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Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Drake yet again cause a stir and Lil Yachty follow his recent psych-rock opus. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

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Drake — “Search & Rescue”

Drake sure likes to get people riled up. He did so again on his new single “Search & Rescue,” which is the rapper’s first solo single in a while after a string of collaborative projects. More notable, though, is the sample of Kim Kardashian discussing her divorce with Kanye West, saying in a sample lifted from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, “I didn’t come this far just to come this far and not be happy.”

Lil Yachty — “Strike (Holster)”

Yachty took a psychedelic rock turn on his latest album, Let’s Start Here from earlier this year. On his new single “Strike (Holster),” he remains in that aesthetic realm with a spacey instrumental, but the focus is back on rapping for the hazy track.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again — “WTF” Feat. Nicki Minaj

Fresh off of “Red Ruby Da Sleeze,” Nicki Minaj has returned by joining YoungBoy Never Broke Again on “WTF.” The song’s title is exactly what Barbz online were exclaiming after they saw the song’s video, which sees Minaj, always eager to try on a new character, cosplaying as a ballerina.

Kaytraminé — “4Eva” Feat. Pharrell Williams

What would an Kaytranada and Aminé album sound like? We won’t have to wonder for long, as the two have announced they’re teaming up for a new project as Kaytraminé. They teased it last week with “4Eva,” a bouncy Pharrell collaboration that rides on a light but strong groove.

Labrinth — “Never Felt So Alone”

Euphoria composer Labrinth is back with “Never Felt So Alone,” which Uproxx’s Lexi Lane notes “opens with a dark, electronic beat that captures the moodiness and just how perfectly their vocals blend.” Billie Eilish doesn’t have a feature credit on the song, but she co-wrote it and contributed vocals (Finneas also co-produced and co-wrote). Labrinth later explained how the collaboration came to be.

Daniel Caesar — “Unstoppable”

Caesar just returned with Never Enough, his third album and first since 2019’s Case Study 01. On “Unstoppable,” the Toronto native sounds, well, unstoppable. It’s a hazy tune, propelled forward by a relaxed nighttime rhythm and Caesar’s smooth vocals.

Agust D — “People Pt. 2”

Big week for Suga! First the BTS member was named an official ambassador of the NBA, then he dropped a new solo single, “People Pt. 2” (under his other performing name, Agust D). It’s a smooth and vulnerable track on which Suga raps (translated from Korean), “This thing called love / Maybe it’s just a momentary list of emotions / What is it about loss that makes us so sad?”

Kali Uchis — “In The Lobby”

We got some new old stock here: Uchis is celebrating the fifth anniversary of her album Isolation and marked the occasion last week by dropping “In The Lobby.” It’s a previously unreleased track from the era that boasts a happy, peaceful sound, influenced by reggae and some light psychedelia.

Yaeji — “Passed Me By”

At the top of 2023, Yaeji declared her long-awaited debut album, With A Hammer, would arrive this year. Alas, it finally did last week, and it’s led by highlights like “Passed Me By.” It’s yet another showcase of her mastery over creating fresh soundscapes, balancing aesthetic experimentation with strong songwriting and catchy melodies.

Wednesday — “Quarry”

In his review of Rat Saw God, Uproxx’s Steven Hyden colorfully said, “I should note that in musical terms, this band sounds like it was produced in a lab by scientists who were determined to cater to a person with my tastes. Do you also love Southern Rock Opera, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, and Siamese Dream so much that you wish you could listen to all three albums at the same time? Are you thrilled by the prospect of pedal steel guitar put through a distortion pedal? Are you intrigued by the premise of a band that’s so good it doesn’t need MJ Lenderman to contribute any songs? Shouldn’t more country tunes be eight and a half minutes long and conclude with a woman screaming about Mortal Kombat? This record answers every question in the affirmative, as would I.”

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Succession Report Card is a weekly recap feature where we attempt to assign grades to the important people, things, and themes from each episode of Succession. The grades are entirely subjective and the criteria for scoring will change from week to week and occasionally mid-week. Someone might get detention. It’ll probably be Roman.

