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Nino Paid’s tone in his music comes off cold and maybe even nonchalant, but the words that pair with it prove that to be far from the truth. The DMV rapper elevated his game with his second album Love Me As I Am which features a booming 18 songs that clock in at a very digestible 36 minutes. When you rap as matter-of-factly as Nino Paid does, you don’t need that much time to get your point across.

As Nino describes it, Love Me As I Am is an account of “the pain, the hardships, and even the good times.” He added, “This tape is everything I been thru and everything in between.” Nino’s truth may not be be pretty, but he’s not afraid of it and he’s not afraid to tell his story. Numerous examples of this come alive on Love Me As I Am like on “Joey Story” where recounts the suicide of a lonely friend in pursuit of riches as a potential companion. Nino retrospection on “Play This At My Funeral” is drowned in eerie foreshadowing while “Tears In The Hotbox” looks up at the cloudy skies in search of a silver lining regardless of whether the sun comes back out.

With Love Me As I Am and “Regular Type” out now, we placed Nino Paid under the Uproxx Music 20 spotlight to learn more about his influences, inspirations, and aspirations. Scroll down to discover the best of Nino Paid.

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What is your earliest memory of music?

Listening to it in the car on the radio was my first memory of hearing music for the first time.

Who or what inspired you to take music seriously?

I don’t really have any inspirations on why I take music seriously, I had to do it for myself.

Do you know how to play an instrument? If so, which one? If not, which instrument do you want to learn how to play?

I don’t know how to play any instruments, but I want to learn how to play the guitar and piano.

What was your first job?

Six flags in park services.

What is your most prized possession?

My YouTube plaque, my chains (trophies), and of course my daughter is my #1.

What is your biggest fear?

My biggest fear is heights.

Who is on your music Mt. Rushmore?

Eminem, Lil Wayne, J. Cole, and Juice WRLD.

You get 24 hours to yourself to do anything you want, with unlimited resources: What are you doing? And spare no details!

I’d gather up as much money as I can so I can prepare for the next 24 hours…

What is the best song you’ve ever made?

It would be “Feel Better” it felt like I was rawer back then, and I love the beat and lyrics and anytime it comes on. It’s always a vibe I f*ck with.

What’s a feature you need to secure before you die?

I have to get something with Adele or someone like that singing on my song.

If you could appear in a future season of a current TV show, which one would it be and why?

Adventure Time because they put real life characters in cartoons sometimes, so I’d want to be in a cartoon.

Which celebrity do you admire or respect for their personality and why?

I really couldn’t tell you that one, I ain’t gonna lie,

Share your opinion on something no one could ever change your mind about.

Aliens are real, God is Real, and that’s it.

What is the best song you’ve ever heard in your life and what do you love about it?

Probably something from the late ’90s or early 2000s but I can’t say one

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s a city you’re excited to perform in for the first time?

My favorite city to perform in so far is Virginia, but I’m looking forward to Toronto on this tour. I also can’t wait to get to Europe.

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location where it would be held.

I’d do all up-and-coming artists: Myself, Benji Blue Bills, RRoxket, Lil Tony, and Karrahbooo.

What would you be doing now if it weren’t for music?

I don’t even know, can’t see myself doing anything else.

If you could see five years into the future or go five years into the past, which one would you pick and why?

Five years into the future because me seeing 5 years into the past isn’t gonna do anything. I’d rather see the future than the past, I’ve already been through the past.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Finish school and go to college for business major.

It’s 2050. The world hasn’t ended, and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

I want it to be like therapy some sh*t you put on and make you feel better, timeless music forever.

Love Me As I Am is out now via Signal Records/Columbia Records. Find out more information here.

Well, that’s a wrap: Coachella 2025 is over. There were plenty of highlights throughout the two weekends: Lady Gaga stunned, Bernie Sanders showed up, d4vd tried to do a backflip, Addison Rae flashed her underwear, Deadmau5 had a few too many, etc.

Post Malone provided a late-fest high-point, too. During his April 20 set, he welcomed a couple of guests onto the stage. Jelly Roll joined for “Losers” (here’s a video). Malone told Jelly (as NME notes), “I knew from the first moment that I f*cking hugged you that you had the biggest heart in the f*cking universe, and I can only say thank you so very much, and thank you for coming out tonight and I love you and I can’t wait to kick some f*cking ass. You are the greatest motherf*cker in the world.”

Towards the end of the set, Ed Sheeran also showed up, accompanying Malone for his Swae Lee collaboration “Sunflower” (here’s a video).

