The weekend is upon us once again, which means it’s time for another episode of Crazy In Love. Whether you love Blueface and Chrisean Rock, or love to hate on them, the couple’s on-screen antics have been bringing undeniable entertainment to audiences all around the nation.
Last week, we heard the two get into a lover’s quarrel. The 25-year-old was insisting upon calling his partner by a derogatory name that upset her. “You call me a bitch all the time, bro,” the reality starlet whines to her man in front of the camera. In the previous episode, he clapped back, “Okay, and you are one. I’ll call you a bitch right now! ‘Cuz that’s what you are.”
Chrisean Rock and Blueface attend the 2nd annual Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards at The Beverly Hilton on June 24, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Prince Williams/Getty Images)
In the same show, fans saw an appearance from Wack 100. He was quick to label Chrisean as a “distraction” for Blueface. In the time since, DJ Akademiks has also spoken out in agreeance – particularly after the 22-year-old admitted to hitting the rapper in the head with a glass cup earlier this month.
On this week’s edition of Crazy In Love, it looks like we may get a break from the couple’s incessant bickering. Instead, the latest previews show the “Thotiana” artist preparing his other half to see his family. He even gets brutally honest with his mother in one of the circulating clips.
“I don’t know why you think that you’re special,” Blueface tells Karlissa Saffold in a video posted to @theneighborhoodtalk. Sensing her immediate disappointment, he back tracks, saying, “You very special, don’t get it twisted. You my mom and everything.”
The family matriarch comes back at him with, “You just said you have no remorse, like I’m leaving here with that!” In response, he drops a bomb, telling the woman who raised him that he feels as though he’s “more mature than her.”
“Love you, mother, but you just not my type of woman I guess,” Blueface concludes. “Not my type of lady.”
The same clip then cuts to a conversation between Chrisean and her man’s sister, who were able to remain composed during their chat. When the rest of the family joined in though, things became physical.
See this weekend’s preview for yourself below, and check back later for more pop culture news updates.
Reality TV is specifically known for documenting the most interesting of couples, and Blueface and Chrisean Rock are no exception. In late 2022, Zeus premiered their Crazy In Love series, which follows the two entertainers through the countless ups and downs of their romantic relationship.
The first episode of the year markedly made its debut on Sunday (January 8). Onscreen, more drama between the “Thotiana” rapper and his partner played out as he took a trip to Las Vegas without her. At the same time, she decided to head over to Baltimore, which subsequently resulted in him blocking her number and apparently deleting a video of them together from his page.
Chrisean Rock and Blueface attend Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Pure Heat Community Festival at Piedmont Park on September 4, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)
Despite the chaos, Rock still tried to have a good time, stepping her “rich p*ssy” out on the town with a friend to take her mind off of things.
Elsewhere in the latest episode, the couple found themselves feuding over Blueface wanting to call the 22-year-old a “bitch.” In a clip posted to @theneighborhood talk, he tells her, “You not finna disrespect me for no reason.”
Cutting him off, Chrisean says, “You call me a bitch all the time, bro.” Immediately, the California native claps back, “Okay, and you are one. I’ll call you a bitch right now! ‘Cuz that’s what you are.”
As the bickering continues, she asks to be called by her first name. “Do you have a vagina?” Blue asks her. “My name is Chrisean,” she calmly responds.
“You wanna be a n*gga so bad. You wanna be a man so bad. I don’t wanna be with a man, I want to be with a bitch,” the 25-year-old explicitly tells her. “You call your friend and your friend call you bitch all day long. Why you get offended ‘cuz I said it?”
The argument then escalates to some yelling, at which point Blueface urges Rock to “find [herself].”
While that moment has certainly been making rounds on social media, Wack 100’s appearance in the episode also has people talking. During his stint on Crazy In Love, the music executive made it clear that he thinks Chrisean is “a distraction” to her beau.
Check it all out below, and tap back in later for more hip-hop news updates.
Chrisean Rock and Blueface’s relationship is full of undeniably chaotic moments – many of which are now seen on camera for their reality TV series, Crazy In Love. Airing every Sunday on Zeus, the unhinged series follows the tumultuous pair as they feud with each other and their family members, all in the name of money and “love.”
Only two episodes of the show have aired, but the drama has been so unimaginable that audiences couldn’t fathom what’s possibly coming next. Thankfully, we now have answers, and they’re certainly juicy, to say the least.