SEASON 4, EPISODE 3 – “Connor’s Wedding”

Logan

The tricky thing about naming your show Succession is that the simple act of doing it takes a big old elephant and plops it into a room and forces people to address it at some point. The question has been lingering there from Day One: What happens when Logan Roy — titan of industry, domineering leader, the sun around whom the world of this show orbits — is no longer in charge? We’ve watched the kids jockey for position and favor for over 30 episodes now, fighting with and against each other to carve out a slice of this universe for themselves, whether it’s a place in the family business or their own stupid little pirate ship, or both or neither. There was a lot of flailing there. But the first two episodes of this season made something abundantly clear: Logan Roy was never going to fade away and allow his children, or anyone else, to take over. He just was never wired like that. He needs the action and the control and everything that goes with it. He was about to sell his company for many billions of dollars and, instead of looking at brochures for peaceful little islands he could buy and retire to for a life of hammocks and umbrella drinks, he was gearing up to take ATN in a new and aggressive direction. The man would not and could not stop.

And so… yeah. There it is. The show named Succession had a character who would never willingly hand things over, which really left only one other option. It was kind of obvious, in hindsight, even if we at home were a little susceptible to falling into the trap the Roy children have been stuck in for many years, where Logan Roy seemed almost invincible, like he could will off death just by force of personality. But… nope. Not how it works. The book ends for everybody at some point, whether the final chapter is finished or not. Sometimes it happens on an airplane en route to Sweden. Life is funny like that.

Anyway, Logan gets an F for this particular episode for two primary reasons:

• He was skipping one son’s wedding entirely and strong-arming another son into doing his dirty work with a loyal longtime employee who he knew that son had a weird and complicated relationship with, which is both just massively shitty and also classic Logan Roy
• I wanted to talk about him first and the way I’ve structured these posts kind of tied my hands a little

Things are going to get a little weird going forward. I’m excited.

GRADE: F

MUST IMPROVE: Staying alive

Kerry

Things are about to get very real and not-fun for Kerry, a woman whose entire influence in the company stemmed from her proximity to Logan. She wasn’t a wife, so she won’t get the respect that comes with that. Their… whatever it was (fling?) wasn’t even really official. She was calling herself “Logan’s friend, assistant, and advisor” just a little bit ago. And whatever any of that was is just over now. As are her dreams of being an anchor on ATN. She’s going to get laughed and/or shuffled out of many important rooms. She might fall below Greg on the totem pole. Think about how much that one will sting.

Things are not great for Kerry. I didn’t even mention the thing where, like, her boyfriend died. That happened, too.

GRADE: F

MUST IMPROVE: Long-term planning

Boats

It has always been madness to me that people go out on boat rides to nowhere for entertainment. Cruises, yes, of course, but also things like this, where you do a whole wedding and reception on the open water. Why? What’s the goal here? What are we doing?

Even if your idea is to be able to look out and see the water, you can get about 80 percent of that with a beachfront resort or a river deck or a beautiful estate on a lake. And in exchange for giving up that 20 percent, you’re not trapping hundreds of people on a floating prison they can’t escape from until it docks again. What if someone gets a violent stomach bug? What if someone’s babysitter has to leave and they need to get home to the kids? What if the boat hits a rock and sinks? You’ve seen Titanic. You know the risks here.

Come on. Think this through.

GRADE: F

MUST IMPROVE: Proximity to dry land

Tom

Tom is in an interesting spot here. Characters on this show tend to fall into two categories: family, people who get a seat at the table due to blood or marriage; and business, people who scratch and claw their way to the table through grit and determination and maneuvering. Tom is kind of neither now. The pending divorce probably leaves him out of the loop with Shiv taking a larger role, and he doesn’t really fit with the Karls and Franks because he never earned it the same way they did. It was really telling when he said the thing about losing his protector. He has a lot of stuff flashing in front of his eyes right now. None of it is too good.

Tom got pretty close to the sun as this show played out. But a funny thing happens when you get too close to the sun.

GRADE: D

MUST IMPROVE: I think I’ve made this point before but it says so much about Tom’s place in this world that his own wife has him saved in her phone as “Tom Wambsgans,” as though there might be another Tom she knows who is more notable and does not need to be identified by last name

Greg

I am legitimately excited to see where things go for this lanky bottom-feeder. He hitched his wagon to Logan and Tom, but now that’s on a fast track to nowhere. He doesn’t have any skills, really. It’s not like he’s going to stand on his own, right? I can’t see that happening. Does he just try to quietly slide back into the room with the other kids and hope no one notices? Maybe latch onto Kendall or Shiv and start telling them how great and smart they are in the hopes they let him keep having access to this world? I mean, he’s not in the will, right? Where does Greg go from here?

