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It has been a summer of surprise albums and surprise group drama, though it’s likely no one ever predicted Migos would be the source of conflict. Soon after Quavo and Takeoff announced their new duo Unc & Phew back in May, Offset surprisingly unfollowed their social media accounts. Unc & Phew went on to release two singles in “Hotel Lobby” and “Us Vs. Them” featuring Gucci Mane all while Offset teased his own music, ultimately releasing “54321” last week. Now, as ‘Set is immersed in a public verbal joust with Quality Control CEO Pierre “P” Thomas over his contract, it seems certain that Migos has reached its end.

TMZ reported Wednesday (August 24) that Offset filed a lawsuit against QC after allegedly renegotiating his solo contract and securing his artist rights only for his label to not honor the deal. Soon after, P posted a now-deleted Tweet saying “The last lawsuit was filed publicly and dismissed quietly. Let’s see how this one go. Been to real for all this lame sh*t. Everyone know the real problem.”

Offset quoted him and fired back with “N****s act like im the problem I paid millions to get my rights back N**** you black balled me I ain’t said sh*t one time homie I ain’t spoke to you in 2 years now I drop and you want ya name on my credit?”

TMZ later updated their post with a report from a Quality Control rep stating Offset is still part of QC and the accusations in the lawsuit are “false” and “totally detached from reality.”

No member of Migos addressed their status as a group until Quavo was interviewed by GQ, saying the group has operated as a group for a long time and each “member has to establish themselves.” It appears that is happening now, or again rather after their solo album barrage in 2018 and 2019. However, things appear far from peaceful.

Check out the back and forth between Offset and P above.

It’s a little strange that there hasn’t been a televised pizza competition yet. Maybe that’s because most cooking competition shows don’t focus on a single type of food. They want to explore the vast culinary expanses and explore bold new flavors. Hulu‘s newest competition Best In Dough might try a little bit of that (they ask at least one panel of chefs to make pizza without dough), but mostly…it’s just pizza.

Anchored by luscious shots of gorgeous pies and the smiley humor of host Wells Adams, the show from the makers of Is It Cake? promises to be another installment of bingeable, low stakes fun. Beyond Adams, the show features head judge Chef Daniele Uditi of Pizzana, as well as Chef Millie Peartree, comedian and food influencer Eunji Kim, and baker Bryan Ford serving as judges. The 10-episode series promises the winners who sling the best slice $10,000 and whatever glory comes with knowing you beat someone else’s nonna. Make no mistake. The one thing we know about the show from the trailer is that the nonna episode is going to be a legendary battle of strong wills, snarky comments, and world-class pizza.

Get ready to ogle those three pizza ovens as Best In Dough hits Hulu September 19th. Just be sure to have your local joint on speed dial.

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ production outfit Bandera Entertainment is already making an animated Exploding Kittens show, and an animated show with Sacha Baron Cohen, but they’re adding to their workload with a series for Peacock from Rick and Morty writer Caitie Delaney and Human Resources writer Caleb Hearon.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Best Buds will focus on Calvin, who helps run a family-owned flower shop that’s the “crown jewel of the local strip mall.” He and his grad-school dropout best friend Evelyn take on the adventure of dragging the store out of the 1980s. It’s a noble task, especially when every other entity on the planet is trying to crawl back to the 1980s for nostalgia bucks. It’s a sweet idea, and it’s only a little surprising that the title isn’t a marijuana pun (although there’s totally still time for that to happen). Rick and Morty and Human Resources have similar, wacky, high-blood-pressure vibes, but it’s unclear whether that’s the tone Best Buds is going for.

