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As has become an annual tradition under the new Nike sponsorship of uniforms, the NBA’s 30 franchises all had the opportunity to create a special City Edition look for the league’s 75th anniversary season. All but two, the Jazz and Suns, took that opportunity and worked with Nike to create a retro mashup that bridges eras together into one jersey, taking inspiration from various uniform design elements from their past.

While Utah and Phoenix stuck with their dark gradient looks from last year that were big hits, everyone else went back to the drawing board and some took some big swings. The league unveiled the uniforms in a “diamond album” release video, highlighting the past and present stars that influenced the various designs.

You’ll see familiar elements from jerseys of the past, as teams dug into their history to bring together some intriguing mashup jerseys — some of which work better than others.

It’ll be interesting to see the response from fans to the jerseys, as some look like an immediate hit to this objective observer — Minnesota, Dallas, Milwaukee, Toronto, Philly, and Brooklyn all stand out to me. Others seem to be met with more skepticism, as fans think they’re doing a bit too much in bringing various designs together — or in the case of OKC, not enough. A number of teams will also have special retro court looks to pair with the new uniforms, and we really won’t be able to judge them until we see the full presentation.

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in November. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, November 5

• ABBA — Voyage (Universal)
• The Acharis — Blue Sky / Grey Heaven (Cranes Records)
• AHI — Prospect (Thirty Tigers)
• Aimee Mann — Queens Of The Summer Hotel (SuperEgo Records)
• AM Higgins — Hymning (Victorialand Records)
• The Aubreys — Karaoke Alone (self-released)
• Ayumi Tanaka Trio — Subaqueous Silence (ECM Records)
• Barry Adamson — Steal Away EP (Mute)
• Beanz — Tables Turn (AWAL)
• Bent Knee — Frosting (Take This To Heart Records)
• Benz — This Could Be The End EP (Rama Lama Records)
• Bino Rideaux — 100 Roses (Red Bull Records)
• Black Hill Cove — Broken (Raging Planet Records)
• Black Map Slate — Melodoria (Minus Head Records)
• Clubhouse — Are We Going Too Slow? EP (AWAL)
• Colin James — Open Road (Stony Plain Records)
• Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters Two (Mexican Summer)
• Crazy Lixx — Street Lethal (Frontiers Music)
• Curtis Harding — If Words Were Flowers (ANTI-)
• Diana Ross — Thank You (Decca Records)
• Dijon — Absolutely (Warner/R&R)
• Dion — Stompin’ Ground (KTBA Records)
• DJ Lag — Meeting With The King (Black Major)
• Dlina Volny — Dazed (Italians Do It Better)
• Elise LeGrow — Grateful (Awesome Music/BMG)
• Emika — VEGA (Virtual Reality Soundtrack) (Emika Records)
• Emma Ruth Rundle — Engine Of Hell (Sargent House)
• Finn Askew — Tokyo EP (Capitol Records)
