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YG and Moneybagg Yo cracked open a bank vault to perform amidst the crates of cash in their late-night performance of “Scared Money” on The Tonight Show. The pre-filmed performance finds YG and Yo dressed up in matching two-piece suits rapping the camera as dollar bills fly around them inside a replica bank vault. While their third collaborator, J. Cole, apparently wasn’t able to make the appearance, the remaining performers hold it down with charismatic stage presence and braggadocious rhymes.

YG and Yo appeared on The Tonight Show to promote YG’s upcoming album Pray For Me, which is due this year under Def Jam Recordings. The album will be the Compton rapper’s first since 2020’s My Life 4Hunnid, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 64,000 album-equivalent units in the first week. However, in 2021, YG did also release Kommunity Service, a joint album with Sacramento rapper Mozzy, which. produced the videos for “Bompton To Oak Park,” “Dangerous,” “Gangsta,” “Perfect Timing,” and “Vibe With You.”

Since then, YG has released one other single, “Sign Language,” and concentrated his efforts on his philanthropic endeavors, which included handing out more than $20,000 worth of his signature sneakers to former cons and delivered teleconferencing devices and applications for mental health services to low-income residents of Los Angeles.

You can watch YG’s late-night performance of “Scared Money” above.

From Matthew Morgan, founder and ex-head of Afropunk, and partner Jocelyn Cooper comes Letsgetfr.ee Carnaval. Set to take place this August at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York, Letsgetfr.ee comes as a partnership with global creative agency Anomaly and aims to be a “diversity-focused, purpose-driven music experience.”

Letsgetfr.ee will take place over two days on two different stages. Festivities kick off on Saturday, August 20th, with Missy Elliott, Wizkid and Jhene Aiko headlining. Kali Uchis, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, and Ozuna will headline that Sunday.

Anomaly has partnered with DICE to provide a “choose your own adventure” ticketing structure, allowing festival-goers to pick and choose which artists they would like to see on either day of the festival. This will allow for affordable and accessible tickets for “every community that [Letsgetfr.ee] celebrates.”

“When we first heard the plans for Letsgetfr.ee we had to have an ‘everybody sit down’ moment,”said DICE President Russ Tannen in a statement. “The mission and ambition is aligned perfectly with DICE’s values and we’re excited to be named the exclusive ticketing partner.”

Queens residents who present a valid address can access the presale through Sunday, March 6th. by registering through DICE. The Queens presale begins on Tuesday, March 8th. General on-sale begins Wednesday, March 9th.

Check out the full line-up below.

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

Jeopardy‘s run of inspiring contestants has continued with Christine Whelchel, a cancer survivor who’s on a four-game winning streak. During her first three appearances, the piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee sported mid-length blonde hair, but during Monday’s episode, she had a shorter haircut. “After winning, I decided I didn’t need to hide behind the wig anymore,” she told host Ken Jennings, “and I want to normalize what going through cancer recovery really looks like.”

The official Jeopardy! account shared the clip on Twitter, tweeting, “A strong Jeopardy! player and an even stronger person.” (She’s also a “really generous trivia teammate,” as someone in the replies wrote.) You can watch the video below.

In her first episode last week, Whelchel shared how her cancer battle and Jeopardy! journey are closely tied together in her mind. “One of the first things I did a couple of weeks after being diagnosed was take the Jeopardy! test, and I ended up getting my audition the night before my surgery in May,” she said. Whelchel, who added that everything “went well” and that she’s “cancer-free as of right now,” is up to $73,602 in total earnings on the game show. She’ll compete again during Tuesday’s episode.

