about a budding relationship, deep connections and love.”
She continued, “I spent most of last year on the road, and although I kept busy and enjoyed touring for the most part, I found myself retreating back to empty hotel rooms in foreign cities every night while watching my life at home carry on without me through my phone screen. Late at night, I felt the panic of being left behind the most. Yearning for home, I never felt like I was totally present wherever I was in the world. It all felt like some weird dream; like a fake existence that I was alone in. The only way I knew to find clarity was to write.”
Check out the Paint My Bedroom Black cover art and tracklist below.
While the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two focused on the sport-like spectacle of Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) riding a giant sandworm, the second full trailer offers us a wide blue-eyed look into the epic scope of the story itself. A clash of two powerful clans and the questioning of an ancient prophecy. The most notable element is how aggressive Paul has turned in this outing, molded by pain and suffering and loss.
We also get some handsome views of Christopher Walken‘s Emperor Shaddam IV, and some excellent black and white shots of Austin Butler doing his Powder impression as Feyd-Rautha. In fact, there are some decent shots of dozens of characters played by some of the most notable names, which is an impressive feat considering there are at least 114 main characters in the film. On that front, Gurney’s (Josh Brolin) fate was up in the air at the end of the first film, but he’s clearly very much alive and ready for action.
Dune: Part Two is exclusively in theaters November 3rd — a perfect time to take a sunny trip to the desert and prepare for Thanksgiving family arguments about whether Butler or Sting did it better.
According to reports, Thomas and the other conservative justices ruled that considering race in college admissions violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. To make matters worse, Thomas argued that he doesn’t know what diversity is, which set Goldberg off.
“That’s what he said, and so he doesn’t get it.” Goldberg said. “Well, let me pose this question to you from Justice Thomas. Could your mother and father vote in this country because had the 14th Amendment actually had us on equal footing, they would have been able to vote. And you know why that changed? Because people got out and made a change.”
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But Whoopi was just getting warmed up. Via Mediaite:
“Who wants to get hit by water from a water hose? Nobody. But that’s what people did in order to get the vote. So when you say you don’t know what diversity is, I say you’re full of it,” Whoopi concluded with cheers from the in-studio audience.
She later added, “When you have a justice who says something as ridiculous as ‘I don’t get it,’ it just makes a kid, an Asian kid, a Native American kid, and a black kid feel like you don’t matter. Like you don’t understand why my struggle is hard.”
Goldberg wasn’t the only prominent Black voice to call out Thomas. NAACP President Derrick Johnson slammed the decision with a scathing rebuke of the conservative justice.
“The worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a Clarence Thomas,” Johnson said.
You can see his full remarks below:
“The worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a Clarence Thomas.”
— NAACP President Derrick Johnson hammers the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ending affirmative action in college admissions pic.twitter.com/jECJBqrxZ5
The music world was surprised yesterday (June 28) to learn that over the weekend, Madonna was admitted to the hospital and remained in the ICU for days. Now, we have a positive development: CNN reports that according to “a source with knowledge of the matter,” Madonna was discharged from the hospital and transported to her home in New York by a private ambulance. The source noted, “She’s in the clear.”
“A source” also told People, “She’s back home and feeling better.”
The news of Madonna’s hospital visit was initially shared by Guy Oseary, the pop icon’s longtime manager. In a post shared on Instagram, he explained, “On Saturday June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which lead to a several day stay in the ICU. Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care. A full recovery is expected. At this time we will need to pause all commitments, which includes the tour. We will share more details with you soon as we have them, including a new start date for the tour and for rescheduled shows.”
Madonna herself has yet to publicly address the situation. There has also not been an update about the status of Madonna’s upcoming tour. The Celebration Tour was announced in early 2023 and is currently scheduled to start Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on July 15.
Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Dallas Mavericks acquired Kyrie Irving ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline last year with the hopes that they could convince him to stick around long-term. While the Mavs do seem like the favorite to retain his services as he enters unrestricted free agency this summer, a new report indicates that he’s at least going to do his due diligence before signing a new deal with the team.
