What’s cooler than bein’ cool? Ice cold. What’s cooler than that? Only singing “Roses really smell like poo poo poo” at the top of your lungs on the beach in Alabama led by Outkast and surrounded by approximately 50,000 fellow ATL-liens shutting down Hangout Fest 2014 this past Sunday, 5/18.

Outkast’s Hangout Fest show was packed with throwback tracks, jump-off joints, and for some, a show literally 20 years in the making and over-delivered on already-high expectations, with a full band (including brass section — necessary), Dre and Big Boi trading lines like no time had passed at all, and a crowd more than ready to shake it like a Polaroid.

Dre and Big Boi spent equal time onstage together and off, kicking off the show with a 10-ton blast from the past in the form of “B.O.B” and “Gasoline Dreams.” Then, using the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below model (and, much like their temporary separation of their careers), the duo spent solo time in the spotlight, with Big Boi snappin’ and trappin’ to “GhettoMusick” and “The Way You Move,” while Dre moved into trippier territory with “She Lives In My Lap” and “Prototype” before synching up again for the old-school home stretch with “Player’s Ball” and “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” before a more-than-generous encore that included “So Fresh, So Clean,” and, incredibly, “The Whole World.”

Missed the return of one of rap’s all-time greatest duos? Check out full-length performances of “Ms. Jackson” and “The Way You Move” live ...

It’s good to be a gorgeous beach (people worship and pine for you, but there is the downside: urine), but it’s even better to be Amber Rose, whose radiant beauty managed to shame even the most pristine, picturesque, Instagram-worthy patches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, where master photobomber Amber introduced her Hangout Festival headliner husband, Wiz Khalifa (who just announced he’s prepping his 28 Grams mixtape), and hosted “MTV’s Summer Kickoff at Hangout Festival,” with “Guy Code” star Andrew Schultz.

Tune in to the show Sunday, May 18 at 7 p.m. ET, and check out photos of Amber Rose shaming She’s kinda photogenic, if you hadn’t picked up on that yet.

1.) Casually stunting on the beach with beauty game on lock:

2.) Out-”Baywatch”-ing “Baywatch:

3.) Blessing mortals and giant beach ball alike with her gorgeous glow:

4.) Making this ping-pong table sorry it’s not her:

5.) I can’t…

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It’s a well-known fact around these parts of Alabama that sharks, with their beady little eyes and insatiable appetite for human flesh, can be deadly if provoked… or whenever they f*cking feel like destroying you.

Fortunately Hangout Fest performers Bastille put aside their characteristic British reticence when confronted with one dual devils — both a pernicious shark and deadly sea turtle — and in an act of trepidation, boldly went good old American psycho on the highly dangerous beasts.

Feeling invigorated by their valiant act, I bravely documented the brutal battle between Woody and the evil marine life. But I should warn you: The photos below are intense and may be difficult to view.

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Hangout Festival‘s been dominated by an impressive array of bearded singer-songwriters slinging banjos and acoustic guitars and peddling hushed, chilldown folk tunes to barefoot crowds in peasant skirts and flower crowns. Unless you were at Childish Gambino‘s set. Because if you came to Hangout to, well, hang out, Childish’s set was not your place. If you came to be brainwashed by a steely eyed drill sergeant/cult leader/dance commander on a singular mission to drop a performance fiery enough to burn down the Gulf Shores boardwalk, then you got that.

Buoyed by his live band, Gambino revealed a tongue-twisting flow polished to perfection and a stage presence propelled by what could only be secret injections of rocket fuel or a hidden jetpack. On tracks like “IV Sweatpants,” Gambino carpet bombed the stage with swag, unapologetically dropping not just his mic but references to Jeff Goldblum, onomatopoeia, and (unsettlingly) the KKK for the rabid crowd to process.

On “3005,” one of his best-known tracks, and “III. Telegraph Ave.,” Gambino channeled The Love Below-era Andre 3000, revealing the trippy vulnerability and solitude (even in the midst of an audience transfixed) that make him one of the most diverse rappers in the game and bringing a much-needed (and greatly appreciated) dose of hip-hop to Hangout Fest.

