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Indie Mixtape 20: The Ophelias Head To ‘Spring Grove’

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Julien Baker having your back means you’re doing something right in the indie music space: The Ophelias have a new album, Spring Grove, set to arrive this week and Baker produced the endeavor.

When the group announced the project back in February, vocalist Spencer Peppet declared it has “zero songs about break-ups.” So, while that’s off the table as a discussion topic on the album, they still have plenty to say about pretty much everything else.

Ahead of the album’s release, the band’s Mic Adams, Andrea Gutmann Fuentes, Spencer Peppet, and Jo Shaffer sat down with Uproxx to talk about peeing before concerts, eggplant parmesan, whistling, and more in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Peppet: Cathartic, orchestral, interwoven, dramatic.

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

Shaffer: I plan to still be alive and look exactly like a female version of Keith Richards. So ideally, people are just saying “Wow, she’s still alive! And she kind of looks like Keith Richards.”

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Peppet: I think each of us would have a different answer for this! Mine is either my bandmates (cheesy but true) or Joanna Newsom, for her dedication to lyricism as poetry/storytelling and refusal to make anything except what feels real and true to her. Her music has been a companion in my life since I was a teenager, and it’s one of the coolest things in the world to have music you deeply care about that changes with you over time. I feel like I understand it differently now. (That could also be said about my bandmates – meeting as teenagers, growing together, etc.)

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Adams: My family is very food-oriented, and when we visit my grandparents in upstate New York my Grandma usually has one casserole dish each of homemade eggplant parmesan and chicken parmesan waiting for us at the end of our drive. Eggplant parmesan is my favorite dish and my Grandma makes it good.

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Adams: My best concert experience is (and forever will be) Paramore in the summer of 2010 on my 12th birthday… I remember the lights dimming in the outdoor pavilion where the show was, with a translucent curtain across the stage so you could just see the outlines of the band members backlit while dancing and riffing on an intro. Then the curtain dropped and I could feel my whole heart leave my little body.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

Fuentes: “Luchín” by the great Chilean communist singer-songwriter Victor Jara. It’s a song about a little boy living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile in the early 1970s, playing with a ball made of rags and surrounded by his playmates — a cat, a dog, a horse. Victor sings, “there are children like Luchín / that eat dirt and worms / let’s open all the cages / so that they fly like birds.” Maybe second in line is “Cross My Heart” by Phil Ochs, who happened to be a friend of Victor’s.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

Shaffer: “National Security Archive MKULTRA document collection released?” The National Security Archive at Georgetown is about to make their collection of documents on Cold War-era behavior control experiments available online. I’m psyched. (A girl needs hobbies.)

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Shaffer: Spencer and I have shared a bean bag twice. It wasn’t any better the second time!

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

Mic: “In the world” is generous since we’ve only ever played in the States and Canada. I would say though that I tend to have the most fun in middle-of-nowhere towns, when it feels like the whole population is at the show because that’s the only thing happening. For example, we played a show in a town called Moscow, Idaho at a burger joint and it felt like we were on the moon. In the future, I would love to tour literally anywhere outside of North America.

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

Peppet: You’re good enough at guitar! Stop being mean to yourself about it. It’s cooler to figure it out yourself.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

Fuentes: I am pretty good at whistling, it’s a talent that I inherited from my grandfather and dad.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

Adams: If I had a million dollars to support a single cause right now, I would find the most efficient and direct route to send it to Gaza for aid. The genocide of the Palestinian people is the most horrific thing I have been alive to witness. I don’t have a million dollars, but that’s not a necessity in demanding a free Palestine by continuing to show up and refusing to accept or ignore the present circumstance.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

Shaffer: I see generative AI as a symptom of securitization, which is a symptom of imperial decline. Our economy is addicted to growth, which incentivizes ruthless cost-cutting. For the US economy to sustain growth without actually producing anything, it demands an infinite supply of dirt-cheap assets. AI generated music is an attempt to turn art into something predictable enough to sustain corporate growth. Gross!

