reviews
At 20, Tyler Gregory Okonma (more widely known as Tyler, the Creator) left Los Angeles for the first time. He reviews the experience on “MASSA” from his sixth studio album spitting “I got out my bubble, my eyes, just wide/My passport is the most valuable.” His next lap around the country—a lucrative tour—was then fueled […]
It was a star-studded finale to Nav’s Never Sleep tour in his hometown of Toronto at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday. Rexdale’s own brought out surprise guests Meek Mill, Lola Brooke, and Travis Scott to celebrate the end of the tour. Meek came out first, wearing Nav’s special tour jacket designed by Mr. Saturday. They performed […]
In talking about John Wick: Chapter 4, it’s best to discuss South Park first. In browsing TikTok the other day, I came across a recirculated video of Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone lecturing a group of NYU students over a decade ago about storytelling—specifically, the idea that good scripts are moments assembled around […]
Succession is a hydra. HBO’s award-winning drama, and the undisputed reigning best show on television, is like the patriarchal figure at its center—anytime you think you’ve got it beat, it grows two more heads. In its fourth and final (although only recently revealed to be so) season, Succession is full of unexpected thrills, constantly sprouting […]
Yeat keeps his foot on the gas pedal. After dropping multiple projects last year, the Portland-based rapper returned this week with his third studio album AftërLyfe. The effort arrives about a year after Yeat unleashed his sophomore LP 2 Alivë, and nearly six months after he came through with his Lyfë EP. The 22-year-old artist teased AftërLyfe in his Complex cover story […]
Joe Goldberg’s bullshit has run its course. How much longer could we go on watching a relatively average white man get away with literal murder? Not long. But the popular Netflix series You has already gone on for four seasons and even survived a cancelation on Lifetime after Season 1 before making its way to the streaming service. The […]
From its opening moments, The Last of Us seems engineered to defy preconceptions. HBO’s television adaptation of the hit PlayStation and Naughty Dog post-apocalyptic video game franchise doesn’t open with the game’s thunderous prologue but with a bold zag. It’s 1968 and a Johnny Carson–like host is talking with two panelists about the dangers of […]
Jayden Myrick, an associate of Young Thug’s YSL collective, has been convicted of murder in a case unrelated to the larger one that has been underway since May. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 22-year-old was found guilty Thursday in connection to the fatal shooting of Christian Broder. The incident took place in July 2018, when the […]
Usher is just a few weeks away from ending the first leg of My Way – The Vegas Residency, and he’s going out on top. More than 5,000 people came from all over the world to the Dolby Live theater at Park MGM to watch the R&B singer, which to some may seem excessive, but […]
What does it mean to be a hero? In most tales in the superhero genre, the answer to that question is a black-and-white binary. Reality is much more complicated, as someone’s protector is just as easily another person’s intimidator. That tension is at the heart of Black Adam, the latest entry into the DC Extended Universe, […]
