Category: Trending

When JID released his emotional new album, The Forever Story, it was without the project’s emotional centerpiece, a track called “2007” which featured his father, J. Cole, and Dreamville president Ib Hamad. Ahead of releasing the album, he shared “2007” with his fans, which he said was supposed to be the album’s outro tying together its themes of family and personal growth. Unfortunately, due to sample clearance he issues, he was forced to leave it off The Forever Story despite its thematic resonance.

However, today, he returned with some good news: “2007 is Freee,” he wrote on Twitter. “I’m up early really replaying TFS the correct way.”

In addition to “2007,” the album also features the singles “Dance Now,” “Kody Blu 31,” “Money,” and “Crack Sandwich.” Meanwhile, he’ll continue to promote the album with the upcoming Luv Is 4ever Tour co-headlined by Smino, who just put out his own third album, Luv 4 Rent. JID also made his NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert debut this year, taking fans on a tour of Black music history. You can listen to “2007” as part of The Forever Story here and check out JID’s tour dates below.

01/22/2023 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
01/24/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum
01/26/2023 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
01/28/2023 — Oakland, CA @ The Fox
01/31/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
02/02/2023 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA San Diego
02/03/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
02/08/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
02/10/2023 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
02/13/2023 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
02/14/2023 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
02/15/2023 — San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre
02/16/2023 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
02/18/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
02/21/2023 — St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
02/22/2023 — Miami, FL @ Oasis Wynwood
02/24/2023 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
02/26/2023 — Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
03/01/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
03/03/2023 — New York, NY @ Terminal 5
03/07/2023 — Wallingford, CT @ Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre
03/09/2023 — Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
03/12/2023 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
03/15/2023 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
03/17/2023 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
03/18/2023 — Grand Rapids, MI @ GLC Live at 20 Monroe
03/21/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
03/23/2023 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
03/24/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis
03/25/2023 — Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
03/28/2023 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
03/29/2023 — Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works

House of the Dragon fans were able to settle on a favorite scene from season one without it turning into a Red Wedding-style incident. But there’s a heated debate currently brewing on the show’s Reddit page: who is the most “dislikable” character?

The user who asked the question, “Spicey-Bacon,” is apparently not a fan of Ser Criston Cole, as the image attached to the post is of the knight’s face four times. (It was a one-night stand, dude. Get over it.) But the top vote-getter, so to speak, is Larys Strong, a.k.a. “the creepy foot dude, I hate that snitch already especially for killing his family.” Even the OP had to agree, writing, “Yeah he is an extra special kind of f*cked up.”

It really is a two-person race between Criston and Larys.

Props to [Criston Cole actor] Fabien Frankel – who seems like a decent guy in real life – for perfectly capturing incel energy. Dude’s only one rejection between “Every woman is an image of The Mother,” and “Spoiled c*nt.”

Larys Strong to me is the most dislikable character. Dude burned his own father and brother alive for some feet pics.

Spot on, crispy gives me such bad vibes – we all know that certain type of guy who immediately turns on you at the slightest rejection

“Hey wanna come over”

Hey sorry I have plans

“Fine you’re ugly anyway”

INFURIATING

Larys Strong. The dude is creepy af and just a complete snake in everyway. Him murdering his own father and brother(who were among my favorite side characters) should speak for itself. Especially since he and Harwin seemed to get along and everything. But he dosen’t give af about anyone. The dude also just has such a punchable face.

The only other contender: Otto Hightower for being the “single sneaky mf [who] planned and caused the whole end of targaryen dynasty, why he was just hell bent on getting the Iron Throne, Crispin was too dumb to even think about such sinister plots, all he cared for a rejection and personal vendettas against rhaneyra, and love for alicent,” a reply reads.

They make a good argument… but yeah, it’s Cristin. Even he agrees.

(Via Reddit)

On Tuesday morning, hip-hop fans woke to some bad news; Atlanta rapper Takeoff of rap trio Migos had been shot to death in Houston at just 28 years old. Tributes have been pouring in ever since as everyone from Drake to James Corden shares their fond memories of the self-styled spaceman and his label and closest friends and collaborators have warned fans not to share a graphic video of the shooting. Today, more details about the shooting emerged, including the identity of another victim: fellow Migos member Quavo’s assistant, 23-year-old Joshua “Wash” Washington.

According to TMZ, Washington was one of two other people hit by gunfire and was rushed to a nearby hospital. However, his injuries are described as non-life-threatening, so thank goodness for small favors. Meanwhile, police have yet to publicly identify a suspect in the shooting, although a man in one video from the incident can be seen holding a gun and authorities have identified him as a person of interest.

Sadly, Takeoff was in the middle of a promoting a new album he’d released with Quavo as the two Migos seemed to be having some sort of dispute with the trio’s third member, Offset. Offset paid homage to his late partner-in-rhyme by changing his Instagram profile photo to one of Takeoff, but so far, neither remaining Migo has made a public statement.