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

Peppet: Joanna Newsom, Hop Along, Jane Remover, Dijon, and Charli XCX in a big rolling field of wildflowers somewhere in the Midwest.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

Fuentes: Tony P in DC. I used to live there and I just love getting the inside scoop into the life of a 26 year old bachelor living in DC.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

Adams: My favorite tattoo is my most recent tattoo, which is a temperance inspired siphon image — two glasses with water traveling from one into the other. Sobriety is something that has been somewhat of a recurring effort in my life, and I’m still trying to find a balance that’s healthy and sustainable for me. The siphon aspect represents the different parts of myself supporting and nurturing other parts, or community supporting individuals.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Shaffer: DON’T FORGET TO USE THE BATHROOM. Nothing worse than playing a sad song when you have to pee.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Peppet: Ashley Tisdale and Cole Sprouse.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

Fuentes: I’ve always wanted to go to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, or Turkey. I would bring with me loml Benjamin!

What is your biggest fear?

Fuentes: PayPal mafia.

Spring Grove is out 4/4 via Get Better Records. Find more information here.

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Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Admits Many People Don’t Know ‘Why The Academy Exists’ Aside From The Grammys

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The Recording Academy is of course best known for hosting the Grammy Awards once a year, but the fact that they do more than the Grammys is lost to many people, something that CEO Harvey Mason Jr. himself admits.

In a new Billboard interview, Mason references a January report from the academy that outlines the changes they have made since Mason took the reins five years ago. He said:

“To me, the bottom line is that they get a sense that the academy is making a real impact on the lives of music people beyond just giving trophies. What I’m trying to do is hopefully build support for the academy, through seeing it maybe through a different lens, rather than just who got snubbed or who won or who didn’t win. That’s the objective of this report.”

He also said:

“When I took the role, one of my objectives and goals was to heighten the awareness of what happens the other 364 days of the year. […] A lot of people know and love the awards ceremony. I’m thankful for that, but it is a challenge for us as an organization to tell the larger story as to why we exist. [This report is] a new way of positioning the academy. We needed to do a better job of explaining why the academy exists beyond to celebrate one night a year. So, this was an intentional effort for us over the last few years to make sure we’re telling that story in a new way.”

Check out the full interview here.

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‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4: Everything To Know So Far Including A New Premise And A Recasting (April 2025 Update)

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The Studio is Apple TV’s latest quality-over-quantity hit, along with Slow Horses, Shrinking, Severance, Silo, and Surface. What do these shows have in common besides the letter “s”? They’re all still active.

You can now add Ted Lasso to that list, too.

It sure seemed like the Emmy-winning soccer comedy had wrapped things up with the season 3 finale, which could have worked as a series finale. But it’s coming back for another season — and a new premise.

Here’s everything we know so far about Ted Lasso season 4.

Plot

After months of speculation, it was confirmed in March 2025 that Ted Lasso will return for another season. This time, Ted Lasso (played by co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis) will coach a women’s soccer team.

That’s all the details we know so far, but in a statement, Sudeikis said, “As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap. In season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be.”

Apple TV+ programming head Matt Cherniss added, “Ted Lasso has been nothing short of a juggernaut, inspiring a passionate fanbase all over the world, and delivering endless joy and laughter, all while spreading kindness, compassion and unwavering belief. Apple is thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Jason and the brilliant creative minds behind this show.”

Variety has more:

Jack Burditt (Nobody Wants This, 30 Rock) has boarded Season 4 as executive producer under his new overall deal with Apple TV+. Sudeikis will executive produce in addition to starring. Brendan Hunt (who also played Coach Beard), Toheeb Jimoh, Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, and Bill Wrubel also executive produce. Goldstein is attached to write and executive produce along with Leanne Bowen. Bill Lawrence executive produces via his Doozer Productions alongside Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer.

When asked if the new season will find Ted returning to America, Sudeikis replied, “Yeah, that’s too many questions… It’s only because I don’t know.” Fellow co-creator Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) was equally tight-lipped about spoilers. “I leave all Ted Lasso questions, as does everybody else, to our fearless leader, Jason Sudeikis,” he told Variety.

You can see the season 4 announcement post here.

Cast

So far, the only cast member to be confirmed to return for season 4 is Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso). But Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Brett Goldstein (Roy F*cking Kent), and Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins) are expected to reprise their roles, as their options were picked up last year.

