With his new multimedia projectEntergalactic coming out Friday, Kid Cudi stopped by The Tonight Show to talk about the upcoming project, perform one of its songs with Ty Dolla Sign, and share adorable stories about his family with host Jimmy Fallon.
One of those stories involved another of Cudi’s acting roles from earlier this year in the horror film X. Because of the film’s explicit nature — it’s about a film crew being killed off while trying to shoot an X-rated movie at an elderly couple’s farm — Cudi jokes that he asked director Ti West to make a “mommy edit” so he could screen it for his mom. To his surprise, the director came through, asking for his mom’s address so he could send her the cleaned-up version of the film.
Cudi also explained his and his daughter’s made-up language, which consists mainly of “meeps” and other nonsense sounds. Then, he joined Entergalactic co-star Ty Dolla Sign (a lot of Tys/Tis in Cudi’s contact list, eh?) onstage to perform “Willing To Trust” from the musical side of the project.
Watch Kid Cudi’s interview with Jimmy Fallon up top and check out with performance with Ty Dolla Sign below.
Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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Each of the artists had a blurb written about them by another famous person. Jimmy Fallon, who will welcome Jack Harlow as co-host of The Tonight Show for an episode in October, wrote of Harlow, “‘What’s Poppin?’ That was the first time I heard Jack Harlow, and I couldn’t have pulled my phone out any faster to Shazam the song. That usually leads to a string of phone calls and emails to see if an artist is ready to perform or debut on The Tonight Show — and word back from his team was, ‘He’s ready.’ It’s been fun to ride with him — rom that race against time on Shazam, to his debut TV performance, to being part of his viral VMA opening, to his actually co-hosting The Tonight Show with me. And this is just the beginning for Jack Harlow.”
Actress Tommy Dorfman also said of Sawayama, “Rina Sawayama is magnificent. She puts in the work and it is paying off in a beautiful, organic way that I deeply admire. When you have the kind of artistic integrity that she has, you can’t fail. Because she’s not competing with anyone — she’s in a league of her own. Her music is so powerful and so danceable. She has such a warm and loving energy, so it’s always great to see her.”
We are just hours away from new Paramore music. Their first single in five years, called “This Is Why,” is set to drop later today, ahead of their upcoming sixth album, also titled This Is Why, which will arrive in February. Ahead of their new era, the band’s lead vocalist Hayley Williams shared a message to Discord.
In the message, Williams said the time spent at home during the COVID-19 pandemic was necessary in order for her to get in the right headspace to make music again.
“We’re all in our 30s now,” said Williams, “Almost every single time the guys and I are together — and that’s a lot — we find ourselves reminiscing on the last two decades of friendship as if we’re ancient. It may sound silly, but none of us can actually believe that we’re still here and that somehow, people still seem to care. It’s a massive deal… something we don’t take lightly.”
Elsewhere in the note, Williams shared that the band has a busy “next couple of years” planned for their new era.
“I know that I would not be ready to give myself back to the band and the music and the life that I love so much had we not voluntarily given it up for a season,” Williams said.
This Is Why is out 2/10/2023 via Atlantic.
Paramore is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Last night at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, a powerful lineup of musicians showed up to honor the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins in a special tribute concert. (Hawkins passed away in March.) The show spanned several hours, with everyone from Joan Jett, Kesha, Mark Ronson, Alanis Morissette, Miley Cyrus, and more giving special performances in his honor. One of the special guests was none other than actor and Tenacious D musician Jack Black, who gave some touching words on Hawkins as he introduced Rush’s set.
“What an incredible show, what an incredible tribute to a beautiful man,” Black started his speech as the crowd cheered. “I was lucky. I got to see Taylor live in person several times and he always blew doors down. Anyone who saw him live and in person knows what I’m talking about. One of the best times I ever saw him was right here.”
He references attending Foo Fighters’ lead singer Dave Grohl‘s 45th birthday show, before continuing to share a special moment he had with Hawkins.
“Taylor just f*cking tore it apart,” he continued. “I snuck backstage before the show started. I poked my head into Taylor’s dressing room and he was just f*cking practicing as hard as hell. It was a beautiful thing to see, ’cause he was serious, no f*cking around. He really meant it and it was important to him. He didn’t want to do a good show. He wanted to f*cking blow people’s minds. And he did it.”
Black notes that the second time he saw Hawkins at the Kia Forum was when he was in the audience for a Rush show, which led into the band coming out. They played “Working Man” alongside Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, as Rush’s drummer Neil Peart passed away in 2020. Rush also brought out Tool’s Danny Carey for “YYZ.”
Watch Jack Black give a tribute to Taylor Hawkins and introduce Rush above.
