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Tony Soprano Is Back (Kind Of!) In The First Trailer For ‘The Sopranos’ Prequel Movie ‘The Many Saints Of Newark’

David Chase’s long-awaited Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, is set to hit theaters and HBO Max on October 1, and so, as will happen, there is now a trailer. Yes, that is James Gandolfini’s son, Michael, playing Young Tony. The rest of the cast is loaded, too, with everyone from Leslie Odom Jr. to Jon Bernthal to Corey Stoll to Billy Magnussen to Ray Liotta to Vera Farmiga, as well as Alessandro Nivola as Richard “Dickie” Moltisan-… HOLD ON DID THAT SAY RAY LIOTTA?! I forgot he was going to be in this. Wow. Okay, now we have ourselves a mob movie. This is all very official.

Here’s the official description:

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities—and whose influence over his impressionable nephew will help make the teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know: Tony Soprano.

And here’s Michael Gandolfini as Young Tony.:

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And here’s freaking Ray Liotta.

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Perfect, all around. No notes. Although I would love to see like a teenage Pauly Walnuts with the exact same hair as the adult one. Or maybe Tony Sirico reprising his role but just pretending to be a 17-year-old boy, without any makeup or CGI to age him down. So, maybe I do have notes. Bad ones, but still.

Anyway, watch it all the way to the end, just to see if you, like me, get a little emotional when that music kicks in. The boys are, finally, kind of, back in town.

The Many Saints of Newark premieres in theaters and debuts on HBO Max on October 1, and will remain on the streaming service for 31 days.

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Jeff Garlin Says That Larry David Is Only Physically Capable Of Making ‘Maybe’ One More Season Of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jeff Garlin has some bad news for fans of the iconic comedy: Larry David is way too old to keep making much more of the series. In what sounded like something the TV version of Larry might say, Garlin admitted that he doesn’t think the show’s creator, who’ll turn 74 years old on Friday, has got enough gas left in his tank to keep the show going for much longer. Prettay, prettay, harsh.

As Mediaite notes, Garlin chatted about the future of the long-running HBO series with comedian Tim Dillon for his podcast, The Tim Dillon Show, on Sunday. Garlin, sounding as if he’s learned a few tips from David’s “social assassin” character, doesn’t seem very confident that there’s much more Curb coming people’s way. “We could maybe do one more [season], maybe,” Garlin said. “You know, Larry is in his 70s. Don’t get me wrong, he’s in good shape.” But Garlin, who does double-duty working on both Curb and The Goldbergs, says that the schedule for him—at age “fifty-f*cking-nine”—is “exhausting.”

“It rips me apart. And the equivalent happens to Larry, cause he’s in every scene, working every day, having to be there at 6:30 in the morning. I don’t know if physically he can do more than, let’s say another season. I think he could do another, I don’t know if he has two in him.”

It’s worth noting that when asked about the future of the show in 2011, Garlin put the chances of seeing more seasons at “51 percent.” That was three seasons ago.

(Via Mediaite)

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St. Vincent And Jason Isbell Share Very Different Covers Of Metallica’s ‘Sad But True’

Since their formation in the 1980s, Metallica has inspired artists from all different kinds of genres. The band’s wildly successful self-titled album is about to turn 30 and to celebrate, Metallica asked some contemporary musicians to take on covers of their music for the benefit album The Metallica Blacklist. So far, Miley Cyrus teamed up with Watt, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, and Chad Smith for a rendition of “Nothing Else Matters.” Now, St. Vincent and Jason Isbell try their hand at very different versions of Metallica’s track “Sad But True.”

For her cover, St. Vincent performed with grumbling guitars, crashing snares, and a throaty lyrical delivery reminiscent of a Nine Inch Nails song. But for Jason Isbell’s version, the musician took the song in a very different direction. Rather than emulating a ’90s alt-rock sound, Isbell transformed the track into a jangly country ballad.

About his cover, Isbell wrote: “Pretty proud of how this turned out. I hoped the song would work as a Hill Country stomper, and I do believe it did. So much fun.”

Along with St. Vincent and Jason Isbell, some of the other musicians who appear on 53-track The Metallica Blacklist include Mac DeMarco, Rina Sawayama, Weezer, Pup, Corey Taylor, Cage The Elephant, J Balvin, Moses Sumney, The Neptunes, Portugal The Man, Phoebe Bridgers, My Morning Jacket, Darius Rucker, Chris Stapleton, Idles, and Kamasi Washington. Along with sharing music, each of the artists have been invited to choose a different charity that a portion of the proceeds from the LP will be donated to.