Chrisean Rock and Blueface attend Goliath Aftershock at Lyfe Nightclub on September 4, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.(Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)
This week’s edition of Crazy In Love finds Rock and her rapper beau addressing their recent sex tape leak. As you may recall, a video of the pair being intimate came out shortly after the 22-year-old declared herself “single” back in October.
At the time, a video of Blueface in bed with another woman was making rounds. Obviously, Chrisean the clip of the “Thotiana” rapper upset Chrisean. After apparently trashing his hotel room, she began a juicy Instagram Live session.
“I almost went to jail, yo, I swear to God,” the entertainer told viewers. “I broke everything in my hotel room in front of that n*gga… The TV, the window… He had to run from that hotel to another.”
In the same Live, Rock showed footage of Blueface’s baby with Jaidyn Alexis. Additionally, she really stirred the pot by showing the world footage of her and the 25-year-old in the bedroom.
On Saturday (December 24), @theneighborhoodtalk uploaded a preview of this weekend’s Crazy In Love episode. As the starring couple gets pedicures at the nail salon, they discuss leaking the video as well as the following implications.
Blueface is obviously confused by Chrisean’s decision, even pointing out to her that now, more women than ever before are DMing him. She remained calm and collected, letting him know that her hotline is also blinging just as frequently.
Check it all out in the preview below, and tap back in later for more hip-hop news updates.
The third episode of Zeus’ Crazy In Love is quickly approaching. Those who have tuned into the show so far are curious as to what will happen next. In the premiere, Blueface was hit by his girlfriend, Chrisean Rock’s father. By next Sunday, though, he got his lick back – but not before he was additionally confronted by his partner’s older brother.
Aside from the physical fighting, we’ve also seen the usual bickering between the famous couple. Even before they were given a reality TV show, their fights were (and still are) frequently broadcast on Instagram Live. In this week’s edition of the series, it looks as though there’s only more squabbling to come.
According to a preview uploaded to @theneighborhoodtalk, Rock and the “Thotiana” rapper are having issues agreeing upon the status of their relationship.
As they sit in the nail salon, Blueface asks her, “What is the status of our relationship right now?” The entertainer quickly claps back, “Why are you asking me?” He responds, “Last time I checked, you was single.” The aggravated look left on her face after speaks volumes.
The camera then cuts to a glam session where Rock vents about her feelings. “I love him and I want to be together, but he got to figure out his life. I got n*ggas right now wanting to be my n*gga.”
As the scene shifts again, we see the Crazy In Love couple sharing a moment of affection in the house. The “Thotiana” rapper adjusts Chrisean’s hair while gazing at her lovingly. Immediately after we see her speaking with another man, saying, “I don’t know why he expects me to stay here,” seemingly speaking on the trajectory of her career.
Of course, the drama only gets more intense as Rock discovers that Blueface took a trip to Las Vegas without her. Immediately she expresses that he’s not there to gamble, but rather, to sleep with other women. This sparks a major rift between the two, with the “Rainy Days” artist sobbing in bed as she cusses her man out.
As if that weren’t already enough, the same episode will also see Rock deal with a stressful court case. In the new trailer, it sounds like she could face some serious legal trouble if things don’t go her way.
Check out Zeus‘ official trailer for Crazy In Love below, and check back later for more pop culture news updates.
One can’t swing a dead rat on the sinking ship of making money in the music industry without hearing about how TikTok has become this incredible tool for music discovery. And sure, it’s true — a new generation has learned to vibe with Fleetwood Mac, Gayle, and Kate Bush. Wait, hold up, that last one, while a TikTok banger, was on the Netflix to TikTok pipeline in 2022. While TV shows aren’t using music as prolifically as they once did or introducing us to as much new music (there are a lot of great shows leaning heavily on catalog songs and fewer shows like the recently completed tastemaker Insecure), it’s still a fantastic music discovery tool.
As is the case every year, this year a myriad of shows wowed us with clever placements — although more and more of them are catalog songs. The Dropout made fine use of reintroducing Wolf Parade’s excellent “I’ll Believe In Anything,” an underappreciated track in its own time that caused a bit of furor among aging indie rock fans since it was released in 2005 and soundtracked a moment set in 2002. Author and showrunner Jenny Han turned in a pitch-perfect soundtrack with The Summer I Turned Pretty, packed with familiar hits from artists modern (Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B, and Kim Petras all made the first episode) and classic (Electric Light Orchestra, Edith Piaf, and the Pussycat Dolls appear throughout the season). Season 2 of Euphoria dug deeper than most and made us all fall in love with Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 not totally forgotten hit “Right Down The Line” and Sinead O’Connor’s 1987 deep cut “Drink Before The War” by embedding them into pivotal lives of the characters. Derry Girls took us back to the late ‘90s with an emotional Fatboy Slim-soundtracked episode. The Bear and Station Eleven provided fantastic music moments for dad rock. Stranger Things gave us justice for Kate Bush.
