Birdman and Charlamagne seem to have made peace. Back in 2016, rapper and Cash Money Records founder Birdman appeared on an episode of The Breakfast Club, however the interview was cut short after Birdman famously told host Charlamagne Tha God, “put some respect on my name.” Birdman quickly walked out of the interview, however, this particular line spawned several memes.
But in an interview with HipHopDX taken from the 2023 BET Hip-Hop Awards, Charlamagne suggested that he and Birdman have cleared the air.
He prefaced by saying he has nothing but love for the rapper, regardless of how the infamous interview turned out.
“He’s an OG that I look up to as far as what he’s built, as far as being a mogul,” said Charlamagne. “You can’t deny him.”
Charlamagne revealed he and Birdman spoke over the phone, after Big Bank, who hosts the Big Facts podcast, put them in touch over the phone. Apparently, the conversation lasted about five minutes, which is slightly longer than the three minutes Birdman stayed in The Breakfast Club studio during the infamous interview.
[Big Bank] put us on the phone one time and I was able to tell him that [I look up to what he’s done],” said Charlamagne. “It was just mutual respect. That was a fulfilling conversation for me.”
The Republican-led House of Representatives is in disarray. Last week, after Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown, MAGA chaos agent Matt Gaetz successfully got Kevin McCarthy ousted from his Speaker gig. Who would replace him? Some floated a curious name: Donald Trump. That’s probably not going to happen. For one thing he’s thrown his weight behind Jim Jordan, the Beavis to Gaetz’s Butt-Head. But there’s one person who wants him to take it, if only because it will drive him crazy.
On Thursday’s iteration of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host roasted the GOP for not being able to govern — and for considering the worst guy imaginable to calm things down.
“Yes, tensions are high and Republicans are near fisticuffs. So naturally, the person to help calm things down is Donald Trump,” Meyers told the crowd. “The Republican party is such a mess, they’re asking for help from a guy who’s in court for fraud because no one else is willing to help them out. The GOP is like a guy who’s so desperate for a ride to the airport, he calls a friend who’s under house arrest.”
But maybe giving Trump a boring job is what will finally break him.
“He’ll be miserable by Day 2,” Meyers said. “It’s all boring procedure and filing legislation and saying mind-numbing shit like ‘The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized.’ He would hate it so much, he’ll actually want to go to prison.”
It looks like 21 Savage can finally join Drake on the It’s All A Blur Tour for international dates. The Atlanta rapper’s legal team has confirmed that he has been cleared to travel globally.
“She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph followed all applicable Immigration laws since his initial detention by ICE,” said 21’s lawyer Charles H Kuck in a statement. “His immigration court proceedings have now been terminated and he is a lawful permanent resident of the United States with the freedom to travel internationally.”
In tandem with the news, 21 took to Instagram to share a video montage of himself performing, juxtaposed with clips and photos from his childhood in London.
In February of 2019, 21 was arrested and detained by ICE. He was later released from immigration custody on a $100,000.
In an interview with Good Morning America, 21 revealed that he was born in London, and his mother brought him to the United States when he was seven years old. At the time, 21 didn’t know what a Visa was. He revealed that his Visa expired in 2006.
“I knew I wasn’t born here,” he said. “But I didn’t know like, what that meant as far as when I transitioned into an adult, how it was going to affect my life.”
At the end of the celebratory video, a screen reads “London…Im Comin’ Home.”
The pre-sale began this week, however, like many acts, Mitski found that fans have been duped by resellers and scalpers.
Yesterday (October 6), Mitski took to Instagram to share a message with fans, warning them not to purchase fraudulent tickets.
“PLEASE DON’T BUY FROM SCALPERS & RESELLERS!,” she said. “It breaks my heart to think of you paying exorbitant amounts of money to scalpers when they have nothing to do with the shows or the efforts to make them happen. I would rather play an empty house than have you give your money to them.”
Mitski also clarified that she and her team are working to cancel tickets purchased from scalpers, and put fans who purchased fraudulent tickets on waitlists to get actual tickets. She also promised fans that there will be more North American and international dates later this year.
You can see the full statement below.
Hello!
Thank you so much to all of you who bought tickets to the 2024 shows so far! Ticket-buying is incredibly difficult these days, and I truly appreciate what you all go through to come to our concerts.