Check out Malone’s full setlist below.

Post Malone’s Coachella 2025 Weekend 2 Setlist

1. “Texas Tea”
2. “Wow”
3. “Better Now”
4. “Lemon Tree”
5. “Wrong Ones”
6. “Go Flex”
7. “I Fall Apart”
8. “Losers” (with Jelly Roll)
9. “Goodbyes”
10. “M-E-X-I-C-O”
11. “What Don’t Belong To Me”
12. “Circles”
13. “White Iverson”
14. “Psycho”
15. “Dead At The Honky Tonk”
16. “Rockstar”
17. “Sunflower” (with Ed Sheeran)
18. “I Had Some Help”
19. “Congratulations”

Opening with stripped-back acoustic guitar and what she called, “dry vocals,” Lana Del Rey’s “Henry, come on,” the first single from her yet to be released 10th album, finally dropped on April 11. The song is rich with lush strings as she contends at the chorus, “Last call ’Hey, y’all’ / Hang his hat up on the wall / Tell him that his cowgirl is gone.” She purrs into the next line with “Go on and giddy up / Soft leather, blue jeans / Call us into void’s dreams / Return it but say it was fun.” She told fans on the day before the breakup song’s release, “I don’t want to say it’s my favorite song, but I do really think it’s the song that the album hinges on.”

After teasing a Country album (at some points labeled a “Southern Gothic” with Del Ray telling the world that it’s more “Americana” than anything else) for more than a year and sitting on the ethereal “Henry” for what she described as “17 long months,” the world got its first taste of Lana officially gone Country. Her latest offering is still bursting with all the winks and visceral lyricism the incomparable songwriter has made her reputation with, as well as the Americana themes she’s fiddled with for most of her career, but this time with enough twang and Western symbolism to officially push the alternative-pop-sad-girl-indie-songbird into a new era of sound.

During an Instagram live, she described working on “Henry” and wanting it to have “a Glen Campbell feeling on the top and a little bit of Disney” and “sticks on the bottom.” The sweeping track nails it. And though it may be hyped as fresh sonic terrain for Del Rey, who plans on sharing much of her upcoming album live while performing at this year’s Stagecoach — the annual Country music festival held on the same grounds of Coachella each year — looking back on her discography and recent, deeper leans into roots music, her next album seems destined to be more of a return home than a trip outside of her aural territory.

It’s no surprise that Lana Del Rey — a sonic and dare we say, industry rule breaker — would delve into a new genre at this point in her career, playing a festival alongside Country music stalwarts like Zach Bryan, Luke Combs, Brothers Osbourne, and fellow genre-bender Jelly Roll. Last year, she made a surprise appearance during Paul Cauthen’s Stagecoach set, after headlining Coachella two weekends in a row. The pair performed “Unchained Melody,” and Lana was snapped around the Polo Fields, taking photos with fans and rubbing shoulders with other musicians with a propensity for storytelling. And then there was her 2024 release with Quavo, “Tough,” a track blending trap and country, complete with the lyrics “Tough like the scuff on a pair of old leather boots / Like the blue collar, red-dirt attitude,” and the well-worn Southern idiom “Sure as the good Lord’s up above.” In 2023, she released a cover of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” after a tour stop in West Virginia. And although art doesn’t always imitate life, she’s spent the past few years playing smaller, homegrown areas, not to mention getting hitched to an alligator tour guide in Louisiana. So, despite songs and an upbringing that point to the biggest cities of the East and West Coast, there’s something deeply down home about Ms. Del Rey (and that doesn’t just point to her brief stint at the Southern staple, Waffle House).

See to be a good songwriter, you have to be a good storyteller. You know, the kind that drops analogies about Icarus and Greek mythology into her first official Country song. The same type of writer who made you feel the expansiveness of the road on “Ride,” the kind of lyricist who could make your heart jump while whistling about cartwheels on “A&W.” Roots music, Americana songs, they’re about stories — ones that make you long, yearn, your stomach flip, your heart race. Del Rey’s songwriting could win in any genre category (and we’ll discuss our thoughts on her not having a Grammy yet at a later date.) But in Country? With every lyric, every layered acoustic revelation, she’s been preparing for this release her whole life.

