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Trippie Redd’s long been recognized for the grungy sound of his rock-inspired emo-rap, but his latest single, the smooth-grooving “Took My Breath Away” featuring Skye Morales, is a total departure from that grittier style. It has more in common with mid-2000s Quiet Storm radio-inspired hits from the likes of Fabolous and LL Cool J, with an R&B-inflected beat and chorus and a more straightforward, old-school rap delivery that makes use of a set of skills Trippie’s always had but hasn’t always utilized. It sounds a bit like a Wiz Khalifa outtake — a really good one.

Judging from the press release for the single, which also officially announces his next album, A Love Letter To You 5, fans might get to see a lot more of this Trippie Redd in the future, as the release cites a “new chapter” for the Ohio rap-crooner. Trippie’s last A Love Letter To You album, the fourth in the series, came out in 2019 and blended Nirvana-esque guitar strumming with thumping trap drums and plenty of wounded dog howling from Trippie vocally, although there were offerings like the upbeat soft-rocker “‘Til The End Of Time,” as well.

Trippie’s last few albums, though, have leaned more heavily on either the Lex Luger-ish and murky Pi’erre Bourne-inspired video game trap of (the apparently rushed) Mansion Muzik and Trip At Knight. With his latest transformation, Trippie proves he remains one of the most versatile rappers in music today. You can watch his “Took My Breath Away” video up top and stay tuned for more on A Love Letter To You 5.

In an effort to knock Donald Trump out of the Republican primary, “Meatball” Ron DeSantis is set to visit Nevada where the Florida governor will attend the Basque Fry, a key political event that could secure the state for DeSantis. Politically, it’s a solid move for the Florida governor. Comedically, it presented a golden opportunity for Trump’s campaign to hit below the belt.

While the Basque Fry is a proud Nevada tradition that has hosted Republican politicians for decades, the event is centered around the “stewing and frying of lamb testicles,” and you can see where this is going. Trump’s campaign has already signaled that it plans to attack DeSantis’ manhood, his “Tiny D” if you will, which made this low-hanging fruit too good to ignore.

Via NBC News:

A strategist for the front-running Trump, fresh from an arraignment this week in federal court, punched down on DeSantis and rejected the suggestion that he could encroach on Trump’s turf.

“Not surprised Ron DeSantis is looking for a set of balls,” said Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign.

In what could be a critical mistake going into the Republican debates where MAGA voters love seeing Trump insult his opponents, DeSantis’ campaign took the high road and scolded the former president’s campaign. DeSantis’ team did, however, pull from the anti-woke playbook.

“The Trump team’s obsession with men’s genitalia is more perverted than a woke grooming book,” DeSantis communications director Erin Perrine told NBC News.

(Via NBC News)

The United States men’s national team are no strangers to playing completely unhinged games against Mexico. That continued to be the case on Friday night in Las Vegas, as the two sides squared off in a Nations League semifinal that went about as poorly as a game can go. That’s especially true for El Tri, which suffered a convincing, 3-0 loss to the Americans on the evening.

Right as the evening kicked off and with a spot in Sunday’s final against Canada was on the line, a bombshell report came by way of Paul Tenorio of The Athletic that changed the vibe around the evening. In a bit of news that was confirmed on Friday morning, the United States will end its search for Gregg Berhalter’s replacement by bringing Berhalter back as manager. While the team was able to make it out of a difficult group at the World Cup and consistently won CONCACAF knockout competitions under Berhalter, his return comes after he was given the all-clear following an investigation into an incident in 1992 where he kicked his then-girlfriend, Rosalind, to whom he is now married.

The incident came to light after Claudio and Danielle Reyna, the parents of current USMNT midfielder Gio Reyna, contacted higher-ups in U.S. Soccer and brought it up while discussing their frustration over their son’s lack of playing time at the World Cup. The whole thing was beyond messy and highlighted a long-standing problem within the Federation in which everyone knows everyone — Claudio was Gregg’s best man in his wedding to Rosalind, Danielle and Rosalind were college roommates, the conversation where this came to light featured a few of Claudio and Gregg’s old national team teammates who were put into positions of prominence within the Federation — and the news of Berhalter’s return to the team coming right as the ball was kicked to start a game against Mexico was, in retrospect, the only way a story this weird could come to a fitting conclusion.