TV in 2022 dealt a lot of wins to the well-known artists of the current generation and the forgotten hits of the near and not-so-near past — no doubt Rafferty and O’Connor had to scramble to get official versions of those songs up on YouTube to cash in, just as Spotify had to scramble to get them featured on some playlists. And a lot of songs that hit the sweet spot after a TV placement go on to viral success elsewhere — the number of TikToks suddenly throwing Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” on a video about the best places to eat in a random city or relationship advice was through the roof, and more than a little weird. It feels like, for the past several years now, TV has been running to the catalog instead of trying to break new artists. The Sex Lives Of College Girls and She-Hulk may have done the most to feature new artists, with soundtracks heavily focused on the hottest and newest from Gen Z and contemporary women in hip-hop, respectively. Although neither has quite had the cultural capital to create a breakthrough moment for a new artist. If, as The Guardian suggested earlier this year, “syncs (industry terminology for music used in shows) are becoming a bigger part of the music industry than ever,” aren’t we missing a massive opportunity for syncs to break artists?
It would seem that another amazing outlet for syncs for newer, emerging musicians would be reality TV. The genre has garnered quite a lot of buzz in the past year for its soundtracks, especially on the splashy Netflix shows. When Selling Sunset dropped, all we wanted to know was where all this comically bad “girlboss” music came from — and the show leaned all the way into that genre in season 2, which dropped in two parts this year. One of the songwriters told Buzzfeed, “It’s been very funny to watch Twitter, and I feel like so many people have been talking about the music. They don’t understand that we know this is garbage.” And as another artist who creates a lot of reality TV music told Mashable, “This music is so hilarious, so funny to create, but at the same time, yes, it’s so dumb some of the time.”
It’s the same story in the universe of Real Housewives, The Kardashians, the cooking competition genre on the Food Network, and the full constellation of Netflix reality shows. Why is so much of this music trash?
In short, most reality shows are set up to use music libraries rather than license actual music. The Hollywood Reporter gracefully broke down how that process works in an interview with former Laguna Beach and The Hills showrunner Adam DiVello, the current showrunner for Selling Sunset. Twenty-ish years ago, when he was working on the MTV shows, the network had it in their licensing agreements with labels that it was allowed to use any song a video was submitted for in the soundtrack of their shows for a minimal fee. As major label groups renegotiated, and indie labels objected because they were getting a lot more money from The OC and Grey’s Anatomy, it became more than the budget of a reality show could bear to license real music. So, the network began creating a music library. And it set the tone for the whole industry: now using libraries that license what’s known as bed music. And as time has gone on, it’s become more and more common for these unknown library artists to get prime placements and long needle drops (industry speak for when a song plays) in reality shows.
Those extended placements have bands and labels hungry again. Polygon noted that Coldplay got in on the Love Is Blind season 3 action this year, licensing their song “Biutyful” partly because the show does such long needle drops. The Kardashians will license a track from the Billboard Hot 100 from time to time, which has been the blueprint of their reality history from nearly the beginning. But otherwise, we’re getting a bunch of music that’s cheesy on purpose to soundtrack TV that executives like and continue to green light because the production budget is so low.
Musicians lose on all fronts in this scenario. Those library artists who create tracks earn a flat fee for licensing their music, and it can be as low as hundreds of dollars for a use — or even one dollar. If the show airs on cable or network TV, they can collect money from the performing rights organization (PRO) that represents them, with fees in the low thousands, depending on when and on what network it aired and for what duration. But that’s not enough — it’s nowhere near the tens or hundreds of thousands that music licensed through a label or agency would cost. And we have yet to see a career launched from a reality TV show placement. If it’s not creating social cache and delivering anything to the discourse — and we all think it’s kind of dumb — what is the point?
This model is also not doing any favors for working-class musicians. And is it just happening because production companies are being cheap? It’s time to ratchet up the budget, take a chance on some up-and-coming artists, and make some careers.
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
