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When Rihanna launched her size-inclusive lingerie brand Savage X Fenty in 2018, it took the fashion industry by storm. After a wildly successful two years, Rihanna’s company is now expanding their reach. Savage X Fenty has announced their first-ever menswear line, and it’s launching soon.

Ranging from $13 to $70, the 11-piece Savage X Fenty collection consists of men’s boxers, boxer briefs, as well as a smoking jacket paired with satin pajama-style pants. For the face of the brand, Rihanna tapped Diddy’s son Christian Combs, who she’s known since he was just 11 years old.

Of course, no clothing line launch is complete without a fashion show. Last year’s Savage X Fenty 2019 fashion show boasted appearances from Migos, DJ Khaled, Big Sean, Normani, A$AP Ferg, and Fat Joe. This year, artists like Roddy Ricch, Travis Scott, Bad Bunny, and more will be gracing the stage. About the upcoming fashion show, Combs told GQ this year’s event, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, will be just as showstopping: “Fasten your seat belts, get some popcorn, and get to the TV for some amazingness. It’s gonna be sexy,” he says. “A lot of special guests — and King Combs at the climax.”

Check out promotional photos of the new menswear line above.

Savage X Fenty’s menswear line launches 10/2. Get it here.

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

Each member of the Miami Heat has played a gigantic role in putting the squad into the position that they currently find themselves, one win from the NBA Finals. They are an incredibly deep and versatile team. But increasingly, they are winning games because of last year’s No. 13 overall pick, Tyler Herro, one of the youngest players in the NBA and someone who, unlike most rookies, has been even better and more vital in the postseason.

The Heat are a team of defined roles, incredible coaching, and disciplined execution. They win because each player knows exactly what is needed of them for each W, and are willing to sacrifice to be successful. But a huge reason they’ve gotten this far — one win from the NBA Finals — is because Herro burst from a supporting role to a major one this postseason and has given the Heat a much-needed scoring punch.

In Game 4 against Boston on Wednesday night, Herro scored 37 points on just 21 field goal attempts, including 17 in the fourth quarter. Despite the star talent of Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo, as well as playoff darlings Goran Dragic and Duncan Robinson, it was Herro who took the game home for Miami and put them within 48 minutes of their first Finals berth since 2014.

Like the rest of the Heat roster, Herro excels because he knows how to get open and get to his spots within the team’s spacious, smart system. But what’s taken him to the next level in these playoffs is his shot-making within the confines of head coach Erik Spoelstra’s rejuvenated move-and-share system.

In the regular season, Herro shot 41 percent on all pull-up attempts, but in the playoffs, he’s improved dramatically, nailing half of those looks on roughly the same volume. Though he’s still not a great finisher, his improved pull-up game has corresponded with an incredible uptick in mid-range efficiency. After making a subpar 39.4 percent from mid in the regular season, Herro has followed up by making, again, half of those tries through 13 postseason games.

At the same time as he’s become a better shot-maker, Herro has continued to play brilliantly. Even as a freshman at Kentucky, Herro had an inherent sense for how to play off of his teammates off the ball and spring open for easier shots. With the Heat’s talent, Herro’s feel for the game as a scorer has been even more impactful. Herro and Robinson don’t necessarily have the name recognition of the Splash Brothers, but like Warriors’ stars, they find each other, set screens, and move in the halfcourt in such a way that breaks down defenses like it’s 2015 in Oakland all over again.

That all means that as long as he keeps moving and doesn’t turn the ball over, Herro can trust himself to nail shots that most defenses are designed to give up.

Early in the final frame, Herro just shot right over the top of Kemba Walker, who even when he fought through screens just couldn’t contest Herro’s pull-up jumpers. Boston adjusted by taking Walker off the court, and Herro responded promptly by earning a “BANG!” from Mike Breen with a deep three in Marcus Smart’s face. The rookie can score from all three levels, and the Heat offense is so open and versatile that it is hard to key in on any one player too much. The result was a closing performance for the history books.