And then, there was the game, which was as unhinged as any USMNT-Mexico game I have ever seen. It isn’t new for the U.S. to beat El Tri, but the size of the gap that appeared to exist between the two sides was rather shocking. Mexico didn’t have some of its top players — its first-choice attacking trio of Tecatito Corona, Raul Jimenez, and Hirving Lozano all did not play — but even beyond that, the Americans just completely played them off the park at Allegiant Stadium, something that was true even before Christian Pulisic opened the scoring by basically wanting a ball more than anyone on Mexico did.

Halftime came and went, and much was made of how the United States emerged from the locker room early, lined up, and waited for Mexico. We saw why right away, as Weston McKennie picked a pass into space for Timothy Weah, who ran onto it, played a ball across the face of the goal, and set Pulisic up for his second of the night.

Things were chippy before this, and after the Americans got a second, the intensity began ramping up. Fouls by both teams got under the skin of the opponents just that little bit more, and in the 69th minute, things finally boiled over.

Folarin Balogun, the high-profile debutant dual-national who chose the United States over England, tracked back to win the ball from César Montes. This didn’t go over well for the Mexican center back, who took out Balogun for an obvious red card that kicked off a fracas between the two teams. McKennie, one of the emotional leaders of the USMNT, emerged from things with a torn up jersey and likewise received a red for putting his hand around a Mexico player’s throat during the scuffle.

Less than 10 minutes later, with both teams playing down a man, a dual-national who picked the United States over Mexico gave the Americans a third. Sergino Dest ran through the Mexican defense and slid in a perfect pass for Ricardo Pepi, who was originally ruled offside but was given the goal after it was reviewed.

It was right around here that things completely went off the rails. On the pitch, this meant that things boiled over yet again, with a number of chippy fouls that eventually led to Dest and Gerardo Arteaga picking up red cards following some extracurriculars in the 85th minute.

Far more concerning, however, was what happened in the stands, as Mexico supporters loudly used an anti-gay chant in the game’s waning minutes. There have been numerous efforts by CONCACAF to try and stamp it out, but unfortunately, it popped up once again and led to the referee stopping the game. Things resumed in stoppage time, where the referee called for 12 additional minutes, but the chant continued and things were called early.

Next up for the United States is the Nations League final against Canada on Sunday evening. While it should be a tense game — particularly with both Dest and McKennie suspended due to their red cards — our hunch is it will not be anything like Thursday night.

Harrison Ford‘s reputation is that he’s a grump. But that’s not accurate: he’s only a grump about things that he should be grumpy about, like silly questions about Red Hulk. Otherwise, Ford seems like a chill dude who enjoys making movies, flying planes, and spending time with wife Calista Flockhart and his friends, including former co-star (and Oscar winner!) Ke Huy Quan.

The Everything Everywhere All at Once star surprised Ford on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Look at the smile on Ford’s face when he realizes who’s been jumping behind him. “You’re all grown up,” the Indy actor said with pride as the two exchanged a hug.

Ford also enjoyed saying hello to Kevin Brassard, the Disney World cast member who portrayed Indiana Jones in the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for nearly 30 years. “When I said to him, ‘I’m the man that’s been lucky enough to portray Indiana Jones that you created for the past 34 years,’ he thanked me,” Brassard, who was there alongside fellow Disney stunt performer Michele Waitman, told Disney Parks.

Several decades later, Kevin continues to play a key role as the comical “Director,” and as a trainer, he passes the torch to all the Indiana Jones stunt performers who follow in his carefully choreographed footsteps. “If I could tell myself starting with this show more than 30 years ago about today, first of all, I’d say strap in, it’s gonna be a wild ride. And you’re gonna love it,” Kevin said.

Ford is still waiting to meet his real hero, however: Big Al from the Country Bear Jamboree.

(Via Disney Parks)

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Inconsistency, inconsideration, and indecisiveness. Kiana Ledé names those as her “biggest pet peeves” during an interview with Uproxx ahead of her second album Grudges. Throughout the album’s 17 songs, Ledé journeys through past relationships that left her to deal with those bad qualities. However, it doesn’t stop there. Ledé also lists the grudges she has against men overall and herself as well. “I’m naming my grudges and calling them out so that I can move forward with my life,” she says.

