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At this point, it feels like nothing else in pop can really take place until Harry Styles releases his next album. Harry’s House has already earned the praise of Joni Mitchell, who seems to be a namesake of sorts for the title, earned Harry a spot on the Coachella lineup — where he previewed not one but two new songs — and spawned the hit single “As It Was.” What else can he do before the album drops in a few weeks? Well, plenty it seems. Not only is “As It Was” back on top of the charts at the No. 1 spot, after a brief dethroning by Jack Harlow’s “First Class,” and that might be the only thing delaying another new song from the record.

When it come, the next single is likely to be “Boyfriends,” a much slower track that nevertheless has already become a fan favorite because of how it dismantles the bad behavior of men who date women! Imagine that. “Late Night Talking” would be another good pick, but instead of giving us new music, tonight Harry gave us the idea of new music by sharing the entire tracklist for the record. Let the speculation begin, this thing ain’t over until it’s over.

Harry’s House tracklist:
Side A
1. “Music For A Sushi Restaurant”
2. “Late Night Talking”
3. “Grapejuice”
4. “As It Was”
5. “Daylight”
6. “Little Freak”
7. “Matilda”

Side B
8. “Cinema”
9. “Daydreaming”
10. “Keep Driving”
11. “Satellite”
12. “Boyfriends”
13. “Love Of My Life”

Lil Baby is one of many big-name artists that are set to release a new album this summer. The rapper has been promoting his third album, which would be his first solo release since 2020’s My Turn, as one that will surely take over the music world when the warmest months of the year arrive. Lil Baby hasn’t shared too many details about his next body of work, but he has given his fans some music. Earlier this month, he released “In A Minute” and “Right Now” to kick off his 2022 campaign, and now, he returns with a third track for listeners to enjoy.

Aiming to keep his hot streak alive, Lil Baby doubles back with “Frozen.” It presents the Atlanta native as a laser-focused spitter who is determined to stick to his journey in life without letting unnecessary distractions deter him. The new tracks arrived after Lil Baby earned his 100th entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, something that only Drake, Glee, Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Future, Nicki Minaj, Elvis Presley, Chris Brown, Jay-Z, and Justin Bieber have done.

More recently, Lil Baby took the stage at the 2022 Coachella Festival, and shortly after, he was announced as one of the performers at Pharrell’s Something In The Water festival. Additionally, Lil Baby will set out on his One Of Them Ones tour alongside Chris Brown last this year.

You can listen to “Frozen” in the video above.

It’s been a little under two years since Future gave the world a solo album. His last effort was 2020’s High Off Life, which was a bit of an underwhelming release compared to his prior projects. With that in the past, Future has steadily teased his ninth album as one that would satisfy fans much more than High Off Life. Finally, after a bit of a wait, fans can judge his new body of work for themselves as Future just released his new album, I Never Liked You. With the new project also comes a video for Future and Kanye West’s latest collaboration.

Their new track, which is titled “Keep It Burning,” is an effort that watches the duo find the good in destruction. Both Future and Kanye have no issue with tearing things down as they see the good that could come from it. The track also arrives with a matching visual that captures Future and Kanye dressed in all black as they show off some dance moves for the video that’s shot with a scope lens.

As for the rest of I Never Liked You, Future presents 16 songs with additional features from Gunna, Young Thug, Drake, Tems, Kodak Black, and EST Gee.

You can watch the video for “Keep It Burning” above.

I Never Liked You is out now via Epic Records. You can stream it here.

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

The first round of the 2022 NBA playoffs is essentially done and dusted. Outside of the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves continuing to go at one another, every first round series has been decided, with three teams — the Philadelphia 76ers, the Phoenix Suns, and the Dallas Mavericks — taking care of business in road Game 6s on Thursday night to punch their tickets to the conference semifinals.

What does this mean? Well, for most of us, it means that we’ll watch the Grizzlies and Timberwolves play their Game 6 on Friday on ESPN before a pair of series — Game 1 of Bucks/Celtics and, potentially, Game 7 of Grizzlies/Timberwolves — have games on Sunday on ABC. But for the Inside the NBA crew, the Sixers, Suns, and Mavs winning means there are no games this weekend on Turner’s airwaves, and after the Mavericks beat the Jazz, Shaquille O’Neal was the happiest person in the world.

Shaq saw Bojan Bogdanovic’s potential game-winning shot miss and reacted by throwing a fist in the air and jumping out of his seat with a huge smile on his face. Now, it does not seem that Shaq has any sort of beef with the Utah Jazz. He, like all of us, just likes having free weekends, is all, and got one thanks to 24-point outings from both Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson.

