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1500 Or Nothin’s MyGuyMars steps up to the mic with a groovy medley performance of “U Know Wassup/Only You” for UPROXX Sessions. In a departure from many of the one-take performances we’ve hosted, Mars brings a full band, including bass, guitars, and DJ, and plays keys himself as he sings the upbeat West Coast two-stepper “U Know Wassup,” then slows things down for a cover of “Only You” by 112. I dare you not to dance — and I bet you will.

For those unfamiliar, 1500 Or Nothin‘ is a collective of artists, musicians, and producers based in the Los Angeles area who has worked with just about everybody who’s anybody in hip-hop today, from local legends like Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch, Nipsey Hussle, Snoop Dogg, and The Game to pillars of hip-hop like Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Jay-Z, Just Blaze, Rihanna, and Usher.

Mars is one of the core members of the collective alongside Rance, James Fauntleroy, and Brody Brown, and has been performing under the 1500 banner since his high school days. His credits include The Dirty Projectors and T.I., while he has released numerous solo projects, including February’s No Days Off 2, which is where you can find “U Know Wassup.”

Watch MyGuyMars’s UPROXX Sessions performance above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

1500 Or Nothin’s MyGuyMars steps up to the mic with a groovy medley performance of “U Know Wassup/Only You” for UPROXX Sessions. In a departure from many of the one-take performances we’ve hosted, Mars brings a full band, including bass, guitars, and DJ, and plays keys himself as he sings the upbeat West Coast two-stepper “U Know Wassup,” then slows things down for a cover of “Only You” by 112. I dare you not to dance — and I bet you will.

For those unfamiliar, 1500 Or Nothin‘ is a collective of artists, musicians, and producers based in the Los Angeles area who has worked with just about everybody who’s anybody in hip-hop today, from local legends like Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch, Nipsey Hussle, Snoop Dogg, and The Game to pillars of hip-hop like Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Jay-Z, Just Blaze, Rihanna, and Usher.

Mars is one of the core members of the collective alongside Rance, James Fauntleroy, and Brody Brown, and has been performing under the 1500 banner since his high school days. His credits include The Dirty Projectors and T.I., while he has released numerous solo projects, including February’s No Days Off 2, which is where you can find “U Know Wassup.”

Watch MyGuyMars’s UPROXX Sessions performance above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

Last night (June 21), ASAP Rocky delivered a a Spotify Beach performance at the Cannes Lions Festival in Paris on Wednesday night. What he said on stage has fueled a major rumor, that he and Rihanna are secretly married.

ET reports that according to “an eyewitness,” during the rapper’s second set, he dedicated his performance of “DMB” (short for “Dat’s My B*tch”) to RiRi, referring to her as “my beautiful wife in the motherf**king building! I love her.”

Neither Rocky nor Rihanna have ever confirmed that they’re married, but they’ve previously sparked the rumor. At the end of Rocky’s 2022 “DMB” video, he wears grills that say “Marry Me?” Rihanna’s grills, meanwhile, read, “I do.”

Earlier this year, there were reports that Rihanna was planning a beach wedding, potentially to coincide with her February 20, although that rumor was never confirmed. Then, at this year’s Met Gala, the two again fueled marriage rumors when Rihanna wore a wedding dress-like look.

Whatever the case may be, the two appear to have a happy family together: They have kid, RZA, and another on the way. Rihanna also commented on Rocky’s Fathers Day post from last weekend, “The Mayers boys stole my whole heart! Happy Father’s Day nerd.”

Last night (June 21), ASAP Rocky delivered a a Spotify Beach performance at the Cannes Lions Festival in Paris on Wednesday night. What he said on stage has fueled a major rumor, that he and Rihanna are secretly married.

ET reports that according to “an eyewitness,” during the rapper’s second set, he dedicated his performance of “DMB” (short for “Dat’s My B*tch”) to RiRi, referring to her as “my beautiful wife in the motherf**king building! I love her.”

Neither Rocky nor Rihanna have ever confirmed that they’re married, but they’ve previously sparked the rumor. At the end of Rocky’s 2022 “DMB” video, he wears grills that say “Marry Me?” Rihanna’s grills, meanwhile, read, “I do.”

Earlier this year, there were reports that Rihanna was planning a beach wedding, potentially to coincide with her February 20, although that rumor was never confirmed. Then, at this year’s Met Gala, the two again fueled marriage rumors when Rihanna wore a wedding dress-like look.

Whatever the case may be, the two appear to have a happy family together: They have kid, RZA, and another on the way. Rihanna also commented on Rocky’s Fathers Day post from last weekend, “The Mayers boys stole my whole heart! Happy Father’s Day nerd.”

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields is one of the most beloved indie rock records. Released in 1999, the album’s 25th anniversary is next year, and the band wants to celebrate with a string of concerts next spring.

Beginning in March of 2024 in Massachusetts, the tour will also go through New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fransisco, ending in April. The shows will have the original lineup and will take place over two nights in order to fit in the entire tracklist. It’ll be the first time in over two decades that the record has been performed in its entirety.

