Next month will bring the premiere of Tiger King 2, for which Netflix shared a trailer a couple days ago. Ahead of that, though, Joe Exotic is looking for help with getting out of prison and has called on Cardi B for assistance, a call that Cardi recently answered.
On October 21, Exotic’s unverified Twitter account shared a photo of a handwritten note that is addressed to Cardi and reads, “When you see the truth in Tiger King 2 I need you to rally everyone together to be my voice of freedom! Be my hero girl.” Cardi finally saw the post yesterday, as she shared it and wrote, “Wait is this the real tiger king?”
John Michael Phillips, Exotic’s lawyer, responded to Cardi’s tweet, writing, “I represent Joe. He heard about your message from prison. I’d love to put you two together on a phone call next week.” He later added, “I can’t even imagine facilitating the call between @iamcardib and @joe_exotic. That collaboration may make the world explode. Here kitty kitty (the WAP remix) is so 2022. Cardi, I can probably get you on a call with Joe next week. He’s grateful for you taking on Carole early.”
I represent Joe. He heard about your message from prison. I’d love to put you two together on a phone call next week.
I can’t even imagine facilitating the call between @iamcardib and @joe_exotic. That collaboration may make the world explode. Here kitty kitty (the WAP remix) is so 2022. Cardi, I can probably get you on a call with Joe next week. He’s grateful for you taking on Carole early. https://t.co/ePM9yi1OkMpic.twitter.com/Fmz7mHUTDA
Exotic sees an ally in Cardi due to her previous run-ins with Carole Baskin. Baskin shared criticisms about Cardi over the animals used in her “WAP” video, and Cardi responded, “I’m not gonna engage with Carole Baskin on that. Like, that’s just ridiculous, you know? Oh, Lord. Like, girl: you killed your g*ddamn husband.”
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Dave Chappelle’s recent list of demands for speaking with Netflix employees are looking even worse after his Thursday night show in New Orleans. In the process of making those demands last week, he took a swing at Hannah Gadsby (who criticized his “emotionally stunted partial world view”), and he praised Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos for being “the only one that didn’t cancel me yet.” Chappelle appeared to be very upset at the backlash over his latest Netflix special, The Closer, in which he declared himself “Team TERF” and in agreement with J.K. Rowling’s statements about gender. Also, a recent interview from a Netflix walkout organizer expressed disappointment for how Dave’s “mocking us” with his demands.
The mocking appeared to continue during Chappelle’s sold-out Thursday night set, as reported by NOLA.com‘s Keith Spera. The show took place at New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center with Joe Rogan, who performed before Chappelle while insisting that (of his own remarks, “These are just jokes. They’re not even my real opinions”). Chappelle, who has complained that he’s been cancelled from film festivals (where he was booked for his upcoming documentary) remarked onstage that he’s endured “the worst three weeks of my life.” He doesn’t appear to regret his remarks about trans people during The Closer (and previous specials, including Sticks and Stones), however, because he told even more trans jokes during the set:
When an audience member offered a cup of beer, Chappelle declined out of fear it might contain “transgender formula.”
His revelation that one of his two well-dressed bodyguards previously played for the Dallas Cowboys was met with a chorus of boos. “Travis, hear that?” he retorted. “Sounds like someone’s team loses a lot.”
When the audience objected further, he quipped, “Don’t go all trans on me.”
Why, someone had asked him, did he need bodyguards? “Because these transgenders are trying to kill me!”
From there, Dave remarked upon how his wife had given him a pistol, “which, he complained, was not the manliest of weapons” due to its “pearl-handled, nickel-plated” design. And he referred to Louis C.K. as “my friend” who called him “a master baiter,” which was a reference not only to Louis C.K.’s own downfall but to an upcoming article about Chappelle that refers to him as “Cancel Bait.” Well, Chappelle’s audience hasn’t cancelled him and was there for him on Thursday night. The show was sold out and possibly the largest crowd ever to grace the Smoothie King Center, according to NOLA.com.
