Month: November 2023

Cam’ron and Mase recently appeared on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast, where they were asked, “Who was better: DMX or Tupac?”

Despite seeing the bait for what it was, both Cam and Mase dove in with thoughtful answers as both agreed that DMX was better.

However, rather than being driven by East/West Coast rivalries or their personal feelings about either man, Cam said his decision was based on getting to see X’s come up personally. As he put it, “I got see… from when he was in the tenement rappin’ to sellin’ ten, twenty, however millions of records he sold.”

Meanwhile, Mase pointed to how whole arenas would recite DMX’s lyrics, noting, “I think a lot of times, because you learn the flaws of n****s, you forget how great n****s really were.” You can check out a clip of them talking about the debate below.

Ever since Cam and Mase squashed their long-running feud last year, the two Harlem natives have proven to be utterly captivating podcast partners, whether on their own show talking about NBA rumors, or as guests on other shows addressing their long and storied careers. It was Cam’ron who first broke the news that Mase had gotten his publishing from Diddy, and they’ve teased new music to come.

You can watch their full interview above.

Homer Simpson won’t be winning any Father of the Year awards anytime soon.

A recent episode of The Simpsons hinted that Homer’s habit of disciplining his son Bart via strangulation had finally been curbed but show co-creator James L. Brooks is here to set the record straight. Brooks told People that Homer will still happily choke the living daylights out of his kid whenever the mood strikes.

“Nothing’s getting tamed,” he said. “Nothing, nothing, nothing … He’ll continue to be strangled — you want to use that awful term for it. He’ll continue to be loved by his father in a specific way.”

Ahhh yes, cutting off a child’s oxygen supply — it’s what all the parenting books recommend. In all seriousness, Simpsons die-hards were weirdly irked by the absence of the show’s long-running gag. Homer’s been strangling Bart since 1987, but in an October episode, he seemed to suggest he’d changed his ways. After a new neighbor compliments him on his firm handshake, Homer tells his wife Marge that years of “strangling the boy has paid off,” before confirming he doesn’t “do that anymore” because “times have changed.”

The episode launched a full-scale investigation into Homer’s problematic disciplinary choices with IGN reporting the animated patriarch hadn’t resorted to choking Bart in years which prompted The Simpsons official Twitter account to share this statement:

So much for gentle parenting, we guess?

(Via Deadline)

The punk-friendly When We Were Young festival is returning to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a third year in a row in 2024. Except this time, the bands will be performing albums in their entirety. The lineup is led by My Chemical Romance doing all of The Black Parade, as well as Jimmy Eat World (Bleed American), Dashboard Confessional (Dusk And Summer), Pierce the Veil (Collide With The Sky), and A Day to Remember (Homesick). Fall Out Boy will also be performing, although no specific album is identified; maybe a greatest hits set?

Here’s the full lineup in alphabetical order, along with the album being played:

3OH!3 – Want
A Day To Remember – Homesick
Alesana – The Emptiness
The All-American Rejects – The All-American Rejects
Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal
Armor for Sleep – What To Do When You Are Dead
Atreyu – The Curse
August Burns Red – Constellations
Bayside – Bayside
Basement – Colourmeinkindness
Cartel – Chroma
Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well
Cobra Starship – ¡Viva La Cobra!
Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV
Dashboard Confessional – Dusk And Summer
Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
The Devil Wears Prada – Plagues
The Distillers – Coral Fang
Emery – The Weak’s End
Escape the Fate – This War Is Ours
Fall Out Boy
The Forecast – In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen
Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
Hawthorne Heights – The Silence In Black And White
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
L.S. Dunes – Self Titled
The Maine – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Mayday Parade – A Lesson In Romantics
Mom Jeans – Best Buds
Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This To Memory
Movements – Feel Something
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
Nada Surf – Let Go
Neck Deep – Life’s Not Out To Get You
New Found Glory – Sticks And Stones
Pierce the Veil – Collide With The Sky
Pretty Girls Make Graves – The New Romance
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Don’t You Fake It
Saosin – Saosin
Saves the Day – Stay What You Are
Senses Fail – Still Searching
Simple Plan – No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls
Silverstein – Discovering the Waterfront
Sleeping with Sirens – Let’s Cheers To This
State Champs – The Finer Things
The Starting Line – Say It Like You Mean It
Story of the Year – Page Avenue
Thursday – Full Collapse
Underoath – They’re Only Chasing Safety
The Used – In Love And Death
We the Kings – We The Kings

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Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Marvels isn’t doing so hot at the box office, but the film could take on a second life as it becomes available for streaming. The Marvels has received mostly positive reviews, particularly around the chemistry between the three leads played by Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani, whose portrayal of Ms. Marvel has been widely hailed as the movie’s highlight.