• FPA — Princess Wiko (37d03d)
• FUR — When You Walk Away (777 Music)
• Gold & Youth — Dream Baby (Paper Bag)
• Green Desert Water — Black Harvest (Small Stone Recordings)
• Greer — Happy People EP (Epitaph Records)
• Gregory Porter — Still Rising (Blue Note Records)
• Halfnoise — Motif (Congrats Records)
• Hana Vu — Public Storage (Ghostly)
• Heart Attack Man — Thoughtz & Prayers (Triple Crown Records)
• Holly Humberstone — The Walls Are Way Too Thin (Darkroom/Interscope)
• ÌFÉ — 0000+0000 (Forced Exposure)
• Jaga Jazzist — Pyramid Remix (Brainfeeder)
• JD Simo — Mind Control (Crows Feet Records)
• J.D. Wilkes And The Legendary Shack Shakers — Cockadoodledeux (Alternative Tentacles Records)
• Jennifer O’Connor — Born At The Disco (Kiam Records)
• Jess Chalker — Hemispheres (528 Records)
• Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, And Dave Okumu — The Solution Is Restless ([PIAS])
• John DeNicola — She Said (Omad Records)
• Julia Daigle — Un singe sur l’épaule (Lisbon Lux Records)
• Kito — Blossom EP (Astralwerks)
• Kristof Hahn — Six Pieces (Room40)
• Louisahhh — The Practice Of Freedom Deluxe (HE.SHE.THEY)
• Low Life — From Squats To Lots: The Agony & XTC Of Low Life (Goner Records)
• Marconi Union — Signals (Piccadilly Records)
• Margo Cilker — Pohorylle (Fluff & Gravy Records)
• The Mary Veils — Somewhere Over The Rowhome EP (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Maymind — June (Tigerbeat6/Perpetual Dawn)
• MØ — Motordrome (Columbia)
• The Money War — Blood EP (Fueled By Ramen)
• The Mountain Goats — The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 And 4 (Merge)
• Munya — Voyage To Mars (Luminelle)
• Nashville Pussy — Eaten Alive (Slinging Pig Records)
• Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats — The Future (Stax Records)
• Nation Of Language — A Way Forward (self-released)
• Neal Francis — In Plain Sight (ATO Records)
• Neckbolt — Midwestern Drawl (Spider Dispatch Unit)
• Parcels — Day/Night (self-released)
• Penelope Isles — Which Way To Happy (Bella Union)
• Portico Quartet — Monument (Gondwana)
• Radiohead — Kid A Mnesia (XL Recordings)
• Richard Fearless — Future Rave Memory (Drone)
• Salt Ashes — Killing My Mind (Radikal Records)
• Serpentwithfeet — Deacon’s Grove EP (Secretly Canadian)
• Sloppy Jane — Madison (Saddest Factory)
• Snail Mail — Valentine (Matador)
• The Starlite Campbell Band — The Language Of Curiosity (Supertone)
• The Steel Wheels — Everyone A Song Vol. 2 (Big Ring Records)
• Steve Conte — Bronx Cheer (Tower Records)
• Steve Perry — The Season (Fantasy Records)
• Summer Walker — Still Over It (Interscope)
• Tasha — Tell Me What You Miss The Most (Father/Daughter Records)
• Tim Kelly — Ride Through The Rain (TK Records)
• Tusks — Change EP (One Little Independent Records)
• The Verve Pipe — Threads (RCA Records)
• Wendy Eisenberg — Bent Ring (Dear Life Records)
• Youth Fountain — Keepsakes & Reminders (Pure Noise Records)