Where does that leave Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), Nick Mohammed (Nate Shelley), Phil Dunster (Jamie Tartt), and Juno Temple (Keeley Jones), among others? It’s unclear, but we do know that Gus Turner, who played Ted’s young son Henry, won’t be back: he’s being recast. He got Bobby Draper’d.

Release Date

No premiere date has been announced yet (filming is rumored to kick off in May or June), so don’t expect season 4 until 2026 at the earliest.

Trailer

You can listen to Jason Sudeikis discuss the future of Ted Lasso on the New Heights podcast, co-hosted by Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.

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As Hip-Hop Style Has Evolved, Classic Sneakers Have Remained The Foundation

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In 2002, “Air Force Ones,” the third single released from St. Louis rapper Nelly’s second album Nellyville, became his third top 5 hit from that album, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. 23 years later, the song’s subject, the then-20-year-old Nike sneaker model, is still a staple of hip-hop style and street fashion, proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Over the past 25 years of the not-quite-so-new-anymore millennium, streetwear has gone through its fair share of evolutions. Yet, through it all, one element has remained the foundation of hip-hop style, and thus, of broader fashion trends: Classic sneakers. Whether it was the rapper brand, all-baggy-everything era of the early 2000s, the rise of the rap fashionista in the 2010s, or the return to looser fits and archival fashion in the past five years, our outfits have all been built from the ground up — literally — starting with what’s on our feet.

According to sneaker expert Jacques “Kustoo” Slade, this goes back even further, to the very roots of hip-hop as a culture. “Sneakers and hip-hop have had a tie back, obviously, as far back as I can remember, with Run DMC and ‘My Adidas’,” he recalls via Zoom. “We’ve always seen sneakers integrated into the hip-hop culture and lifestyle. Something as simple as the Fresh Prince [Will Smith, star of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air] and Martin [Lawrence, star of 1990s sitcom Martin] wearing Js on their shows. And if you’re tied to basketball culture at all, and the tie between basketball culture and hip-hop, you see threads of those storylines all come from a certain place.”

Slade would know; he was one of the earliest and most prolific of the second-generation sneaker culture documentarians of the 2010s, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bobbito Garcia and Scoop Jackson in the ’90s. Writing sneaker-focused editorials for online publications like Complex, Hypebeast, KicksOnFire, and Nice Kicks, he had a personal hand in bringing light to a new wave of kicks enthusiasts, who helped make sneakerhead culture mainstream over the past 15 years.

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While he agrees with the observation that retro sneakers have formed the foundation of style evolution since the early aughts, he notes that there have been mini-trends within that tradition, and likens this to the cyclical nature of fashion trends as a whole. “Everybody wearing Retro Jordans didn’t really pop off until early 2010, late 2000s. Before then, [Nike] Air Max had a run, and before that, it was big basketball shoes in the nineties. Now we’re back in this space where runners are becoming cool again. So, it’s cyclical, just like I think fashion is bringing those styles back. The shoe brands have stayed the same, but the clothing brands have changed.”

“So, the styles of those older brands that we rocked when we were wearing Jordans back in the eighties, a lot of those brands aren’t ‘cool’ anymore,” he observes, “But the sneaker brands have remained cool. So Nike, Adidas, Reebok, New Balance, those brands have kind of retained their cultural significance, whereas those fashion brands haven’t. And now the cycle of clothing that we see happening is the same things we were wearing during those times, it’s just that there are new brands now because those brands aren’t as cool as they used to be. So it’s the same cycle, just a different brand name on it.”

Megan Ann Wilson, one of Jacques contemporaries and colleagues in the 2010s sneaker blog explosion, concurs. Going by the sobriquet “SheGotGame” online, Wilson’s blog was one of the first to bridge the gap between legacy designer fashion and sneaker culture, and her work as a stylist has included clientele such as NBA players Andre Drummond and Stanley Johnson, NFL players Brandon Ghee and Tarell Brown, and commercial clients like Complex, BET, and Mitchell & Ness. This has put her in prime position to witness the connections between athletes and hip-hop firsthand.