To do all this at just 19 is remarkable, but not unexpected. The baby-faced rookie came to the NBA Draft Combine last year with the savvy of a player many years older, name-dropping friends like All-Star Devin Booker and noting that he didn’t care where he was drafted or who his teammates were, that he trusted his own work ethic and IQ to take him where he wanted to go in the league. While he clearly took the time during the NBA hiatus to get much better as a scorer, Herro has also benefited from Miami’s infrastructure and offensive system.

After the game, Butler praised Herro for his confidence and poise. Surely any time a rookie closes a Conference Finals game, it’s a major accomplishment. But in the case of Herro, it was also the stacking of a bunch of different elements that all worked to give Herro the chance to do something special, and he answered the call.

Frequent collaborators Justin Bieber and Chance The Rapper recently linked up again for a new joint effort, “Holy.” The pair is pleased with how the song has performed and how well it’s been received, so to celebrate, they’re teaming up with Cash App to give money to fans who could use it.

The two shared the same message (but with names appropriately swapped) on Twitter this afternoon, writing, “Thanks for the love on Holy. @justinbieber and I are partnering with Cash App to give away a total of $250k today to those affected by these hard times. Tell us your story if you feel like sharing. To enter drop your $cashtag & use #JBChanceHoly.”

This giveaway mirrors what Bieber recently explained is the message of the song and video: “It basically shows how an act of compassion can really change the trajectory of someone’s life or day. And just having empathy for people. That’s our goal with this project, is just to inspire, to bring hope in this kind of uncertain, fragile time.” He also discussed why he got Chance on the track, saying, “Chance is one of my good friends, I consider him a brother. I asked him if there was anything on his heart that he wanted to share on this record, and he was like, ‘Yeah, I would love to.’”

Meanwhile, other artists have also teamed with Cash App this year to share the wealth with fans. In August, Megan Thee Stallion gave away $1 million away to celebrate the success of “WAP,” and she and Lil Nas X also distributed funds to fans at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

The best new hip-hop albums coming out this week include projects from Action Bronson, Elzhi, Mozzy, Nappy Roots, Public Enemy, Spillage Village, and Stalley.

Just like last week’s list, this one is jam-packed from top to bottom, only this time there’s a twist. Maybe hyper lyrical rappers feel some resonance with the date, but September 25’s rap releases reflect little more than wall-to-wall rhymes. While there will always be some rap fans who can never be satisfied (usually the ones with sub-100 play counts on their SoundCloud pages), there’s more than enough here for even the most gluttonous hip-hop head to get their fill.

Here are all the best new hip-hop albums coming out this week.

Action Bronson — Only For Dolphins

Picking up where 2018’s White Bronco left off, Only For Dolphins finds the now-independent Bronson in full control of creative direction, with oddball samples to prove it. Rather than going for a cohesive sound or swinging for big hits, Bam Bam Baklava instead delves deeply into his nerddom for reggae, Middle Eastern music, and more, as always serving up heaps of braggadocious, abstract rhymes.

Elzhi — 7 Times Up 8 Downs Down

The best rapper from Detroit — yeah, I said it — is back with the long-awaited followup to his last solo project, 2016’s Lead Poison. In the interim, he teamed up with North Carolina producer Khrysis for their Jericho Jackson LP, but with his latest, the former member of Slum Village gets to focus less on chemistry and much more on his usual lyrical alchemy, spitting serpentine rhyme patterns and mind-twisting metaphors over production from JR Swiftz.

Mozzy — Occupational Hazard

Dropping out of nowhere on Tuesday this week, Sacramento rapper Mozzy took advantage of the increased attention he’d received earlier this year with his Beyond Bulletproof project to double down and show all the new fans what the buzz was about. Comprised of 14 songs featuring Blxst, Quando Rondo, Tsu Surf, Wale, YFN Lucci, and more, Occupational Hazard finds Mozzy offering more clear-eyed observations of the causes and consequences of life on the streets.

Nappy Roots — 40rty

With a renewed focus on the crossovers between rap and country, there’s no better time for the pioneering Kentuckians who once declared “the whole damn world is country” to return. Although they’d been seemingly quiet since racking up platinum and gold plaques in the early 2000s, they’ve been chugging along, releasing a stream of criminally overlooked projects further elaborating on their surprisingly well-informed worldview. They’ll expand on it once again with 40rty, whose title refers to the tragically broken promise offered by the US government on the emancipation of Black Americans in 1862.

