Just a few days after his close friend and collaborator Lil Tjay announced his upcoming mixtape, Chicago rapper Polo G announced the release date and title of his own next album, The GOAT, which releases just a week later. The two rappers were introduced to mainstream listeners at just about the same time, with the breakout single “Pop Out,” and it seems that their respective journeys remain linked. Polo shared the album cover and release date in a post on Instagram.
The cover features a close-up shot of Polo with goat horns growing out of his head, flanked by a pair of portraits of the 21-year-old with his infant son Tremani. The GOAT is described in its press release as a celebration of his life and legacy. The press release also confirms that both of his previously released singles, “Go Stupid” with Stunna 4 Vegas and NLE Choppa and the moody, social distancing single “DND,” will appear on the project as well, along with production from some of the rap game’s biggest hit makers Hit-Boy, Murda Beatz, and Mustard.
The release date for The GOAT has been set at May 15 via Columbia Records. Check out the album’s very literal cover art above.
If nothing below suits your sensibilities, check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now. Also, there’s been a wild amount of new Apple TV+, Netflix, and HBO offerings over the past week, so here’s your chance to catch up as much as possible.
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill (Netflix stand-up special) — The streaming giant’s offering multiple comedy specials to deliver laughs this month, and the first in the line-up would be the legendary Jerry Seinfeld in his second Netflix special. Expect him to keep mining everyday life to unveil comedy in the commonplace. Although the title of this special feels Bond-esque, Seinfeld doesn’t disappoint those expecting his trademarked sharp perceptions about everyday life.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — Aaaaand Jerry Seinfeld’s popping in for a quarantine-style visit.
The Flash (CW, 8:00 p.m.) — Barry’s just now realizing that The Flash and Pied Piper are now enemies while the return of Godspeed coincides with Iris’ attempted escape from the Mirrorverse.
The Conners (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) — Darlene and Ben start building their life while Jackie and Becky go on a road trip to Mexico to meet an estranged family member.
D.C.’s Legends Of Tomorrow (CW, 9:00 p.m.) — The Loom of Fate’s causing friction while Constantine and Ava attempt to help Sara pick up the pieces of what happened.
For Life (ABC, 10:00 p.m.) — Aaron attempts to take on retrial, while prison warden Cyrus Hunt has another idea, and the prison riot’s aftermath continues to reverberate.
The Last O.G. (TBS, 10:30 p.m.) — Tray’s having Thanksgiving with his rival and cousin while Amira and Shahzad truly get to know their family.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Ryan Reynolds, Karlie Kloss, and Ezra Koenig
The Late Late Show With James Corden — Alain de Botton, Barry Manilow
Late Night With Seth Meyers — Nathan Lane, Lauren Lapkus
A Little Later With Lilly Singh — Larry Wilmore, Quinta Brunson
Even in quarantine, it seems DaBaby can’t dodge the constant accusations of assault that have plagued him since he blew up in early 2019. TMZ reports that the Charlotte rapper is being accused of attacking a driver in Las Vegas, with a warrant issued for his arrest.
The incident allegedly occurred in November of last year. The driver told police that he was called to pick up the rapper and his crew in a Mercedes Sprinter to drive them to the Hard Rock Hotel. The driver says he got into an altercation with them after they lit up a joint and he asked them to put it out. Upon arrival to their destination, the driver says that the rapper and his friends refused to pay, punching him in the back of his head and telling him, “You ain’t the boss.”
The driver also claims that the men threatened him further, saying, “You’re lucky you’re not in my city because I would have killed you, cracker motherf*cker” and that they “would have left him dead on the road.” A warrant has been issued for misdemeanor battery.
DaBaby is already dealing with a lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched at a club in Tampa earlier this year, as well as one from a rapper his security reportedly beat into a coma at a show last summer. It seems folks can’t help taking the title of his latest album, Blame It On Baby, to heart.
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Here’s what you missed 28 years ago on WWF Superstars for December 26, 1992.
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Jobbers Of The Week
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Marching happily into their own graves against the Headshrinkers this week are the two worst guys from your dad’s bowling team, Chris Allen and Bill Vaper. That’s Chris on the left, Supermanning that ho, and Bill is the CVS toy section Kylo Ren action figure on the right.