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in March. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, March 4

• Allegra Krieger — Precious Thing (Northern Spy)
• Babehoven — Sunk EP (Double Double Whammy)
• BabyTron — Megatron (The Hip Hop Lab/EMPIRE)
• Bahamas — Live To Tape, Volume III EP (Brushfire / Republic Records)
• Band Of Horses — Things Are Great (BMG)
• Benee — Lychee EP (Republic Records)
• Bob Moses — The Silence In Between (Astralwerks)
• Broken Field Runner — Runner (Secret Audio Club)
• Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song (Nonesuch)
• Ceramic Animal — Sweet Unknown (Easy Eye)
• Charlotte Adigéry And Bolis Pupul — Topical Dancer (Deewee)
• Chelsea Carmichael — All We Know EP (Native Rebel Recordings)
• Chief Cleopatra — Luna EP (Royal Mountain Records)
• The Dip — Sticking With It (Dualtone Records)
• Diplo — Diplo (Higher Ground)
• Dolly Parton — Run, Rose, Run (Butterfly Records)
• El Ten Eleven — New Year’s Eve (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Fieh — In The Sun In The Rain (Jansen Records)
• The Flower Kings — By Royal Decree (InsideOut Music)
• Guided By Voices — Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
• Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, and Kenny Wollesen — Invite Your Eye (Nublu)
• Jody And The Jerms — Flicker (JATJ)
• Jordan Rakei — Bruises EP (Ninja Tune)
• Klangstof — Ocean View EP (Northern Transmissions)
• Kojey Radical — Reason To Smile (Asylum/Atlantic)
• Léon — Circles (LL Entertainment/BMG)
• LEYA — Eyeline (NNA Tapes)
• Luna Li — Duality (AWAL/In Real Life)
• Madi Diaz — History Of A Feeling EP (ANTI-)
• Matt Anderson — House To House (True North Records)
• Maylee Todd — Maloo (Stones Throw)
• Melissa Aldana — 12 Stars (Blue Note Records)
• Michelle — After Dinner We Talk Dreams (Canvasback Music/Transgressive)
• Morgan Harper-Jones — While You Lay Sound Asleep EP (Play It Again Sam)
• Morgan Reese — Letters From The Invisible Girl EP (Empire)
• Nashvillains — Tumbling Down (Fate Entertainment)
• Nilüfer Yanya — Painless (ATO Records)
• Olovson — Storytelling (1136 Diamond)
• Peach Pit — From 2 To 3 (Columbia Records)
• RZA And DJ Scratch — Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater (36 Chambers ALC/MNRK Music)
• Scott Hardware — Ballad Of A Tryhard (Telephone Explosion)
• Scott Metzger — Too Close To Reason (RPF Records)
• Shane Parish — Liverpool (Dear Life Records)
• Songs: Ohia — Live: Vanquishers (Secretly Canadian)
• Stereophonics — Oochya! (Ignition Records)
• Stromae — Multitude (Mosaert)
• Wah Together — Let’s Wah Together (Dedstrange)
• The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Fat Possum)
• Zander Schloss — Song About Songs (Blind Owl Records)