As for when The Marvels will be available to watch at home, we can wager a guess by looking at the release strategy for the other Marvel films that dropped in 2023.

Video On Demand

Both Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 became available for digital purchase roughly two months after their theatrical release. This strategy also held true for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. That puts a VOD release window for The Marvels some time in January 2024.

Disney+

Again, following suit with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 who hit Disney+ about a month after their VOD release, The Marvels could start streaming on the platform in February 2024.

However, we should note that this strategy did not hold true for Indiana Jones and the Dial of the Destiny. That film also underperformed at the box office, which led to a much longer window between its VOD release and its availability on Disney+. Indy 5 hit VOD on August 29, but it won’t start streaming on Disney+ until December 1. That’s a three month gap.

Could Disney and Marvel try the same approach to make up for The Marvels‘ poor box office? We’ll have to wait and see.

The Marvels is now playing in theaters.

Tyler The Creator clearly went to the Drake school of keeping receipts, because he certainly had one ready to go for the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival crowd during his Saturday set, reminding them that they booed Drake the last time the festival was held in 2019. During his performance of “Lumberjack” from Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler changed the line “I hit Drizzy and told him I had a milli’ for him” to “I called Drizzy and you booed him last time” then called the crowd “assholes” before breaking down and laughing. The audience also had a chuckle at the not-so-subtle reminder.

The booing incident in 2019 was most likely caused by fans near the stage who had parked there early, hoping that the “mystery headliner” Tyler had been teasing would be Frank Ocean. And although the moment went viral and sparked a slew of memes (as Drake’s most embarrassing moments so often do), the majority of the crowd actually enjoyed his set, and both Tyler and Drake took the fumble in stride.

At the time, Tyler wrote on Twitter, “I thought bringing one of the biggest artist on the fucking planet to a music festival was fire… all jokes aside sh*t lowkey funny.” Meanwhile, Drake posted on Instagram, “Plot twist…just signed a 10 year residency at Camp Flog Gnaw sorry kids see you EVERY SINGLE YEAR till you are 30.”

Unfortunately, Flog Gnaw was forced to go on a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, but returned this past weekend with another stacked lineup — this time, going off without a hitch, even if Tyler found another way to disappoint fans.

A viral tweet has fans wondering whether ASAP Rocky and Rihanna, who have had two children in two years, are expecting a third.

The tweet features a photo of a pregnant Rihanna alongside the caption: “Rihanna confirmed that she & Asap Rocky are expecting their 3rd Baby.”

However, as it was later pointed out by users adding context, the photo is actually from May 2023, when she was pregnant with the couple’s second child, and neither Rihanna nor ASAP Rocky has made announcements regarding a third pregnancy.

The tweet, which has over 18,000 shares as of this writing, is a prime example of much of what has gone wrong on Twitter — also known as “X” because that’s a perfectly good and reasonable name for a social media platform (if you’re an out-of-town billionaire best known for promoting conspiracy theories and trying to fight other tech billionaires) — since its purchase by Elon Musk. Since anyone with eight bucks to their name can pretend to be “verified” and engagement is rewarded no matter its value or authenticity, there are plenty of trolls on there willing to do or say whatever they can to get attention — and a cut of Musk’s new profit sharing model.

Again, with the worth of information on the internet rapidly approaching zero, it’s important to take stock of how trustworthy or otherwise a news source really is.