Friday, November 12

• Aesop Rock And Blockhead — Garbology (Rhymesayers)
• Alan Fitzpatrick — Machine Therapy (Anjunadeep)
• Allen Stone — Apart (ATO)
• Amanda Shires — For Christmas (Silver Knife/Thirty Tigers)
• Andy Aquarius — Chapel (Hush Hush Records)
• Bill Charlap — Street Of Dreams (Blue Note Records)
• Blawan — Woke Up Right Handed EP (XL)
• Brother Sundance — Rat Race EP (Warner Records)
• Burial Waves — Holy Ground EP (Dark Operative)
• Canadian Brass — Canadiana (Linus Entertainment)
• Casper Skulls — Knows No Kindness (Next Door Records)
• Cedric Noel — Hang Time (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Charlotte Cardin — Phoenix Deluxe (Cult Nation)
• Claire Cronin — Bloodless (Orindal Records)
• Claptone — Closer (Different Recordings)
• Cody Jinks — Mercy (Late August Records)
• Cody Jinks — None The Wiser (Late August Records)
• Constant Smiles — Paragons (Sacred Bones Records)
• Corrina Repp — Island (Jealous Butcher)
• Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom + Pop)
• Daniel Wyche — Earthwork (American Dreams)
• Dave Gahan & Soulsavers — Imposter (Columbia)
• Devin Hoff — Voices From The Empty Moor (Kill Rock Stars)
• The Dodos — Grizzly Peak (Polyvinyl)
• Dope Lemon — Rose Pink Cadillac (BMG)
• Endless Boogie — Admonitions (Piccadilly Records)
• Enuff Z’nuff — Enuff Z’Nuff’s Hardrock Nite (Frontiers)
• Fractures — Summer EP (FADER Label/Caroline Australia)
• Gabriel Sayer — Beautiful Relaxing Music (Acrophase Records)
• GALÁN / VOGT — The Sweet Wait (Norman Records)
• Geographer — Down And Out In The Garden Of Earthly Delights (self-released)
• Gov’t Mule — Heavy Load Blues (Fantasy Records)
• Hackedepicciotto — The Silver Threshold (Mute)
• Holm — Why Don’t You Dance (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Hushdrops — The Static (Pravda Records)
• Idles — Crawler (Partisan)
• Jake Shimabukuro — Jake & Friends (Mascot Label Group/Music Theories Recordings)
• Joell Ortiz — Autograph (Mello Music Group)
• Joel Vandroogenbroeck — Far View (Coloursound)
• Jon Hopkins — Music For Psychedelic Therapy (Domino)
• Justin Courtney Pierre — Ghost World EP (Epitaph Records)
• Katelyn Tarver — Subject To Change (Schoolkids Records)
• Keys N Krates — Original Classic (Last Gang Records)
• Kills Birds — Married (Royal Mountain Records)
• Kramer — Words & Music, Book One (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Kylie Minogue — Disco: Guest List Edition (Darenote/BMG)
• LA Guns — Checkered Past (Frontiers Music Srl.)
• Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda — Circle Of Celebration (Our Silent Canvas)
• Land Of Talk — Calming Night Partner EP (Saddle Creek)
• Lee Ranaldo — In Virus Times (Mute)
• Lightleak — Tender Fits (Model Love Songs)
• Lil Wayne — Tha Carter Singles Collection (Young Money Records/Republic Records)
• Lilac Kings — I’m Only Dreaming EP (Revival Recordings)
• Lionlimb — Spiral Groove (Bayonet)
• Logic1000 — In The Sweetness Of You EP (Because Music)
• Louie Short — Omw 4ev (444%)
• Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O — UMDALI (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
• Meskerem Mees — Julius (Mayway Records)
• Mike Squires — #2 Record (Couch Riffs Media)
• MSC — What You Say Of Power (First Terrace Records)
• Nick Vivid — No More Secrets (MegaPlatinum Records)
• Non Serviam — Il Pleut Partout Derrière (Trepanation Recordings)
• NOW Ensemble — Before And After (New Amsterdam Records)
• NRBQ — Dragnet (Omnivore Recordings)
• Paul Schütze — The Second Law (Phantom Limb)
• Pip Blom — Welcome Break (Red Yeti Records)
• Poppy Ackroyd — Pause (One Little Independent Records)
• Rise Against — Nowhere Sessions EP (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Robert Sotelo — Upset The Rhythm (Forced Exposure)
• Rod Stewart — The Tears Of Hercules (Warner/Rhino)
• Rush Davis + Kingdom — Transmission (Young Art Records)
• Safety Town — Fake It (Earth Libraries)
• Sally Anne Morgan — Cups (Thrill Jockey)
• Sara Rachele — Heartstrings (Ropeadope Records)
• The Seafloor Cinema — In Cinemascope With Stereophonic Sound (Pure Noise Records)
• Seafoam Walls — XVI (Daydream Library)
• Sega Bodega — Romeo (NUXXE)
• She & Him — A Very She & Him Christmas (10th Anniversary Deluxe) (Merge Records)
• Silk Sonic — An Evening With Silk Sonic (Aftermath/Atlantic)
• Snarls — What About Flowers? EP (Take This To Heart Records)
• Speedy Ortiz — The Death Of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker…Forever (Carpark Records)
• Susanna Hoffs — Bright Lights (Baroque Folk)
• Taylor Swift — Red (Taylor’s Version) (Republic)
• Tertia May — TM Radio EP (Twisted Hearts Records)
• They Might Be Giants — Book (Restless Records)
• Trousdale — What Happiness Is (Independent)
• Walk The Moon — Heights (RCA Records)
• Ziúr & James Ginzburg — Myxomy (Impatto Sonoro)