Friday, March 11

• A. Billi Free & The Lasso — Holy Body Roll (Mello Music Group)
• Alex Cameron — Oxy Music (Secretly Canadian)
• Amber Lewis — Lips & Teeth (Day Off Recordings)
• Apollo Ghosts — Pink Tiger (You’ve Changed Records)
• Bodega — Broken Equipment (What’s Your Rupture)
• Brad Armstrong — Heart Like A Sigil (Flower Moon Records)
• Bryan Adams — So Happy It Hurts (BMG)
• Charlie Collins — Undone (Island Records Australia/UMA)
• The Districts — Great American Painting (Fat Possum Records)
• E-L-R — Vexier (Prophecy Productions)
• Ella Henderson — Everything I Didn’t Say (Atlantic Records)
• Ferris & Sylvester — Superhuman ([Integral]/PIAS)
• Franz Ferdinand — Hits To The Head (Domino)
• Fly Anakin — Frank (Lex Records)
• Goose (BE) — Endless (Universal Music)
• Holo — In Limbo EP ( Ellipse Records Artist)
• Hoodoo Gurus — Chariot Of The Gods (Big Time)
• The Human Tornado — Love Is Démodé (Rockshots Records)
• Jackson Dean — Greenbroke (Big Machine Records)
• Jeremy Ivey — Invisible Pictures (Anti)
• Junk Drawer — The Dust Has Come To Stay EP (Art For Blind Records)
• Lil Durk — 7220 (Sony)
• Maia Friedman — Under The New Light (Last Gang Records)
• Mary Simich — How Does One Begin (Ernest Jenning)
• Messa — Close (Svart Records)
• MoE — The Crone (Vinter Records)
• Nicolas Rage — Personal Party EP (Revival Recordings)
• Orion Sun — Getaway EP (Mom + Pop Music)
• Paul Cherry — Back On The Music (Sunset Music Productions)
• PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project — Demos (Island/UMC)
• Rex Orange County — Who Cares? (Sony)
• Rust n’ Rage — One For The Road (Frontiers)
• Shenseea — Alpha (Rich Immigrants/Interscope)
• The Sully Band — Let’s Straighten It Out! (Blue Élan Records)
• Summer Salt — The Juniper Songbook (Cherry Lime Records)
• Tanya Tagaq — Tongues (Six Shooter Records)
• Thomas Headon — Victoria EP (Elektra)
• Tony Price — Mark VI (Telephone Explosion Records)
• Viji — Cali EP (Dirty Hit)
• Widowspeak — The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
• The Wiggles — ReWiggled (ABC Music)
• Young Guv — Guv III (Slumberland Records)

Friday, March 18

• 250 — PPONG (Beasts and Natives Alike)
• Alai K — Kila Mara (On The Corner Records)
• Audio Karate — ¡OTRA! (Iodine Recordings)
• Babeheaven — Sink Into Me (Believe)
• Ben Lukas Boysen — Clarion EP (Erased Tapes)
• Berthold City — When Words Are Not Enough (WAR Records)
• Blanck Mass — Ted K (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sacred Bones)
• Blue States — World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)
• Brad Mehldau — Jacob’s Ladder (Nonesuch Records)
• Charli XCX — Crash (Atlantic)
• Chip Z’Nuff — Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers Music)
• Colin Hay — Now And The Evermore (Compass Records)
• Cypress Hill — Back In Black (MNRK)
• Danilo Perez — Crisálida (Mack Avenue Records)
• Donovan Woods — Big Hurt Boy EP (End Times Music)
• Final Cry — The Ever-Rest (Mdd)
• Gayle — A Studio Of The Human Experience Volume One EP (Atlantic)
• Hailey Whitters — Raised (Pigasus Records/Songs & Daughters/Big Loud Records)
• Hot Water Music — Feel The Void (Equal Vision Records)
• The Jason Lee McKinney Band — One Last Thing (Bonfire Recording Co.)
• J.B.O. — Planet Pink (AFM Records)
• Jenny Hval — Classic Objects (4AD)
• John Colpitts — Music From The Accident (Thrill Jockey)
• LAYA — Um, Hello EP (Rounder Records)
• Lazy Queen — A Human Reaction EP (Icons Creating Evil Art)
• Little Boots — Tomorrow’s Yesterdays (On Repeat Music)
• Mackenzie Grant — Wonder World (BlackBird Record Label)
• Maggie Gently — Peppermint (Refresh Records)
• Midlake — For The Sake Of Bethel Woods (ATO Records)
• Night Crowned — Rebirth Of The Old EP (Noble Demon)
• Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo — The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime (Strap Originals)
• Pinch Points — Process (Mistletone)
• Private Agenda — A Mannequin (Lo Recordings)
• Raw Poetic — Laminated Skies (Def Pressé)
• Rosalía — Motomami (Columbia Records)
• Son House — Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)
• Sonic Youth — In/Out/In (Three Lobed Recordings)
• Stabbing Westward — Chasing Ghosts (COP International Records)
• Steve Dawson — Gone, Long Gone (Black Hen Music)
• Yumi Zouma — Present Tense (Polyvinyl)

