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Tyler The Creator’s ongoing partnership with Converse has proven uniquely fruitful. Not only have Golf Wang Converse sneakers been a cool treat for fans for the past few years, reflecting Tyler’s long-established love for the skater-favorite brand, but he’s come up with some pretty neat projects as a result, such as last year’s hilarious, Tyler-directed “Really Cool Converse Club” commercial. The latest is a new sneaker model that fans can customize with 100,000 options, the Golf Wang x Converse Chuck 70. The brand announced the collaboration via a few social media posts showing off some of the possible combinations.

The Golf Wang By You project includes a bunch of side decals of Golf Wang and Tyler The Creator logos and color options. Quantities are limited so I suggest clicking this link as soon as you can.

During a recent Converse All-Star series talk in March, Tyler discussed his affinity for the brand but also revealed his disdain for a different trend. “What the f*ck is a NFT?” he wondered to the audience’s amusement. “I paint at home, I play instruments. … I have a friend who’s making me speakers by hand right now. What the f*ck is a NFT? None of the examples I’ve seen is, like, beautiful art. It’s a f*cking monkey in a Supreme hoodie.”

If festival season is breaking your bank, you can still see your favorite artists on the cheap. Live Nation Concert Week is returning next week, offering $25 concert tickets to see bands and musicians across all genres.

The $25 “all-in” tickets include taxes and fees, so fans won’t have to worry about annoying extra costs. This year’s Concert Week will offer tickets to over 3,700 shows across North America.

Among this year’s artists participating in Live Nation Concert Week are Haim, Machine Gun Kelly, Nas, 070 Shake, Omar Apollo, Russ, H.E.R., Courtney Barnett, and more.

Non-music acts participating in Concert Week are Chelsea Handler, Dave Chappelle, Gabriel Iglesias, Tina Fey, George Lopez, Margaret Cho, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Chris Rock and the queens of Season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

The sale of $25 tickets begins Wednesday, May 4 and runs until Tuesday, May 10. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, May 3. Rakuten members will also have access to this presale, and will receive a special access code in their emails if they sign up for an account by May 1.

The full list of performers is available to view here.

Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

It looks like Tekashi 69‘s antics might be catching up to him at last. TMZ has shared a video of the controversial rapper getting punched in the back of the head at a nightclub in Miami despite his cadre of security guards. While the attacker fled before being identified and didn’t give a reason for the assault, Tekashi hasn’t exactly endeared himself to fans of hip-hop over the past few years. Tekashi was at the club, Pilos Tacos Tequilla Garden, to perform a song from the DJ booth, apparently as a kind of soft re-launch of his rap career, which stalled after his stint in prison for racketeering.

According to the rapper himself, he was only grazed by the blow, and it’s reported he stayed at the venue after the attack to sign autographs. “He scuffed my shoulder by my neck,” he’s quoted by TMZ. He also connected with the shoulder of my security guard. I didn’t know this guy. There was no prior dispute.” Even so, the attack is a reminder that for some folks, Tekashi is as much a target as a star ever since he got his sentence shortened by testifying against his Nine Trey Blood associates. He’s also got a few rap rivalries brewing, and as much as his fellow musicians have laughed off the threats as entertainment, it seems there could still be plenty of those who take them seriously enough to act on them.

Mattea Roach recently cracked the Top 10 on Jeopardy!‘s list of consecutive winners, and she’s not slowing down anytime soon. Of course, she was already a real winner after her first victory, which allowed her to pay off her student loans, but beyond that, she’s chipping away after being the first superchamp since Amy Schneider racked up 40 wins. Roach currently holds the #8 spot after 17 consecutive wins (with $396,182 in total winnings so far). However, she’s also now officially — at age 23 — the youngest superchamp in the long-running show’s history. So, she’s #1 at being young and being far more accomplished at that age than any of us.