Created by Delaney and Hearon, the show is a baby step toward adult animation for Peacock which currently has exactly zero adult animation shows. It also represents an expansion of the empire lorded over by Judge and Daniels, who are potentially getting back into the King of the Hill business while shepherding younger talent in the adult animation game.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

We’ve all seen our fair share of Donald Trump impressions, but Jamie Foxx might’ve just taken the cake. Foxx appeared on the Rap Radar Podcast with Snoop Dogg to promote their new action-comedy vampire movie, Day Shift, which is out now on Netflix. And in the midst of it all, Jamie Foxx might’ve just given Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump impression a run for it’s money.

“I love Snoop D-O Double-G. Great person,” Foxx said in his Trump voice. Then host Brian ‘B. Dot’ Miller asked him if he loves Death Row Records and Foxx just went off and nailed Trump’s hip-hop wannabe-isms: “I love Death Row Records. I love Death Ro…” and as co-host Elliott Wilson started laughing, Foxx says, “Excuse Me. Excuse me, fake news. I love Death Row.” And added that his favorite Death Row record is, “All of them.”

If you close your eyes while listening to Jamie Foxx doing the bit, it’s pretty eerie how much he really sounds like Donald Trump. Foxx eventually can’t help himself and starts laughing at how ridiculous he sounds saying the exact things that Trump would say, like “They tried to give me the virus” and “I beat the virus.” Just another day in America y’all.

Cardi is back on Twitter after a short hiatus earlier this year, but she’s already had to field increased abuse from Nicki Minaj stans. One apparently hacked TikTok star Bella Poarch’s Twitter to troll her the night of her debut EP release. And now, another has launched outlandish claims that Cardi’s husband Offset cheated on her with fellow rapper Saweetie — a claim for which no evidence was presented, as Cardi herself pointed out while defending herself and her husband.

The account, @SleezeMaraj, began its assault by mentioning Cardi’s upcoming court case for assault, getting Cardi’s attention and setting off the argument. Cardi appears to be well aware of the person behind the account, who she says was recently incarcerated for the theft of a large amount of clothing. After trading a few barbs — no pun intended — back and forth, Cardi presented a screenshot of the New York Court System’s website apparently revealing the mad fan’s extensive rap sheet.

From there, the argument escalated, with @SleezeMaraj accusing Offset of infidelity, straight up asserting that “Offset f*cked Saweetie!” However, Cardi wasn’t having it, noting that each of the account’s previous statements were unsupported by evidence. “First u claim I offered girls 4Ms over a case that the state pick up which is illegal ,then u claim I’m trying make mends wit no receipts,then claim my man was in ur friend face wit no receipts ,now u LYING to go viral,” she wrote, before adding a string of snoozing emojis. She also pulled up another screenshot of a text conversation, suggesting that @SleezeMaraj had built up a reputation for untrustworthy behavior.

As Cardi said in another follow-up tweet, “You makin crazy lies starting shit and putting female rappers in it WIT NO RECEIPTS,no blog ever spoke on this all of a sudden you come out of jail 5 days ago and you made up for lied in 2 hours wit NO RECEIPTS!”

This isn’t the first time Cardi has clapped back at online trolls trying to undermine her relationship with Offset. Last year, she dressed down a fan who claimed she was “supporting” her rapper husband. Meanwhile, for an explanation of how Saweetie got in the debate, look no further than a 2021 interview with Saweetie about a potential collaboration between the two. Since it has been “so long” (not long at all, but on Stan Twitter, time works differently, I guess) since it was first brought up, fans naturally speculate reasons why — and because kids clearly aren’t staying home watching Days Of Our Lives with their grandmothers anymore, they like making up the messiest scenarios they can think of for the entertainment they’re missing.

In any event, Cardi would do well to remember that age-old internet wisdom: Don’t feed the trolls.

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

Technology and hip-hop have begun to intersect more than ever. Rappers like ASAP Rocky, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg have expressed interest in NFTs, legacy acts like The Notorious BIG, Tupac, and A Tribe Called Quest are offering opportunities like collaborations and music ownership with the new technology, and quirky experiments like Travis Bot have shown off ways that machine learning can simulate some of today’s top artists. But some fans felt that tech went too far with FN Meka, a virtual rapper that toed the line of good taste despite being signed to Capitol Records.