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Say what you will about his politics (and there’s a lot to say), Donald Trump was undeniably one of the great sh*tposters of our time. @oldTrumpTweetz has become a one-person Library of Congress, with a robust collection of tweets from the former-president. Here’s a classic from September 11, 2013: “I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.” And another from November 9, 2012: “It makes me feel so good to hit ‘sleazebags’ back — much better than seeing a psychiatrist (which I never have!).”
One tweet that you won’t see, however, is the time Trump fired his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, because it never happened. But it reportedly almost did!
The Washington Postreports that Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, shows how Trump “regularly pitted aides and even family members against one another in the White House. For example, Trump frequently told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he wanted Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to depart the White House.”
“In meetings with Kelly and [White House Counsel Don] McGahn, Trump gave instructions to essentially fire the pair. Kelly and McGahn resisted, expressing their fear that he would not back them once his daughter and son-in-law pushed back. At one point, Trump was about to write on Twitter that his daughter and son-in-law were leaving the White House. Kelly stopped him, saying Trump had to talk to them directly before doing so. Trump agreed, then never followed up with the conversation,” the book says.
In the midst of trying to overturn the 2020 election, Trump also reportedly told Rudy Giuliani, “Okay, Rudy, you’re in charge. Go wild, do anything you want. I don’t care.” He talks the way he tweets (well, tweeted).
Haberman’s Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America hits stores on October 3.
Thanks to Ryan Reynolds blowing the minds of Marvel fans everywhere by revealing that Hugh Jackman will return as Wolverine in Deadpool 3, the reactions have been flying in. Even Logan director James Mangold got in on the act. Following the Deadpool 3 announcement, Mangold tweeted a GIF of the infamous death scene where Wolverine is killed by a younger clone of himself in the film’s brutal climax.
The scene does present some problems for how the heck Jackman’s Wolverine will be appearing alongside Reynold’s Deadpool, and some fans interpreted Mangold’s tweet as the director being angry that his critically acclaimed ending to Jackman’s character was seemingly going out the window. However, Mangold calmed everyone down by revealing he’s here for whatever Multiverse shenanigan is putting Jackman’s Wolverine back in the game. Via Twitter
Oh my gosh! Everybody chill. Just kidding! I’m all good! LOGAN will always be there. Multiverse or prequel, time warp or worm hole, canon or non-canon or even without a rationale, I cannot wait to see what maddness my dear friends @VancityReynolds and @RealHughJackman cook up!
To further emphasize that everything is cool with Jackman’s return, Reynolds responded to Mangold’s tweet by calling him the GOAT.
As for how Wolverine is in Deadpool 3, Reynolds and Jackman are already messing with fans with a new video. But the best guess is Marvel has already dubbed this current slate of films as “The Multiverse Saga.” We’ve already seen Patrick Stewart’s Professor X appear in the MCU, so the groundwork is already there for the Fox version of the X-Men to pop in and out of the current reality. Not to mention, the smashing together of universes is all leading up to Marvel’s Secret Wars, which like the comic books, will undoubtedly alter the entire landscape of the sprawling cinematic world.
Deadpool 3 slashes into theaters on September 6, 2024.
Mike Lindell has never made a secret of his past battles with addiction. Beginning in his teen years, Lindell began drinking and gambling. By the time he was in his 20s, he had added a cocaine habit into the mix. And when the 1990s rolled around, Lindell traded coke for crack and eventually hit rock bottom. The pillow magnate has credited his faith in God for helping him get sober in 2009.
While Lindell has never shied away from questions about his past — ok, let’s be real: Lindell doesn’t seem to possess any sort of filter — he’s also recently taken to sharing a lot about his wild days of yore with absolutely no prompting. He recently shared a completely unhinged story about trying to hide how high he was after being arrested and sent to jail for 19 days. (The recipient of said story was as confused as you are.) And also explained that he was a bit of a late bloomer when it came to his interest in politics because “I was on crack” for 30 years.
Now Lindell has gone on yet another bizarre rant that seemed to be simultaneously about both racism and his unquenchable thirst for narcotics. In a new video, shared by Boing Boing, Lindell shouts at three other men who seem to be wondering which life choices led them to this very moment. His point might be something about the media painting him as a racist because of his association with Donald Trump, which Lindell swears could not be further from the truth.
“They came out with all kinds of defaming things,” Lindell screamed. “‘Oh, Mike was the biggest drug dealer.’ No, I never dealt a drug in my life. I said I tried to rid the state of Minnesota of drugs by doing ‘em all!” Which, we suppose, is one way to address a drug epidemic.
While in Washington DC during a stop on her Special tour, Lizzo paid a visit to the Library Of Congress. She was invited to the Library last week by Carla Hayden, the Librarian Of Congress, who offered to show her the library’s collection of over 1,800 flutes. One of those flutes includes James Madison’s crystal flute from 1813. In response to Hayden’s invitation, Lizzo replied, “IM PLAYIN THAT CRYSTAL FLUTE!!!!!”
