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The best new hip-hop albums coming out this week include projects from Busta Rhymes, Common, MadeInTYO, Trippie Redd, and more.

Get ready for a monstrous week after last week kept the tap all the way open. Not only are two of Atlanta’s rising stars in Deante Hitchcock and Lil Keed releasing deluxe versions of their well-received 2020 albums, but veterans Busta Rhymes and Common are also joining rising stars and blog rap favorites in dropping new projects to fill up those Halloween treat bags.

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

Busta Rhymes — Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath Of God

Calling back to his mid-’90s heyday, Busta’s tenth studio album looks to embrace his eclecticism at the same time as it bridges generational gaps. While he taps contemporaries such as MOP, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, and Rakim, he includes younger artists like Anderson .Paak, Kendrick Lamar, and Rapsody and traverses multiple styles from boom-bap to dancehall with Vybz Kartel.

Common — The Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 1

A year removed from Let Love, the confessional companion to his revelatory memoir of the same name, the Chicago veteran offers his thoughts on current events, with his signature optimistic outlook. While “A Place In This World” soundtracks a voting PSA, Com evokes far-thinking visionaries like Marcus Garvey — one of his favorite intellectuals to name-check — on “Say Peace.”

King Von — Welcome To O-Block

On the opposite end of the Windy City spectrum, King Von takes a grittier approach on his debut album. It’s only been seven months since his last project, LeVon James, but the Lil Durk-affiliated, post-drill spokesman still seems to have plenty to say about the conditions on the street level.

Lou Phelps — Extra! Extra! [EP]

Hailing from Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Lou Phelps is one of hip-hop’s true eccentrics, bringing introspection and down-to-earth relatability to his fearlessly experimental tracks — a trait he shares with his brother, Kaytranada. With a laid-back flair and plenty of wit, Phelps is one of a generation of rappers flying in the face of expectations to be 100% himself.

MadeInTYO — Never Forgotten

“Uber Everywhere” in nearly five years old, but MadeinTYO maintains that he was Never Forgotten after playing the years since his 2017 XXL Freshman Class appearance relatively low-key. He’s done some living and it shows on his latest effort, on which he shares his honest observations on life along with a whos-who of rap royalty including Cam’ron, Chance The Rapper, Smino, Young Nudy, and the late Chynna.

Ola Runt — Harder 2 Kill

Signed by Gucci Mane and working his way back from a recent stint behind bars, the Zone 6 rapper continues his push to the forefront of his city’s trap scene. With an appearance from the late Lil Marlo and a flurry of unforgiving, swaggering bars, Ola Runt looks to justify his trap pioneer mentor’s faith in him while converting new listeners with his high-energy flow.

$not — Beautiful Havoc

The South Florida scene that spawned thrash-rap adherents Denzel Curry, Ski Mask the Slump God, and XXXTentacion delivers yet another rebellious favorite in the form of Snot, who broke out in 2018 with the nose-thumbing deadpan of “Gosha,” has carefully cultivated his buzz over the past two years before offering his debut album. Forerunner singles “Revenge” and “Mean” prove “Gosha” was no fluke, with “Sangria” showing off his versatility.

Su’Lan — Baby Glock Gang

Not to be confused with the Compton rapper bearing a remarkably similar name, Su’Lan is a pair of rappers from Oakland who bonded over freestyles and became locked tight through their shared experiences. They’re braggadocious and uninhibited, joining the wave of women in rap who refuse to be restricted by men’s standards of respectability.

Trippie Redd — Pegasus

Long-awaited and leaked, Trippie Redd’s near-30-song opus includes appearances from Busta Rhymes, Future, Lil Mosey, Quavo, Swae Lee, Young Thug, and more. There’s more emo-rap of the variety that’s made him a favorite among younger millennials but balancing it out with appearances from the likes of rap icons like Busta Rhymes may just be the boost he needs to give him universal appeal.

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

In the immortal words of Danzig: “I remember Halloween.” It came out in 2018, was directed by David Gordon Green, starred Judy Greer and Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers dropped teeth over a bathroom stall. That one. The follow-up, Halloween Kills, was supposed to be released on October 16 of this year, but it was unfortunately (though wisely) pushed back to October 2021 due to the global pandemic.

