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February 23, 2026
Viral ‘Get ’Em Banned’ Peloton Instructor Kendall Toole Talks Movies With Tap In
Toole, who launched her own wellness app in November, talks to GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe about Hitchcock, the “Kubrick stare,” her Letterboxd top 4, and life as a meme.
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February 13, 2026
‘The Pitt’ Season Two Just Locked In
After five episodes of slow-building tension, the HBO Max hit’s Fourth of July shift bids a tragic farewell to a series regular—and delivers its first truly great hour.
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February 9, 2026
Bad Bunny Turned Super Bowl Halftime Into a Benito Bowl Win
Putting on for Puerto Rico with a dizzying one-banger-after-another performance, the Super Bowl's real superstar didn't waste a minute of his moment on the global stage, writes GQ columnist Frazier...
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February 6, 2026
J. Cole's “What If” Invokes Rap’s Greatest Beef to (Maybe) Address His Own
On The Fall-Off, his first new album since tapping out of the Kendrick/Drake feud, Cole imagines an alternate reality in which Biggie and Tupac patched things up.
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February 3, 2026
Grammys 2026: An Industry Disruptor Threw a Great Industry Party
Talking legacy and disruption with Gamma cofounder Larry Jackson, who's partnering with Ye to release Bully in March.
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January 29, 2026
J. Cole's Comeback Freestyles, Ranked
The rapper teased his long-in-the-making album The Fall-Off with four new freestyles over bedrock rap beats. GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe gives them the scrutiny Cole is asking for.
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January 25, 2026
Wait… Travis Scott Is in 'The Odyssey'?
A new TV spot for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic just revealed the Houston rapper has a full speaking part.
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January 22, 2026
Jack O'Connell Should Be the Next Joker
After O’Connell’s brilliant sicko turn in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, writes GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe, it’s time somebody called our guy up to the villain big leagues.
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January 13, 2026
'Industry' Is So Good at Casting Against Type
The HBO series is quietly becoming a paradise for actors from the likes of Stranger Things and Game of Thrones to shed their image and get wild.
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January 7, 2026
‘Tap In’ 2026 Movies, Shows and Music to Look Forward To
To kick off the year in pop culture, GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe ranks the albums, TV shows and films he’s looking forward to the most, with a few sure bets and a handful of fingers-crossed, hoping...
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December 29, 2025
What 'Marty Supreme' Writer-Director Josh Safdie Told Us About That Ending
The writer-director on fatherhood, maturity, and how we should read that last shot.
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December 24, 2025
Timothée Chalamet Is Bigger Than a Rollout
With his Marty Supreme media blitz, the actor is fusing the movie and pop star blueprints to produce something grander. At an exclusive Marty table tennis event, GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe witness...
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December 20, 2025
Dave Chappelle's New Netflix Special Has His Most Ambitious Closer Yet
The comedian's latest special which he surprise-dropped on Friday night ends with a 30-minute odyssey that's some of his best work of late.
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December 16, 2025
Josh Safdie Still Cries Watching ‘Marty Supreme’
The writer-director on his six-year journey with Timothée Chalamet, making films without his brother, and the “big feelings” he's chasing in his frenetic ping-pong epic.
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December 11, 2025
The Tap In 25 for ‘25 List is Here
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe picks the greatest albums, TV shows, verses, performances, tours, and ping-pong-prodigy movies of the year.
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December 5, 2025
Jay Worthy Is Rap’s Forrest Gump
With a two-disc opus and accompanying documentary, the LA rap journeyman with the craziest lore in hip-hop is stepping off the corner and into the spotlight.
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December 2, 2025
50 Cent Explains Why He Made a Diddy Docuseries
With The Reckoning, which hits Netflix today, 50 makes good on his promise to tell the story of Sean Combs’ rise and fall—but in a conversation with GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe, he insists the proj...
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