Month: April 2022

A little over a year ago, Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract announced that the group’s final two albums would be released in 2021. Only one of those projects was released, that being Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, and the rest of 2021 came and went without their final effort. Abstract explained the decision to end the group, saying, “Everybody just getting a lil older and got a lot to say outside of group projects.” During their set at the first weekend of Coachella last week, Brockhampton confirmed that their final album would arrive at some point this year and they even shared a trailer for it.

In addition to saying their final album would drop this year, Brockhampton also noted that their final performance together would be at Coachella’s second weekend which took place last night. According to Desert Sun, Brockhampton took to the Coachella stage wearing matching Adidas Originals varsity jackets with the band’s logo and a quote on the back that read, “all good things must come to an end.” Throughout the set, the band made sure to note several times that the performance would be their last one as a group with Abstract saying point-blankly at one point, “It’s the last show.”

Brockhampton’s set came to an end with a performance of “Boogie,” but not before a final message from Abstract. “This is the last song we’ll ever do as a band,” he said. “That’s kinda crazy.” After their set, Brockhampton shared a post on Instagram that thanked fans for their support. “The show is over,” they wrote. “Thanks for being a part of the ride. love all of you.”

You can view clips from their last set together in the videos above.

Joel Embiid didn’t quite look like himself on Saturday afternoon as the Philadelphia 76ers lost to the Toronto Raptors in Game 4 of their first round series. It prevented Philly from picking up a sweep, but more importantly, questions were raised about whether Embiid can play at an MVP level with a compromised right hand — the big man had 21 points on 7-for-16 shooting with eight rebounds and five turnovers.

The Sixers said that Embiid was dealing with an injured ligament in his right thumb, but the plan was for him to play on Saturday then get an MRI upon returning to Philadelphia. On Sunday, Sixers coach Doc Rivers announced that the MRI was completed and Embiid is, indeed, dealing with a ligament tear.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the injury is so severe that Embiid needs to undergo surgery, but he is able to put it off until the offseason.

It is unclear exactly when or how Embiid suffered the injury, but after playing the first half of Game 3 without anything on his hand, he emerged from halftime with a brace on his thumb, which he also had one during Game 4. Embiid has caused headaches for Toronto during the series, averaging 26 points and 11.8 rebounds in 39.5 minutes per game as the Sixers have opened up a 3-1 series lead.

In the spring of 2021, Post Malone’s manager teased that the singer could drop two projects that same year. The releases would’ve been his first full-length efforts since 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, but 2021 came and went without any projects from Posty. Thankfully for his fans, he did release two singles before the year came to a close, those being “One Right Now” with The Weeknd and “Motley Crew.” Earlier this month, Post’s manager announced that his fourth album Twelve Carat Toothache would arrive at some point next month. With May less than a week ago, Post took to Instagram Live to share some new details about the project.

During the livestream, Post played a snippet of “Happy,” his upcoming collaboration with Doja Cat, and also took a moment to praise her talents. “She is so incredible,” he said before pressing play on the track. “I am so blessed and so honored to be able to have worked with her.” Post also previewed his collaborations with Roddy Ricch and Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, titled “Cooped Up” and “Love/Hate Letter To Alcohol” respectively. Before the livestream came to an end, Posty confirmed that Twelve Carat Toothache will feature 14 songs and guest appearances from The Weeknd, Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, Robin Pecknold, and The Kid Laroi.

You can listen to the snippets of “Happy,” “Cooped Up,” and “Love/Hate Letter To Alcohol’ in the videos above.

Roddy Ricch is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

While the Brooklyn Nets have not yet been eliminated from the 2022 playoffs, the team is 48 minutes away from getting swept. Following Saturday night’s home loss to the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn finds itself in an 0-3 hole, and it’s very hard to imagine a scenario where they can correct all the things that have gone wrong so far and get to the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

Kyrie Irving struggled in Game 3, scoring 16 points on 6-for-17 shooting from the field with nine assists. After the game, Irving spoke to the media and mentioned that he believes the Celtics have simply had more time to come together as a team than the Nets.

Irving, of course, missed much of the season due to his decision to not get vaccinated against COVID-19, which led to him coming under a whole lot of criticism for saying there was nothing the Nets could do. One person who tore into Irving was Stephen A. Smith, who could not believe “the gall of that man” before bringing up his contract situation should he decline his player option for next season.

