Bad Bunny has been accused of another possible copyright infringement. The founder of the emPawa Africa record label, Mr. Eazi, claims that Bad Bunny failed to properly credit the Nigerian artist Joeboy and his producer Dëra on his 2022 song, “Enséñame a Bailar.”

According to Rolling Stone, the accusation is against both Bad Bunny and his record label, Rimas Music. He notes that the song interpolates and samples Joeboy’s “Empty My Pocket,” with zero credit.

“The team at emPawa Africa have attempted to sort this issue amicably since May of last year with our mutual legal teams,” Mr. Eazi said in a statement. “But the intent of Rimas Music is clearly to blatantly appropriate young African creators’ work for their gain without attribution.”

“We will not accept Bad Bunny and Rimas denying Joeboy and Dëra credits and a share in the ownership of a song they wrote, composed and, in Joeboy’s case, even performed on,” he added.

The publication notes that Bad Bunny has also worked with Mr. Eazi in the past on his 2019 collab track with J Balvin, “Como Un Bebé.”

Bad Bunny’s label rebutted the accusations in a statement to Rolling Stone and claimed that they purchased the track from the record producer Lakizo Entertainment.

“We are deeply concerned by the copyright infringement accusations made by Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade (Mr. Eazi), the founder of emPawa Africa, on the track ‘Enséñame a Bailar,’” the statement said. “We want to make it clear that at all times, Rimas Entertainment has acted properly and has followed standard industry protocols.”

Only time will tell if this copyright infringement claim goes any further.

Today is a great day for any Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg relationship truthers out there. While the duo has been longtime friends, they’ve also frequently fielded rumors about the boundary of it. And, considering Stewart showed off some apparent new ink of the West Coast rapper’s image, it likely won’t die down anytime soon.

That’s right. Stewart seemingly has a portrait of Snoop Dogg on her arm — and his name right beneath reading “My Dogg,” just in case anyone forgets who he is.

“My Dogg!” Stewart captioned the photo on Instagram. “Thanks for the amazing tattoo @scottcampbell. Forever linked in ink to my favorite @snoopdogg.”

“I got to tattoo a legend onto a legend,” Campbell, the tattoo artist, captioned his own Instagram post. “Thanks @marthastewart48 and @snoopdogg. I can retire now.”

Most of the internet believe it’s simply an elaborate bit, as it is part of a Skechers Super Bowl commercial — but there is a small chance that she actually got inked for the spot.

“Martha Stewart getting a tattoo of Snoop Dog is the last thing I expected to read about today but damn do I love it,” one Twitter user wrote.

Continue scrolling for some additional social media reactions to Martha Stewart’s Snoop Dogg (alleged) tattoo.

A new era of Janelle Monáe is upon us. The singer and actress is set to play in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which is set to take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, February 17.

Today, a week ahead of the big game, fans have been asking about her abilities on the court.

“Whoa @JanelleMonae is in the celebrity all-star game?! That’s amazing. Can she ball?,” asked one fan on Twitter.

Shortly after, Monáe offered an iconic response. She quote-replied to the fan’s tweet, sharing an image of herself practicing on what looks like her home basketball court.

In the image, she is seen wearing a red pair of MSCHF’s Big Red Boots, which have been going viral on social media over the past week.

Next week is set to be a big week for everyone involved. On top of the game next Friday, Monáe will drop her new single, “Float,” the day before (February 16).

The boots themselves will also hit MSCHF’s online store.

Fans can watch the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game next Friday at 7 p.m. EST on ESPN, or stream it on the ESPN app.

Janelle Monáe is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Zacari and Ab-Soul have another gem on their hands. On their new collaborative single, “Motions,” both artists walk us through a day in their lives, as they deal with industry protocol, adjusting to fame, and navigating friendships and relationships.

“I’m just goin’ through the motions / Liftin’ off the ground / Driftin’ like the cloud / I’m just goin’ through the motions,” the two sing on the song’s chorus.

“Motions” marks the Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates’ third total collab. Last year, the two worked together on “Do Better” from Ab-Soul’s fifth studio album, Herbert, and have previously collaborated on “RAW (Backwards)” from his 2016 album, Do What Thou Wilt.

Zacari has appeared on several TDE collaborations over the years, alongside artists like Isaiah Rashad and Kendrick Lamar. He officially signed to the label in 2019, and released his debut EP Run Wild Run Free later that year.