The most incredible part of this is that Chuck managed to correctly pick all three games to get the TNT fellas a long weekend, meaning all three fought off the Chuck Guarantee Curse to advance to the second round.

The Dallas Mavericks went more than a decade without a playoff series win after winning the NBA title in 2011. On Thursday evening, that drought came to an end, with Luka Doncic and company winning a back-and-forth Game 6 battle against the Utah Jazz to secure a 4-2 series victory to advance and face the Phoenix Suns in round two.

At the outset, neither team had much going on the offensive end. Utah led 21-15 after 12 minutes, with both teams shooting less than 40 percent and Dallas scoring only one point in almost four minutes to close the first quarter. The lone bright spot on offense was the play of Donovan Mitchell, who scored nine points on solid efficiency in the early going.

Most of the second quarter was similar in nature, but Utah put together a run late in the half. The Jazz closed the second quarter on an 18-5 run, making their final five shots. Mitchell was in the middle of the push, with Utah producing improved ball and player movement.

Dallas shot 3-of-18 from three-point range and only 39 percent overall in the first half. At the same time, the Jazz knocked down 65 percent of shots, with only a single turnover, in the second period. After halftime, though, things would shift, as Dallas used an 8-0 run to maintain contact. The Mavericks did damage on both ends of the floor, with Luka Doncic flowing in positive fashion.

All told, the Mavericks made 8-of-12 from three-point range in the third, and Dallas pushed its lead to eight early in the fourth quarter. However, Utah kept coming and tied the game with less than five minutes remaining after an 8-0 run.

That set up potential fireworks down the stretch, with Doncic connecting on a huge triple to give Dallas a four-point lead. Moments later, the game was knotted again after a kick-out three-pointer by Bojan Bogdanovic.

However, the tie lasted for only one possession before Jalen Brunson connected on a three-pointer to give Dallas the advantage. Utah cut the margin back to 97-96 with less than 40 seconds remaining on a bucket from Rudy Gobert but, despite a miss from Doncic on the other end, the Jazz were unable to close the gap when Mike Conley committed a traveling violation with five seconds remaining.

Brunson split a pair of free throws on the other end, keeping the door open for the Jazz. In fact, Utah created an exceptionally open look for the win at the buzzer, but Bogdanovic’s attempt went begging.

In what was a low-scoring affair, it was Utah’s offense that wasn’t quite enough. The Jazz scored fewer than 1.1 points per possession in the loss, shooting only 9-of-35 from beyond the three-point arc. The loss, and another early playoff exit, will certainly produce questions for the future of Utah’s core, and the Jazz squandered an opportunity against a Mavericks team that operated without Doncic early in the series.

For Dallas, this was not only a landmark series win but also a potential sign that the Mavericks are dangerous against the Suns in the second round. The Mavericks executed well under Jason Kidd, and the perimeter duo of Doncic (when he returned from injury) and Brunson was lights-out. Doncic finished with 24 points, nine rebounds, and assists, with Brunson adding 24 points, and Dorian Finney-Smith producing a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

The Western Conference Semifinal matchup between the Mavericks and Suns will not begin until Monday in Phoenix. That allows both teams to get healthy and rested in advance of Game 1, with all eyes on whether Doncic and company can upset the league’s best team under the brightest lights.

Khalid is always expanding his sound, and with a voice like his, why not? Over any melody or any style of production, Khalid’s voice is so effortless and timeless, it literally always sounds good. So no, fans won’t be disappointed at all by his new single, “Skyline,” which is admittedly a bit more funky and pop than some of his past, soulful R&B work. “Skyline” is definitely a departure from the other early 2022 song he’s shared, “Last Call,” which came along with the American Teen retrospective, American Teen: The Yearbook, and fit in with the sound of his debut album.

But it seemed clear Khalid was ready for a shift when he released his late 2021 tape, Scenic Drive, which featured a whole host of collaborators like Lucky Daye, 6lack, Kiana Lede, JID, Smino, and Majid Jordan. And if he’s going to go father into the pop world, it wouldn’t be surprising if Billie Eilish showed up somewhere in the mix — after all, the pair already collaborated before on “Lovely,” and Khalid even showed up to perform it with Billie during her Coachella set. Since we know his new album, Everything Is Changing, is on the way, “Skyline” will likely be a part of that. Check out the colorful video up top.

After DMV rapper IDK dropped his stellar debut album Is He Real? at the end of 2019, fans had to wait a little over a year to receive his next body of work, that being U See 4 Yourself. The project delivered 17 songs with features from Young Thug, Offset, Lucky Daye, Sir, T-Pain, Rico Nasty, MF DOOM, Westside Gunn, Jay Electronica, and more. Less than a year after he released U See 4 Yourself, IDK is already gearing up to share his third body of work. He previously announced that it would be titled Simple, and ahead of its release, he shares its third single.

