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Fans at 21 Savage‘s Morehouse-Spelman homecoming concert were lucky — the rapper brought out none other than Drake to give their collaborative No. 1 song “Jimmy Cooks” its first-ever live performance.

“Along with OVO, I really live this 4L sh*t,” Drake said. “By the way, I didn’t get invited to this show. Nobody from Morehouse asked me to perform. My brother brought me here, so make some noise for 21 Savage.” The crowd predictably went crazy, and everyone put their phones up to capture the moment.

After releasing Honestly, Nevermind earlier this year, Drake said he had more plans for 2022. “Me and Kenzo have a book coming out this year,” he said on his radio show on SiriusXM, Table For One. “Yeah, we have a book coming out this year, a poetry book. So I hope you guys tune into that, too, because that’s going to be some sh*t.” He continued, “I got another Scary Hours pack coming, too, in a little bit. Maybe not, like [laughs]… maybe not right now; I need you to just take this [Honestly, Nevermind] in right now. But I have a Scary Hours, I’m gonna slap some head tops off with a Scary Hours pack.”

Watch his performance with 21 Savage above.

(House of the Dragon spoilers will be found below.)

Let’s be honest here: few people who watched the whole of Game of Thrones (particularly that out-there-yet-still-underwhelming final season and the aesthetically-stunning-but-wtf series finale) held out a ton of hope that House of the Dragon would be good. Yet HBO sure showed us who’s boss in the realm of putting George R.R. Martin lore to the screen. They’re knocking this prequel series out of the figurative ballpark, and it’s almost upsetting to think that this first season’s almost over, and we’ll have to wait at least a year (and maybe two) for more. Could we also see that Jon Snow show soon?

The first season finale is nearly upon us, and that leaves the Internet with plenty of motivation to start theorizing into infinity. This opportunity arises following this year’s penultimate installment, which saw Aegon Targaryen anointed as king. He didn’t want this to happen, but they he heard cheers and liked the approval for a few seconds before the probable “beast beneath the boards” (the dragon Meleys) rose through the floor with a disapproving Rhaenys onboard. She let the Greens live (because we don’t want this story to be over yet, among other reasons theorized by viewers), and now, George R.R. Martin’s Dance of the Dragons has begun with Team Black vs. Team Green. Boy, Rhaenyra’s gotta be pissed off.

So, what will happen in the season finale? Few people know for sure, but here are a handful of the more captivating theories and predictions. Sadly, none of these involve Zombie Viserys or more foot-fetishing antics from Larys Strong. I still maintain that if Rhaenys had set Aegon ablaze, then people would have still tuned in to watch Daemon happily collect dragon eggs for three more seasons. We can’t have that, though, so here’s those theories as well as the Episode 10 trailer for reference’s sake:

– Which Dragon was Daemon hoping to tame by singing?

I know the screencap from the above trailer isn’t fantastic. The creative minds wanted it that way. Still, this is a huge question: Daemon already has a dragon (Ceraxes), so which fiery beast is he hoping to tame in the season finale? According to a very intensive discussion on Reddit, it’s notable that Daemon’s High Valyrian singing follows this line: “Your cause holds a power that has not been seen since the days of Old Valyria.” This dragon’s large, although not as big as Vhagar (who’s Team Green due to Aemond being Vhagar’s rider). Fans appear to believe that this is the Cannibal, given his apparent advanced age and utterly vicious appearance that borders on feral. However, one wonders if the source material’s wild dragons would appear this early on in the series, although this wouldn’t be the first time that this HBO universe added to existing canon. Other sizable nominees include Vermithor and Sheespstealer, but it seems fairly obvious that Daemon’s looking for a new ride for this war, given that we already saw (while Daemon rode alongside his then wife, Laena Valaryon) how small Ceraxes is in comparison to Vhagar. Let’s hope that the smaller dragon isn’t too terribly sad, and we should probably prepare ourselves for intense battle scenes.

– Rhaenys bursting through the floor helps to sets up the Storming of the Dragonpit: This means the end of the dragons. Obviously, we see more dragons later in Game of Thrones with Dany being the Mother of Dragons, but work with me here. According to GRRM lore, the Targaryen civil war doesn’t bode well for civilians in King’s Landing. They’re starving and full of resentment, and The Shepherd prophet harnesses this angst and convinces the people that dragons are evil. As such, the civilians burst into the Dragonpit and killed the dragons chained inside. One dragon survived, but that’s beside the point because (as Redditors point out) Rhaenys’ clear disregard for civilian life (she killed a bunch of them by bursting through the floor) could feed that resentment, contributing to the demise of Targaryen power. Although it seems that Rhaenyrs (from the looks of the Episode 10 trailer) wanted to foster peace instead of war, she could paradoxically be a primary cause of the common folk feeling justified in killing the dragons and, in turn, sparking the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty.

