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LeBron James had a big game the other night, when his Los Angeles Lakers bested the Brooklyn Nets 116-104. He wound up with 40 points on 13-of-17 shooting from the field, including nine three-pointers (which ties a career high). Metro Boomin couldn’t help but notice that James’ big night came after the NBA star was spotted rapping along to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on “Like That,” a highlight from Metro and Future’s new album We Don’t Trust You.

That verse, of course, made waves when it first dropped for apparent disses against J. Cole and Drake. Drake caught wind of LeBron’s moment with the song and had a subtle reaction: He liked an Instagram post sharing the video.

This comes after Drake used Instagram to offer up with some took as other reactions to the song. In one post, he wrote, “They rather go to war with me than admit they are their own worst enemy [crying laughing emoji].” He said in another, “I could never sell ya’ll out to sell my latest work. Never do you bad out the blue but I’m down to make it worse.”

So, at this point, unless he’s saving it for a diss track or something, it looks like these subtle shots may be all we get from Drake in terms of a “Like That” response.

It should come as no secret by now that Schoolboy Q loves golf. He’s talked before about how the sport helped him learn about himself as a person and he even partnered with 2K Games for the rollout for PGA Tour 2K21, appearing in the game’s launch trailer and performing at the game’s launch party in Los Angeles.

However, rap fans may not appreciate his love for the game as much when they learn it was one of the main reasons for the five-year gap between his last two albums, 2019’s Crash Talk and the newly released Blue Lips. Appearing on Lil Yachty’s podcast A Safe Space, Q recalled how he got into golf via a bet, but ended up making so much from his secondary career, it basically funded his hiatus from rap. “I don’t kick it in the studio no more,” he said after joking that his “studio budget is silly.”

“I was able to relax for five years,” he said. “I made a lot of money off rap, but golf helped me a lot.”

It should be no secret either that music is… not the most lucrative career. For every multi-millionaire, there are dozens of artists grinding to make ends meet — and for every one of them, there are even more whose dreams never make it past local stages in dive bars [raises hand]. So for Q, having some level of celebrity — and the perseverance to polish his game to serious levels — golf turned out to be a blessing for the South Central rapper because of endorsement deals.

Unfortunately, there was also a dark side: He says he fell back from endorsements and appearances because of racialized disrespect he experienced, such as being asked to wear grills to appear “more Black.”

You can watch the full interview above.

Back in the fall of 2023, Jon Stewart surprisingly walked away from his lucrative Apple TV+ deal and his burgeoning new series The Problem with Jon Stewart. While Stewart would only say that he felt “hamstrung” by Apple, the two parties reportedly battled over the comedian’s plans to tackle AI. Stewart is not having that same problem after making his triumphant return to The Daily Show.

During Monday night’s episode, Stewart devoted his opening segment to roasting the tech industries’ massive investment in artificial intelligence and/or machine learning. The comedian paid particular attention to the way some tech CEOs danced around the topic of how AI will displace jobs because, as Stewart noted, the unspoken promise that AI will increase productivity without having a “people tax” as one tech CEO said. Stewart accurately joked that he’s talking about employees.

Later in the show, Stewart welcomed FTC chairperson Lina Khan and made an announcement. “I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” Stewart informed Khan. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

Stewart also revealed that Apple was against most of the material in the opening segment. Via Endgadget:

“They wouldn’t let us do even that dumb thing we just did in the first act on AI,” he told Khan. “Like, what is that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere?”

“I think it just shows the danger of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision making in a small number of companies,” Khan replied.

Below is a segment like the one AI that Apple allegedly didn’t want Stewart to run:

And here’s his full interview with FTC chair Lina Khan:

(Via Endgadget)

Pat Sajak previously announced his intention to retire as Wheel of Fortune host. Granted, this will not happen until the end of the current (forty-first) season when he will be replaced by self-professed “terrible speller” Ryan Seacrest. Yet on April 1, the most unholy day of the year, the show took a trial run on proceeding without Sajak, or at least, they pretended to do so. A most random “surprise host” joined the show, and yes, “random” is the key word here.

On Monday night, out popped Jared Leto in a suit with his rock-star hair like it was no big thing. Yes, Pat did swiftly return to the scene, so that we were spared actual Morbius-themed hosting duties, but even though Vanna White and the evening’s contestants played along for a few moments, this was enough to make the world know what it will be like to miss Pat Sajak.