Grudges is Ledé’s first album since her 2020 debut Kiki. That project presented a young adult who sought a fairy tale love story and believed that it could exist for her. Even the album’s low moments amounted to nothing but a brief bump in the road as it concludes with “Separation” and “No Takebacks,” which proved that Lede’s hopes and dreams were reasonable and not the result of youthful naivety. Three years later, things are much different for her. The novelty behind romance has lost its shine a bit and the frustration that she can’t have this thing that so many other people can indulge in is more present than ever.

“As a mature young woman, if I seem to be in a relationship with someone, I’m agreeing to meet in the middle, not compromise, but meet in the middle,” Ledé says. “So when you’re not helping me help us or help you, I can’t have that and I don’t like things that are out of my control. So yes, it frustrates me when I don’t know what someone’s thinking.”

These frustrations make for the foundation of “Irresponsible” and “Gemini Slander” on the album. The former blends anger and disappointment for a message penned directly to an unnamed lover who failed to live up to the adult task of being transparent, mature, and honest in love. “Gemini Slander” places Ledé in the driver’s seat as she walks away from a man who lacks the consistency and decisiveness required for love. Through a listen of Grudges, it’s clear that Ledé’s pains in love weren’t a brief or occasional occurrence. She has enough stories to tell because she’s been through it.

“I went through a breakup actually, during COVID I went through two breakups, so I don’t know if I got the world record for modern relationships you can have in quarantine,” Ledé recalls with a laugh. “Was in both of them, and clearly they did not go so great, but it’s okay. It left me with great music.” Though it wasn’t immediately that Ledé knew these songs would become what we now know as Grudges.

“Maybe [after] a year, a year and a half of making the album we were just like, these are grudges,” she says. “It wasn’t just about me having a grudge about my [exes], it really just created this perfect headline of the grudges I hold against the world and everything that it encompasses.”

Kiana Ledé’s growth from her early days helped her reach this point of vulnerable and sheer honesty about herself and others. Even throughout Grudges, there isn’t a point where she is spiteful toward those who contributed to qualms in love. It comes from a level of accountability that exists in these situations, especially ones that the singer herself had a hand in creating.

“I think as I’ve gotten older, no matter how big my role was, in those relationships, and this way, I can acknowledge and accept the part that I played,” she notes. “Too Far” is a perfect example of this as she acknowledges the effects of crossing the friendship barrier to explore the once-forbidden fruit of intimacy.

Though spite and retaliation were absent, a loss of faith in love, people, and trust took its place for some time as she details on the album’s title track. “I went through so much and was put through so much pain by the people that I thought loved me the most,” she remembers. “When that sort of betrayal happens, it’s really hard to think – like if these people were supposed to love me, how will this person that I met on Tuesday that I think is a good person and could be a good friend, how are they not gonna screw me over?” In naming and eventually freeing her grudges, Kiana also found it necessary to do the same to overcome doubts.

“I realized that you can build a good community by just trying,” she says. “I had to accept that with love of any kind, is going to come pain, and we can’t escape loss. That’s just a part of life.” Here, Ledé speaks of having hope, hope that tomorrow will be better, hope that you’ll receive what you prayed would be eventually, and hope that it’ll all be okay. “My friends and my mom are like you just are hopeful,” she says. “I just hope that people are who they say they are. There’s gonna be that one in a million that really is, so there is some hope and love somewhere.”

Despite all that she goes through on Grudges, this hope comes alive to conclude the album with “Magic.” It plays a role similar to that of “No Takebacks” on Kiki, a record that pours out the hopes for a forever romance, and while “Magic” looks to do the same for Grudges, it does so with a new sense of reality.

I label Ledé as a bit of a hopeless romantic, a title she fully accepts and credits for her ability to hold a grudge so well. However, when Grudges comes to a close, we’re left with the feeling that Ledé wants to be more of a hopeful romantic – optimistic about love’s potential while being a bit more practical about its arrival. Look no further than “Where You Go” with Khalid for evidence of this transition Ledé wants to make in the future. Though that record is certainly romantic on the surface, underneath that is the reminder of an unhealthy codependence that Ledé used to have in a previous relationship.

“I do hold a grudge against my younger self that was codependent with people that I was in a relationship with,” she admits. “It feels so good to be able to rely on someone right? But once it gets a little too codependent, like ‘I go where you go,’ it can be a lot.” Simply put, recognizing your faults is the first step in eventually correcting them.

