Earlier this summer, Drake promised that he would follow his Dark Lane Demo Tapes project with a new full-length album, and now he’s getting ready to deliver. He recently shared “Laugh Now Cry Later,” which serves as the lead single from Drake’s upcoming album, Certified Lover Boy. He’s now gearing up to get into the full promotional swing of things, as evidenced by a tease of new merch. It’s not just any merch, though, as it looks like Drake is collaborating with Nike for his Certified Lover Boy swag.
On his Instagram Story last night, Drake shared a photo of what is almost certainly merch for his new album, which includes a white Nike baseball hat with lipstick marks on the brim, as well as Nike Air socks with red hearts surrounding the iconic Nike swoosh.
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This comes after Drake apparently failed to secure a trademark for his album title, as he faced a couple roadblocks in that process, one of them being the ’80s band Loverboy, best known for their hit “Working For The Weekend.” In cheerier news, Drake recently gave thanks to Lil Wayne for supporting him early in his musical career, calling the rapper the “most selfless artist ever.”
The BTS Army is perhaps the most fervent fan base in all of music, as they constantly help the group pull off impressive feats. Sure enough, BTS and their fans have done something else amazing today. This morning, the group debuted their new video for “Dynamite,” and it shattered YouTube records.
YouTube hasn’t released official numbers yet, but it has been reported that the “Dynamite” video had racked up 10 million views in just 21 minutes. That surpasses their own record previously set by their “On” video, which hit that same viewing figure in 65 minutes. Additionally, it has also been reported that the video broke another record: During the video’s premiere, there were apparently somewhere between 3 and 4 million concurrent viewers. That eclipses the previous record, which was set by Blackpink’s “How You Like That” video, which had 1.65 million simultaneous watchers.
The group told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the track, “This is ‘Dynamite’ — made of positive vibes, energy, hope, love, the purity, everything. Recording this song was really fun, and like Jin said, we’re going through difficult times so we tried to have more fun working on this song. We made this song in hopes of giving energy to the listeners. We’re glad this song turned out great and hope a lot of our fans can listen to it to receive the positive energy we tried to incorporate in the song.”
As of press time, about nine hours after the video’s premiere, it has around 53 million views.
If you do a Google search for “famous people from Delaware,” the top result is Aubrey Plaza, from both Only in Your State and Delaware Online. The latter’s readers poll was taken a few years ago, though. Things have changed since then, and “this week,” a clearly-threatened Plaza said, “all I’m hearing is ‘Joe Biden this’ and ‘Joe Biden that.’”
Shortly after the former-vice president (who isn’t from Delaware, but his family moved to The First State when he was 10) officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Thursday, the Parks and Recreation star was one of the special guests for the DNC After Party, along with Zooey Deschanel, Diplo, and Andy Cohen. She spoke to other notable Delawareans (?) to find out if she’s still the state’s most famous person. 30 Rock‘s Keith Powell told her it was Biden, as did Other Space actor Neil Casey (“It’s a no brainer. He’s going to be the next president of the United States”), WNBA superstar Elena Delle Donne, and Sen. Chris Coons. “Aubrey, are you the Democratic nominee for president?” he asked Plaza, who replied, “No, I don’t think so.”
She ended the segment by encouraging viewers to not only vote for Joe, but to also vote in a new (non-existent) Delawareonline.com poll. “Let’s get this Delawarean in The White House,” she said about Biden. “And then go on Delawareonline.com and vote for Aubrey Plaza for most famous person in Delaware in 2021.”
Netflix welcomes a new animated comedy and the return of a fan-favorite fantasy drama this week. Jake Johnson’s Hoops, a raunchy series about a washed-up basketball coach traumatizing his team of talentless misfits lands on the streaming platform. It’s dirtier than BoJack and it sports no lessons about puberty or growing up like Big Mouth does, but there are plenty of bits. If that doesn’t strike you, maybe the new season of Lucifer, which plans to introduce Satan’s twin brother to stir things up, just might?
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix this week of August 21.
Hoops (Netflix series streaming 8/21)
New Girl’s Jake Johnson leads this cast of Netflix’s latest animated series, playing a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach named Ben Hopkins. Ben wants to get out from under his father’s shadow — a former pro baller and current owner of a successful steakhouse voiced by the always-funny Rob Riggle — and he thinks coaching a bunch of talentless losers to greatness might help with that dream. There are prostitute bits, a Godfather reference that goes too far, and lots of f-bombs so if that doesn’t speak to you after watching the first episode, don’t stick around for more. No seriously, Jake Johnson told us to tell you that.