Last year, he also collaborated on tracks with Blxst and MIA.

Though he hasn’t released a full-length album of his own yet, fans of Zacari can expect to hear it in the near future.

Last year, he revealed in an Instagram post that he plans to drop his full-length debut in 2023.

In the meantime, you can listen to “Motions” above.

Actor Penn Badgley, known for his eerie role as the stalker-murderer-turned-English-professor Joe Goldberg in Netflix’s You, made headlines when he joined TikTok last year and started posting some hilarious videos.

However, one that really got fans talking was when he performed a lip-sync and dance to Taylor Swift’s Midnights lead single “Anti-Hero.” Similar to the music video, Badgley runs through his house, only to answer the door to a duplicate version of himself as Goldberg — wearing none other than his character’s typical costume (a baseball cap).

As the show recently dropped the first half of its fourth season, Badgley did a new interview with Rolling Stone where he discussed the popular TikTok video.

“I thought for years, ‘I’ll get a TikTok when the time is right,’” Badgley shared. “And then when Taylor’s record came out, it just seemed the song wouldn’t have worked with anybody else. Me. Joe. Anti-Hero. Taylor Swift? It just was the perfect moment.”

“I wasn’t sure I wanted to play Joe,” he added. “And so I bring that to it in a way. Joe is always struggling with who he is, and what he’s doing. There’s always like three levels of lies with Joe no matter what’s happening.”

Watch Penn Badgley (as You‘s Joe Goldberg) dancing to Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” above.

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Kash Doll, J.I. The Prince Of NY, Shy Glizzy, and more.

Another quiet week gives us the chance to check out some names that might usually be overlooked, while releases from Central Cee, Fly Anakin Kevin Gates, and Slowthai kept things moving along.

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending February 10, 2023.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

J.I The Prince Of N.Y — One Way Or Another

J.I, who got his start on the second season of The Rap Game, has had a solid career to date, earning comparisons to fellow melodically-inclined New York rappers A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Lil Tjay. His latest mixtape keeps up a tradition of consistent output following 2022’s Young & Restless. Vol. 1 Baby Don.

Kash Doll & DJ Drama — Back On Dexter: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape

Hot off her recurring role as Monique on Starz’s BMF, Kash returns her focus to music alongside an absolutely dominant DJ Drama. Dram’s long-running Gangsta Grillz mixtape series has seen renewed interest in the wake of his successful collaboration with Tyler The Creator and that’s led to plenty of rap faves finding new waves, both stylistically and in growing their respective audiences.

Marlon Craft — Space 2

Craft’s backpack rap-inspired sound has found plenty of supporters in the past four years after he dropped his debut album Funhouse Mirror. He’s never stopped working, either, churning out an album, a mixtape, and the original Space EP in the years since. Space 2 operates in a similar vein as much of Craft’s prior output, with heady rhymes over crunchy, soulful beats.

Shy Glizzy — Flowers

It’s been a minute since the DMV native graced our headphones but he returns today with a 20-song collection of hard-hitting street anthems. The material on Flowers is a little more mainstream than what a lot of fans outside the DC area know him for, but that could be considered an advantage, showing his versatility and ability to flip expectations.

Singles/Videos

Babyface Ray — “Ron Artest” Feat. 42 Dugg

Two of Detroit’s finest invoke one of the city’s most infamous antagonists (albeit in his Lakers era) to reflect their championship mentalities.

French Montana — “Ratataaa” Feat. 2Rare

Tapping Philly rapper 2Rare, Mr. “Haaaahn” himself jumps on the current Jersey Club trend and proves himself just as adept at turning up the energy to the max as ever.

Jay Worthy — “Terry Davis” Feat. Curren$y

The Compton rapper may have signed to Buffalo-based Griselda, but he eschews his teammates’ gloomy beats for more champagne-frothy smooth jazz production. Curren$y is the perfect complement to this low-key luxury.

Price — “On Go” Feat. Cozz

The Audio Push rapper makes the trip west on the 10 to link up with Inglewood’s Cozz for a motivational late-night thumper.

Rah Swish — “New York Girls”

Sample drill at its finest! The Brooklyn rapper uses a typically menacing beat to declare his love for women from every borough.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Lizzo is still on cloud nine over her Grammy win. Last Sunday (February 5), the hitmaker took home the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year for her hit single, “About Damn Time.”

