Hip-hop has something for everyone. That’s the beauty of the genre — but in some instances, it reflects ugly realities. Future’s I Never Liked You and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss are two 2022 rap albums that lean on misogynistic tropes, in their marketing and lyrical content, to great success. Future fully leaned into being the “toxic king” on his project, amplifying the late, controversial relationship expert Kevin Samuels and lacing the album with glimpses of chauvinist tyranny. Similarly, Her Loss was defined by Drake’s hypermasculine posturing,...
- 12/30/2022
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
Like many young American dreamers on their first trip abroad, the “Atlanta” crew took inspiration from their European setting to deliver a penultimate season filled with big swings. Nearly half the episodes didn’t include the main cast. Two more that did were spotlight episodes for Van (Zazie Beetz) and Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), which didn’t include the rest of the core ensemble. Cameos stirred the pot, from Chet Hanks to Liam Neeson, Kevin Samuels to Alexander Skarsgård. The first 10 episodes released in 2022 — and the first released since 2018 — repeatedly reshaped “Atlanta,” with stories critiquing white liberals’ shortcomings (hello to “The Big Payback”), others examining fears specific to Black entertainers (“New Jazz”), and plenty of episodes chock-full of ghosts.
Spirits of the past feel right at home among Europe’s dense history and make great additions to a trippy comedy like “Atlanta” — especially ones that take the form of real characters,...
Spirits of the past feel right at home among Europe’s dense history and make great additions to a trippy comedy like “Atlanta” — especially ones that take the form of real characters,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
FX's "Atlanta" is famous for taking inspiration from real-life events and controversy, but season three's ninth episode picks up a new storyline we have yet to see from the series. In yet another detour episode without our mainstay crew - Earn (Donald Glover), Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), and Van (Zazie Beetz) - titled "Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga" (a clever nod to Jay-Z's "The Story of O.J."), we follow a new protagonist named Aaron (played by Tyriq Withers), a high school senior who struggles with being biracial.
Throughout the episode, "Atlanta" tugs at Aaron's inner quarrel that pits his Black and white identities against each other through a series of ridiculous scenarios and subtle hints (like the Outkast "Stankonia" poster recreation Aaron pays no mind to or his out-of-touch views on police violence) that eventually force him to make a tough decision. By way...
Throughout the episode, "Atlanta" tugs at Aaron's inner quarrel that pits his Black and white identities against each other through a series of ridiculous scenarios and subtle hints (like the Outkast "Stankonia" poster recreation Aaron pays no mind to or his out-of-touch views on police violence) that eventually force him to make a tough decision. By way...
- 5/13/2022
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
A review of this week’s “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” coming up just as soon as I tell you why the Five Heartbeats broke up…
In the final seasons of Mad Men, the weekly episode descriptions that appeared in TV listings and DVR program guides became hilarious in their spoiler-phobic vagueness: The logline for the Season Six finale read, simply, “Don has difficulties.”
Atlanta has been taking a different, but equally amusing, approach to its Season Three loglines. Each has been written from the perspective of a fan of the show who is,...
In the final seasons of Mad Men, the weekly episode descriptions that appeared in TV listings and DVR program guides became hilarious in their spoiler-phobic vagueness: The logline for the Season Six finale read, simply, “Don has difficulties.”
Atlanta has been taking a different, but equally amusing, approach to its Season Three loglines. Each has been written from the perspective of a fan of the show who is,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
The YouTube community has lost one of its own. YouTuber and self-proclaimed relationship guru Kevin Samuels has died, Atlanta police have confirmed. On May 5, the Atlanta Police Department said they were called to a residence in response to "a person injured." Upon arrival, officers noticed first responders performing CPR on a Black male, who was unresponsive and lying on the floor of his apartment. A woman who was at the residence identified the victim as Samuels. According to the police report, the unidentified woman—who is a nurse—told officers that she tried to help Samuels after he complained about having chest pain, but that he fell on her. She said that...
- 5/6/2022
- E! Online
Kevin Samuels, the popular YouTuber known for his controversial dating advice and comments about Black women, has died. He was 56.
Samuels’ mother, Beverly Samuels-Burch, confirmed her son’s death to NBC News, although declined to share details. Samuels-Burch added that she learned of her son’s death from social media: “That was a terrible thing for social media to put that out,” she said. “I didn’t even know. I hadn’t even been notified. All I’m doing is requesting that people pray for us.”
Per a police report,...
Samuels’ mother, Beverly Samuels-Burch, confirmed her son’s death to NBC News, although declined to share details. Samuels-Burch added that she learned of her son’s death from social media: “That was a terrible thing for social media to put that out,” she said. “I didn’t even know. I hadn’t even been notified. All I’m doing is requesting that people pray for us.”
Per a police report,...
- 5/6/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
For all those dreading the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, Future has dropped a new single just for you. “Worst Day” finds the rapper spending his first release of 2022 lamenting the expectations of the romance-driven day — and the track’s accompanying video features controversial “professional image consultant” and dating advisor Kevin Samuels, who counsels Future on his relationships with women.
“Valentine’s Day, the worst day, got too many to please,” Future raps. “Spent over a hundred Gs and she still wasn’t pleased.”
“Worst Day” follows “Pushing P,” Future...
“Valentine’s Day, the worst day, got too many to please,” Future raps. “Spent over a hundred Gs and she still wasn’t pleased.”
“Worst Day” follows “Pushing P,” Future...
- 2/11/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
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