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As the only part of the Lakers’ young core who did not go to New Orleans in the Anthony Davis deal and a part of the Lakers’ 2020 championship team, Kyle Kuzma likely holds an interesting place in Lakers’ fans hearts. It seems he and the Lakers are also at odds about his exact place in their future, too.

A new report from Kyle Goon of the Orange County Register indicates extension talks, which faced a league-wide deadline of Monday, have stalled:

The status of those discussions? Tabled for now. Kuzma met with Vogel and General Manager Rob Pelinka at the beginning of the month to feel out his role for the season, a person with knowledge of the situation told SCNG, and to get a sense for his future with the organization. Kuzma came away from the meeting with a sense that he would have to scrap for on-court opportunities.

The gifted young wing has never really put together a strong season in which he contributed at a high level to winning basketball, although in fairness, last year was his first time on a squad that made the playoffs and there was a major adjustment period for him — Kuzma shot just 43.6 percent from the field and 31.6 percent from three, while his Box Plus-Minus, which is just one way to measure a player’s all-around impact, was a career-worst minus-2.6.

With an expensive roster dominated by two veteran superstars in LeBron James and Anthony Davis, it makes sense that the Lakers would be cautious before loading up with another big contract. Yet they don’t have a great way to replace Kuzma, who despite his shortcomings is still probably the highest-upside player on the roster besides preseason breakout phenomenon Talen Horton-Tucker.

All this means there’s probably still a solid chance Kuzma stays with the Lakers long-term, but any new contract may have to come in free agency next summer rather than an extension.

Although grime has become internationally recognized, the roots of the genre still lie in a DIY, stripped-down aesthetic and freestyle verses from MCs recalling the details of their hardscrabble lives. That aesthetic is central to the new video from Northhampton rapper Slowthai’s new video “Thoughts.” Circling up with his “bruddahs” in a parking lot at night, Slowthai blazes through a burly verse detailing his mindset and venting his feelings.

The song likely won’t appear on his upcoming album Tyron but is a strong reminder that although he’s now working with big names like Disclosure, Gorillaz, and more, he still has the chops to return to the streets any time — and still make the local constabulary nervous. A handful of officers oversee the shoot, nodding to grime still being considered dangerous by the authorities.

Meanwhile, the two videos that Slowthai has released from Tyron so far demonstrate how far the rapper has come creatively. “Feel Away,” which includes features from James Blake and Mount Kimbie, found Slowthai giving birth in a surreal concept, while “NHS” found a slick way to incorporate quarantine into its low-key treatment.

Watch Slowthai’s “Thoughts” video above.

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

The famous cue cards scene from Love Actually has been parodied about as much as any moment from any movie, and now Dua Lipa and Jimmy Fallon decided to get in on it as a way to introduce a holiday-themed performance.

In the video, Fallon sees Lipa walking down a hallway and asks how she’s doing, and she whispers in response, “I’m good, how are you?” Fallon presses her for more, but Lipa reveals she’s saving her voice for her upcoming Saturday Night Live appearance. So, grabbing a stack of cue cards, Lipa, in direct opposition of her voice-saving measures, asks Fallon if she wants to sing a Christmas song with her.

He obliges and the scene shifts to the pair performing Love Actually‘s “Christmas Is All Around,” which itself is a re-worked version of The Troggs’ “Love Is All Around.” The performance visuals shift between the two singing on a stage to lo-fi footage of the two outside enjoying holiday sights.

As suggested above, this comes ahead of Lipa’s upcoming stint as SNL musical guest on this weekend’s episode, which will be hosted by Kristen Wiig.

Watch Lipa and Fallon perform “Christmas Is All Around” above.