As she holds the line, Mattea spoke with Good Morning America (above), where she discussed how thrilled she is to represent Canada, something that she has in common with late host Alec Trebek:

“To get to represent Canada on the ‘Alex Trebek Stage’ means a lot. As Canadians, we’re so proud of our homegrown celebrities who made it big in the U.S. And so, it didn’t occur to me as I was taping these shows that I had become the longest-running Canadian but I’m really honored by the support that everyone across the country has shown me. It’s so meaningful and it fills me with so much joy.”

Mattea will continue to defend her superchamp status and go for win #8 on Thursday.

(Via ABC News)

Jermaine Johnson has seen a lot in his young football career. He’s gone from being academically ineligible coming out of high school to a star on Last Chance U to the Georgia Bulldogs and, finally, Florida State, where he broke out in 2021 to rocket up draft boards.

That journey has given Johnson a perspective on life and football beyond what most 23-year-olds have, as well as an appreciation for what the game can provide and how quickly things can go away if the work isn’t properly put in. On Thursday night, Johnson figures to hear his name called in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft as one of the top edge rushers in this year’s class, a moment he admits there were times he never even thought was possible.

On Wednesday, Johnson spoke with Uproxx Sports from the P&G Style Lounge at the Delano on the Las Vegas strip to look back on his journey, what he wants teams to know about him as a player and person, and how he intends to be the next game wrecking pass rusher in the NFL.

Where’s the excitement level at with Draft night a day away?

It’s up and it’s high. It’s one of the days you dreamed about as a kid and, shoot, even sometimes I never thought I’d get here. So, I mean they’re high. It’s awesome. Unbelievable.

When you look back at your journey to get here, what are you most proud of yourself for making it through to this point?

Not giving up. You know, not taking the easy way out and staying true to my value and what I believe my value is, because anywhere along the way I could have devalued myself and taken the easy way out. But I never did. So I guess just sticking through it and trusting that even though I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel sometimes that you know I’ll be guided to it.

From where you were a few years ago in JUCO to where you are now. What would you say is your biggest point of growth as a football player?

As a football player? Man, that’s such a hard question to ask because I’ve grown so much since junior college to now. I mean, it’s not even the same player in my eyes, not even remotely close. So just it’s a whole different player, man. I wish I could give you one or two things, but it’s just a whole different player.

When you’ve talked with teams through this pre-draft process, what have you wanted them to know about you, the person?

As a person? I mean, I just wanted them to know my outlook on the game, and how I think it’s supposed to be played. Understanding that the team comes first and understanding that when you put the team first, you just trust that your individual accolades and goals will handle themselves but it’s a team first thing. Like back in the day, like in medieval times when you go to war, you weren’t going out there trying to get as many kills as you can, you go on out there and you’re fighting for something that that you truly believe in and you’re fighting for the people and your brothers next to you.

So I mean, that’s just like football. I think we’re modern day gladiators. And you know, I’m going out there and they’re my brothers and that’s the first thing on my mind. I don’t care about sacks and, you know, statistics and stuff like that. I just know that you know, if I keep playing football, the way I play it all that stuff will handle itself anyway. So I mean, I just want teams to know that’s how I look at things and you know, that I’m not a fluke and that I’m very much the real deal.

You’ve been on a number of teams already in your career. What do you think you’ve learned about what it means to be a good teammate and going from a few different places and being in a few different cultures and what you think that can bring now that you go to another team with whoever picks you?

Just the word selfless, man. It’s not about you. It never was and it never is about you. You’re part of a team. You have a role to play on that team, whatever that role may be, your job is to give 110 percent in that role. It’s not about you. And I think that’s it.

Who are guys that you look to who are in the league as guys you’ve tried to pull from and add stuff to your game that you watch film on?

Khalil Mack and Myles Garrett. I mean those guys are dominant pass rushers — dominant, dominant pass rushers. And they take games over and they make offenses game plan against them and I mean, they just wreck games and that’s what I intend to do.

You’ve got the red carpet tomorrow night. You got everything all ready to go?

Yeah, everything’s ready man. It’s gonna be well worth the wait.

How have you ended up with this partnership with with Gillette and how are they helping you out for tomorrow night?

I mean, Gillette and I we share the same values in terms of confidence, man. If you got confidence there everything else will handle itself. So to be quite honest, they’re getting me clean. They’re getting me ready for this night on the red carpet and I couldn’t thank them anymore for that.

