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Cordae’s “Nothing Promised” video is a collection of home movies capturing the best times of the Maryland rapper’s life — which is fitting for the song’s subject. “Y’all don’t understand how crazy it get,” he reflects. “From this life thing, I done seen the craziest sh*t / I’m still a baby, but I’m finna have a baby and sh*t / I thank God my baby mother ain’t crazy as shi*t.”

“Nothings Promised” appears on Cordae’s latest album, The Crossroads, on which he reflects about his aforementioned foray into fatherhood, the breakup of the YBN collective, and his survivor’s guilt from making it out of the hood and living not just his dream, but his mom’s as well. On the song “06 Dreamin,” he details his mother’s efforts to forge her own music career over a sample of one of the songs she recorded when he was just a small child.

Despite the album’s endearing and soulful material, The Crossroads turned out to be his lowest-charting album; however, as he told fans on Twitter, he doesn’t much care about first-week sales. He called them a “very inaccurate way to calculate impact, especially with the current streaming metrics. I seen somebody do 11K first week and then do a ARENA TOUR off the same album.” He elaborated, “N****s said my last project first week numbers wasn’t good, and I ended up doing a sold out headline world tour.”

Watch Cordae’s “Nothing Promised” video above.

Florry‘s 2023 album The Holey Bible was one of our favorites from that year. Now, the twangy group is back with a new album, Sounds Like…

“The Jackass theme song was actually a really big influence on the new album,” bandleader Francie Medosch said about Sounds Like… in a statement, which should be true of more albums. Besides The Minutemen, you can also hear the country-rock influence of The Band and Silver Jews; the album was produced by Colin Miller, a bandmate of MJ Lenderman.

Listen to rollicking first single “Hey Baby” above, and check out Sounds Like…‘s tracklist and Florry’s upcoming tour dates below.

Florry’s Sounds Like… Album Cover Artwork

Florry’s Sounds Like… Tracklist

1. “First It Was A Movie, Then It Was A Book”
2. “Waiting Around To Provide”
3. “Hey Baby”
4. “Sexy”
5. “Truck Flipped Over ’19”
6. “Big Something”
7. “Dip Myself In Like An Ice Cream Cone”
8. “Say Your Prayers Rock”
9. “Pretty Eyes Lorraine”
10. “You Don’t Know”

Florry’s 2025 Tour Dates: The Sounds Like… Tour

06/05 — Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground (Showcase Lounge)
06/06 — Montreal QC @ la Sotteranea
06/07 — Toronto, ON @ The Baby G
06/08 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Bottlerocket Social Hal
06/10 — Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe
06/11 — Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
06/12 — Chicago, IL @ Schubas
06/13 — Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
06/14 — Madison, WI @ Gamma Ray Bar
06/16 — Des Moines, IA @ Raccoon Motel
06/17 — Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge
06/18 — St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
06/19 — Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
06/20 — Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
06/21 — Athens, GA @ Flicker Theatre
06/22 — Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
06/24 — Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
06/25 — Richmond, VA @ The Camel
06/26 — Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
06/27 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
06/28 — Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
06/29 — Medford, MA @ Deep Cuts

Sounds Like… is out 5/23 via Dear Life Records. Find more information here.

Over the past five years, Nikola Jokic has held the title of the best player in the NBA, winning three of the last four MVPs and, somewhat ironically, winning his first championship and Finals MVP in the one year he did not take home the regular season MVP honor.

This year, Jokic is again part of a two-man MVP conversation, but finds himself second on the odds sheet to Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. This weekend, the Thunder and Nuggets played a back-to-back where both stars made their case for MVP, with SGA putting up 40/8/5 in a blowout of Denver on Sunday before Jokic put up 35/18/8 as the Nuggets returned the favor on Monday. It was, in effect, a battle to a draw between the two players in terms of the MVP race, which should benefit Gilgeous-Alexander as the presumptive favorite going into the final month of the regular season.

After the Nuggets win on Monday, Jokic was asked about the MVP race and offered a measured take on the battle between himself and SGA, noting it’s out of his control and that no matter the outcome, it’ll be a deserving MVP taking home the trophy, via Bennett Durando of the Denver Post.