Meanwhile, Netflix has yet to comment upon Dave’s list of demands to speak with Netflix’s trans employees, who — it must be mentioned — haven’t expressed any interest in sitting down with him. Ted Sarandos previously claimed that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm” before Netflix issued an apologetic statement while also expressing support for the employee walkout.
You never know what to expect when Bill Murray appears on a late-night talk show. He might threaten to beat up a heckler, or he might pop out of a cake. Both of those incidents happened on David Letterman’s show, but with Letterman now on Netflix, Murray brought his unpredictable schtick to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“This is a real treat. A virtual visit from one of the great actors, comedians, dare I say poets, a man who taught us that it just doesn’t matter and that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world,” host Jimmy Kimmel said to kick off his interview with Murray. Where was The French Dispatch star, besides “somewhere on the continent”? Unknown. Why was he wearing “inflatable leg things”? He’s in recovery mode, obviously. Why did he have two translators, one who spoke French and the other Arabic, but respond to Kimmel (or “Jim”) in English? “I assumed you wanted to reach as many people as possible,” Murray explained, and “rather than dub the questions,” he thought the translators would “help people understand in other continents.”
Later, Kimmel brought up Murray “strongly hinting” that he’s in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to a German magazine. “I’m not supposed to, um, I’m not supposed to say… they’re making a movie. Paul Rudd plays Ant-Man. Evangeline Lilly plays the Wasp. Micheal Douglas, I forget what his name is in the movie. And Michelle Pfeiffer, they’re all in the movie,” he explained, “but I am not at liberty to talk about it.” Murray then turned to his translators and told them “we can talk about it when we eat dinner.”
You can watch the rest of the wonderfully bizarre interview above.
The first new album from The War On Drugs in four years has finally arrived. Steve considers The War On Drugs his favorite band of the last decade, while Ian considers them in a similar lane as Tame Impala or Beach House, where the music is enjoyable but does little more for him than establish “vibe.” Musically, I Don’t Live Here Anymore is a refinement of the craft the band explored on 2017’s A Deeper Understanding, which itself was a refinement of 2014’s Lost In The Dream. Will this finally be the record that wins Ian over?
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging the new book Sellout, as well as Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, the new record from New Jersey band Save Face, which sounds like a lot of the bands covered in the book Sellout. Steve, on the other hand, wants to spread the good word about Myriam Gendron’s new album Ma Délire that was released earlier this month, a collection of reimagined folk standards that gives the songs new life.
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 63 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts here. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
The War On Drugs is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The good and bad news is this: Halloween is almost over, and so is the month of October. That means the holidays are almost around the corner, which probably exhausts you to think about, and why not relax and spend the weekend watching TV? As luck would have it, Netflix made sure that you’re covered, so you can ignore those trick-or-treaters and hide from civilization for at least a little bit longer. At the top of the heap this week is Zack Snyder’s prequel to his insanely popular Army of the Dead zombie movie. This time, there are only a few zombies and a whole lot of heisting, in the form of cracked safes and one key character who you’ll enjoy revisiting for his back story.
In addition, two iconic forces (Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick) team up for a new limited series that’s sure to inspire sports-and-non-sports fans alike. There’s also a thriller and a romantic dramedy and a biopic series, plus a whole slew of films leaving at the end of the month, so get cracking, just like those safes.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) the streaming platform this week.
Army Of Thieves (Netflix film streaming 10/29)
Netflix bet on dead with Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, and that bet apparently paid off handsomely, which is a good thing because there’s already a prequel in the can and on the way to your queue. The prequel doesn’t take place terribly far into the past, either. Matthias Schweighöfer returns to the franchise as Dieter, a then-bank teller who’s recruited by a very convincing Nathalie Emmanuel (who promises “a life less ordinary”) to begin his heisting career. Of course, this prequel isn’t entirely devoid of zombies. The outbreak already existed, given that this is Snyder’s zombie universe, and soon enough, the safes start cracking.
Colin in Black & White (Netflix limited series streaming 10/29)
Ava Duvernay and Colin Kaepernick both executive produce this coming-of-age story that also wades into the hefty issues that Kaepernick does not shy away from on and off the football field. Expect an exploration of race, class, and culture as Young Colin transforms into an NFL quarterback and an indisputable icon, all against the backdrop of cultural and historical touchstones.