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

For the first time ever, Gal Gadot has addressed the WarnerMedia investigation into allegations of misconduct on the set of Justice League. In a new interview, the Wonder Woman 1984 star confirmed reports that she had a bad experience with Joss Whedon when he was brought on to replace original director Zack Snyder. However, while Gadot doesn’t corroborate claims made by Ray Fisher on account of the two of them filming separately, she does praise the Cyborg actor for speaking out. Via The LA Times:

“I’m happy for Ray to go out and speak his truth,” says Gadot. “I wasn’t there with the guys when they shot with Joss Whedon — I had my own experience with [him], which wasn’t the best one, but I took care of it there and when it happened. I took it to the higher-ups and they took care of it. But I’m happy for Ray to go up and say his truth.”

In a separate interview with Variety, Gadot also revealed that she participated in the WarnerMedia investigation, which she categorized as pretty in-depth. “I know that they’ve done a very thorough investigation, even just by how much time I spent with them,” she said.

The double remarks are a notable move for Gadot, who, until now, has not made any public statements about the behind-the-scenes controversy during the Justice League reshoots. Jason Momoa, on the other hand, was quick to back up Fisher after he went public with the allegations of misconduct. In an all-caps statement on Instagram that started with “THIS SHIT NEEDS TO STOP,” Momoa blasted Warner Bros. for releasing a fake statement about him starring in a remake of Frosty the Snowman to distract from the Justice League headlines. “Serious stuff went down. It needs to be investigated and people need to be held accountable,” Momoa wrote.

(Via The LA Times, Variety)

If you’re used to the filmmaking style of Paul Greengrass – the director behind three Jason Bourne movies – you can be forgiven if you feel a bit of whiplash when watching News of the World, Greengrass’s new Tom Hanks-starring Western that sets a much more deliberate pace than you might be used to from a Paul Greengrass film. It’s 1870 and Hanks plays a nomad of sorts, a former Union Captain, traveling from town to town reading the latest news to the locals. Along his travels he finds an abandoned young girl (Helena Zengel) who he doesn’t quite know what to do with, eventually trying to reunite her with what’s left of her long lost family.

Obviously, the setting of News of the World has a lot of modern-day comparisons, with themes like a divided country and how we get our news delivered to us being two aspects wreaking havoc on our current world. And it’s not lost on Greengrass that his star, Tom Hanks, the news deliverer in the movie, is one of the most trusted people in the world – to the point this story probably doesn’t work without him.

Though, as we begin, I’m reminded of the last time I spoke to Greengrass, for the harrowing 22 July, where he was pessimistically confident that Donald Trump would be re-elected president. He has some caveats about that wrong prediction but admits today that he feels a little more optimistic. And the proof of his optimism is News of the World.

Last time we spoke we had a long conversation about some awful topics like the rise of right-wing extremists across the world. Then you said, very confidently, “Donald Trump is going to get reelected.” I never stopped thinking about that. It’s nice to talk to you, now, when that officially is not true.

Do you not think Donald Trump would have been reelected easily were it not for COVID?

That’s a very valid point, but he lost and he lost by a lot.

Yep. But a vast number of many, many tons of millions also voted for him, which I think is really scary.

I agree with that, but are you a little more optimistic now than you were two years ago? Or about the same?

It is optimistic. I’m an optimistic person! It seems you were talking about that particular subject because it does inform why I decided to make News of the World But the truth about your country and my country and just about every country in Europe is bitterly divided and split down the middle.

Yes.

We’re stuck. Those tens of millions of people who voted for Donald Trump aren’t going away anytime soon. They’re not going to suddenly change their mind in January. “No, actually, we think it’s great that Biden’s president.” They’re going to hate Biden. They’re going to hate everything that Biden tries to do. It’s the same with the Brexit thing in (England). The country is split down the middle irretrievably and that is a terrible reality. The question becomes then, how are we going to get out of this position? How are we going to heal? What is the road to healing going to look like? What is it going to feel like? What is it going to teach us? And what are we going to learn from it? That was the question to me coming out of 22 July.