Friday, November 19

• Alewya — Panther In Mode EP (Because London Records)
• Angel Haze — Girl With The Gun EP (Long Flight Home)
• Apollo Brown & Stalley — Blacklight (Mello Music Group)
• Baldi/Gerycz — Roadsided And Double Toothed (self-released)
• Beach Fossils — The Other Side Of Life: Piano Ballads (Piccadilly Records)
• Bears In Trees — And Everybody Smiled Back (Counter Intuitive Records)
• Ben LaMar Gay — Open Arms To Open Us (International Anthem / Nonesuch Records)
• Between You & Me — Armageddon (Hopeless Records)
• Body/Dilloway/Head — Body/Dilloway/Head (Three Lobed Recordings)
• Brian Wilson — At My Piano (Decca)
• Chris Liebing — Another Day (Mute)
• Civerous — Decrepit Flesh Relic (Transylvanian Recordings)
• Coldcut — @0 (Ahead Of Our Time)
• Converge And Chelsea Wolfe — Bloodmoon: I (Epitaph)
• Dan Campbell — Other People’s Lives (Loneliest Place On Earth)
• The Darkness — Motorheart (Cooking Vinyl)
• Daxma — Unmarked Boxes (Blues Funeral Recordings)
• Deap Vally — Marriage (Cooking Vinyl)
• Dion — Stomping Ground (KTBA Records)
• Dixon / Akers — Slime Resolution (Heavy Machinery Records)
• Elbow — Flying Dream 1 (Virgin Music International)
• Exodus — Persona Non Grata (Nuclear Blast)
• Fine Place — This New Heaven (Night School Records)
• Hearts & Hand Grenades — Between The Lines (Eclipse Records)
• John Thayer — Supermundane (Moon Villain)
• Jools Holland — Pianola. Piano & Friends (Rhino)
• Jonathan Antoine — ChristmasLand (LOKI Records)
• Leo Nocentelli — Another Side (Light In The Attic Records)
• Makaya McCraven — Deciphering The Message (Blue Note Records)
• Mayday Parade — What It Means To Fall Apart (Rise Records)
• Mickael Karkousse — Where Do We Begin EP (Virgin Music)
• Mike Pride — I Hate Work (Rarenoise Records)
• Modern Nature — Island Of Noise (Bella Union)
• Mr Twin Sister — Al Mundo Azul (Twin Group)
• Noir Disco — NOW! 2073 (Terrible Records)
• Ovlov — Buds (Exploding In Sound Records)
• Peakes — Peripheral Figures (Practise Music)
• Robert DeLong — Walk Like Me (Glassnote Records)
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — Raise The Roof (Warner Music)
• Scowl — How Flowers Grow (Flatspot Records)
• Shutups — Six EP (Kill Rock Stars)
• Simon Ward — Simon And The Island (Windsurfer Records/Glassnote Music)
• Sissi Rada — Nanodiamond (Kryptox)
• Smile — Phantom Island (Chimp Limb)
• Snake Mountain Revival — Everything In Sight (Rebel Waves Records)
• Sting — The Bridge (Cherrytree Records)
• Swallow The Sun — Moonflowers (Alone Records)
• Tom Hamilton & Holly Bowling — Lacuna (Royal Potato Family)
• Ultra Q — Get Yourself A Friend EP (Royal Mountain Records)
• Various Artists — 10 Years Of Double Double Whammy (Double Double Whammy)
• Various Artists — Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Sound Of Philadelphia International Records Volume 2 (Vinyl Me, Please)
• VRSTY — Welcome Home (Spirit Music Group)
• Weakened Friends — Quitter (Don Giovanni Records)
• When Rivers Meet — Saving Grace (One Road Records)