Netflix is giving fans of this hellishly-fun crime drama another season and this one feels a bit more experimental than the rest. That’s a good thing because introducing Satan’s evil twin (sorry, we had to) feels like a completely bonkers move that might just pay off. While Lucifer is stuck somewhere in the Underworld, his sibling is f*cking up his relationships on Earth, starting with his romance with Chloe.
I’ve always said Eric Roberts doesn’t get enough credit for being Julia Roberts’ Frank Stallone. Now the hardest working man in show business is trying to become the hardest working man in show business (truly sorry for this joke), after he went on Australia’s The Morning Show to promote a new erectile dysfunction product called “The Rocket.”
The clip, in which Eric Roberts initially gets the name of the product’s website wrong, is a masterpiece of gloriously pointless Australian television. The over-caffeinated hosts goad Roberts into saying “erectile dysfunction” over and over so they can make winky references to sex, but don’t let Roberts actually describe how the product works. Presumably because that might involve, you know, talking about penises and such. Croikey, Eric, you can’t say that on telly! Roberts also begins the segment by clarifying that he didn’t actually suffer from ED when he discovered the product, which would seem to make him a bad judge of cures for it, but hey I’m not a scientist.
According to what I can glean from a piece in the Daily Mail (entitled “Would You Try Zapping Your Penis With ‘The Rocket?’”) the device, which you wand up and down your penis (important to note) works by “sending sound waves through the penis to encourage blood flow and the creation of new blood vessels.” Ooh, can I program it to play “Shock the Monkey?”
It was invented, the piece goes on to note, by Stephanie Wolff, “an anti-aging specialist,” which is definitely a real job, and her husband, Dustin, on whose penis she presumably tested it, and with whom she runs the “Novus anti-aging center” which I think we can all agree is a very fancy name for a thing.
Stephanie and Dustin run a Novus Anti-Aging Center, where a large portion of Stephanie’s days are spent using a kind of mild shock treatment on men’s penises, with the seemingly paradoxical goal of making them work better. [DailyMail]
Can we all give the Daily Mail writer a round of applause? “Stephanie’s days are spent using a kind of mild shock treatment on men’s penises, with the seemingly paradoxical goal of making them work better” is one of the greatest sentences I’ve ever read.
Roberts’ appearance on Australian TV was in February, but he also went on comedian Dave Landau’s podcast in June to promote The Phoenix, which is apparently what The Rocket is called now after a lawsuit settlement with another company that also claimed the name. Update your bookmarks, people.
With this, Roberts adds “Australia’s This Morning” and “Dave Landau’s podcast” to his list of 2020 film and television credits. I was just trying to count them on IMDB but lost track at 40. That is not an exaggeration. He had more than 40 credits just in 2020, a year when filming has been shutdown. Is there a job Eric Roberts won’t take? He works so much that you’d assume he has 15 divorces to pay for, but he’s apparently been married to the same woman since 1992.
Here’s to hoping we all find something we love in life as much as Eric Roberts loves having a camera pointed at him.
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“What is it that you desire?” It’s the siren song for weirdos who can’t resist craving a hefty dose of urban fantasy to shake up what could otherwise be a run-of-the-mill procedural with a side of a The X-Files-style dynamic. Lucifer isn’t prestige fare, as anyone who’s watched the show realizes. It’s often quite silly and saucy with the Devil, who’s sporting some sort of hybrid U.K. accent, walking around Los Angeles like a sharp-dressed man and helping a steely detective solve crimes with his Satanic “mojo.” This version of Lucifer Morningstar originated in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman (with an assist from Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg). The cool thing about this TV series, though, is that the Devil’s comic-book origins don’t matter at all.
Yep, one can totally watch Lucifer for sheer comedy and escapism purposes. It’s funny as heck to watch this tweak on the procedural genre’s will-they-or-won’t-they setup of law enforcement partners. They’ve dragged this question out more adeptly than most shows who attempt to so so. Hell, ahead of Season 5 on Netflix (which picked up the show with Season 4 after a Fox cancellation, and agreed to Season 6 after a #SaveLucifer fan campaign), I still wasn’t even entirely sure why Chloe tolerated Lucifer. After all, she’s the only human who can see through all of his sh*t. Yet that question gets answered more sufficiently this year due to a number of revelations.