It crystallized, for me, into a desire to make a film that tried to explore what that road to healing might look like. What optimism might look like without being sentimental, without being escapist. I also wanted to make a different sort of film. I wanted to do something that felt different, looked different. I didn’t know what that would be, but those were the sorts of things in my mind.

You accomplished that. It is very different. There is usually a hyper pace to your films.

Yeah. It was a conscious thing. I wanted to explore a slower tempo, but how can you not have a slower tempo if you’re in the Old West? When I read the novel, News of the World, that spoke to me. I sort of saw in it, very clearly, that this journey that the news reader takes with this little girl is that road after division. Okay, 1870, the Shadow of the Civil War. America’s literally divided, but it’s then, but it’s now. He’s just an old news reader. She’s just this little girl who doesn’t know who she is because she was kidnapped when she was a kid. The journey they take becomes mythic and resonates strongly I think. Well, for me, in my mind with Tibet, is a journey towards healing and belonging and redemption and getting to a better place. All those kinds of ideas. That was what brought me to it. Plus it was an opportunity to do a Western, which I’ve got a chance to do. I love those films when I was a kid.

I’m very happy you finally got to do your Western.

Because it keeps you young and keeps you fresh if you do new things. You can’t just do the same thing all the time. But then the challenge becomes, can I do something different that still feels like me? Is it authentic? Am I still being true to me or being authentic to me? That was the thing that I was most proud of with the film, because it does feel different. It is a slower tempo. It is a more classical film in the classical style, if I can put it that way. It felt like one of my films. It just felt like a shift in a good way. I was very pleased I made it.

Here’s my takeaway from this movie: I couldn’t help but think you’re trying to say if we got rid of a lot of the junk media out there and had noble people giving everyone the news that would go a long way. Fox, and now Newsmax and OANN. Tom Hanks’s character delivers the news with empathy instead of trying to stroke fear and anger.

Well, I agree with that. You don’t find equivalence when you make films. If you do you start preaching quite quickly, which is not a good place to be. What you have to do is start with a question, I think. This is my view anyway. If you can frame up the question in your mind, when you film it’s like one extended conversation that you’re having with yourself about what you think about the world and about what’s important to you and about how your views change and how the world changes. One film begets another, but at the start of a film, if you can try and frame up a question to which the film is the answer. You’ll have the best time, and you have the best chance of making an interesting film, I think. The question here was not really about sort of fake news or anything like that. I sort of pushed that to the back of my mind. He’s just a guy in a tradition, by the way of long-standing, of the traveling preacher or the traveling news reader. The traveling storyteller, Mark Twain did it afterwards. Preachers were doing it around America before him. The question is, what does the road to healing look like? What is the road out of this division?

The other madness, or threat, or whatever you want to call it, is COVID. Because COVID strikes at our collective identity as humans. We can no longer gather in our homes and tell stories to each other. We can’t gather in a bar or a cafe or a restaurant or a movie theater or a theater. The way we collect, the way we exchange, the way we connect that calmed the massive threat. This film feels very, very contemporary to me in showing this character who believes the stories, and they are humdrum stories for the most part.

Do you think this movie works without Tom Hanks? In that he’s among one of the most trusted Americans still today? And there’s no way you knew this at the time, but being the first famous person to get COVID.

I agree with you. Certainly, he is perfect for it. It is perfect for him because of that. All movie stars operate. It’s part of the movie-going experience and our understanding of movies is based on our understanding of the movie star. The movies don’t have to be both the actor and the archetype at the same time. Do you know what I mean?

How so?

Those two sometimes can fight each other in interesting ways and subvert each other in some ways. Or they can reinforce each other in certain ways: The expectations we have of the archetype of our understanding of who Tom Hanks is as an actor.

I’m curious if you saw Aaron Sorkin’s Trial of the Chicago 7. At one point you were going to direct it, but basically said you thought it would be a difficult film to make.

Listen, first of all, I think he did a great job and I’m so glad that he made the film. And it was something he was very passionate about. I think he’s done a far better job than I. In the end, it wasn’t as fresh for me as it was for Aaron, if I can put it that way. That was much more of my issues.

