Gone are the days when listeners had no idea what was going on behind the scenes with artists and their labels. Nowadays you can damn near find the ins and outs of legal disputes, leaked text messages, and borderline personal addresses. YG is the latest rapper to scold his label, Def Jam Recordings, for prematurely releasing his tracklist and, in turn, revealing his guest features without his consent.
The Compton powerhouse took to Twitter to colorfully express his frustrations. “DEF JAM BE HIRE’N PEOPLE TO F*CK UP. ALL THEY DO IS F*CK UP,” he shared Monday night, nearly a week before his expected release date on September 30th. “MY TRACK LIST FOR MY ALBUM IS NOT POSE TO BE OUT. THEY SUCK REAL BAD.”
DEF JAM BE HIRE’N PEOPLE TO FUCK UP. ALL THEY DO IS FUCK UP. . MY TRACK LIST FOR MY ALBUM IS NOT POSE TO BE OUT. THEY SUCK REAL BAD
The tracklist includes already released singles “Toxic,” “Scared Money” featuring J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo, and a new Nas collaboration, long awaited by YG on the song “No Weapon.” There are also features from a HER, Roddy Ricch, Post Malone, and others.
The good news isI Got Issues, YG’s sixth studio album, is set to hit the streets September 30th, leaving room to build just enough anticipation without losing momentum. The bad news is someone at Def Jam might be out of a job in a few days if they’re looking to appease YG.
At the risk of reading like a hip hop cliché… “it ain’t safe on the block.” Hopefully, Def Jam and YG can sort this out ahead of September 30th.
Roddy Ricch is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Here’s a “strange, but true” fact that is truly wild to think about: Despite being famous since they were just barely in their 20s, Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel have never gone on tour. The reason for this: In December 2014, at the height of the mania for Bobby’s hit “Hot N****,” Bobby, Rowdy, and the rest of their crew, GS9, were arrested and charged for gang activity under the RICO Act. In 2016, both rappers took plea deals in exchange for five and six-year sentences, respectively, effectively curtailing their thrilling rise to stardom.
Both were released recently and have had an inspiring comeback that was unfortunately marred by label conflict on Bobby’s side, leading to him splitting from Epic Records and striking out independently with Roc Nation. However, they aren’t letting their newly split-label situation stop them from finally having the triumphant tour they always deserved. This week, they announced their upcoming tour, the Bodmon Tour, with Bobby as headliner supported by Rowdy (oddly enough, Rowdy’s actually the only one to have dropped his full-length debut, Rebel Vs. Rowdy, which he did in July, although Bobby dropped the Bodboy EP in August).
The two New Yorkers are making up for lost time, setting out in Maine in October and running through December in Fort Lauderdale, FL. You can check out the dates below.
10/8 – Portland, ME @ Cross Insurance Arena
10/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/1 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
11/4 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
11/6 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
11/9 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s Austin
11/10 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas
11/13 – Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
11/14 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
11/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
11/17 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
11/18 – Rochester, NY @ CWater Street Music Hall
11/19 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/20 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
11/22 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
11/23 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
11/25 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
11/26 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
11/27 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre & Ballroom
11/29 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
11/30 – Indianapolis, IN @ Old National Centre
12/1 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre
12/3 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
12/6 – Orlando, FL @ Vanguard
12/7 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
12/8 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
Gorillaz revved up their North American tour last week and last night at San Francisco’s Chase Center, there were a lot of surprises in store. Before the next Gorillaz album, Cracker Island, comes out in early 2023, Damon Albarn and company were churning out every possible Gorillaz classic for their 20-plus years as a band at the show. Last night’s concert was nothing short of a sermon led by Albarn, as he was joined on stage by collaborators from over the years in Bootie Brown, Pos of De La Soul, Fatoumata Diawara, Earthgang, Sweetie Irie, and in his own Bay Area backyard, Del The Funky Homosapien.
Del joined Gorillaz for “Clint Eastwood” (as can reasonably be expected), but it was the other song that the Deltron 3030 and Hieroglyphics MC performed with Gorillaz that was historic. You see, on the band’s very first album, Gorillaz, Del also appeared on the popular track “Rock The House,” co-produced by Dan The Automator (who was in the crowd and got shouted out by Albarn). But surprisingly, Del had never performed the song with Gorillaz ever before. This is despite the rapper having toured the world with Gorillaz in the past many times over. In fact, the band hadn’t even performed it with any MC since 2002.