Assessing the past two decades of style evolution, she says, “I think the main thing is that we saw the commodification of fashion through hip-hop style.” For example, she notes that athletes and rappers alike now have entire teams of designers curating not just their looks, but their entire personal brands. “Now, it’s very rare that you talk to an artist that they don’t have a full team. And even if maybe they have stylists that work with other people, they also have a brand manager, or they have now labels. They have people who are working on the partnership side, they’re working on the brand partnership side, and we’ve seen that a lot in sports.”

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The end result is a sense that personal touches have become lost in all that — but that sneakers remain a way for artists, athletes, and their fans to remain in touch with identifiers like regionality. “I think what people are missing from that era [the 2000s] — whether it’s the Bad Boy era or the Dipset era or the old Outkast videos — they’re missing this sense of artists having a personal touch on what they’re wearing rather than having them very produced.”

“Now, it’s so hard to know if these trends are merely manufactured, or are these 20-year-old rappers coming out really into Y2K fashion?” Megan wonders. “Or do they have a stylist that’s my age that’s like, ‘No, this is trending, you should wear it.’ So it’s changed a lot in how it’s packaged… Then with sneakers, I think we’re seeing that too, in that in the 2010s and even up to 2020, it was resale culture. Who has the most heat? Who has the most things? And now it’s become, what’s your collection? Where’s your style coming from? And I think a lot of the brands haven’t fully caught up to that. We had a customization era, and we had a very limited-run era. Now it’s like they’re putting everything out again, but what’s actually new, what’s exciting, or what’s also really someone’s style?”

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In locating the answer, Wilson points to regional signifiers such as Air Force 1s, which weren’t only popular in Nelly’s native St. Louis, but were a staple of the Harlem, New York uniform in 2011, when ASAP Rocky began his ascent to stardom in both the hip-hop and high-fashion worlds (so much so that there was a minor kerfuffle online over it a few years ago when Rocky claimed credit for the popularity of 1s — or “Uptowns” as they are called, well, Uptown). “To me, I used to be able to know if I was running around New York, ‘Oh, I know that guy’s from Brooklyn because of how he’s dressed. I know he’s from the Bronx because of how he’s dressing,’ just because there was a very specific look. For me, [Nike Foamposites] are like a DC thing, but they’re also an Uptown thing.”

Both experts cited the same recent cultural touchpoint as an indicator of how hip-hop trends are evolving: Kendrick Lamar’s culture-gripping Super Bowl Halftime Show performance this past February. “Is hip-hop what Kendrick had on at the Super Bowl?” Slade wonders. “Would we consider that to be hip-hop where he had on semi baggy jeans with kind of bell-bottoms and one of them NBA champion leather jackets? Everything is so homogenous because we’re all seeing the same things, and there’s not a lot of opportunity for style differences to pop up from a certain region.”

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“While the jeans got plenty of attention, inspiring thinkpieces across the internet, most of us probably wouldn’t be able to grab archival classics at their usual price points. But you can always pair YOUR look with a fresh pair of kicks. In Kendrick’s case, StockX, the secondhand resale platform, which mainly focuses on sneakers and streetwear, noted a 400% percent increase in the average bids for the sneakers, a pair of Nike Air DT Max ’96, after the performance. Which just goes to show, in the modern era of hip-hop style, whether you’re chasing trends or pursuing self-expression, you have to start somewhere. And in the immortal words of Mars Blackmon: “It’s gotta be the shoes.”

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Allo Darlin’ Are Back With Their First New Song In Nine Years, ‘Tricky Questions’

Allo Darlin’ released three albums between 2010 and 2014, but none since then. But today (March 24), the earnest indie-pop group released their first song in nine years, the sweetly intimate “Tricky Questions.”

“There’s a piazza, Piazza della Signoria, not far from where I used to live, where the Palazzo Vecchio is,” singer Elizabeth Morris wrote in a statement. “You used to be able to go and walk right up to the sculptures in the Loggia, but I think now they are roped off and a guard watches over them. The city was full of tourists during the day, but after 9pm, they would all go back to their hotels. That’s when the city came alive to me, and it felt like it was just for us.”

She continued, “I was really thinking about that place when I wrote this song. I wanted to go back there and soak it all up again. Writing about it helped me feel like I was back there, in a place that is timeless. But of course, more than being about a specific place, this song is really about a relationship and how it makes me feel.”