Friday, March 25

• Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge — Jazz Is Dead 011 (Jazz Is Dead)
• Aldous Harding — Warm Chris (4AD)
• Anand Wilder — I Don’t Know My Words (Last Gang Records)
• Anthony Coleman And Brian Chase — Arcades (Chaikin)
• Architects — For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road (Epitaph)
• Bakers Eddy — Love Boredom Bicycles (Ivy League Records)
• Beau Jennings & The Tigers — Heavy Light (Black Mesa)
• Bellows — Next Of Kin (Topshelf)
• Bodi Bill — I Love U I Do (Sinnbus)
• The Bogie Band feat. Joe Russo — The Prophets In The City (Royal Potato Family)
• Buddy — Superghetto (Cool Lil Company/RCA Records)
• Camp Cope — Running With The Hurricane (Run For Cover)
• Coin — Uncanny Valley (10K Projects)
• Cowboy Junkies — Songs Of The Recollection (Proper)
• D.Mark Owen — Respite (Blue Canoe Records)
• Darden Smith — Western Skies (Bull By the Horns)
• Dave Friend And Jerome Begin — Post- (New Amsterdam Records)
• Destroyer — Labyrinthitis (Merge Records)
• Ed Schrader’s Music Beat — Nightclub Daydreaming (Carpark)
• Emily Jane White — Alluvion (Talitres)
• Ensemble Dal Niente — object/animal (Sideband Records)
• Ex-Vöid — Bigger Than Before (Don Giovanni Records)
• Fana Hues — flora + fana (Bright Antenna)
• Fivio Foreign — B.I.B.L.E (Columbia)
• Fucked Up — Do All Words Can Do (Matador)
• Gabriel Kahane — Magnificent Bird (Nonesuch Records)
• ginla — Everything (No Content)
• Guerilla Toss — Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
• I Start Counting — Ejected (WEA)
• I Start Counting — Re-fused (WEA)
• Ibibio Sound Machine — Electricity (Merge Records)
• Jana Rush — Dark Humor EP (Planet Mu)
• Jeremy Garrett — River Wild (ORGANIC Records)
• Juanita Euka — Mabanzo (Strut Records)
• Kavinsky — Reborn (Fiction/Virgin Music France)
• Kevin Devine — Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong (Triple Crown Records)
• Killing Joke — Lord Of Chaos EP (Spinefarm)
• Kraftwerk — Remixes (Rhino)
• Larry McRay — Blues Without You (Keeping the Blues Alive Records)
• Lucky Lo — Supercarry (Tambourhinoceros)
• Maren Morris — Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville)
• Matisyahu — AM_RICA (Fallen Sparks Records)
• Michael Bublé — Higher (Reprise Records)
• NCT Dream — Glitch Mode (SM Entertainment)
• P.E. — The Leather Lemon (Wharf Cat Records)
• Placebo — Never Let Me Go (SO Recordings)
• The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys — Never Slow Down (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Proper — The Great American Novel (Father/Daughter Records)
• Reba McEntire — My Chains Are Gone (MCA Nashville)
• Sea Girls — Homesick (Polydor)
• Susanna — Elevation (SusannaSonata)
• Telltale — Lie Your Way Out EP (Rude Records)
• Tired Tape Machine — Thing (Disaster Records)
• Tom Rogerson — Retreat To Bliss (Western Vinyl)
• Vanessa Wagner — Study Of The Invisible (InFiné)
• Vitesse X — Us Ephemeral (100% Electronica)
• VR SEX — Rough Dimension (Dais Records)
• Wallows — Tell Me That It’s Over (Atlantic Records)
• Walter Martin — The Bear (Ile Flottante)
• Young Prisms — Drifter (Fire Talk)

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

With the final part of the three-part documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy set to launch tonight, Time magazine shares some footage that did not make it into the final product. The above clip was shot by Jeen-Yuhs director Coodie Simmons during the video shoot for Kanye’s second single, “Slow Jamz,” and provides a glimpse at not only the process of shooting a music video but also doing so under the strain of financial limitations and the logistics of bringing Kanye’s ideas to life.