Over the years, up-and-coming indie acts have paid homage to this LP. In 2018, a full cover album was released by the Pennsylvania label Living Statue Records called You Can Sing Me Anything: A Tribute To 69 Love Songs, and it featured Illuminati Hotties covering “The Way You Say Good-Night.” That same year, the Los Angeles-based trio Hundred Waters shared a rendition of “I Don’t Believe In The Sun.”

Find the full tour dates below.

03/22 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
03/23 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
04/03 — New York, NY
04/04 — New York, NY
04/05 — New York, NY
04/06 — New York, NY
04/19 — Chicago, IL
04/20 — Chicago, IL
04/23 — Los Angeles, CA
04/24 — Los Angeles, CA
04/26 — San Francisco, CA
04/27 — San Francisco, CA

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields is one of the most beloved indie rock records. Released in 1999, the album’s 25th anniversary is next year, and the band wants to celebrate with a string of concerts next spring.

Beginning in March of 2024 in Massachusetts, the tour will also go through New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fransisco, ending in April. The shows will have the original lineup and will take place over two nights in order to fit in the entire tracklist. It’ll be the first time in over two decades that the record has been performed in its entirety.

Over the years, up-and-coming indie acts have paid homage to this LP. In 2018, a full cover album was released by the Pennsylvania label Living Statue Records called You Can Sing Me Anything: A Tribute To 69 Love Songs, and it featured Illuminati Hotties covering “The Way You Say Good-Night.” That same year, the Los Angeles-based trio Hundred Waters shared a rendition of “I Don’t Believe In The Sun.”

Find the full tour dates below.

03/22 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
03/23 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
04/03 — New York, NY
04/04 — New York, NY
04/05 — New York, NY
04/06 — New York, NY
04/19 — Chicago, IL
04/20 — Chicago, IL
04/23 — Los Angeles, CA
04/24 — Los Angeles, CA
04/26 — San Francisco, CA
04/27 — San Francisco, CA

Back in 2020, Tucker Carlson‘s top writer Blake Neff resigned from Fox News after CNN Business uncovered a lengthy history of posting racist, sexist, and offensive comments on an online message board. The thread stretched back to 2018, and Neff was still posting racist remarks just days before he was outed in the report. After his resignation, Fox News sent out an internal memo condemning Neff and his “horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior.”

“Neff’s abhorrent conduct on this forum was never divulged to the show or the network until Friday, at which point we swiftly accepted his resignation,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace wrote via CNN Business. “Make no mistake, actions such as his cannot and will not be tolerated at any time in any part of our work force.”

However, three years later, Neff has resurfaced. According to Media Matters for America, the disgraced Fox News writer now works for right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk:

Neff appeared with Kirk on the first episode of THOUGHTCRIME, a new weekly panel show streamed live exclusively on Kirk’s Rumble channel that’s apparently co-hosted by Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. Kirk introduced Neff as “very high-IQ Blake,” saying, “And we’re really honored to have Blake on our team — he’s great. And the most, let’s just say, awful people in the world tried to destroy Blake’s life and we’re not going to let that happen.”

MMFA reports that Neff spent his time on the episode “repeatedly” using an “anti-trans slur” and parroting Matt Walsh talking points about Fox News promoting “glory holes” because it encouraged employees to take part in Pride events.

So, basically, Neff and his hateful rhetoric couldn’t be more at home.

(Via CNN Business, Media Matters for America)

Back in 2020, Tucker Carlson‘s top writer Blake Neff resigned from Fox News after CNN Business uncovered a lengthy history of posting racist, sexist, and offensive comments on an online message board. The thread stretched back to 2018, and Neff was still posting racist remarks just days before he was outed in the report. After his resignation, Fox News sent out an internal memo condemning Neff and his “horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior.”

“Neff’s abhorrent conduct on this forum was never divulged to the show or the network until Friday, at which point we swiftly accepted his resignation,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace wrote via CNN Business. “Make no mistake, actions such as his cannot and will not be tolerated at any time in any part of our work force.”

However, three years later, Neff has resurfaced. According to Media Matters for America, the disgraced Fox News writer now works for right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk:

Neff appeared with Kirk on the first episode of THOUGHTCRIME, a new weekly panel show streamed live exclusively on Kirk’s Rumble channel that’s apparently co-hosted by Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. Kirk introduced Neff as “very high-IQ Blake,” saying, “And we’re really honored to have Blake on our team — he’s great. And the most, let’s just say, awful people in the world tried to destroy Blake’s life and we’re not going to let that happen.”

MMFA reports that Neff spent his time on the episode “repeatedly” using an “anti-trans slur” and parroting Matt Walsh talking points about Fox News promoting “glory holes” because it encouraged employees to take part in Pride events.

So, basically, Neff and his hateful rhetoric couldn’t be more at home.