Speaking of the aforementioned rule-breaking, her marketing for the album formerly known as Lasso, or at least the conversation around it, has also paid zero allegiance to the typical rollout rules. Last November, she told fans she’d release her much-awaited 10th album in May of this year. She then said the album would now be called The Right Person Will Stay, sharing on Instagram that it had “13 tracks” and adding that she was “happy for you to hear a few songs coming up before Stagecoach.” Then, last week, she shared during an Instagram live, “I mean, you know it’s not going to come on time, right? Should I even tell you that the name changed again? Should I even tell you that while you’re so happy that you have a song? Maybe I’ll wait.”

As I’m writing this, Lana just released “Bluebird.” A slow lullaby that lays her voice bare, with classic delivery and themes of freedom. Echoing strings and a deeply felt request: “Find a way to fly” before a harmonica sneaks in. Chills. Now, we wait with bated breath to hear the final album title, and the rest of her new songs. But for those pulling up their boots and donning their best Stetson at Stagecoach this year, sounds like you won’t have to.

“Stay calm. It will be okay… whoa, eye contact.”

Murderbot is nearly upon us, as this trailer proves, and even though this Sec Unit has gone rogue, there is nothing to fear. This adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries is set to take Apple TV+‘s sci-fi library into a cross-comedy gear with this previously unanticipated face at the forefront.

This series might be the first instance of Alexander Skarsgård’s face being described as “sweet,” but that’s part of the show’s deadpan appeal. Also, android-details matter, so it’s time for the important question.

When Does Murderbot Premiere On Apple TV+?

May 16, 2025 is when the first two episodes will debut, followed by weekly additions until July 11.

If you aren’t yet an Apple TV+ subscriber, there’s a killer $2.99 deal available for a limited time. Now for a synopsis:

“Murderbot” is an action-packed sci-fi series, based on the award-winning books by Wells, about a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.

The Murderbot cast includes Sabrina Wu, Tattiawna Jones, Tamara Podemski, and Akshay Khanna. Oh, and don’t forget about David Dastmalchian, who will finally be portraying an adorable, augmented human with the role of Gurathin.

Have you watched the trailer yet? It’s *chef’s kiss*…

Ryan Coogler thinks of his new movie Sinners as a song. Specifically, “One” by Metallica.

“I wanted the movie to have the simplicity — and simultaneously the profound nature — of a Delta blues song,” he told The Detroit News. “But I wanted it to have the contrast, variation, and the inevitability of a great Metallica song, like ‘One.’ It starts off with almost like an easy listening solo, you know what I’m saying? And then it just goes batsh*t insane, in a way you could have never seen coming — and at the same time, it felt like it was going there all along.”

Music always plays an important role in Coogler’s movies. Below, you’ll find the most powerful song-based moments from all his films, from 2013’s Fruitvale Station to 2025’s Sinners (with a pair of MCU titles in between).

Fruitvale Station
“Feelin’ Myself” by Mac Dre

The muse-like collaboration between director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan began with Fruitvale Station.

The powerful drama chronicles the final night of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Black man who was killed by a white police officer at a BART station in Oakland, California. The film often plays out in silence, but in one of the final moments of joy in his life, Oscar and girlfriend Sophina are on a stalled train minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve when one of his friends pulls out his phone. He plays “Feelin’ Myself” by Bay Area rapper Mac Dre, and everyone on the train is dancing and, like the song says, feeling themselves.

Coogler, an Oakland native, doesn’t want his city to be defined by tragedy; he would rather celebrate the individuals, like Oscar and Mac Dre, that make it great.

Creed
“Lord Knows” by Meek Mill

Certain songs make you feel powerful enough to lift a garbage truck with your bare hands, or do something even more daunting: run outside in Philadelphia in the cold. Meek Mill’s triumphant “Lord Knows” is one of those songs.

Creed (the greatest sports movie of the 21st century IMO) is a stirring spinoff of the Rocky series centered on Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan). As part of his training before a fight with a pretty-boy British boxer, Adonis runs through the streets of Philly; he’s cheered on by locals on motorbikes while “Lord Knows” plays. I won’t go so far as to claim that this is the best running scene in a Rocky movie, but it’s in the… running.

Black Panther
“All The Stars” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA

Ryan Coogler and Kendrick Lamar put together an all-timer soundtrack for Black Panther. The chart-topper features Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, Khalid, Vince Staples, Jorja Smith, Anderson Paak, Future, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, and Lamar himself, of course.

Lamar is joined by SZA on “All The Stars,” their biggest hit together until “Luther” came along. The ethereal Oscar-nominated collaboration between the Grand National Tour co-headliners plays over the end credits. It’s a better reason to stay in your seat than any post-credits tease for a future MCU movie.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Lift Me Up” by Rihanna

Ryan Coogler curated another soundtrack for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, this time without Lamar. Instead, he reached out to Rihanna for “Lift Me Up,” a tribute to T’Challa actor Chadwick Boseman, who died two years earlier.