It also highlights Kanye’s demanding creative process and high standards for himself and the video team. Directed by Coodie and Chike Ozah with Kanye himself, the “Slow Jamz” video represented Kanye’s first chance to prove to the world he was no one-hit-wonder after the success of his debut single “Through The Wire.” That explains why he seems so stressed out in the clip above, but he also displays flashes of the control freak tendencies that have made him such a controversial figure in pop culture. However, the proof is in the pudding: “Slow Jamz” peaked at No.1 on the Hot 100, giving all three of its collaborators — West, Twista, and Jamie Foxx — their first No. 1s, and it was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2005 Grammy Awards.

The footage that did make it into Jeen-Yuhs turned out to be every bit as enlightening, capturing Pharrell’s reaction to hearing “Through The Wire” for the first time, highlighting Kanye’s tender relationship with his mother, and sparking debate over his attempted guerilla promotion tactics at the Roc-A-Fella Records office. The third, final episode goes live tonight on Netflix.

While speaking during an emergency session of the European Union parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a stirring speech that earned him a standing ovation and praise from around the world. As Russia continues its invasion, Zelensky has been urgently petitioning for Ukraine to be admitted into the EU, which resulted in him speaking to the session remotely. However, being on video did nothing to mute the impact of his words as he described the conditions in his country.

Via Newsweek:

“At least two cruise missiles have hit the main square of that city. That is the price of freedom,” he said. “We’re fighting just for our land and for our freedom.”

Zelensky added: “Every square in our country will be called Freedom Square. Nobody will break us, we are strong, we are Ukrainians.”

While condemning Vladimir Putin’s propaganda and attempts to call the invasion a simple military “operation,” Zelensky continued to reinforce Ukraine’s resolve to defending its country and maintaining its independence from Russia.

“We are fighting for our freedom, for our rights and for our survival,” Zelensky said. “But we are also fighting also to be equal members of Europe…. the European Union is going to be much stronger with us, that’s for sure.”

As the video of Zelensky’s speech became available on social media on Tuesday morning, people from around the globe were moved by his impassioned words and his resolve while his country faces an ongoing assault from Russia forces.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Newsweek)

New to the 4AD family, England-born singer-songwriter Bartees Strange has released his debut single with the label. On “Heavy Heart,” Strange grapples with feelings of guilt, before ultimately deciding to let it go. For years, Strange has felt the burden of guilt; guilt related to his military father and the sacrifices he made to create a better life for him and his family; guilt for the recent death of his grandfather; guilt for touring and being away from his family; and guilt for the success he found with the early pandemic releases of his EP Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy, which contained reimaginings of songs by The National and songs from his debut album, Live Forever.

“This past year, I thought I was broken,” Strange sings in the song’s opening verse. On the chorus, he admits, “Sometimes I feel just like my dad, rushing around,” and that he “never saw the god in that.”

In the song’s accompanying one-shot visual, directed by Missy Dabice, Strange walks through what appears to be the backstage area at a music venue. He is surrounded by clowns, as they follow him, encasing him in a large picture frame. Strange later picks up a guitar and leads a band on stage. Throughout the video, he wears his father’s and grandfather’s old clothes.

Watch “Heavy Heart” above.

The Power of the Dog was one of the best movies of 2021 with 12 Oscar nominations to prove it, including Best Picture, Best Director for Jane Campion, and Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch. But something tells me that Sam Elliott, who would be a Red Dead Redemption character if he wasn’t a real person, won’t be rooting for the Western on the night of March 27. (He’s probably not a Don’t Look Up guy, either.)