When a young woman decides to aim for self-improvement, she visits a widely-respected hypnotist, and everything soon goes wrong. Intense sessions and deadly consequences are afoot, all after her own personal trauma. Will she ever recover, even with the help of a detective who can help her solve a mystery that apparently erupted from her consciousness after being buried for so long? The spooky season continues.
Luis Miguel: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 10/28)
Prepare for the final season of the story of the Puerto Rican-hailing Mexican singer, who’s also known as El Sol de México. Diego boneta portrays Luis Miguel, who’s working through two timelines. This time around, we’re seeing him at the peak of his career, including a Frank Sinatra duet, and we’re also seeing him facing later challenges in life that threaten both his professional and personal happiness.
In the mood for a romantic dramedy? This story follows a long-term couple who ends things and struggle to move on without each other. As the title indicates, the corresponding personal journey is only a matter of time.
Here’s a full list of what’s been added in the last week:
Avail. 10/24 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Avail. 10/25
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Avail. 10/26 Roswell, New Mexico: Season 3 Sex: Unzipped
Avail. 10/27 Begin Again
Hypnotic
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight Part 2
Sintonia: Season 2 Wentworth: Season 8 Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 3 The Motive
Avail. 10/29 Army of Thieves
Dear Mother
Mythomaniac: Season 2 Roaring Twenties
Thomas and Friends: Season 25 A The Time It Takes
And here’s what’s leaving next week, so it’s your last chance:
Leaving 10/31 60 Days In: Season 5 Angels & Demons
Battle: Los Angeles
Beowulf
Billy on the Street: Seasons 1-5 Catch Me If You Can
The Da Vinci Code
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Forged in Fire: Season 6 The Heartbreak Kid
The Impossible
Inception
Legally Blonde
Mile 22
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Reckoning: Limited Series
Snowden
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Yes Man
Leaving 11/1 My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree
My Little Pony: Happy Birthday to You!
It seems like Megan Thee Stallion never sleeps. Though she told fans back in April that she was planning to enter a phase of rest and regeneration, looks like that didn’t take. Just a few months later, she’s back with a new mixtape, this one devoted to her dedicated Hotties. The Texas rapper first teased Something For Thee Hotties last week, and shared the tracklist yesterday. Now, the tape is officially here, and it’s more of the certified bangers we’ve come to expect and love from Houston’s finest.
Aside from putting out a whole new project for her diehard listeners, Meg has also been busy doing many other things, like oh, say, graduating from college! Then there’s the intro she gave for Joc Pederson before Game 2 of the World Series – in which she bestows on him the highest honor, calling him a “bad B” — or the recent remix of BTS’ smash hit “Butter” she hopped on. Basically, anywhere you look, whether it’s hip-hop, pop, a college campus, or even baseball, Megan will be there, dominating the conversation and doing her absolute best. This woman’s work ethic is a thing of beauty, and so is her new tape.
Stream Something For Thee Hotties above.
Something For The Hotties is out now via 1501 Certified Ent./300. Get it here.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Every month, Uproxx cultural critic Steven Hyden makes an unranked list of his favorite music-related items released during this period — songs, albums, books, films, you name it.
1. The War On Drugs, I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Over the course of The War On Drugs’ 13-year recording career, Adam Granduciel has refined and streamlined his band’s heartland indie sound. Listen to 2008’s Wagonwheel Blues and it’s almost like a completely different band; what was once a noisy, lo-fi and meandering mess of guitars and synths has now emerged on The War On Drugs’ fifth album as a world-beating collection of punchy pop-rock anthems. It remains to be seen whether this will be their most successful LP, but it is undeniably their catchiest and most engaging. It’s also loaded with the sort of grandly uplifting rock gestures that Granduciel is so good at making. I don’t think there is a better moment on any album I’ve heard this year than when the drums come in on “Old Skin.” Congrats to this band on passing The Five Albums Test!