Ah, I see.

He’s done a great job. And it shows if you passionately believe in a subject and you live it and love it in the end, it comes true.

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In the late ’80s, J Mascis’ band Dinosaur Jr. shocked the world, or at least the college radio crowd, by proving that grimy, noisy punk only sounded better when you added Neil Young-style guitar solos. He surprised close listeners by proving that a man that outwardly never seems to display any emotion beyond resigned bemusement could write eloquently about loneliness and the fraught complexities of adolescent male friendships. He surprised us when he broke up the original line-up featuring drummer Murph and bassist Lou Barlow, and somehow went on to MTV stardom without losing his dignity. And after a decade’s worth of passive-aggressive warfare between Mascis and Barlow, he surprised us when he got the original line-up back together, proved that reunion albums don’t have to suck, and somehow made Dinosaur Jr. more beloved than they’ve ever been. Hell, last year they even surprised themselves by having a hit song in Japan for reasons that are as strange as they are complicated.

Somewhere along the way, Mascis somehow turned himself into an internet fashion icon. His penchant for brightly colored pastel t-shirts, chunky eye-glasses, dope sneakers, loud Adidas jackets, and the ever-present Mishka “Keep Watch” Eyeball hat has made him an object of social media fascination. With his crotchety public persona and affinity for classic rock, Mascis seemed a bit like an old man when he was young. Now that he’s older, he dresses like a hip-hop loving teenager who is besotted with Millennial Pink and the latest Supreme drop… and he makes it work for him through superhuman nonchalance. Mascis has never really cared what anyone thinks, and if he wants to wear the brightest purple jacket you’ve ever seen while playing the loudest guitar solo you’ve ever heard, you have no choice to respect it.

Mascis has a reputation for being a hilariously unenthusiastic interview subject. In fact, I lovingly goofed on this facet of the J Mascis Cultural Experience a long time ago. But once he got over his obvious confusion that this was indeed the subject that I wanted to talk to him about, he got about as enthusiastic as is possible for him. Hey, some people really love pastels.

I want to talk to you today about the fact that you’ve become a fashion icon these days. How would you describe your current style?

Jeez. I describe it as just kind of like, you know, whatever I’ve kind of collected over the years and throw on.

When did you start getting into brands like Mishka?

This one was probably about 2008 or something, I’m not sure exactly. I saw a friend had an eyeball pad or something, and I think it was Damien (Abraham) from the band F*cked Up, and I asked him about it and he said, “Oh, they could send you some stuff right now.” So they sent me some stuff and I just started wearing it.

Yeah, there’s a lot, like a lot, of photos of you wearing Mishka hats or shirts with the giant eyeball on it. Why do you think you like it so much?

I’m wearing it right now. I guess it seems like non-specific. I just like the image. I just kind of went with it just because it’s not like a band T-shirt or something. I just like the eyeball.

There’s also plenty of photos of you wearing bright pastels. Why are you attracted to that look?

I like stuff that pops up a little bit. Around here where I live, everything was hippie granola brown. So I like purple especially, but just brighter colors to fix up my mood.

Being from Massachusetts, you’ve always been surrounded by earth tones. So you want to rebel against it.

Exactly.

Who are some of your favorite designers and brands? I know you’re a big fan of Jeremy Scott.

I thought a lot of his Adidas things were really cool. I mean, I used to like Paul Smith in the ‘90s. Fred Perry.

Have you always been a person who pays attention to fashion, or is it something that you came to later in life?

Yeah, I think my dad was pretty fashionable, and I would say one thing he would do with me is bring me clothes shopping. We wouldn’t do that much together, but that was one thing and he was always a snappy dresser. I guess it started from him.

Mishka has sponsored a lot of hip-hop mixtapes, and street style in general is associated with hip-hop. Are you the only band that works with them?