You can listen to “Tricky Questions” above, and check out Allo Darlin’s European tour dates below.

Allo Darlin’s 2025 Tour Dates

04/04 — Cologne @ Cologne PopFest
10/07 — Nottingham @ Old Cold Store
10/09 — London @ EartH Hall
10/10 — Glasgow @ Stereo
10/11 — Manchester @ Yes Pink Room

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Taylor Swift Wrote A ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star The ‘Biggest Check’ For A Children’s Charity ‘Without Blinking An Eye’

Even before she was a billionaire, Taylor Swift was generous with her money.

During a recent appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Ellen Pompeo — the Grey’s Anatomy star who appears in the “Bad Blood” video (and inspired the name of one of Swift’s cats) — recalled a time that the singer wrote her a “big old check” for a program that she’s passionate about.

“At the time, [husband Chris Ivery] and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles here and they have an amazing program at Children’s where they make music for the babies in the NICU and for the parents who have to go to work all day and they can’t be with the kids,” she said. “They record their voices singing nursery rhymes or telling them stories and they play it for the babies in the day when the parents can’t be there. The babies respond to it and it makes their outcomes more positive.”

When the program needed money, Pompeo revealed she “asked Taylor, ‘Could you write me a big old check for Children’s?’ and she knew me all but 20 minutes and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye.”

You can watch the clip above.

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Lil Wayne Unveils The Official ‘Tha Carter VI’ Release Date With A Throwback Video

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Lil Wayne didn’t perform the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year, but he did star in a Cetaphil commercial that ran during the big game. Most notably, the ad seemed to announce that a new Wayne album, Tha Carter VI is set to drop on June 6.

Now, Wayne has gone ahead and made that more official: Last night (April 1), he took to social media to share a compilation of throwback video clips and reveal the project is indeed coming out on June 6. He also shared a pre-order link, and there, it’s revealed that the project’s cover art will be shared soon.

A blurb on the order pages reads, “The Carter series didn’t just raise the bar — it became the bar. Multi-platinum trailblazer, 5x Grammy winner and the undisputed GOAT Lil Wayne returns June 6 with Tha Carter VI — the highly anticipated next chapter in one of the most influential series in hip-hop history. From reshaping mixtape culture to birthing a generation of rap superstars, Tha Carter legacy is untouchable. Now, Wayne is back to remind the world why he’s the greatest rapper alive.”

Indeed, Wayne is one of the best ever, as Uproxx’s Elliott Wilson indicated recently when he picked his 21st century hip-hop champions.

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Cher And Britney Spears’ Iconic Bob Mackie-Designed Concert Costumes Sell For Six-Figures At Auction

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Lately, fans have gone the extra mile to curate a perfect concert outfit. For a slew of examples, you can pull up the viral looks from Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour and Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. Still, nothing can compare to elaborate onstage wardrobes of these entertainers, which are sure to go for a pretty penny in the future.

In fact, two performance outfits from Cher and Britney Spears did just that over the weekend. During Julien’s Auctions’ Bold Luxury: The Limelight Edit event, the pop legends’ customs pieces designed by Bob Mackie pulled in a whopping six-figure sum ($243,425 total).

Cher’s beloved embellished black spandex and mesh catsuit and leather motorcycle jacket (as seen on her 2002 The Farewell Tour) snagged an impressive $162,500 with just 8 bids. Even a signed illustration of the design closed above five-figures ($22,750) after 26 bids.

For Spears, her 2001 Bob Mackie French wirework “Jubilee” burlesque ensemble (which included bra top, arm bands, and panties) pulled in $78,000 after 33 bids. Most fans will recall the crystallized bra from her HBO Dream Within A Dream Tour television concert special. A reproduction of Spears’ matching embellished denim sold for $2,925 after 16 bids.

Bob Mackie’s original designs are highly sought after by fashion archivist. Thanks to the Julien’s Auctions’ event someone (or multiple people) are happy as a clam right now.