In our efforts to make the show experience extra special, we found beautiful, seated theaters to play over multiple nights, rather than one giant venue per city, in the hopes of offering a more intimate experience to the audience. But I know that this choice creates a feeling of scarcity, and I apologize for any frustration this causes.
In the midst of all this, the fact that scalpers buy up tickets to resell at unbelievable prices is infuriating! So I wanted to reach out with information that may hopefully alleviate some of the confusion and distress these scalpers cause.
1. My team is regularly working with the show promoters and venues to cancel tickets that are identified as scalpers or bots. Any tickets that are cancelled will be offered to fans on the waitlist. So if you were unable to secure a ticket to the show of your choice, please join the waitlist for the show through my website. The tickets we cancel from scalpers will be exclusively offered to people on the waitlist.
2. Many of the listings on resale sites are speculative, and some tickets may be listed multiple times on multiple sites. So scalpers may not have as many tickets as it appears (though they still have too many!) and some so-called tickets may not be valid.
3. This is only the first North American leg of our tour for 2024! There are more shows planned for the year, in North America and elsewhere in the world. This is by no means the last of our concerts.
PLEASE DON’T BUY FROM SCALPERS & RESELLERS! It breaks my heart to think of you paying exorbitant amounts of money to scalpers when they have nothing to do with the shows or the efforts to make them happen. I would rather play an empty house than have you give your money to them.
I’m so grateful to you all for buying tickets, coming to shows, and supporting the music. It means everything to me, and I’m so excited to see you all on the road!
Thank you again and again (and sorry for the essay^, haha),
But what happened on Friday night (October 6), the day of his For All The Dogs release, may be the most touching of all his gestures thus far. He got emotional when promising to support someone recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease attacking the central nervous system, and offered to pay college tuition for seven fans.
In a video captured by someone in attendance at Scotiabank Arena (or “October’s Very Own Arena“) in Toronto, the first of Drake’s back-to-back hometown shows, Drake pauses to recognize a fan’s sign. “This one’s important to me,” he says in the video (circulated by Complex). “Her sign says, ‘I just found out I have MS. Will you help make my night?’”
He continued, “You know, my brother [Noah] 40 [Shebib] is one of the strongest people on Earth, and he fights through a lot of things. So, what I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna connect you with 40, first of all. Maybe y’all can have a conversation. And second of all, I’m gonna pay whatever it takes to get you the best help in the world. I promise you that. You got my word. And you can come back tomorrow night!”
Shebib, Drake’s longtime engineer and producer, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 22 years old — something Pusha T insensitively mocked in his 2018 diss track, “The Story Of Adidon.” He opened up about it in a 2020 Rolling Stone profile by Charles Holmes, who relayed “40 says that much of what allows him to move through the world — his eyes, ears, nose, fingers, toes — could stop working at any time.”
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Drake encountered a fan with MS and offered to connect her with 40 and pay her medical bills. pic.twitter.com/LTNZ7NCl37
Health is also a priority for Drake these days. Around the release of For All The Dogs, he shared via his Table For One show on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 that he plans to take a break from music “for a little bit” because “I’ve been having the craziest problems, for years, with my stomach.”
“I need to focus on my health, and I need to get right, and I’m gonna do that,” he said, adding, “I have a lot of other things that I would love to focus on, so I’m going to lock the door on the studio for a little bit. I don’t know what ‘a little bit’ is. Maybe a year or something. Maybe a little bit longer.”
There is a growing trend online and in therapists’ offices that is a backlash against the toxic positivity of the body positivity movement: body neutrality. This new perspective takes a neutral view of our bodies and encourages people to stop saying they are “good” or “bad,” “ugly,” or “gorgeous,” but that they just are.
“Body neutrality means taking a neutral perspective towards your body, meaning that you do not have to cultivate a love for your body or feel that you have to love your body every day. You may not always love your body, but you may still live happily and appreciate everything your body can do,” Very Well Mind writes.
Mother Caroline Hardin shared a great example of body neutrality on TikTok recently. In a post that received over 100,000 views, She shared a note she secretly handed to her daughter’s pediatrician at a recent appointment.
“Trying something new at the pediatrician will report back how it goes,” Caroline began in her video before revealing a handwritten note she gave to the doctor.