Friday, November 26

• Bitumen — Cleareye Shining (Heavy Machinery Records)
• Black Label Society — Doom Crew Inc. (Spinefarm)
• Bryce Dessner And Aaron Dessner — Cyrano (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
• Color Dolor — Blurry Things (Soliti)
• Cousin Kula — Double Dinners (Rhythm Section)
• Deep Purple — Turning To Crime (earMUSIC)
• Deine Lakaien — Dual + (Chrom Records)
• Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion — We Are The Truth (Glassville Records)
• JASSS — A World Of Service (Ostgut Ton)
• The KVB — Unity (Invada Records)
• Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne — Hildring (ByNorse Music)
• NOËP — No Man Is An Island (Humming Records/Warner Music Baltics)
• Pave The Jungle — Waiting for Nothing EP (Daemon T.V.)
• Richard Dawson & Circle — Henki (Weird World.)
• Riki — Gold (Dais Records)
• µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx — Secret Garden (Planet Mu)

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

Loki may have wrapped up its reality-breaking first season over the summer, but the love for the show is still going strong all the way into October. The Trickster God and his several variants were a prominent presence this Halloween, but the top honor easily goes to the late Steve Irwin’s son, Robert, who not only decked himself out as Loki, but he also dressed up an actual real-life alligator as Alligator Loki. Robert’s tweet was a smash hit the moment it hit Twitter, and it’s already sitting at well over 100,000 “likes,” thanks in part to the authentic reptile touch.

Of course, Robert was not the only Loki out there, and keeping with the show’s themes, here a cavalcade of various Lokis that each have their own unique twist on the character as well as a few Sylvies tossed in for good measure.

Oh, and naturally, someone had to do Alligator Loki, but make it sexy. It is Halloween after all.

Starring Tom Hiddleston as Loki, the Disney+ series is officially set to return for a second season after delivering a universe-breaking finale that will have widespread effects on the current slate of upcoming MCU films. Most notably, that includes Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange 2, which will both explore the multiverse that’s currently being torn apart by Jonathan Major’s Kang.

The first season of Loki is available for streaming on Disney+.

Halloween has come and gone, which means one thing: To the chagrin of many, it is time for Christmas music to make its perhaps-premature annual return. That means we’re about to start seeing a lot more of Mariah Carey, who went ahead and introduced the holiday music season with a funny video. In it, she pokes fun at just how soon Christmas music comes back every year.

The video starts with Carey wielding a red-and-white-striped baseball bat as creepy music plays. She comes upon a trio of pumpkins that combine to read, “It’s not time.” Carey then smashes them with her bat and revels in the destroyed gourds as her timeless classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You” plays. The video ends with a screen that says, “It’s time!!! To smash that pumpkin and treat it as pie… cause we still gotta get through Thanksgiving!!!”

It also appears Carey has something happening this Friday: A super-quick shot from the video features a wrapped box that says “11/5” on it, suggesting that something is going down on November 5.

Last year saw a commercial peak for Christmas music. One week in particular was especially packed: Carey’s holiday hit was No. 1 and there was only one non-Christmas song in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

It seems like it happened 17 years ago, but Ted Cruz fleeing frozen Texas for sunny Cancun during a historic (and fatal) winter storm is less than 10 months old.

“This has been an infuriating week for Texans. The greatest state in the greatest country in the world has been without power. We have food lines, we have gas lines, and people sleeping at their neighbors’ houses. Our homes are freezing and our lights are out. Like millions of Texans, our family lost heat and power too,” Cruz wrote in a statement at the time. What a good list of reasons for an elected official to stay and assist his constituents during a once-in-a-generation crisis. And yet!

“With schools canceled for the week, our girls asked us to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas. We want our power back, our water on, and our homes warm. My team and I will continue using all our resources to keep Texas informed and safe.”

Cruz didn’t apologize for leaving Texas, but he did blame his kids — and left his poor dog Snowflake behind, a moment that was recreated by Rose Clouston, the director of voter protection for Texas Democratic Party, and Steven Becerra for Halloween.

Political costumes are bad… except this one. Nice work.

