The Chicago Tribune reports that R. Kelly, who was recently convicted on charges of racketeering in New York, has dismissed his Chicago-based legal team to employ the attorney who successfully appealed Bill Cosby’s conviction as his defense for his upcoming Chicago sex abuse case. Calling into court from the Brooklyn jail where he’s awaiting sentencing in his prior conviction, Kelly told US District Judge Harry Leinenweber that he was switching representation to Jennifer Bonjean for the August trial.
Bonjean represented Cosby’s appeal in Pennsylvania after he was convicted of sexual assault in 2018. The conviction was overturned by a split court which found that Cosby had been unfairly prosecuted due to an agreement made with a previous district attorney in exchange for his cooperation in a civil lawsuit from one of his alleged victims. The incriminating statements he made while under this agreement were used as a driving factor in his eventual conviction, which caused justices reviewing the appeal to write, “Denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was foregone for more than a decade.”
Bonjean is already working on Kelly’s New York appeal, for which he was granted an extension due to a COVID-19 diagnosis. However, she’ll have little time to get up to speed on the Chicago case; Kelly’s two co-defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown, want the case to proceed to trial on schedule. Meanwhile, Kelly could receive up to 10 years in federal prison when he’s sentenced in May. Meanwhile, his Chicago case primarily revolves around his efforts to bribe or coerce witnesses in his 2008 child pornography trial. Incidentally, Cosby says he believes R. Kelly was railroaded.
Hot off her Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Kristen Stewart opens up about channeling the sadness and physical turmoil of Princess Diana for her role in Spencer. According to Stewart, it was important to capture Diana’s intense loneliness from being a part of the royal family, which also left the actress dropping F-bombs about the whole situation.
“One of the remarkable things is that she was so friendless,” Stewart said. “I’m constantly going, ‘Where was your f*cking homie?’”
Stewart was also adamant about portraying Diana’s eating disorder, but when it came to making herself throw up on camera, she didn’t have the stomach for it. Vomiting on command just wasn’t in her repertoire. Via Vanity Fair:
Stewart sank as far as she could into every aspect of the princess’s pain, including her battle with bulimia. Spencer depicts her disorder frankly, showing her violently purging in a bathroom. “I wanted to make sure that was not glossed over,” says Stewart. She prepared herself beforehand and, in the scene, attempted to really purge. (“I’ll do f*cking anything.”) Larraín, who was operating the camera, pushed in on her anguished face, capturing the act, but Stewart struggled. “I couldn’t throw up on this movie, even when I really should have,” she says. “I felt like absolute shit and I could not get it up, and I know it was because my body was just like… the idea of that was so untouchable.”
Despite literally putting herself in Princess Diana’s shoes, Stewart admitted that even she can’t help but be mesmerized by media coverage of the royal family. When she learns that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to California, she immediately finds herself caught up in the gossip.
“That’s so funny. I wonder where,” Stewart said before catching herself. “I’m no better than anyone! Of course I want to know.”
The cat-and-mouse drill will soon continue on Killing Eve, but are the fun and games about to come to an end for good? Sadly, that is the case (at least with this flagship series) with the fourth season being the (official) final face off between Villanelle and Eve, as BBC America and AMC Networks previously revealed. Do not fear, however, because there are a lot of loose ends to be tied up in the impending batch of episodes, even if we don’t see any more killer clowns or gymnasts or trash-can babies onscreen. (And there’s more, as we’re talking about in a moment.)
In other words, expect these two leading ladies to wrestle with their love-and-hate-and-begrudging respect for each other, all after Villanelle got so flipping angry that Eve didn’t realistically see how they could live life in the same place. The former MI6 officer and the assassin who can’t give up the life (or all of those cool outfits) could never, ever survive daily life together, and this season, that conflict is accompanied by Carolyn determining to avenge Kenny’s death. Villanelle appears (in the trailer) to have found religion, laughing Konstantin still can’t take anything seriously, and hopefully, unfortunate Niko is somewhere on a beach and living his best life, even in his affected state.