For his part, Leto seemed perfectly game to don the customary game-show host attire and didn’t show a trace of nerves — perhaps he was fresh out of another transformative silent meditation retreat — but we didn’t see him strut that stuff for too long. Once relieved of his temporary hosting duties, Leto took to his Instagram story to toss out a joking emoji and ask, “How’d I do?”

As far as April Fool’s Day jokes go, this certainly wasn’t the worst that the world has ever seen. Still, it was no match for what Michael Che did to Colin Jost in 2023. Man, that was brutal.

Last night (April 1), Taylor Swift appeared via video message to accept her award for Artist Of The Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. And it wouldn’t be a Swift speech without fans dissecting it for clues. Given she is just a few weeks away from dropping her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, she decided to hint that she has a lot of plans for it in the works.

“We have so many exciting things ahead of us,” Swift said after thanking fans for voting for her to win. “I’m continuing on with the tour and, most importantly, I have a brand new album called The Tortured Poets Department, which comes out on April 19. I cannot wait to share it with you.”

“So, thank you for voting for me for this incredible honor: Artist Of The Year,” she added. “I am so blown away and so thankful and I just can’t wait to keep having fun with you guys because we have a lot of exciting things coming up. Thank you so much.”

Although Swift has allowed fans to pre-order physical and digital copies of the upcoming record, not much else is known about it outside of the tracklist — as a lead single has yet to be released. Here’s hoping Swifties get to hear what it sounds like soon.

Check out Swift’s full acceptance speech above.

The Tortured Poets Department is out 4/19 via Republic. Find more information here.

Maybe banning TikTok isn’t a bad idea after all. Last month, Jahelis Castillo, who goes by @Jahelis on TikTok where she has over 100,000 followers, posted a video where she wondered why SNL has never hired a “hot woman.”

She clarified (a.k.a. further dug her own hot take grave) that she’s “not saying that every single woman on SNL is ugly, it’s just that none of them have ever been, like, hot. They all just kind of have looks that eventually grow on you.”

According to Newsweek, Castillo’s theory is that for a woman “to be considered funny, you have to be more funny than you are hot. And if you’re more hot than you are funny, then it boils down to you just not being funny at all.” Also, she called Jimmy Fallon “a conventionally super hot guy,” compared to Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg, Bowen Yang, who are “relatively hot.” Toonces the Driving Cat and Adam Driver’s dead bird were not ranked by their hotness.

Current very funny SNL cast member Sarah Sherman responded to the TikTok on X. “just found out i’m not hot. please give me and my family space to grieve privately and uglily at this time,” she wrote.

Here’s how others responded:

Conan writer Laurie Kilmartin astutely pointed out that “you don’t have to rebut this by listing SNL women that you think are hot,” but also, literally Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

(Via Newsweek)

Donald Trump had a very normal Easter. Well, normal for him, a guy who loves to post in all-caps on his rapidly crumbling social media ghost town. “HAPPY EASTER TO ALL,” the former president (and “rich asshole”) wrote on Truth Social, “INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION…”

Trump goes 165 words without a period, so I’m going to stop there.

This was only one of 70 times that Trump posted on Easter, as host Seth Meyers noted during Monday’s episode of Late Night. “What’s in the baskets at the Trump family Easter egg hunt, Cadbury meth eggs?” he joked.

After reading the entirety of the post above, Meyers called it “the most deranged thing Trump has ever posted online, which is saying something because he once misspelled his own name. Just put yourself in a place where a friend or loved one sent you a text like this. Would you immediately alert your entire family and urge them to seek help? Or would you write back and say, ‘You’ve got my vote in November!’?”

You can watch the Late Night clip above.

The 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards went down last night, April 1. Ludacris hosted the show live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, and Taylor Swift had the most total nominations with nine. Jelly Roll, SZA, and 21 Savage also had eight nods apiece and Olivia Rodrigo had seven of her own.

As for who won what, check out the full list of nominees and winners (via iHeart) below.

