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Over the past few years, December has been Roddy Ricch season. He released his chart-topping debut album Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial on December 6, 2019, then followed it with Live Life Fast on December 17, 2021. Now, he’s getting ready to keep the streak alive.

Last night (October 29), Ricch gave Tyler The Creator a shout-out over his new album, Chromakopia, tweeting, “CHROMAKOPIA [fire emoji] ! @tylerthecreator WEST UP , MY TURN !” A few hours later, he followed that up with, “THE NAVY ALBUM THE 6TH OF DECEMBER.”

Ricch might be looking for The Navy Album to be a bounce-back project. Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial was No. 1 and so was the hit single “The Box,” but he didn’t manage to replicate that success with Live Life Fast. The album only managed a No. 4 peak on the Billboard 200 chart, and the closest thing to a hit single it produced was 2021’s “Late At Night,” which peaked at No. 20 on the Hot 100, and is actually his most recent single to even appear on that chart.

In his 2022 Uproxx cover story, Ricch discussed his biggest takeaway from the first part of his career, saying, “A lot of times, you may get distracted by trying to rekindle relationships with different things. I feel like just what I learned is just sometimes, even if it’s broke, sometimes it’s just better not to deal with certain things or don’t let certain things bother you — everything’s not going to be perfect. Sometimes when you sit down and think about a lot of sh*t, you try to make everything perfect, and I feel like the thing I learned is it’s okay to not be perfect. There’s perfect in imperfection.”

Based on Google searches, one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year is Sabrina Carpenter. In particular, the “Please Please Please” singer’s heart corset, likely with a cup of espresso. As for Carpenter herself, she hasn’t revealed what she’s dressing up as (she was previously “the love of ur life”), but maybe she got inspired during a trip to Universal Studios.

Carpenter recently attended Halloween Horror Nights at the Universal Orlando resort, where she and Short N’ Sweet Tour opener Griff took a photo outside of the Major Sweets Candy Factory haunted house. So much spooky sweetness.

You can see the photo below.

Uproxx recently spoke to the creative team behind Halloween Horror Nights. When asked how the music gets picked for the haunted houses, assistant director Lora Sauls replied, “The show direction team does a beautiful job of telling the story through sound effects, the audioscape, the score that they play in the haunted houses… When we’re working with the franchises, we lean into the score that accompanies those films and franchises to make sure that we’re telling their stories. When it comes to original content, our show direction team thinks outside the box on how to tell that story with the score.”

The Weeknd has an HHN house. Sabrina Carpenter should be next. It could look like the bloody “Taste” video.

Halloween Horror Nights 2024 runs on select nights through November 3. You can find out more information here. In other exciting news, Epic Universe opens on May 22, 2025.

Olivia Rodrigo has a clean criminal record, but that’s not what a Border Patrol officer thought recently.

Rodrigo was a guest on The Tonight Show yesterday, and she told Jimmy Fallon the story of the time she was interrogated at the US-Canada border for a long while.

Here’s the tale in Rodrigo’s words:

“We were going from Canada to Portland or something. We were at Border [Patrol]. I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’ And I’m like, ‘I just played a few shows. Maybe their daughter wants an autograph.’

I come out, it’s 3 a.m., and I’m delirious, and they take me to a room, and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s a big cop with a gun. He’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I’m like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m, like, gaslighting myself. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. Maybe I was arrested and I didn’t know it.’ […]

He’s like, ‘You know, you could go to jail for lying to a federal officer like this.’ Like, ‘This is really bad.’ I’m freaking out. I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna be let in to America!’ I’m so scared. I’m, like, having a panic attack.

After 30 minutes of interrogation, he looks at me. He goes, ‘What’s your name?’ And I go, ‘Olivia Rodrigo, R-O-D-R-I-G-O.’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you that’s your same age that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.’

Jimmy, I was pissed. I’m like, ‘You didn’t look at the name on the thing?’”

Watch the video above. Rodrigo also played a round of “What’s Behind Me?” with Fallon, so check that out below.

Megan The Stallion has a stronghold on two special times of the year. Thanks to her beloved catchphrase, “Hot Girl Summer,” the warm weeks belong to the “Bigger In Texas” rapper. But her passion for Halloween comes in a close second.

