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When the MTV VMAs happen on August 28th, not only will the best music videos of the past year be crowned, but over a dozen performers will also take the stage. Hosted by LL Cool J, Jack Harlow, and Nicki Minaj, the MTV VMAs 2022 will be broadcast live from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Along with performances from hosts Minaj and Harlow, there’s some serious talent that’ll be performing throughout the evening.

Who Is Performing At The 2022 MTV VMAs?

Nicki Minaj’s performance will be a notable one, given that along with hosting duties, she’ll also be receiving the 2022 MTV Video Vanguard Award. Red Hot Chili Peppers will be performing and are receiving the high honor of the 2022 MTV VMAs Global Icon Award. Other performers at the 2022 VMAs include Lizzo, Blackpink, Harlow, Maneskin, Anitta, Panic! At The Disco, Kane Brown, Marshmello x Khalid, and J Balvin. And if you’re tuned into the pre-show, you’ll be able to watch performances from Dove Cameron, Yung Gravy, and Saucy Santana.

The 2022 MTV VMAs are on August 28 at 8 p.m. EST. It’ll be broadcast on MTV and multiple other networks. Get full details on the award show here.

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

It’s not even September yet, but it’s never too soon to start thinking about Halloween. The candy, the costumes (Max from Stranger Things is to Halloween 2022 as the Joker was to Halloween 2008), and the horror movie marathons. If you’re looking for inspiration, Shudder has released the trailer for The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, an eight-episode series where “master filmmakers and genre experts celebrate and dissect the most terrifying moments of the greatest horror films ever.”

The assembled talent includes Tony Todd, Greg Nicotero, Keith David, Alex Essoe, Ernest Dickerson, Brea Grant, Tananarive Due, Rebekah McKendry, Joe Dante, David Dastmalchian, Kate Siegel, Fede Alvarez, Mike Flanagan, Axelle Carolyn, Lydia Hearst, Dana Gould, Tom Savini, and Jonah Ray. (What, was Michael Ian Black busy?)

As for which movies are included, the trailer above highlights Dawn of the Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Nosferatu, The Exorcist, The Thing, It Follows, Carrie, Night of the Living Dead, The Birds, Hereditary, The Babadook, Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Evil Dead, and It. The list looks like a nice mix of new and old. I’m sure famously chill horror movie fans will have no qualms about the ranking.

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time premieres on Shudder on September 7.

UPROXX Sessions returns with a performance from a West Coast favorite, Buddy.

In 2018, the rapper made his major label debut with Harlan & Alondra. Fans of the Compton-born-and-bred MC went almost four years without a project until he dropped his sophomore album, Superghetto, in March this year. Although short, with features from heavy hitters like Tinashe, T-Pain, Ari Lennox, and Blxst, it’s no surprise that Buddy delivers an excellent, laid-back performance of the album’s “Ain’t Fair.”

Buddy takes the 3 minutes to detail the “lifestyle of the super ghetto fellow,” including drug use, his musings on gentrification in the hood, and exes popping back up in his life. The performance showcases Buddy’s range as he switches flows over a jazz-inspired beat and demonstrates his love for LA by wearing a tee from the Fairfax-based design collective, Brain Dead.

Watch Buddy perform “Ain’t Fair” 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.

The MTV VMAs awards show is happening this year on August 28th. The MTV Video Music Awards crowns the best music videos from artists of all genres and while the 2021 MTV VMAs was hosted by Doja Cat, the MTV VMAs 2022 actually has three different hosts. One is a familiar hosting face, and the other two are more eclectic choices that will make for a unique broadcast.

Who will host the 2022 MTV VMAs?

The three hosts for the VMAs in 2022 are LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow. Harlow is an interesting choice, because along with Kendrick Lamar and Lil Nas X, he leads the way in the field with seven MTV VMAs nominations as well. Along with hosting duties, Minaj will be accepting the yearly MTV Video Vanguard Award, too. While Minaj and Harlow have never hosted an awards show of this magnitude before, LL Cool J has hosted the Grammys five times, so he should have no trouble helping them along.

The VMAs will also feature performances from Lizzo, Red Hot Chili Peppers, J Balvin, Harlow, Maneskin, Blackpink, Kane Brown, Marshmello with Khalid, and Panic! At The Disco, as well as Minaj and Harlow. There will also be pre-show performances from Dove Cameron, Yung Gravy, and Saucy Santana.