The project, founded by music manager Anthony Martini and his startup Factory New, was criticized for depicting a SoundCloud rapper who looked like Lil Pump, Tekashi 69, and a Fortnite character got tossed into a blender. Evidently, that was also how the machine learning program ostensibly behind FN Meka’s lyrics wrote its songs, a borderline nonsensical mashup of violent, tough-talking rap cliches peppered with heavy usage of the word “nigga.” And while the raps themselves were performed by a Black rapper tapped specifically for that purpose, even he revealed he was unhappy about the project recently. But who is he and why is he so upset?

It turns out the voice behind FN Meka’s first three singles, “Moonwalkin’,” “Speed Demon,” and “Internet,” was a Texas-based rapper named Kyle The Hooligan. In a video posted on his Instagram, he detailed how he was invited to participate in the project with a pitch that included equity in the company. However, he says after turning in his contributions, the company ghosted him; he found out about FN Meka’s record deal the same way everyone else did: when it was reported by Music Business Worldwide earlier this month. He says he wasn’t paid for either the initial songs or for the recording contract with Capitol (which later confirmed it never gave an advance to Factory New).

In an interview with Vice, Kyle gave more information while denouncing the company behind FN Meka for “using” him for his connection to hip-hop culture. “They wanted me involved in every ‘cultural’ or ‘cool’ aspect of it,” he said. “They wanted me to tell them if something was cool and when something was not… They got that pass because I was involved. Them cutting me out of it was like they basically used me for the culture. I didn’t know about none of this Capitol stuff going on, the deals, or anything. This was all news to me because I thought it was over with.”

He also revealed that there was no machine-learning involved; he wrote all three of the original FN Meka songs himself, then changed the pitch of his voice to sound different. He has also taken away an important lesson: “This showed me that just my voice alone can make something that’s not even real pop,” he said. “Once people are really tuned into who Kyle The Hooligan is as an artist, then they’ll really know my story.” Meanwhile, FN Meka was dropped by Capitol after the backlash online.

HBO and HBO Max are giving us slim streaming pickings this month — which shouldn’t surprise anyone following the Warner Discovery merger drama. Still, we regret to inform you that, besides new episodes of House of the Dragon, a fresh season of Los Espookys, and that wild Elvis biopic, there isn’t much on the streaming platform that’s new. Well, unless you count the dozens of seasons of Fixer Upper. Seriously, how many shows do Chip & Joanna Gaines have?

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and HBO Max this September.

Los Espookys: Season 2 (HBO series streaming 9/16)

It’s been 86 3 long years since the first season of this genre-bending comedy series from Julio Torres aired and its return couldn’t come a moment too soon. This season the group looks to be investigating the mystery of a slain beauty queen with help from Kim Petras who is playing *checks notes* a Secretary of State.

Elvis (2022) (Warner Bros. film streaming 9/2)

Austin Butler’s star-making turn as the King of Rock and Roll is reason enough to check out Baz Luhrman’s over-the-top musical biopic. But, we’d also argue that whatever the hell Tom hanks is doing in this thing is also … something to look at.

Here’s Everything Coming To HBO and HBO Max this month:

Avail. 9/1
The Accused, 1988 (HBO)
Airplane II: The Sequel, 1982 (HBO)
Airplane!, 1980 (HBO)
Andy Hardy Comes Home, 1958
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, 1939
Andy Hardy Meets a Debutante, 1940
Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble, 1944
Andy Hardy’s Double Life, 1942
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary, 1941
Angela, 1995
Another Thin Man, 1939
The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952
Bandslam, 2009 (HBO)
The Beach Bum, 2019 (HBO)
Beau Travail, 1999
Cat People, 1942
The Courtship of Andy Hardy, 1942
Divergent, 2014 (HBO)
The Divergent Series: Allegiant, 2016 (HBO)
The Divergent Series: Insurgent, 2015 (HBO)
Double Trouble, 1967
Dragon Blade, 2015 (HBO)
Elvis on Tour, 1972
The Eyes of My Mother, 2016 (HBO)
The Eyes of Orson Welles, 2018
Frankenstein, 1970
Girl Happy, 1965
Glory, 1989
Harper, 1966
Holiday, 1930
Hook, Line and Sinker, 1931
The Host, 2013 (HBO)
Hot Tub Time Machine, 2010 (HBO) (Extended Version)
In the Fade, 2017 (HBO)
It Happened at the World’s Fair, 1963
Jailhouse Rock, 1957
Killer Elite, 2011 (HBO)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, 1972
Life of Crime, 2014 (HBO)
Meet Dave, 2008 (HBO)
Melancholia, 2011 (HBO)
My Bloody Valentine, 1981 (HBO) (Extended Version)
My Week with Marilyn, 2011 (HBO)
The Nitwits, 1935
The Oklahoma Kid, 1939
Operation Crossbow, 1965
The Outfit, 1973
Please Stand By, 2017 (HBO)
Ratcatcher, 1999
Red Dust, 1932
The Ring Two, 2005 (HBO) (Extended Version)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too, 1987
Road to Singapore, 1931
Rocknrolla, 2008 (HBO)
Rosetta, 1999
The Scapegoat, 1959
The Sea Wolf, 1941
Screaming Eagles, 1956
Shadow Dancer, 2012 (HBO)
Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941
Song of the Thin Man, 1947
Spinout, 1966
The Tailor of Panama, 2001 (HBO)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986 (HBO) (Extended Version)
There Was a Crooked Man, 1970
Till the End of Time, 1946
Topsy-Turvy, 1999
Torpedo Run, 1958
Varda by Agnès, 2019
Village of the Damned, 1960
Waterloo Bridge, 1940
We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, 2021
What Lies Beneath, 2000 (HBO)
Where the Boys Are, 1960
Wild Hogs, 2007 (HBO)
Woman Walks Ahead, 2017 (HBO)
Working Girls, 1986
Young Guns, 1988
Young Guns II, 1990
Zandy’s Bride, 1974

Avail. 9/2
Elvis, 2022 (HBO)
Total Dramarama, Season 3B Premiere

Avail. 9/3
Sesame Street Mecha Builders, Season 1C Premiere

Avail. 9/4
Primera, 2021
The Vampire Diaries, Seasons 1-8

Avail. 9/5
Beauty and the Bandit, 1946

Avail. 9/7
The Brave One, 1956
Young Sheldon, Season 5

Avail. 9/9
HBO First Look: See How They Run, Season Premiere (HBO)
Moonfall, 2022 (HBO)
Saving The King (aka Salvar al Rey), Max Original Season 1
Tom Swift, Season 1

Avail. 9/10
Impractical Jokers, Season 9C
Impractical Jokers, Season 9C Specials

Avail. 9/12
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz, 1955

Avail. 9/14
Tammy, 2014 (HBO) (Extended Version)

Avail. 9/15
Dos Monjes, 1934
Lucia, 1968

Avail. 9/16
Good Behavior, Seasons 1-2
Los Espookys, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)

Avail. 9/17
Secret Origin Of The Batwheels

Avail. 9/21
Escape From Kabul, 2022 (HBO)

Avail. 9/22
The Hype, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Living Single, Seasons 1-5

Avail. 9/23
Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? Season 1 Premiere

Avail. 9/24
Hostages, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
Into the Storm, 2014 (HBO)

