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Since the tragic passing of Jarad Anthony Higgins, better known as world-dominating rapper Juice WRLD, in 2019, lots of posthumous music has come out (and a chunk of it was leaked, which his mother called out as “disrespectful“). This includes the album Fighting Demons, which saw him move into a more pop-punk direction with simpler melodies. A new song is out today, called “In My Head.”

“In My Head” has the texture of his beloved 2018 LP Goodbye & Good Riddance. It mixes vulnerability with catchy hooks in the signature Juice WRLD fashion that fans love him for. In a tired drawl, he repeats, “I’m stuck in my head too much / I’m stuck in my head.”

Juice’s former manager, Peter Jideonwo, shared earlier this year that he wanted to get the rapper in a video game. “We’ve been trying our hardest, and that’s also a work in progress,” he said in a video posted to social media. “It would be cool because everyone in Fortnite loves Juice and ‘Come And Go’ was a huge hit in Fortnite. I think it fits. So if y’all wanna go hit up Epic Games and Fortnite, y’all should definitely do that too.”

Listen to “In My Head” above.

The hosts for the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards were revealed today (October 28). Brazilian superstar Anitta will be leading this year’s ceremony along with “Despacito” hit-maker Luis Fonsi, Thalia, and Laura Pausini.

Anitta made history earlier this year when she became the first solo Latin artist to top Spotify’s Global 50 chart. She did so with her breakthrough hit “Envolver.” The song is up for two Latin Grammy Awards, including Record Of The Year and Best Reggaeton Performance. Among the chatter surrounding the 2023 Grammy awards, Anitta has been mentioned multiple times as a potential contender for Best New Artist.

Fonsi, the Puerto Rican star behind the global hit “Despacito,” will also be hosting. He will be joined by Mexican pop icon Thalia, who received the Latin Recording Academy’s president award in 2019. She is also teasing her musical comeback with the upcoming single “Psycho B**tch.” Rounding out the hosts is Italian singer Laura Pausini, who has hit it big in the Latin market with her Spanish hits. In 2006, she became the first female Italian artist to win a Grammy Award for her Spanish-language album Escucha.

Bad Bunny is the most-nominated artist of the year with 10 nominations. The 2022 Latin Grammy Awards will take place in Las Vegas on Thursday, November 17. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Univision.

In a relatively short span of time, Lil Baby — who once had to be paid a tidy sum to stop selling drugs and take rapping seriously by Young Thug — has become one of rap’s best-known, most prolific artists. You’d expect that to correlate to his income, but upon a recent Google search, Baby apparently found that publicly available estimates of his net worth are, shall we say, “slightly inaccurate.”

He addresses this on his new album, It’s Only Me, setting the record straight. “Google says my net worth is $5 million, but I got that sh*t in cash,” he raps. Incidentally, it isn’t the first time he’s addressed this. On “That’s Facts,” from his collaborative album with Lil Durk, he growls, “Google better change my net worth.” I feel like someone should tell him that Google only shows results from previously existing web posts and doesn’t actually estimate anyone’s net worth, though.

During a recent interview with Complex‘s Speedy Morman, he explained why he keeps bringing it up in his raps. “My son told me that one of his friends at school told him,” he said. This prompted him to look it up for himself. “Nobody on that Google net worth is correct or accurate,” he noted. This is, of course, because the sites guesstimating these amounts are doing so with limited information about entertainers’ actual income streams.

Whatever Baby’s net worth actually is, it’ll likely continue to grow as he remains in demand — as long as he stops gambling with Drake and James Harden.

Charles Barkley had some pointed comments about Klay Thompson — and the Golden State Warriors as a whole — in the aftermath of their loss to the Phoenix Suns earlier this week. Barkley expressed his belief that, because the Warriors’ core players are getting older, the team’s younger dudes are going to need to step up if they want to have the kind of success that has become commonplace. He brought up Thompson specifically and expressed his belief that “he’s slipping” and that he’s “not the same guy” due to the ACL and achilles injuries that sidelined him for more than two years.