“Kyrie Irving is box office, this brother deserves $50 million a year,” Smith said. “I would never give him a long-term contract again. He cannot be trusted. You pay him one year at a time. I don’t care how much money he gets, but you give it to him one year at a time. You know why? Cause you gotta make sure he’s going to show up to work. This man has played more than 11 seasons in this NBA, he has played over 60 games four times, and there’s 82 games in a season. He is one of the absolute professionals at missing work, I’m not giving him a long-term deal. You’ve got to be crazy.”

Irving, who just turned 30, can pick up a $36.5 million player option this summer. He appeared in 29 regular season games this season and, to Smith’s point, has not appeared in more than 60 since 2018-19.

Just a couple of days ago, Pusha T released his long-awaited fourth album It’s Almost Dry. It’s a 12-track effort filled with his trademark cocaine bars backed by appearances from Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pharrell, Kid Cudi, Lil Uzi Vert, Nigo, Labrinth, and Malice. The project was also heavily produced by Kanye West and Pharrell with additional help from Labrinth, 88-Keys, BoogzDaBeast, and more. So far, It’s Almost Dry has been met with favorable reviews from listeners as it appears that Pusha has elevated his game since his 2018 album Daytona.

The arrival of It’s Almost Dry has also made some question the whereabouts of Pusha’s Madlib-produced album which he’s teased on a few occasions. During the inaugural episode of Amp’s It’s Almost Dry Radio with Idea Generation’s Noah Callahan-Bever and his longtime manager Steven Victor, Pusha gave an honest answer about that project.

“I was definitely going to work with Madlib,” he said according to Complex. “I got some beats and they were actually chops from him. I just think he’s really dope at finding ill sounds and ill chops, and things of that nature.” He added, “But at the same time, it was feeling like a beat tape situation. I felt like to step it up I had to be produced — to step it up from Daytona.”

Pusha continued, “When you think about Daytona, it’s just beats and hard raps. I wasn’t produced. The structure of Kanye West you know, taking these things out or whatever the case may be. Honestly, it was just that. It’s Almost Dry is an exercise, definitely on the Pharrell side, in being produced.”

Maybe Pusha and Madlib can get on the same page at some point in the future, especially since Pusha said it was a “bucket list thing” for him to craft an album with Madlib.

It’s Almost Dry is out now via GOOD Music and Def Jam. You can stream it here.

Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

For the first weekend of Coachella last week, Billie Eilish took the stage to perform fan-favorite records from her chart-topping albums, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and Happier Than Ever, and more. During her first weekend as a headliner at Coachella last week, Billie brought out Khalid and Damon Albarn. Here, Billie and Khalid performed their duet “Lovely,” while she and Albarn joined forces for her own song, “Getting Older,” as well as Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” For the second weekend of Coachella, Billie decided to bring out Hayley Williams to the Coachella stage.

Billie introduced Hayley to the crowd and the Paramore singer was very excited to take the stage, saying, “This is my first Coachella. Woah! Thanks for sharing this with me – this is sick!” During their time together on stage, which also featured an appearance from Finneas, Billie and Hayley performed an acoustic version of Paramore’s “Misery Business,” which the band retired from their live performances back in 2018. Afterward, the duo went on to perform Billie’s “Happier Than Ever.”

You can watch clips from Billie and Hayley’s performance together above.

Hayley Williams is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last week, Kevin McCarthy was caught in a lie. The New York Times reported that the House minority leader had privately slammed former president Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot. McCarthy called the report false. Then the Times produced audio, proving he was the one bending the truth. While Trump himself claims to have already forgiven him, some of his fellow members of Congress are not.

Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday and proceeded to tear McCarthy a new one.

“Kevin McCarthy is a liar and a traitor,” Warren said, straight-up. “This is outrageous! And that is really the illness that pervades the Republican leadership right now.” She said today’s GOP “say one thing to the American public and something else in private,” adding that “they understand that it is wrong” that there was a violent attempt by Trump supporters. (Though they might not cop to the behind-the-scenes coup being investigated by the Jan. 6 committee.)

“The Republicans instead want to continue to try to figure out how to make [the] 2020 election different instead of spending their energy on how it is that we go forward in order to build an economy, in order to make this country work better for the people who sent us to Washington,” she said, adding, “Shame on Kevin McCarthy.”

Meanwhile, more and more damning intel is emerging from the House select committee’s months-long investigation. Recently it’s been revealed that Don Jr. was texting plans to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, while GOP lawmakers like Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan were a lot more involved in those plans than previously reported. Meanwhile, one of the biggest cheerleaders of 2020 election voting fraud misinformation embarrassed himself on The Masked Singer.