But on Thursday, Blumhouse released our first look at Halloween Kills as part of BlumFest. “Next Halloween, when the sun sets and someone is alone, he kills,” Laurie (Curis) says while Michael, last seen inside a burning house, picks up his mask in the clip above. Halloween Kills, No Time to Die, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. I am just now realizing a lot of delayed 2020 movies have depressing, death-related titles. Thank god for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.

“If the first film was somewhat retelling the origin of Myers and getting us up to speed with where Laurie had been all those years, then part two is about the outrage of Haddonfield,” Green previously told Total Film about Halloween Kills. “Mob Rules was our working title for the film. It’s about a community that is united by outrage, and divided in how to deal with evil.”

Halloween Kills, which also stars Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens, and Charles Cyphers, comes out on October 15, 2021, “vaccine or no vaccine.”

Atlanta rapper BRS Kash stops by Uproxx Studios to perform his campy, anti-romance anthem “Throat Baby” on the latest episode of UPROXX Sessions. The song, which currently buzzing in a big way, finds the LVRN-signed rap crooner singing the praises of a paramour’s oral skills. It was cooked up as something of a joke but the response to it has been nothing to laugh at. Now, he brings his exuberant energy and tongue-in-cheek flirtation to Uproxx.

Formerly known as KashKash, BRS Kash signed to LVRN/Interscope Records this summer after “Throat Baby” went massively viral, accumulating over 9 million plays on Spotify alone (and about as many plays on YouTube between its official video and lyrics video). He told DJ Booth that he was as inspired by oft-overlooked artists like Kilo Ali and Bow Wow as Future and Outkast and that he’s a second-generation rap kid, taking after his mother who once pursued a career of her own. With “Throat Baby,” he’s put himself on any number of rap fans’ radars — now, he’s got the muscle of one of rap’s hottest labels to help him reach the next level.

Watch BRS Kash’s performance 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..

Amid his presidential campaign, battle for his masters, and everything else he has going on right now, Kanye West dropped a new single earlier this month, “Nah Nah Nah.” He teased a DaBaby remix of it not long after, and now he has shared a new version of the song, which features both DaBaby and 2 Chainz.

Kanye posted the first 2:20 of the song on Twitter (which is not on streaming services as of this post), and DaBaby begins the song, “Let me get ’em, Ye / They gon’ hate on a young n**** anyway / They only coppin’ when they havin’ bills to pay / Ain’t nobody asked me how I feel today.” 2 Chainz comes in towards the end of the snippet, beginning his verse, “If one more person call me and ask me, ‘What’s wrong with Ye?’ / That’s a grown man, I can’t tell him what he can and can’t say.”

2 Chainz recently declared that in the not-so-distant future, he plans on having a full project produced by Kanye, saying, “He’s still going to produce an album for me, and we’re still going back and forth, but it’s just the time of me wanting to put it out and be done, because he has a thousand things going on in his place. […] Let it be known that it’s going to happen, whether it’s this next project or the one after. It’s a whole Tity Boi and Kanye West project, produced by Kanye. Let’s just say that.”

Listen to the new “Nah Nah Nah” remix above.

Before Ava Max had even announced her debut album, the singer already had a single peak at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The impressive feat arrived in 2018, and fans had been anxiously awaiting new music ever since. This September, Ava finally released her aniticiapted debut LP Heaven & Hell. Now, keeping up the momentum of her record, Ava has shared a cinematic video alongside her “OMG What’s Happening” single.

Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the video places Ava as the driver in a high-stakes road race. Seated in a decked-out truck adorned with flames, Ava chases down a taunting suitor in an equally souped up ride. “Oh my God, what’s happening? / Thought I was fine / I told you I don’t need your love / Like three, four thousand times / But that’s a lie,” she belts as she burns rubber down a deserted highway.

Ahead of the release of her “OMG What’s Happening” visual, the singer tapped two established artists to lend a hand on a buoyant remix. Saweetie and Lauv both joined Ava to offer their vocals on a lively remix of her empowering Heaven & Hell anthem “Kings & Queens.”

Watch Max’s “OMG What’s Happening” video above.

Heaven & Hell is out now via Atlantic. Get it here.

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

Matthew McConaughey has yet to make his Marvel debut, but it’s not for lack of trying. While promoting Greenlights, his newly released memoir, McConaughey revealed to MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that he actually reached out to Marvel and let them know that he was very open to playing one of its most classic characters: The Incredible Hulk. McConnaughey grew up on the old TV show starring Bill Bixby, but when he showed interest in the part, Marvel surprisingly gave the True Detective star a hard pass. Via NME:

Horowitz: You never got your chance to play Bruce Banner, or David Banner in the show, did you?