(Via CNN Business, Media Matters for America)

An unhinged Donald Trump Jr. has been more off-the-hook than usual lately following his father’s (newest) criminal indictment. Most recently, Australians moved to bar him from the country after he got all twitchy and nose-scratchy while remaining unable to focus during a media appearance. Yep, the eldest boy is not handling the situation gracefully, but that’s only to be expected from he of the “Motel 6” rants and amped-up Fox News appearances.

So, would it be a surprise to learn that Don Jr. has thoughts on the OceanGate submersible and its five missing Titanic tourists? Sadly, it does look like late breaking word of a debris field could lead to inevitable news that the vessel imploded, which probably was in the cards after a previous passenger revealed that broken parts were held together by zip ties. So many safety concerns have emerged in the days following the submersible losing communication with its mother ship, but still, Don Jr. thinks it’s really, like, strange that this horribly constructed modern non-marvel would have failed, killing its passengers.

“Literally everything I’ve seen about this missing submarine is insane and sketchy AF…” Jr. tweeted. “[A]lmost none of it makes any sense whatsoever. How long till we find other external factors making it even more so???”

It’s not at all shocking to figure that Don Jr. would climb aboard the conspiracy theory train here. Heck, the QAnon crowd got all wrapped up in their fake conspiracy about the actual Titanic’s fate. Some of them even argue that the Titanic never sunk at all, and that the world has actually been obsessing about The Olympic ship (and not the Titanic). They’ve even gone so far during TikTok rants to accuse J.P. Morgan of plotting to sabotage the Titanic as part of his grand plans for the federal reserve.

It’s wild that anyone has the spare mental energy to devote to conspiracy theorizing, but here we are in 2023. Also, Don Jr. has been rambling about Hunter Biden’s laptop for years. He would probably love his followers to believe that someone engineered this vessel, which a former passenger called a “suicide mission” waiting to happen, to fail, so people wouldn’t pay attention to Hunter in court. Jr. has been endlessly incensed about Hunter’s so-called “sweetheart deal,” so he must be making incredible leaps in logic here by suggesting (really?) a “sketchy” connection to “external factors.”

And he’s still going, by the way.

However, it is worth noting that at least Don Jr. hasn’t gone the way of another right-winger to drop an equally absurd conspiracy theory — that OceanGate had a “woke CEO,” and thus, that the woke mob must have killed these passengers. Still, give Don Jr. some time. He might climb aboard that conspiracy theory as well. If he inherited the “stable genius” thing, maybe there’s more than enough room in Jr.’s head for both theories.

An unhinged Donald Trump Jr. has been more off-the-hook than usual lately following his father’s (newest) criminal indictment. Most recently, Australians moved to bar him from the country after he got all twitchy and nose-scratchy while remaining unable to focus during a media appearance. Yep, the eldest boy is not handling the situation gracefully, but that’s only to be expected from he of the “Motel 6” rants and amped-up Fox News appearances.

So, would it be a surprise to learn that Don Jr. has thoughts on the OceanGate submersible and its five missing Titanic tourists? Sadly, it does look like late breaking word of a debris field could lead to inevitable news that the vessel imploded, which probably was in the cards after a previous passenger revealed that broken parts were held together by zip ties. So many safety concerns have emerged in the days following the submersible losing communication with its mother ship, but still, Don Jr. thinks it’s really, like, strange that this horribly constructed modern non-marvel would have failed, killing its passengers.

“Literally everything I’ve seen about this missing submarine is insane and sketchy AF…” Jr. tweeted. “[A]lmost none of it makes any sense whatsoever. How long till we find other external factors making it even more so???”

It’s not at all shocking to figure that Don Jr. would climb aboard the conspiracy theory train here. Heck, the QAnon crowd got all wrapped up in their fake conspiracy about the actual Titanic’s fate. Some of them even argue that the Titanic never sunk at all, and that the world has actually been obsessing about The Olympic ship (and not the Titanic). They’ve even gone so far during TikTok rants to accuse J.P. Morgan of plotting to sabotage the Titanic as part of his grand plans for the federal reserve.

It’s wild that anyone has the spare mental energy to devote to conspiracy theorizing, but here we are in 2023. Also, Don Jr. has been rambling about Hunter Biden’s laptop for years. He would probably love his followers to believe that someone engineered this vessel, which a former passenger called a “suicide mission” waiting to happen, to fail, so people wouldn’t pay attention to Hunter in court. Jr. has been endlessly incensed about Hunter’s so-called “sweetheart deal,” so he must be making incredible leaps in logic here by suggesting (really?) a “sketchy” connection to “external factors.”

And he’s still going, by the way.

However, it is worth noting that at least Don Jr. hasn’t gone the way of another right-winger to drop an equally absurd conspiracy theory — that OceanGate had a “woke CEO,” and thus, that the woke mob must have killed these passengers. Still, give Don Jr. some time. He might climb aboard that conspiracy theory as well. If he inherited the “stable genius” thing, maybe there’s more than enough room in Jr.’s head for both theories.