See You Next Wednesday

Belly Demands To Be Given His ‘Flowers’ In A Paranoid New Video

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Belly’s latest video from his new album See You Next Wednesday is “Flowers,” a paranoid meditation on early death and leaving a legacy. While Belly demands to be given his flowers while he’s still here, a chance encounter with a pair of plotting women results in a psychedelic trip for the Toronto rapper that ends with him getting buried alive in a shallow grave.

Prior to releasing “Flowers,” Belly kept up a steady stream of content from the album, including videos for “IYKYK,” “Zero Love,” “Better Belive,” “Die For It,” and “Requiem.” Upon its release See You Next Wednesday reached no. 26 on the Canadian Albums chart and no. 27 on the US Independent Albums chart. The album, which was named for the running gag in the films of John Landis, sees Belly ruminating on years of depression and PTSD, for which he’d recently begun therapy.

The Canadian star was also recently a fixture at Uproxx Studios in Los Angeles, where he joined our panel of rappers to watch and react to the music video for Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick, Push” for React Like You Know, and gave a passionate performance of his album single “Moment Of Silence” for UPROXX Sessions.

Watch Belly’s “Flowers” video above.

Belly And Nav Offer A ‘Requiem’ For Their Dreams That Came True In A Lavish Video

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Toronto natives Belly and Nav link up in the video for “Requiem” from Belly’s new album See You Next Wednesday, which dropped in August on Roc Nation and XO. The song is a mellow Trap&B ballad that references the film Requiem For A Dream as the two rappers boast their lavish lifestyles, inviting women to participate therein. While guest rapper Nav takes the back end, bragging about his rapidly filling passport and treating his lady to the finer things, Belly celebrates his sobriety while noting “I made addiction look elegant.”

See You Next Wednesday constitutes something of a comeback for Belly, who spent the years since dropping his last album Immigrant in 2018 operating behind the scenes, helping pen hits for his XO boss The Weeknd and pursuing a lawsuit against Goldenvoice and Coachella for assaulting him after his 2018 performance. He re-emerged this spring with the first two singles from the new album, releasing a smooth cadence of singles throughout the summer including “Zero Love” with Moneybagg Yo, “Better Believe” with The Weeknd and Young Thug, and “Die For It” with Nas and The Weeknd. The rollout culminated in a No. 27 debut on Billboard‘s US Independent Albums chart.

Watch Belly’s “Requiem” video featuring Nav above.

See You Next Wednesday is out now via XO/Roc Nation Records. Get it here.

Belly, Young Thug, And The Weeknd Are Indestructible In The Explosive ‘Better Believe’ Video

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Toronto rapper Belly is on the comeback trail, with a new album, See You Next Wednesday, he’s promoting with a string of strong singles and revitalized videos including “IYKYK,” “Money On The Table,” and “Zero Love” featuring Moneybagg Yo. Today, he keeps the rollout rolling with the explosive video for his latest single, “Better Believe,” which features his XO Records leader The Weeknd and Atlanta trap mad scientist Young Thug.

The video seems to take a lot of inspiration from The Terminator, with Belly rapping in an auto factory while The Weeknd blows up an oil refinery and Thugger takes a direct hit from an 18-wheeler and walks it off (all references to scenes from the 1984 sci-fi thriller).

And while Belly gears up to release See You Next Wednesday, his first new album since 2018’s Immigrant, his collaborators also have a few things in the works. The Weeknd has hinted that he has a full body of work on the way, while Thug is set to produce and star in a musical dance dramedy, Throw It Back, with Tiffany Haddish and Us star Shahadi Wright Joseph.

Watch Belly’s “Better Believe” video featuring The Weeknd and Young Thug above.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Moneybagg Yo Accompanies Belly In The Desert Heat In Their Assertive Video For ‘Zero Love’

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Moneybagg Yo is having the best year of his career so far. The Memphis native’s fourth album, A Gangsta’s Pain, sat atop the Billboard album charts for a pair of non-consecutive weeks, marking the first time he had a project go No. 1. The rapper has been promoting the album with a bunch of music videos, including “Free Promo,” “Hard For The Next,” and “Time Today.” But now he joins Belly in a video for their collaboration, “Zero Love.”

The video sees the pair bring their talents to the middle of a desert to fire off their confident bars. It also presents a group of dancers performing dabke, a traditional middle eastern dance as Belly described in an Instagram post. “Zero Love” is set to appear on Belly’s upcoming album, See You Next Wednesday, which will arrive through XO Records and Roc Nation. The project, which will be Belly’s first full-length release since his 2018 album, Immigrant, has yet to receive an official release date.

As for Moneybagg, the new video arrives after he teamed up with Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant for “Rookie Of The Player,” a track that appeared in the NBA player’s documentary Promiseland.

You can watch the video for “Zero Love” above.