Oh, I have no idea.

A couple of years ago you had your own capsule design with Mishka. How hands on were you with it?

That’s the thing, I really kind of like the stuff they do. So, yeah, when they showed me stuff they come up with, I was mostly really into it already.

Do you have a stylist?

No.

So it’s all stuff you pick up yourself?

Yeah.

Do you keep up with trends or read fashion blogs?

No, I just kind of pick up stuff here and there.

In addition to the eyeball swag, we also see you a lot in your now signature all-clear glasses. Who makes those, and why do you like that look?

The clear ones I haven’t worn in a long time. I guess lately I really like Selima Optique. I got some frames somewhere, and my friend who is a stylist told me they have a store in New York. I had no idea. So I went there, and since I’ve gotten a lot of stuff there.

Why do you think you like that brand?

Whatever I like, I like and I stick with it, I guess. I’m always looking for purple or pink frames, but it’s hard to find any. They don’t seem to make any for men in those colors.

That’s a shame. You have a right to purple glasses.

I know, I don’t understand. I’m always frustrated that women’s colors are more my style in sneakers or anything, like the women get all the good colors and men get what’s left over or something.

It’s really unfair.

I don’t know what to do about it.

Hopefully someone reading this article will make it for you. I know you really like Adidas. Are there other sneaker brands that you’re into?

I mean, I like Puma and Vans.

There are sneaker heads out there who will wait outside overnight at some shops when limited edition stuff comes out, and they’ll buy and sell pairs of rare things online for thousands of dollars. Are there any particularly rare shoes you’ve ever bought or at least that you’ve wanted someone to buy for you?

Yeah, I wanted those Ben&Jerry’s dunks that came out. And they were, you know, right as soon as they came out, they were thousands of dollars. I didn’t get up on the Nike app or anything.

I’m sorry.

That was annoying, but I’ve gotten some Kyrie Patrick Spongebob shoes that are kind of cool.

Are you a big Spongebob fan?

Not really, but I like the shoes. They were pink.

A lot of people start dressing more conservatively as they get older, but you are just rocking more and more bright colors and cooler, cutting edge stuff and moving in the opposite direction. Is that a conscious thing?

I don’t know, it’s kind of. I feel like I’ve dressed a lot crazier when I was younger and then I kind of dulled down for a while and then it’s coming back up, maybe? I looked at some stuff I was wearing, I don’t know, in my worst fashion period. That was maybe around 2000 or something. I just looked uninspired and dull when I look at pictures.

I said to my editor that you look like Odd Future’s cool older uncle. Do you meet people, especially maybe younger people, who are surprised that this is how you dress now?

I don’t know, it’s hard to say. I’m surprised sometimes that some people like some stuff I’m wearing. I can’t really tell.

Do you ever meet younger people who maybe aren’t fans, and they’re like, “Whoa, you’re wearing those? That’s pretty awesome, dude.”

Yes, mostly that’s kind of random, just like at Target or something, some guy will go “oh, cool shoes” but I don’t think they were fans or anything.

Streetwear is also heavily associated with skateboarding, and a few years ago you shot the video for “Tiny” at a Brooklyn skateboarding park. Are you big into skateboarding?

Yeah, I skated a lot when I was 11 and 12. Tony Alva was kinda my hero back then, right? I haven’t quit really, I just don’t do it that much. I get really envious that there’s a lot of cool skateparks around now that I wish were around when I was a kid.

But do you still occasionally get on the board?

Yeah. I definitely don’t, you know, go into bowls or anything. I feel more breakable for sure.

When Dinosaur Jr. first started, did you think a lot about how you wanted the band to look?

I thought about just myself and the other guys were on their own trips. Lou was into sweaters. My fashion idol was Nick Cave, I guess, when we were starting the band, so I was kind of sticking my hair up gothic-ish looking. And a lot of jewelry, I don’t seem to much anymore, but I had a ring on every finger and a ton of necklaces and beads.