Innovator Award

Beyoncé

Icon Award

Cher

Landmark Award

Green Day

Song of the Year

“Calm Down” — Rema and Selena Gomez
“Creepin’” — Metro Boomin with The Weeknd and 21 Savage
“Cruel Summer” — Taylor Swift
“Dance The Night” — Dua Lipa
“Fast Car” — Luke Combs
“Flowers”- Miley Cyrus
“Kill Bill” — SZA — WINNER
“Last Night”- Morgan Wallen
“Paint The Town Red” — Doja Cat
“vampire” — Olivia Rodrigo

Artist of the Year

Drake
Jelly Roll
Luke Combs
Miley Cyrus
Morgan Wallen
Olivia Rodrigo
Shakira
SZA
Taylor Swift — WINNER
Usher

Duo/Group of the Year

(G)I-DLE
Blink-182
Dan + Shay
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Jonas Brothers
Måneskin
OneRepublic — WINNER
Paramore
Parmalee

Best Collaboration

“All My Life” — Lil Durk ft. J. Cole
“Barbie World (with Aqua)” Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice
“Boy’s a liar Pt.2” — PinkPantheress and Ice Spice
“Calm Down”- Rema & Selena Gomez — WINNER
“Creepin’” — Metro Boomin with The Weeknd and 21 Savage
“Good Good” – Usher, Summer Walker and 21 Savage
“Rich Flex” — Drake and 21 Savage
“Thank God” — Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown
“Tomorrow 2” – GloRilla with Cardi B
“TQG” — Karol G and Shakira

Best New Artist (Pop)

David Kushner
Doechii
Jelly Roll — WINNER
Rema
Stephen Sanchez

Pop Song of the Year #

“Calm Down” — Rema and Selena Gomez
“Cruel Summer” — Taylor Swift
“Flowers”- Miley Cyrus — WINNER
“Kill Bill” — SZA
“vampire” — Olivia Rodrigo

Pop Artist of the Year #

Doja Cat
Miley Cyrus
Olivia Rodrigo
SZA
Taylor Swift — WINNER

Pop Album of the Year

GUTS — Olivia Rodrigo — WINNER

Country Song of the Year

“Fast Car” — Luke Combs
“Heart Like A Truck” — Lainey Wilson — WINNER
“Last Night” — Morgan Wallen
“Rock and A Hard Place” — Bailey Zimmerman
“Thank God” — Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown

Country Album of the Year

One Thing At A Time — Morgan Wallen — WINNER

Country Artist of the Year

Jason Aldean
Jelly Roll
Lainey Wilson
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen — WINNER

Best New Artist (Country)

Corey Kent
Jackson Dean
Jelly Roll — WINNER
Megan Moroney
Nate Smith

Hip-Hop Song of the Year

“All My Life”- Lil Durk ft. J. Cole — WINNER
“fukumean”- Gunna
“Just Wanna Rock” — Lil Uzi Vert
“Rich Flex” — Drake and 21 Savage
“Tomorrow 2”- GloRilla with Cardi B

Hip-Hop Album of the Year

Heroes & Villains — Metro Boomin — WINNER

Hip-Hop Artist of the Year

21 Savage
Drake — WINNER
Future
Gunna
Lil Durk

Best New Artist (Hip-Hop)

Doechii
Ice Spice — WINNER
Lola Brooke
Sexyy Red
Young Nudy

R&B Song of the Year

“Creepin’”- Metro Boomin with The Weeknd and 21 Savage
“CUFF IT”- Beyoncé
“Good Good” – Usher, Summer Walker and 21 Savage
“On My Mama” — Victoria Monét
“Snooze”- SZA — WINNER

R&B Album of the Year

SOS — SZA — WINNER

R&B Artist of the Year

Beyoncé
Brent Faiyaz
Chris Brown
SZA — WINNER
Usher

Best New Artist (R&B)

Coco Jones
Fridayy
Kenya Vaun
October London
Victoria Monét — WINNER

Best African Music Artist

Burna Boy — WINNER
Rema
Tems
Tyla
Wizkid

Alternative Song of the Year

“Lost” — Linkin Park
“Love From The Other Side” — Fall Out Boy
“One More Time”- Blink-182 — WINNER
“Rescued”- Foo Fighters
“This Is Why”- Paramore

Alternative Album of the Year

The Record — boygenius — WINNER

Alternative Artist of the Year

Blink-182
Fall Out Boy — WINNER
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Paramore

Best New Artist (Alt and Rock)

Bad Omens
HARDY
Jelly Roll
Lovejoy
Noah Kahan — WINNER

Rock Song of the Year

“72 Seasons” — Metallica
“Dead Don’t Die”- Shinedown
“Lost” — Linkin Park — WINNER
“Need A Favor” — Jelly Roll
“Rescued” — Foo Fighters

