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'Power Book III: Raising Kanan' star MeKai Curtis talks “explosive” second season

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan returns to Starz with season two on Sunday, and fans are in for one wild ride. 

After leaving fans with more than a few unanswered questions — like will Kanan get caught for shooting an officer and is that officer his real father — season two finds the Thomas family beginning to face the aftermath of their actions. MeKai Curtis, who stars in the titular role of Kanan, tells ABC Audio that his character is on the hunt for answers when he returns to the screen. 

“He’s very weary of everything around. He wants more answers to questions that he has. And he’s going to get those answers. You know, he’s very strong and determined, just like his mother,” Curtis explains, referencing Tony Award winner Patina Miller, who portrays Kanan’s mother, Raquel “Raq” Thomas, in the series.  

“A lot of the just the way that Raq has raised him, you see that come to play in second season, you know, for better or worse,” Curtis adds. “It’s actually it’s pretty fun to see how that plays out with them but that’s the sort of space that Kanan is in in the second season…trying to figure out who he is after being who he thought he wanted to be.”

Kanan’s hunt for answers is just part of what makes for a wild season ahead — a season that Curtis and Miller describe in four words: “Explosive, revealing, emotional…and complicated.”

Power Book III: Raising Kanan, which has already been renewed for season three, also stars Omar Epps, London Brown, Malcolm Mays, Joey Bada$$, Hailey Kilgore, Shanley Caswell and Antonio Ortiz.

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Scoreboard roundup — 8/11/22

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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland 4, Detroit 3

Houston 7, Texas 3

Kansas City 5, Chi White Sox 3

Boston 4, Baltimore 3

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Miami 3, Philadelphia 0

Colorado 8, St. Louis 6

Arizona 9, Pittsburgh 3

Chi Cubs 4, Cincinnati 2

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PRESEASON

NY Giants 23, New England 21

Baltimore 23, Tennessee 10

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Las Vegas 89, Chicago 78

Connecticut 93, Los Angeles 69

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Megan Thee Stallion opens up in new album 'Traumazine': “I wanted to take control of my own narrative”

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Megan Thee Stallion‘s new album, Traumazine, has arrived. 

After a week of teasing the project, the second studio effort from the self-proclaimed Hot Girl arrived midnight Friday. The album boasts 18 tracks, including previously released songs “Plan B,” the Future-assisted “Pressurelicious” and “Sweetest Pie” featuring Dua Lipa. 

Tramazine is split evenly when it comes to solo songs and collaborations, each coming in with a total of nine tracks. In addition to Future and Lipa, Megan’s other collaborators include Key Glock, Latto, Pooh Shiesty, Rico Nasty, Jhené Aiko, Lucky Daye, Sauce Walka, Big Pokey and Lil Keke.

Hours before the album’s release, the rapper teased that the Hotties — her dedicated fans — “are definitely gonna hear the more personal side of me the more vulnerable side.”

“I feel like they are going to be able to better understand why I am the way I am. Why I’ve started to be the way that I am,” she added.

Megan elaborated during an appearance on Thursday’s The Tonight Show, where she told host Jimmy Fallon she treated the album “more like writing in my diary.”

“It looks like everybody knows me, and they have a perception of me, based on probably what other people say or what they see on the internet or just something that’s not me at all,” she shared. “And I feel like this time around, I wanted to like let everybody in my head and like, you know, form their own opinion based off of my story. I wanted to take control of my own narrative.”

Tramazine is available to stream now. 

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