Don’t judge my handwriting i was writing in the car on top of a captain underpants book lol #bodyneutrality #bodypositiveparenting
Don’t judge my handwriting i was writing in the car on top of a captain underpants book lol #bodyneutrality #bodypositiveparenting
The note reads:
“Doctor. When discussing my child’s weight and/or BMI, please refrain from using qualitative words like ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ We have managed so far to keep a body-neutral and body-positive environment for her childhood, and I appreciate your cooperation in preserving that for as long as we can.”
The unfortunate underlying message to the note is that Caroline’s daughter will one day have to exist in a world where her body is scrutinized. Every opportunity the mom has to delay that eventuality is a positive step for her development.
In a subsequent video, Caroline noted that the visit to the doctor went off perfectly.
Replying to @Caroline we will continue to take it one year at a time but we made it through this year’s checkup unscathed! #bodyneutrality #bodypositiveparenting
Replying to @Caroline we will continue to take it one year at a time but we made it through this year’s checkup unscathed! #bodyneutrality #bodypositiveparenting
“We made it back home, and I’m happy to report that it went really well. The nurse made no comment when she was weighing my kid,” Caroline recalled. When the pediatrician popped in, she had a growth curve without any numbers that she was able to show to Caroline and her daughter. The doctor even used an age-appropriate way of describing the daughter’s health. “Your body is growing exactly how it wants to grow. Hooray!” she said.
“There were no discussions about restricting sugar or restrictions at all,” Caroline added. “So, my kids’ takeaway was that the doctor noticed her nail polish and that she got to tell her she has 8 friends.”
The video received much praise from women who wished they could have enjoyed a body-neutral childhood. “You legit just healed some of my soul. Thank you for this!!!” katmc52384 wrote in the comments. “Looovvveee this. Couldn’t figure out how to head it off without embarrassing my kid. Thank you!!” Carter added.
Caroline is happy that she found a way to take her daughter to the doctor without introducing her to the pain of body stigmatization. She also shared a way for parents everywhere to address a tricky situation without their children being alerted to our culture’s toxic perceptions of bodies and beauty.
Bennett directed and edited the three-minute video, shot in Maple Ridge in Vancouver, Canada. It has a Christmas-adjacent theme. A Christmas carol is the first sound we hear, followed by someone saying, “Christmas came early.” Christmas lights are everywhere, fully coating a luxurious car, while Lil Boat and Drake’s bars beam bright into the night.
“Drake had a few off-days in Vancouver, and he wanted to shoot a video while he was out there,” the prolific director said. “We’re working on a few different projects right now, one of which was to knock something out in Vancouver. With an artist of his size, you have to be aware of — you know, just, we looked at a few locations in Vancouver, it was a little hot. … The Maple Ridge location felt the most tucked away and ducked off, and it was surrounded by trees, and it just felt like the safest place to do it.”
He added, “I’ve known [Drake] for a few years. We’ve talked about working for a few years now, and I just knew it was gonna be when the time was right. I was supposed to do the ‘Search & Rescue‘ video.”
While this marks the first time Bennett and Drake have professionally linked, Bennett previously directed Lil Yachty’s videos for “Poland” and “Strike (Holster).”
Drake celebrated For All The Dogs by performing his It’s All A Blur Tour at his hometown Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, where he’ll return for another show on Saturday night (October 7).
“JAVELIN is out today,” Stevens captioned an Instagram post. “Thank you for listening. I love you. This album is dedicated to the light of my life, my beloved partner and best friend Evans Richardson, who passed away in April. He was an absolute gem of a person, full of life, love, laughter, curiosity, integrity, and joy. He was one of those rare and beautiful ones you find only once in a lifetime—precious, impeccable, and absolutely exceptional in every way.”
The photo shows Richardson smiling while relaxing in bed.
Stevens continued in the caption, “I know relationships can be very difficult sometimes, but it’s always worth it to put in the hard work and care for the ones you love, especially the beautiful ones, who are few and far between. If you happen to find that kind of love, hold it close, hold it tight, savor it, tend to it, and give it everything you’ve got, especially in times of trouble. Be kind, be strong, be patient, be forgiving, be vigorous, be wise, and be yourself. Live every day as if it is your last, with fullness and grace, with reverence and love, with gratitude and joy. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Thank you. I love you. XOS”
It is no one’s place to speculate about Stevens’ sexuality. It would be irresponsible (and disrespectful) to project any label onto him, other than brave.