In 2017, Selena Gomez needed a new kidney due to lupus, so that summer, she got one from friend and actress Francia Raisa. Like all good kidneys, this one has a name, and now Gomez has revealed that she dubbed her new kidney “Fred,” after actor Fred Armisen.

In a new Rolling Stone feature, Gomez explained, “I named my new kidney ‘Fred.’ I named it after Fred Armisen because I love Portlandia. I’ve never met him, but I’m secretly hoping he finds that out just because I want him to be like, ‘That’s weird.’”

Elsewhere, she spoke about visiting a friend who was trying to get pregnant, after which Gomez cried in her car. She explained that due to medications she takes to treat her bipolar disorder, she likely wouldn’t be able to carry her own children. She described that as “a very big, big, present thing in my life” but noted, “However I’m meant to have them, I will.”

Meanwhile, Gomez just released “My Mind & Me,” a new single that shares the title of her upcoming documentary. She told Rolling Stone of the film, “My Mind & Me is a little sad, but it’s also a really nice way of putting a button on the documentary part of life, and then it’ll just be fun stories of me living my life and going on dates and having conversations with myself. I feel like it’s going be an album that’s like, ‘Oh, she’s not in that place anymore; she’s actually just living life.’”

Read the full feature here.

Joey Badass joined Chance The Rapper to perform “The Highs And The Lows” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in August, and Joey returned to the late-night staple’s set last night (November 2) with Men I Trust to give bring the sensual 2000 track “Show Me” to life.

“Show Me” samples Men I Trust’s Emmanuelle Proulx from the band’s “Show Me How,” and she was on hand to deliver the delicate vocal alongside her bandmates Dragos Chiriac and Jessy Caron on guitar. Joey was joined at the stage’s forefront by a woman, his muse. She dances up on him, and Joey is transfixed on her and she moves around the stage.

“Transparency my love language / Can’t see the bigger picture if your vision tainted,” he raps in the second verse and into the woman’s eyes, sitting directly across from her at a table and confessing his undying commitment to her. “Don’t you forget that I would die for you any day,” he asserts at the end of the verse, leading into the pre-chorus, “Right here, right now, what you gotta say? / You ain’t gotta lie now, it’s the bed we made.”

Joey dropped 2000 in July. His third studio album also includes features from Diddy, Capella Grey, Chris Brown, JID, Larry June, and Westside Gunn.

Watch Joey and Men I Trust’s “Show Me” performance above.

In 2011, Jimmy Kimmel had an idea: Tell your kids you ate all their Halloween candy and see how they react — and be sure to capture it all on video. While not every parent thinks lying to their child and making them cry is hilarious — which, let’s face it, it is — the segment, titled “Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy,” was a massive hit. And while Kimmel decided to give kids a break over the past two years, given the stress they and their parents were already under with the COVID pandemic, this year he brought the tear-filled bit back with a vengeance.

“After two long years, our Halloween YouTube challenge is back,” Kimmel announced on Wednesday night. Though he admitted that “people love this so much, the last two years we didn’t even ask anyone to do it, but hundreds of families did it anyway. So we gave up and we did it again.”

“This is like our Top Gun,” Kimmel explained. “We have to have a sequel. The first time we did it was 10 years ago. And we’ve been doing it so long, some of the kids we tricked grew up to have their own kids to steal candy from.” While the late-night host acknowledged that there are several critics of the segment, they put it to a vote and let the viewers decide whether to bring it back. And it turns out, as you can see above, watching small children cry and threaten their parents may be the new American pastime.

Come for all the spontaneous wailing; stay for the adorable little girl who slams her plastic pumpkin down in a blind rage while yelling, “Dammit!” Or the one who assumed, rightly, “I bet you guys had to poop.”

Powerball fever is breaking out again after Wednesday’s night drawing came and went without a winner. The jackpot is now at an estimated $1.5 billion for Saturday’s drawing. That’s a whole lot of cheddar, and it’s got people on social media losing it over missing out on Wednesday’s $1.2 billion haul. Even Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is trying to get in on the action.

According to CNN, the jackpot total has been ballooning since August, but surprisingly, the $1.5 billion is not the highest total. Although, it’s pretty darn close:

There have been 39 consecutive Powerball drawings since August with no winner, ballooning the jackpot to one of the largest in US history. The record is a $1.586 billion Powerball grand prize shared by winners in California, Florida and Tennessee in January 2016, according to Powerball. In July, a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won by a ticket in Illinois. A $1.537 billion Mega Millions prize was claimed in South Carolina in 2019.

If Saturday does produce a winner, that ticket would be eligible for a one-time payment of $745.9 million, according to a statement from Powerball. Or the winner could go with the annuity option, which would spread 30 payments over the next 29 years. Either way, it’s a buttload of cash, and social media is starting to go nuts over the whole thing.

While most of the reactions are bummed at missing Wednesday’s numbers, there’s a palpable feeling of hope (and lotto frenzy) going into Saturday’s drawing.

