A summer of omnipresence for Kanye West is set to continue, not just for new music but also for his kicks. A massive day of releases called Yeezy Day has been confirmed for West’s Adidas line, following up a marathon of drops across 14 hours back in 2019.

More than 15 different pairs of Yeezys were restocked in 30-minute intervals that day, giving fans their best chance yet at securing at least one of the coveted sneakers. No specific shoes have been confirmed for the second Yeezy Day, and chances are it’ll stay that way until the moment each goes up for sale.

Yeezy Day will go down on Yeezy Supply, the Adidas Confirmed app, and Adidas’ website, according to a report from Hypebeast. Releases will be exclusive to the United States on August 2, while customers in Europe and Asia will have their chance on August 3.

It is safe to say that most peoples’ first encounter with Among Us, the multiplayer game focused on mutiny in space, was this past year in 2020. But the game has been around since 2018 and was the beneficiary of a massive spike in interest during a year where we were all stuck inside. Among Us isn’t a competitive shooter, a complex fighter, or an RPG with an extensive universe. What the game benefits from is a simple, yet rock-solid premise: You along with a crew of up to 15 people are working together on a spaceship but there are a couple of imposters on board with murderous intent. Your goal is the work out who they are.

As part of Nintendo’s Game Trials you can play Among Us for free until tomorrow night. The catch is that this promotion is only available for users with existing Switch Online memberships. Keep in mind that this deal is only available until tomorrow, July 27 at midnight.

Rick Owens’ Ramones sneaker, which debuted in 2013, has always served as an homage to Converse’s iconic Chuck Taylor and the namesake band that wore said sneaker so religiously. It’s only fitting that Owens finally collaborate with Converse to make an official rendition of his Chuck Taylor — paying tribute to its punk roots, of course.

"When I think of Converse, I think of the black and white Chuck Taylors and the punk rock generation. These have always been iconic pillars of my aesthetic," the designer said in Nike’s press release. "Wearing Chuck Taylors, you align yourself with a generation that was experimental. There is a confident dynamic to the subculture.”

Owens has certainly aligned himself with the experimental generation; his distorted designs are now influencing the next one. Ever since the January announcement of Owens’ Converse collaboration, hundreds of fans — including myself — were eager to get their hands on his distorted Chuck 70 sneakers. Remixed in high and low iterations under the designer’s DRKSHDW sub-label, the shoes have gotten the true Owens treatment: monochromatic shades of white and black dress the classic kicks while a modified silhouette gives them a signature gothic look.

Drake’s clothing line, October’s Very Own (better known as OVO), has previously received praise for making a space in streetwear for women. The brand’s latest “Weekender” collection, however, utilizes the same pink range that women are tired of, and offers no outstanding silhouettes. What happened to our “Wants and Needs,” Drake?

OVO’s first womenswear capsule, which debuted last December, saw loungewear staples like sweatpants paired with mesh bodysuits, patterned silk pajamas, and luxurious headbands. Drake’s love of women finally seemed to be benefiting them — radio hits aside — and with the rapper starting to design loungewear for his sublabel with Nike, it was hoped he could inspire a bigger change for womenswear within the streetwear industry.

We have been covering police departments’ grotesque love affair with shiny surveillance state toys for a while now, but a new deep-dive courtesy of Vice offers some of the most troubling misuses of cop tech yet. According to extensive court analysis and interviews with multiple sources, police have repeatedly pushed to alter trials’ audio evidence to better support prosecutors’ cases against defendants. More specifically, law enforcement has leaned on ShotSpotter, a contracted surveillance system utilizing dozens of hidden microphones installed across a city to pinpoint gunshots’ sound, location, and time.

One such documented What-The-Fuckery (this is the technical terminology if we’re not mistaken) stems from a May 31, 2020, shooting / homicide in Chicago which ShotSpotter initially logged as occurring near 5700 South Lake Shore Drive — a location which was later overridden by ShotSpotter analysts to instead list as the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue, roughly a mile away to enhance prosecutors’ evidence against the alleged killer.

Additionally, the software’s algorithms initially classified the percussive sound as a firework... a designation which was also overridden by a different analyst on a separate date to instead be categorized as a gunshot. There are quite a few more shady evidence switcheroos in the Vice exposé, so please, feel free to join us below if you have the stomach for it.