This Hottieween season is a rather special one for Meg for several reasons. Atop the list is a rather significant co-sign the Grammy Award winner just earned. Today (October 29), Megan Thee Stallion’s Starfire (of Teen Titans) Halloween costume received a thumbs up from thee James Gunn, which is an honor for any self-proclaimed nerd like Meg.

In a post on Thread, Gunn reshared Megan Thee Stallion’s costume reveal images. “Whoa,” he wrote. “Cool.”

Gunn’s followers joined in to praise Meg’s depiction. “Biblically accurate Starfire, as George intended,” wrote one user referring to the get-up being pulled directly from 1980s illustrations cooked up by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

This is surely just the tipping point for Meg as last year she sported three major looks (a flower from Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, Death The Kid from anime Soul Eater, and the lady gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch). But on Halloween Day (October 31), Megan tends to dial things up a notch for her annual Hottieween party. Or she could go the flirty route having expressed interest seeing her “Spin” collaborator Victoria Monét dress up like her. Maybe Megan will return the honor.

Weeks apart, rap’s dynamic duo Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla dropped new albums. For Megan Thee Stallion that body of work was Megan: Act II. While GloRilla released her long-awaited debut album, Glorious. Along the way the two emcees have racked up quite the busy with notable collaborations, from the tracks “How I Look,” “Wanna Be” and “Accent,” to a successful performance run on the Hot Girl Summer Tour.

Their musical chemistry (a far cry from their first impression of each other) has sparked demands for the rappers to drop more music together. Now, fans are demanding a full-out collaborative album. But will Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla actually give into supporters’ request? Today (October 29), GloRilla sat down with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1 and further fanned the flames of its possibility.

“Is there truth to the rumor of you and Megan Thee Stallion having a joint project,” asked Ebro. “Y’all got some heat, y’all recorded some things.”

GloRilla followed up, saying: “Yep.”

But that wasn’t the confirmation Ebro needed so he followed up with: “But you can’t confirm nor deny.”

Evasively, GloRilla answered: “Right.”

Well, in a Stationhead broadcast (captured by Inside The Industry podcast) Megan Thee Stallion shed light on what’s holding the potential project up. “We’re both so busy,” she said. “We said we were going to sit down in December and start working on it. So, y’all really need to spam Glo for real because we’re both bullsh*ters.”

Watch GloRilla’s full appearance on Apple Music 1 hosted by Ebro Darden above.

Harlequin was not Lady Gaga’s only musical embodiment of her Joker: Folie À Deux character.

Lady Gaga’s latest song, “Disease,” carries forward that spooky pop sound. Today (October 29), she shared the official music video for the suspected LG7 album’s lead single. Just as expected from the teaser clip, the video Lady Gaga battle several fierce (and nearly lethal) battles for her own heart.

From a high speed car chase to multiple hand-to-hand combat scenes, nothing will hold Lady Gaga back from her pursuit of love. Every element of Lady Gaga’s pop star theatrics are on full display in the haunting visual, which makes passionate lyrics in the track that must more believable.

Quick camera pans, character shifts, full body acting and extravagant wardrobe changes make it nearly impossible for viewers to take their eyes off of the screen.

Ahead of the video’s release, Lady Gaga took to her Instagram Stories to share a statement (viewable here) about the song’s meaning.

“I think a lot out the relationship I have with my own inner demons,” she wrote. “‘Disease’ is about facing that fear, facing myself, my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me.”

Watch Lady Gaga’s official video for “Disease” above.

Fan interference is nothing new at baseball games, as there is a rich history of fans and players battling for the same fly balls. However, usually any interference is done on the catch, whether that’s a fan reaching over the wall (like we saw earlier this World Series) or a fan getting in the way of a catch in the stands (hello, Steve Bartman).

On Tuesday night in the Bronx, a Yankees fan took it to a new level when he literally grabbed Mookie Betts’ glove after the Dodgers left fielder made a catch along the wall in foul territory and ripped the ball away.