You had a ring on every finger?

Yeah.

That’d be a cool look. You should bring that back. Bring back the necklaces.

It seemed to get harder to wear a ring when I played guitar. It’s kind of like I don’t wear anything on my finger anymore.

Now what kind of necklaces are we talking about? Big chunky ones or little chains?

Usually like some big medallion kind of thing that was hanging from the chamber and then like flowery beads.

That sounds like something a rapper would wear. Then again, so is Adidas. I guess you’ve always had that interest.

Well, more like weird old lady jewelry that I find in the Salvation Army.

When “Feel The Pain” was an MTV hit, and you did the Lollapalooza tour and alternative rock was huge and you were at your maximum level of exposure, how important was your visual presentation when you were doing public appearances and playing big shows?

Yes, I would like to get stuff made, like jackets and stuff, when I was going to be on a TV show or I wore a Paul Smith suit that had cow patterns on it, but it was blue and black. I would just kind of get things for TV things, but playing live on stage I wouldn’t dress up much. I remember we played in suits on Jon Stewart’s show, that was fun.

You don’t seem like a suit guy.

We like suits, and we’d look for special occasions to wear them at.

Do you talk to the guys in the band at all about dressing up these days, or are they on their own?

They are really on their own. We don’t have anything in common with clothes.

Do they ever comment on how you dress?

Yeah, like, I think Lou sometimes when we got back together said, “If I had my way, no one would wear band t-shirts in the band” and I think, again, maybe sneakers on stage, too. That was something when I played with Ron Asheton from The Stooges. He would be mad if I wore sneakers on stage.

What’s Ron’s problem?

It’s frowned upon in some circles. You’re supposed to wear shoes like Beatle Boots.

Are there any fashion rules you personally have for what you wear on stage?

Definitely not shorts. I like wearing shorts a lot, in the summer, but not on stage.

Right, a lot of people feel that way.

I think it’s a good move.

You mentioned Nick Cave, who are some of the other musicians you’ve looked to throughout your life, like that’s a fashionable person and I kind of want to look like them?

It could just be like I remember after Nick Cave, I saw some kid at college walking around with a flannel shirt, Doc Martens, and long hair. That’s when Doc Martens were hard to get. I saw that as “ok, that’s going to be my next look.” I saw that as the blueprint for my next stage, or whatever. I was into what Keith Richards would wear. Lemmy, I was into his clothes.

There’s an episode of Gilmore Girls wherein the punk rock character Jesse wears a t-shirt that’s the cover of the Green Mind album. It’s since become a recurring object of fascination amongst Gilmore Girls fans.

Yeah, I was really into the Gilmore Girls. That was a great show.

Were you excited when you saw Jesse wearing it?

Yeah, but I wish I’d gotten to be on the show like Sonic Youth got to be on the show. I did get some Gilmore Girls American Apparel sweatpants, I guess when they ended the show, they had these sweatpants and gave them to everyone on the crew and the lady knew that I was into it. I think she gave them to Kim Gordon to give to me.

The last time I saw Dinosaur Jr. I noticed you were selling the Green Mind t-shirt at the merch stand. Did the Gilmore Girls bump make your fans want to cop that one?

Yeah, I mean we’ve been selling that.

Well thank you for talking with me. My last question is, do you consider yourself a fashionable person?

I guess not really. I would like to be, but I just feel like they don’t pay enough attention or something. I dunno.

When you get called a fashion icon, how does it make you feel?

Yeah, I’m into it.

Just like everyone, as the year winds down, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen are getting reflective. But rather than just creating another regular old list compiling the best of 2020, Hyden and Cohen are launching the official Indiecast awards show, The Indiecasties. In the second of a special two-part episode, the duo are wrapping up the show for the year by awarding the highly sought-after Indiecasties to the most surprising, overrated, and genuinely impressive releases of the year from artists like The Killers, Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, and more.