Listen to St. Vincent and Jason Isbell’s “Sad But True” Metallica covers above.

The Metallica Blacklist is out 9/10 via Blackened Recordings. Pre-order it here.

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Is Bill Hader’s ‘Barry’ Ever Coming Back To HBO? (Anthony Carrigan Has Sort-Of Weighed In)

Every couple of months, I will look up to see how long it has been since the last episode of Barry opened on HBO, and I’m surprised every single time. As of today, it’s been 770 days since Barry last graced our television screens. That’s 25 months and one week. Has any other show been delayed by the pandemic as long as Barry?

No, not Succession, which has only been off the air for 631 days and is currently shooting its third season. Not The Witcher, either, which hasn’t streamed a new season in 556 days, but is also scheduled to air its next season later this year. Better Call Saul has only been 434 days, and it’s currently shooting and scheduled to return in the first quarter of 2021. Westworld? That’s a trick question! It aired its third season in 2020, but some people don’t remember it (it was the season with Aaron Paul in it).

For comparison’s sake, there have been four full seasons of The Masked Singer since Barry last aired, and host Nick Cannon will have had four kids during that time. A Dexter revival was developed and shot and will air before Barry returns to HBO. Quibi launched and then failed during the interim between seasons.

I mention all of this because Anthony Carrigan, best known for playing No Ho Hank on Barry, appeared on Marc Maron’s podcast this week. He’s a fascinating guy and went long with Maron about his alopecia (the autoimmune disease which caused his hair to fall out) and talked about meeting his wife, a Serbian chess master who learned to play chess while bunkered down for months during the Croatian War.

Mostly, however, I listened because I wanted to hear if there were any updates on Barry. Bill Hader had previously mentioned that he wrote both season three and four during the lockdown, and that production on season three had advanced to the table-read stage of development before production was shuttered by COVID-19. Carrigan confirmed as much, but he also said that they’re getting ready to start shooting season three, yet he gave no specifics.

I’m not exactly sure what that means, either, since it seems like Barry has been on the verge of shooting for months, if not longer. Is this like the Rick Grimes movie, which has been just about to start production for years? There’s still no official date on when production will resume on Barry, after all. What is the hold up? The rest of Los Angeles resumed production months ago, and even the shows that were skittish about restarting too soon are releasing new episodes now. Why Barry has waited so long, especially since the scripts have already been written, is an absolute mystery. Even if it starts production this summer and airs early next year, it will mean nearly three years between seasons.

Then again, it’s been 1,145 days since the last new episode of FX’s Atlanta, but the Donald Glover show took a planned hiatus before its forced hiatus, and even Atlanta is currently shooting both its third and fourth seasons now. Both shows, of course, are obviously worth waiting for, although the three-year hiatus between seasons may diminish the impact of Barry’s season two cliffhanger, mostly in that much of the audience will have forgotten it.

Then again, there’s never a better time than now for a Barry rewatch. It currently streams on HBO Max.

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NLE Choppa Is Being Sued By An Outkast-Affiliated Rapper For Copyright Infringement

NLE Choppa is being sued by Outkast-affiliated rapper Kilo Ali for copyright infringement in a suit filed in California Central District Court last week (June 24), according to Music Business Worldwide, which obtained the court documents.

Ali, an Atlanta-based rapper who released a string of relatively successful albums throughout the ’90s and worked closely with members of the Dungeon Family crew, including Goodie Mob’s Cee-Lo Green and Outkast’s Big Boi, as well as George Clinton of Parliament and Lil Jon, says Choppa’s 2020 single “Make Em Say,” which features Latto (FKA Mulatto), illegally samples Ali’s own 1997 “Love In Ya Mouth,” using the same “flow and pitch” in the post-chorus.

“Love In Ya Mouth,” which features Big Boi, featured on Kilo Ali’s 1997 Interscope debut Organized Bass, and in the documents filed in the suit, Ali says his music has “proven inspirational to much of the rap music emerging from the South, particularly Atlanta.” Meanwhile, Choppa and Latto’s song appears on Choppa’s Warner Music debut Top Shotta. The lawsuit argues Choppa’s song features “a distinctive sample of Kilo Ali’s melodic vocal chorus from the sound recording embodying the Original Work.” Ali wants “all gains, profits, and advantages derived by Defendants as a result of their unfair trade practices and unfair competition” by way of restitution and has included Warner Records Senior Vice President of A&R Norva Denton and Warner Music Group in the lawsuit.