Public Enemy — What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?

The pioneering band’s first project on Def Jam in well over 20 years arrives in the middle of a political firestorm — one which the group’s been predicting or reporting on in one way or another since 1988. Hopefully, they won’t let the promotional shenanigans for this album earlier this year water down the message, but with the help of Beastie Boys, Ice-T, Run-DMC, The Roots, and more, they’ll continue to soundtrack the ongoing revolution that desperately needs to take place.

Spillage Village — Spilligion

Heirs to the Southern-fried rap tradition of their Dungeon Family forebears, Spillage Village’s first group outing since 2016 finds them concerned with weightier subjects than Bears Like This Too Much. Rife with religious imagery and introspection, Spilligion focuses heavily on the spiritual, all while drawing inspiration from across American musical roots for a scintillating amalgam of blues, folk, gospel, jazz, and R&B.

Stalley — Speak No Blue

Following up 2019’s Reflection Of Self: The Head Trip, the bearded Ohioan continues to mine the richness of soul music history to reflect on life, love, and remaining true to his art and himself.

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

It’s looking like the future of travel is going to involve rapid COVID-19 testing right at the airport, as United Airlines announced today that they would become the first U.S. airline to launch a COVID-19 pilot testing program for travelers. Beginning on October 15, customers traveling on United from San Francisco (SFO) to Hawaii will be given the option to either take a rapid COVID-19 test at the airport or self-administer a mail-in test. A negative test result would enable travelers to bypass Hawaii’s strict 14-day quarantine requirement, a safety measure that was implemented at the start of the pandemic.

United is hoping — and frankly so is everyone — programs like this will enable travelers to bypass similar safety measures in popular destinations across the world.

The rapid COVID-19 test used in the pilot program is capable of producing results in approximately 15 minutes so it’s ideal for at airport administration, though we imagine this is going to force us all to arrive at the airport even earlier. For the mail-in test, customers will receive their testing materials 10 days prior to their trip and will need to provide their sample within 72 hours of their departure. Because the test was approved by the Hawaiian government, both Hawaiian residents and visitors who produce a negative result will be able to dodge the state’s 14-day mandatory quarantine, which essentially opens up the state to travel beginning October 15th, so long as you’re flying in from San Francisco.

It looks like our new favorite Halloween travel destination this year is Hawaii. Costume parties in a tropical getaway? Sign us up, because this year has been a rough one!

The Philadelphia 76ers’ coaching search has led to a number of names getting linked to Brett Brown’s old job in recent weeks. Perhaps the most interesting name that’s been bandied about is former Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni, who was an assistant in Philadelphia at one point and would theoretically bring a new mentality to a team that desperately needs a breath of fresh air.

There is a lot to potentially like about how D’Antoni would work in Philly, so long as he’s not demanding that his gigantic team doesn’t play at a breakneck pace and launch threes like the fate of the world depends on it. But a new rumor indicates that signing him wouldn’t just be about trying to win now, as the Sixers would apparently have their eyes on a big name somewhere down the road.

Per John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia, people who make up the team’s brain trust believe that there’s a chance D’Antoni could get James Harden to come to the City of Brotherly Love when his contract is up at the conclusion of the 2021-22 campaign, or before then in the event of a trade.

Now obviously, if the Sixers want to hire D’Antoni largely because they think it would help them get a 33-year-old Harden, that would be extremely wild. For how great Harden is, mapping things out that far in advance when you already have Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, Al Horford, and Ben Simmons seems like a … let’s call it perplexing decision. Still, we’ll dog ear this one in the event the team does end up hiring D’Antoni and check back in at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season to see what Harden’s up to.

Chris Rock is set to host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live along with musical guest Megan Thee Stallion. After the pandemic forced the show to improvise a series of make-shift “At Home” episodes to cap off the last season, SNL will be filming live in the studio when it returns on October 3. Ahead of announcing Rock’s hosting gig, SNL creator Lorne Michaels sat down with Dave Itzkoff at The New York Times to discuss the delicate balancing act of making the first in-studio episodes since COVID began.