The vulnerable ballad (co-written by Coogler, Rihanna, Tems, and composer Ludwig Göransson) is the bridge from the goosebump-inducing final scene in the film, where Shuri burns her funeral clothes while reflecting on her brother, to the credits. Try not to tear up, I dare you.

Sinners
“I Lied To You” by Miles Caton

The most awe-inducing sequence in Sinners has nothing to do with vampires or even Michael B. Jordan’s muscles. It’s the “surreal montage” that has blues singer Sammie (played by Miles Caton) playing “I Lied To You” with such passion that he conjures the spirits of Black musicians in the past and present. There’s tribal dancers, DJs, and a Jimi Hendrix-like guitarist in a swirl of music that has enough power to symbolically set the juke joint roof on fire.

“I’ve had a few of those moments [in my life],” Coogler said about the inspiration for the scene, “and you feel immortal, like you are outside of space and time for [a moment], like there’s another presence there with you.”

Coogler, composer Ludwig Göransson, and cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw capture the transcendent power of music in a stunning jam session for the ages.

A few weeks ago, Ken Carson announced his latest album, More Chaos. Not just a deluxe version or something like that of 2023’s A Great Chaos, More Chaos is its own full-blown project, and now it’s the biggest one of Carson’s career: On the new Billboard 200 chart dated April 26, More Chaos debuts at No. 1, marking Carson’s first career chart-topper.

Carson’s No. 1 comes during a particularly slow week on the Billboard 200: The album earned 59,500 equivalent album units in the United States during the tracking week. This marks the lowest total for a No. 1 album in a while, since Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry debuted at No. 1 with under 55,000 units on the chart dated May 2, 2022.

Carson is the third artist so far in 2025 to get their first No. 1 album, following Tate McRae with So Close To What and PartyNextDoor with the collaborative Drake album Some Sexy Songs 4 U. Carson’s new project knocks Playboi Carti’s Music out of the top spot; That album is down to No. 7 this week.

The album sees Carson mostly unaccompanied by featured artists, but there is one high-profile collaboration via the Playboi Carti and Destroy Lonely meet-up “Off The Meter.”

More Chaos is out now via Opium/Interscope. Find more information here.

Today (April 21) is Robert Smith‘s birthday. Happy birthday, Robert Smith! To celebrate, The Cure have announced Mixes Of A Lost World, a remix collection of the group’s acclaimed 2024 album, Songs Of A Lost World.

The three-LP/three-CD deluxe edition features brand-new remixes from Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Mogwai, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Anja Schneider, and many more; there’s also a two-CD/two-vinyl version.

“Just after Christmas I was sent a couple of unsolicited remixes of Songs Of A Lost World tracks and I really loved them,” Smith said in a statement. “The Cure has a colourful history with all kinds of dance music, and I was curious as to how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others. This curiosity resulted in a fabulous trip through all 8 songs by 24 wonderful artists and remixers and is way beyond anything I could have hoped for. Giving our recording royalties from the project to war child helps make Mixes Of A Lost World an even more special release.”

You can listen to Four Tet’s remix of “Alone” above, and check out the Mixes Of A Lost World album cover and tracklist below.

The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World Album Cover Artwork

The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World Vinyl Tracklist

LP 1, Side A

1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Paul Oakenfold Cinematic Remix)
2. “Endsong” (Orbital Remix)
3. “Drone:Nodrone” (Daniel Avery Remix)
4. “All I Ever Am” (Meera Remix)

LP 1, Side B

1. “A Fragile Thing” (Âme Remix)
2. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Danny Briottet & Rico Conning Remix)
3. “Alone” (Four Tet Remix)
4. “Warsong” (Daybreakers Remix)

LP 2, Side A

1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Mental Overdrive Remix)
2. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix)
3. “A Fragile Thing” (Sally C Remix)
4. “Endsong” (Gregor Tresher Remix)

LP 2, Side B

1. “Warsong” (Omid 16B Remix)
2. “Drone:Nodrone” (Anja Schneider Remix)
3. “Alone” (Shanti Celeste “February Blues” Remix)
4. “All I Ever Am” (Mura Masa Remix)

LP 3, Side A

1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Craven Faults Rework)
2. “Drone:Nodrone” (JoyCut “Anti-Gravitational” Remix)
3. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Trentemøller Rework)
4. “Warsong” (Chino Moreno Remix)

LP 3, Side B

1. “Alone” (Ex-Easter Island Head Remix)
2. “All I Ever Am” (65daysofstatic Remix)
3. “A Fragile Thing” (The Twilight Sad Remix)
4. “Endsong” (Mogwai Remix)

Mixes Of A Lost World is out 6/13 via Fiction/Capitol Records. Find more information here.