You can check out both tracks above. [Source]

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Nike Offered A First Look At Giannis’ Latest Sneaker, The Zoom Freak 3

Giannis Antetokounmpo is two wins away from appearing in his first ever NBA Finals, and it’s possible that he’ll look to make the final push to get through the Eastern Conference Finals in a new look.

On Tuesday, hours before Antetokounmpo takes the floor for Game 4 in Atlanta, Nike unveiled the Zoom Freak 3, the third in his line of signature sneakers with the brand. Gone is the oversized Swoosh that dominated the visual of the first (facing backwards) and second sneaker, with the addition of a forefoot strap and a new cushioning system designed to withstand the stopping and leaping force of Giannis’ downhill game.

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It’s a different look than the first two Zoom Freaks but is a familiar silhouette for fans of other Nike signatures. The forefoot strap is reminiscent of the one on the Kyrie 6 (or, going further back, the KD 7), and it keeps with the lowcut design that Giannis has always preferred, dating back to when he used to wear Kobes.

As for the performance aspect of the shoe, the biggest change is having two Zoom Air units supporting the ball of the foot (one shown clearly in the midfoot with the exposed Air in the midsole) in an effort to provide additional cushioning for a player who pushes downhill as much as Giannis, with aggressive stops, starts, and trying to explode to the hoop. The strap is meant to help secure the forefoot in place for additional stability to balance the cushioning in that area.

The first two colorways of the Zoom Freak 3 (black/purple and orange) will release in August in North America (July 1 globally).

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‘Black Widow’ Is A Back To Basics MCU Movie, But Feels Like It’s Missing Something

It’s weird to watch Black Widow, certainly one of the more grounded MCU offerings in recent years – which finally gives Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) her first standalone movie, now two years after the character’s death – and be offered Black Widow’s gritty backstory and then remember: oh, right, this is the character who died on the space planet where the ghost Nazi lives. The juxtaposition of this movie and Black Widow’s eventual fate is bizarre.

Set right after the events of Captain America: Civil War, watching Black Widow kind of feels like watching that MCU movie you just never got around to seeing. Like, “Oh, you know, I never did see Thor: The Dark World, I have a couple of hours to kill, I should get caught up.” And then you watch it and the movie contains all these threads of storylines that are now all wrapped up. One thing the MCU does so well, that people respond to, is continue to move the story forward. Every entry unlocks more plot points that drive things forward and people really seem to respond to that. Even a movie set in the past, Captain Marvel, still managed to do this because we knew nothing about Captain Marvel at the time. Black Widow isn’t really some great mystery of a character. Black Widow marks the eighth time we’ve seen her in a movie.

Black Widow just might be the most self-contained MCU movie since way back in Phase 1. And, look, being a self-contained movie and being a movie that doesn’t move the greater story forward aren’t necessarily bad things. It’s just, at this point, unusual. And the thing I kept thinking about was a movie like Logan. And how Black Widow misses an opportunity to be more like Logan. And not to be “rated R” and get to use cuss words, or whatever. But to allow an actor who has played a character for over a decade to have one last go at it and have a triumphant death scene in his or her own movie. Hugh Jackman got that in Logan. Scarlett Johansson’s character died on a space planet in front of a ghost Nazi two movies and three streaming television shows ago. So Black Widow doesn’t even feel like any kind of final sendoff. Or a way to complete her story arc. It just literally feels like a movie that should now be retroactively inserted between Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange.

Again, set right after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Black Widow is on the run from the US government and finds herself in Norway, living in a trailer, drinking some beers and watching Moonraker. (Black Widow, the movie, does seem somewhat obsessed with Moonraker and I do appreciate that aspect of things. Moonraker begins with a parachute stunt, with evil henchman Jaws fighting James Bond as they both plummet through the sky. Black Widow has a similar set-piece, only now its Taskmaster and Black Widow fighting as they fall through the sky.) I kind of wish there were more moments like this. We’ve seen Black Widow fight before, but what does she do in her spare time? I found this so much more fascinating than any kind of action of a fight scene.