We are about to see him flap around in the breeze like one of those tall balloons outside a car dealership. It’s thrilling to me.

GRADE: D

MUST IMPROVE: I honestly do not even know where to begin

Kendall

Kendall can’t help himself. He can only ever see the huge thing. Some of that is mania, how he’ll get going and start spitballing ideas and talk himself into trying to reinvent the whole news industry on the fly, which he is extremely not equipped to do. But sometimes he has a point. He’s right about all of this going in all of the memoirs, about how the things they did in that moment will always be the things they did in that moment, if only because Logan was that huge of a figure that people will want to know. They’re going to have to answer so many questions and do so many interviews and it’s going to suck a lot, and Kendall with all his grandiosity was the first one to notice that.

Imagine if he had been the one to make the statement to the press. God, that would have been a disaster. I kind of want to see it now.

GRADE: D

MUST IMPROVE: It’s understandable now but he’s going to need to cut back on staring into space at some point

Shiv

Shiv is a big ball of unearned confidence who thinks she’s smarter than she is on account of the other members of her family being goofs who make her look good through their failures, but a couple things are worth noting here:

• She was the one who went out to be the face of tough situations two times this episode, first when she was the “wedding grinch” and then again to give the family’s statement to the press, which says something about how the people in her life perceive her that they don’t see in, like, Kendall or Roman
• Sarah Snook is a terrific actress

That second thing breaks the fourth wall of this Report Card a little, the thing where I usually just discuss the characters as though they’re real people and temporarily ignore the thing where this is all a work of fiction filled with actors and actresses, but still, needed to be said.

GRADE: D

MUST IMPROVE: Having anyone in her life who can comfort her a little at a time like this

Roman

What’s weird about Roman is that he is very much a little boy — watch him rocking back and forth on the floor like he is a child who just had a nightmare, listen to him refuse to accept reality in the hopes that someone will tell him everything is okay — but he’s also the one who has grown the most over the course of the show. He has actual ideas and actual humanity, even if he undercuts himself with jokes about jizz or whatever. He could easily become the most capable of the children, given a little time and space.

Which is what makes that message he left for Logan so sad. The first time this kid showed any real backbone, the first time he stood up for himself in the face of authority, and now he’s going to spend the rest of his life wondering if the last thing his father heard him say — if the thing that killed his father, maybe, if he wants to get really dark with his thoughts — was him calling the guy the C-word.

That’s gonna come up in therapy.

GRADE: C

MUST IMPROVE: Timing

Gerri

Well…

• Kind of got fired (not ideal)
• On a boat (see above)
• By a failson who has in the past sent her pictures of his penis (humiliating)

BUT

• Logan dying might actually save her job (if she wants it)
• She looked incredible in her fancy hat (I gasped a little)

Kind of averages out, I guess.

GRADE: C

MUST IMPROVE: Well now I want to see her wear fancy hats all the time, which isn’t really a workable situation

Matsson

It would be really funny if the entire next episode is just about Matsson reacting to this, like it opens as he gets the call that Logan died and then we follow him through the rest of his day. I’m weirdly more interested in that than most of what else is out there right now. This probably says a lot more about me than it does about the show.

GRADE: C

MUST IMPROVE: Closing deals before people die

Various Karls, Franks, and Karolinas

Really interesting to watch the dynamic there, where they sprung into action on the business stuff right away even as Logan was lying dead less than 20 feet away. I’m sure some of this was self-preservation (their jobs just got really strange and different) but I suspect part of it was just, like, what else do you do when you’re stuck on a plane with the still-warm corpse of your very famous boss? Draft a statement, apparently!

I do not care very much about the personal fates of most of the people on this show but I do want Karl to be okay. I love him.

GRADE: B

MUST IMPROVE: Job stability going forward

Connor, weirdly

ON ONE HAND: His dad died the night of his wedding on a plane to Sweden, which ruins the festivities a lot and really drives home the thing where there was no universe where Logan was going to show up at this thing, even for a second

ON THE OTHER HAND: He’s… I don’t know. I want to say he’s free now. Logan was always this big weird shadow in his life and he never knew how to deal with it. There are scars there. You saw him yelling about the cake. This might finally be the Band-Aid removal he needs to become normal, or whatever version of normal he can aspire to. I root for this chump a little, even if I hate everything he is and stands for.