This week, Hyden and Cohen are ready to bestow some trophies upon the albums that best embodied the aesthetics of 2020, as well as the artists who made the best comeback this year. Also on the slate for this episode are artists who defied the odds set by their back catalogue to surprise critics with the strengths of their most recent release, and the most overhyped albums that actually managed to deserve the praise, among many more.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 20 on Apple Podcasts and Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts here. Stay up to date and follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

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

Dvsn’s latest single, released overnight, is a departure that may have some longtime fans raising their eyebrows at the mature themes. That’s because those themes aren’t “mature” in the way one usually finds on a Dvsn record. Instead of their usual debauchery, on “Blessings,” Nineteen85 is sampling gospel and Daniel is singing about getting married. It looks like our boys grew up.

Of course, there’s still the usual touch of mischief in their use of a religious refrain in the song’s sample, as Daley transforms prayer into the soundtrack for a night of more carnal activities. “And she’ll keep sayin’, ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,’” he croons with a wink. “Neighbors hear you screamin’, screamin’, screamin’.”

Judging from the song art, which reads Amusing Her Feelings and references their last album, A Muse In Her Feelings with a play on words, it looks like their fourth full-length project is in the works after the duo was long-listed for the Polaris Prize (Canada’s Grammys), and enjoyed a year out of the spotlight after releasing Muse. Whether “Blessings” marks a full-time shift in content to songs about long-term commitments over one-night stands remains to be seen.

Listen to “Blessings” above.

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

Around this time last year, some old Eminem lyrics leaked, and people didn’t much care for them. Referencing Chris Brown’s 2009 assault on Rihanna, Eminem rapped, “I’m not playing Rihanna / Where’d you get the VD at? / Let me add my two cents / Of course I side with Chris Brown / I’d beat a bitch down, too.” Now, on his surprise new expanded edition of Music To Be Murdered By, Em took the opportunity to apologize to Rihanna.

On “Zeus,” he raps, “But, me, long as I re-promise to be honest / And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna / For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri / It wasn’t meant to cause you grief / Regardless, it was wrong of me.”

On the same track, he also takes a shot at Snoop Dogg (who declared this summer that Eminem isn’t one of the ten best rappers ever), saying, “As far as squashin’ beef, I’m used to people knockin’ me / But, just not in my camp / I’m diplomatic ’cause I’m tryna be / Last thing I need is Snoop doggin’ me / Man, dog, you was like a damn god to me / Man, not really / I had ‘dog’ backwards.”

Listen to “Zeus” above.

Music To Be Murdered By — Side B (Deluxe Edition) is out now via Shady Records/Interscope. Get it here.

In a recent interview with Glamour, Joe Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon was asked whether it’s possible for Democrats and Republicans to compromise. “That’s what we need. The president-elect was able to connect with people over this sense of unity,” she said. “In the primary, people would mock him, like, ‘You think you can work with Republicans?’ I’m not saying they’re not a bunch of f*ckers. Mitch McConnell is terrible. But this sense that you couldn’t wish for that, you couldn’t wish for this bipartisan ideal? He rejected that.” This — O’Malley Dillon using an extremely light swear word — was enough to (ahem) trigger White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

“Biden Campaign Manager called us ‘F***ers’ !!! She can try to walk back, but this says volumes about her boss who calls for ‘unity’ while shouting that we are ‘assaulting democracy:’ They think we are deplorable, irredeemable ‘F***ers.’ SICK,” McEnany tweeted, conveniently forgetting that she works for someone who called Mexicans “rapists” and white supremacists “very fine people,” who bragged about sexually assaulting women, who frequently gives insulting nicknames to anyone he disagrees with, who… the list goes on. But one Democrats says “f*ckers” once and it’s all over.

McEnany certainly hasn’t said anything “deplorable” in her past, though, right?

How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas got involved, too.

“Make America Great Again” isn’t the defining slogan of the Trump administration. It’s “there’s always a tweet.”