Ever since blowing up in 2019 with two hit albums, DaBaby has been fielding customer complaints that suggest he’s a one-trick pony, unable to switch up his full-auto Kalashnikov flow. While he touched on the topic on his latest album, Blame It On Baby, he largely continued to use the same cadence, leading even more listeners to criticize his supposed inability to slow down his high-speed rhyme rate. Today, on a special quarantine edition of The Breakfast Club, he finally cleared the air, suggesting that if he changed up too quickly, fans would still have negative complaints.

“You gotta gradually pull people in different directions,” he explains. “As far as switching the flow, I have no problem running circles around any one of these n****s.” As to why he hasn’t done so yet, he says, “I couldn’t find myself entertaining that. I could joke about it, like I joke about everything else… but I could never take that sh*t too serious.” He elaborates that, “If I switch it too quick, you ain’t gon’ like it… When you got something going, you would be a fool to step on your own toes and go left with it.”

DaBaby says he could easily make a conscious record like J. Cole but suggests patience on fans’ parts. Clearly, he believes he has a lot more to offer, but it may take a while for us to get it.

Watch DaBaby’s interview with The Breakfast Club above.

There’s no telling how long our current situation will last, but Netflix is here for you during those long stretches of self-quarantine boredom. This month, several truckloads of new content will arrive, including new series from The Office dream team and Ryan Murphy. In addition, a romcom-action flick originally meant for wide release in theaters will make its debut in your living rooms, and another season of the highly bingeable Dead To Me, starring Christina Applegate, will be here to complicate homicide-matters. If that’s not enough, a series called Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics will feature celebrities (including Nick Offerman) making admissions about their hallucinogenic highs and lows. There are also several new stand-up comedy specials, and a whole lot more.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix this May.

Space Force (Netflix series streaming 5/29)

The Office fans can still find all nine seasons of the beloved comedy series on Netflix, but the streaming giant wanted more of the same vibe, and by god, they’ve got it now. Space Force sees The Office creator Greg Daniels re-team with Steve Carell, and this time, he’s managing people who send folks into space. In other words, bye bye, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and hello to new frontiers (apparently focused in Colorado). The stellar cast includes John Malkovich, Lisa Kudrow, and Ben Schwartz.

The Lovebirds (Paramount Pictures film streaming 5/22)

Originally scheduled for theaters, this high-concept, action-rom-com stars Issa Rae (Insecure) and the abs of Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley, the upcoming The Eternals), who accidentally stumble into a murder while on a date. For reasons that shall be left unexplained here, they’re soon off on a wild ride to clear their own names by finding a real killer. Can their relationship survive this strange night? The outcome looks fairly predictable, but all successful romcoms ride high on the chemistry of their leads, and there appears to be no shortage of that quality in supply here.

Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill (Netflix comedy special streaming 5/5)

With his second stand-up special for Netflix, Jerry Seinfeld — whose Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is still cruising after eleven seasons — sets out to continue precision-crafting his humor about nothing at all. He’ll mine the commonplace and everyday life once more, and although the series title suggests a long runtime, this puppy will be coming at you for one lean and mean hour as filmed from NYC’s Beacon Theatre.

Hollywood (Netflix series streaming 5/1)

Ryan Murphy of Glee and American Horror Story is back on Netflix (The Politician is barely in the rear-view mirror) with a new limited series alongside co-creator Ian Brennan. This time around, Murphy’s tackling post-World War II Hollywood and a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers who will sacrifice anything to see their name in lights. The show will confront race, gender, and sexuality biases of Tinseltown’s Golden Age and stars Samara Weaving, Dylan McDermott, David Corenswet, Darren Criss, and Jeremy Pope, among the ensemble cast.

Here’s the full list of titles coming to Netflix in May:

Avail. 5/1
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
All Day and a Night
Almost Happy
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story
Den of Thieves
For Colored Girls
Fun With Dick & Jane
Get In
Go! Go! Cory Carson: The Chrissy
Hollywood
I Am Divine
Into the Night
Jarhead
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
Jarhead 3: The Siege
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Masha and the Bear: Season 4
Material
Medici: The Magnificent: Part 2
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki Kun: Season 1
Mrs. Serial Killer
Reckoning: Season 1
Sinister
Song of the Sea
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Half of It
The Heartbreak Kid
The Patriot
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery: A New Arrival
Thomas & Friends: Marvelous Machinery: World of Tomorrow
Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Royal Engine
Underworld
Underworld: Evolution
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Urban Cowboy
What a Girl Wants
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