GRADE: B

MUST IMPROVE: Having one stupid thing for himself

Willa

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE

RUN

GET AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE

GO

I DON’T KNOW WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME

BUT IT IS

GRADE: A

MUST IMPROVE: Seizing opportunities

Weddings, usually

I make this point constantly but I’m going to make it again anyway: Weddings are a blast. Everyone drinks and dances and hoots and hollers for a night. Someone gets a little tipsy before they give a speech and it becomes a whole thing. Someone’s Nana does “The Electric Slide.” Bridemaids and groomsmen hook up after the reception in the coat room. Just a good time. Not this wedding, specifically, because of… everything I’ve mentioned so far here, but generally.

Take a minute this afternoon and think about all those poor people on the boat as word started sprinkling down about what happened. Think about where they go from there. Is the meal still served? Are they just gonna dock and have to hit a Wendy’s drive-thru in formal attire? I’m tempted to feel bad for them but they are coming out of this with a story they can tell for the rest of their lives. So… silver linings, I guess?

GRADE: A

MUST IMPROVE: I haven’t been to one in a while. Invite me to yours!

This episode of television

Hoo, buddy. A masterpiece. A straight-up clinic in acting and writing and pacing and directing. One of those hours of television where everything that happened before it clicks into place perfectly. All these characters are so specific and so shaded-in and everything they did felt almost exactly like what they would have done in this situation in a way that can make you forget they’re not real people. This one is going to stick with me for a while. Pretty good show we got here.

GRADE: A

MUST IMPROVE: I have no clue how you proceed from this hour of television but I’m looking forward to finding out

Upon the February release of her record-breaking album, Mañana Será Bonito, Karol G explained its meaning to Uproxx.

“I started this album writing very dark songs. Very sad songs. Talking literally about all of the sadness that I had while trying to be strong in front of the world because I didn’t want people to see that vulnerable side of myself,” she said, in part. “From one moment to the next, I wrote songs that were happier. I could write songs about love again finally. I was very hard on myself during that process, having that ‘Bichota’ brand where I couldn’t feel bad or sad. I always had to be strong. I had to recognize that I can be very strong being ‘La Bichota,’ but I’m also human and I get hurt too.”

Karol G showed her vulnerable side last week when she spoke out against how she looks on the cover of GQ Mexico.

“Today my GQ Magazine cover was made public, a cover with an image that DOES NOT represent me,” Karol G wrote on Instagram (translated from Spanish to English). “My face does not look like this, my body does not look like that and I feel very happy and comfortable with how I look naturally.”

WARNING: Huge massive Succession spoiler below. You have been warned.

Not even three episodes into the final season and Succession dropped what could very well be the biggest bomb of the entire show. Fans are still reeling from the gut punch event. There’s no way for the characters or the viewers to escape the gravitational pull of Logan Roy’s death. It’s all-consuming and triggers a massive power shift that will define the rest of the season. What could possibly survive that kind of fallout?

The Disgusting Brothers, that’s what.

Despite the grim, emotional events of “Connor’s Wedding,” Succession fans are still tenaciously clinging to a delightful Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) and Greg (Nicholas Braun) moment from the top of the episode. While calling to harass/emotionally connect with his loyal lackey while preparing to leave for the ill-fated flight to Scotlan, Tom taunts Greg by revealing that he brought along some “Greglets” who are already hard at work doing some “Gregging” for him. Fans absolutely loved it.

As you can see by the reactions below, people did not forget the hilarious “Disgusting Brothers” moment even after they realized it would not be the highlight of the episode. A close second, for sure, but it was a pretty dizzying height to fall from:

Succession Season 4 airs Sunday on HBO and HBO Max.

SPOILERS from this week’s Succession will be found below.

Game of Thrones made TV history in 2013 with “The Rains of Castamere,” which (for obvious reasons) is more frequently referred to as the “Red Wedding” episode. For decades to come, comparisons are bound to be made, but I don’t think that anyone expected Succession to pull off its own “Red Wedding” counterpart so early in the fourth and final season. The Easter egg in the poster had a clue about Logan’s death, yes (and this actually aired on Easter), but again, no one could have foreseen the way that this week’s installment (which hit as hard as a full-on massacre) went down on Connor’s wedding day.