Thompson brought this up on Thursday night after the Warriors beat the Miami Heat, and gave the sort of impassioned answer that has endeared him to basketball fans over the years.

“Someone like Charles Barkley, the platform he has, saying you’re not the same player prior to the injuries you had, it’s like, no duh, man,” Thompson said. “Consecutive years, tore my ACL in consecutive years and still helped a team win a championship? I mean, it hurt hearing that, cause it’s like, I put in so much freaking effort to get back to this point. It’s hard to even put into words what I had to do to be the player I am today.

Thompson then pointed out he played 57 games in three years, then stressed that he needs time to get back to being the player that he was prior to going down.

“Who goes through something like that and comes back…” he said as his voice trailed off. “I don’t know, it just hurt my heart hearing that. But you know what? I’m gonna internalize it and it’s gonna be fuel for me to be even better, and I’m very proud of what we accomplished last year and I feel like I was a huge part of it. So, I’m not gonna let these injuries be a crutch for me. I’m just gonna keep going and I’ma have a great year. Bet on that.”

Thompson then slapped the table and walked away to end his presser.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” That’s the mantra Trevor Noah has attached to Mark Zuckerberg, whose belief in the metaverse that his company is creating — and has renamed itself after — is so unwavering, that he just lost about $90 BILLION to stay the course of where he believes his company is headed. And Zuck apparently can’t stop, won’t stop.

On Thursday night, after announcing that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is finally official, The Daily Show host commended Zuckerberg for sticking to his guns at any cost. Meta just reported its official earnings, which are down more than 20 percent — or more than $9 billion — just this year alone. And they’re expected to lose more. But Zuck remains optimistic about the company’s future, noting in a Q3 earnings call that “people are going to look back on decades from now and talk about the importance of the work that was done here.” Which all sounds a little grandiose.

CNBC noted that Zuckerberg took a personal hit of about $85 billion for the year, which knocked him down the list of the World’s Richest People from the No. 3 spot to No. 26 or 27. “If the man was capable of feeling human emotion, right now he’d be stressed as hell,” Noah said. Still, he does have some admiration for the Facebook co-founder: “Kudos Mark Zuckerberg. A lot of people have been talking about taking down Big Tech for a while. But he’s the only one with the balls to do it to his own company.”

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 8:40 mark.

Matthew Perry kicked off an internet firestorm after taking a dark and awkward swipe at Keanu Reeves in his new memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. While reminiscing about the death of River Phoenix, who Perry became friends with while filming the 1988 film, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, the Friends star seemed to be angered by that Reeves is still alive. Like we said, it got pretty dark.

“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” Perry wrote via Page Six. He then made the remark again after sharing his reaction to the death of Chris Farley. “I punched a hole through Jennifer Aniston’s dressing room wall when I found out,” Perry wrote. “Keanu Reeves walks among us.”

With Perry’s passages out in the wild, TV’s Chandler Bing soon learned that there’s an enormous amount of love for Keanu Reeves, and Perry issued a bizarre explanation for the seemingly out-of-nowhere Keanu hate. Via Deadline:

“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry’s statement reads. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”

However, there has been speculation that suggests Perry’s swipes at Reeves were not “random.” One school of thought is that Perry was jealous of Reeves’ professional success and/or his own friendship with Phoenix before his death. Another theory is that Perry’s humor is still trapped in the ’90s when joking about Reeves’ acting abilities happened all of the time. Keanu is revered now, but it was not uncommon to mock the Bill & Ted actor even after The Matrix made him a massive star.

As for the real explanation, until we hear from Reeves or other sources, all we have is speculation and Perry’s claim that it was a random mistake.

(Via Deadline)

Weyes Blood‘s new album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow is set to arrive next month. So far, she’s unveiled the singles “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody” and “Grapevine.” She’s back today with a video for the latter.

In the video, she brings to life the line, “My car broke down / In an old ghost town right around / Where they got James Dean.” She sings by a crashed car in a dark landscape, and gradually everything becomes more warped and disoriented, blurring into a weird world.