Tyler The Creator clearly went to the Drake school of keeping receipts, because he certainly had one ready to go for the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival crowd during his Saturday set, reminding them that they booed Drake the last time the festival was held in 2019. During his performance of “Lumberjack” from Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler changed the line “I hit Drizzy and told him I had a milli’ for him” to “I called Drizzy and you booed him last time” then called the crowd “assholes” before breaking down and laughing. The audience also had a chuckle at the not-so-subtle reminder.

The booing incident in 2019 was most likely caused by fans near the stage who had parked there early, hoping that the “mystery headliner” Tyler had been teasing would be Frank Ocean. And although the moment went viral and sparked a slew of memes (as Drake’s most embarrassing moments so often do), the majority of the crowd actually enjoyed his set, and both Tyler and Drake took the fumble in stride.

At the time, Tyler wrote on Twitter, “I thought bringing one of the biggest artist on the fucking planet to a music festival was fire… all jokes aside sh*t lowkey funny.” Meanwhile, Drake posted on Instagram, “Plot twist…just signed a 10 year residency at Camp Flog Gnaw sorry kids see you EVERY SINGLE YEAR till you are 30.”

Unfortunately, Flog Gnaw was forced to go on a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, but returned this past weekend with another stacked lineup — this time, going off without a hitch, even if Tyler found another way to disappoint fans.

Netflix’s Cobra Kai still had the “The Eye Of The Tiger” with Season 5, which is a coveted status, years after (fittingly) launching as an underdog show on YouTube Red for two seasons. Since the show’s premiere, many franchises have tried and failed to replicate the show’s ability to effectively harness nostalgia while also crane-kicking the generation gap to maintain a rabid and plentiful audience.

The show’s Season 5 streaming success led to speculation about more of this rivalry-filled series and whether we’d see dojos clash again after the fall of spectacular Bond-esque karate villain Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). That batch of episodes actually ended in a way that wouldn’t have been infuriating as a series finale, but fortunately for viewers, Netflix decided to keep going for One Last Fight. Actually, make that “one more fight” for “the biggest season, the baddest season, the final season.”

Now, let’s talk more about what to expect from the next Cobra Kai season.

Plot

Netflix has kept details of the show’s final season under wraps, but there have been plenty of suggestions on what we could happen. We’ll see if John Kreese will surface in The Valley after escaping prison, whether Hawk can grow his hair back really fast, and if Johnny can succeed at being a non-f*ck-up dad. Following Terry Silver’s crash and burn, what happens to “his” dojo?

“Cobra Kai will never die,” as the motto goes, so it sure seems like we will see Kreese return on some level after being framed and wrongfully convicted. As well, the tidy resolutions of the Season 5 finale will fall part, as star Ralph Macchio predicted to us, due to this being a “karate soap opera.” Macchio also hinted at Daniel LaRusso and the rest of the show taking the globe:

“They’ve set up the international element of it, they’ve set up the master Kim in Korea. They set up Kreese, and they also set up that everything’s going back to normal and they’ve finally succeeded. But in a soap opera, as Cobra Kai is a karate soap opera, when one door closes, there’s always more that will open. There’s certainly room for that.”

Jacob Bertrand, who portrays Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz, was rooting for a world tournament when he spoke to us, too:

“Oh my god… This is my dream, that I somehow am linked up with Kreese, fresh out of prison. We start some illegal ring of some sort, and I go back to the bad side. I’m kidding, but I think it would be so cool if we got a Season 6, and we actually got to go to some crazy world tournament. And actually go to Brazil or something and not like it have it be, ‘Oh we’re in Brazil! But it’s really just a basement studio in Atlanta’”

Cast

Of course Ralph Macchio and William Zabka will return as Daniel and Johnny Lawrence, respectively. Jacob Bertrand will be back as Hawk, along with Mary Mouser as Samantha, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel, Tanner Buchanan as Robby, Peyton List as Tori, Gianni DeCenzo as Demetri, and Dallas Dupree Young as Kenny. Also expect to see Courtney Henggeler as Amanda and Vanessa Rubio as Carmen, both wondering why their partners cannot stop thinking about karate for five damn minutes.

Again, let’s hope for Martin Kove to come back as John Kreese. And will we see Griffin Santopietro return as the dreaded Anthony LaRusso? Maybe he’ll even keep doing things other than eat a popsicle. Fingers crossed!