“I cannot control it,” Jokic said. “I will say that I think I’m playing the best basketball of my life, so if that’s enough, it’s enough. If not, the guy deserves it. He’s really amazing.”

Jokic is no stranger to the MVP conversation after the past four years and has seen some incredibly toxic MVP debates over that time — most notably in 2023 when Joel Embiid won. His approach has long been to let his game make his MVP case, which shouldn’t be confused with him not caring or striving for the award, but simply that he isn’t very interested in talking about why he should win — his coach will do that for him.

The truth is, this year both Jokic and Gilgeous-Alexander have spectacular cases for the award. Jokic is a three-time MVP who, as he said, is playing the best we’ve ever seen him play. He’s averaging 28.9 points, 13.0 rebounds, and 10.5 assists per game on 57.7/43.0/80.9 shooting splits, which is simply preposterous. On the other side is SGA leading the NBA in scoring at 32.7 points per game to go along with 6.2 assists and 5.1 rebounds on 52.5/37.3/90.0 splits, while leading the team with the NBA’s second-best record and providing high-level defense. There isn’t really a wrong answer, which is part of the problem and leads to extremely contentious arguments that Jokic himself seems to want to avoid.

Matt Berninger has been leading The National for over two decades now, but every now and then, he shakes things up by going solo. He dropped his first solo album, Serpentine Prison, in 2020, and now he’s following it up with another: Today (March 11), he announced Get Sunk and shared the single “Bonnet Of Pins.”

Berninger notes the album follows “a long period of writer’s block and self-disgust” in 2020, adding, “I just got sick of asking myself ‘Why am I like this?’” He adds of his music, “Our hearts are like old wells filled with pennies and worms. I can’t resist going down to the bottom of mine to see what else is there. But sometimes you can get yourself stuck.” Berninger also says the new project is “not necessarily an autobiographical album,” and a press release notes it was inspired by “the flora and fauna of his new home in Connecticut after years living in Los Angeles.”

Listen to “Bonnet Of Pins” above. Below, find the Get Sunk album cover and tracklist. Berninger also announced a solo tour (ticket info here), so find those dates below.

Matt Berninger’s Get Sunk Album Cover Artwork

Matt Berninger’s Get Sunk Tracklist

1. “Inland Ocean”
2. “No Love”
3. “Bonnet Of Pins”
4. “Frozen Oranges”
5. “Breaking Into Acting” Feat. Hand Habits
6. “Nowhere Special”
7. “Little By Little”
8. “Junk”
9. “Silver Jeep” Feat. Ronboy
10. “Times Of Difficulty”

Matt Berninger’s 2025 Tour Dates

05/19 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
05/20 — San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club
05/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ Palace Theatre
05/23 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/24 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
05/26 — Toronto, ON @ Concert Hall
05/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
05/29 — Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
05/30 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
08/23 — Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
08/25 — Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 Galvanizers
08/26 — Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
08/27 — London, UK @ Troxy
08/28-31 — Nr Tolland Royal, Wiltshire, UK @ End Of The Road Festival
08/31 — Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg
09/01 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Olt Rivierenhof
09/02 — Paris, France @ Elysee Montmartre
09/04 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
09/05 — Copehagen, Denmark @ Vega
09/06 — Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall

Get Sunk is out 5/30 via Book/Concord Records. Find more information here.

Earlier this month, Travis Scott continued his foray into the world of wrestling, appearing in the final segment of WWE’s Elimination Chamber event, where he participated in a brutal beatdown of heroic champion Cody Rhodes alongside John Cena and The Rock. During the segment, it seemed an enthusiastic Scott got really into one of his blows, delivering a slap to Cody’s head that reportedly resulted in real-life injuries.

The report transcended target demos, prompting audiences who might not look twice at Cody Rhodes on the street to express their skepticism. After all, isn’t wrestling fake? Not according to the new T-shirts promoted by the WWE and Travis’ Cactus Jack brand — which is, by the way, named after one of WWE vet Mick Foley’s many, many in-ring personas. The shirts feature a black-and-white photo on the back from Elimination Chamber with The Rock, Cena, and Travis all standing side-by-side (Cody, laying prone on the ground, wouldn’t have fit). The front reads, simply, “Wrestling Is Real.”