Speaking of which, the fact that this episode was literally called “Connor’s Wedding” also should have been a clue that perhaps this would be another devastating HBO celebration. Heck, House of the Dragon also managed to stir up similar vibes with the so-called “Green Wedding” feast last year. (It’s an HBO thing!) However, “Connor’s Wedding” had viewers like myself on a real ride, initially giggling over “Greglets” while also wishing that Logan would go to Hell, shortly before he was on his way to Hell, and all emotional hell broke loose. If Sarah Snook doesn’t win an Emmy for those shaking hands while her voice cracked, then fans will raise some hell.

For the moment, however, viewers are marveling at how they received a Red Wedding, and how HBO seems to hate weddings, and yep, it’s time to rate those devastating weddings.

HBO’s Succession airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

Bad Bunny, Blackpink, Frank Ocean. Those are the headliners of Coachella 2023 and the primary reason why the tens of thousands of people who will attend the festival are going; 100,000 fans reportedly showed up to just Harry Styles’ performance last year. Worth remembering, though, is that Coachella isn’t just one big show at night: There are a number of performances happening in various parts of the festival grounds throughout the three days of both weekends.

Terrific artists are booked for these time slots, too. Playing Coachella is a coveted gig, so organizers Goldenvoice invite only the best of the best, and that still applies when it comes to the smaller names on the lineup poster. In fact, key festival memories involve being unexpectedly blown away by an artist you had never heard of before, or seeing an act you only sort of knew and coming away from the experience with a different perspective.

This year’s fest goes down from April 14 to 16 and 21 to 23, but ahead of that, let’s take a look at some of the best artists who are small-font acts on the lineup, but big-font acts in our hearts.

Domi & JD Beck

This jazz duo has gotten plenty of shine over the past year. They picked up a couple Grammy nominations for this year’s ceremony (Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, the latter for Not Tight, their 2022 debut album). Millions got to see them on national TV when they took the Tonight Show stage in late 2022, joined by Mac DeMarco for a rendition of “Two Shrimps” (above). If you want to hear from the two directly, Uproxx interviewed them last summer, too.

Ethel Cain

Not a lot of singer-songwriters had a better 2022 than Ethel Cain. Her debut album Preacher’s Daughter was hailed by many as one of the year’s best releases and former president Barack Obama is a fan, as he put her song “American Teenager” on his year-end list of favorite songs. Uproxx’s Caitlin White previously lauded it, too, writing, “The best song on the album, ‘American Teenager’ gets closer to Khalid’s own American Teen than any listeners of the early EPs would’ve ever guessed, pinning a cheerleader, a dead teen soldier, and an unmoved Jesus into the kind of ethereal pop melody that made 1989 such a beloved record.”

The Linda Lindas

Two years ago next month, The Linda Lindas performed “Racist Sexist Boy” at a library and the video went viral. While that could have easily been just a 15-minutes moment for a lot of artists, it turned out The Linda Lindas actually had the goods to keep the spotlight fixed on them for a more extended window. They ended up landing a record deal with Epitaph and releasing their debut album, Growing Up, last summer. As for how that album was, the actions of their peers speak volumes: Sleater-Kinney recruited the band for a covers album and they booked opening gigs for Paramore and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Sudan Archives

In case you’ve somehow missed it, Sudan Archives (real name Brittney Parks) has been making some of music’s best albums for the past few years. She has two full-length releases so far — 2019’s Athena and 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen — and both of them were all over critical year-end lists. Sudan Archives has been all over your TV, too, with striking performances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show in recent months. If she can rock a late-night television stage as confidently as she does, you know she’ll bring it for Coachella, too.

IDK

The company you keep says a lot about you, and IDK has worked with Offset, Young Thug, The Neptunes, Swae Lee, and others, so you do the math. He linked up with Kaytranada for his latest album, last year’s Simple, a groovy 8-track effort that follows 2021’s USee4Yourself, IDK’s first album to hit the Billboard 200. IDK’s star continues to rise, so swing by his Coachella set to witness the ascent for yourself.

Pi’erre Bourne

Bourne’s Jamie Foxx-spoken producer tag helped him become a meme in 2017, but he has the goods behind the board, too. You’ve heard his work, as he’s had a strong presence on the Billboard charts with work on tracks by Drake, Travis Scott, and others. He’s quite the rapper in his own right as well, and he’s found a ton of success with the bevy of albums and mixtapes he’s dropped over the past half-decade.