At the end of the day, Grudges is Ledé’s moment of self-reflection and self-work and the pressures of getting it all done to overcome the past and reach what is destined for you. We see this through the intricate and well-thought-out artwork for Grudges. “The mirrors are a representation of a self-reflection, looking at yourself, and also who you are presently in that moment,” Ledé says. “The cameras are a representation of there being a lot of pressure while you’re looking at yourself, everyone else is looking at you, while you’re just trying to figure it out.” Overall, it’s a “clusterf*ck of sh*t around you” that hones in on the overwhelming feeling of working on yourself as the world watches and expects you to show up and simultaneously meet their own expectations.

In these moments, as Kiana Ledé has proven, the best thing you can do with flaws (and grudges) is to name them, acknowledge them, and set them free. But whatever you do, try your best to not hold on to them.

Grudges is out now via The Heavy Group/Republic Records. Find out more information here.

Being happy led Pharrell Williams to an RIAA diamond-certified single. Now, with Voices Of Fire (stars of a Netflix documentary of the same name), there’s another emotion the musicians are bringing to the forefront. On Pharrell and the choir’s new joint single, “Joy (Unspeakable),” the group shouts from the mountain tops how their deep familial bond is only strengthened by the Lord up above.

No matter how demanding his duties as Louis Vuitton’s new Men’s Creative Director, the producer will always carve time out to create new music. The single serves two purposes: To give glory to God and to further establish Pharrell’s musical legacy across genres with his uncle Bishop Ezekiel Williams (of Faith World Ministries) at the helm.

The song’s chorus leaves all of their worries at God’s feet, as the lyrics read, “Lately, I’ve had a hard time / Ain’t been satisfied when I testify / Wanna make sure I’m short when I make that / Point of view / When them blessings come through (I play villain) / And even though I’m clean / When you do it again, they must understand / The point of view.”

Although Voices Of Fire has been classified as a non-traditional choir, they certainly aren’t lacking in their vocal anointing or overall ministry.

In a statement shared about the track, Bishop Williams shared his proud in the song, saying, “When the dream team finally came together on this song — Pharrell, Voices of Fire, Pastor Larry George, and yours truly — I knew that moment in the studio was one of destiny.”

Listen to the track above.

One of the biggest stories in the NBA in the lead-up to next week’s Draft is the availability of Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal. While there are no indications that Beal wants out of Washington, reports indicate that the Wizards would work with his representation in the event the team decides to rebuild.

Now, Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report brings word that the two sides have taken another step towards a potential move. Haynes reports that the Wizards have given Beal and his representation permission to hold conversations with teams for whom he’s interested in playing.

Via Bleacher Report:

It’s believed Beal will only consider teams with a chance to win.

He owns a rare no-trade clause, giving him authority to veto and approve potential trades, sources say. The Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks are expected to talk with Beal and his agent, Mark Bartelstein, sources say.

Miami and Milwaukee are the two teams that have been most closely linked with a Beal trade ever since news broke that he could be attainable on the trade market. Beal is one of the more unique players in the league, as he holds the NBA’s only no-trade clause and just finished up the first year of a 5-year, $251 million max extension.

Honestly, interviewing someone like Ben Mendelsohn makes all the stressful and, sometimes, unenjoyable interviews worth it. He is, every time, a delight. The last time we spoke, I was told he wasn’t doing press for Captain Marvel through the studio because he was busy filming another movie, but I could always ask his personal publicist. I did just that, sending an email asking if we could set something up. A few minutes later my phone rings and it’s Ben Mendelsohn. It’s true, he was filming a movie, but at that moment he wasn’t doing anything, so why not just talk now? (To be clear, things like that never happen.)

So, speaking of Captain Marvel, Mendelsohn is back as Talos (after a brief cameo in Spider-Man: Far from Home) in Secret Invasion. In Captain Marvel, there was the twist that the Skrulls were actually not the villains this time around and had been driven from their home planet by the Kree. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) has been working alongside Talos, giving the Skrulls shelter on Earth while trying to find them a new home planet. Unfortunately, some Skrulls have grown impatient and have divided off, deciding Earth is a good place to stay and it would be much better without humans. And they’ve figured out it’s not hard to get humans to just kill one another through violence. Nick Fury and Talos try to stop this from happening, even though Nick and Talos don’t even see eye to eye on the Skrull’s role on Earth.