Rock Album of the Year

72 Seasons — Metallica — WINNER

Rock Artist of the Year

Disturbed
Foo Fighters — WINNER
Jelly Roll
Metallica
Shinedown

Dance Song of the Year

“10:35”- Tiësto ft. Tate McRae
“Baby Don’t Hurt Me” — David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray
“Padam Padam” — Kylie Minogue
“Praising You” — Rita Ora ft. Fatboy Slim
“Strangers” — Kenya Grace — WINNER

Dance Artist of the Year

Anabel Englund
David Guetta
Illenium
Kylie Minogue
Tiësto — WINNER

Latin Pop / Urban Song of the Year

“La Bachata” — Manuel Turizo
“La Bebe (remix)” — Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma
“Lala”- Myke Towers
“Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”- Shakira and Bizarrap — WINNER
“TQG”- Karol G and Shakira

Latin Pop / Urban Album of the Year

MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO — Karol G — WINNER

Latin Pop / Urban Artist of the Year

Bad Bunny
Feid
Karol G — WINNER
Manuel Turizo
Shakira

Best New Artist (Latin Pop / Urban)

Bad Gyal
GALE
Mora
Yng Lvcas
Young Miko — WINNER

Regional Mexican Song of the Year

“Bebe Dame”- Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera
“Ella Baila Sola” — Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma — WINNER
“Indispensable” — Carin León
“Qué Onda Perdida” — Grupo Firme ft. Gerardo Coronel
“Qué Vuelvas”- Carin León and Grupo Frontera

Regional Mexican Album of the Year

Genesis — Peso Pluma — WINNER

Regional Mexican Artist of the Year

Calibre 50
Carin León
El Fantasma
Grupo Frontera
Peso Pluma — WINNER

Best New Artist (Regional Mexican)

Gabito Ballesteros
Gerardo Coronel
Grupo Frontera
Junior H
Peso Pluma — WINNER

K-pop Artist of the Year #

(G)I-DLE
Jung Kook — WINNER
NCT Dream
Seventeen
Stray Kids

K-pop Song of the Year #

“Bouncy (K-Hot Chilli Peppers)” — ATEEZ
“Cupid (Twin Version)”- FIFTY FIFTY — WINNER
“S-Class” — Stray Kids
“Seven” Jung Kook ft. Latto
“Super Shy” — NewJeans

K-pop Album of the Year

5 Star — Stray Kids — WINNER

Best New Artist (K-pop) #

BOYNEXTDOOR
NewJeans — WINNER
RIIZE
xikers
ZEROBASEONE

Producer of the Year

Kid Harpoon
Dan Nigro
Rob Bisel
Carter Lang
Jack Antonoff — WINNER
Metro Boomin

Songwriter of the Year

Jack Antonoff
Ashley Gorley — WINNER
Aldae
Michael Ross Pollack
J Kash

Best Lyrics *

“Dial Drunk”- Noah Kahan
“Flowers”- Miley Cyrus
“Greedy”- Tate McRae
“Houdini”- Dua Lipa
“Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)”- Taylor Swift — WINNER
“Last Night”- Morgan Wallen
“Lovin On Me”- Jack Harlow
“Nonsense”- Sabrina Carpenter
“Paint The Town Red”- Doja Cat
“vampire”- Olivia Rodrigo
“Water”- Tyla
“What Was I Made For?”- Billie Eilish

Best Music Video *

“3D”- Jung Kook ft. Jack Harlow
“Dance The Night”- Dua Lipa
“FLOWER”- JISOO
“Flowers”- Miley Cyrus
“I’m Good (Blue)” — Bebe Rexha and David Guetta
“Kill Bill”- SZA
“La Bebe (Remix)”- Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma
“Paint The Town Red”- Doja Cat
“Seven”- Jung Kook ft. Latto — WINNER
“TQG”- Karol G and Shakira
“vampire”- Olivia Rodrigo
“What Was I Made For?”- Billie Eilish

Best Fan Army *

Agnation
ATINY
Barbz
Beyhive
BTS Army — WINNER
Harries
Livies
Louies
Niallers
Rushers
Selenators
Swifties

Social Star Award *

Alex Warren
David Kushner
Flyana Boss
Gracie Abrams — WINNER
Jessie Murph
Megan Moroney
Natalie Jane
Noah Kahan