The very good news in all of this is that AMC Networks has been plugging away on spinoff ideas that will dig into the same universe and hopefully emerge with gold. Do we call it the Villanelliverse? The Eveverse? Regardless of the label, we’ll await further word on this darkly offbeat world.
Killing Eve‘s fourth and final season debuts (with two episodes) on Sunday, February 27 on BBC America and Monday, February 28 on AMC.
In the latest episode of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, Uncle Baby Billy Freeman stands in front of a backdrop of a forest with a cascading waterfall. The bright green leaves are almost as bright as his shiny white hair and teeth, the green leaves a perfect contrast to his burnt orange, fake-tanned skin. Uncle Baby Billy, desperate for money after abandoning his pregnant wife (the second time he has abandoned a woman and his child), is recording an ad for his new health elixir with a biblical formula based on scripture that is allegedly guaranteed to cure every disease with ease, including “Covas.” When Baby Billy leaves the studio, he lights a cigarette as he walks – pigeon-toed and frantic – to his vehicle, which has a branded truck full of elixirs attached to it. When his wife Tiffany, niece Judy and her husband BJ surprise him, he hides behind the truck with his own name and face on it, pretending he’s not the most unmissable person on the planet. He ultimately gives in and spanks BJ in the parking lot while calling him a bad boy. The fight concludes with Uncle Baby Billy giving the finger and weeping with his massive white teeth smiling before he drives off.
The wig and the teeth and the skin and the tinted aviator glasses and the stuck-in-the-late-80s suits would be a challenge – albeit a fun one – for any actor. Walton Goggins makes playing Uncle Baby Billy seem about as effortless as using your blinker, entering your PIN number, or opening social media every five minutes despite your best interests. Goggins is so absorbed in Baby Billy – despite being about twenty years younger than the character in most episodes – that it feels more like muscle memory than a performance. As Uncle Baby Billy Freeman on The Righteous Gemstones, Walton Goggins is giving one of the most fully committed performances film or television has ever seen. Meryl Streep wishes she could, but she could not.
Ten or so years ago, a regular in Danny McBride productions was not the career track anyone would have predicted for Goggins. The slender, smooth character actor with sparkling eyes that pulls you in like a black hole first came into prominence in prestige television in the early 2000s when he joined The Shield as Detective Shane Vendrell. Later, he would star as the terrible but – like Uncle Baby Billy – sympathetic against our wishes Boyd Crowder on the FX series Justified, and he played off his stirring, slightly-sexual chemistry with co-star Timothy Olyphant. Goggins was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as Boyd Crowder in 2011. In the 2010s, Goggins became a regular player in Quentin Tarrantino films including Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
It was a surprise then when Goggins, primarily known for his dramatic work which was just gaining steam, joined as the co-lead on the underappreciated Danny McBride series VicePrincipals, which aired two seasons on HBO from 2016-2018. But Goggins assimilated to McBride’s tone and improvisational atmosphere as well as he did on FX dramas in the aughts. While The Righteous Gemstones is a riotously funny comedy that makes me laugh so hard that I almost fall off my couch and roll on the floor nearly every week, it is, at its heart, a family drama. The Christian, southern but equally vulgar equivalent of Succession. Uncle Baby Billy is, perhaps, the Connor Roy (Alan Ruck) equivalent. Although in comparison, Connor might be more level-headed and generous.
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Goggins uses his body (from walking pigeon-toed to singing with his legs weirdly close together), a drawn-out southern accent, and creative word pronunciation of words like “now” (only rivaled with Adam Driver’s pronunciation skills) as Uncle Baby Billy. The original song “Misbehavin’” from the first season, which includes the line Goggins sings, “runnin’ through the house…with a pickle in my mouth,” instantly had people wondering if running around a house with a pickle in your mouth was a thing. I still don’t know the answer to that. The line on its own is funny but Goggins, in clogging shoes and a crisp but billowing white 1980s suit sold it even more. In the show’s second season, Goggins has not appeared in as many episodes, but he has made the most out of his limited screen time by doing the absolute most, down to every second he is on screen from selling his elixirs, wearing a red Marlboro Miles sweater, or singing a weird Christian Christmas song in a red and green suit opposite Jennifer Nettles, who plays his sister, Aimee-Leigh Gemstone.