– Did the Maisters plot the Targaryen downfall and the civil war? We likely won’t receive the answer this question in the season finale, but you never know. This theory posits that the Maisters conspired to kill the only male heir of Viserys at the beginning, which also led to Aemma’s death and then pushed Viserys to choose a new wife, who ended up being Alicent Hightower. For whatever reason, Viserys chose to consult a Maister (instead of a healer) while fearing another difficult birth for Aemma. The Maister advised that Viserys needed to make that difficult choice (to the visible horror of the midwives), which ended up being the brutal procedure that killed Aemma. The end result was to integrate the Hightowers into the family, leading to a much weaker House of Targaryen. And in turn (according to Paddy Considine), Aemma’s death also led to the physical decline and death of the king.

– Did the White Worm survive? Mysaria may have lost her house to fire (via Alicent’s orders), but it’s almost certain that she will live. The show has expended quite a bit of energy parceling out her motivations (as a former sex worker and slave) and having her push Otto for a deal to fix what’s happening to those who lives in Flea Bottom. She’s also (if one reads into Larys’ masturbatory words to Alicent) apparently indispensable to running the network of spies that hangs at the Red Keep. This whole subplot can’t simply disappear, so get ready for more of her unusual (for Westeros) accent and for her to help push for common folk to receive better treatment. Also, we could see Mysaria join with Team Black (she does have a history with Daemon, so it could get awkward).

– Aemond might actually be the father of Aegon’s presumed children: This seems a little nitpicky and perhaps ultimately not too consequential, but it’s still fun to consider that Helaena Targaryen might be cucking her lousy brother-husband (who is out there committing rape and more). As Den of Geek notes, Twitter user by the handle of @darklesdarling posed this theory, in which Halaena’s young twins were essentially rattling on about “Aemond” when Alicent and Otto were searching for Aegon.

HBO’s House of the Dragon airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

Spooky season is here, and Kim Kardashian is in a “creepy” mood.

On last week’s episode of The Kardashians, Kim revealed that she had sex with ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson in front of a fireplace as a “tribute” to her grandmother. “But how creepy to think about your grandma before you have sex?” she acknowledged. The “creepy” word came up again during this week episode’s of the Hulu series. Kim’s mother, Kris Jenner, told the cameras that her daughter made jewelry using her bones.

While laid up in bed following hip replacement surgery, Jenner said, “Kim asked the doctor to save her my bones so she can make jewelry out of it. It’s creepy.” Her other daughter, Kylie, agreed over the phone, saying, “That is weird.” (No, this is Weird.)

Despite not being particularly keen on the idea of Kim making jewelry from her bones, Jenner was more into the idea of dividing her ashes after her death and cremation, turning them into necklaces for her children. “That’s weird,” Khloé said. “No, it’s not,” Jenner replied.

Insider also reports that Kim has a “tradition” in which she threatens the doctors who work on her family members “with their lives,” which isn’t creepy. But it is deeply, deeply weird. Even more than turning your mom’s hip into a necklace, or whatever.

(Via Insider)

Nearly five years after the release of the divinely explosive Cocoa Sugar, Mercury Prize-winning Scottish trio Young Fathers will be back with a new album. The band announced today that their fourth album, Heavy Heavy, is due out on February 3rd of next year and Kayus Bankole, Alloysious Massaquoi, and G. Hastings made it all in a sheltered state in a basement studio where they took a, “Let the demons out and deal with it,” approach, Bankole says. “Make sense of it after.”

Along with the announcement, they’ve released the album’s second single, “I Saw.” It’s furious, cultish bravado is in contrast to the slow-burning pace of the emotive “Geronimo,” which came out in July and is nothing short of one of the best songs of 2022.

The video for “I Saw” was directed by David Uzochukwu and pits the music to a carnal, contortionist, and sometimes grotesque fireside seance on the beach. It aptly speaks to the sentiment of the song, which the band describes as, “A big bully with sh*te down their leg, still swaggering. That pamphlet through your door blaming the establishment and immigrants for everything going wrong. The stench of long-dead empire, trudging along, a psychological hammer to your head in every step. The delusion.”

Watch the video for “I Saw” above and check out the album artwork and tracklist for Heavy Heavy below.