According to Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report, Irving is going to sit down with the Phoenix Suns right when the NBA’s free agency period begins on June 30 at 6 p.m. EST. Phoenix, of course, currently has Irving’s close friend and former teammate with the Brooklyn Nets, Kevin Durant. Having said that, as Haynes noted, it would be incredibly difficult for Irving — who is eligible for a 5-year, $272 million extension with the Mavericks — to come to terms on a deal with the Suns.
It would be difficult for the Suns to add Irving due to the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement. If they acquired him via sign-and-trade, they would be hard-capped at the first salary-cap apron, which is currently projected to be $172 million. They also aren’t expected to have access to the $12.4 million non-taxpayer mid-level exception or the $5 million taxpayer mid-level exception at the moment.
Perhaps the two sides could work out some sort of sign-and-trade deal for Irving with Deandre Ayton — it’s worth mentioning that the Suns and the Mavericks were reportedly close to a deal during the NBA Draft that would have sent Ayton to Dallas, although there’s no indication that the teams would rekindle those conversations with Irving involved. Earlier this week, Ramona Shelburne of ESPN reported that Irving hopes that his next team will be the final one for which he plays during his NBA career.
None of that matters to Barbz after Thursday morning’s (June 29) news about Minaj’s forthcoming album, nostalgically titled Pink Friday 2.
“Dear Barbz, I’ve been trying to find the right time to tell you this for a few days. Due to some really exciting news that I’ll share with you guys @ a later time, I’ve shifted the album date just a tad bit,” Minaj captioned an Instagram post. “Trust me, it’ll be WELL WORTH THE WAIT…but since I AM shifting the date just a tad, I’d like to give you guys a tiny SIP of some more album tea so that I don’t have to get cussed out so…here it goes: MY NEW ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED ON 11.17.23- [pink bow emoji] and she shall be called: Pink Friday 2 [pink bow emoji.”
Minaj continued, “I love you guys so much. I am so grateful for the years of support & love you guys have given me. At times maybe I didn’t even deserve all that you have poured into me. Nonetheless, you. will. love. this. album. I will give tour deets closer to that time, but obviously the tour will start around the first quarter of 2024. I’ll also share the REAL album cover at a later date.”
See the post below.
Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The latest victim of this plague is breakout rap star Sexyy Red, who was forced to cut short a recent outdoor performance after someone in the crowd reportedly threw water bottles and balls on stage. In a fan-posted video, Red can be seen flouncing offstage while declaring, “I’m gone! Y’all throwing sh*t, I’m gone!” And while the DJ tries to keep the crowd hype with some explosions (seriously, though, these do not work. Knock it off), there’s a palpable sense of disappointment as Red exits stage left.
WHY Y’ALL DO THAT? | Sexyy Red cuts her performance short after people throw water bottles and balls on stage at her. pic.twitter.com/4EvAsQz6en
It’s a shame that so many breakout stars have to put up with this nonsense. And while COVID caused a lot of disappointment by shutting down live entertainment for a year, this sort of thing is getting even more frustrating, because who wants to pay today’s ticket prices, get dressed up, pay for parking and overpriced drinks, all to have the performers get pissed off by some feral asshole in the crowd with no sense of boundaries and leave early? Let’s all hope these folks get this trollish energy out of their systems because things are already bad enough as it is.
Last month, Boston-based musician Anjimile announced his new album The King and released the title track. He’s back today with the new single “Father.”
“I wrote this song with my parents in mind as a sort of gesture of appreciation and love for everything they did to try and support me before, during, and after I went to rehab and got sober in early 2016,” Anjimile said in a press release. “Thanks, mom and dad.”
The song is a gentle ballad with the texture of a hymn: “Are you still drinking? / What were you thinking? / On my heart, weighing / I am still praying,” he lulls over delicate strumming.
The King follows 2020’s powerful Giver/Taker. Since then, he shared the one-off song “Stranger,” about which he said, “‘Stranger’ is something of a confrontation between my past and present selves in relationship to my trans identity. I started testosterone about 3 or 4 years ago, and it’s been simultaneously liberating and alarming to note the changes to my mind and body over the years. ‘Stranger’ is an admission to myself that, while I welcome all of those changes — especially the deepening effect of testosterone on my singing and speaking voice — it’s still scary and there is a degree of internal ambivalence to my transition.”
Listen to “Father” above.