Release Date

Way back in January 2023, Netflix issued a vague “soon” regarding a release date, and we know how this year has gone in Hollywood. The writers’ room went “pens down” for the corresponding strike, and the actors’ strike followed not too long afterward.

Now that productions are roaring back to life, we can anticipate movement, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they released the final season around the 2024 holiday season. Netflix did, after all, prefer the New Year’s Eve/Day release schedule for a few seasons. Hopefully, we’ll see some updates before long.

Trailer

No trailer exists yet, but here’s a teaser to tide viewers over:

Expect more updates on Cobra Kai soon.

In 2018, Kim Kardashian met with then-president Donald Trump in the White House. “Great meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing,” he tweeted, along with a photo of the two of them in the Oval Office. Kardashian also had nice things to say things about the visit (“I would like to thank President Trump for his time this afternoon”), but by 2020, Trump was hanging up the phone when she called asking for help.

According to author Jonathan Karl in his new book, Tired of Winning, Trump “listened” to Kardashian’s request for his assistance with a clemency case in the dying days of his presidency, but it came with a demand. “He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House,” the author wrote (in an excerpt provided by Axios).

Kardashian reached out to her famous athlete friends, “seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences,” but to no avail. “Trump had become too toxic. In the final two weeks of his presidency, nobody wanted to be anywhere near him.”

Months later, Kardashian reached out to Trump again, hoping for his help in another clemency case. It didn’t go well:

Hell no, the former president told her. He wouldn’t do it. ‘You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?’ Trump told her. Kardashian has never publicly said who she voted for in 2020, but after [Joe] Biden was projected the winner, she posted a tweet of Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris along with three blue hearts… After a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump had hung up on her.

Ironically, Ryan Murphy is on the line with Kardashian at this very moment to turn this phone call into the next season of American Crime Story. She can play herself!

(Via Axios)

We all know parenting can be tough, but if there’s one thing that makes the roller coaster of emotions totally worth it, it’s seeing our children’s faces light up with joy.

Children’s smiles are infectious, and not in the scary pandemic kind of a way. There’s simply nothing better in this world than the face of a bright-eyed little human beaming with happiness, which is why a recent TikTok trend has people grinning from ear to ear themselves.

The premise is simple: The parent asks the kid to record them dancing to Taylor Swift‘s “Love Story” with the screen facing away from them (under the guise that the parent dancing needs to see themselves). So instead of recording the parent dancing, it’s actually recording the kid’s face watching them.

And oh, the love and joy on these kids’ faces is so, so sweet to witness. Watch:

@thechavezfamilyy

The end 😭😭 why am I bawling at this trend?! He’s SO CUTE #momsoftiktok #momtok #toddlersoftiktok

That face. OMG.

And check out the encouragement from this little fella:

@themarshhfamily

The end did it for me 🥹😭I birthed such a sweet, loving and encouraging little boy!! #momtok #toddlersoftiktok #taylorswiftchallenge #lovestorychallenge #boymom #toddlermom

Seriously, seeing close-ups of kids’ joy should be a daily thing.

@makingthemoffitts

#nationaladoptionmonth #adoptionawareness #thisisadoption #thisisfostercare #adoption #fostercare #makingthemoffitts #lovestorychallenge #taylorswift

Some dads have gotten in on the trend as well. Look at the way this little girl beams at her daddy.

@durbanofamily

Had to jump on the trend! Love this beautiful girl!

Of course, part of the beauty of having kids is you simply never know what they’re going to do. While some youngsters gaze lovingly at their parents while they dance, others have a … well … different reaction. Check out this girl’s facial expressions:

@haleigh.booth

It’s the side eye at the end for me 😆😂😂😂😂

Hilarious. And because this is the internet, naturally someone had to do the TikTok trend with their dog. Gotta admit, Ellie’s toothy grin is pretty darn cute as well.

@elliegoldenlife

This is why I don’t dance 😂

TikTok trends can sometimes be strange, annoying or problematic, but once in a while one comes along that brings people together in surprisingly delightful ways. Seeing people’s kids’ pure enjoyment watching their parents being silly is simply the best.

This article originally appeared on 11.15.22