2. Tonstartssbandht, Petunia
I Don’t Live Here Anymore will surely end up near the top of my year-end album list. I suspect this album will as well. It’s certainly one of my most played records of recent memory; I already wrote about the single “What Has Happened,” which might very well be my favorite song of 2021, last month. But the whole LP is a real pleasure, with an incredible amount of groovy choogle kicked up for just two people.
3. Circuit des Yeux, “-io”
While the music on I Don’t Live Here Anymore and Petunia has a comfort food quality, the seventh album by the experimental Chicago musician Haley Fohr is often unsettling even as it unfurls luminously expansive arrangements. Inspired by the death of a friend and the devastation of the pandemic, Fohr crafts intimate songs for a 23-piece orchestra and sets the music against her striking, mournful croon, resulting in an album that achieves near-operatic emotional catharsis, like a land-locked Scott Walker.
4. The Velvet Underground
In his previous films about musicians — 1987’s Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (still only available as a bootleg due to brother Richard Carpenter’s objections), 1998’s Velvet Goldmine, and 2007’s I’m Not There — Todd Haynes was more interested in exploring aesthetics and mythology then doing a dry, journalistic run-through a mundane biography. Each of those movies are really about an “idea” of the subject: Karen Carpenter as a literal children’s doll slowly dying on the inside; David Bowie as an elusive enigma who abandoned his transgressive past for pop glory; Bob Dylan as a constantly shifting facade put on by several different actors. Haynes isn’t trying to tell us who these people “really” are; he’s exploring how we, the audience, perceives them and what this shows about our collective pop-culture illusions and desires.
Unlike those other films, his latest work, The Velvet Underground is a documentary. But for all of the background details we learn about Reed and John Cale’s upbringings, it’s not really intended to be a full account of the band’s history. The other Velvets are discussed less thoroughly or, in the case of Yule, hardly at all. Once Cale departs three-quarters in, you can feel Haynes’ interest wane. The film ultimately is more invested in what this band signifies: A thriving counterculture that could have only existed at a specific moment in time, and will never be repeated.
5. Two Good Rock Documentaries That Aren’t The Velvet Underground
Haynes’ film sucked up a lot of the oxygen this month in terms of conversation about rock documentaries. But I would like to shoutout two other music movies I enjoyed in October: The first is Jesse Lauter’s Learning To Live Together: The Return Of Mad Dogs And Englishmen, which documents a 2015 performance by Tedeschi Trucks Band featuring members of Joe Cocker’s sizable backing group on his historic 1970 tour. The movie also delves into the original tour, one of the most iconic campaigns of rock’s waning hippie era, in which the idealism of Woodstock Nation slowly devolved into hedonism and addiction. But mostly Learning To Live Together is a celebration of joyous American music. I watched it with a smile on my face from beginning to end.
The other good rock doc out this month is Mary Wharton’s Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making Of Wildflowers, which charts the creation of one of the late icon’s most beloved albums. Having covered this topic extensively, I can’t say I learned much from the film. But it was still a delight to see all of the footage from the studio. Wildflowers is one of rock’s greatest “hangout” albums, in that it’s more about the overall vibe of easygoing melancholy than any individual song. (Though the songs are of course excellent.) So, having the chance to see Petty hang out while making it only enriches the experience of Wildflowers.
This Portland-based power-pop maven really puts in the work on his latest album, which packs in 28 songs about the course of 50 minutes. If that brings to mind the mid-’90s classic Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices, surely Troper won’t mind (or suffer from) the comparison.
7. Trace Mountains, House Of Confusion
This winsome project from former LVL UP member Dave Benton feels like a throwback to the rustic “out in the country” acts of the classic-rock era. (In fact their 2020 debut LP was literally called Lost In TheCountry.) The new Trace Mountains album goes deeper than the first record, with lovely pedal-steel lines accenting already beautiful ballads designed to be played at dusk. If you’ve been jonesing for a new Phosphorescent record, this will scratch that itch.
8. Strand Of Oaks, In Heaven
Each time Tim Showalter returns with a new record, you know you’re in for an intense experience of extreme emotions. His previous album, Eraserland, made with members of My Morning Jacket, felt like a resurgence. But his latest LP, In Heaven, is his best work since 2014’s classic Heal. While the feeling is still there, Showalter has grown as a craftsman, showing a particularly strong penchant for big, sweeping rock songs that recall the sonic bearhugs of The Verve during their Urban Hymns era.