Ahead, an, again, always delightful Mendelsohn explains why he wanted to return as Talos. He also looks back on the arc of Rogue One, how it went from a troubled production to, now, a beloved Star Wars movie. And when I bring up the possibility of Mendelsohn returning as Orson Krennic in Andor, let’s just stay he breaks out some comedy for our entertainment…

I still tell people about the last time we spoke…

Oh?

That made it sound ominous. No, it wasn’t anything like you saying, “Not on my watch, sir,” and slapping a glove right across the face.

You froze in the middle of that. And it really had a tension to it that was not built in. And then the last thing was me doing a quick motion and saying, “Glove across the face.”

No, you didn’t do that.

No, I know, but I missed it is what I’m saying.

I felt I made it sound ominous, and then I came up with a story that you took a glove and slapped me across the face, but then Zoom froze. So then my joke went bad.

It’s got a good backwash, kind of craziness to it. It would’ve been great.

If it wasn’t for technology, we would’ve had a little moment there.

Absolutely. Paradox.

After I saw Captain Marvel I was told you weren’t doing press because you were filming another movie. I emailed your publicist that I wanted to talk to you and then you just called me five minutes later.

Oh yeah! That was a great conversation. I remember that really well. Okay. Hadn’t connected.

It was on the phone. It was before Zoom.

I remember that. Because, I remember her telling me, and then I went, bam, picked up the phone!

Yeah, that never happens.

[Singing] I work hard for the money…

I didn’t expect to hear a Donna Summer song during this.

Hey, we’ve got them all here. This is going to go very quick, brother. So, if you got any new questions, now might be the time.

I’m going to just read the transcript from last time. And, we can discuss it.

Fine. We can do it again.

Okay, so when do they come to you and say, “We want you to play Talos again”? Because when Captain Marvel came out, there weren’t these Disney+ shows.

We did not have the streaming component at all then.

So, could you have said, “No, I don’t want to do this anymore?” Or, were you already signed in?

Originally, Talos died on page 50 or something, when I took the original commitment. It was more to do with Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden than to do with anything else. Mississippi Grind.

Right. One of my favorite movies.

So, when this developed into what it’s become, I just kept thanking my lucky stars. I went and did the film for them, because I was like, “Well, come on, you guys turned me into a…” I’m not going to name the figures, but… [starts jokingly pointing at his bling]

Right…

But, basically, “can you come and see Kevin [Feige] and Louie [D’Esposito],” and that was like, yeah. Because usually they don’t say, “Listen, don’t you ever come back, stay away, don’t you ever come back to us.” So I knew it was going to be something good.

Oh, right. They wouldn’t call you in to say, “We don’t like you.”

Exactly. I thought that would be a very disappointing result. And they didn’t, in fact, do that. And then they basically laid out the thing. Right? The basis of it. And I was very, very excited to do it. Very excited to do it. This is, primarily, it’s about Sam. This is going to be a very significant Sam show. And it’s a film, show, whatever you want to be and to have an opportunity to be a really significant part of that.

Well, it has serious undertones. Even in the first episode, that line about stroking people’s anger and rage to bring violence. That is very precedent in what the world is experiencing right now.

Look, absolutely. And not just now, time and again, we visit these places in times and societies where this type of a thing occurs. There is a grievance, a set of grievances. It becomes enacted in a way that it becomes enacted, which is, classically, violence. And, classically, there’s a lot of indiscriminate nature to that. So yeah, it’s a serious, serious subject. And them mentioning they wanted to do something which would had more of a Cold War thriller field to it. The meat on the bones of this was really all of the bonus section of it. For me, it was just an opportunity to come back and work with something that was going to be very much about Nick Fury to do my job well enough that whatever Sam did had the benefit of the people around him.

And Talos is Nick Fury in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

He is Nick Fury from Far From Home. Talos has got that. So we know, in some ways, that Talos has been carrying a ball. Right? And what they did with that one sort of strange coda on Far from Home and what they’ve taken that through and developed it into? I mean, look, Kevin and Louie and Jonathan [Schwartz] – there’s a reason that these guys are the current heavyweight champions of the world, and that we really haven’t seen a mind like this in terms of a studio boss since, I don’t know when, if ever, when dealing with the preexisting material and slicing it, dicing it. Having the conceptualization to be able to understand.