IDK calls on Denzel Curry for their new collaboration, “Dog Food.” It’s an effort that captures the duo with their heads on a swivel as danger lurks around the corner in their neighborhood. The new song marks IDK and Denzel’s fifth track together following “No Wave,” “Once Upon A Time (Freestyle),” “Bulletproof,” and “Uh Huh.” The track also follows IDK’s previous single, “Taco,” which he released earlier this month. Both “Taco” and “Dog Food” are produced by Kaytranada, who IDK previously said would handle the production on Simple. Additionally, IDK also revealed that Simple would arrive on May 6.

You can listen to “Dog Food” in the video above.

Simple is out 5/6 via Clue and Warner Records.

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

Justin Bieber’s fans are always ready for him to release new music, and lately, the pop star has been switching between two main lanes — straight ahead pop that’s more reminiscent of his earlier days, and hip-hop leaning collaborations that reflect where the mainstream sound has gone now. His last album, Justice, might not have pleased everyone, but the hit single “Peaches” was an example of the latter sound, featuring both Daniel Caesar and Giveon and on the track.

For his latest single, Bieber is collaborating with Travis Scott’s protege, Don Toliver, for “Honest,” a song that sticks to the same subject matter that permeates most of his songs these days — how happy he is being married to his new wife, Hailey Bieber (nee Baldwin). In the video, the pair are out in snowy climes, rapping and singing in beautiful ski chalets, riding snowmobiles out into the wilderness, and even smoking a blunt together around a fire. Doesn’t that sound like a nice vacation? Bieber recently praised his collaborator in an interview with Apple Music.

“He just has this like little bop about him and he’s very unique, he’s very Houston,” Bieber said in an interview with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1. “Shout out to Houston. I just love his melodies these are honestly insane. He has a really amazing cadence to his songs and his music. And I’m just a genuine fan. And he just is himself. And that’s what I love about any artist that can just has a lane and does what they do and does it well.” Bieber is in the middle of a massive tour, so this is likely just a one-off, but you never know. Check out the clip up top.

Since his release from prison at the beginning of 2021, Bobby Shmurda’s music career hasn’t panned out as well as he or his fans would have liked. Bobby has only released four songs –“No Time For Sleep (Freestyle),” “Cartier Lens,” “Splash,” and “Shmoney” — since his departure from prison, but none of the records have made the impact he hoped it would. Soon enough, Bobby took aim at his former record label Epic Records and criticized them for a number of things including not allowing him to have control of his work. Now, Bobby is an independent act and he wasted no time dropping a track as a lone ranger.

After weeks of promotion, Bobby looks to strike up some well-deserved attention for his music with “They Don’t Know.” The new track is a chaotic effort that showcases Bobby’s high spirits, which have been on full display since his release from prison. “Looked at my watch and see you freezin’, b*tch,” he raps on the new effort. “You know I’m stinkin’ rich / I keep a job for every season, b*tch.” Bobby also graces the new track with a visual and perfectly matches the song’s erratic and energetic nature.

Aside from his musical efforts, Bobby has managed to be active in other areas. He previously donated 2,000 backpacks of school supplies to students in New York, and prior to that, he gave away free haircuts and meals for Father’s Day.

You can listen to “They Don’t Know” in the video above.

The Phoenix Suns became the second team from the Western Conference to punch their ticket to the second round with a hard fought Game 6 win in New Orleans to knock out the scrappy Pelicans.

While Devin Booker made his welcome return to the lineup after suffering a hamstring injury in Game 2, it was Chris Paul that carried the load in the Game 6 win, scoring 33 points on a perfect shooting night, hitting all 14 of his field goal attempts and all four of his free throws. It was a truly sensational offensive performance from Paul, one that is fitting for a player that has long been a model of efficiency.

Booker was unaware of Paul’s perfect night until he arrived at the podium with the future Hall of Famer for their postgame press conference, and his reaction to Paul going 14-of-14 was incredibly on brand.

“I was not aware at all,” Booker said. “I believe in the heat check though. 14-15 looks a lot better than 14-14 to me. I’ll never have one of these games, these perfect ones.”

It’s a perfect Devin Booker quote, as he’s never met a shot he didn’t like (and usually for good reason), and it shows the difference in he and Paul’s approach to the game and why they’re great foils for one another in the backcourt. Paul’s patient approach balances with Booker’s aggressiveness in a way that’s made the Suns one of the best teams in the league since they joined forces, becoming particularly dangerous in the fourth quarter because of the way they can play off of each other.