Upon the release of the song, the singer explained, “‘Grapevine’ is a road song set along the titular stretch of Southern California’s Interstate 5. Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other. We all have a ‘Grapevine’ entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection?”

Along with this anticipated release of this album, Weyes Blood also collaborated with the one and only John Cale for the song “Story Of Blood” from his forthcoming LP Mercy, which also features Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, and Actress.

Watch the video for “Grapevine” above.

Bay Area rapper Symba has been on the come-up for the past two years but he’s been receiving more attention than ever lately thanks to his new release, Results Take Time. The Gangsta Grillz DJ Drama collaboration has given him a much-deserved big-name cosign and he’s been running with it ever since, growing an audience that he keeps giving reasons to be impressed. The latest of those reasons is an appearance on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts series, which displays all the potent lyricism that has attracted the success he’s received in the past few months.

He opens with “Don’t Condone,” a breakout single from the summer of 2021 that put fans of straight-up, bars-and-beats hip-hop on notice that a new contender had arrived. Projecting both humility and supreme confidence, Symba is backed by a four-piece band with a pair of harmonious backup singers and adorned in a plainspoken but ultra clean fit consisting of a fly varsity jacket and ripped jeans. The ensemble matches the music; Symba is a blunt-force lyricist whose understated wordplay still warrants a reach for the rewind button.

Playing Results Take Time cuts like “Can’t Win For Nothing,” “Never End Up Broke,” and “GOAT,” Symba shows exactly why rap fans are so excited about his presence and puts himself in position for an ever bigger 2023.

Watch Symba’s Tiny Desk Concert above.

Jack Harlow is checking in for duty — double duty, that is! Tomorrow night, Harlow follows in the footsteps of Megan Thee Stallion in appearing both as the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, joining a short list of musicians to hold this honor.

The “First Class” rapper isn’t the only person making history with their appearance on the show. Actress, comedian, and longtime cast member Cecily Strong is also returning after stepping away to star in the play The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe. In a new promotional clip, the pair awkwardly flirts as they find themselves caught in an incestuous joke. This wouldn’t be the first time Harlow’s seemingly romantic pursuits bombed on camera; if you recall his brushing with “ICY GRL” rapper Saweetie at the 2021 BET Awards.

While Harlow has already proven his hosting chops earlier this month on The Tonight Show alongside Jimmy Fallon, he took to Twitter to share SNL‘s announcement with the deep exhale emoji.

It is unclear whether or not this post was a cryptic message to display his nerves, but what we do know is viewers are in for a treat. Harlow’s charismatic personality and keen sense of humor should make for a must-watch episode.

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

Matthew Perry has been stirring up drama over his memoir for the past week. In various excerpts from his new book, he revealed that he has something against Keanu Reeves, talked a moderate amount of smack about Cameron Diaz, and then claimed that he had once made out with then-costar Valerie Bertinelli while she was married. It’s been a wild week!

Then, yesterday, Bertinelli seemingly responded to Perry’s claims by hopping on a TikTok trend, which is how you respond to said things these days. The actress uploaded a clip featuring Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” with the caption “Anyone else misbehave in their 20’s and early 30’s? Are you mortified?” The audio features the lyrics “It’s me, Hi/ I’m the problem it’s me.” While she doesn’t explicitly mention Perry, her reaction is enough.

After the clip went viral, Bertinelli went on Instagram to rant about being followed by paparazzi. “I just had a single paparazzi waiting outside my therapist’s office for me to come out and ask me stupid questions,” the actress said while laughing. “Ya’ll are weird!” Unfortunately, it got worse. “This is insane. I went to get my nails done and this van keeps following me,” Bertinelli said on her Instagram stories.

She added, “It’s been a long time since I’ve been followed by paparazzi, I mean, look at me! This is what I’m wearing. Who the f*ck cares.” Bertinelli then shared a picture of her wearing a band t-shirt and sweatpants. “Seriously good luck trying to sell a picture where this is what I look like.”

Bertinelli was a huge star in the late ’80s and early ’90s, so she is no stranger to the paparazzi. Still, this is all because Perry decided to share a seemingly harmless little tidbit about his past. Maybe he should have asked her first?