A lot of people are trying to do it and not quite getting there.

Nobody does it better. Sometimes I wish someone would. Nobody does it half as good as him. [Singing] Baby, baby, baby. He’s the best.

Are you happy with the arc that Rogue One has taken? When it came out the story was about the reshoots, the last third being redone. Now, seven years later, everyone just really likes it.

Do you know what’s really interesting about it? That is that when George Lucas saw it, it was his favorite. When George Lucas saw that film, way back when. It was instantly, as it was reported to me, it was his favorite, I’m assuming outside of the initial movies. But it’s his favorite. So, that says a lot. And I think … really, look, the first time I saw it, I had a shock, and I had a very, very difficult relationship to that film. The second time I saw it, I was with an audience, and I went, “Ahhhh, this is really, this isn’t bad. This isn’t that bad.”

Oh, you were worried?

Oh, I don’t watch them for that reason. I can’t quite deal with it. You know, it’s the reason that I think I’m able to keep sort of going and try things the way I do, is that I don’t involve myself with how it ends up. Because that’s not my… I don’t do that bit. I don’t do any of that.

I hope you show up in Andor. That’s what I want.

Oh, that’s right! That’s the precursor show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they’re doing that now?

Yes. You should be in it.

Tony’s doing it? Tony Gilroy’s doing it?

He is.

[Mendelsohn tilts his head, puts his hand on his chin and does an “aint I a stinker” face.]

I have to figure out how to describe that face you’re doing.

Secret Invasion! You wait! You are going to love this.

I look forward to it.

[Mendelsohn stands up and gets right into the camera] You will not be disappointed!

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Gucci Mane works on his jump shot — and takes shots at certain internet personalities — in his new video for “Bluffin” with Lil Baby, which kicks off the rollout for Gucci’s new album, Breath Of Fresh Air. “Bluffin” is a boastful track that finds Lil Baby and Gucci taking turns challenging competitors to call their bluffs, assuring them that they’re definitely holding winning hands. Gucci’s verse makes fun of old, washed-up, out-of-shape rappers (a nod to his commitment to getting fit) and denounces motormouthed music manager Wack 100 for talking too much on internet interview shows.

The press release for the album and song notes that “Bluffin” is Gucci’s fourth single of 2023 after “Pissy” with Roddy Ricch and Nardo Wick, “06 Gucci” featuring DaBaby and 21 Savage, and “King Snipe” with Kodak Black. It also offers a pre-release link for Breath Of Fresh Air which is due on October 13th via Atlantic Records/The New 1017 Records. The cover for the album features a family photo of Gucci, his wife Keyshia Ka’oir, and their son and daughter, all dressed in formalwear.

2023 looks like a bounceback year for Gucci after his 1017 label suffered a string of setbacks in 2022, including the death of Big Scarr and the incarceration of Pooh Shiesty. While the So Icy Boyz: The Finale compilation did much to prop up the remaining roster, as his label’s sole remaining superstar, it’s once again up to Guwop to save the day — and if anybody can do it, it’s the trap rap godfather.

Watch the “Bluffin” video above and get more info on Breath Of Fresh Air here.

Gucci Mane is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last year, Lil Nas X accepted the Hal David Starlight Award at The Songwriters Hall Of Fame. “This award means a lot to me for the simple fact that, somehow, I keep just doing things and it keeps working out,” he said in his acceptance speech.

It was revealed in May that this year’s award would go to Post Malone. It honors “gifted young songwriters who are making a significant impact in the music industry with their original songs,” and the 27-year-old is undoubtedly one of the biggest hitmakers of this generation. He accepted the award at the ceremony last night (June 15) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, and thanked his fiancée and their baby.

Along with his speech, he also gave an acoustic performance of his 2016 song “Feeling Whitney” from his debut Stoney. “I’m sorry that I played a song that nobody knows,” he joked (as Stereogum notes).

The “Circles” performer is set to hit the road soon on the If Y’all Weren’t Here I’d Be Crying tour. It kicks off in the beginning of July, a few weeks before the release of his highly anticipated new album Austin.

Austin is out 7/28 via Mercury Records/Republic Records. Find more information here.