This Brooklyn act draws on the usual influences for an #indiejam band — prog, Krautrock, fusion jazz, the Grateful Dead. But on the new Pharaonic Crosstalk, they utilize these influences to create delectably spacey jams that build from enjoyable back-porch choogles to mesmerizing and often explosive musical peaks.
10. Sam Fender, Seventeen Going Under
In my recent interview with Dave Le’aupepe of Gang Of Youths, he laughed about being described as the Ted Lasso of music. But I actually think that descriptor applies more to GOY’s future tour mate, Sam Fender. At the very least, every song on Seventeen Going Under sounds like it could soundtrack an especially emotional scene in which Ted and his players learn a valuable life lesson. What I’m saying is that this album is extremely obvious and aggressively uplifting pop-rock … and it’s executed with enough skill to actually press the button it’s trying so hard to hit.
This collection of reimagined folk standards originating from Canada (Gendron’s home country), France, and the United States refuses to be pigeon-holed in a neat and sterile “folk standards” niche. Gendron reveres these songs, but she’s not intimidated by them. She’s interested in how ancient expressions of fear and longing rhyme speak to us in the contemporary world. In the process, she accomplishes what all interpreters ought to strive for – she connects the listener to a lost, overarching history.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Jay-Z has been flexing his artistic talents in all kinds of directions of late, and his latest project is a Western film called The Harder They Fall. Jay-Z co-produced the film alongside James Lassiter. It was directed and written by Jeymes Samuel and stars a massive roster of talent including Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Delroy Lindo and LaKeith Stanfield. And what’s one of the best perks when Jay-Z produces your film? He can help out with the soundtrack, too, no problem.
The film is in theaters now, but will be heading to Netflix next week, on November 3, so tonight was the perfect time to drop the soundtrack. The tracklist is packed with appearances from Jay himself and other hip-hop royalty like Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss, Seal, Kid Cudi and Koffee — and, unfortunately, CeeLo Green also appears. But the high points are worth it, like Cudi and Jay together on “Guns Go Bang,” and Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Conway The Machine and BackRoad Gee connecting on “King Kong Riddim.” The contribution from Koffee, which amounts to the title track, is also a stunning addition to the packed roster.
Check out the full soundtrack below and hear Kid Cudi and Jay-Z’s collaboration up top.
Though Hit-Boy has always been one of the most respected producers in the game, he’s really been on a streak lately. After producing not one but two projects with Nas that helped catapult the veteran New York rapper back into the realm of modern hip-hop heroes, now he’s connected with Detroit’s Big Sean for a new EP. You’d think with King’s Disease II coming out just a few short months ago the producer might rest on his laurels for a moment, but no.
Rolling out the collaboration slowly with a new single called “What A Life” a few days ago, today the duo announced that song was the lead-off for a whole EP, and now that project is here, too. Sharing another video for the stacked collaboration, “Loyal To A Fault,” with cameos from Bryson Tiller and Lil Durk, the new EP’s tracklist also includes performances from Babyface Ray and 42 Dugg, but no one else. Clearly, it will be primarily focused on how Sean and Hit-Boy vibe together. Of course, some of the best songs off Sean’s latest album Detroit 2 were when Hit-Boy was involved, but this new song collection emphasizes that more than ever.
Check out the video for “Loyal To A Fault” up above and stream the entire tape below.
For artists who broke out right when the streaming era was approaching, figuring out when and how to get old releases up on the platforms can take time. Or, for rappers who spent their early years releasing free mixtapes, sometimes the process of clearing samples and getting music totally legal is part of the delay, too. Either way, ASAP Rocky delighted fans recently when he let them know that his very first project, Live.Love.ASAP was officially going to be added to streaming services. The date he chose may be more for posterity than anything else, though. It’s been exactly ten years since the project was released, so now he’s letting a wider group of listeners have access to the tape that helped put him on the map.
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