As you might’ve expected, Bill Vaper is actually Bill Baker, and he’s billed as such in his Wrestling Challenge loss to Kamala the day before. That’s the eternal WWF Superstars question: did they slightly change his name to try and trick us into thinking they’re two separate jobbers, or is the guy running the graphics just illiterate, forgetful, and deaf? He deserves it, though, especially after giving Chloe so much anxiety. She should remember that if she wants a replacement coil but can’t pay for it now, she could Bill Vaper.
Getting a surprise win over the future ECW star “Dante from Clerks with a bad haircut” is none other than Virgil, an emancipated slave turned candy striper whose name is an understated and subtle burn on Virgil “Dusty Rhodes” Runnels. Maybe I’m reading the character wrong and he’s supposed to be in loving tribute to the Roman poet. The Aeneid? More like Aeneid some more training, am I right folks?
On commentary, Vince McMahon puts over the Royal Rumble by pronouncing “melee” as me-LAY and declaring that Virgil might be the man to win it all. I can barely tell where the jobber ends and Virgil begins, so yes, I’m sure he’s about to toss out Yokozuna and Macho Man Randy Savage to earn a spot in the main event of WrestleMania. Virgil wins with a Russian leg sweep that McMahon calls a “neckbreaker,” because it’s so bad you’re not sure which one it is.
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Stepping into the ring this week against the Native American Sensation Tatanka® is unknown’s own Bret Tyler, who may or may not just be a white guy in a pretty good Aja King Halloween costume.
The major story of this match is the appearance of Doink the Clown, who’d shown up earlier during a Bob Backlund vs. Barry Horowitz match to keep the children in the crowd from falling asleep. He returns here with a mop, and mops up the aisle until Tatanka’s down [checks notes] sweeping the floor with Tyler. They do some light physical comedy, culminating in Doink doing a full-on Curly Howard bit where he puts the mop on his shoulder and spins around so it hits Tatanka in the face. Tatanka sells it like he just got his eyeball gouged out by the Road Warriors.
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The mop swinging around like that looks a lot like Tyler Breeze’s old Beauty Shot. Somebody flip out and kill the clown already.
Blind Children Of The Week
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Razor Ramon has a WWF Championship match against Bret Hart at the Royal Rumble, so while Big Scott’s busy throwing poor Gus Kantarakis at the Earth, children in the crowd are wearing their Bret Hart sunglasses and taunting him. Well, “wearing” is a stretch. This poor little girl just gets them bandana’d around her head. There’s something truly Sisyphean about putting your kid on your shoulders so they can see, and then putting them in giant wraparound sunglasses, indoors.
The good news: Who has two thumbs and learned how to wear novelty sunglasses before the tapings were over? THIS kid.
Thirsty Bam Bam Bigelow Fan Of The Week
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The first man with a craving for Fire Sauce.
Slamming Jam Of The Week
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This week’s big selling point is the new hit single SLAM JAM, which Mean Gene Okerlund assures us debuted at #4 in the U.K. This should not be confused with ‘WrestleMania’ by the WWF Superstars (which came out around the same time and asks us if we’re “ready for the Survivor Series” despite it being “time for WrestleMania”) or the BAND “Slam Jam,” who perform the iconic ‘We’re All Together Now.’
The highlight, at least when The Undertaker isn’t trying to work in “The Undertaker says rest in peace” multiple times, is the rap break from Einstein. The rapper, not the theoretical physicist. Please read and memorize these lyrics, deciphered to the best of my abilities, in case you ever need to impress at karaoke.
we’re the cream
we roll like a team
but every great team needs a theme
here it is for the good the bad and the ugly
now here I am, the man so get with the jam
and pick up the program
(in the air) we’re flying, death defying, pumping iron, roar like a lions
pound for pound, round for round
mama said mama said take you out
bump it bump it bump it get with the jam
and slam
The song would later be rebranded and re-released later in the year as the SUMMER Slam Jam, but don’t believe their lies.
Next Week Of The Week
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We finally leave 1992 behind for more Royal Rumble ’93 promotion, a Mr. Perfect vs. The Berserker match that we can only assume will be a catch-as-catch-can classic, and the WWF Superstars debut of Scott Steiner. Can’t wait.
In a video making the rounds on social media, a mother claims she is being harassed by the Calmut Country Sheriff’s department in Wisconsin for allowing her seven-year-old-daughter go to a neighbor’s house for a play date.
