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When Pop Smoke died, the rising rapper had a fair amount of material left to share with the world. Some of it came out on his new posthumous album, Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, which debuted at No. 1 on the charts. There was still more to be had after that on the deluxe edition of the record, which added an astounding 15 new songs (aka an album’s worth of material).

Even with all this posthumous music that has been released, it looks like there is still more to come: Smoke’s manager, Steven Victor, revealed that more posthumous albums from the rapper are forthcoming, as is a project with 808 Melo, AXL Beats, and Rico Beats

In the comments of one of Victor’s Instagram posts, somebody asked, “i don’t wanna seem needy but is there gonna be more posthumous pop smoke albums? need more classics from him down the line.” Victor answered, “there will be. Also a project pop, melo, axl & ricobeats were working on.”

Meanwhile, four teenagers were recently charged in Smoke’s murder. Two of them are adults — Corey Walker (19 years old and Keandre Rodgers (18) — and they could potentially face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted as charged.

The tenth season finale of The Walking Dead has not yet aired (although, we can expect an air date to be announced tomorrow), and no timetable has yet been set on when production will begin on the 11th season of The Walking Dead. This week, however, AMC at least began to put a crucial piece in place for when production does finally ramp up on the series, which in some ways, feels like progress. Not that there was any doubt, but the casting move at least says, “Yes, there will be a season 11 of The Walking Dead!”

The network has cast Margot Bingham in an unspecified role on season 11 of the show. We can guess what her role will be, however, because Bingham is not exactly new to the series. She has provided voiceover work for Stephanie, the mysterious woman with whom Eugene has not only been speaking on the radio, but who he, Yumiko, and Ezekiel have journeyed to meet, along with the show’s newest character, Princess.

In other words, Bingham sort of solves that mystery, inasmuch as we will know what Stephanie will look like (although, we still don’t know who is under the ninja mask). Stephanie is expected by many be the link to The Commonwealth, a city of 50,000 that is expected to be the subject of the story’s next major storyline. It figures that The Walking Dead would move from a more rural setting to a more urban one during a pandemic!

Bingham is best known now for a recurring role on NBC’s hospital drama, New Amsterdam, and a Netflix series based on a Spike Lee movie, She’s Gotta Have It. Boardwalk Empire fans may also remember her as Daughter Maitland.

With her entering as a cast member in season 11, don’t rule out the possibility that she also makes an appearance in the season 10 finale. We’ll find out during Friday’s Comic Con event when exactly that will air.

Source: Deadline

A couple nights ago, Kanye West fired off a series of tweets, from which there were a lot of takeaways to be had. He levied some accusations against his wife Kim Kardashian and expressed his desire to get divorced, and he considered suspending his 2020 presidential campaign in favor of a 2024 bid. That same night, he had high praise for Lil Baby, who he claimed isn’t interested in working with him. He wrote in a tweet, “Lil baby my favorite rapper but won’t do a song wit me.”

However, it looks like Lil Baby’s apparent refusal to collaborate with Kanye is actually a misunderstanding. Lil Baby caught wind of Kanye’s tweet and offered a response last night, saying that the two haven’t worked together because Lil Baby didn’t know Kanye was interested. He tweeted, “Nobody told me ye was trying to get me on a song [face with monocle emoji] that’s fucced up.” He then added, “@kanyewest no disrespect nobody told me [shrugging emoji].”

This praise from and potential collaboration opportunity with Kanye, one of the most successful rappers ever, is a cherry on top of the stellar 2020 Lil Baby has had so far. He achieved his first No. 1 album with My Turn, and his recent single, “The Bigger Picture,” became his highest-charting song with a peak at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bill & Ted Face the Music was originally scheduled to hit theaters on August 21, 2020 (there’s a 69 joke built into that date), but it’s since been pushed back.

Not by much, though, and while Orion is still releasing the third Bill and Ted into the few theaters that will be open, it’s also coming out the same day on VOD. As noted by the Hollywood Reporter, Face the Music will “debut simultaneously on premium VOD and in any cinemas willing to play the threequel on September 2,” meaning you’ll be able to get your “party on” from your home. Excellent. You can watch the new trailer above.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan. Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe.

Bill & Ted Face the Music also stars Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Jillian Bell, Jayma Mays, Erinn Hayes, Beck Bennett, Kristen Schaal, and William Sadler.

There’s not an “entanglement” joke Will Smith hasn’t seen.