So, there’s a little more substance going on now, which feels more concentrated due to Netflix not doing the bloated 20+ episode seasons like Fox did. Most importantly, the show stays blissfully ridiculous, for these reasons and more:
(1) The idea of Lucifer growing bored by the routine matters of running Hell and seeking to amuse himself with the LAPD instead;
(2) The same goes for Tom Ellis portraying the Devil as a dashing playboy who runs a nightclub and talks to himself in the mirror whilst nude;
(3) The Devil needs therapy, too! And he constantly frets over how to resolve that unresolved sexual tension with Chloe (Lauren German), who he usually addresses simply as “Detective.” It sort-of reminds me of a long-lost Matthew McConaughey movie, Surfer, Dude, in which he actually plays naked bongos and only addresses his love interest as “East Coast.” There’s a good guest-star idea for Season 6.
(4) The writers decided that Season 5 was the right time to spring an out-of-nowhere announcement on us: Lucifer has a secret twin brother. What a supernatural soap opera we have here, and that tomfoolery is such a punch in the face that I have to respect it.
Look, the show has a loyal audience, who isn’t going anywhere, and the show certainly doesn’t need to pull out major stops itself to keep viewership high. Nonetheless, that’s what this new split-season does. Stones that were previously left unturned are illuminated, and there’s plenty of demonic little trinkets along the way. Like Lucifer 2.0 (his name is Michael, and it doesn’t make much sense in a biblical way), for example, who’s determined to steal his brother’s life while unfurling a very different set of wings on earth while Lucifer’s on a trip to Hell. For sure, “I was wondering when you’d show our face again” is one of the most Lucifer lines that ever existed.
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There’s also an episode that viewers have been anticipating (and chattering about) about for awhile: the noir story that travels back to the 1940s. And the series also delivers an excellent meta-episode with a show within a show (called ¡Diablo!). Neither of these experimental efforts are simply a gimmick or bottle episodes but further the narrative. It’s remarkable that the show has constructed such an air-tight set of eight episodes (and done away with the Fox bloat) while retaining what is beloved about these characters. All of this is led by the swaggering antichrist himself, who manages to get himself into so many jams among humans, it’s a kick to watch.
Look, if you watch and love this show already, you’ll be thrilled with where it’s going now. If you don’t watch and are predisposed to enjoy either procedurals or comic books, give the “evil” guy a shot. Lucifer makes a fine binge watch, and you’ll have plenty of time to catch up before the (likely) endgame of Season 6. For now, either prepare to gobble up eight new episodes over a weekend or miss out on a devilishly delightful spin on the same formula that’s relished by Law & Order: SVU and Criminal Minds addicts. The difference, though, is that Lucifer isn’t a stressful watch. It offers sheer joy and pleasure for all involved.
This season, really, is a love letter to the fans who kept the show alive and threw down over the possibility of it ending too soon. The Devil is back, baby, and he’s gonna use that mojo on you.
‘Lucifer’ returns for its fifth season August 21 on Netflix.
After putting the Brooklyn legend on blast earlier this year by letting fans know a Nas album was the way, Big Sean slides through with a verse of his own on “Replace Me” with Don Toliver from Nas’ new King’s Disease album. With Don Toliver holding the track together with a hook that samples Ella Mai’s “Trip,” Nas and Big Sean both lay verses that speak on the topic of relationships, with Big Sean’s verse alluding to his own relationship with Jhene Aiko. Sean references his relationship with the “Triggered” with the line: “You know I’m good at reading you I spent like ten thousand hours,” pointing to Jhene and Nas’ “10k Hours” collaboration from her Chilombo album.
Nas first announced his King’s Disease earlier this month in a trailer to Instagram, one that revealed Hit-Boy as the album’s executive producer. Soon after he shared its first single, “Ultra Black,” a track that caught more attention for its diss to Doja Cat than the song’s overall appeal, or lack thereof, to fans. King’s Disease‘s thirteen songs present features from Charlie Wilson, Lil Durk, Anderson .Paak, Fivio Foreign, ASAP Ferg, The Firm, AZ, Foxy Brown, and Brucie B.
As for Big Sean, fans are still awaiting the release of the Detroit native’s Detroit 2 album, which he announced back in March.
Listen to “Replace Me” in the video above.
King’s Disease is out now via Mass Appeal. Get it here.
Don Toliver is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warne Music Group.