What Black Widow does do is introduce us to Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, who Natasha grew up with (living in a The Americans-style spy family, though no actual relation) and was produced by the same Russian agency Natasha was that turns young women into deadly fighting machines. So what this movie does is make Pugh’s Yelena a new player in the MCU without it seeming “phony.” In that she gets a whole movie with Natasha, instead of just telling us how she knew Natasha.

To the point that the rest of the movie feels a little bit like filler. Just something for Natasha and Yelana to do together, alongside their fake “parents” from their spying days, David Harbour and Rachel Weisz. You see, it’s finally time to take down the evil scientist who is producing armies of Black Widow women, who live on a floating fortress in the sky. (Yes, I realize earlier I called this movie “grounded.”)

Look, there hasn’t been an MCU movie in two years. I honestly can’t decide if this is a good movie to kind of “reset” with or not. The fact it is a kind of back to basics plot makes me feel that it is. And that it introduced Pugh’s character, who will obviously have a lot to do in further adventures. But this is not one of those movies where people will say, “The MCU like you’ve never seen it before!” It’s not an ambitious MCU movie. And we haven’t had movies in two years, but we have had WandaVision, and that was pretty ambitious. And all that is fine and dandy. My biggest disappointment, like I mentioned earlier, is that we didn’t get to close out Natasha’s arc with this movie. Instead, that was closed out on the space planet in front of the Nazi ghost two years ago. It feels like what’s missing from this movie. There’s even a flashforward to present time in this movie that shows Natasha’s grave. If you only watch this movie, yeah her “off-screen “ death is probably going to be pretty confusing. In a way, it feels like this movie just kind of skips over the main character’s death, which seems like kind of a big deal.

‘Black Widow’ opens in theaters and streams via Disney+ on July 9th. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

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Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Novel Finally Settles The Question Of Whether Cliff Booth Killed His Wife

WARNING: Spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel will be found below.

As promised, Quentin Tarantino‘s novelization of his 2019 film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, delves deep into the backstory of Cliff Booth, the swaggering stuntman played by Brad Pitt, and arguably the film’s main star. (Sorry, Leo.) More importantly, the novel finally answers the nagging question of what really happened to Booth’s wife on that boat.

In the film, Booth is followed almost everywhere by the persistent rumor that he killed his wife and got away with it. While that’s certainly implied in a flashback scene, it’s never definitively answered, and Pitt and Rebecca Gayheart, who played Booth’s wife, have teased fans that they know the whole story.

Well, now, Pitt and Gayheart aren’t the only ones who know what happened to Cliff and his wife on that boat, and it turns out she wasn’t his first kill, as detailed by Tarantino’s novelization. Via IndieWire:

A fellow stuntman, Buster, owed Cliff money and decided to pay Cliff not in cash but in him becoming co-owner of the pitbull, who he was entering into bloody dogfighting bouts. When Buster decided that they should let Brandy die in the ring and make money by betting on her opponent instead, Cliff was so enraged that he killed the guy with his bare hands.

“This wasn’t the first time Cliff committed murder and got away with it,” Tarantino writes. “The first time was in Cleveland in the fifties. The second time was when Cliff killed his wife two years earlier. This was the third time, and Cliff got away with this one too.”

Condolences to all the Cliff Booth fans out there who hoped that the handsome rogue with his ripped abs would end up not being a wife murderer. Although, after the film’s bloody ending, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pitt’s character is not the most stable guy.

(Via IndieWire)

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Ed Sheeran Regularly Buys Gimp Masks For Courteney Cox And Hides Them Around Her Home

Yesterday marked the start of Ed Sheeran’s week-long residency on The Late Late Show. On last night’s episode, he performed “Bad Habits” for the first time and also sat down for a chat with James Corden. During that conversation, he revealed that he has an unusual tradition with friend and Friend Courteney Cox.

Sheeran explained that when performing in Los Angeles in 2013, he got connected with Cox and ended up staying at her house. Cox gave Sheeran an open invitation to crash at her place whenever he finds himself in LA, so since 2013, that is just what he’s done. After establishing that context, he continued:

“She has this Alexa thing in her house and she goes, ‘Ed, isn’t this wonderful? This is my Alexa. I can just order whatever on this.’ She walks out the room, and… do you know what a gimp mask is? You know, like an S&M leather gimp mask. So she walks out the room and I go, ‘Alexa! Order me a gimp mask.’ And it goes, ‘OK Courteney, I’ll order you a gimp…’ And anyway, so unbeknownst to me, Courteney’s assistant found it. She opened the post and she finds this mask and instantly goes, ‘Oh! I don’t think I was meant to see that,’ and leaves it on Courteney’s bed. And Courteney comes up and she’s like, ‘Where did this come from?’