The 2022 MTV VMAs are on August 28 at 8 p.m. ET. Get full details on the award show here.

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

Doja Cat may be on hiatus this summer, following a tonsil surgery back in May, but this hasn’t stopped her from accomplishing great personal feats. On top of cutting her hair and embracing a new look, Doja has taken to Instagram Live today, where she announced she has gone 70 days without using her vape.

“I quit vaping, it’s day 70 of no vape,” Doja said while painting. “Day 70. Are you proud of me? Day f*cking 70, no vaping.”

While Doja seemed excited to share the news, adjusting to a tobacco-and-nicotine-free life is appearing to be no easy task, as she continued, “I would love to have a smoke. In the name of love… I would love to have a f*cking smoke. Motherf*cker. I’m going to peel my f*cking skin off.”

She revealed she would be quitting vaping back in May, following the surgery, as she was afraid vaping would result in her tonsils getting reinfected.

“nah im too scared to hit it cuz my throat hurts so bad,” Doja said. “i cried for hours. its not worth it. then its like imagine all that wierd poisonous sh*t in the vape seeping into the completely open wound in my throat like f*ck that. im hella young.”

Even with the full backing of Netflix and a massive pop culture juggernaut on their hands, the makers of Stranger Things were always up against a brick wall that they couldn’t do a thing about: Puberty. While Season 1 introduced the world to the precocious pre-teen Hawkins team, there was no way to keep the perfectly cast youngsters frozen in time, and according to star Noah Schnapp, it quickly became a problem for the supernatural series.

In the first season, Schnapp played the youngest member of the group, Will Byers, who gets lost inside the Upside Down, which sparked Stranger Things‘ now-sprawling storyline. However, as the show took increasingly longer breaks between seasons (the pandemic didn’t help either), Schnapp obviously continued to grow, and that included his voice significantly dropping during puberty. While it’s extremely noticeable in Stranger Things 4, Schnapp recently revealed that he was asked to make his voice sound higher in a prior season even though he’s not even 18 yet.

Via Flaunt:

“It was the peak time of change, and puberty and growing up and just everything was changing with all of us, and the directors were just not loving it,” Schnapp recounts of filming an earlier season. “And I remember one of the producers coming up to me and telling me, ‘Noah, is there any way you could just speak in a higher tone and just slouch a little bit? Like, we need you to keep that season one innocence that you had.’ That was like, ‘I don’t know what to tell you. My voice is dropping. I don’t sound young anymore.’”

What’s even wilder is that Schnapp’s natural voice is significantly deeper than his co-stars, and he truly is the youngest of the group in real life. Fortunately, the Duffer Brothers have figured out a solution to the puberty monster: A good old-fashioned time jump. When Stranger Things 5 brings the Hawkins story to a close, it will avoid the age issue by punting the kids out of high school. Problem solved.

(Via Flaunt)

UPDATE: The Athletic reports that the belief is Holmgren did, indeed, get hurt while playing in The CrawsOver.

EARLIER: The Oklahoma City Thunder expect that Chet Holmgren will play a major role in what their team looks like going forward. According to a new report by Shams Charania of The Athletic, it might be a minute before we get our first glimpses of how Holmgren fits into what the Thunder are trying to build.

Charania reported that the team has some concerns over Holmgren’s foot, and on Wednesday, the former Gonzaga standout needed to undergo imaging to figure out what exactly is going on.

It was eventually determined that there are potentially torn ligaments in Holmgren’s foot, while the plan is to dig a little deeper into the injury that he suffered before making any sort of determination on when he’ll be able to play basketball again.

Holmgren was one of the players who participated in Jamal Crawford’s pro-am, The CrawsOver, this past weekend. The star-studded game had to be called early due to condensation on the floor, but before that happened, Holmgren left the game with an apparent right foot injury after challenging a shot by James. It is unclear if this is when he suffered the torn ligaments in his foot or if this is an unrelated incident.

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the virtual rapper FN Meka, a Houston-based rapper named Kyle The Hooligan has posted a video on Instagram claiming that he wasn’t paid by Factory New, the company behind FN Meka, for his work voicing the character’s machine-written lyrics. In the video, he says he originally planned to wait until the project made more money before seeking legal action, but after being inundated with messages about the controversy, decided to share his story.