Last night, during her show at the Capital One Arena, she was handed the flute and played a few notes on it while twerking.
In a video shared to her Twitter account, Lizzo says, “B*tch, I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s. We just made history tonight. Thank you to the Library Of Congress for preserving our history. And making history freaking cool. History is freaking cool, you guys.”
NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE
The video is captioned, saying, “NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD THIS FAMOUS CRYSTAL FLUTE BEFORE. NOW YOU HAVE. IM THE FIRST & ONLY PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS PRESIDENTIAL 200-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL FLUTE– THANK YOU @librarycongress.”
Check out the clip from Lizzo’s DC concert above.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
JJ Watt is in the midst of his 12th season in the NFL, the second of which is coming as a member of the Arizona Cardinals. The three-time Defensive Player of the Year spent the first decade of his career, of course, as the heart and soul of the Houston Texans before taking on a new challenge last year. While he’s only three games into his sophomore campaign in the desert, Watt tells Uproxx Sports he found himself more comfortable entering this campaign.
“I think no matter who you are, how long you’ve done anything, your second year somewhere is always going to be slightly more comfortable,” Watt says. “I mean, everything from just getting settled in a house and getting settled, my wife and the dogs and everything, just getting settled into life.”
Earlier this month, Uproxx Sports sat down with Watt via his partnership with Gatorade to discuss the season so far, what the team can take away from their wild win over the Las Vegas Raiders, and much more.
What do you got going on with Gatorade?
A few of us were given the opportunity to create our own Gatorade bottles — myself, Lionel Messi, Christian Pulisic, and DK Metcalf. I grew up on Gatorade, Gatorade is literally sports, Gatorade is everything. And so, for the opportunity to create my own bottle was very special. There’s not many things as an athlete that are iconic like that, and Gatorade is iconic. So we got to create my own bottle. We spent some time going through, trying to think what’s important to me, what’s been important in my career. And the theme always comes back to Dream Big, Work Hard. That’s the motto of my foundation, it’s kind of the motto I’ve lived my life by, and it’s, as an athlete, what’s gotten me to where I am.
So we have two sides to the bottle. One side is all work, and then when you cut away, you have the dream underneath. Because the dream is the motivation behind the work — when you’re struggling in a workout, when you’re grinding, you got to have that thing in the back of your mind to keep you going. And then the other side, we have it backwards where we have the dream, and then underneath the dream is the work, because you can have the biggest dreams in the world, but if you’re not putting in the work, you’re never going to accomplish them. So it’s all about how you got to have the big dream, but you also have to be willing to put in the work. And it’s very cool, and I can’t wait, I hope other people are motivated by it. I’m excited to use it myself on the sidelines.
I know there are two camps with Gatorade: you refer to Gatorade by colors or you refer to them by their flavors. Which one do you go with?
The traditionals I go by colors, so you have yellow, you have blue, you have orange, you have red. And then when I get into the deeper cuts, then I go more by flavor — Fierce Grape, Rain Berry, Glacier Freeze, some of those where you have to get specific. Blue is blue, but then you have light blue, which is Glacier Freeze. So, I do love both.
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Speaking of blue, one of the other guys involved in this project is Christian Pulisic. And obviously I know you’re a big Chelsea supporter. What are your thoughts on Christian as a player, especially with such a big tournament coming around the corner for Americans?
He’s obviously a great player, he can do many things, and obviously with the World Cup coming up, I hope he goes on an absolute tear and I hope he just dominates. Hasn’t gotten as much action in this Chelsea side as maybe he and we would like, but you know, that’s the way it goes. He has a Champions League, and so he’s done some incredible things there, he’s got some goals in Champions League. So I’m hoping that the World Cup is a special event for him.
Let’s talk about football a little bit. We’re two weeks into the season, how are you feeling about things so far?
I feel good. Obviously we had a rough start, and then had a rough start in the second game, but we found a way, wild game, crazy game, came back. So here we sit 1-1, we’ve got a very good Rams team coming in on Sunday into our stadium, and we’re looking forward to this opportunity. Divisional game, Super Bowl champs, all that, and it’s a great opportunity for us. We’re looking forward to this weekend.
Did you find a little bit … easier might not be the word, but last offseason you’re busy getting to a new team, have to learn what life is like there, have to learn what it’s like to play on that team. Or have you been at this long enough that from day one, you were able to walk in and just get used to life in a new place?
I think no matter who you are, how long you’ve done anything, your second year somewhere is always going to be slightly more comfortable. I mean, everything from just getting settled in a house and getting settled, my wife and the dogs and everything, just getting settled into life. And then obviously, with teammates and coaches, schemes and everything, you do as much as you can and it’s certainly not the most difficult thing in the world. But there’s no question in your second year you are more comfortable.