5/4
Arctic Dogs

5/5
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill

5/6
Workin’ Moms: Season 4

5/7
Scissor Seven: Season 2

5/8
18 Regali
Chico Bon Bon: Monkey With a Tool Belt
Dead to Me: Season 2
The Eddy
The Hollow: Season 2
House at the End of the Street
Restaurants on the Edge: Season 2
Rust Valley Restorers: Season 2
Valeria

5/11
Bordertown: Season 3
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Trial by Media

5/12
True: Terrific Tales
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (Interactive Special)

5/13
The Wrong Missy

5/14
Riverdale: Season 4

5/15
Chichipatos
District 9
I Love You, Stupid
Inhuman Resources
Magic for Humans: Season 3
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Season 5
White Lines

5/16
La reina de Indias y el conquistador
Public Enemies
United 93

5/17
Soul Surfer

5/18
The Big Flower Fight

5/19
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything
Sweet Magnolias
Trumbo

5/20
Ben Platt Live From Radio City Music Hall
The Flash: Season 6
Rebelión de los Godinez

5/22
Control Z
History 101
Just Go With It
The Lovebirds
Selling Sunset: Season 2
Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series: Season 2

5/23
Dynasty: Season 3

5/26
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

5/27
I’m No Longer Here
The Lincoln Lawyer

5/28
Dorohedoro

5/29
Space Force
Somebody Feed Phil: Season 3

Here’s the full list of titles leaving Netflix in May:

5/1
John Carter

5/15
Limitless
The Place Beyond the Pines

5/17
Royal Pains: Season 1-8

5/18
Scandal: Season 1-7

5/19
Black Snake Moan
Carriers
Evolution
The First Wives Club
It Takes Two
Love, Rosie
She’s Out of My League
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Young Adult
Yours, Mine and Ours

5/25
Bitten: Season 1-3

5/30
Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere: Collection 1

5/31
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Dear John
Final Destination
The Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
My Girl
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Outbreak
Red Dawn
Richie Rich

It’s been a little over a month since Ultra and SXSW became the first major festivals of 2020 to cancel their events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ever since, festivals like Boston Calling and Governors Ball have also been canceled. Meanwhile, events like Coachella and Lovers And Friends have been postponed for a later date, though the mayors of both LA and New York don’t believe large events will be able to return until next year. Now, Las Vegas’ fall festival Life Is Beautiful had the same vision and has decided to completely cancel its 2020 iteration.

Life Is Beautiful made the cancelation announcement Wednesday. The organizers cited the health and safety of attendees, employees, and performers alike as the reason for the decision. Life Is Beautiful organizer Justin Weniger said the festival’s message is more than important to maintain in times like these:

“It’s clear the health and economic hardships from the COVID-19 crisis will impact us all for some time to come. In light of this, we made the determination to re-examine the role Life is Beautiful plays in the community and how we can put our resources, creativity and time into doing what we always set out to do: inspire and bring together a community. From the beginning, Life is Beautiful has been a year-round, aspirational mantra that materializes into a festival that unites visitors from around the world. For this year, that festival won’t happen but there has never been a more important time to remind us all that life is indeed beautiful. That is what we are going to do, in ways large and small.”

Sharing a full statement on social media, the festival wrote: “Life is Beautiful because of you. Thank you for your continued love and support. We’ll dance in the streets again soon.”

Last year’s Life Is Beautiful iteration saw headlining performances from big names like Billie Eilish and Chance The Rapper. While the festival is forgoing its 2020 event in order to focus on new initiatives, Life Is Beautiful plans to make a full return in 2021.

Read the festival’s full statement above.

Lady Gaga has collaborated with some major music industry players in her day, like Justin Timberlake, Tony Bennett, and Beyonce, among others. Now it looks like she has added another high-profile pop superstar to that list: Ariana Grande apparently makes an appearance on Gaga’s upcoming album, Chromatica.

Pre-order links for the album are live now, and on most of them, the tracklist information on the album art is blurred out. However, the Target page for the Target-exclusive CD has an non-redacted label that reveals the tracklist. The fourth track is titled “Rain On Me,” and it features Ariana Grande. The tracklist also notes that the album has collaborations with Elton John and Blackpink as well. As of this post, the page is still live with the unedited art.

If this ends up being the final tracklist of the album, this actually won’t be Gaga’s first collaboration with John: The two previously teamed up for “Hello, Hello,” which appears in the 2011 movie Gnomeo & Juliet. However, the version of the song included on the film’s soundtrack does not feature Gaga.

This news comes shortly after Grande wished Gaga a happy birthday, writing, “Happy birthday to a literal angel that has changed my life in many ways.”

Check out the reported Chromatica tracklist below.