Travis seems to be having a ball with his WWE association; after accompanying Jey Uso to the ring during the promotion’s Netflix debut, he’s gotten more and more involved, with his song “4×4” soundtracking segments on Smackdown, and expressing his belief that wrestling is even more fun than performing his own music.

We’ll see if he still believes this when he receives his inevitable receipt from Cody the next time the two are in the ring together. Travis wouldn’t be the first musician to make the leap into taking bumps in the squared circle; Bad Bunny participated in a pair of highly lauded matches with Damian Priest, and Snoop Dogg improvised cold-cocking The Miz during WrestleMania in 2023 — although that storyline never did get a resolution. Snoop’s probably too old to be in there taking bumps at this point, but Travis probably wouldn’t mind picking up a few battle scars.

You can find the Cactus Jack X WWE “Wrestling Is Real” T-shirts here.

Combined, Kendrick Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are only an Oscar away from an EGOT. By this time in 2026, maybe they’ll have it.

Years before Lamar accused Drake of being a pedophile in front of 127 million people, it was announced that the rapper was working with Stone and Parker on a live-action comedy that will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.” The script is from Vernon Chatham (the voice of Towelie!), while Stone, Parker, Lamar, and his pgLang partner Dave Free are on board as producers.

That’s all we knew about the movie, until last year when Stone offered more details during a conversation with Bloomberg. “We are doing a movie with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free and their company [pgLang],” he said. “And we are working on it, and it will hopefully come out July 4th weekend, opposite Jurassic Park which is pretty funny.” Stone added that Lamar is “very involved, and Dave Free is very, very involved. Every day they are working on it. But that is what we are doing, and then we will do South Park.” So…

When Does The Kendrick Lamar / South Park Creators Movie Come Out?

There were recent reports about the film releasing on July 11, but that date is unconfirmed. So, until we hear otherwise, pencil the comedy for July 4, 2025.

In case this wasn’t already evident, Apple TV+ has achieved King of Sci-Fi Streaming Shows status. From revisionist space-history tales like For All Mankind to the ever evolving nuclear lizard in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters to so many other shows, there’s no comparison at present. Silo has kept that streak going strong, and after the second season pairing of Rebecca Ferguson (as no-nonsense Juliette) and Steve Zahn (as the endearing Solo), the show will for continue for a third and fourth season to complete Hugh Howey’s series of books that began with the Wool omnibus.

The most recent season ended in January, and filming has already been going fast and furious on a followup, so that naturally leads to questions on when more underground secrets will surface.

Does Silo Season 3 Have A Release Date On Apple TV+?

Not yet. Hang tight though, because late 2025 or early 2026 does, however unlikely it seems, feel possible. The third season was already in the thick of filming back in January (as Showrunner Graham Yost told The Wrap), and they’re planning on shooting the fourth season shortly after because “there’s no hiatus.” Really:

“All of season 2 was written before we had finished filming season 1. We had finished writing season 3 pretty much before the strike was called, and that’s while we were filming season 2. And we’ve written all of season 4. So, because we have to plan, there’s no hiatus. We’re shutting down for three months of pre-production for season 4, and then we’re going to roll right in.”

As viewers know, Silo‘s second season finale provided a first glimpse of characters who lived in “normal” civilization hundreds of years prior. Those mystery characters also hail from the second novel, Shift, which the second season already adapted, but Graham Yost apparently recognized that the second season would have been too confusing to go back to pre-silo times in addition to already splitting the second season’s stories in between two silos. In other words, the second book is massive, so it made sense to rearrange the narrative a bit. Hence the total of four seasons to adapt three books. Don’t worry, though, the third season will not drop Juliette. Rebecca Ferguson is always essential, you know?

Speaking of Ferguson, she was pumped when the multi-season renewal came down in this Apple TV+ statement:

“I have always felt passionately about telling the entire story contained within Hugh Howey’s books, so I couldn’t be happier that audiences around the world have enthusiastically embraced the show. Alongside our parters at Apple, Graham, and the entire cast and crew, I cannot wait to dive into these final two thought-provoking seasons that will beautifully conclude this dystopian tale.”

The first two seasons of Silo are streaming on Apple TV+.