It’s been nearly two weeks since Will and Jada Pinkett Smith sat down at the Red Table to discuss her relationship with August Alsina. “We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I’ll figure out how to make myself happy,” the Aladdin star said, to which the Magic Mike XXL actress responded, “As time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.” That word — “entanglement” — has caught on in a way “conscious uncoupling” never did (thank god); it was also the basis of a joke on Smith’s Instagram:

On Wednesday, the actor took to Instagram to share a playful video of himself jumping rope. By attaching a camera to the rope, Smith showed fans its perspective while he jumped, causing many fans to marvel at the cool clip. One follower, however, found the opportunity to make a clever comment about Pinkett Smith’s recent relationship reveal. “Ok don’t get entangled,” they wrote, adding a laughing-crying emoji. (Via)

“Hahaha… Okay… I can admit it. That’s Funny,” Smith replied. “I’m definitely gonna block you. But the joke was Very Funny!” At least he’s not getting Genie jokes anymore?

(Via ET Online)

Taylor Swift’s newest album, Lover, only just came out last summer, but she’s already back at it. In a surprise announcement this morning, Swift revealed that she will be releasing a new album, Folklore, tonight.

In Swift’s announcement, she revealed the album will have a significant Big Red Machine presence: It features collaborations with Bon Iver (who co-wrote and sings on a song with Swift) and The National’s Aaron Dessner (who co-wrote or produced 11 of the 16 tracks on the album). Swift also cites William Bowery and Jack Antonoff as other folks who helped bring the record to life.

Swift wrote:

“Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my 8th studio album, folklore. Surprise! Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. I wrote and recorded this music in isolation but got to collaborate with some musical heroes of mine; Aaron Dessner (who has co-written or produced 11 of the 16 songs), Bon Iver (who co-wrote and was kind enough to sing on one with me), William Bowery (who co-wrote two with me) and Jack Antonoff (who is basically musical family at this point). Engineered by Laura Sisk and Jon Low, mixed by Servan Ghenea & Jon Low. The album photos were shot by the amazing Beth Garrabrant. Before this year I probably would’ve overthought when to release this music at the ‘perfect’ time, but the times we’re living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed. My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That’s the side of uncertainty I can get on board with. Love you guys so much [heart emoji].”

The National also offered a bit more detail when they shared Swift’s post this morning, noting the Bryce Dessner is also involved in the album. They wrote, “We are incredibly proud of the collaborative work @taylorswift13 & @aaron_dessner have created together on her new album ‘folklore’, with orchestrations from @bryce_dessner. We can’t wait for you to hear it!

Additionally, a video for “Cardigan,” which Swift wrote and directed, will debut tonight.

Check out the Folklore art and tracklist below, as well as the rest of Swift’s announcement tweets.

1. “The 1”
2. “Cardigan”
3. “The Last Great American Dynasty”
4. “Exile” Feat. Bon Iver
5. “My Tears Ricochet”
6. “Mirrorball”
7. “Seven”
8. “August”
9. “This Is Me Trying”
10. “Illicit Affairs”
11. “Invisible String”
12. “Mad Woman”
13. “Epiphany”
14. “Betty”
15. “Peace”
16. “Hoax”
17. “The Lakes” (bonus track)

Folklore is out 7/24 via Republic. Pre-order it here.

Things are pretty scary right now, and it’s the president’s fault. Not only is the pandemic that he failed to control surging across the nation, hitting new records in infections and deaths — and with an election looming — but he’s starting to send even more federal agents to cities to square off against mostly peaceful protesters, whose reign of terror began in Portland and are now expanding to Chicago and Albuquerque. It’s times like these we need a laugh, and Donald J. Trump is the kind of renaissance man who can inspire anxiety as well as mockery.

As it’s widely known, our sitting president has very thin skin, perhaps history’s thinnest, and one thing he has not been able to shut up about is a cognitive test he took about a year ago — an exam he boasted he “aced.” Over the weekend, Fox News aired an interview between Trump and Chris Wallace, one of the news networks most critical and tough employees, and one of the many tragi-comical highlights found Wallace pointing out that that test? Not that hard.

“They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant,” Wallace pointed out. Trump, as is his nature, insisted it was harder than Wallace claimed and that his presumptive presidential opponent, Joe Biden, couldn’t do it.

But Trump does not accept truth, especially if it makes him look a fool. On Wednesday, he was talking about the test yet again, this time during a more sympathetic Fox News one-on-one with Dr. Marc Siegel. A medical consultant with the network, Siegel stood there, patiently listening to the president of the United States laboriously explain that not only did he ace the basic test, he allegedly received extra points for being able to repeat five words over and over again without screwing up.

Trump gave an example, seemingly by looking at things that were at the time in front of him, and choosing five objects: “person, woman, man, camera, TV.” He kept repeating them, to show to Siegel, and to the whole world watching, that he was a smart man who can remember five words.