So to the crowd’s delight, Albarn announced to the crowd that they would be, “Playing a song we’ve never played before with Del.” A three-piece horn section scurried up on stage and they laid down the signature horn opening to “Rock The House” before Del — decked out in a sleek track suit — masterfully delivered the classic Gorillaz tune. It was a vibe. One of many in the more than two hour set from Gorillaz.
Watch Del perform “Rock The House” with Gorillaz above.
Gorillaz is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
There are a lot of avenues to success in the music business. While most folks probably immediately think of performers since they’re the most visible product of the industry, songwriting is actually one of the most lucrative. Although songwriters might not receive as much attention and fame, they get a lot of love on the backend — unless they aren’t credited as writers, in which case, they’re considered ghostwriters and usually get paid up front for services rendered.
And while that’s still a pretty decent gig if you can get it, for potential stars like a young Jadakiss, it’s not enough without the spotlight. As Jadakiss told fellow New York rapper Smoke DZA on The Personal Party Podcast recently, the Yonkers standout “really hated” his early career role penning hits for the far-more-famous Puff Daddy (aka Sean “Diddy” Combs).
“After giving him ‘[All About] the Benjamins,’ ‘Señorita,’ ‘Victory,’ a couple remixes, I used to feel like it was taking away too much from me,” Kiss explains in a snippet of the episode on social media. “I ain’t know how to morph. It ain’t like he a n**** that I knew my whole life that I can just scribe him how I think he should be. I ain’t feel like I could write the bars for myself and give it to him, because I ain’t feel like it fit him. He had too much money. I was still extra grungy. My mind couldn’t think of that much Versace or being on that type of financial level. It used to conflict with me writing for him.”
As he elaborates, he felt that if he gave Diddy “Jada-style” rhymes, the glitzier Bad Boy founder’s image wouldn’t support the bars. However, he credits Combs for being able to sell them like they were his own anyway. “He just used to tell me, ‘Give me the shit that you would say for you,’” Kiss recalls. “I’m like, ‘It ain’t gon’ fit for you.’ He used to know how to make it work.”
To his own credit, Jadakiss has become a star in his own right, a highly-coveted and respected feature killer among his peers and contemporaries, and a fascinating repository of hip-hop history and behind-the-scenes knowledge.
Fall is a great time to try new beers. When the seasons shift there’s always a plethora of great beer styles to return to. In the case of autumn, its Vienna lagers, saisons, brown ales, Oktoberfest-style beers, and pumpkin ales. Plus a range of fresh hop and wet hop beers. Pretty great season for beer-loving, if you ask us.
“For me, fall is the season of fresh and wet hop beers,” notes James Bruner, director of production at The Bruery in Placentia, California. “Meaning beers with hops that are picked the day of, or the day before, being used in the brewhouse. If you’re lucky enough to live within driving distance from a hop farm, you can go pick up some of these freshly harvested, whole cone hops yourself, but most breweries will have them shipped overnight after picking to be used the next morning on a waiting brew.”
While we’re always down for a fresh hop IPA, we’re also interested in the other beers fall has to offer. That’s why we asked a handful of well-known beer experts and brewers to tell us their stone-cold #1 picks for the must-try beers of fall 2022.
Fonta Flora Supper Table
Fonta Flora
Adam Cranford, lead brewer at Left Hand Brewing in Longmont, Colorado
Supper Table from Fonta Flora in Morganton, North Carolina. I’m not really one for ‘dessert beers’ or the typical flavors that you get in more seasonal fall beers, but this sweet potato beer with vanilla, ginger, cardamom, clove, allspice, and cinnamon just reminds me of cool fall days at my grandparents’ house.
The classic sweet potato pie flavors and creamy mouthfeel gives the impression of drinking a dessert without being overly heavy.
I don’t know that it’s necessarily considered a Fall beer, but in Texas where the line blurs between summer heat and cooler Fall temperatures, I always enjoy Saison Dupont. It’s effervescent and light-bodied enough for the warmer days, but the amazingly spicy aroma is perfect when we get a bit of cooler air.
Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen. Being a longtime fan of lagers, and particularly traditional European lagers, this is a beer I long for every year as the summer wanes and the weather begins to transition to fall. Perhaps it’s the brew being the color of changing leaves, the rich layered specialty malts providing aromas and flavors of home-baked biscuits and toasted bread, or even the herbal spice from the European noble hops that pair so well with the season.
