Issa Rae is making sure the fourth season of her hit show, Insecure, starts off right by throwing a virtual block party to celebrate the season premiere. The creator and star of the HBO series announced the lineup of exciting virtual events all taking place tonight (April 12th) Instagram live and Twitter. To kick off the festivities, Issa and the cast of Insecure will be conducting a Q&A with fans at 8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST  livestream on the show’s official Instagram account. This will be followed by a DJ set from Atlanta native, Zaytona, at 9:00pm EST/6:00pm PST on the same platform. The watch party will then officially commence at 10:00pm EST/7:00pm PST, so be sure to live tweet your reactions to the premiere on Twitter. Finally, the evening will finish with a special live performance on IG live featuring a surprise musical guest.

“You are officially invited to the @insecurehbo S4 Virtual Block Party on Sunday,” Issa wrote on Instagram along with the official schedule. “Come thru! #InsecureHBO.” The “virtual block party” concept is actually a reference to a major plot point of the fourth season of Insecure that was teased in the official trailer. Fictional Issa is shown throwing a real block party in the show to celebrate L.A culture and black-owned businesses. Watch the official Insecure Season 4 trailer below to get psyched for the virtual block party tonight:

We’ve been blessed to receive lots of new music from Future already this year with the Atlanta staple having released his new singles “Life Is Good” with Drake and “Tycoon.” With the latter officially hitting streaming services this week, it was time for a classic to officially be added for our quarantine enjoyment. That’s right — we’re talking about his iconic Zaytoven collaboration Beast Mode.

The sequel to their highly-successful 2015 mixtape was already available for us to listen to on repeat but now, the rapper is allowing us to re-visit one of our favorites from a few years ago.

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Produced entirely by Zaytoven, Beast Mode was originally released for free five years ago. It followed up Monster as the second tape from Future’s iconic run on the mixtape circuit, cementing him as a force to be reckoned with in the Atlanta rap scene. A much more concise tracklist was applied to Beast Mode, also swapping bassy productions from Metro Boomin for bouncier chords.

Since its release, BM has been streamed over twenty million times across free online platforms, marking it one of Future’s more successful projects of all time. It was about time it made its way onto global streaming services.

Re-visit the classic this weekend.

Before he became one of the most celebrated producers to come out of the South, Zaytoven was a young man in barber college making beats out of his basement. He was just making music for the love of making music, but soon his talents would grab the attention of local artists including the likes of Gucci Mane. 

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Zaytoven sat down with People’s Party with Talib Kweli to chat about his history in the hip hop game and a major component of his rise was his collaborations with Gucci. He described Guwop’s work ethic as being “Tupac-like,” adding, “Me and him work alike.” Zaytoven said, “We create songs in twenty minutes. I’ll make the beat, five, ten minutes. He gon’ either freestyle or write the song. We on to the next. That’s how we do. That’s how I am today.”

Talib and Zaytoven also spoke about the conspiracy theory rumors that Gucci is some sort of clone because he’s changed so much since his prison release. “Underneath, Gucci’s always been the guy that he is right now,” Zaytoven said of the rapper’s growth. “He was super smart in school, very intelligent. He ain’t no dummy, by far. Super intelligent. I guess that time of him going away, he really sat down and thought about some things. And we gettin’ older! He really thought about it.” Zaytoven added that Gucci knew if he was going to go away for three or four years, he couldn’t return to the scene the same person he once was. “That don’t make sense.”

There are many gems in this interview, so check out Zaytoven’s chat with People’s Party below.