It was…strange. And certain swaths of Twitter, looking for a lighthearted distraction as American cities are increasingly turned into police states by the man whose mental faculties were ripe for mockery, was quick to turn it into a meme.

Some brought Biden, who has his own issues with saying weird things, into the mix.

Some were not amused. They were furious. And rightly so.

And some — including longtime Republicans who are about as anti-Trump as a good chunk of the nation is — tried to blend rage with humor.

Anyway, as of this writing, in the U.S. COVID-19 cases are approaching 4 million and have caused over 140,000 deaths, while federal troops in camo with no identification who’ve kidnapped protesters and dragged them into unmarked cars are heading to more cities. Enjoy this laugh while you can.

The first two records from J. Cole’s upcoming album The Fall Off have arrived. After teasing the new songs just days ago, Cole shared “The Climb Back” and “Lion King On Ice” to a clamoring fanbase that has been anticipating his new full-length release since he teased its existence at Day N Vegas last year. Check them both out below.

“The Climb Back” and “Lion King On Ice” represent the first new J. Cole solo tracks since “Middle Child,” his contribution to Dreamville’s Revenge Of The Dreamers III, and “Snow On Tha Bluff,” a song he released earlier this summer in response to reactions to civil unrest and demands for systemic reform from activists online. Although it’s been two years since his last album, KOD, became the latest to extend his “platinum with no features” streak, he has still been busy in the intervening years. He started a different kind of streak in 2019 — one of outstanding guest verses that began with his appearance on 21 Savage’s “A Lot” and continued through Gang Starr’s “Family And Loyalty.” Now, it appears the wait for The Fall Off has begun in earnest, and it’s already off to an exciting start.

Listen to J. Cole’s new songs “The Climb Back” and “Lion King On Ice” above.

Two months after sharing their collaboration “Excitement“, Trippie Redd and PartyNextDoor have finally dropped the song’s video. It arrives as the former continues work on his upcoming third album, Pegasus, which, if released this year, as the Ohio-born rapper has teased, would be his third album in as many years.

The video finds the pair chartering the restless seas of the open ocean on what looks like a party ship. It begins with PartyNextDoor, the ship’s captain, surrounded by a group of women while Trippie stands alone in a separate room on the ship. Trippie eventually finds his way to PartyNextDoor and asks for his help, but the singer wants nothing to do with him. Eventually Trippie his way off the ship and into a small boat, where he and a female companion began to paddle their way to safety.

The video arrives after Trippie shared the second single off Pegasus, “Dreamer,” to celebrate his 21st birthday. The two tracks served as his first releases since his 2019 tape, A Love Letter To You 4, a project that gave him his first No. 1 on the Billboard album charts. Months after its release Trippie would release its deluxe version with 8 new songs featuring Chance The Rapper, Young Thug, and more.

You can watch the “Excitement” video above.

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

In a better timeline, Black Widow would have hit theaters two months ago. But we don’t live in that timeline. We live in the one where an ever-surging pandemic has put almost everything on pause with no end in sight, including the MCU. But that doesn’t mean the end of Marvel content. Disney+ is rearing to release Marvel 616, a documentary series about how the comics and their characters have shaped the culture over the last seven decades. And now they’ve released sneak peaks at two of the episodes.

Let’s start with the second, which is from the fourth episode, called “Lost and Found,” and which follows comic performer and creator Paul Scheer as he digs into more obscure Marvel characters. That includes, apparently, Black Panther, and in the clip we see him chatting with Reginald Hudlin, the film director (of House Party and Boomerang) who wound up writing Panther comics in the mid-aughts. And to revitalize a character born in the ’60s during the Civil Rights Era, he drew inspiration from a certain musical act.

“I knew what the opportunity was with Black Panther if I did it right,” Hudlin tells Scheer. “I said, ‘I’m going to write the comic book equivalent of a Public Enemy record — a completely uncompromised, politically provocative book. And that was the key to its success.”

The clip also shows Scheer talking to other writers about far less known Marvel characters, such as Doctor Druid, The Whizzer, and one villain with the colorful name of Typeface.

The other clip is from the second episode, “Higher, Further, Faster,” which examines the female talent of Marvel. Among those is Sana Amanat, Marvel Entertainment’s Vice President of Character & Content, who says she was asked to draw on her own experiences as the daughter of immigrants, who was forbidden by her parents to date, even going to prom solo, when bringing back Captain Marvel. She was told by highers-up that, “It would be great if we had a character based on you, based on the young Sunas of the world.” That surprised her. “I was like are we allowed to do this? This is a concept I didn’t anyone was interested in,” Amanat says.

You can watch that clip below and the one with Scheer and Hudlin above.

(Via Deadline)