1. “Chromatica”
2. “Alice”
3. “Stupid Love”
4. “Rain On Me” with Ariana Grande
5. “Free Woman”
6. “Fun Tonight”
7. “Chromatica II”
8. “911”
9. “Plastic Doll”
10. “Sour Candy” with Blackpink
11. “Enigma”
12. “Replay”
13. “Chromatica III”
14. “Sine From Above” with Elton John
15. “1000 Doves”
16. “Babylon”

The bedazzled Furby from Uncut Gems. The flower dress from Midsommar. The titular light (minus the house) from The Lighthouse. Those are only some of the items that will be available in the A24-launched A24 Auctions, which benefits New Yorkers impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The auction, which begins at 12 p.m. EST today (April 22), also includes items from Eighth Grade, Euphoria (the Zendaya-starring HBO series produced by A24), and Hereditary — I would be concerned for anyone who buys a prop from that movie (don’t worry, it’s not the head), but at least the money is going to a good cause.

“Auctions will take place in April and May, and will be held online,” the New York Times reports. “A24, which is based in New York, will give the proceeds to four local organizations: the FDNY Foundation, which supports the New York City Fire Department; the hunger-relief nonprofit Food Bank for New York City; the public health-care organization NYC Health + Hospitals; and the Queens Community House, which provides services to children and adults throughout Queens.”

Hereditary, Uncut Gems, and Midsommar are three of A24’s five highest-grossing titles, so expect items from those films to get expensive quickly. Hopefully more props gets added soon — I, for one, am willing to fork over big bucks for the pie from A Ghost Story.

To place a bid, head to A24 Auctions.

As the coronavirus crisis winds on, the frontline healthcare workers providing care to patients — of both COVID-19 and other, more mundane medical maladies — have become more important than ever. Eminem — who recently celebrated his 12th year of sobriety — has joined the chorus of voices praising medical workers, as well as providing them with a more solid show of his appreciation, inspired by one of his most iconic lyrics.

“Mom’s Spaghetti” has become the dish most associated with the rapper, after the fan-favorite intro of his 8 Mile soundtrack hit, “Lose Yourself.” Em’s opened pop-up restaurants at festivals serving the signature dish and yesterday, delivered several bowls of Mom’s Spaghetti to workers at Detroit’s DMC Hospital to ensure they stay well-fed through their shifts. Fans on social media shared photos of the the cups, which bored the message “Thank you, frontline caregivers.”

The gift was similar to ones provided by other hip-hop stars, including Cardi B, who provided 20,000 meal supplements to medical workers in New York, while Kanye West donated a quarter million Chick Fil-A meals to those in need. Meanwhile, Jay-Z and Rihanna donated $2 million to provide daycare, food, and learning materials to healthcare workers’ and first responders’ children.

Check out photos from healthcare workers above.

Bring in the clowns.

Villanelle went full Joker in the latest episode of Killing Eve, donning a particularly stylish clown suit to murder some poor schmuck at a kid’s birthday party. Of course, there was more to the job than just balloon animals and kill shots. Villanelle’s got ambition, and her latest assignment was meant to prove she could handle more than just offing randos whenever the call came.

She… didn’t do so hot. Let’s browse the crime scene to figure out why.

The Clown Kill

Villanelle spent most of this episode bargaining her way to the top. Between meetings with her mentor Dasha and a surprise visit by her former handler Konstantin, she was constantly reminded of the power people still hold over her. So, to grab a bit back for herself, she demands a promotion. And some damn boundaries from these Russian squatters.

What Villanelle really wants — besides good water pressure and an apartment with high ceilings — is to be a keeper, a position higher up than both of her managers. If you’ll recall, Keepers are the only ones within the organization that know the true identities of the mysterious Twelve, so that title change would grant Villanelle an unbelievable amount of power. But first, she’s got to prove she’s management material. Enter: Felix, a string-bean with a homicidal streak. He killed some a**holes for bullying his boyfriend, managed to take out a few family members in the resulting car crash, and voila, he’s now an assassin-in-training.

And he’s lucked out because Villanelle really is the best. Just ask her.

The two bond over their abysmal love lives, and we get a rare glimpse into Villanelle’s emotional turmoil. It’s easy to forget she’s a murder-happy sociopath when she’s so obviously broken up over the way things ended with Eve.

Because the kill is taking place at a children’s birthday party, Villanelle and Felix must dress the part. The part here: Pennywise, but make it fashionable.

Villanelle is just here to supervise, which means she gives Felix some useful advice about what area of the throat to slit first before sending him on his way. Meanwhile, she inflicts traumatic memories that will forever be associated with clowns and the art of balloon-shaping on some poor youngsters.