Great news: soon you’ll finally get to see an iconic “Ew, Daviiid” on a different platform! “Schitt’s Creek, the show that many people think is a Netflix show simply because it is streaming on Netflix, will no longer stream on Netflix.

On Thursday, April 28, Hulu announced that the feel-good Emmy-winning family comedy starring a majority of the Levy family (Eugene, David, Sarah) has acquired streaming rights to all six seasons of the series. Schitt’s Creek, which originally aired on Canada’s CBC from 2015-2020, will leave its long-term stay at Netflix for Hulu starting October 3, 2022.

“Based on the number of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ GIFs we Slack every day, it’s no surprise that we are absolutely thrilled to welcome Johnny, Moira, Alexis, ‘Daviiid’ and the wonderfully unique residents of Schitt’s Creek to Hulu,” said Joe Earley, President of Hulu in a statement sent to press. Ew, Joooe. “We can’t wait to share the award-winning, blisteringly-funny, yet heartwarming series and characters with our subscribers. We know they’ll fit in nicely.”

Schitt’s Creek made Emmy history in 2020 by sweeping all comedy categories, earning the most wins in a single season for a comedy. Its awards include Outstanding Lead Actress and Actor in a Comedy Series for Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, Outstanding Supporting Actress and Actor in a Comedy Series for Annie Murphy and Dan Levy, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.

Drake London was in the midst of an all-time season at USC when he broke his ankle against Arizona on October 30, piling up 88 catches for 1,084 yards and seven touchdowns in just eight games for the Trojans. That performance was good enough to earn Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year honors despite missing four games, and he enters this week’s NFL Draft expected to hear his name called on Thursday night.

The 6’4, 219 pound receiver looks to follow in the footsteps of other big receivers that have taken over the NFL in recent years, citing Mike Evans and Keenan Allen among the players he watches film of to try and pull things into his game.

On Wednesday afternoon, London sat down with Uproxx Sports at the P&G Style Lounge on the Las Vegas Strip to talk about the upcoming Draft, his work with TJ Houshmandzadeh, and what he thinks separates him from the rest of a stellar wide receiver class.

It’s now just a night away. Where’s your excitement level for Draft night to finally be here?

I don’t know how to put it into words in a sense. Put it on the scale of one to 10, I think it’d be 11. I may not show it [laughs], but deep down inside? Yeah, definitely excited.

Excited to be done with pre-draft interviews and workouts?

I can’t wait. I was actually just talking about that. Just being able to settle down for once and just go about my business. I think that’s what I can’t wait for.

Being here with Head & Shoulders, how did you get partnered with this? And what’s it been like being with them for Draft week?

Yeah, you know, I’ve been using it for so long in my life. It’s been keeping my hair healthy, no dandruff. So I have a great ScalpShield Technology that they’ve been using and it’s been protecting my hair ever since. So yeah, I was happy they partnered with me.

What’s been the most surprising part of the Draft process? From when the season ended to now going through all the workouts and going through all the interviews, sitting with teams, what’s been the part that you maybe weren’t expecting?

I think it’s the depth that the teams go to know who you are truly. I’ve literally had, like, high school teachers telling me “Oh, such and such just talked to me about you,” and I’m like, there’s no way they go that deep, you know? That’s when I was kind of like shocked.

What are the things that you wanted teams to get to know about you not just as a player, but as a person when you got to sit down with them and talk to them?

What I wanted to be known and I think that was the boat that I was in, I couldn’t really participate in physical activity or anything at the time, so just showcasing that I’m a person who’s dependable. Somebody who you don’t really have to worry about, watch over, or just, you know, in the back of your head, like, “Oh, he’s gonna mess up and do something wrong.” That’s what I was trying to get through to a lot of teams and I think I did.

This is obviously a really talented wide receiver class. When you’re trying to kind of pitch yourself to these teams, what are the things that you think separates you from from others in this class?