“To protect this city, we have to clean up these streets ourselves.”

That’s the lowdown from Lynn Whitfield’s Alicia in the trailer for The Chi‘s impending seventh season, and you know what that means: one of the best shows on Paramount Plus with Showtime will soon return.

Lena Waithe’s no-holds-barred slice of Chicago was previously renewed for the next dose of this series’ “authentic and unflinching narratives in The Chi resonate deeply, offering a powerful lens into both the complexities of life in Chicago as well as the Black experience in America,” as announced by Nina L. Diaz, President of Content and Chief Creative Officer, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks.

The Chi not only streams on Paramount Plus but still airs on Showtime, and now, it’s time to talk logistics.

When Does The Chi Season 7 Come Out?

The streaming debut will go down on Friday, May 16, but if you’re watching solely via Showtime, the on-air debut will happen on Sunday, May 18 at 9:00 pm EST/PST.

The long-running series has also received this logline:

This season, with Alicia at the helm, the pivotal women of THE CHI rise to reclaim their power. Yet, as loyalties are tested and new rivalries are stoked, it becomes clear that there’s only one crown and it will come at a heavy cost.

This season, Karrueche Tran, Phylicia Rashad, and Wendy Raquel Robinson will debut as guest stars. They join a vast ensemble cast including Jacob Latimore, Lynn Whitfield, Michael V. Epps, Yolonda Ross, Shamon Brown Jr., Luke James, Birgundi Baker, Kadeem Hardison, and so many more. A seventh season trailer is available below with a “Get it back in blood” tagline.

Deadmau5 was among the performers at Coachella 2025 this past weekend, but things got a little sloppy, so much so that he has apologized.

As Stereogum notes, Deadmau5 DJ’d without his signature spine-altering mask as his other performance name, Testpilot. He and producer ZHU did back-to-back sets, and throughout Deadmau5’s slot, he was taking shots on stage and wasn’t exactly stable on his feet. Videos (like this one) show this, and ultimately, the performance was cut short.

In an Instagram post shared on April 19, Deadmau5 shared a photo of a water bottle and wrote, “I dont remember a thing. But I don’t think I had a cig? So… that’s good I guess? Going back to bed. Wake me up around Thursday ish.” He added in a comment, “Probably my last coachella show.” In another post later, Deadmau5 shared a photo of his cat and wrote:

“Man, even my cat is disappointed in me. Tho, it could be argued that she always has been. sorry about last night. Lol. TO BE FAIR, I felt the first 3/4 was great! Huge shout out to @zhu for introducing me to whisky and carrying my dumb ass till the bitter end. lemme quit smoking, do some f*cken personal resetting here at home, find my spirit animal, work on some new music, and come back better. ;).”

Quick, name five rappers that double as fashion icons. Were any of those artists that came to mind Kendrick Lamar? Probably not. While the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is more known for his deft wordplay and ability to eviscerate a fellow rap superstar, he’s covertly one of the most stylish rappers in modern hip-hop.

Let us not forget the flared jeans from this year’s Super Bowl, or last year’s Tupac-inspired Pop Out concert fit — Kendrick has some serious style, so it doesn’t surprise us that Chanel just named him the new face and brand ambassador of its eyewear.

Considering Chanel exclusively makes clothes for women, Kendrick might not seem like the most obvious choice, but the brand has tapped male icons in the past, including Timothée Chalamet and G-Dragon. We’re going to assume even Kendrick never thought he’d have anything in common with a Hollywood heartthrob and a K-Pop sensation (aside from all being artists at the top of their game).

In a statement following the announcement, Kendrick said of the partnership

“Chanel has a timeless legacy and that is always something I can get behind.” So this is essentially a case of game recognizing game!

This isn’t the first time the pair have collaborated; Kendrick scored the Dave Free-directed Margaret Qualley-starring Chanel short film The Button, which dropped in 2024 and is definitely worth a watch if you’re fans of any of those three people. An ad campaign shot by renowned fashion photographer Karim Sadli is set to drop sometime this week.