Goggins also uses his relentless and intoxicating charm in his performance. Uncle Baby Billy is a terrible, manipulative person with a tendency to abandon his family at difficult times, only to swoop back into their lives at his own convenience. He, like most of the characters on Gemstones, is materialistic and uses religion to gain wealth and fame, while relying on his faith as an excuse for his bad behavior. Goggins is acutely aware of Baby Billy’s flaws, but also of his own magnetism, which gives the character a smidge of humanity. There’s a little bit of pain inside him, buried deep behind selfishness and cowardice. No matter how far Uncle Baby Billy goes – for example, selling an elixir that promises to cure “Covas” – there’s always a voice in the back of your head rooting for him to do the right thing you know he absolutely will not do, which is all a testament
Despite limited screen time, outrageous costumes, and even more outrageous storylines and dialogue, Uncle Baby Billy is even more omnipresent than God on The Righteous Gemstones. Standing out among a cast of scene-stealing comedy performers including McBride and living legend John Goodman, Walton Goggins has proved he’s something of a legend himself, a character actor with leading man energy.
The lawsuit against late rapper Lil Peep’s record label First Access Entertainment will proceed to trial according to Rolling Stone, which reports that a Los Angeles judge denied the label’s request to dismiss the suit filed by Peep’s mother Liza Kathryn Womack.
Womack filed the suit in 2019, two years after the rapper’s death from an overdose of fentanyl in November of 2017, citing negligence and wrongful death due to FAE’s tour manager Belinda Mercer providing artists on the Come Over When You’re Sober tour drugs including cocaine, ketamine, Percocet, and Xanax. Among Womack’s other bases for suing were allegations that no one on the tour bus was trained in “life-saving apparatuses” for treating overdose such as Narcan or defibrillators — neither of which were provided — nor even to recognize signs of an overdose in the first place.
Judge Teresa A. Beaudet declared that the evidence provided by Peep’s mother was enough to establish a “causal connection” with Peep’s death, although she also ruled statements from Peep’s fellow musician and labelmate Cold Hart inadmissible as hearsay. Hart had claimed Peep’s managers telling the rapper to make “himself sick from taking a bunch of Xanax” to get out of a show without losing money. However, because he had not personally witnessed this, it could not be considered evidence.
Part of his statement was eligible though, as he was able to attest to Mercer providing the drugs to those on the bus. Beaudet acknowledged this part in her ruling, saying, “There’s no question there’s a triable issue as to whether (Mercer) provided the drugs or not. If you’re going to create an environment like that where drugs are flowing, and you’re providing it, and hey, you actually don’t have any life-saving device or any Narcan to help people who are going to have a problem with these drugs, it seems to me you are creating a very dangerous situation there… The fact (that the defendants) didn’t give the decedent adequate protection for that environment, I think that could add up to causation here.”
Unfortunately for Womack, Beaudet did dismiss similar charges against Peep’s co-manager, Bryant “Chase” Ortega, saying that the evidence did not show Ortega “directed” the negligence leading to Peep’s death. Peep’s mom also says that the label owes her $4 million from the rapper’s merch and music sales, which is being withheld in an effort to stall her lawsuit against them.
On Wednesday, Netflix tweeted a photo of a billboard. But this was no ordinary billboard. The text, which reads, “EVERY ENDING HAS A BEGINNING,” was upside down, leading many to believe that a premiere date for Stranger Things season four was coming. That might be the case, but for now, it appears the tweet was in reference to Netflix releasing posters for the upcoming (and long-delayed) season.
The first poster shows Hopper, Joyce, and Murray outside of a Russian prison.