¿Téo?

If you were a Disney XD viewer in the 2010s, you may remember Mateo Arias from Kickin’ It. (His brother, by the way, is Hannah Montana star Moisés Arias). These days, though, he goes by ¿Téo? and is making some real headway in the music world. He’s proven himself to be quite the artist with tracks like this year’s “A Mi Cama,” a smooth number that melds hip-hop and reggaeton influences and further cements him as one of Latin music’s most exciting up-and-comers.

Horsegirl

Uproxx’s Mia Hughes recently identified Horsegirl as a leading force bringing back sounds of the ’90s via contemporary indie rock, describing their sound as “slacker-tinged noise-rock à la Sonic Youth and Pavement.” (They’ve actually opened for Pavement, in fact.) Indeed, there’s definitely a sense of nostalgia in their work that sometimes goes further back than even the ’90s, like on the 2022 post-punk/shoegaze number “Anti-Glory.”

Soul Glo

Artists have been trying to combine rap and rock since essentially the dawn of hip-hop, and now, Philadelphia’s Soul Glo is taking a terrific crack at it. They’ve been at it for about a decade now and their 2022 album Diaspora Problems was a big moment, as it was their first release on iconic punk label Epitaph Records. Songs like “Driponomics” show off their unrelenting energy that lives in a spot between in-your-face hardcore and aggressive hip-hop.

Bakar

Uproxx shined a spotlight on Bakar last year as part of the Next Up series, which identified ten artists who are helping shape the future of music. So far, Bakar’s breakout hit is 2019’s “Hell n Back,” which topped the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart and has since been certified platinum. It’s easy to see why the song did so well, with its feel-good vibes, nostalgic-but-contemporary sound, and distinctly raspy/breathy vocals. Last year, he dropped his debut album, Nobody’s Home, which was top-40 in the UK and should set the table for his next full-length to get broader recognition.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

[WARNING: this post contains spoilers for Succession]

When HBO released the poster for the final season of Succession, fans looked for every clue they could find. Why was Tom standing next to Kendall? Why was Logan’s watch so visible? And most of all, what’s the deal with the plane? We don’t have an answer for the first question yet, but we know the other two: the plane means Logan’s time is up. In Sunday’s episode, “Connor’s Wedding,” it finally happened: the billionaire patriarch of the Roy family died, having keeled over in the bathroom of a private jet. A sh*tty death for a sh*tty man.

Logan’s death is something that Succession viewers knew would happen someday, but it is shocking that it happened so early this season. Even Brian Cox, who plays (played) Logan, was taken aback.

“[Creator Jesse Armstrong] called me, and he said, ‘Logan’s going to die.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s fine.’ I thought he would die in about episode seven or eight, but episode three, I thought, ‘Well that’s a bit early.’ Not that I was bothered,” he told the New York Times. (Cox is happy that he doesn’t have to deal with Jeremy Strong’s “f*cking annoying” method acting anymore.)

Another surprise: that the death was foreshadowed in the season four poster.

Sarah Snook (Shiv) teased the clue during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show. “I mean a little, yeah. There is!” she told host Jimmy Fallon when asked if there any easter eggs on the poster. “But I feel like you won’t know until you know. There is a thing that once the season begins airing, it may get related back to this moment.”

It turns out the clue was hiding in PLANE sight (I deserve a “f*ck off” for that).

(Via the New York Times)

SPOILERS from this week’s Succession will be found below.

On Succession, Roy family celebrations have not been the most stellar occasions this season, what with the sad karaoke and the sh*tty birthday party, and this week, a hell of an opener made people even more upset after Logan lured Roman back to the dark side. In other words, yes, Logan was already both punishing Roman already and testing his loyalty by having him fire Gerri. And then, right when the audience felt worked up and furious at Logan while wanting him to go to Hell, it seemed that Logan was literally going to Hell. As in, he was dying. What a whirlwind set of emotions this spawned.

Let’s start from the beginning. Logan pulled a dirty dog move by making Roman deliver atrocious news to Gerri after that d*ck pic disaster, which had disgusted the Roy patriarch more when it came to Gerri (who merely received those unsolicited pictures) than about Roman (who obviously sent them).