Avail. 9/29
Looney Tunes Cartoons (S5B) Halloween Special Max Original Premiere

Avail. 9/30
Bing, Season 1C
Gotham, Seasons 1-5
Magnolia Content
The Cabin Chronicles, Seasons 1-2
The Courage to Run with Chip Gaines & Gabe Grunewald, Special
The Craftsman, Season 1
The Established Home, Season 1
Family Dinner, Seasons 1-2
Fixer Upper (Five Season Library)
Fixer Upper: Behind the Design, Season 1
Fixer Upper: Welcome Home, Season 1
For the Love of Kitchens, Season 1
Growing Floret, Season 1
Homegrown, Seasons 1-2
In with the Old, Season 1
Inn the Works, Seasons 1-2
The Johnnyswim Show, Seasons 1-2
The Lost Kitchen, Seasons 1-2
Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines, Seasons 1-6
Maine Cabin Masters, Season 7
Making Modern with Brooke and Brice, Seasons 1-2
Point of View: A Designer Profile
Ranch to Table, Seasons 1-2
Restoration Road with Clint Harp, Seasons 1-2
The Retro Plant Shop with Mikey and Jo, Season 1
Silos Baking Competition
Van Go, Seasons 1-2
Where We Call Home, Seasons 1-2

Here’s Everything Leaving HBO and HBO Max This Month:

Leaving 9/4
Meet the Patels, 2014

Leaving 9/5
Turner Classic Movies: Follow the Thread, 2022

Leaving 9/8
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, 2018

Leaving 9/9
Horrible Bosses 2, 2014

Leaving 9/11
Fatale, 2020 (HBO)

Leaving 9/14
Starting Life in Another World– (S2 Eps 1-13) (Dubbed), 2016
Starting Life in Another World– (S2 Eps 1-13) (Subtitled), 2016
Starting Life in Another World– (S2 Eps 14-25) (Dubbed), 2016
Starting Life in Another World– (S2 Eps 14-25) (Subtitled), 2016

Leaving 9/16
The Little Things, 2021 (HBO)

Leaving 9/17
Inheritance, 2020 (HBO)

Leaving 9/20
American Sniper, 2014

Leaving 9/24
The Quarry, 2020 (HBO)