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Lil Nas X Says His Friendship With Camila Cabello Helped Him Get His ‘Confidence Back’

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Lil Nas X’s oozes self-assuredness. The “Lean On My Body” rapper’s confidence is often the focal point across his music. But, Lil Nas X isn’t always a ray of aplomb.

During an interview with Paper Magazine, Lil Nas X revealed that his former “He Knows” collaborator Camila Cabello has helped him restore his confidence when it was on a temporary decline.

When asked about his relationship with Cabello, Lil Nas X raved about their affirming friendship.

“We did a great job at uplifting each other and showing each other how we view the situation and how we view each other from outside of ourselves,” he said. “Once you made up your mind: Oh, the world doesn’t see me as something great or feels like I’ve done anything amazing. To hear [affirmation] from somebody who you greatly respect, and you love what they’ve done, it feels great, especially because you can feel like it comes from a genuine place, and not like someone trying to get something from you.”

He continued: “It was fun hanging out with Camila, because that was the beginning of me getting comfortable going out to places. It was just genuine fun. It didn’t feel like work. Camila made me feel so good, she made me feel so great. And that was the beginning of me getting my confidence back. To finally be at this place, where I’m like, Okay, I know who the f*ck I am. I know where I’m going. I don’t care what none of these b*tches say. I didn’t care at first. Why do I care now?”

Lil Nas X and Camila Cabello have gone from casual collaborators to close confidants.

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Wiz Khalifa Reveals ‘Taylor Gang The World’ Tour Dates Ahead Of ‘Kush + Orange Juice 2’ Album Release

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From J. Cole’s The Warm Up to Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo, last year several notable rap mixtapes were finally uploaded to streaming platforms. Fans of Wiz Khalifa’s 2010 project Kush & Orange Juice are also in for a treat.

Following the body of work’s fifteenth anniversary, Wiz Khalifa is set to release its long-anticipated sequel, Kush + Orange Juice 2. Shortly after Kush + Orange Juice 2 drops, Wiz Khalifa will share the album with supporters around the country as part o his Taylor Gang The World Tour with special guests Chevy Woods, Fedd The God, and DJ Bonics.

Continue below to view Kush + Orange Juice 2‘s tracklist and artwork as well as the show schedule and poster for the Taylor Gang The World Tour. The presale for Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang The World Tour has begun. The general sale is scheduled or April 4 at 10 a.m. local time. Find more information here.

Wiz Khalifa’s 2025 Tour Dates: Taylor Gang The World Tour 2025

05/20 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
05/21 – Urbana, IL @ The Canopy Club
05/22 – Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
05/23 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
05/24 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
05/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/27 – Omaha, NE @ The Admiral
05/28 – Columbia, MO @ Rose Park
05/29 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
05/30 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre
05/31 – Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
06/01 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
06/03 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
06/04 – Cheyenne, WY @ The Lincoln Cheyenne
06/08 – Reno, NV @ Cargo Concert Hall
06/09 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
06/10 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater
06/11 – Bakersfield, CA @ The Historic Bakersfield Fox Theater

Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang The World Tour poster

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Kush + Orange Juice 2 Tracklist

1. “KOJ2 Intro”
2. “How We Act” featuring OT Genasis
3. “Crime Bud And Women”
4. “5 Star” featuring Gunna
5. “Top Down” featuring Ty Dolla $ign & Jason Martin
6. “Pimps n Hustlers” featuring Luh Tyler
7. “I Might Be” featuring LaRussell, Mike G Beatz, and Michael Prince
8. “What’s Hannin”
9. “Jet Taylor” featuring Terrace Martin and Curren$y
10. “Max B Interlude” featuring Max B
11. “Red Eye”
12. “My Influence” featuring Juicy J
13. “Take Your Time Get Paid” featuring DJ Quik
14. “Cashed Out” featuring Larry June
15. “Got It All” featuring Chevy Woods
16. “Just To See You Smile” featuring RMR
17. “Super Duper High Outro”
18. “Keep Ballin”
19. “Khalifa’s Home”
20. “Hide It” featuring Don Toliver
21. “Bring Your Lungs” featuring Smoke DZA
22. “Hit It Once”
23. “Hit It Once” (Dub Version)

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Kush + Orange Juice 2 is out on via Taylor Gang Ent/BMG. Find more information here.