You can see what Powerball nuts are saying below:

(Via CNN)

Earlier this year, Kurt Vile unveiled his new album Watch My Moves. Last night, he brought the song “Hey Like A Child” to Late Night With Seth Meyers in a relaxed performance.

“Hey Like A Child” is a nice dose of Vile’s twangy, cinematic sound, and his live rendition of it is even more colorful and calming as he sings nonchalantly: “Hey like a child you waltzed into my life / Hey like a mild high, I’m feelin’ fine.” It’s a great end-of-the-year reminder of the record that was released in the spring.

In April, Vile reviewed every one of his albums for Uproxx. About his most recent LP, he said, “I think my records are always enough of something new in my evolution. I’ve always got new things to say. I just think I’m emitting my personality and being comfortable where I’m at in my life. It’s a little bit cocky, and sometimes funny. But it’s also confidently played with dreamy chords, and it just puts you in the zone. All those things that I’ve become a master of, it’s what I’m doing and I’m cranking it out from my own house at this point. It’s just the way it is.”

Watch Vile’s performance of “Hey Like A Child” on Late Night above.

Selena Gomez said My Mind & Me, her Apple TV+ documentary, is “a bit on the serious side” on The Kelly Clarkson Show yesterday, and its titular single released this morning (November 3) backs up that descriptor in spades. The piano ballad arrived alongside an animated lyric video, and each line is more brutally honest than the last.

“Wanna hear a part to my story / I tried to hide in the glory / And sweep it under the table / So you would never know,” Gomez melodically sings in the first verse, which goes on to depict Gomez as “an accident people look when they’re passing” but “never check on the passenger” because “they just want a free show.” The acoustic chorus finds Gomez admitting to a constant fight with her mind but reclaiming her power and proclaiming, “I wouldn’t change my life / And all of the crashing and burning and breaking, I know now / If somebody sees me like this, then they won’t feel alone now.”

The 30-year-old singer and Only Murders In The Building actress wrote the powerful song with frequent collaborator Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and Ian Kirkpatrick.

With Clarkson, Gomez shared how difficult it was to chronicle in the documentary her 2019 stay at Boston’s McLean Hospital and her subsequent coming to terms with a bipolar diagnosis, but she tried to incorporate just as many positive or uplifting moments.

“It’s a very honest take on somebody who has to live with all of these things,” she said. “But I mean, the whole point, hopefully, is at the end, you’re like, ‘Well, cool, she’s gonna go live her life and do her thing. ‘Cause I am never gonna make one of these again.”

Vulture published an interview yesterday with Gomez and My Mind & Me director Alek Keshishian, and she similarly opened up about the challenges of filming such an unflinching documentary. When asked why they chose to hold off on making the doc around her 2016 Revival Tour, which bled into a career hiatus citing mental health complications stemming from lupus, Gomez said, “I wasn’t well. That’s actually the only answer. I wasn’t well, and I couldn’t continue. I had to cancel what I needed to cancel in order to live.”

All indications are that, on the other side of My Mind & Me, Gomez has arrived in a place where she knows how to better protect herself from the unrelenting pressures of celebrity. As for the single, Gomez told Variety at the doc’s premiere that she hopes to release more new music in 2023.

Watch the lyric video above.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me hits Apple TV+ on 11/4.

Earlier this week, horror maestro (and Manifest superfan) Stephen King expressed what a lot of people were thinking about Elon Musk’s Twitter plans. King thinks that it’s a ridiculous idea for Musk to start charging for “verified” status, and the SpaceX CEO actually attempted to haggle over a price which he insists will exist. So, a mass exodus could happen, but in the meantime, King has revealed himself as a Tesla driver who still isn’t having this nonsense over blue-checkmarks.

King swung again at Elon, but first, he took a moment to praise the ingenuity of Tesla.

“Kudos to Elon Musk, who has begun a revolution in how the world drives and who has incredible visionary talents,” the Cell author tweeted. “I got an early Tesla and traded for another one. Wonderful cars (no autopilot for me, thanks). That said, when it comes to Twitter…”

Here comes a literary comparison for the ages. “Musk makes me think of Tom Sawyer, who is given the job of whitewashing a fence as punishment,” King continued. “Tom cons his friends into doing the chore for him, and getting them to pay for the privilege. That’s what Musk wants to do with Twitter. No, no, no.”

The whitewashing reference might actually be a double-edged sword. Although I’m definitely not attributing any hidden meaning to King’s words, Musk sure doesn’t mind whitewashing harmful and incendiary Twitter behavior under the guise of “free speech,” so we’ll see what comes of his intended Twitter revolution. In the meantime, King is wondering when Manifest will return.

The answer (and he probably knows this) would be November 4. When will the show return again with its final batch of episodes, though? I’m hoping for Netflix and Jeff Rake to time the finale to the show’s oft-mentioned “death date,” although June 2024 is an awfully long time to wait.