When I’m covered, or so to speak covered, I don’t think I’m really covered. That goes to probably the basketball background that I had, just getting rebounds. I have to deal with guys who are 6’10 down in the trees, on the block. So I really have to use my height to my advantage at the end of the day, and if I have a 5’8, 5’11 corner, I don’t really see no issue with them being on my hip.

From when you got to USC to now, what is the area of growth that you think has been the biggest for you on the field?

I think honestly just becoming a football player solely and that in general. I’ve been playing basketball and football my whole life, so I haven’t really had the time to sit down and lift weights, stretch the way I’m supposed to, run the way I’m supposed to. So I think it’s just ultimately coming into one sport and just being a football player in general. And I’m still working towards that.

Is there an area on the field that teams say, like, this is what we want you to continue to work at when you get in these rooms and they talk about your strengths and your weaknesses?

I think it’s everything. And I can probably say that for a lot of the prospects. We’re going in there where the rookies were the youngins again, so I think there’s so many things that we get to learn at the end of the day. So I wouldn’t say it’s anything like specific. It’s just you’re gonna learn the tricks of trades of the NFL world, and especially being a receiver in the NFL.

Working out with TJ Houshmandzadeh and being able to be around the guy who’s been in those locker rooms and has been a pro for a long time and knows what it takes. What was that given you, mot just on the field, but knowing what it’s going to take to be a pro?

Oh, it’s something special. To have TJ in my corner is a huge, huge deal to me. I mean, literally a living legend. His smarts for the game, his physical attributes, the things that he teaches me things that he that he tells me and just what he brings to me as a person is beyond great.

And then beyond him, who are some of the guys that you look at and you watch kind of film of to try and pull things into your game?

Calvin Johnson, Mike Evans, Keenan Allen, a guy like Davante Adams, the list goes on and on. I can pretty much take a lot of things from a person’s game and try to implement it into mine fairly quickly.

Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in the Republican Senate primary in Ohio, even after the poverty porn author called him “America’s Hitler.” Somehow, this story gets even weirder. In the days before the endorsement, the former-president and his son, Donald Trump Jr., spoke on the phone with Tucker Carlson. The Fox News host told them that they can’t trust David McIntosh, who Rolling Stone describes as “the president of the conservative Club for Growth and a top backer of Vance’s rival Josh Mandel.”

Why’s that? I’m sorry in advance:

The reason, Carlson asserted, is that McIntosh has an embarrassing and “chronic” personal sexual habit.

Rolling Stone cannot confirm the claim and will not repeat it. But during that phone call, the twice-impeached former president spent a notable amount of time gossiping and laughing about the prominent Republican’s penis and how “f*cking disgusting” and “f*cking gross” he allegedly was.

Trump also has a deep fascination with Mandel’s sex life. “The [former] president has used the term ‘f*cking weird’ to describe Josh Mandel more than once, when I have spoken to him about [Mandel],” a source recently told the Daily Beast. “He has talked about [Mandel] and sex in the same sentence more times than I would have liked to hear.” An obsession with someone’s “gross” and “disgusting” and “weird” sex life? Takes one to know one, I suppose.

You can read the rest of the Rolling Stone report here.

(Via Rolling Stone)

In late 2020, HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant introduced Cassie, a spiraling alcoholic flight attendant with curtain bangs, a high ponytail, and an inspiring coat collection who got unexpectedly entrenched in a world of espionage after waking up next to her extremely attractive one night stand dead. The Flight Attendant’s bubbly tone contrasted with serious subject matter was a refreshing balm at the end of a dark year. The show introduced Kaley Cuoco as a serious actress, or made us realize that we hadn’t given her the respect she deserved because she happened to make a lot of money on the network sitcom The Big Bang Theory and in Priceline commercials. Cuoco’s performance not only refurbished her unfair reputation, it made her a serious contender during awards season, earning her an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination.

Season two of The Flight Attendant, which started on HBO Max last week, flips the first season’s premise on its head. Cassie has crossed coasts: off-screen, she moved from New York City to Los Angeles, as people are inclined to do before the city gradually wears them down. Cassie, who spent the first season confronting her alcoholism, is now sober. She also has a boyfriend and a new part-time job as an asset for the CIA. Although the show’s return is welcome, season two of The Flight Attendant doesn’t feel as fresh, necessary, or as exciting because the first season was so clearly finite.