Steph Curry had a big Thursday. The two-time NBA MVP was the Golden State Warriors’ representative at the 2020 NBA Draft Lottery, where the ping pong balls determined that the team would pick second at this October’s NBA Draft. A few hours later, in a pre-recorded segment, Curry sat down with his family — wife Ayesha and daughters Riley and Ryan — to announce their support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this November’s presidential election.
The video began with Ayesha stating plainly that their goal is to “ensure that our kids live in a nation that is safe, happy, healthy, and fair.” Because of this, Steph announced that the pair intend to vote for the Democratic Party’s ticket over incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The pair then sat down with their daughters to discuss some basics about being the President of the United States, who’s running, and the fact that Biden chose Harris — who would become the first woman to get elected to this role — as his potential Vice President.
.@StephenCurry30 and @ayeshacurry: Thank you for your support. When I’m president, you and your family are welcome at the White House any time.
Things end with Ayesha making a plea to Americans to make sure they participate in the democratic process this fall while Steph did the shimmy that he normally saves for when he drills a three from 10 feet behind the three-point line.
The Democratic National Convention, where both Biden and Harris formally accepted their spots on the ballot for this November’s election, occurred this week. This marks the second election in a row where Curry publicly endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee, as he threw his support behind Hillary Clinton in 2016. He has famously butted heads with Trump during the latter’s tenure in the White House — following the Warriors’ championship win in 2017, Curry said he voted against the team taking the ceremonial visit to Washington, D.C. to meet the President, something that one of his teammates, Andre Iguodala, previously indicated meant that the team would pass on visiting Trump altogether.
The following day, after it had been made clear the team would not go, Trump rescinded the Warriors’ invitation to the White House. The Warriors announced in a statement to “celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion” during a trip to D.C. to play the Wizards that season, while LeBron James opined on the whole thing by calling Trump a “bum.”
Mulatto has had a year worth paying attention to and the Atlanta-based rapper looks to add on to her success with her newly-released Queen Of Da Souf album. Across the thirteen tracks, a highlight comes on her “Pull Up” collab with 21 Savage. Lending a rare 2020 verse to the fellow ATLien, 21 Savage backs up Mulatto’s confident raps that center around her preference with men, expensive bags, and other braggadocios bars with a verse laced with his trademark sinister demeanor. Taking the moment to celebrate a big life accomplishment before ending his verse, 21 Savage raps, “Never been friendly I don’t dap n****s / I done won a Grammy, I’m a rap n****.”
Queen Of Da Souf arrives after Mulatto landed a spot among the 2020 XXL Freshman class. Her inclusion in the class was well-deserved honor after her “Queen Of Da Souf” single went viral and was eventually remixed by Trina and Saweetie. The remix was followed by her “Muwop” release with Gucci Mane, which preceded a phenomenal rollout that earned her the attention of many new fans. Out now, in addition to features from 21 Savage and Gucci Mane, Queen Of Da Souf also sees guest appearances from City Girls, 42 Dugg, Trina, and Saweetie.
While they both appear on Pop Smoke’s posthumous album, Shoot For The Moon, Aim For The Stars, the last collaboration between Swae Lee and Future arrived in 2018 on “Buckets” off Rae Sremmurd’s third album, SR3MM. Striking the match once again, Swae and Future connect once again thanks to Internet Money’s new single, “Thrusting.”
The track gives off a heavy dance vibe, one that would’ve been ideal for a lockdown-less summer. Swae Lee steps to the mic first on the song as he gets into his pocket with a verse and hook of his own. He then allows Future to step in and tap into his R&B side with his own verse, but Swae returns to close out the song.
This song serves as the second single off Internet Money’s upcoming album, B4 The Storm, following their “Lemonade” release with Don Toliver, Nav, and Gunna. In an interview with Complex, Taz Taylor of the group spoke on landing the collaboration with Swae Lee after tweeting his desire to work with the “Unforgettable” artist.
So Swae was in Miami and — shout out my boy Resource — he FaceTimed me and Swae. Then Swae was like, “Yo, they told me you wanted to get in the studio. I’ve got to be on your album, bro.” Come to find out, Swae has actually been following me on Twitter for like six years. I had no idea. After we get off FaceTime, he just DMs me. He’s like, “Bro, I’m serious. Don’t turn this album in without me.” So, we got in the session literally the next day.
Listen to “Thrusting” in the video above.
B4 The Storm is out 08/28 via 10K Projects. Pre-order it here.
Swae Lee is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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