It has been one year since George Floyd’s life was taken from him at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. set the streets of America ablaze in the following days to fight against police violence and systemic injustices. Today Bun B has honored the life of George Floyd with the new song and accompanying visual “This World” featuring Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T., with production by Cory Mo and Zaytoven.
The video itself highlighting these emotional moments that helped assemble the nation featuring imagery of the Civil Rights Movement, videos of the protest held by young Black American’s demanding justice for those who were hurt or had their lives taken due to police violence, and image of the storming of the U.S. Captial. The video concludes with the message, “Now is the time to stand up and fight against police brutality and systemic racism that plagues the United States of America. We can act now to take control of the power structures that be and destroy the system that is in place. No longer will we stand for the oppression be levied upon us by the white man.”
Bun B wrote on Instagram alongside an image of the song’s artwork, “I am honoring the memory of George Floyd with my new single ‘This World.’’ In a subsequent post, he added, “It’s been a year but what has changed? So the fight continues and we turn our pain into purpose.”
Listen to Bun B’s “This World” featuring Trae tha Truth, Raheem DeVaughn, and Big K.R.I.T. via Spotify or watch the video up top:
J.Cole’s run continues this week after earning his sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with The Off-Season, and landing all 12 of his tracks within the top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 this week, J. Cole is surely applying some pressure to the game. So what better time than to drop a video for the track “Applying Pressure.”
Debuted at No. 13 on the charts this week and currently stands as the album’s fifth most popular track charting-wise. “Applying Pressure,” was directed by Scott Lazer, J. Cole hitting the streets of New York in a gritty video, shot in a similar cinematic style of New York legend Spike Lee, where his subject is facing directly in front of the camera.
We follow Cole as he talks his talk transitioning from a parking garage, a moving subway, and an empty basketball court, and also links up with Harlem’s own Dave East, who Cole shouts out in the song. This is the second track on J.Cole’s ” The Off-Season,” with the popularity of this album, it won’t be the last.
“Army of The Dead,” was a film that took years to finally hit the big screen and Netflix simatinalously following a departure from Warner Bros. to the acquisition of its current distributor. However, this movie had the potential to be a great shoot ’em up the film with amazing action but the movie trended downward when trying to take itself too seriously and add a dramatic storyline. As Senior Contributor Erik Kain at Forbes stated in his review of the film, “Army of The Dead,” could have been more successful without the unnecessary minutes given to storylines that lead nowhere.
The movie centers around a zombie outbreak, when precious military cargo escapes from its cage due to an unfortunately timed sex act leads to a collision on a remote desert highway. This cargo happens to be a super zombie named Zeus who proceeds to kill some soldiers and then spread the zombie plague into the city of Las Vegas. In the ensuing scenes, a rendition of “Viva Las Vegas” by Richard Cheese and Allison Crown plays while presenting all the backstory and world-building required. As all of Las Vegas succumbs to the undead, the government has set up a wall built out of shipping containers to keep the zombies in.
As talks to send a nuclear strike in an attempt to end the zombie scourge once and for all, Scott Ward (David Bautista) is approached by Casino owner Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada) to recover $200 million from his casino vault before the military destroys the city—money the insurance companies have already reimbursed him. So if Scott and his team are successful Tanaka promises a $50 Million payout to divvy up amongst his team however he sees fit. Ward agrees and the recruitment montage of “You son of a bitch I’m in” characters begins. Former teammates Maria Cruz (Ana de la Reguera) and Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), along with helicopter pilot Marianne Peters (Tig Notaro who replaced Chris D’Elia after his fall from grace), German safecracker Ludwig Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer), and Chicano sharpshooter Mikey Guzman (Raúl Castillo), who brings along his associate Chambers (Samantha Win).
The group is then introduced to an additional team member of Tanaka choosing Martin (Garret Dillahunt) who can give the team access to the casino. While suspensions of Martin’s true intentions of tagging along are later brought up, fans are giving the classic plan that should go off without a hitch while riding off into the sunset. Akin to the Ocean’s film franchise.
Upon reaching the quarantine camp where Ward’s estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell), who works as a volunteer, directs them to Lily “The Coyote” (Nora Arnezeder), a smuggler familiar with the city. Lily recruits Burt Cummings (Theo Rossi), a camp security guard who’s used as a sacrifice to the Alpha Zombies for safe passage into the city. When Kate learns Lily escorted her friend Geeta (Huma Qureshi) into Vegas, Kate insists on joining the team over Ward’s objections in order to rescue her friend.
Now Geeta was a character only introduced to us as a plot device to get Kate to join the group. It’s a way to shoehorn in all the dad-and-daughter drama that only ends up dragging the story down, to begin with. The removal of this character altogether, and having Kate sneak in after her dad and caused some problems without all the extra dead plot weight.
Without spoiling things, the mission goes left and the team has to fight their way out of a suddenly hostile city when Martin takes matters the head of the Queen of Zombies. What follows is a bloody, desperate fight to get out of the city before the nuke lands which the deadline had been moved up. Giving the team less than several hours to make it of the city and blast zone alive.
When this movie whenever it isn’t taking itself too seriously, it’s fun and brainless and action-packed. It’s just a movie that never seems quite sure what it wants to be, what kind of tone it wants to have, and what kind of message it’s trying to send. It’s a mess.