Back in 2022, it was announced that Flying Lotus had signed a deal to direct and produce multiple movies. One of those projects is Ash, about which he said, “I’ve a strong desire to innovate in the sci-fi space and I really want to show the world something they’ve never seen before.”

The movie, which stars Eiza González and Aaron Paul, is set to hit theaters this year, and now, Flying Lotus has announced the soundtrack album, which he helmed. He also shared the song “Oxygene.”

FlyLo says of the score:

“Working on the score was both inspiring and challenging. I spent most of the time writing it during the final postproduction and color grading when I was in New Zealand, running back and forth to different rooms to check on progress and going into my lil cave there and working with just my laptop and controller. I drew inspiration from composers who primarily just used synths to create soundtracks, like John Carpenter, Akira Yamaoka, Angelo Badalamenti, and Vangelis. It was a great time trying to find a distinctive sound for the movie that also felt fresh and unique for me to explore.”

A press release also notes of the film, “On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya (González) awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion (Paul) arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.”

Listen to “Oxygene” above and find the Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) cover art and tracklist below.

Flying Lotus’ Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Album Cover Artwork

Flying Lotus’ Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tracklist

1. “Oxygene”
2. “Surface”
3. “Intrigue And Window”
4. “Horizon”
5. “Immovable Objects”
6. “Questionable Sandstorm”
7. “In The Walls”
8. “Safe Room”
9. “Something In Her Voice”
10. “A Teebs Dream (Earth Version)”
11. “A Curious Mind”
12. “Hole”
13. “Confronted” (Flying Lotus and Little Snake)
14. “Greebles”
15. “Mouth Blood”
16. “It’s Out There”
17. “Sonatine”
18. “Your Candelabra”
19. “13 Hours”
20. “Rebirth”
21. “Unusual Activity”
22. “Immediate Danger”
23. “Stray”
24. “I’ll Never Let You Leave”
25. “Surface::Leaving”
26. “What’s Wrong Peach?” (Kuedo Feat. Flying Lotus and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson)
27. “Obey” (Flying Lotus and Niki Randa)

Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out 3/19 via Milan Records. Find more information here.

Here’s a fun trivia question for you: what was the most recent live-action movie to star Beyoncé? It’s not The Lion King and Mufasa: The Lion King; those are animated, and only feature her voice. Same with 2013’s Epic.

Give up? The answer is Obsessed, the campy psychological thriller with Idris Elba and Ali Larter that came out in 2009. Since then, Beyoncé has focused on her music career — that’s working out pretty well for her. But is there a chance the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer could return to the big screen? Unless Carmen: A Hip Hopera gets an IMAX re-release, which it should, probably not.

That’s according to Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, who shared a video on Instagram about her daughter donating her salary for 2008’s Golden Globes-nominated Cadillac Records to drug treatment centers. “This is still one of my favorite movies and it makes me miss the fact that my child decided not to continue with movies,” she wrote. “She killed it in this movie, and she so unselfishly donated her salary to the Phoenix house.”

It’s as simple as Beyoncé didn’t want to continue making movies. That makes sense: once you’ve starred in Austin Powers In Goldmember, you’ve reached the peak of cinema excellence. There’s nowhere left to go but down.

As of yesterday (March 10), this week was set to be significant for Lil Nas X’s upcoming project, Dreamboy. Yesterday, he shared a surprise song, “Dreamboy,” to precede this Friday’s single “Hotbox.” It turns out he’s packing even more in, as today brings another surprise track: “Big Dummy.”

It’s a two-minute tune that’s ready for a party as Lil Nas X raps, “In the club, in the cut, cuttin’ up / Gettin’ drunk while I’m pickin’ out my pick-me / All my opps and my simps gettin’ low / ‘Cause they want, but they know they can’t get me / Oh / Yes, it’s true.”

Previously, Lil Nas X said of his career mindset, “I just want to f*ckin’ have fun with this sh*t. I don’t even give a f*ck about all the other sh*t. Of course I want to, like, be No. 1 all the time, I want every song to go up, and I want you to go crazy. But it’s like, at the same time, I want to f*ckin’ have fun. I want to go and live life, I just want to make music. I don’t want to have to do crazy sh*t all the time. I want to make music, I want to f*ckin’ have fun, I want to live.”

Listen to “Big Dummy” above.