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You’ll have to wait until the show airs Sunday, May 18 at 7p.m. ET, but until then, mediate on this photo of Amber Rose taking over an Alabama lifeguard stand, and marvel at the fact that her beauty is such that she makes a photo I casually snapped on my iPhone look like a Vanity Fair editorial that Annie Leibovitz and a team of photo pros planned for months. #blessed Oh, and don’t miss Amber Rose photobombing like a boss and our touching tribute to America’s cutest couple, Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa. Real love, y’all. 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And nice to see she ditched the backward platform concept shoe in favor of a sensible forest footwear. And I’m sure coveralls are comfy and everything (they are having a moment, you know). But if Gaga is moving into a phase where she exclusively shops at Bass Pro Shop, I’ll start a petition to bring back the bubble dress, and I won’t sleep until I’ve successfully canvassed each and every stop of the artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour. If, however, Gaga’s spending the weekend holed up in a cabin watching VHS tapes of MTV “Diary” and shotgunning Miller Lites, then I’m packing up my Luke Bryan MP3s and a compass (LOL whatever that is) and setting out for the forest to join her. ... Read More → EXCLUSIVE: Logan Paul Got Married! Sorry, Ladies! by Tamar Anitai 05/17/14 Beyonce has a saying about marriage, and I believe it goes something along the lines of “If you liked it then you should’ve put a ring on it.” Well, ladies, Vine star, supermarket swimmer, and tank-top enthusiast Logan Paul took that to heart (which is wise since you definitely don’t want The Beygency on your ass) down here at the Hangout Fest in Alabama, where he’s been making Vines for MTV and getting himself hitched to a lucky lady… whom he met, like, five minutes before taking her to a little beach chapel and making her Mrs. Logan Paul forever-ever. Congrats, you two! If you email me a link to your registry I’ll be getting you love birds the fifth-most expensive thing on your list! Tamar Anitai ... Read More → Childish Gambino Finds A Lost Child, Delivers Most FOMO-Inducing Hangout Fest Set Yet by Tamar Anitai 05/17/14 Oh, you wanna be Childish Gambino, do you? Well here’s what you have to do: 1.) Give the most inspired, electrifying, and explosive performance of Hangout Fest so far. (Sorry, folksy singer-songwriter types. But did you pull a crowd that looks like this? 2.) Start your set off stage. 3.) No, like WAY off stage. Preferably near a guy who looks like Kid Rock. 4.) Stay hydrated. 5.) Hire a highly skilled backing band that brings the funk and the R&B and feels like The Roots added a female keyboard player to their roster. 6.) Serve hyper-literate, sexual yet self-aware, neurotic, digitally obsessed philosophical Gambino realness on prime cuts from Camp and Because The Internet, like “Heartbeat,” “Pink Toes,” “Sweatpants,” and “Crawl.” Also, don’t hesitate to perform “Black Faces” IN ALABAMA. Also, don’t hesitate to sing just as well as you rap. 7.) Also? Turn way the f*ck up. Like the ENTIRE way up. Then stay that way. 8.) Stop your set to help find a lost child (this actually happened.) 9.) 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Come for the stellar Fleetwood Mac-ian production (crafted by the Grammy-nominated Kibby herself), stay for staggering the whistle tones, and pre-order her album, In Cold Blood, out May 20, now. + Listen to White Sea’s “Future Husbands Past Lives.” Tamar Anitai ... Read More → Ricky Dillon’s Got His Cheap Shades On And Is Ready To Party In The Pool In His Star-Studded ‘Ordinary’ Video by Tamar Anitai 04/29/14 Sincerest of sorries (and not-sorries) to you and any summer party you had planned. Actually, you know what? Just cancel it, because it’s never going to be as ceweb-studded or double-shot-filled as the summer jam that YouTube star (and 1/6th of O2L) Ricky Dillon‘s throwing in his brand-new “Ordinary” video. Deflate your sad, basic kiddie pool filled with unfulfilled dreams from your ordinary life, and watch Ricky Dillon show you how the pros do. 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