Checkout “Army of The Dead,” available on Netflix and select theater today.
Rising star Audrey Nuna unleashed her latest project a liquid breakfast, this weekend, and to help bring in the new EP a music video for the track “Top Again” was paired with the release. A song written last March or April on her mother’s patio during quarantine, when it truly did feel like the world was over. The track features rapper and producer Saba a very full-circle moment for her as see been a fan of his since college and the two were acquainted with one another actually fainted next to him at a Smino concert at Irving Plaza once, right behind J Cole.
The new visual plays into her signature abstract theme that made her so popular, directed by Trey Lyons Audrey appears to be a photo shoot located in Downtown Los Angeles/ New York City before time freezes for everyone but Audrey, she then leaves the studioeyes glued her phone, suddenly the screen turns black and she is in the hospitle. One would assume she was hit by a car. As we move into Saba verse it would almost seem as if he was the grim. reaper coming to take Audrey soul to the other side.
The song itself is an imagining what it might be like if there was a huge backyard party on the last day of the world – everyone would be dancing in the rain and refusing to go back inside.
The new project is a body of work that represents the transitional phases of the young Jersey artist’s career. “a liquid breakfast is a sign of my adolescence,” she says via press release. “It’s the soundtrack of my move from the suburbs into the city back into the suburbs. I was a kid when I started writing it. I’m still a kid but there was definitely some Pika to Raichu action throughout the course of this project. I hope I stay a kid forever.”
Be sure to watch Audrey Nuna’s brand new music video for “Top Again” featuring Saba down below.
Marvyn regresses back to his old ways while defending Louise from an opposing team’s harassment. Holly gets a shot at the limelight.
Carlsbad week, as the team prepares to face their big rival the school. However, the team is hit with more adversity following the news of Louise’s (Nell Verlaque) father’s arrest during one of Miss Grint’s (Toks Olagundoye) class Kelsey proposes that Westbrook remove the Gruzinsky name from the school gym. Of course, the team disagrees with this but after the girls are made aware that Destiny (Tiana Le) signed the petition, Kelsey (Maddy Caddell) needs to mess with Lousie. A rift between Louise and Destiny’s relationship beings to form, because during practice Louise refuses to pass her the ball even though she wide open. Even though Destiny is right to have her opinion on the situation some of the girls see this as a betrayal and it easy to see the Louise has lost trust in her.
To make matters worst Carlbad’s Head Coach McCarthy (Camryn Manheim) see it as the perfect time to play mind games, interrupting their practice by belittling Samantha (Cricket Wampler) giving her a backhanded compliment congratulating her on finding a team she could play for instead of riding the bench as Sit-mantha, Sarcasticly reassumes Louise that her father is innocent until proven guilty, She asks Coach Korn if she could have the remain tickets to the game to release to Carlsbad fans after informing him that the Westbrook student protests the game until the Gruzinsky is removed.
The pressure put on Korn (John Stamos) to win by Principle Thomas (Yvette Nicole Brown) to avoid kissing the pig for a seventh consecutive time, he has to deal with the fact his player will be effect by their classmates protesting. To make the playing field even Korn convinces Principle Thomas to close the game to the public and only allow coaches, players, and officials. This was a crazy parallel to the real world as most sporting events were held without the presence of fans. Also, the fact that Westbrook will be playing the team that landed Savannah Gibbson (Deja Mattox) will definitely bring the College recruits out so Coach Korn sees this as an opportunity to pitch Louise as a player to watch out for.
In Coach Korn’s personal life he is hesitant to open a box of his late Fathers belongings due to what it may contain. However, after open the box, Korn is surprised to see that his father had a photo taken with the statue put up following Korn’s third National Championship. In this photo, it almost appears that his father seemed proud of him.
Now Moving back into the Games against Carlsbad all the outside noise was visibly affecting their performance as going into halftime the lady Siren were down by 22 points, and before halftime, Coach Korn was ejected from the game when “Protesters” that were chanting “Free Gruzinsky,” managed to enter the gym to protect Louise he threw them out of the gym. Now it is Coach Holly’s(Jessalyn Gilsig) turn to prove that she was more than capable of being the Head Coach of this team. She gives an inspirational speech, moving Louise to Shoot Guard to take advantage of matchups, (A move Korn disagreed with feeling it would mess with team chemistry) and the comeback win was on coming down to a one-possession game Holly and Samatha were well aware of McCarthy’s go-to inbound play. So Holly leaned on Samantha to make the key steal and score the deciding basket to win the game.
Following the game’s end Korn was made aware of his teams win and the key adjustment of moving Louise to Shooting Guard, something he took partial credit for, it is made very apparent to Coach Holly that Korn has a difficult time giving credit where credit is due but this and a conversation with McCarthy lit a fire underneath Holly to prove more than ever she is deserving of a Head Coaching position.
The end of this episode was a moment that Louise decided to remove her family name from the gym due to her father’s past transgressions, rebuild her legacy, and leave the shadow of her fathers expectation of what type of star basketball player she should be. This was a full-circle moment from our first encounter with Louise giving off a sense of entitlement having her name on the scoreboard, looking to score every point for the team to lead them to victory and now she is more of a team player and seems to be more humble.
The Next episode of Disney Plus original series Big Shot is scheduled for May 28, 2021.