Feel free to wildly speculate about what it all means.
“It’s an unholy gap. I want to say what I can say and speak freely on this. As much as it pains our viewers, that it will have been so long. Trust me, it pains [creators Matt and Ross Duffer] and I more,” producer Shawn Levy told Collider about the break between seasons (season three premiered on July 4, 2019). “It is a kind of perfect storm, combination of COVID shutdown, slower pace of filming in COVID protocols and health protocols, which are necessary. And coincidentally, we chose season four to be by far and I mean, by far, far, far, the most ambitious of the seasons.”
Stay tuned for the ST4 premiere date and trailer… eventually.
The reigning ARIA Artist of the Year with the Album Of The Year award as well at essentially Australia’s version of the Grammys, Genesis Owusu is coming to the US for his first headlining tour in the country. Backing his stellar release, Smiling With No Teeth, he’s also shared the new video for the bombastic “Black Dogs!”
“It’s a straight-to-the-point song encompassing a day in the life of me, or just any Black person in Australia,” Owusu said in a statement. “It’s not that I’m getting abused by police every day, but it’s all the little microaggressions. Sonically speaking, it plays into how I feel every day, going into white spaces and feeling a bit paranoid.”
The video is an intense expression of the above sentiment and it showcases the pointed aesthetic that has made the Ghanaian-Australian soar as an artist. He’s an important voice for Australian hip-hop and will be surely welcomed with open arms when he arrives in the US next month.
Watch the video for “Black Dogs!” above and check out Genesis Owusu’s full US tour dates below. Tickets are now on sale here.
03/20 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
03/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
03/24 — Boise, ID @ El Korah Shrine (Treefort Music Fest)
03/25 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
03/28 — St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
03/29 — Chicago, IL @ Schubas
03/31 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
04/02 — New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
04/03 — The Sinclair @ Boston, MA
04/08 — DC9 Nightclub @ Washington, DC
04/09 — Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
04/10 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
04/12 — Nashville, TN @ Basement East
04/14 — Austin, TX @ Antone’s
04/15 — Studio at the Factory @ Dallas, TX
04/16 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall [upstairs]
The Chicago Bulls are one of the best stories in the NBA this season. After a hectic offseason, Chicago has turned into a legitimate contender in the Eastern Conference, entering the All-Star break at 38-21 — they’re either going to be in sole possession of the 1-seed once games resume or tied in that spot with the Miami Heat, depending on the outcome of Thursday’s game between the Heat and the Charlotte Hornets.
Chicago’s ascent has been fueled in large part by offseason addition DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine, both of whom earned the distinction of being All-Stars this year. Before they make the trek to Cleveland, Dime caught up with LaVine to discuss the Bulls, getting to see the work he’s put in over the years in Chicago pay off, his new Mountain Dew ad with Charlie Day, and more.
It’s the rare commercial that’s really funny. What was your experience like on set with Charlie?
That’s the thing, Mountain Dew does a good job of obviously, making it funny and light, and that’s one thing I really enjoyed. I got to see Charlie’s part and talk to him, but we weren’t able to actually do it together, obviously COVID related, we try to keep everybody safe. But I think they got some good movie magic and they can definitely scrap some stuff together to make it look good. So, I’ve seen the edit and it’s really good, it’s really funny. So I appreciate being part of the campaign.
What’s it like getting to do these sorts of things away from the basketball court and showing off your personality a little bit?
It’s really cool. I mean, a lot of people, just a regular fan of you or a team, will just see you as a basketball player, and being able to even talk like this in a platform, getting to see me in a different light, show mine so my personality, hopefully some good acting skills. I think it’s good that everybody gets to see another side you outside of being a basketball player.
Is Hollywood Zach LaVine going to be coming anytime soon or are you gonna stick to hooping for now?