Founders Harvest Ale
Founders
Broc Eichhorst, brewer at Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis, Indiana
ABV: 7.6%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
I always look forward to Founders Harvest Ale. It is a very smooth, amazingly balanced IPA brewed with fresh-picked “wet” hops. The hop aroma is soft with herbal and melon notes and a mildly sweet, pale malt base that works perfectly.
Not super juicy, not too bitter, just very pleasant.
Evil Dead Red from Alesmith is one of the beers we don’t make that I look forward to every year. It’s a Red IPA released just in time for Halloween. It’s a nostalgic experience for me because the style of Red IPA was one of the beers that got me into craft beer and interested in brewing. A good Red IPA has a great balance of malt and hop character.
Red IPA is a difficult style to make, as it’s easy to design a recipe that’s too malt forward or has the wrong type of hop character. It’s best when balanced, and it’s easy to tip too far one way or the other. Evil Dead Red has a piney, citrus, almost dank character that is balanced with a malty/bready backbone. At 6.66% it’s easy to drink a few.
Idle Hands Brocktoberfest
Idle Hands
Matthew Steinberg, head brewer and co-founder of Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts
Idle Hands Brocktoberfest is the fall beer I look forward to most every year. Generally, a bit more hoppy than its traditional brethren, this Marzen offers a touch of herbal aroma and bold malt character without being sweet.
This beer always delivers and always ends up in my fridge, but it doesn’t last long.
Monk’s Café Flemish Sour Ale
Monk’s Cafe
Morgan O’Sullivan, co-owner of FlyteCo Tower in Denver
Monk’s Cafe Red Ale, brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge specifically for Monk’s Cafe in Philadelphia. This is a traditional blend of young and old beers, giving off the aroma of a sour beer, with tart cherry, and raspberry flavor along with a hint of caramel.
Sierra Nevada Celebration ale is the beer I look forward to each fall. Hoppy and caramel meet luscious with a hint of chocolate. Delicious. It’s a fall and winter beer I seek out every year.
It’s referred to as a “holiday IPA”, but it hits store shelves in October.
Samuel Adams Octoberfest
Samuel Adams
Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing Co in Rochester, New York
Octoberfest from Samuel Adams is one of my favorites. It is a perfect example of the style. It is such an easy-drinking beer with rich caramel that is perfectly warming for those fall days. I really enjoy the Oktoberfest-style beers. Rochester’s Genesee Brewing’s Oktoberfest is another, always great to visit the brew house on a fall day to have that tasty Marzen, while looking at High Falls in Rochester.
If there are any Stranger Things fans looking to get into the exciting world of home ownership, a very interesting house just went on the market. Located in Fayetteville, Georgia, the Byers’ family home featured in the hit Netflix series is available for sale. For the first three seasons, Joyce, Jonathan, and Will Byers lived in the house, which saw its fair of action as the Hawkins gang battled a Demogorgon in the epic Season 1 finale. And, now, you can live in it for the current asking price of only $300,000.
Now, if that seems low, you’re going to want to think about the events of the show. On top of the production staging a messy Demogorgon fight inside the house complete with smoke bombs, fire and a spiked bat, Joyce (Winona Ryder) also took an axe to the wall when she wasn’t tearing the place apart while attempting to communicate with Will in the Upside Down.
Oh, and also, fans keep stopping by practically everyday. That, too. Via CNET:
The single-story home sits snug in a wooded area. The Zillow listing include images of the exterior and interior alongside the same pictures with an eerie pink tint… and some creepy figures looming about. “Don’t get stuck in the upside-down though,” the listing says. “This home does need a full rehab.”
According to the listing, fans continue to show up “almost daily” to get a peek at the home of Will, Joyce and Jonathan. “The owners had to put up a driveway barricade and private property signs just to keep people from trespassing,” the listing says.
That being said, $300,000 for a house that’s been beat to hell by a Netflix production for three whole seasons is not… that bad? Have you seen real estate prices lately? Sheesh.
Based on a recent revelation from The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, the correct answer is: part of the team of aides who are paid to follow the former president around his golf course and read him tweets or any other online stories that are pro-Trump (which clearly takes some serious online excavation skills).
As Mediaite reports, Haberman spoke with multiple sources who confirmed that Trump is partly powered by positive reinforcement — like a puppy you’re attempting to potty train. She did not offer much more in the way of details, including just how many aides are forced to endure this kind of humiliation. But given Trump’s obsessive need for constant validation, the news was hardly shocking.
As Trump has been out of office over the last 20 mos,a rotating cast of aides has been tasked with following him around the golf course at the club he’s at and giving him positive reinforcement from Twitter and wherever else they find it on the web, per ppl told of the practice.
