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July 14, 2026
Jay-Z’s Hit-Packed Yankee Stadium Shows Turned the Ballpark into a Throne Room
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe reports from the Bronx, where the once and future king of New York rap marked a pair of album anniversaries with three masterful live shows.
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July 6, 2026
Rosalía Has the Best Show of the Summer
GQ columnist (and L.A. arena-show frequent flier) Frazier Tharpe watches the Spanish pop star ascend at the Kia Forum, plus live hip-hop at its finest from A$AP Rocky and Don Toliver.
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June 25, 2026
YG Is Locked in Like It’s 2014
The Gentlemen's Club rapper debuted his best work in over a decade—and enforced a strict black-tie dress code—at a show in Hollywood.
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June 25, 2026
A Jay-Z HBO Documentary Is Coming This Fall
Rick Rubin sits down with the rapper and mogul for a wide-ranging eight-part series dropping later this year.
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June 24, 2026
Larry David Is Back Outside, and TV Is About to Get Good Again
The curmudgeonly TV legend and some pretty, pretty big guests celebrated at the LA premiere of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.
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June 15, 2026
Heat Check: Ten 2026 Song-of-the-Summer Contenders From Drake, Yung Miami and More
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe surveys the streets, the clubs, and the airwaves and predicts which songs will soundtrack the season.
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June 11, 2026
Timothée Chalamet Gets Into Betting Promo in the Most Timothée Chalamet Way
The New York Knicks fan and actor launched a new ad campaign with the prediction platform Kalshi.
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June 5, 2026
Jay-Z Locks Back In
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe reports from the ground in Philadelphia, where the rapper-turned-businessman-turned-rapper-again kicked off his stellar Roots Picnic set by addressing four years of unfi...
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June 2, 2026
‘Euphoria’ Finale: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Breaks Down That Shocking Ending
“That's iconic TV right there. It doesn't get any better than that.”
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May 22, 2026
Drake's 10* Best Songs, Definitively Ranked
A Tap In special report: After spending the week listening to new Drake, GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe picks the very best of old Drake.
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May 21, 2026
Dua Lipa Talks David Lynch, Denis Villeneuve, and More With Tap In
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe hits the Croisette with the “funmaxxing” pop diva, bibliophile, and Nespresso ambassador, who swears she doesn’t have a secret Letterboxd account.
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May 18, 2026
‘Iceman’ is Drake’s Best Album in 10 Years, If You Don’t Listen Too Closely
The centerpiece of his three-part megadrop features inspired, adventurous production, top-tier rapping, and obsessive rumination about The Beef.
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May 11, 2026
John Mulaney Went In On RFK Jr. at the Hollywood Bowl (Twice)
Pass the ivermectin, because Mulaney's new bit about the “comedy-adjacent” Health and Human Services secretary is going viral.
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May 11, 2026
How Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Built a Best-in-Class Art Collection With a “Collect What You Feel” Philosophy
As their “Giants” exhibition rolls into San Diego, GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe catches up with the musicians turned art-world power couple for a personal gallery tour.
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May 1, 2026
Sean Fennessey On Spielberg, Simmons, and Getting Back to Music Writing
The movie pod-gawd joins GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe for a conversation about the state of Hollywood.
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April 21, 2026
Labrinth Just Wants to be Honest
The singer-songwriter-composer, whose music defined the first two seasons of Euphoria, speaks out for the first time on why he walked away from the show.
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