McConaughey: No, I didn’t.

Horowitz: Jerks.

McConaughey: Wanted it.

Horowitz: Really?

McConaughey: Yep

Horowitz: Did you throw your hat in the ring? Did you say, “I’m game if you guys are?”

McConaughey: Yep

Horowitz: No kidding?

McConaughey: They said, “No, thank you.”

Horowitz: Can’t get’em all, I guess.

While McConaughey doesn’t offer a timeline on the rejection, it presumably would’ve occurred some time during the 2000s when he was known for his roles in romantic comedies than his later, more serious work in the 2010s, the true age of “The McConaissance.” That said, it wasn’t like McConaughey wasn’t putting butts in the seat and, surely, he had considerably more star power than Eric Bana, Edward Norton, and Mark Ruffalo. Of course, that could’ve been part of the problem. More star power means more paycheck, and in the early days of the MCU Marvel was infamous for being very stingy with how much — or little — it paid its actors. Just ask Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Evans how much they made on their first Marvel movies because it wasn’t a lot.

(Via Happy Sad Confused)

Rico Nasty has kept up a colorful and animated presence throughout her videos and other promotional materials. Now that spirit has been matched with a new piece of merch: a delightfully vibrant plastic toy, for which she teamed up with Superplastic.

The “Superplastic x Rico Nasty ‘Nightmare Vacation’ SuperJanky,” as it’s called, is a limited release, as only 999 of them are being made. The figure is described, “Descending from a Sugar Trap Dystopia comes ‘Nightmare Vacation’ SuperJanky by Rico Nasty. The 8-inch brutally badass vinyl is dripped in designer fits including curb-stompin’ combat boots, pixie-cyborg wings, and a removable steampunk princess headpiece.” It’s available for pre-order now for $90 but only ships in June 2021.

Nasty recently told Uproxx about how the pandemic has impacted her upcoming album, saying, “Coronavirus, it might have inspired me to actually do what I always wanted to do with the album, which was make it very virtual. I’m not going to say too much about that, but just I will leave you with that. I always wanted my album to be similar to a simulation, VR. If you get my drift, like as far as the visuals go and sh*t like that. [Right now] you can’t touch me, you can’t come to the show. So that’s what we’re developing right now is giving them that opportunity to really damn near be in the same room as me. No holograms, weird sh*t like that. But some high tech sh*t.”

Pre-order the Nightmare Vacation SuperJanky here.

Rico Nasty is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

While Mitski has remained relatively quiet since the release of her acclaimed 2018 album Be The Cowboy, she’s now gearing up for a musical project that’s slightly out of left field. The singer announced that she recorded a score to accompany an upcoming graphic novel.

Mitski’s soundtrack will arrive alongside the Z2 Comics graphic novel This Is Where We Fall. According to the book’s website, the story unpacks themes of “theology, death, and the after-life” all through the lens of a science-fiction story.

In a statement about the included soundtrack, Mitski said, “It was exciting to make a soundtrack for a comic book. It allowed me to work outside of my usual songwriting form and try to approach it like a score, but without any of the cues that come with working alongside a moving image, which ended up being both freeing and challenging. I hope the end result helps to immerse you in the story!”

Z2 publisher Josh Frankel added, “A project and partnership like this is the perfect marriage of a visual art form like comics, and music. Fans of Mitski’s music will not only get something new from one of their favorite artists, but a companion piece that completes the experience. Comics readers will find an original work of science fiction from top creators that is enhanced by the music that accompanies it.”

This Is Where We Fall is out is out March 2021. Pre-order it here.

Tucker Carlson got hopping mad on the most recent episode of his Fox News show. Yes, he gets fired up on a regular basis (like about Elmo from Sesame Street), but this time, he acted even more dramatic. Carlson claimed that he would have had a hand in some “October surprise” involving an unverified conspiracy about emails from a laptop that allegedly belongs to Hunter Biden (who has been the subject of wild Rudy Guiliani rantings). However, Carlson claimed that the smoking gun could only be found in a missing package that had mysteriously evaporated.