“Basically, they came to me with this AI shit and was like would I want to be the voice of it,” he recalls. “I thought it was going to be a collaboration. They promised me equity in the company, percentages, all this stuff. So, I’m thinking this is about to be something different for me, so I can do my music and be on some AI stuff with this FN Meka character… Next thing I know, n****s just ghosted me. Used my voice, used my sound, used the culture, and literally just left me high and dry. I didn’t get a dime off of nothing and they got record deals. I wasn’t involved in no meetings, none of that… Honestly, I’m glad they ass got canceled, that’s karma.”

Genius’ Jacques Morel confirmed that Kyle The Hooligan is the voice behind the virtual rapper — or, at least, its lyrics — in an in-depth report last year, which you can watch below. Although Kyle did not answer questions about his involvement at the time, it appears that he was miffed about being left out of Capitol Records’ discussions with Factory New regarding “signing” the rapper. Meanwhile, in a New York Times report about Capitol dropping FN Meka after an online backlash, Anthony Martini, a music manager who is one of Factory New’s founders, says that Capitol did not pay an advance, which was confirmed by the label itself.

Critics of the FN Meka project, including the music business advocacy group Industry Blackout, called it an “amalgamation” of gross stereotypes” and “appropriative mannerisms,” and said it “is a direct insult to the Black community.” Meka’s lyrics, written by a machine learning algorithm based on SoundCloud rappers like Lil Pump and Tekashi 69, repeated use the word “nigga” despite that code being programmed by an Asian creator and bankrolled by a white man, and using a character model with ambiguous, inhuman features. In its announcement that FN Meka had been dropped, Capitol Records apologized for its “insensitivity” and thanked those who gave feedback.

The scorching heatwave of summer isn’t over yet, but the good news is that it should cool down at some point. Before that happens, you’ll maybe want to hang on your couch a lot, and Netflix has your back if that’s where you hope to be for the month of September. Expect “No Mercy” to reign while The Karate Kid franchise kicks back into the dojo(s) with the fifth season of Cobra Kai, which carries a huge amount of cross-generational appeal.

Ana de Armas is also on hand as Marilyn Monroe in the sure-to-be-controversial Blonde, and some sorely needed comedy specials are coming your way as well. The newly filled library content will also include some Resident Evil titles, the original Roadhouse movie (Jake Gyllenhaal will soon star in a reboot), and Al Pacino in Scarface. In other words, you’ll have more content than you can possibly watch, and that’s not a problem.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in September.

Cobra Kai: Season 5 (Netflix series streaming 9/9)

Terry Silver is now launching a zillion Cobra Kai franchises after paying off a judge during the All Valley Tournament. That makes him the worst villain of the franchise (congrats!), and “No Mercy” is going to spread everywhere, and we’ve already heard that Silver will bring Mike Barnes back from The Karate Kid III obscurity. As this Season 5 trailer shows, Silver’s also recruited a female sensei, and one can only guess what havoc they will all wreak. In the meantime, the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang guys, Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, are picking up the pieces of their combined dojo, and as this trailer shows, it’s full-on war for the soul of the Valley.

Blonde (Netflix film streaming 9/23)

Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in this highly anticipated (and NC-17) film that’s based upon Joyce Carol Oates’ biography of the same name. Oates has gone on record to called the movie “startling, brilliant, very disturbing & [perhaps most surprisingly] an utterly ‘feminist’ interpretation.” Expect to see Marilyn onscreen like you’ve never seen her before, as the project explores the prices that she paid to transform from Norma Jean to a celebrated (and highly misunderstood) icon. Also be prepared for both fact and fiction and everything in between.

Fate: The Winx Saga: Season 2 (Netflix series streaming 9/16)

Based upon the Italian cartoon Winx Club (by Iginio Straffi), this live-action reimagining serves as a story from the Otherworld, at a magical boarding school. It’s a coming-of-age journey for five young fairies, and those with human parents don’t even know that this school doesn’t exist in the “real” world. Love, rivalries, and monsters. That’s it and a nutshell, along with teenage drama that might distract (this season) from saving the world from true catastrophe.

Patton Oswalt: We All Scream (Netflix comedy special streaming 9/20)

The man who embodied Constable Bob recently appeared in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman (as Matthew the Raven) on Netflix, and Patton can’t quit the comedy while marking his fourth comedy special for the streamer. He’s also directing (a first for him) and following up his public comments on cancel culture while taking Baby Boomers to task for their tantrum and more.

Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy (Netflix comedy special streaming 9/6)

Ali Wong makes her directorial debut here while making it all possible for this project to come together with another debut: Sheng Wang’s first stand-up special on Netflix. He’ll explore the most mundane topics (including musings on heists, posture, and that juicer that you wasted money on but never use) while helping to make September a funny month for the ages.

Avail. TBA
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
The Great British Baking Show: Collection 10
Plan A Plan B
Who Likes My Follower?

Avail. 9/1
A Cinderella Story
A Clockwork Orange
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
A Knight’s Tale
A Little Princess
American Beauty
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Barbie Mermaid Power
The Bridges of Madison County
Clueless
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Dolphin Tale 2
Fenced In
Friday After Next
He’s Just Not That Into You
I Survived a Crime: Season 1
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Italian Job
John Q
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure STONE OCEAN Episodes 13-24
Just Friends
Liss Pereira: Adulting
Little Nicky
Love in the Villa
Morphle Halloween Candy Magic Pet
Next Friday
Off the Hook
The Notebook
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Retribution
Road House
Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles: Season 2
Save the Last Dance
Scarface
Snow White & the Huntsman
Story Time Book: Read-Along: S1
This Is 40

Avail. 9/2
Buy My House
Dated and Related
Devil in Ohio
Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives: Season 2
Fakes
The Festival of Troubadours
Ivy + Bean
Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go
Ivy + Bean: Doomed to Dance
You’re Nothing Special

Avail. 9/3
Little Women

Avail. 9/5
Call the Midwife: Series 11
Cocomelon: Season 6
Once Upon a Small Town
Vampire Academy

Avail. 9/6
Bee and PuppyCat
Get Smart With Money
Rodrigo Marques: King of Uncouth
Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy
Untold: The Race of the Century

Avail. 9/7
Chef’s Table: Pizza
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer

Avail. 9/8
Entrapped
Diorama

Avail. 9/9
Cobra Kai: Season 5
End of the Road
Merlí. Sapere Aude: Season 2
No Limit
Narco-Saints

Avail. 9/12
Ada Twist, Scientist: Season 3

Avail. 9/13
Colette
Jo Koy: Live from the Los Angeles Forum
In the Dark: Season 4

Avail. 9/14
Broad Peak.
The Catholic School
El Rey, Vicente Fernández
Heartbreak High
The Lørenskog Disappearance
Sins of Our Mother

Avail. 9/15
Dogs in Space: Season 2
Intervention: Season 21
Terim

Avail. 9/16
The Brave Ones
Do Revenge
Drifting Home
Fate: The Winx Saga: Season 2
Gymnastics Academy: A Second Chance
I Used to Be Famous
Jogi
Love Is Blind: After the Altar: Season 2
Mirror, Mirror
Santo
Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard
This Is the End

Avail. 9/19
Go Dog Go: Season 3

Avail. 9/20
Patton Oswalt: We All Scream

Avail. 9/21
Designing Miami
Fortune Seller: A TV Scam
Iron Chef Mexico
The Perfumer
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist

Avail. 9/22
The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone
Karma’s World: Season 4
Snabba Cash: Season 2
Thai Cave Rescue

Avail. 9/23
A Jazzman’s Blues
ATHENA
The Girls at the Back
Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega: Season 2
Lou
Pokémon: The Arceus Chronicles

Avail. 9/24
Dynasty: Season 5
Fullmetal Alchemist The Final Alchemy

Avail. 9/26
A Trip to Infinity
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Chapter 2

Avail. 9/27
Elysium
The Munsters
Nick Kroll: Little Big Boy

Avail. 9/28
Blonde
Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga
Inheritance
Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 6
Too Hot to Handle: Brazil: Season 2

Avail. 9/29
The Empress

Avail. 9/30
Anikulapo
Entergalactic
Floor is Lava: Season 3
Human Playground
Phantom Pups
Rainbow
What We Leave Behind

And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:

Leaving 9/1
Quantico: Seasons 1-3

Leaving 9/2
Freaks

Leaving 9/3
The Vampire Diaries: Seasons 1-8

Leaving 9/9
Nightcrawler

Leaving 9/10
How to Train Your Dragon 2

Leaving 9/12
Offspring: Seasons 1-7

Leaving 9/14
Saved by the Bell: Seasons 1-6
Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas

Leaving 9/17
Skylines

Leaving 9/18
Dark Skies
Dark Matter: Seasons 1-3

Leaving 9/25
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Leaving 9/29
Gotham: Seasons 1-5

Leaving 9/30
3 Ninjas: Kick Back
Argo
Boogie Nights
Catch Me If You Can
The Cave
Constantine
Dirty Harry
Dumb and Dumber
Full Metal Jacket
I Am Legend
Insidious
Made of Honor
Mean Girls
My Babysitter’s a Vampire: Seasons 1-2
Old School
The Perfect Storm
The Rite
Seven
The Sweetest Thing
Taxi Driver
The Talented Mr. Ripley

My Chemical Romance were perhaps the defining emo band of the 2000s, which manifested most strongly on a popular level when the 2006 album The Black Parade and its iconic lead single “Welcome To The Black Parade” reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts, respectively. They disbanded in 2013, though, and until recently hadn’t been on a proper tour since 2012.

That changed earlier this year, though, when they kicked off a reunion tour. As the North American leg of the treks kicks off (the first US show was in Oklahoma City on August 20) after some international dates, what songs has the band been performing?

According to data from Setlist.fm, the most comprehensive resource for concert setlists available online, the most-played song so far is Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys single “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na),” which has been performed 25 times. Close behind with 24 performances each are “Famous Last Words,” “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” “Mama,” “Teenagers,” “The Foundations Of Decay,” and” Welcome To The Black Parade.”

As for the least-performed, that goes to 2009 rarity “The World Is Ugly,” which the group just played for the first time since 2008.

Setlist.fm also has an “average setlist” for the tour, which is based on setlists from previous shows, so it’s an indication of how an upcoming Gaga show could be structured. On that, the opening song is “The Foundations Of Decay,” the band’s recently released comeback single, kicks things off, while “The Kids From Yesterday” closes the encore.

When it comes to album-by-album representation on the setlist, The Black Parade (131 songs performed), Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (120), and Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (117) are in a near-tie at the top.

Find My Chemical Romance’s most played songs on the reunion tour below, as well as the tour’s average setlist. Check out MCR’s upcoming tour dates here.

1. “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” (25 performances)
T2. “Famous Last Words” (24)
T2. “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” (24)
T2. “Mama” (24)
T2. “Teenagers” (24)
T2. “The Foundations Of Decay” (24)
T2. “Welcome To The Black Parade” (24)
T8. “Destroya” (23)
T8. “Helena” (23)
10. “Vampire Money” (21)
T11. “Boy Division” (19)
T11. “Give ‘Em Hell, Kid” (19)
T13. “Summertime” (16)
T13. “Thank You For The Venom” (16)
15. “The Ghost Of You” (15)
T16. “Sleep” (12)
T16. “The Kids From Yesterday” (12)
T18. “House Of Wolves” (11)
T18. “Our Lady Of Sorrows” (11)
20. “Mastas Of Ravenkroft” (10)
T21. “Make Room!!!!” (8)
T21. “The Only Hope For Me Is You” (8)
T21. “You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison” (8)
T24. “Skylines And Turnstiles” (7)
T24. “This Is How I Disappear” (7)
26. “Bulletproof Heart” (6)
T27. “Cancer” (5)
T27. “Cemetery Drive” (5)
T27. “Headfirst For Halos” (5)
T27. “It’s Not A Fashion Statement, It’s A F*cking Deathwish” (5)
T27. “S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W” (5)
T27. “Surrender The Night” (5)
T33. “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back” (4)
T33. “Tomorrow’s Money” (4)
T35. “Bury Me In Black” (2)
T35. “Hang ‘Em High” (2)
T35. “Heaven Help Us” (2)
T35. “This Is The Best Day Ever” (2)
39. “The World Is Ugly” (1)

“The Foundations Of Decay”
“Give ‘Em Hell, Kid”
“Summertime”
“Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)”
“House Of Wolves”
“Boy Division”
“Teenagers”
“Thank You For The Venom”
“The Ghost Of You”
“Our Lady Of Sorrows”
“Destroya”
“Helena”
“Welcome To The Black Parade”
“Famous Last Words”
“Vampire Money”
“Mama”
“Sleep”
“Mastas Of Ravenkroft” (encore)
“I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” (encore)
“The Kids From Yesterday” (encore)