As Mediaite noted, Puck reporter Tara Palmeri replied to Haberman’s tweet, noting how similar the story sounded to one she had written for Politico way back in 2017.
Reminds me of this story I wrote early on into his term about aides feeding him a diet of positive news https://t.co/FSv0E2aHUa
In the article, Palmeri spoke with six former Trump team members who claimed that there was a very big push to keep the then-president off of Twitter and instead “ensure that his personal media consumption includes a steady stream of praise. And when no such praise was to be found, staff would turn to friendly outlets to drum some up — and make sure it made its way to Trump’s desk.”
Reservation Dogs, FX’s often very funny drama following Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, has been renewed for a third season. Ahead of its season two finale next week, Deadline reports that the critically-acclaimed series will get another season. But moving forward, Reservation Dogs will be a Hulu exclusive.
The series, from creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi premiered on Hulu under the FX on Hulu brand (whatever this means) in 2021. The series has an all-Native writing team, hires Native directors, and has an almost entirely Indigenous cast and crew. The second season premiered, also on FX on Hulu, in August.
“Reservation Dogs continues its remarkable run with critics, fans, and awards all recognizing the singular brilliance of the series created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi,” said FX original programming president Nick Grad, per Deadline. “FX is proud to join with our partners at Hulu to order a third season featuring the amazing cast and all of the artists who deliver one of the most original, engaging, and funny shows on television.”
“I couldn’t be more proud of this show that I created with my friend Taika Waititi,” said co-creator Harjo, per Deadline. “It was born out of a conversation in Taika’s kitchen and has now made its way into the lives of people across the world. The love for season 2 has been outstanding. Thank you to FX for ordering season 3, excited to bring you more laughter and love from the Rez. Ahoooo!”
You may or may not be familiar with the story of Buzzy, an animatronic at the popular theme park Walt Disney World. He was the small but mightily leader of Cranium Command, a 1990s-era attraction where you would go inside the human body and see what goes on in there (this was before Disney stopped investing in “educational” attractions and instead decided that Guardians of the Galaxy would be more popular).
Buzzy was a cute little bug-like guy who wore a funky aviator costume and was loved by parents and kids alike. The ride shut down in 2004 and was abandoned for many years, with kids sneaking in to steal various artifacts and costumes… until Buzzy’s lifeless carcass was stolen. Not only was Buzzy stolen, but he was sold for parts! The poor robot! His remains was never found, and the culprits never came forward.
If you have not heard of this story, congrats! You are normal. For those of us who have been anxiously awaiting news of Buzzy’s return, there might be some answers coming soon.
Jackass Foreverdirector Jeff Tremaine will be producing Stolen Kingdom, a documentary following various accounts of wrongdoing and debauchery at Walt Disney World Resort, including what happened to beloved lad Buzzy. Joshua Bailey and Sam Fraser will be directing the project, which will be their first time directing.
“Josh and Sam somehow found me and introduced me to this story I found so compelling. I was inspired by not only this story, but by these young filmmakers,” Tremaine said. “Having been a part of some Disneyland misbehavior, I’m excited to be involved in this.”
It’s unclear if Disney will be involved in the doc, though they historically do not love to acknowledge Disney-adjacent projects. Maybe we can finally solve the mystery and let Buzzy rest in peace.
Lil Zay Osama started rapping when he was just eight years old, and over 15 years later, he’s a Southside Chicago favorite with a feature from Lil Durk on his most recent project. His debut album, 2019’s Hood Bible, put him on the map for departing from his city’s infamous drill sound, featuring more pop-leaning records like “Percocet Crazy.” Combined with a dedicated fanbase and viral YouTube videos under his belt, Lil Zay Osama isn’t a Chicago newcomer anymore. He’s here to stay.
Today, the Chi’s Lil Zay Osama brings his “pain music” to the bathroom stage with his single “Mmmhmmmm.” The track comes from his most recent mixtape, Trench Baby 3, which also featured the hit “F*ck My Cousin.” His performance is melodic but doesn’t compromise the grittiness of his hometown’s sound. The track’s chorus is inspirational and candid as Lil Zay raps about his successes and gives insight into his rules of the streets.
Watch Lil Zay Osama perform “Mmmhmmmm” for UPROXX Sessions above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Lil Zay Osama is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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. MY TRACK LIST FOR MY ALBUM IS NOT POSE TO BE OUT. THEY SUCK REAL BAD