Dave Chappelle’s remarks about trans people during The Closer, followed by the aftermath, have led two Netflix employees to file unfair labor charges. That move follows about a month of backlash to Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, The Closer, in which he declared himself “Team TERF” and in agreement with J.K. Rowling’s statements about gender. Chappelle recently expressed relief at Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos “being the only one that didn’t cancel me yet.” That’s a messy situation, too, considering that Sarandos initially responded to The Closer controversy by declaring that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm” before Netflix issued an apologetic statement of support for employees who staged a walkout.

Amid those developments, the organizer of the walkout was fired, reportedly for leaking metrics, including a claim that Netflix spent over $24 million on The Closer, to Bloomberg. Fast forward a few weeks, and The Verge and The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that the fired employee and a current Netflix software engineer have filed unfair labor charges (with the National Labor Relations Board) against Netflix:

According to the NLRB filing, which names Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos as the employer representative, Netflix “engaged in the above activity to quell employees from speaking up about working conditions including, but not limited to, seeking to create a safe and affirming work environment for Netflix employees, speaking up about Netflix’s products and the impact of its product choices on the LGBTQ+ community, and providing support for employees whom Netflix has treated in an unlawful and disparate manner.”

The Verge gave the first heads up on this development while revealing that B. Pagels-Minor (the terminated Netflix employee and a Black trans program manager) and Terra Field (a trans software engineer who was suspended after posting a viral tweet thread and was later reinstated) filed the charges with the NLRB. Their charges included accusations that Netflix retaliated against them for what they say is protected behavior, and in line with Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, which has previously not gone well for employer policies that could have precluded Field from tweeting about the Chappelle controversy.

The Hollywood Reporter published a Netflix followup statement, in which the streamer “denied taking action” against any employees for “speaking up or walking out.” A Netflix spokesperson further declared, “We recognize the hurt and pain caused to our trans colleagues over the last few weeks. But we want to make clear that Netflix has not taken any action against employees for either speaking up or walking out.”

(Via The Verge & Hollywood Reporter)

Ever since Lil Dicky’s FX series Dave premiered last year, it drew instant and bountiful comparisons to Donald Glover’s show Atlanta. Indeed, there are obvious major parallels: Both shows are made by rapper/comedians, they’re both about what it’s like to be a rapper, and they both air on FX. The two were also paired together in headlines last year when Dave passed Atlanta to become FX’s most-watched comedy series ever. So, while many people put the shows on similar ground. Glover (aka Childish Gambino) is tired of it.

In a now-deleted tweet shared yesterday, Glover took exception to the Atlanta/Dave comparisons, writing, “and just for the record, im watching yall saying ‘dave’ is on par. like yall forgot what we did. no disrespect.” he quickly added, “we got black people on here debating which is better, and IM the sellout?”

In a New York Times interview from this summer, Dicky said he doesn’t think the two shows are that alike: “I’m a big fan of that show, I think it’s a great show. I feel like they’re very different shows.” When the interviewer responded, “I can’t think of two more similar shows,” Dicky replied, “That’s crazy. When I hear it, I don’t feel offended I feel complimented.” He continued, “I think they’re very different. I think our show is trying to be funny — a lot more jokes. Theirs is just the tonal brilliance. I see them as different shows.”

Whether it was Aaron Rodgers growing out his hair to look like John Wick, or Lizzo as The Mandalorian cutie Baby Yoda, or SO much Ted Lasso and Squid Game, pop culture costumes dominated Halloween in 2021. Ariana Grade going as “Miss Creature from the Black Lagoon” was pretty great, as was Harry Styles as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, but the year’s best pop culture-inspired costume belonged to Steve Buscemi.

The actor recreated the “how do you do, fellow kids?” scene from 30 Rock.

Buscemi “handed out candy from a Park Slope stoop to trick-or-treaters Sunday night,” according to the New York Post, while dressed as private investigator Lenny Wosniak, the 30 Rock character who goes undercover at a high school in the season six episode, “The Tuxedo Begins.” He wears a backwards red hat, red hoodie, and a “MUSIC BAND” shirt (with a lightning bolt between the two words), and carries a skateboard over his shoulder. A great scene in a great show. Buscemi pretending to be a teenager has become a popular meme, although apparently not popular enough among actual teens:

One lucky fan, 13-year-old Stella Wexler Rush, recognized the actor from his show Miracle Workers.