Anyway, she found out the story, and now every time I go back there, I order her another gimp mask and she has maybe like 12. I hide them in people’s bedrooms, so they’ll go in the drawer and they’ll just find this leather S&M mask. She had two people come and look at her piano to try and buy it, two absolute strangers going into her house. I found out about it, so I left a couple masks on the piano.”

He then gave Corden a mask of his own, so check out the whole thing above.

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Curren$y’s Jet Life Brand Is Way More Than He Ever Imagined

Everybody knows how much Currensy loves his cars, weed, and how much he loves to deliver good music to his legion of loyal fans. He’s managed to turn that love into his Jet Life brand, which keeps growing and growing since its birth in 2011.

As one of the more consistent rappers in the game, known for flooding the streets with fly tunes, what he’s built with Jet Life is a reflection of the many labels he’s had the opportunity to be part of with legends right out of his hometown of New Orleans, such as Lil Wayne’s Young Money label and Master P’s No Limit label under his brother C-Murder’s imprint.

From 2006’s “Where da Cash At” to the re-released collaborative mixtape Covert Coup with The Alchemist to 2021’s Welcome To Jet Life Recordings 2, which is a collection of songs by Jet Life Recordings artists which include Fendi P and T.Y., Currensy has proven to be as resilient as he is industrious. Over the phone, he took Uproxx on a cerebral journey of how his mind works and how he’s adapted to the ever-changing technology of the music industry.

What are you up to?

Watching some new cartoon I found on Amazon, but I think it’s just a pilot and I think that it’s called…it’s called The New VIPs and it’s not a full season, it’s just one episode. I think they’re trying to see what people think of it.

What do you think of it?

I think this is good. This sh*t is good. It’s just one episode. When we get done with this interview, I’m going to take the survey and I’m going to let them know that this is a f*cking good show and it should have went into production or whatever you call that. You should watch this when you get done.

What’s your favorite Adult Swim or just any cartoon show?

Home Movies. I don’t know if you remember that because it was four seasons. The voice from Bob’s Burgers and Archer, you know that guy? [Editor’s Note: It’s H. Jon Benjamin] He’s one of the voices on there. It’s a good f*cking show, man.

It’s so well written though. It’s like how The Office still works whenever you put it on.

Well, I guess if I ever need any TV recommendations, I’ll just hit you up.

Yeah, I’m the one.

Let’s talk Covert Coup. How long had you and Alchemist been talking about re-releasing it?

Oh man, you’re going to love this story. We didn’t know that it wasn’t on streaming sites. We didn’t even know. When we went to San Francisco recently for this Nautica and Diamond Supply photo shoot, we were like, “Damn, it’s been 10 years since Covert Coup came out.” And I was like, “Yeah, that’s crazy. We should probably jam it.” Then I was like, “Is it on iTunes?” He’s like, “I don’t know.” I was like, “F*ck, I don’t know either.” So I asked my manager and he checked, and he’s like, “No.” I was like, “Oh, what is it on, Tidal or something?” It wasn’t on anything. We missed 4/20. That would have been ideal because that would have been the exact 10 year anniversary, so we just put it out in May.

People were and still are reacting to it like it’s a new project. That’s a whole different generation of people. Some people outright did not know about it. Some motherf*ckers are jamming it like it just dropped.

A lot of artists are re-releasing projects that were on DatPiff. I look at DatPiff as a historical music archive. There are so many legendary debut mixtapes on DatPiff.

Yup. That was the avenue right there. To me, that was major distribution because it’s like, everybody go right here and anybody can get on it. They didn’t have they picks and choosers. The homies from down the street was like, “Yo, I’m uploading my tape to DatPiff tonight, bro.” It was giving everybody a shot and it still do. That’s why I always put sh*t out so much because it was just cool to go on different sites and sh*t and see and just download stuff.

It’s so dope to see a lot of those tapes on there like Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill.

That was an opportunity for people. It was just real listeners and people who respected the game, and curators of the whole vibe of what we do. They were shining a light on artists who they felt like deserved one because, at that time, all we had was MTV jams. We wasn’t on that motherf*cker. If the people saying your sh*t is dope, then dope people will give it a chance. If it’s what it’s supposed to be, then they’ll share it with other people. That put a lot of us in position, and it weeded out a lot of the bull. A lot of sucker sh*t couldn’t really advance at that time.