The Flight Attendant is not the only show that has gone from limited series to regular television show with tacked on seasons following critical acclaim and success, a pivot that could only happen in the Peak TV era when there is already too much to watch. HBO recently announced that Winning Time, another series that was, seemingly, intended as a one-seasoner, will return for a second season, no doubt due to its popularity and star power within the cast, led by John C. Reilly. In 2021, HBO picked up The White Lotus for a second season, although its second season will star an entirely new cast and is reportedly set in Italy. Is it the same show then, or another attempt to piggyback off established IP for as long as possible?

HBO – the biggest culprit in giving limited series an upgrade – first started picking up one season shows in December 2017 when it renewed Big Little Lies, a limited series based on one book that does not have any sequels for a second season. Before the second season order, the first season of Big Little Lies won five Emmys including outstanding limited series and it dominated the acting categories with wins for Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Laura Dern. The second season of Big Little Lies was a flop. A serious, thought-provoking drama about domestic abuse quickly turned into accidental camp and fodder for memes, the only memorable moment from the entire season being a long scream from Meryl Streep who with all her talent couldn’t even sell the forced material.

Picking up a limited series to series did not start with HBO, despite its takeover of the practice. In the summer of July 2016, a little sci-fi show on Netflix turned into a cultural phenomenon from word-of-mouth. Stranger Things became so inescapably popular (Christmas lights, Eggo Waffles, Millie Bobby Brown galore) that Netflix had no choice but to renew it, and renew it with the same cast as season one. Although Stranger Things was created as an anthology series with more intention to continue than other limited series, the messy, meandering seasons that followed feel more like packaged 80s nostalgia and Netflix merch than a tight, cohesive story.

Despite outcries for more, Watchmen creator Damon Lindeloff refused to continue his 2019 masterpiece, one of the few successful limited series of the Peak TV era to stick to being a limited series. Lindeloff said that he had no reason to stick around as showrunner, having completed his intended story. Other shows that refused to continue their limited runs despite demand, critical success and awards season success include WandaVision, and The Queen’s Gambit. These series already accomplished what they wanted to or needed to, and by resisting the urge to go on, they’ve solidified their significance in pop culture. They’ll be remembered for their greatness, not their flimsy storytelling.

The beauty of the limited series is that they tell one story from beginning to end like a film, and thusly have more time to develop characters and plot like a television show. But over the past few years, limited series have, like absolutely everything else on the planet, become IP inspo. Limited series lose their cultural significance the further they go beyond their original one-season structure. Shows including Big Little Lies and Stranger Things are remembered more for their failures than their successes, reminiscent of the quick and painful rise and fall of Game of Thrones. The Flight Attendant is still early in its second season, but unfortunately unless the season can somehow accomplish the impossible task of matching the significance and impact of its first, it will go the same way as the others.

Ahead of their upcoming self-titled album, Muna has revealed their new video for “Kind Of Girl.” In the video, the three transform into cowboys, as they perform the country-influenced, string-driven song in various parts of the desert.

As newly independent artists, the members of Muna embrace their queer identities and subvert ender norms throughout the video.

“The video for this song highlights another layer of meaning that we feel the song holds,” said Muna’s Katie Gavin in a statement, “which is that we as queer people are particularly vulnerable when we are sharing how we identify and how we would like to be perceived. We wanted to play with the gendered nature of this song because we all three have different relationships to girlhood (and Naomi is non-binary, so not a girl at all!). It was a gift to be able to king for this video in a way that felt earnest and comfortable and hot. The experience brought home the fact that it’s not enough for queer and trans people to be clear about who we are – we also need a community around us that hears us, believes us, honors us, and supports us. We’re very proud of what we made and grateful to everyone who was a part of it. We hope the bigots absolutely hate it.”

Check out “Kind Of Girl” above.

Muna is out 6/24 via Saddest Factory. Pre-save it here.