On this week’s WTF with Marc Maron podcast, a surly Elliott called The Power of the Dog a “piece of sh*t” (“You didn’t like that one?” Maron asked his guest, who replied, “F*ck no”) and criticized the male characters for wearing “bow ties and not much else… That’s what all these f*cking cowboys in that movie looked like. They’re running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions of homosexuality throughout the f*cking movie.” Yikes. It sounds like someone is mad that he wasn’t cast as Bronco Henry.

The Big Lebowski actor continued

“I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his f*cking chaps,” he told Maron. “He had two pairs of chaps — a woolly pair and a leather pair. And every f*cking time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f*cking house, storm up the fucking stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps, and play his banjo. It’s like, what the f*ck?”

Elliott called Campion a “brilliant director,” but (you had to know a “but” was coming) he also wondered “what the f*ck does this woman from down there know about the American West? Why the f*ck did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That f*cking rubbed me the wrong way.” Elliott is in for a rude awakening when he learns that the man who killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot? He didn’t actually kill Hitler and then the Bigfoot. It’s a movie.

You can listen to the episode below.

(Via Insider)

Suffolk, England’s Latitude Festival took 2020 off for COVID reasons, but the fest actually went ahead in 2021. Things are a go in 2022 as well, as organizers have announced the lineup for this year’s event, which is set to go down at Henham Park from July 21 to 24.

The headliners are certainly true to the festival’s UK setting, as at the top of the bill are Lewis Capaldi, Foals, and Snow Patrol. Other highlights include Phoebe Bridgers, Maggie Rogers, Little Simz, Modest Mouse, Fontaines DC, Caroline Polachek, Rina Sawayama, Mdou Moctar, Nilüfer Yanya, Let’s Eat Grandma, and Bartees Strange.

Elsewhere on the poster are A Certain Ratio, The Afghan Whigs, Akala, Azure Ryder, Bad With Phones, Berwyn, Bessie Turner, Beth Orton, Billie Marten, Cassia, Cavetown, Cktrl, Example, Freya Ridings, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Groove Armada, Hudson Taylor, Hurray For The Riff Raff, JP Saxe, James Arthur, Joe Armon-Jones, John, Kae Tempest, Katy J Pearson, Keg, Larkin Poe, Los Bitchos, Mahalia, Manic Street Preachers, Mark Owen, Maximo Park, Melt Yourself Down, Oklou, Orlando Weeks, Penelope Scott, Porridge Radio, Rumer, Self Esteem, Shed Seven, Tamzene, Tina Boonstra, and Tribes.

Check out the poster above. For more information on attending the festival, check out the Latitude website.

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

Yesterday, Zendaya and Labrinth unveiled the sprawling song, “I’m Tired,” that played at the end of the overwhelming Euphoria finale. A version was released in early February after the fourth episode without Zendaya, but her vocals caught the attention of the watchers who lingered during the credits of the show on Sunday night, especially since the lyrics seemed very relevant to Rue’s character.

After tweeting the track, famous rapper Kid Cudi quote-tweeted it and noted that he wants in: “Please dear GOD put me on a remix of this @Zendaya @Labrinth,” he wrote. Zendaya responded by saying, “Yoooo! What a dream that would be… @Labrinth ???” Labrinth agreed: “Let’s open a new dimension,” he wrote.

https://twitter.com/KidCudi/status/1498374501339303942

Even though the Euphoria season is over, hopefully we’ll at least get some new music to hold us over while the cast prepares for the next season. Fans, meanwhile, are still wondering about the ballad that Dominic Fike’s character Elliot launched into for five whole minutes which sparked a lot of talk online. It sparked so much talk that Fike reacted to it, saying he’d been humbled. The full soundtrack for the episode included Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” Francis Lai’s “Concerto Pour La Fin D’un Amour,” and more.