Leaving 9/30
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, 1998
3 Ninjas: Knuckle Up, 1993
A Mouse Tale, 2012 (HBO)
Adaptation., 2002
American History X, 1988
An American Haunting, 2006 (HBO)
Are We Done Yet?, 2007
Are We There Yet?, 2005
Beef, 2020 (HBO)
Brooklyn’s Finest, 2010 (HBO)
Bundle of Joy, 1956
Buried, 2010
Cantinflas, 2014 (HBO)
City Slickers, 1991
Cocoon the Return, 1988 (HBO)
Contagion, 2011
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000
Dark Passage, 1947
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, 2010
Double Trouble, 1967
El Robo Del Siglo (aka Heist of the Century), 2020 (HBO)
Ella Enchanted, 2004 (HBO)
Elvis on Tour, 1972
Emma, 1996
Erased, 2013 (HBO)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, 2001
Fired Up!, 2009
Freaky, 2020 (HBO)
From Paris With Love, 2010 (HBO)
Frozen River, 2008
Genius, 2016 (HBO)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, 2009
Giant, 1956
Girl Happy, 1965
Girls, Interrupted, 1999
Graffiti Bridge, 1990
Harina (aka Flour), 2018 (HBO)
Home Fries, 1998 (HBO)
How Do You Know, 2010
I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, 1998
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, 2006
It Could Happen to You, 1994
It Happpened at the World’s Fair, 1963
J. Edgar, 2001 (HBO)
Jailhouse Rock, 1957
John Carpenter Presents Vampires: Los Muertos, 2002
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 2008
Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021 (HBO)
Jungle Master, 2013 (HBO)
Kill Bill: Vol, 1, 2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004
Krull, 1983 (HBO)
Last Night, 2011 (HBO)
Let Him Go, 2020 (HBO)
Lethal Weapon 2, 1989
Lethal Weapon 3, 1992
Lethal Weapon 4, 1998
Lethal Weapon, 1987
Little Baby Bum (S1), 2011
Little Baby Bum (S2), 2011
Little Baby Bum: Learning & Fun, 2011
Lords of Dogtown
M*A*S*H, 1970
Major League II, 1994
Major League: Back to the Minors, 2006
Mano de Obra (aka Workforce), 2019 (HBO)
Mary Reilly, 1996
Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944
Michael Clayton, 2007
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movies, 1995 (HBO)
Miles Ahead, 2016
Miracle on 34th Street, 1947 (HBO)
Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 (HBO)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj, 2006 (HBO)
Next, 2007 (HBO)
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, 2008
Nobody’s Fool, 1994
Period of Adjustment, 1962
Punch-Drunk Love, 2002
Purple Rain, 1984
Radio Flyer, 1992
Reservation Road, 2007 (HBO)
Reservoir Dogs, 1992 (HBO)
Return to Me, 2000 (HBO)
Revolver, 2007 (HBO)
Ride the High Country, 1962
Righteous Kill, 2008 (HBO)
Scary Movie 2, 2001
Scary Movie 3, 2003
Scary Movie, 2000
Sex Drive, 2008 (Extended Version)
Shark Night 3D, 2011 (HBO)
Shrek The Third, 2007 (HBO)
Shrink, 2009 (HBO)
SLC Punk!, 1999 (HBO)
Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
Soul Surfer, 2011
Spartan, 2004 (HBO)
Spinout, 1966
Stealing Harvard, 2002 (HBO)
Steel, 1997
Strike Up the Band, 1940
Super 8, 2011 (HBO)
The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944
The Adventures of Milo and Otis, 1989
The Book of Eli, 2010
The Boondocks Saints II: All Saints Day (Director’s Cut)
The Brothers Solomon, 2007 (HBO)
The Cooler, 2003 (HBO)
The Empty Man, 2020 (HBO)
The Harvey Girl, 1946
The Holiday, 2006 (HBO)
The Internship, 2013 (HBO)
The Iron Giant, 1999
The Ladies Man, 2000 (HBO)
The Pirate, 1948
The Raid: Redemption, 2012 (HBO) (Extended Version)
The Relic, 1997 (HBO)
The Secret in Their Eyes, 2010 (HBO)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 1964
The Wackness, 2008 (HBO)
The Way Way Back, 2013 (HBO)
Things We Lost in the Fire, 2007 (HBO)
Tootsie, 1982 (HBO)
Twister, 1996
Ultraviolet, 2006
Under the Cherry Moon, 1986
Universal Soldier: The Return, 1999
Vegas Vacation, 1997
Warm Bodies, 2013 (HBO)
Welcome to Collinwood, 2002 (HBO)
Welcome to the Dollhouse, 1995
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, 2018
Whiplash, 2015
Who’s Harry Crumb?, 1989 (HBO)
Wiener Dog Internationals, 2017 (HBO)
Zookeeper, 2011

The MTV VMAs 2022 are happening this Sunday, August 28th. This year’s show will feature not one, but three hosts in LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow. Minaj will be receiving the MTV Video Vanguard Award, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be given the MTV Global Icon Award. There will be a ton of live performances happening throughout the evening, including newly announced ones from Bad Bunny and Snoop Dogg with Eminem. But where can you watch the 2022 MTV VMAs? You’ll have a lot more options this year than just on MTV.

Where Can I Watch The 2022 MTV VMAs?

The MTV VMAs will be broadcast live from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ beginning at 8 pm EST / 5pm PST. It will be available to watch simultaneously on the MTV network as well as on BET, The CW, CMT, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, BET Her, TV Land, Nickelodeon, Logo, MTV 2, and VH1.

Jack Harlow, Lil Nas X, and Kendrick Lamar lead the way with seven nominations each at the 2022 MTV VMAs. See the full list of nominees here.

Tune in for the awards show and performances from stars like Lizzo, J Balvin, Blackpink, Panic At The Disco!, Kane Brown, and others. See the full list of performers here.