You can watch Warren’s CNN appearance in the video above. The discussion of McCarthy’s remarks begin around the 9-minute mark.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Liam Neeson has led one of the more interesting careers in Hollywood. A serious and soft-spoken Irish thespian, he’s played oily ‘80s baddies (The Dead Pool), complex historical figures (Schindler’s List), then had a surprise turn in his 50s as a Bronsonian action star. His career could have been even more colorful, as he revealed on an episode of The Rich Eisen Show.

During a segment called “Celebrity True or False,” the host grilled him on a number of rumors. They discussed his appearance as a “playboy Irish terrorist” on a 1986 episode of Miami Vice. He confirmed that he almost played Fezzik, the towering strongman, in the film version of The Princess Bride, but lost the role to André the Giant, partly because he was “only” 6’4.

Neeson also revealed something big: He almost, but not really, could have played James Bond. He recalled the period before Pierce Brosnan got the job of breathing new life into a dormant screen character. Neeson claimed to be one of the actors they were vaguely considering. (“They sent out feelers.”) He was never offered the role but even if he had been, he would have had to turn it down.

“I remember my dear, departed wife [Natasha Richardson, who died in 2009] said to me — we were shooting a film in North Carolina called Nell — and she looked at me straight in the face and she said, ‘Liam, if you’re offered this and if you do it, you know we can’t get married,’” he recalled. “And that was it.

Richardson, however, proved instrumental in getting him perhaps his most famous role: tough guy do-gooder Bryan Mills in Taken. He’d already been sent the script, but he suspected — perhaps rightly — that he was not really in contention. But when he accompanied Richardson to a film festival, where the film’s producer Luc Besson was the jury head, he went up to him and pitched him on why the same actor who played Oskar Schindler could convincingly brag about his ”very particular set of skills.” And the rest is history.

What Eisen didn’t ask him about is being taught how to drive by Helen Mirren. Or how a horse once remembered working with him. But maybe that’s because he already let those cats out of the bag.

You can watch the segment in the video above.

This summer will mark two years since Megan Thee Stallion was shot in the foot. The incident resulted in Tory Lanez being charged with one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. Tory has repeatedly denied being the one who shot Megan, but testimony from an LAPD detective revealed that he allegedly apologized for shooting Megan in the foot afterward. Court proceedings for the case are still underway, with Tory’s arrest for violating Megan’s protective order against him being the most recent update in the matter. As that continues, Megan took a moment to sit down with Gayle King for an interview on CBS.

The full interview will air on Monday morning, but in a clip that was shared on Sunday, Megan gives an emotional account of what happened that summer night in 2020. “It was an argument because I ready to go, and everybody else wasn’t ready to go,” Megan says at the beginning of the clip. “But that’s like normal friend stuff, we fuss about silly stuff all the time. I never put my hands on anybody, I never raised my voice too loud, like this was one of them times where it’s like it shouldn’t have got this crazy.” Megan then went on to recall the moment she was shot in the foot.

“So I get out of the car, and everything just happened so fast. All I hear this man screaming is, ‘dance, b*tch,’ and he starts shooting, and I’m just like ‘oh my God…’ like he shot a couple of times,” Megan added. She then notes that Tory was “standing up over the window shooting” at her. Megan continued, “I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick cause I’m like, ‘oh my God if I take the wrong step, I don’t know if he’ll shoot something that’s super important and I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me.”

Megan concluded the clip by saying, “I was really scared because I had never been shot at before.”

You can watch the full clip in the video above and stay tuned for Megan’s full interview with Gayle which arrives tomorrow morning.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last week, Russian Doll returned for another mind-bending season, reuniting viewers with Natasha Lyonne’s time looping New Yorker. The second season is a little different from the first, which was essentially an urban riff on Groundhog Day (much as Edge of Tomorrow was Groundhog Day with aliens), while giving its co-creator/star her meatiest role yet. But all shows transform dramatically in development, and Lyonne discussed some of the ways early incarnations were different. For one thing, it would have prominently featured a performer-turned-major film auteur.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lyonne revealed that at one point Jordan Peele played “heavily in it as a love interest.” This seems to be a number of years ago, before Get Out took his career in a very different direction. “Which is just funny to think that it’s such a pre-Jordan Peele, Oscar-winning auteur era, where we’re just like, ‘Okay, great. So he plays the boyfriend.’

There was another beloved figure who once had a smaller role: Alfred Molina, though Lyonne didn’t go into specifics. Looking back at her original pitch, she calls it a “very specific document, and it’s almost like a time capsule, because it took so long, even from the time that [Netflix] ordered a script to green lighting us direct to series, and a year went by, and in that time, so much changed.”

You can now watch the second season of Russian Doll on Netflix.

(Via EW)