I mean, obviously, I know what I’m good at, but I definitely can see myself doing something like that, you know, later on, or any opportunity, I never want sell myself short. I think I might be a good actor if I put my hard work and time into it, but just not right now, not full-time. [laughs]
I talked to Coby White earlier this offseason, he said, you guys had expectations coming into the year, but you’re taking things one day at a time. What was your approach this offseason, and how are we seeing that as people who didn’t see the work that you and the team put in?
A lot of the team is is new, and there’s only about two guys that were on the team last year, I think that’s Coby and Pat. And you know, for a team, we got into camp really early, which you don’t really see guys sacrificing their summer. We got in, I think in August, a lot of guys met in August before training camp, even, just to get familiar with each other, get some chemistry down, some continuity. For me, personally, I sacrificed a lot of my time this summer, obviously doing the Olympics, and I think that was just an incredible experience for me, being able to be around winning culture, players in my caliber, and seeing how other guys worked, what made them great, as well, and how you have to sacrifice for a winning team. I think that all comes into fruition when you’re a really good team, everybody has to sacrifice something for a greater good, and I’m all about winning right now.
Was there a game, practice, a moment — even if that moment is you hear about DeMar coming — you found yourself going, oh, there’s something really special here, we could legitimately be a team that’s fighting for the one seed and has a chance to make some real noise in the playoffs?
Yeah, I mean, I was in a lot of those conversations, I was able to talk with DeMar before the season, and having a relationship with him going and working out with him was great. Knowing Zo, playing against him, and then obviously having a guy like Caruso come in as well that’s had championship experience — shoot, he has a championship not just experience — but you know, he’s an extremely high IQ guy. And then getting on the court with all those guys, I think, was the first time where … training camp, it just felt different. There’s a different attention to detail, a different competitiveness, and you’re looking around, you’re like, oh, ok, it’s just not, in years past where you’re like, ah, we’re going to have to see how it is and things like that. It was a real moment of okay, we can really do something special here.
And it’s hard not to watch you guys and see a group that is just so totally on the same page. I’m guessing it comes from that offseason work, where everyone seemed like they had a similar mindset of “we’re going to sacrifice now and it’s going to pay off later.” Is that fair?
Yes, that’s more than fair, and I think just us coming together in the first year of such a new team and being able to play this way and have this chemistry is a tribute to some of that sacrifice. I can’t wait to see what it looks like in year two and three, not even just counting this year.
And it’s paid off for you individually in your second All-Star nod, just found out you’re going to be getting that. What’s it like getting that call when you’ve gone in the past, and knowing that you are going to be going with a teammate this time around?
It’s really fun. Any time you have a chance to get selected, it’s an honor. Not a lot of guys get to experience that, and it for it to be my second time, and also being on the short end of the stick a couple of times, my first couple years in Chicago, where obviously you feel like you can make it but you might not be in position to, and there’s a lot of factors with “deserving” and things like that. Going there with a teammate is gonna be my first time doing that, I think it’s gonna be really fun, also having Ayo in the rookie game as well, which will be really fun. It’s just a blessing, man, just have to be very happy and understand that it’s a special year.
I’m going to be asking about Ayo in a second, but I want to ask about DeMar first. Watching you and him cook is just so much fun, what has made it so easy to build up that bond where you guys look like you have been playing together for years?
You have two guys that’s coming into the year that obviously have a chip on their shoulder, first and foremost. There wasn’t a lot of people believing in that tandem, and you know, us coming together in offseason and talking about it and working together, spending time together, working out, and then coming into the season, was had some really good chemistry already, not even playing with each other, and then, just understand how play, play off each other. And I feel like it helped me a lot, and he’s been in situations where he hasn’t had a scorer or player like me on the other side, and vice versa for me, and just taking advantage of that opportunity to go out there and put the team on our back sometimes is really fun.
I could go through the roster and ask about dudes, but it feels like the guy catching everyone’s attention right now is Ayo. I watched him in Illinois, that do just fights and fights and fights. What about him has made it so he’s gained everyone’s trust as a rookie so easily?