Things begin to take a while, so Villanelle heads inside, only to find Felix scrambling in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor, trying to beat his mark to death. It’s not the clean, easy kill Villanelle was hoping for, and Felix doesn’t improve the situation when he explains the reason for the mess.

Villanelle quickly shoots the mark in the back of the head, ending the pair’s struggle, and it seems she might let Felix off the hook for his first mistake on the job. We hope she will, because Felix is clearly a troubled kid who shouldn’t be in this line of work, and he seemed to share a bond with Villanelle earlier in the episode. But this is the same woman who tried to murder the love of her life just one season earlier, so yeah, she shoots Felix too and leaves someone else to handle the bodies. That “someone else” will probably be the kids. Worst. Birthday. Ever.

It’s the silly-yet-macabre murder we’ve come to expect from this show, one that seems to delight in uncomfortable juxtapositions, but there’s more to this scene than just Villanelle’s iconic clown outfit. We’ve witnessed the character begin to make moves, laying out exactly what she wants and accepting the path she has to take to get there. Is she motivated by the need for more power? Does she want to know the identities of The Twelve so she can assassinate them? That was her plan in season one after all.

But just as quickly as she begins to form a tangible goal, she sabotages herself, letting her impatience, ego, and apathy get the better of her. The fact that she can so easily dispose of Felix proves two things about Villanelle’s character. First, she’ll sacrifice anything and anyone to get what she wants. Whether that’s the freedom to live life according to her rules, a doomed relationship, or a way out of a mandatory babysitting exercise. Human life means very little to Villanelle and that’s been a constant for her character since the show’s first season. What’s more interesting is the fact that she can so easily give up on her own goal. Obviously, she failed this test which will probably make becoming a Keeper that much harder — if it’s even possible at this point. Villanelle had a chance to prove her worth, her maturity, her readiness to become more than a hired gun, and she quite flippantly threw it away the moment things weren’t going according to her plan. She’s selfish, obviously, but is that lack of foresight going to be her downfall this season? We’ll have to wait and see.

Many athletes have, like so many others, turned to video games as an escape and form of entertainment as they deal with lockdowns and pro sports on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To fill the time, ESPN has put together tournaments to pit players against each other in NBA 2K and Madden, but pro athletes have gaming interests far beyond just the sports genre. Games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, and others are wildly popular among athletes, and they like to compete in those games as well. On Wednesday, Twitch Rivals will broadcast the SuperGames Finals, pitting 20 teams against each other in Fortnite, with a prize pool of $1 million being divvied up to charities.

Each team features a pair of Twitch streamers who drafted two athletes to their team — some athletes went through a qualifying tournament, while others were invited straight to the Finals. There are some big names from the world of sports, like Bryce Harper (paired with Trea Turner), Kyler Murray (paired with Josh Hart), Mike Evans and JuJu Smith-Schuster, Chase Elliott (paired with Trevor May), Christian Pulisic (paired with Danny Barbir), and Xavier Woods (paired with Mike Daniels).

They will all face off in Fortnite with their streamer partners, with fans able to watch on the Twitch Rivals channel at 8 p.m. ET, for bragging rights and to send a chunk of $1 million to the charity of their choice. The full teams can be found below.

Hannahhfn
iicarlee
Mason Denaburg
Brendan Rodgers

sypherpk
drlupo
Skylar Arias
Nick Marchese

chicalive
riversan
Avonte Maddox
Dylan Windler

msashrocks
missdoitbig
Xavier Woods
Mike Daniels

tfue
scoped
Mike Evans
JuJu Smith-Schuster

aydan
natehill
Trea Turner
Bryce Harper

im60fpsfyi
angelicaxo
Kyler Murray
Josh Hart

nickeh30
replays
Graham Glasgow
Ryan Glasgow

demisux
fiber
Kurt Benkert
David Morgan

Maddie
Tina
Desmond Lindsay
Thomas Szapucki

ranger
tocata
Jack Roslovic
Brendan Lemieux

chap
benjyfishy
Chase Elliott
Trevor May

thatdenverguy
dylanhawk
Zach Hyman
Alex Nylander

mrconrem
aircool
Vince Dunn
Jordan Kyrou

bugha
emadgg
Christian Pulisic
Danny Barbir

sceptic
itshighsky
Chase Winovich
Ashtyn Davis

duckythegamer
supremogaming117
Cody Melphy
Stephen Tomasin

annoying
juuu
Blake Snell
Gavin Lux

itssky
ballatw
Brett Pesce
Anthony Bitetto

hogmanlolz
bizzle
Zach Aston-Reese
Jameson Taillon

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