As John Smoltz noted on the broadcast, that’s one of the fastest ways to get kicked out of a World Series game, and despite the effort, the Dodgers still got the out by virtue of the interference. At the same time, this fan has now impacted a 2024 World Series game about as much as Aaron Judge has, so I guess he has that going for him. When you’re down 3-0 in the series and 2-0 after the top of the first inning (because Freddie Freeman homered, again) desperation sets in, but this was not the best way to handle it.

The tumultuous two-year long battle between Kanye West (Ye) and Adidas has apparently come to an end.

Back in October 2022, the sporting company split business ties with Ye following antisemitic remarks made by the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper. Today (October 29), the two have wrapped up their legal fight. According to Bloomberg, Ye and Adidas reached an out-of-court settlement.

During a conference call, Adidas’ CEO Bjørn Gulden shared a statement regarding their mutual resolve. “There isn’t any more open issues,” he said. “No one owes anybody anything anymore. So whatever was is history.”

Gulden’s comments about financial payout raised questions among patrons. But Page Six claims Gulden clarified that by saying: “There isn’t any more open issues, and there is no money going [out] either way, and we both move on.”

This is shocking revelations considering the damning financial blowback from their split. At the height of their professional departure it was reported that Adidas was projected to lose over $1 billion in sales. The company also suppsoedly had to recall and store $1 billion worth of Yeezy items while they decided what to do moving forward. Eventually, Adidas came to an agreement to sell the remaining inventory, which quickly cleared half of the pieces off of shelves.

Gulden closed by saying: “There were tensions on many issues, and… when you put the claims on the right side, and you put the claims on the left side, both parties said we don’t need to fight anymore and withdrew all the claims.”

The Miami Heat’s unveiling of their statue for Dwyane Wade over the weekend did not go as they’d hoped, as all of the talk about Wade’s new bronze presence outside the Kaseya Center was about how it didn’t look much like Wade at all. Fans on Twitter naturally piled on with jokes about all the people it looked like that weren’t Wade, but they weren’t alone, as Paul Pierce thought it looked more like Tony Allen than Dwyane and even Tim Walz got in on the fun during an appearance with Dan Le Batard.

Unsurprisingly, the jokes did not stop Tuesday night when the ‘Inside the NBA’ crew made their first appearance on TV since Wade’s statue was revealed and had plenty to say about the depiction of their former TNT colleague. While Kenny Smith tried his best to defend the statue, Charles Barkley wasn’t letting it slide, saying the Heat have to take it down, while Ernie Johnson even got in some jokes — which is how you know the statue is bad.

Shaq wasn’t willing to chime in with jokes of his own, as he’s got too many ties to Wade and the Heat organization for that, but the fact that he was just chuckling off to the side and didn’t join Kenny in defense of the statue said plenty. It must be said that sculpting a bronze statue seems extremely difficult, but at the same time, the whole point is for it to look like the person its immortalizing and as Ernie notes, the face on the Wade statue doesn’t make you immediately go “yeah, that’s D-Wade.”

Liam Payne fans have had a rug pulled from under them. Earlier today (October 29), supporters of the late “Stack It Up” singer learned that a posthumous single (“Do No Wrong”) from Liam was slated to be shared on November 1.

However, the track’s producer, Sam Pounds, has decided to postpone its release indefinitely. Over on X (formerly Twitter), the Grammy Award-winning shared a statement explaining the gut-wrenching decision. “Today I’m deciding to hold ‘Do No Wrong’ and leave those liberties up to all family members,” he wrote. “Even though we all love the song it’s not the time yet. We are all still mourning the passing of Liam and I want the family to morn [sic] in peace and in prayer. We will all wait.”

Initially, Pounds intended to donate the record’s proceeds to a charity of the family’s choosing or “however they desire” to divide it up. But it appears thanks to the pleas from users online, given Liam’s untimely and tragic death, Pounds changed his mind.

Liam’s family haven’t addressed the post track or any plans for its future release. Following Liam’s passing they issued a heartbreaking statement to the public, writing: “We are heartbroken. Liam will forever live in our hearts, and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul. We are supporting each other the best we can as a family and ask for privacy and space at this awful time.”