He’s just a worker, and for a rookie — obviously he did a couple more years in college, he came into the league a little bit more NBA ready than some guys that are one-and-done. But for a rookie still not being here, he asks a lot of questions, and it just shows he really wants to learn, and he’s invested into getting better and what he can do for the team. Whatever the coach asks him to do, or whatever we ask him to do, he does it, doesn’t ask questions, and he does it well. And I think just his confidence has gotten better and better each and every game, and he’s gonna be special, man.
You’ve been in Chicago for a few years, you’ve put a ton into the Bulls really captivating that city again, and we’re seeing it now.
Yeah.
How would you describe the feeling of running out into a packed United Center, Bulls fans going crazy, and knowing it’s the result of years of hard work, taking your licks, and getting to the point you’re at now?
Yeah, and being on the side where it wasn’t like that at first, and now being able to have some of that, and hopefully in the future have more of it is huge. Because like I said, I put in a lot of work, I think this is my fifth season here, so it’s a long time coming, and it shows how much hard work and how much the organization has trusted me, and I appreciate that, and it’s coming into fruition a little bit, so it’s exciting to see.
What is it about Bulls fans, Chicago as a basketball city, all that, that you really love?
I love how much they’re invested into it, and how much they care. Even in the years where — besides this last year, where we weren’t winning as much and didn’t have a lot of talent on the court — they were there every single day cheering people on. You see them in numbers, you see them on the streets, you see on social media how much they care and how much they invest into their team.
Chicago deserves a winning organization. Like I said before, they’re one of the most storied franchises, they had the greatest player of all time play here. So, they have pretty high standards, but they deserve it, because that’s what they’re used to. And I think that’s what I want to help them get back to.
Don’t be fooled by its title: Fontaines DC’s new single “I Love You” is an account of self-loathing, guilt, and disappointment.
Taken from their upcoming third album, Skinty Fia, “I Love You” is sung from the perspective of an Irish person abroad. Lyrics like “This island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws” demonstrate vocalist Grian Chatten’s disdain for the atrocities caused by his home country.
In the song’s Sam Taylor-directed video, Chatten walks through a candle-lit church, calmly for the first half of the song, but with a deeper sense of anger for the second half. “It’s standing in the center of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs,” said Chatten in a statement. “That’s how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it.”
Fontaines DC will kick off their tour next month, with new dates recently added in Brooklyn and Australia. See below for updated tour dates and check out the “I Love You” video above.
03/20/2022 — Madrid, Spain @ La Riviera
03/21/2022 — Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz 3
03/23/2022 — Milan, Italy @ Magazzini Generali
03/24/2022 — Zürich, Switzerland @ Dynamo
03/25/2022 — Dudingen, Switzerland @ Bad Bonn
03/27/2022 — Prague, Czech Republic @ Roxy
03/28/2022 — Brno, Czech Republic @ Fleda
03/30/2022 — Malmo, Sweden @ Plan B
03/31/2022 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser
04/01/2022 — Oslo, Norway @ Vulkan Arena
04/02/2022 — Denmark, Copenhagen @ VEGA
04/04/2022 — Nikmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje
04/05/2022 — Maastricht, Netherlands @ Muziekgieterij
04/06/2022 — Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg
04/08/2022 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
04/09/2022 — Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Den Atelier
04/10/2022 — Lille, France @ L’Aéronef
04/11/2022 — Paris, France @ Olympia
04/21/2022 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
04/22/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
04/23/2022 — Asbury Park, NJ @ Wonder Bar
04/25/2022 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
04/26-27/2022 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
04/29/2022 — Columbus, OH @ The A&R Music Bar
04/30/2022 — Cleveland, OH @ The Beachland Ballroom
05/02/2022 — Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
05/03/2022 — Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix
05/05/2022 — Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