Javelin is out now via Asthmatic Kitty Records. Find more information here.
Freya Rosati, 32, from Buckinghamshire, England, received the most incredible gift on her wedding day: a letter from her father, who had passed away 20 years ago. Freya “loved” her father’s card, making her feel like he was “really there” on the momentous occasion.
In 2002, Freya’s father, Philip Hargreaves, a pub landlord, was having constant indigestion. Tests revealed he had terminal esophageal cancer and just six months to live.
Freya is a confessed daddy’s girl, and she and her father did everything together. He took her to dance lessons, and they would play games together and watch movies. When Phillip learned that his days with his daughter were numbered, he got to work writing 9 letters to be given to her throughout her lifetime.
Eight of the letters were given to her on her birthdays, and one was written for her wedding day. “He wrote me cards every birthday up until my 18th, then one for my 21st, and a final for my wedding day. But the wedding day was the most important one,” Freya said.
Bride gets letter from dad on wedding day – decades after his death: https://t.co/PIGnLbiO1M
#weddings #family
Bride gets letter from dad on wedding day u2013 decades after his death: https://t.co/PIGnLbiO1Mnn#weddings #family
Phillip passed away at 53 when Freya was just 11 years old. On the day that she married her love, Michael, Freya’s mother, Theresa, 68, read the letter her father wrote her and shared how she was instrumental in getting him to write. The letter was a fantastic way to make her dad present during the ceremony and was a perfect father-of-the-bride speech.
“Once he was very ill, I bought a selection of cards and helped him to write them for [inaudible] and Freya to receive on their birthdays and on their wedding day,” Theresa said. “I have the last one today for Freya, and she would like to share it with you to include her dad on her special day.”
The letter had a simple and powerful message. It takes strength to make a marriage work, but Freya is more than up to the challenge.
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Bride receives message from her dad on wedding day, 20 years after his death
I wish I could be standing next to you, the proudest dad in the world, to walk you down the aisle to the man you love, and to the next chapter in your life. Today is your day, enjoy everything about it. Laugh and cry. Be happy and confident.
Face everything full-on. You will then succeed in your life together. You gave me some of the proudest moments in my life with your sense of humour, intelligence, understanding, and caring nature. Don’t ever change. Love you forever, dad.
The letter wasn’t her father’s only contribution on the wedding day. She wore a diamond necklace that he gave her as a gift on her big day. All in all, Freya thinks her dad would have approved of her big day.
“My dad would’ve loved that wedding – just hearing his words, I can imagine him saying them to me,” she concluded.
Phillip’s heartfelt letter to his daughter is a powerful reminder that our days are numbered. Never miss an opportunity to tell the people in your life how much you love them because you never know when you won’t be able to anymore.
On Friday, October 6, Lol Tolhurst (of The Cure) x Budgie (Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures) x Jacknife Lee shared The Dare’s remix of “Los Angeles” featuring James Murphy, perhaps known best as a member of LCD Soundsystem. “Los Angeles” first arrived in July as the title track of Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee’s upcoming album.
“Joan Didion said, ‘The city burning is Los Angeles’ deepest image of itself,’ The Dare said in a statement about the remix. “It’s a total honor for Budgie, Jacknife, Lol, and James to let me set their work on fire.”
The remix emits manic energy from the start, the sort of charged sonic motor necessary for such a confrontational song with bold proclamations like “Los Angeles eats its children / Los Angeles eats its young / Los Angeles, she don’t need water / Los Angeles just needs guns.”
Per press release, “More music from The Dare is imminent.”
Listen to The Dare’s remix of “Los Angeles” above, and check out his upcoming live dates below.
10/11 — Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory*
10/12— Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern*
10/21 — Miami, FL @ III Points
11/10 — Paris, France @ Pitchfork Paris
11/14 — London, UK @ Corsica Studios
11/15 — London, UK @ The Social
11/17 — Benidorm, Spain @ Primavera Weekender
11/18 — Hamburg, Germany @ Golden Pudel (DJ set)
* with Yves Tumor
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