Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: 2 Chainz finds new depth as an artist, Little Simz shines, Blu explores L.A. rap styles with Oh No, and Myka 9 finds a producer to match his incredible style. 2 Chainz, Rap or Go to the League
Rap or Go to the League is the culmination of a strange shift in focus for 2 Chainz.
The true-crime-podcast universe is ever-expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites.
Ologies: “Graphology (Handwriting/Forgery) with Sylvia Kessler”
Host Alie Ward’s weekly science deep dive takes a turn for the criminal this week as she welcomes graphologist-graphoanalyst Sylvia Kessler as her guest.
The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites. To read the last edition, click here. Shedunnit: “Nurse Daniels”
I just recently stumbled upon Shedunnit, and it has quickly become a new favorite.
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First the Swifties, then the Beyhive, and now the BTS Army? We’re starting to think Ticketmaster has some sort of degradation kink. The ticket-selling company has once again angered fans after canceling the rest of the sales of BTS member Suga’s upcoming Agust D tour in the U.S. due to “extremely high demand,” despite the fact that dynamically priced “platinum” seats are still available. The news came after Ticketmaster held a Wednesday “ARMY MEMBER” presale, which was only available to fans who have paid for memberships in BTS’s fan club.
The newest sequel to Predator, The Predator — the definite article helps, unlike David Gordon Green’s confusingly named sequel to Halloween, Halloween — is Shane Black’s enthusiastic attempt to relaunch this particular series with a bit more family-friendly color and context. That’s not hard, given that John McTiernan’s 1987 original was cold, Spartan, and devoid of much beyond the premise of a huge, dreadlocked extraterrestrial hunting a bunch of muscular Special Forces operatives led by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch in the jungles of Central America.
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Time magazine’s TV critic, James Poniewozik, offers up the magazine’s definitive list of the 100 greatest television shows of all time (sorry, “all-TIME”). The list is surprisingly good, hitting pretty much every critic-bait mark in drama and comedy. The Wire? Check. Buffy? Check. Arrested Development? Check. Freaks and Geeks? Check. The Simpsons and The Sopranos? Double check! Poniewozik even does a decent job of including some shows that don’t fit the traditional comedy/drama mold: American Idol, SportsCenter, Sesame Street, and “MTV 1981–1992” are all, appropriately, on the list.
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Timothy Olyphant is dusting off his hat (oh, you know the one). The actor is set to reprise his role as Raylan Givens, that smoldering gunslinger, in a miniseries spinoff of FX’s crime drama Justified, which ended in 2015. Justified: City Primeval reunites Olyphant with producers of the original acclaimed series — including creator Graham Yost. The new limited series is set to be based on Elmore Leonard’s novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit — after the original series drew from Leonard’s novella Fire in the Hole and other stories featuring the Givens character.
SNL’s “Mom Jeans.” In the “Reunion” episode of 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy is able to blend in with Liz Lemon’s high-school class because, he explains, “rich 50 is middle-class 38.” By that logic, Tina Fey turns 38 today. And what a 38 years it’s been!
Since becoming the first woman to serve as Saturday Night Live head writer and especially after broadcasting a fictionalized version of her SNL tenure on 30 Rock, Fey has been a highly visible member of the upper echelons of comedy.