Carlson then suggested he might have been spied upon as part of a deep-state conspiracy to hide “damning” details about Hunter Biden and China and security issues. The host appeared to believe that these “confidential documents” were the key to toppling Biden’s election chances, but of course, Carlson did not provide any information on these documents that he believes were deliberately lost as part of a dastardly plot. Nor does anyone know why there weren’t backup copies if these documents were so important, but now, a twist has arrived. Via the Daily Beast, UPS has revealed that the package has been located:

“After an extensive search, we have found the contents of the package and are arranging for its return. UPS will always focus first on our customers, and will never stop working to solve issues and make things right.”

This runs counter to Carlson’s claim that an exhausted search had already been conducted with the conclusion that the package was missing forever. Fox News had also published a report about how “the package had been opened and arrived empty” at a sorting facility. But now, the package lives?

Who really knows where this story goes from here. One thing is certain, though: the “package” jokes are coming fast and furious.

Is it November 3 yet?

On occasion, things simply don’t go your way in the NFL handicapping space and Week 7 of the 2020 season was a prime example. Bad breaks (like the Eagles floundering in the red zone) were the rule and, when combined with a couple of wrong-side decisions (ahem, Patriots), the results were not ideal in this space. Fortunately, the impotent offense of the Chicago Bears saved us from full-fledged disaster and, as Week 8 arrives, our resolve is strong.

Before diving into a fascinating slate of games and finding five selections, here is where we stand for the balance of the 2020 campaign.

• Week 7: 1-4
• 2020 Season: 19-15-1

Come get these winners.

TEASER: Atlanta Falcons (+8) over Carolina Panthers AND Green Bay Packers (-0.5) over Minnesota Vikings

I’ll just say this. Many teasers, maybe even most teasers, are not good value investments. However, “Wong teasers” are actually strong historically when you can get them at -110 (full explainer here) and, essentially, the premise is to bypass enough key numbers on both sides to make sense. On Thursday, taking the Falcons from +2 to +8 accomplishes that while also taking advantage of the negative perception on Atlanta right now. Yes, they are performance artists in how they blow leads, but four of their losses this season came by seven points or less. Given that I’m a touch lower on Carolina and the fact that the Panthers will have a hard time stopping the Falcons, I like that side. To cap it off, the Packers are simply better than the Vikings and, while I wouldn’t be enthused to lay a full touchdown in a game between rivals, Green Bay is a big favorite to win outright at home.

Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens UNDER 46.5 points

It would’ve been cool to hit this number at the opener of 49 and, if you did, I salute you. That isn’t available at the time of this post, though, and I still like the Under at this number. Pittsburgh’s defense is virtually unassailable at this point and, while the Ravens are stellar on offense, they do churn clock with their ground-based attack. On the other side, the Steelers shouldn’t be able to thrash the Ravens offensively in the way they did to the Titans, and this series has featured some incredible rock fights over the years. Give me punts and field goals.

Miami Dolphins (+3.5) over Los Angeles Rams

The Rams are dealing with another tough schedule spot, with travel to Miami on the heels of a Monday night game. From there, Los Angeles is probably a tad bit overvalued in the market and, in general, I am higher on the Dolphins than some. The Rams are the better team here, but I flatly don’t think they should be laying more than a field goal on the road. Give me Brian Flores and company in their home building.

Seattle Seahawks (-2.5) over San Francisco 49ers

Make no mistake, Kyle Shanahan put on a show last week and embarrassed us as a result. I’ll own that. It was a masterclass. I do think this number is an overreaction, however, to Seattle (narrowly) losing and San Francisco thrashing New England. This implies that these two teams are even and, with San Francisco’s injuries, I just don’t buy that. It is concerning that the Seahawks are genuinely bad defensively, but I trust Russell Wilson to move the ball, even without Chris Carson in uniform. Give me the small home favorite against a trendy underdog, and 2.5 is still available at multiple shops.

New York Giants (+11.5) over Tampa Bay Buccaneers

We profited from the perception not quite catching up to the Bucs a few weeks ago but, after their recent results, it’s going the other way. Tampa Bay is (very) good, but this line opened 8.5 and has steamed through a couple of key numbers at this point. Given the change from the look-ahead and the principles we hold about double-digit home underdogs (other than those coached by Adam Gase), this is a play we just have to make. The Giants likely won’t win, but they are the side on Monday.