Favorite Tour Photographer *

Alfredo Flores — Sabrina Carpenter
Anna Lee — Coldplay
Carianne Older — Charlie Puth
Catherine Powell — Kelsea Ballerini
Cynthia Parkhurst — Jonas Brothers
David Lehr — Morgan Wallen
Joshua Halling — Louis Tomlinson — WINNER
Mason Poole — Beyoncé
Matty Vogel — Misterwives
Ravie B — Adele
Ryan Fleming – 5 Seconds of Summer
Sanjay Parikh — Shinedown

Favorite On Screen # *

“j-hope IN THE BOX” — WINNER
“Love To Love You, Donna Summer”
Louis Tomlinson “All of Those Voices”
“Prince: The Final Secret”
“Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé”
“Save Me” Jelly Roll
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”
“TLC Forever”

TikTok Bop of the Year *

“Boy’s a liar Pt. 2”- PinkPantheress and Ice Spice
“Collide (Sped Up Remix)”- Justine Skye
“Cruel Summer”- Taylor Swift — WINNER
“Cupid (Twin Version)”- FIFTY FIFTY
“Daylight”- David Kushner
“Her Way (Sped Up)”- Party Next Door
“If We Ever Broke Up”- Mae Stephens
“Paint The Town Red”- Doja Cat
“Water”- Tyla
“What It Is (Solo Version)”- Doechii
“What Was I Made For?”- Billie Eilish

Favorite Tour Style *

Beyoncé
Carrie Underwood
Doja Cat
Elton John
Harry Styles
Jonas Brothers
Madonna
Måneskin
Sabrina Carpenter
Shania Twain
SZA
Taylor Swift — WINNER

Favorite Debut Album # *

GOLDEN — Jung Kook
In Pieces — Chlöe
Layover — V — WINNER
Lucky- Megan Moroney
Mirror — Lauren Spencer Smith
My 21st Century Blues — Raye
Religiously — Bailey Zimmerman
Snow Angel — Reneé Rapp
Tyler Hubbard — Tyler Hubbard

* socially voted category
# new for 2024

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Beyoncé got music icons contemporary and classic to help her out with her new album Cowboy Carter, collaborating with everybody from Dolly Parton to Miley Cyrus to Willie Nelson to Post Malone. It turns out the roster of collaborators goes deeper than the features: The full album credits were revealed previously and Stevie Wonder is credited with playing harmonica on the cover of Parton’s “Jolene.”

Beyoncé referenced this while accepting the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Tuesday (April 1). Wonder presented it, and Beyoncé said, “Thank you so much, Stevie, I love you. I love you and I honor you. I want to thank you for making a way for all of us. I’m honored to receive this recognition from you, Stevie Wonder. Whenever anyone asks me if there’s anyone I can listen to for the rest of my life, it’s always you. So thank you, God bless you.”

Wonder responded, “I just want to thank you for motivating the world to become a better place.” Bey replied, “Thank you so much. And thank you for playing the harmonica on ‘Jolene.’”

Looking over the full album credits (again, find those here) reveals some other under-the-radar contributors to the album: Jay-Z, Raye, The-Dream, Pharrell Williams, and 070 Shake all have songwriting credits.

Latto might be one of the biggest names from her native Atlanta (although she’ll be the first to get really specific and clarify she’s from Clayton County), but she stands on the shoulders of giants. During her performance at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (hosted by another Atlanta native, Ludacris), Latto acknowledged one of her late forebears with a rendition of Left Eye’s classic verse from TLC’s “Waterfalls” alongside TBoz and Chili. Her performance left fans on Twitter gushing in appreciation — although, of course, a certain fanbase looked less than enthused. However, even the Barbz couldn’t put a damper on the wave of love from the performance, which one accounted noted is a full-circle moment for Latto and TLC.

Meanwhile, with both Latto and Ice Spice in attendance — and no news of an outright fight, as of press time — fans are waiting with bated breath to see if the two rappers set their differences aside to celebrate their mutual successes or… well…

Meanwhile, Latto’s got another big performance coming up: This Saturday is the NCAA’s Super Saturday event in Cleveland ahead of the Women’s National Championship Game. She’s racking up accomplishments left and right, and with so many co-signs from legends in addition to her own penchant for supporting up-and-coming artists, they are all well-deserved.