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

At one point in time, Benny The Butcher and Freddie Gibbs enjoyed a fruitful working relationship. In 2020, each appeared on the other’s album, with Benny turning in a verse on “Frank Lucas” from Freddie’s Alchemist-produced album Alfredo and Freddie returning the favor thanks to some assistance from Jay-Z on Benny’s Hit-Boy-produced Burden Of Proof offering “One Way Flight.” Both also appeared on Texas rapper Bobby Sessions’ 2021 Manifest single “Gold Rolex.” All of those tracks received praise and seemed to indicate that the two rough-voiced street rappers were on friendly terms — they even teased a potential joint album to be released in 2022 — so why are they beefing now?

Freddie’s sense of humor has been the impetus behind a lot of the trouble in which he finds himself, and this time appears to be more of the same. Things seemed to have gone south in late 2021, when Freddie jokingly tweeted about a recent incident in which Benny was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery. Unfortunately, Benny wasn’t amused; months later, when Benny was asked about the status of the joint project during an interview, he said the collaboration was no longer being released. Later, in another interview, he said the opportunity to complete the album “came and went.” When Freddie laughed off the response with an unsubtle reference to the robbery, Benny snapped back on Twitter.

From there, the pair’s problems appear to have escalated to physical violence; Benny and his crew were seen brawling with Gibbs at a local restaurant when he stopped in Benny’s hometown, Buffalo, to do a show. He performed that show with a black eye. Ever since, they’ve been taking jabs at one another via social media, such as a video Benny posted showing off a chain allegedly stolen from Gibbs’ girlfriend during their restaurant fight. While Fred has sent repeated invitations for another, one-on-one bout, Benny seems content to taunt him and demean his “gangsta” aesthetic after Gibbs failed to produce a gun during the brawl (which… should be a good thing, right? Like, do you want him to shoot you? Everybody I know who has ever been shot says it sucks). And so, not only do we not get that collab album, we get to watch two grown men squabble on the internet like high schoolers. This can’t even really be all that fun for fans of immature rap beef because we haven’t gotten one diss track out of it. Hopefully, that’ll change; even better, maybe they can actually hash out their differences and get back to making more great collabs.

As Dr. Anthony Fauci makes the media rounds following news that he’ll retire in December, Megyn Kelly is frothing mad at the White House Chief Medical Advisor’s recent comments to CNN. During the pandemic, Fauci has sat for hearing after hearing, where he routinely humiliated Rand Paul in the process, which has given him a pretty good look into what he’s in for if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections. Understandably, he’s not exactly going to jump at being cooperative.

“My records are an open book,” Fauci told CNN’s John Berman when asked about Paul’s recent threat to subpoena the chief medical advisor’s records. “They are talking about things that are really bizarre, like crimes against democracy by shutting down the government. All I have ever done — and go back and look at everything I’ve ever done — was to recommend common sense, good, CDC-recommended public health policies that have saved millions of lives. If you wanna investigate me for that, go ahead.”

Fauci also told Berman that he’d “consider” sitting down in front of a Republican congress if it’s an actual oversight matter, which made Kelly blow her lid during Wednesday’s episode of her SiriusXM show.

Via Mediaite:

“He sounds like he’s been invited to afternoon tea at one of our houses. ‘I will consider it. I’ll consider it. You know, only if it’s oversight because what I experienced was personal attacks. I will go if it’s true,’” she said.

“F*ck you, Dr. Fauci. You don’t get to say whether you go — you get a congressional subpoena, you show up or you get the Steve Bannon treatment!” Kelly added.

Considering Fauci never failed to shut down Paul during the pandemic, you’d assume Republicans would want to avoid that outcome. But judging by Kelly’s fiery remarks, it appears they’re going to be hellbent on hounding the doctor instead of, you know, actually governing.

(Via Mediaite)