In the video shot by a mother who goes by Amy, the officer asks her a direct question about the current stay-at-home order. “Are you aware that we’re at a stay-at-home order right now? By the government?”
Amy confirmed she knew about the order but still allowed her daughter to visit a neighbor’s house.
“Stop having your kid go by other people’s homes,” the officer orders Amy.
At the end of the altercation, the officer asks Amy for her full name but she refuses.
According to the sheriff’s office, when the video was taken, it was the fifth contact they’d had with her in recent weeks.
Amy later elaborated on the situation with Inside Edition. “The way they talked to me was completely disrespectful,” Amy said. “I had done nothing wrong from the moment they opened up the door. He immediately started yelling at me.”
“I have a right to be outside my home,” she said. “I don’t have to be locked in my home.”
Mom Says Cops Are ‘Harassing’ Her Over 7-Year-Old’s Playdate
The video has made Amy a hero to some who believe the government doesn’t have the right to tell us to stay inside our homes during the pandemic. So is she right? Has she done “nothing wrong” by violating the state’s stay-at-home orders?
Legal experts say that stay-at-home orders or similar proclamations “effectively carry the force of law.”
The Supreme Court hasn’t said much about people’s liberty during epidemics. Although, in 1905, during a smallpox epidemic, a pastor argued that a mandatory smallpox vaccine violated his Constitutional rights.
The Court acknowledged that “the liberty secured by the Fourteenth Amendment . . . consists, in part, in the right of a person ‘to live and work where he will.'” But it added: “in every well-ordered society . . . the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.”
Most would agree that asking Amy and her child to stay indoors for a limited amount of time is “reasonable” to protect the safety of the general public.
The video has also made Amy the subject of scorn for those who believe she’s creating putting people’s health in danger for repeatedly allowing her child to visit friends’ houses during the pandemic.
Studies show that children are less likely to show signs of being infected with COVID-19. They are also less likely to be hospitalized or die because of the disease.
However, that doesn’t mean that people like Amy shouldn’t worry about allowing their children to play with other children.
The problem is that children can appear to be completely healthy and then transmit the disease to those who are more likely to be symptomatic.
“[Social] distancing and everyday preventative behaviors are recommended for persons of all ages to slow the spread of the virus, protect the health care system from being overloaded, and protect older adults and persons of any age with serious underlying medical conditions,” the CDC said in a special report.
As Americans, we should be forever vigilant that our Constitutional rights are upheld and maintained. But being a good citizen has less to do with the legal ramifications of our actions and more to do with how they affect our fellow citizens.
There are a lot of great reasons to argue over the legality of the state order, but there are far fewer ways to rationalize putting our friends’ and neighbor’s health in jeopardy.
With livestreamed DJ sets and beat battles becoming the de facto official entertainment of the Great Quarantine Of 2020, it was only a matter of time until some of the biggest names in music began to hold their own digital concerts, festivals, and shows. While DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine and Swizz Beats’ Verzuz series give fans plenty to look forward to each weekend, the next evolution of the format has apparently arrived thanks to two of hip-hop’s original party starters: Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
This Saturday, May 9, from noon to midnight EST, Bel Air’s favorite hip-hop duo will host the “Break The Monotony Block Party” on Instagram Live featuring a star-studded showcase of their veteran DJ friends. Guests include DJ Clark Kent, D-Nice, Just Blaze, and Neil Armstrong, with each guest checking in from their own handle, with some of the sets running concurrently, festival style. The principal duo has also announced a limited-edition collection of Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air merchandise going on sale May 9, with a percentage of proceeds to be donated to No Kid Hungry‘s ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts.
In a press release, Jeff said of the block party, “It’s humbling to see how The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and our music has transcended time and continued to shape pop culture. Between this new collection and the block party, I hope we can come together during these trying times, celebrate culture, put smiles on people’s faces and raise money for an important cause.”
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The NBA 2K League will kick off its third season on Tuesday night with a pair of games at 7 p.m. ET — Cavs Legion will take on Pacers Gaming, while 76ers GC and Raptors Uprising GC will go head-to-head. Then, in a pair of virtual tilts scheduled to tip off at 9 p.m., Kings Guard Gaming and Warriors Gaming Squad will take the floor, as will Mavs Gaming and Hawks Talon GC.