People quickly began wishing that Logan would, you know, suffer for this.

Very quickly, however, a call from Tom revealed — and the situation seemed shady at first — that Logan fell gravely ill due to an apparent heart attack, and chest compressions began. For several minutes, Logan’s body did not appear on camera. Could this have been a ruse, some wondered? Real or not, some people (but not everyone) already began to celebrate.

And then the Roy kids’ reactions — and as Logan’s death proved to be genuine — caused a real turn in emotions. The more conflicted Kendall and guilty-seeming Roman (for different reasons), and the genuinely devastated Shiv, all of it hit hard. Yes, the tears began.

They did, eventually, show Logan’s body on the plane floor, shortly before he was declared to be dead. Gerri, however, might deserve the last word here (and she sure showed Roman how she felt).

HBO’s Succession airs on Sunday nights at 9:00pm EST.

The Minnesota Timberwolves picked up a pivotal win on Sunday against the Pelicans to leap New Orleans in the West standings and land the 8-seed, meaning they’ll get two shots at a playoff berth via the play-in tournament.

Unfortunately for Minnesota, the talk after the game was about everything but the win, as it came at a cost. Key wing defender Jaden McDaniels punched a wall and fractured his right hand, all-but assuring his absence from the play-in and much of the postseason should they make it that far. Prior to that, Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson got into an argument on the bench during a timeout that eventually saw Gobert punch Anderson in the chest after being told to “shut up, bitch,” with teammates quickly pushing Gobert away and separating the two.

While nothing further happened on the court, the altercation apparently wasn’t over, as the two met again shortly after in the locker room at halftime where the exchange reportedly continued, via Shams Charania and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic, and Anderson proclaimed he would “knock your ass out.”

The tension between Gobert and Anderson spilled over to the halftime locker room as well, with the two having a heated verbal exchange, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the events have told The Athletic. Anderson and Gobert confronted each other, and multiple sources said Anderson challenged the center at one point saying, “I’ll knock your a– out.” Teammates quickly separated them before anything turned physical. Timberwolves veteran Mike Conley Jr. served as a vital factor in calming down the halftime locker room, according to those sources.

This obviously isn’t ideal for a team hoping to make a run into the playoffs, but Gobert did issue an apology on Twitter and the team will hope fences can be mended quickly, as they play in L.A. on Tuesday night.

As for Gobert’s status for the game in L.A., the Timberwolves’ brass did not make any commitments either way regarding any further punishment for Gobert beyond him being sent home at halftime. It was notable that without Gobert the Timberwolves played better and rallied from a double-digit deficit to beat the Pelicans, which means a suspension is both not out of the realm of possibilities and wouldn’t necessarily be a total forfeiture against the Lakers.

Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but even with his latest apology, Daniel Caesar finds that it may never be enough. The “Let Me Go” singer attempts to correct some of his past wrongs in his music and the media. During an interview to discuss his new album Never Enough with Apple Music, the songwriter spoke about his past controversial statements aimed at the Black community.

In conversation with journalist Nadeska Alexis, the musician took a moment to reflect on his 2019’s commentary regarding the Black community’s response to white social media influencer YesJulz distastefully joking about wanting to wear a graphic t-shirt that read, “N***** lie a lot.”

When asked by Nadeska what it is like looking back on that moment, he answered, “I completely understand the response.”

Caesar added, “And in time, after taking time to get over myself and to really honestly look at myself and everything that was happening, I was wrong. I was wrong, and I’m sorry about that. For a long time, I was like, ‘You can’t do anything, you can’t say anything without whatever. You can do and say whatever you want, but it’s like for every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. And that’s physics. That’s science. That’s one of those things that the knowledge of that can literally put my mind at ease where I’m like, oh, I did deserve. What happened, happened because I deserved it, because I knocked the domino over and set a course in motion.”

This was a complete about-face from his initial apology, and he also pointed that out, “You learn not to trust what people on the internet have to say and what people that you don’t know have to say,” he said. “Seeing that people that I do know that I care about, them being hurt, then it’s like, ‘ah, damn, all right.’ I was like, ‘okay, you know me.’ It’s because it’s seeing that people that know me, because I felt in my— Clearly my ego is going out of control,” said Caesar.

Fans took to social media to react to what they consider to be his first official “proper” apology since the matter. See some of the responses below.

Watch the full interview above.