While running down the various safety measures from heat sensors at the door to holding meetings with writers in rooms the size of an airplane hangar, Michaels was asked if he contemplated making more at home episodes, and he made it very clear that it wasn’t an option with an election around the corner:

No, we just had to go back. It’s an election year. It’s what we do. There are four [presidential and vice-presidential] debates in the month of October, and I was trying to figure out how to take a week off, but it didn’t work out. So we’ll do five shows in a row, which we’ve never done, and under these circumstances. Everybody has just thrown themselves into it. It’s difficult, but we’ve done difficult a lot of times. Comedy, when there’s a little danger involved, it doesn’t necessarily suffer.

Despite his determination to get SNL back in the studio, Michaels is cognizant that things can go wrong — the network still hasn’t figured out how or if there will even be an audience — and that it will only take one positive test to throw everyone into quarantine for two weeks. “We don’t know that we’re going to be able to pull it off,” he told the Times. “We’re going to be as surprised as everyone else when it actually goes on.”

(Via The New York Times)

In this week’s edition of UPROXX Sessions, Sacramento firestarter ShooterGang Kony stops by the studio to deliver a braggadocious performance of his new song “Moon Walking.”

Built around a loose-limbed funk sample and thumping drums, “Moon Walking” finds Kony boasting about his big bands, his macking skills, and his deadeye aim. It’s a prime example of the ever-increasing library of tracks that have made him a hometown hero in Northern California, with an off-kilter flow and a penchant for double-take-inducing punchlines.

The 21-year-old ShooterGang Kony initially began rapping while locked up in juvenile detention but took off when he was released and his rap partner ShooterGang JoJo was locked up instead. He’s since made a name for himself by putting together a steady stream of releases, including 10 full-length projects (two just this year) and a plethora of collaborations with fellow Bay Area up-and-comers like ALLBLACK, Mozzy, Nef The Pharaoh, OMB Peezy, and SOB X RBE.

Watch ShooterGang Kony’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “Moon Walking” above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s new performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too..

While Selena Gomez has lived much of her life in the public eye after beginning her acting career in Barney & Friends in the early ’00s, the singer has privately struggled with health conditions. Gomez was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Lupus in 2012 and five years later revealed that she had to undergo a kidney transplant, which was donated to her by her best friend. Though her surgery was several years ago, Gomez has now revealed her scar for the first time on social media.

Gomez showed off her inner thigh scar while promoting a swimsuit brand on Instagram. Addressing the scar, Gomez said she used to purposefully cover it up but now wants to put it on display in order to “feel confident” in her own skin: “When I got my kidney transplant, I remember it being very difficult at first showing my scar. I didn’t want it to be in photos, so I wore things that would cover it up. Now, more than ever, I feel confident in who I am and what I went through…and I’m proud of that.”

Gomez has been open about her health struggles in the past. Back in April, the singer revealed she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder after coping with anxiety and depression throughout her career. Discussing the diagnosis, Gomez said she was relieved to finally be able to categorize what she had been going through. The singer felt “equal parts terrified and relieved — terrified because the veil was lifted but relieved that I finally had the knowledge of why I had suffered with various depressions and anxieties for so many years. I never had full awareness or answers about this condition.”

Check out Gomez’s heartfelt post addressing her kidney transplant scar above.

Like many of us, Megan Thee Stallion is ready to leave 2020 behind, as she tweeted last week, “It’s only like 3 more months left in 2020, yes god.” She’s not done with this year yet, though, as it was announced today that she has a major career milestone to look forward to next month: Meg will be the musical guest on the debut Season 46 episode of Saturday Night Live, which will be hosted by Chris Rock and air on October 3.

This will be Megan’s first time as the primary musical guest on the show, but she has graced its stage before. When Chance The Rapper was on the program last October, Megan joined him for a performance of their collaboration “Handsome.” as for Rock, he has popped up on the program before, as this will be his third time hosting.

The musical guest slot is just the latest achievement for Megan in a year that has been full of them. She earned her first No. 1 single with “Savage,” then quickly picked up another one by collaborating with Cardi B on “WAP.” She also just made an appearance on Time‘s esteemed “100 Most Influential People” list.

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