As always, the games will be broadcast on Twitch, but this year, the 2K League will feature a new way to watch. The league announced on Tuesday morning that games will be broadcast by ESPN during the 2020 campaign. For the first few weeks of the season, the games that occur on Tuesday evenings will take place on ESPN2, while games on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will air on the ESPN App and on ESPN.com.
There’s a new way to watch NBA 2K League games this season!
ESPN networks present @NBA2KLeague LIVE throughout the 2020 season.
According to a release, games will air on ESPN2 through May 19, with details about where games will be broadcast starting on May 26 coming some time in the future. With few other live sports going on right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, eSports have been thrust into the spotlight, and as a result, Tuesday’s broadcast on the Worldwide Leader will serve as the first linear telecast of 2K League games in the United States.
The Last Dance has given us so much over the past three weeks that it’s hard to keep track of all its many joys and wonders. For those of us who grew up idolizing Michael Jordan, it’s both a trip down memory lane and revealing look behind the scenes of one of the most compelling sports figures of all-time.
Sure, the petty beefs and bitter rivalries that are still simmering all these years later are endlessly entertaining, but there’s also all sorts of random historical ephemera that adds so much texture to it all. Take, for example, the stunning curly-mulleted security guard that has popped up a few times in the archival footage from inside the Bulls locker room.
The man in question, John Michael Wozniak, has now become a viral sensation after episode six, after an incredible scene in which he took Jordan’s money pitching quarters, then hit him with the shoulder shrug.
Sadly, Wozniak died earlier this year after a battle with colon cancer, but his son Nicholi says his father would’ve loved all the attention its garnered him.
The 35-year-old Nicholi never stopped giving his old man grief for his eccentric hairstyle. If father’s responses to son over the years were any indication, then John had a good laugh Sunday night up in heaven.
“Dad, why don’t you cut your hair and wear it like Pat Riley? Your hair is like 20 years old,” Nicholi recalled of his pleas. “I was a kid in grammar school, and he was like, ‘Nick, it’s my mark. It’s my brand. It’s my emblem. It’s like a lion’s mane.’ And I was like, Dad, you’re gonna get roasted one day. And I swear to God if he knew (about Sunday) he would be doing the same thing to me, ‘I told you!’ It was his mark. Everybody is playing into exactly what he wanted.”
Wozniak was a long-time narcotics officer in Chicago who quickly endeared himself to Jordan after once accidentally busting out the back window of his SUV while parking it at Chicago Stadium. He worked on Jordan’s security detail for more than 20 years after that, and, as we learned Sunday, had a mean quarters game.
It has been just over a year since Irish rockers Fontaines DC released their debut album, Dogrel, in April of 2019, but they’re already ready for more. Today, the group has announced their second album, A Hero’s Death, and shared the title track.
The video for the post-punk tune features fellow countryman and Game Of Thrones star Aiden Gillen playing a tormented talk show host. The band’s Grian Chatten says of the song and accompanying video:
“The song is a list of rules for the self, they’re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread. It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that’s what happens to mantras when you test them over and over. There’s this balance between sincerity and insincerity as the song goes on and you see that in the music video as well. That’s why there’s a lot of shifting from major key to minor key. The idea was influenced by a lot of the advertising I was seeing – the repetitive nature of these uplifting messages that take on a surreal and scary feel the more you see them.
The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up ‘Dogrel.’ But more broadly it’s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings.”
The band also notes of the album, “It feels like time hasn’t ticked since we announced our first record just over a year ago. We wrote these songs during the 12 months after finishing Dogrel as a necessary reaction to assure ourselves we will always be the band we set out to be. A sincere thank you to everyone who has supported our music since and before then.
Watch the “A Hero’s Death” video above, and below, find the A Hero’s Death art and tracklist.
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1. “I Don’t Belong”
2. “Love Is The Main Thing”
3. “Televised Mind”
4. “A Lucid Dream”
5. “You Said”
6. “Oh Such A Spring”
7. “A Hero’s Death”
8. “Living In America”
9. “I Was Not Born”
10. “Sunny”
11. “No”
A Hero’s Death is out 7/31 via Partisan Records. Pre-order it here.
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Tatanka® is unknown’s own Bret Tyler, who may or may not just be a white guy in a pretty good Aja King Halloween costume. 