“I was trick-or-treating with my friends. We weren’t sure if it was him at first,” Stella told the New York Post on Sunday. She said they told him they recognized him, but he cheekily responded, “Oh, wild. That’s crazy!” and gave them some treats. Still unsure, the group walked away before deciding to run back for a photograph with the actor. “He told us that we couldn’t take a photo with him unless we guessed who he was supposed to be,” Stella said, “so we guessed… and then three of my friends got a picture.”

Stella might know Buscemi from Miracle Workers, but everyone else got the reference.

(Via the New York Post)

Ye’s Donda seemingly took forever to come out. The project arrived more than a year after it was originally announced and after three album listening sessions held in major stadiums in Atlanta and Chicago. Thankfully, the wait came to an end at the end of August when the rapper released the project complete with 27 songs and guest appearances from Jay-Z, Lil Durk, Young Thug, Roddy Ricch, The LOX, Lil Baby, The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, Ty Dolla Sign, and more. Two months after Donda was released, Ye is seemingly gearing up to release a deluxe version of the album.

A Twitter user shared two screenshots of teasers for a deluxe reissue for Donda on Twitter. The first appear on the platform’s Italy page and was captioned, “A deluxe version of Yeezus’ tenth recording miracle,” while the second appeared on Apple Music’s Germany page. Ye or anyone in his camp has to confirm when the deluxe would arrive or whether or not one is in the works in the first place.

This comes after the rapper’s Donda stem players were finally delivered to fans who purchased it. The device allows “customize any song” and control vocals, drums, bass, and samples, isolate certain parts of a song, as well as add effects. The stem players were also delivered three unreleased songs — “Life Of The Party,” “Up From The Ashes,” and “Never Abandon Your Family” — in addition to Ye’s complete tenth album.

You can view the screenshots of the Apple Music teasers for Donda deluxe above.

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

While he spent more than a decade under Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group, Wale, who just released his Folarin II album, has called a few other labels home throughout his career. This includes Interscope, Atlantic, and Warner Records, where he resides today. Another place he called home at one point was Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, which served as his management team since 2009. However, during his 2013 What Dreams May Come Tour with fellow rapper and good friend J. Cole, Wale was pushed to leave Roc Nation after he came to a shocking realization during the string of shows, something he revealed during an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast.

“What happened was, I was in the Hov cycle for a long time,” he said on the podcast. “There was a time that I was on tour with J. Cole. At the time, I was opening for him. They said it was a co-headlining tour, but whatever, I was opening for him, and it was an elaborate stage and this that and the third.”

He continued, “And somebody in my circle told me, ‘You’re losing 5 grand every time you get on stage. Not only are you’re not breaking even, you’re losing money.’ Me, at that point in my life, I forget what city we was in but I was on the bus and I got an offer to do a tour with two other artists. And I wanted to go with Cole because that’s my brother and we just did the Hov tour.”

At this point, Wale knew a decision had to be made between staying or exiting the tour. “I could literally be hosting clubs and making this a night,” he noted. “I just had a meltdown for real and I remember whatever city I was in, there were three days left and I just quit the tour. I just quit.” Wale added, “If I was touring by myself, I could be bussin’ it crazy every night. So I kinda just had a meltdown and I didn’t know who to call, my lawyer or my accountant. The next day, called somebody there and they gave me this option or that option.”

Despite his frustrations, Wale maintains that it’s been nothing but love between him and Jay-Z since the touring incident. “It’s been all love ever since but I wasn’t privy to this f*ckin’ music industry sh*t,” Wale admitted. ” I just knew, this many people in the room, we can make something happen. Jay’s still my idol, still my favorite rapper. I still got all the love for all of them. I was just a little bit early in this sh*t though.”

You can watch the full Drink Champs video