1. “Rice”
2. “I Saw”
3. “Drum”
4. “Tell Somebody”
5. “Geronimo”
6. “Shoot Me Down”
7. “Ululation”
8. “Sink Or Swim”
9. “Holy Moly”
10. “Be Your Lady”

Heavy Heavy is out on 02/02/2023 via Ninja Tune. Pre-order it here.

Five months ago the Dallas Mavericks went into Phoenix and ended the Suns season in shocking fashion, dismantling the 1-seed in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals in a 33-point win.

That sparked what was a rather dismal offseason for the Suns, with the most notable on-court storyline being Deandre Ayton’s future, with them unable to find a sign-and-trade for the young star center (who was benched in that Game 7) and ultimately matching an offer sheet on him. Because the NBA loves a good mess, they set the Suns up for a chance at redemption or mockery in their opener on Wednesday night by sending those same Mavs to Phoenix to start the season.

In the first half, it looked like we were headed for yet another blowout win by Dallas, as Luka Doncic (35 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists) and Christian Wood (25 points, 8 rebounds) torched the Suns, leading by 17 at the half and as many as 22 early in the third quarter. However, the Suns would show some fight this time around, led by Devin Booker’s 28-point night and a second half surge from Ayton, who finished with 18 points and 10 boards, and finished off by an unlikely source.

The Suns would claw their way back into the game, despite the best efforts of Wood who at one point in the fourth scored 16 consecutive points for the Mavs before heading to the bench for a spell, despite Chris Paul and Cam Johnson sitting down the stretch in the fourth. Cam Payne and Damion Lee took their places and the latter put forth some heroics, scoring 11 points (all in the fourth) including the game-winner on a ridiculous falling away shot on the baseline.

Doncic, who had just tied the game driving to the paint for an and-1, did not try to get downhill again and left a deep stepback three to win short off the rim, giving the Suns a wild comeback win that will raise spirits considerably in Phoenix and be a tough pill to swallow in Dallas.

The Mavs will still be pleased with what Wood showed in his debut, but losing that game is brutal given the lead they held and how dominant they appeared. For Phoenix, what would’ve been a loss that sparked a million thinkpieces on the end of the Suns as we know them became a gutty win that shows a resilience from this team we haven’t seen since their Finals run and puts to rest, at least for a bit, the questions of whether this group has run its course together.

According to Deadline, Netflix’s The Crown will not film a version of Princess Diana’s fatal car crash for the episode that deals with her death.

“We’ve been dreading getting to this point. The countdown is two weeks and while we’re calmly carrying on it’s fair to acknowledge that there’s a certain anxiety; a palpable sense of being slightly on edge. I mean, there’s bombshell sensitivity surrounding this one,” a source on the production said.

The series is currently filming its sixth season, which includes Princess Diana’s (Elizabeth Debicki) death. Not filming the crash is a no-brainer in an era where no-brainers are something a production might consider, so the production is wise both to leave it out altogether and to inform potentially concerned fans about their intentions. Instead, viewers will see a before and after.

“It’s the run-up: the car leaving The Ritz after midnight with paparazzi in pursuit and then the aftermath with the British Ambassador to France swinging into action with the Foreign Office and then the subsequent constitutional aftermath,” the source said.

While avoiding the ghoulish act of filming such a recreation, the production will still have to navigate the murky waters of how they portray Prince Charles (now King Charles III) in the sixth season leading up to and after Princess Diana’s death. Or if they can earn Dame Judi Dench’s viewership ever again.

The fifth season of The Crown hits Netflix November 9th.

(via Deadline)

Grant Ginder’s uproarious novel about a family falling even further apart during the oldest sibling’s wedding has finally gotten an adaptation, and the trailer looks glorious. The People We Hate At The Wedding feels slightly conventional here, but the promise is something to fill a Thanksgiving family dinner with gasps and dropped jaws. That goes double for if they follow the novel hand-in-hand.

Here’s the official synopsis from Prime Video:

“In the hilariously raunchy comedy The People We Hate at the Wedding, dysfunctional American siblings Alice (Kristen Bell) and Paul (Ben Platt) along with their ever-optimistic mom (Allison Janney), are invited to the British wedding of their estranged half-sister Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) as a chance for them to reconnect as – more or less – adults, and learn to love each other like they once did.”

Everyone looks fantastic here. Platt appears appropriately put out at every turn, Janney cloying and wry, and Kristen Bell dancing in an American flag bikini while cruising in a hot tub down the Thames gives off some serious Eleanor Shellstrop vibes.

Oh, and Dustin Milligan drops in with the same handsome softy act he perfected on Schitt’s Creek. This really is a strong cast of fun people gearing up to be ridiculous.