What’s the biggest difference between releasing music back then to today as a label owner of Jet Life Recordings?

I’m more focusing on the rollout of the next few projects that we putting out from Jet Life because I’m putting out a Welcome To Jet Life Recordings Vol. 2 and the first one that I did, a lot of the solo songs was for me and then a few from the artist. This time, everybody is on every song. There’s different artists on every record. I’m on all of them, but people from the label are on all of them too. Now, it’s about a rollout. How you going to promote this music outside of just putting up clips of you rapping?

What I would do before is put out one record from the tape or a snippet on Instagram, 30 seconds, just bars from the record. Maybe seven records I would damn near play the whole record — just putting up clips to get motherf*ckers ready for it and then drop it.

Now, I roll it out more like the way they do movies, where it’s just sh*t around it as opposed to the actual dish. You’re not really giving them that much in the promo, you’re just promoting the idea of what’s going on instead of playing the records and giving away so much of the project before you drop it. The physical aspect of purchasing music being removed. Everybody’s just getting it right from the phone and so you don’t have the thrill of picking up the CD and having to take the shrink wrapping off, so we have to save as much of that as we can for them so that the music is fresh to them once they download the project.

If I put so much of it up the way I used to, when they download it, it’s like, “Oh, I heard this one. I know this one, I know this one.” F*ck that. So now it’s like, Nah, I’m not going to do it that way. I’m going to roll the project out like a movie and let you see the process of us working. Maybe what car I drove to the studio and what we wore, what we was drinking. But, you’re not going to hear this sh*t until the sh*t drop. Until you actually sitting in the theater to watch the movie.

Tell us more about the compilation tape.

Welcome To Jet Life Recordings Vol. 2. features the entire label and some affiliates like Jay Worthy and Scotty ATL. Outside of that, it’s everybody on my label and a lot of rising stars from my city out of New Orleans: A lot of the people who I know are about to pop anyway with or without me. These people are going to blow anyway. I had better had got in front of that sh*t and fcking helped to usher them into the industry if I wanted to stay alive.

I saw also you tried that Jay-Z weed. I don’t really see Jay-Z as a weed smoker, but curious to know how it was from someone like yourself.

Well, they had different strains, but they weren’t labeled how you would think. It wasn’t jars just saying, “Oh, this is OG Kush.” They were all numbered and named little slick sh*t like Heavy. With anything associated with Jay-Z, if it was something that he not really in the know of, he’s going to do the research and then put the best people on the team to make it happen. Clearly, he’s got some good growers because the bottles marked Heavy are f*cking heavy. Those were the ones to smoke when I was at that shoot.

I also saw that you got into NFT. I’m still a little lost on that, what exactly it is.

Well, you know what? It’s because you live in the physical world, as do I. But do you remember when Dwight was playing Second Life on The Office? Okay, now Dwight Schrute was playing Second Life so much so that his character on Second Life had started an account on Second Life himself and it was second Second Life. His video game character was playing a video game of himself in the video game.

There are people who live, heavily immerse themselves, in the cyber world and cyber real estate. All of this is real because they live in a digital space. When they hang out with their friends and people are in these avatars on these computers, they need worlds and sh*t to live in, and in those worlds, you’re going to need dwellings, cars.

I’m involved in some NFT low riders right now and car parks for these f*cking digital cars because people want to upgrade them. People sit in front of they computer and live like that more than they step outside of the house because it’s hot outside, people are shooting. They’ll just rather just sit there and do that. You going to need all that s*it, so you better figure out what you going to sell them. When we get off the line, you better figure it out. You better come up with something. They need some digital mirrors, haircare supplies… They got NFT shoes, all that. NFT weed, lighters… all of that sh*t is already in the market.

I haven’t seen a NFT fish tank yet, so I don’t know. Cook that one up.

I’m thinking about all the games I play. I buy stuff for Call Of Duty all the time.

Dude, you’re fu*king buying NFTs then because where can you use those guns? Can you protect your house with that sh*t that you bought? With your money that you’re working for? Alright, you bought a NFT.

Okay, so what made you decide to hop in on the wave?

Because that digital money transfer to real money. It’s the same reason I’m telling you if those people believe you sold them a fish tank, you need to make them a fish tank and sell them the fish and sh*t.

Welcome To Jet Life Recordings 2 is out now. Check it out above.