05/06/2022 — Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre
05/07/2022 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/09/2022 — Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
05/10/2022 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
05/12/2022 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
05/13/2022 — Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
05/14/2022 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
05/16/2022 — San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
05/18-19/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
06/03/2022 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
06/06/2022 — Lyon, France @ Le Transbordeur
06/07/2022 — Bologna, Italy @ Arena Puccini
06/08/2022 — Milan, Italy @ Un Altro Festival
06/10/2022 — Neuchâtel, Switzerland @ Festi’ Neuch
06/11/2022 — Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret Festival
06/12/2022 — Berlin, Germany @ Templehof Sounds
06/13/2022 — Warsaw, Poland @ Proxima
06/15/2022 — Athens, Greece @ Release Festival with Nick Cave
06/17/2022 — Scheeßel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
06/18/2022 — Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival
06/20/2022 — Zagreb, Croatia @ InMusic Festival
06/29/2022 — Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival
06/30/2022 — Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
07/02-03/2022 — Dublin, Ireland @ Iveagh Gardens
07/06/2022 — Lisbon, Portugal @ NOS Alive Festival
07/08/2022 — Lytham St. Anne’s, United Kingdom @ Lytham festival
07/09/2022 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ TRNSMT
07/14/2022 — Carhaix, France @ Les Vieilles Charrues
07/15/2022 — London, United Kingdom @ Finsbury Park with Sam Fender
07/17/2022 — Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall
07/18/2022 — Munich, Germany @ Neue Theaterfabrik
07/20/2022 — Berlin, Germany @ Astra Kulturhaus
07/21/2022 — Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan
07/24/2022 — Wiesbaden, Germany @ Schlachthof
08/11/2022 — Oslo, Norway @ Oya Festival
08/13/2022 — Helsinki, Finland @ Flow Festival
08/15/2022 — Budapest, Hungary @ Sziget Festival
08/16/2022 — Padova, Italy @ Parco Della Musica
08/19/2022 — Guéret – Saint-Laurent Aerodrome, France @ Check In Party
08/20/2022 — Charleville-Mézières, France @ Le Cabaret Vert
08/23/2022 — Stuttgart, Germany @ Longhorn
08/25/2022 — Paris, France @ Rock En Seine
08/27/2022 — Reading, United Kingdom @ Reading Festival
08/28/2022 — Leeds, United Kingdom @ Leeds Festival
09/16/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ Primavera Sound
02/01/2023 — Sydney, Australia @ Roundhouse
02/02/2023 — Brisbane, Australia @ The Triffid
02/07/2023 — Melbourne, Australia @ Corner Hotel
02/08/2023 — Melbourne, Australia @ The Forum
Skinty Fia is out 4/22 via Partisan. Pre-order it here.
In addition to being one-third of Atlanta rap trio Migos, Quavo is becoming increasingly well known for his love of basketball. He’s participated in the NBA’s All-Star celebrity game multiple times, winning the MVP award for the game in 2018, and helped launch Bleacher Report’s inaugural All-Star adjacent two-on-two game last year alongside 2 Chainz, Jack Harlow, and Lil Baby. Now, not only is he participating in the celebrity game again this year, but he’s also going to play in actual NBA games — NBA video games, that is.
Quavo was announced as the latest playable character in NBA 2K22, which is out now via 2K Games. The rapper made the announcement in an Instagram post showing off his character model during gameplay, and from the clips provided, it’s a frighteningly good likeness, right down to Quavo’s signature, iced-out glasses frames — which he would probably never wear in a real game. However, judging from the caption he added, it seems he has one major quibble with his in-game presentation.
“@ronnie2k why are u one point away from being rated the same as me?” he wondered, tagging 2K Games’ infamous digital marketing director Ronnie Singh, who was also added to the game as a playable character. “Who Rated Me??” Of course, players always tag Ronnie with qualms about their in-game player ratings, something the social media star made clear is always tongue-in-cheek and orchestrated to hype the game up (he, of course, probably has a lot of say in how he’s rated in-game, despite being far from NBA-ready). So, it really wouldn’t be official without some light griping from the game’s newest star, would it?
Check out Quavo’s announcement and in-game likeness below.
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