I want to ask about that game against the Raiders. When you have a game like that, how long do you ride that high? You’re on that high for just a day? Do you have a little pep in your step for the entire week? Or is it the sort of thing that you go through the entire season knowing hey, we’ve done this before, we’ve been here, we know if we’re down, we can come back because we have done it already?
Yeah, I think that you don’t ride the high for overly long. I think that’s a next day thing, maybe Tuesday. But then, what you do use is use what you learned from it. We use the resilience, the overcoming adversity, the ability to know that even though we started the game horribly, we were down 20-0 at half, we knew that we had the opportunity to come back and if we played the second half the way we’re capable of, we would win. And so now we carry that with us the rest of the season. We don’t want to ever start a game like that again, we don’t want to put ourselves in adverse situations. But we know that when those situations do arise, we’re equipped to handle it.
I’m guessing that there’s a sense of belief among you guys that when you have a guy like number one at quarterback, you never feel like you’re going to be out of a game.
You watch some of the plays that he makes and what he’s able to do, there’s not many people in the world that are capable of doing that, and we got one. So, he’s capable of making unbelievable plays back there, and he did it. e showed that he can do it when it’s important. And it gives you a whole lot of belief.
As someone whose entire career has been, “I have to stop the best quarterbacks in the NFL from doing their thing,” what is it that maybe we don’t see that makes Kyler such a unique and special football player?
I think you saw it especially on that two point conversion play. Not only can he throw the ball, not only can he run, he can just make magic happen back there. That was what an 18, 20-second play. I’m 290 pounds, I’m in good shape, but I’m not running around for 20 seconds. The guys are dead, you’re dead tired, trying to chase him around. But he’s fresh, he’s bouncing around, and he can run 83 yards in one play and run it into the end zone, and everybody else’s gassed, but he sees the gaps, he sees the holes. And then the next two point conversion, he can fire a bullet into the back of the end zone to AJ Green. He can do both of those things and it’s very, very difficult for a defense to stop, because … I don’t know if there is a way.
You’re someone whose commitment to training, preparation, super well documented, but at the same time, as everyone knows, Father Time is undefeated. How has your routine change as you become more experienced in the league? What are the things that you still do? What things have you added that have helped you keep playing at such a high level 12 years in?
You have to learn, you know, some things you learn the hard way and some things you just learn as time goes on. But you learn how to adapt and how to change your routines and your programs to elongate that career. Like you said, it’s undefeated, but there are ways to lengthen it, whether it’s things like more stretching, or you find a different way to do the same exercise to get the same benefit without putting as much stress on your body, or it’s adjusting a training camp practice schedule, whatever those things may be. That’s what we’ve tried to do to make sure that the 17 games during the season are the most important thing.
With games on Sundays or Mondays, do you build into your Saturday schedule to go “I’m setting aside a little bit of time to make sure I’m watching my alma mater”?
Oh, absolutely. Out Saturday schedule works out perfect, especially because it’s a home game this week. So we’ve got morning work, so I’ll work from seven o’clock until noon. And then then we got the middle of the day wide open. So I go home and you have to rest, anyway. So just kick my feet up on the couch, have a little film on or watch the boys play, and then we go to the hotel at night to get ready for the game. But I got some buddies in town from Wisconsin this weekend, some of my high school buddies, so you can bet we’re going to be posted up on the couch watching the boys.
What gets you more excited, fired up, whatever it might be: Watching your brothers play when you’re watching one of their games, or watching Wisconsin play when you’re watching one of their games?
My brothers by far. I mean that’s blood. I get more into my brothers’ games than anything, it is the coolest, best thing in the world. I love it. I get more nervous, obviously I play the game, I’ve had injuries, my own stuff I never get nervous. When I’m watching a game, I get crazy nervous for my brothers and I get crazy excited when they make a play. I’m pretty sure I get more excited when they make one than when I make one. It’s the coolest thing in the world to me, all three of us in the NFL, there’s nothing like it.
Foo Fighters and company put on their second Taylor Hawkins tribute concert last night, and both yesterday’s Los Angeles event and the London show from earlier this month were massive. Last night’s show had a 53-song setlist with so many different artists taking the stage. There are a lot of moving parts involved with an event of this scale, which is wonderfully illustrated in a behind-the-scenes photo.
Ahead of yesterday’s show, longtime music photographer and Sea.Hear.Now Festival co-founder Danny Clinch shared a backstage photo of the London tribute concert, of Hawkins’ son Shane standing among a massive array of different drum kits used during the show. (While the photo is from the London concert, the LA event presumably had a similarly impressive setup.)
Clinch wrote in his post, “A moment with Shane Hawkins and the many drum kits ready to be swapped in and out at Wembley. Honored to be photographing again today at the legendary Forum In honor of Taylor Hawkins, and to see Shane crush it again.”
A moment with Shane Hawkins and the many drum kits ready to be swapped in and out at Wembley .
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