The King is out 9/8 via 4AD. Find more information here.
“When it comes to Big Latto and DJ Von, it’s always on the floor!” her official tour DJ said.
Nominated for Best Collaboration and Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor” performance was inspired by her Walmart runs with the gang on TikTok, taking the supermarket to Culture’s Biggest Night as she energized the crowd with choreography and a bit of extra sauce to emphasize some of her lyrics. It got everyone dropping low — even Boosie Badazz, who fell hard on his ass.
Wearing an all-white outfit that mirrored a plastic bag with “I been acting brand new” in red letters as its logo, her performance concluded with plastic bags being thrown at her feet. She ripped out of her top like she was, ahem, acting brand new as the lights when dark, and the camera zoomed in on “RIP Shawty Lo” to pay respect to his song “Dunn Dunn,” which Latto references in her hook.
Later in the evening, Latto won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist over Cardi B, Coi Leray, GloRilla, Ice Spice, Megan Thee Stallion, and Nicki Minaj. Visibly excited on stage, Latto said she wasn’t going to cry this year.
“Shout out to all the other women in the category, all the women to pave the way for this to even be possible,” Latto said. “This category is going crazy this year. Shout out to some women I think should’ve been in the category: Doechii, Maiya the Don, Flo Milli, Mello Buckzz, TiaCorine. Shout out to all the women, we killing it. This is the year of women. Hopefully, we gonna see an all-female tour very soon.”
The accolade doesn’t lie. Latto’s time is now. Fans are obsessed with shouting back the opening line, “Rip me out the plastic, I been acting brand new” when they hear “Put It On Da Floor” and “Put It On Da Floor Again,” the song’s remix with Cardi B. It’s a memorable lyric that fueled a “Rip Me Out The Plastic” TikTok challenge that has people embracing being fresh out of the box in appearance, hairstyles, nail transformations, academic achievements… you name it.
The 24-year-old rapper’s latest single finds her swinging the pendulum from the upbeat, pop sound heard in “Lottery” and “Big Energy” back to familiar territory: she’s popping off over a hard-hitting beat. “Put It On Da Floor Again” is bold and addictive, with bars on bars for captions from both Big Latto and Bardi. It has all the right ingredients to deem it the song of the summer, following a formula that Latto has mastered as a Gen Z artist who keeps her Jackpots engaged through social media, where she talks directly to them, and curates her singles for a TikTok generation who consumes them religiously.
Produced by Go Grizzly, Squat Beats, and Pooh Beatz, Latto’s original version, “Put It On Da Floor,” was released officially on streaming services on April 21, with the video serving as a Coachella 2023 recap that seemingly responded to claims that she doctored photos of her crowd. Latto’s versatility as a hitmaker shows in how much Clayton County has raised her, never going too mainstream to infuse a song with explicit lyrics and Atlanta strip club swagger.
When she was catching flack for the change-up in style for “Big Energy,” she told Uproxx in our 2021 December cover story, “I wanted to push myself. I wanted to challenge myself. Honestly, when you’ve been rapping since eight years old, you got to find new inspiration and new sparks. I just wanted to try something different and I didn’t really give a fuck whether people liked it or they didn’t because this was for me.” The point is, Latto is finally free to rap about what she wants to rap about after her “Big Energy” moment, as long as it remains meaningful to her.
Latto is an example of someone who takes it on the chin and keeps pushing. It’s why people love her immense Capricorn energy too. She hustles every new single like it’s the next one to pop regardless of outside forces working against her. Early predictions indicated that the contenders for “Song of the Summer” were Lil Uzi Vert’s “Just Wanna Rock” and Coi Leray’s “Players,” both Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits. But the pool has now widened to include not only “Put It On Da Floor Again,” but Sexyy Red’s “Pound Town,” IDK’s “Pinot Noir,” DaBaby’s “SHAKE SUMN,” and Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar’s “The Hillbillies.” Depending on who you ask, there’s no clear winner yet.
Latto’s strategy of doing a remix extends the life cycle of her record just like “Big Energy” getting a remix by Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled, which helped it move from No. 14 to No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 2022. This time around, Latto showed her Jackpots that Cardi B would be on “Put It On Da Floor Again” by participating in her own “Rip Me Out the Plastic” challenge for the reveal. Cardi B’s Midas touch helped boost streams previously when she was a guest feature on GloRilla’s “Tomorrow 2” and Kay Flock’s “Shake It.”