Directed by Claire Scanlon (Set it Up), the screenplay comes from sibling writing team Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux, best known for Bob’s Burgers. It looks like it earns the R-rating while remaining upbeat and sarcastically hopeful for every dysfunctional crew. The People We Hate at the Wedding hits Prime Video on November 18th.

Lana Del Rey has been churning out albums excessively within recent years, with Chemtrails Over The Country Club, Blue Banisters, and Norman F*cking Rockwell. She even published a poetry book while she was at it. The singer was planning on not slowing down, but now she might have to due to her recent confession that her things have been stolen.

The pop star posted a video on her private Instagram, @honeymoon, talking to her phone camera. “So I want to talk to you guys about something for a minute,” she starts off. “A few months ago, I parked my car on Melrose Place and I stepped away for a minute and the one time I left my backpack inside my car someone broke all of the windows and took it. Inside of it was my computer and my three camcorders and my hard drives. I had to remotely wipe the computer that had my 200-page book for Simon & Schuster which I didn’t have backed up on the Cloud because we do not have any Cloud systems that we access.”

She continued, “Despite that, people are still able this week to remotely access my phone and leak our songs and personal photos. I just want to mention that despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come. And despite so many safety factors in so many different levels, I really want to persist and make the best art I can.”

There’s a lot going on right now, not the least being a midterm election that may dramatically alter the course of everyone’s lives. We need a mental break. Perhaps that’s why everyone has been obsessed with stories of James Corden being a jerk. It began when a legendary New York City restauranteur (temporarily) banned the late night host from one of his joints because he was repeatedly rude to his staff. Now someone is chiming in with their own tale.

As per Page Six, Becky Habersberger, the wife of one of the Try Guys (no, not that one), dropped a TikTok video in which she goes off about once witnessing the Cats alum blowing up on a lowly busboy at a Los Angeles eatery. She said she saw Corden trying to get a table at the Los Feliz Italian spot Little Dom’s. Alas, they close between lunch and dinner and Corden had caught them at the wrong time. But Corden wasn’t having it.

“[The busboy] is telling James Corden he can get him a reservation right when they open,” Habersberger said, adding, “He was trying to be really accommodating.” Instead, she said Corden yelled at him, saying, “A lot of good that does me, mate, a lot of good that does me.”

Harbersberger clearly thought of her own encounter when she heard Balthazar owner Keith McNally calling Corden a “tiny cretin of a man” for, among other things, blowing up on a waiter who screwed up his wife’s all-yolk omelette. “Corden has since “apologized profusely,” but Harbersberger isn’t having it.

“If he was really sorry, he would have apologized to the server and not the owner of the restaurant,” she said. She also recalled her own restaurant days. “I was a waitress at a super bougie Beverly Hills hotel rooftop restaurant,” she recalled. “Some [stars] were awesome, some were trash and I remember to this day who the trash bags are.

“I’m not surprised by all this James Corden information coming out because if you are rude to one server, you are absolutely rude to many servers,” she said. “That is not a one-off, ‘I was having a bad day’ kind of thing.”

(Via Page Six)

John Cale is back with the announcement of Mercy, his first new album of original songs in a decade. Today, he released the lead single “Story Of Blood,” which features the one and only indie singer Weyes Blood, who also has an LP arriving soon. She’s not the only guest on Mercy. It’ll also have Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, and Actress.

“I’d been listening to Weyes Blood’s latest record and remembered Natalie’s puritanical vocals,” the former Velvet Underground member said about deciding to work with her. “I thought if I could get her to come and sing with me on the ‘Swing your soul’ section, and a few other harmonies, it would be beautiful. What I got from her was something else! Once I understood the versatility in her voice, it was as if I’d written the song with her in mind all along. Her range and fearless approach to tonality was an unexpected surprise. There’s even a little passage in there where she’s a dead-ringer for Nico.”

Listen to “Story Of Blood” above. Check out the album artwork and tracklist below.

1. “Mercy” feat. Laurel Halo
2. “Marilyn Monroe’s Legs (Beauty Elsewhere)” feat. Actress
3. “Noise Of You”
4. “Story Of Blood” feat. Weyes Blood
5. “Time Stands Still” feat. Sylvan Esso
6. “Moonstruck (Nico’s Song)”
7. “Everlasting Days” feat. Animal Collective
8. “Night Crawling”
9. “Not The End Of The World”
10. “The Legal Status Of Ice” feat. Fat White Family
11. “I Know You’re Happy” feat. Tei Shi
12. “Out Your Window”

Mercy arrives 1/20 via Double Six / Domino. Pre-order it here.