Today (February 10), she appeared on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the events that went down when the cameras weren’t rolling. As one can expect, waiting to hear if you won an award can be anxiety-inducing. Luckily, Lizzo had just the fix to calm her nerves.

During Lizzo’s appearance on the show, Norton pointed out a jewelry-studded flask at Lizzo’s table in a picture taken at the awards ceremony.

“I had two flasks for me, and one for Adele,” she revealed. “It was lit.”

Norton then asked, “Why did you have to bring a hit flask?”

Lizzo replied, saying, “Because there’s not, like, a bar. I’m like, ‘Come on, y’all, we need more alcohol.’ It’s Grammys night, we’re all stressed.”

Shania Twain, who also appeared on Norton alongside Lizzo, and was seated at the same table as Lizzo during the Grammys, complimented Lizzo’s “shiny” and “bedazzled” flask.

You can check out the clip above.

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

Taylor Swift, months after dropping her tenth studio album, Midnights, has released a brand new remix of a recent single, “Lavender Haze.” Last month, Swift gave the record’s romantic opening track a music video treatment — and now it’s taken on a completely different energy courtesy of Felix Jaehn.

Having literally went to a Midnights-themed cycling class last night, this new “Lavender Haze” remix is perfect for both a high-intensity workout and hitting the club. In this version, Swift’s vocals are sped-up, as the instrumental is swapped for a dreamy EDM build — before auto-tuning the chorus in a non-over-the-top-way.

“I happened upon the phrase ‘lavender haze’ when I was watching Mad Men, and I looked it up, because I thought it sounded cool, and it turns out that it’s a common phrase used in the 50s where they would just describe being in love,” Swift shared on Instagram ahead of the album’s October release.

“Like, if you were in a lavender haze, that meant that you were in that all-encompassing love glow, and I thought that was really beautiful,” she added. “And I guess theoretically when you’re in the lavender haze, you’ll do anything to stay there, and not let people bring you down off of that cloud.”

Listen to Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze (Felix Jaehn Remix)” above.

Rihanna isn’t the only pop star who might be returning to the stage soon. Selena Gomez, who last went on tour in 2016 for her album Revival in 2016, teased a possible tour in response to a fan’s post on Instagram. When the fan account posted photos of Gomez on tour, she commented, “Can’t wait for tour.”

But she didn’t stop there. In another comment, she teased, “Should I go this year or next? Feel like I should wait.”

Although it has been a while since her last tour, Gomez has been far from absent from the stage. She popped up at the 2019 American Music Awards in 2019, the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final in Portugal, and The Late Late Show with James Corden in late 2021, but was unable to go on tour for her 2020 album Rare due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since then, Gomez has been focused on her role in Only Murders In The Building, but a few social media posts earlier this year seemed to suggest that she’s working on a new album — and her talk of a tour might give that speculation some credence. For now, fans can check out her Apple TV documentary, My Mind & Me and cross their fingers.

After a certain amount of movies in a franchise, you might think they would run out of various storylines by number 10, but the Fast and the Furious is keeping you on your toes with Fast X. The upcoming installment will race into theaters in May, and now that we have seen that explosive trailer, we have a feel for what’s going on in the wild world of street racing. But more importantly, we have Jason Momoa.

Momoa has been hyping up his Fast villain for several months, and now we have finally been introduced to Dante, the son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes who we last saw being murdered by Hobbs in Fast Five. Now, over a decade later, Dante is ready to get his revenge against Dom and his crew, and he’s willing to lick a bunch of bloody knives and blow up Rome in the process.

Dante has been described by director Louis Leterrier as “100% Momoa” meaning he is a larger-than-life personality with a great head of hair. Last year, Momoa explained that Dante is different than most characters he is used to portraying. “[Dante] is very sadistic and androgynous and he’s a bit of a peacock,” Momoa told Variety last summer. “He’s got a lot of issues, this guy. He’s definitely got some daddy issues.” He’s looking to solve those issues by killing Dom, who now has a family and kids! Time flies when you have over two decades worth of these movies to watch.

Fast X won’t be the final installment in the franchise, so it’s possible that Momoa will have so much fun playing the bad guy that he makes it out of this one alive and returns for the next movie. Although now that he cut his hair, he might not be as daunting as Dante.

Fast X opens on May 19.