Since “Put It On Da Floor Again” released on June 2, Latto has been captured at strip clubs rapping along to the song, throwing fresh ones on the floor with a plastic bag over her head. By mid-June, “Put It On Da Floor Again” debuted at No. 13 and is currently at No. 39 on the Hot 100 in the week ending on July 1, supporting Cardi B’s streak of working with new female rappers and keeping the unity strong.
Cardi B has been a fan of Latto since 2020, where you can pull receipts of her talking to Bardi Gang about her and encouraging her to drop “Another Nasty Song” by teasing its lyrics. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion also featured Latto in the “WAP” video alongside breakout stars like Normani, Rosalía, Sukihana, and Rubi Rose because Cardi liked her music and believed she would break into the mainstream.
“I am so proud,” Cardi told Latto during an IG Live before the midnight release of “Put It On Da Floor Again.” “’Cause I have been in the studio for a couple of months, and it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want her to win so bad.’” She added the record inspired her to return to the booth after dealing with anxiety over releasing music.
“I’ve been patiently waiting my turn,” Latto replied. “I have seen her probably two-three times. I probably sent her two-three songs and she always responds every time, the realest bitch ever. And it just ended up being the time.”
“Put It On Da Floor Again” is incredibly catchy because Latto and Cardi B are genuine friends. In interviews, Latto has given praise to Cardi B for being in her corner, sharing advice on things she’s done before, and remaining focused. The video features cameos by the producer Go Grizz, Cardi B’s husband Offset, and Louisiana State University forward Angel Reese. Latto and Cardi B’s on-screen chemistry is cute as they turn up at a house party and a high-end jewelry store. They are having so much fun that it adds to the song’s playfulness when you hear it outside.
Both are about finding organic collaborators that aren’t manufactured by their labels or A&Rs. That’s why you hear Cardi B matching her cadence and flow, taking extra care in ensuring every line just had enough words. “I had to make sure the bars weren’t too long and they weren’t too short,” Cardi said during an IG Live breaking down her verse while munching on some Popeye’s. “Every single time I kept rapping I was like, ‘God fucking damn, I feel like I’m missing a word. And then we would add a word and now it’s too much fucking words. It was kinda hard, but we made it.”
To have a shot at the Song of the Summer title is making a record that’ll be undeniably everywhere. Latto and Cardi B are working “Put It On Da Floor Again” at every major concert appearance so far, performing it at Summer Jam 2023 and Birthday Bash ATL when 21 Savage brought them out. The impact is starting to be felt, where people bring plastic bags to the club to rip themselves out of it and court correspondents are dropping lyrics during trial recaps to lighten the mood. The momentum includes getting her friends Yung Miami and GloRilla to do their own versions, a nostalgic nod to blog-era freestyles.
There are still plenty of days of summer left to crown a champion. If this prediction becomes a spoiler, “Put It On Da Floor Again” is going down in history as one of those songs leading a cultural reset of rap fans embracing female rap anthems and their ratchet sides again.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
“We can hear the music already, can you?” The Recording Academy tweeted. “The 66th GRAMMYs nominees will be revealed on Nov. 10th, 2023 ahead of the Music’s Biggest Night’s return on Feb. 4th, 2024, which will air LIVE on @CBS from @cryptocomarena.”
We can hear the music already, can you?
The 66th #GRAMMYs nominees will be revealed on Nov. 10th, 2023 ahead of the Music’s Biggest Night’s return on Feb. 4th, 2024, which will air LIVE on @CBS from @cryptocomarena.
“There are some other key dates to keep in mind as well. For starters, the eligibility window for works to be considered is from October 1, 2022 to September 15, 2023,” Uproxx detailed upon The Recording Academy’s Thursday announcement. “After that, the first round of voting for Academy members will run from October 11 to 20, while the final round of voting will take place from this December 14 to January 4, 2024.”
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| Sexyy Red cuts her performance short after people throw water bottles and balls on stage at her. 
(@itsKenBarbie) 
We can hear the music already, can you? 
The 66th