Last week, Diddy’s homes were raided by the Department of Homeland Security in a reported sex trafficking investigation stemming from a series of lawsuits against the rapper. As Diddy’s legal troubles mount, his A-list friends are now being placed under the microscope. Ashton Kutcher is reportedly expected to be subpoenaed in the investigation, which has unearthed some comments he’s made over the years about his well-documented friendship with Diddy.
During a 2019 appearance on Hot Ones, host Sean Evans asked Kutcher for some details about “Diddy parties,” which had become a favorite topic on the web series. (The question was also spurred by an Instagram photo of Kutcher partying with Diddy.) While Kutcher’s answer seemed innocuous at the time, it reads differently in light of the allegations against Diddy.
“I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” Kutcher told Evans while pausing to think of another anecdote, only to quip, “I can’t tell that one either.”
According to The Daily Beast, the two have been close since their early days on MTV:
Combs’ Making the Band was another huge property at MTV at the time and helped foster their friendship, Kutcher and Combs told James Corden in a 2018 joint interview.
“I gave [Kutcher] a call one day and said, ‘I heard that you are going to punk me, and I just don’t think that’s a good idea,’” Combs told Corden, when the host asked how the two met.
“I think it was some version of, ‘If you do that, that will not end well for you, but I think we should work out a deal,’” Kutcher amended.
Kutcher being pulled into the Diddy scandal is also raising eyebrows after his best friend and That ’70s Show co-star Danny Masterson was convicted of rape. Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis wrote letters to the judge asking for leniency that they did not expect to go public. Once the letters were published, Kutcher resigned from the board of the anti-child sex abuse organization he founded with ex-wife Demi Moore.
You can see Kutcher talking (about how he can’t talk) about Diddy parties at the 11:03 mark below:
It has been four years since the release of PartyNextDoor’s last album, Partymobile. Since then, he’s been teasing the long-awaited follow-up, PartyNextDoor 4, releasing sporadic singles like “Her Old Friends” and blaming any delays on getting sidetracked by … I don’t know if “love” is the right word, but certainly his tendency to get caught up in relationships that don’t work out.
But, the album is nearly here at last, along with a slew of planned headlining performances at festivals like Broccoli City and Afro Nation. Party fans have plenty to look forward to this summer. Meanwhile…
Here’s everything to know about PartyNextDoor 4.
Release Date
PartyNextDoor 4 is out 4/26 via OVO Sound / Warner Records. Get it here.
Tracklist
The tracklist for P4 has not been released yet. Stay tuned.
Vampire Weekend is just a few days away from returning with their new album titled Only God Was Above Us. The title pulled inspiration from a Steven Siegel photo from 1988 taken of the New Jersey subway. The band has also dropped a few songs since the initial February announcement, building anticipation from fans to hear their first new album since 2019.
Here’s everything to know before it drops.
Release Date
Only God Was Above Us is out 4/5 via Columbia. Find more information here.
04/08 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
04/27 — New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05/10 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/30 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
06/06 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
06/07 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
06/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
06/10 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
06/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
06/15 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre
06/16 — Berkeley, CA @ William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre
06/18 — Burnaby, British Columbia @ Deer Lake Park
06/19 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater
06/20 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
06/22 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
06/23 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
07/19 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/22 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
07/23 — Lincoln, NE @ Pinewood Bowl Theater
07/25 — Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park
07/26 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
07/27 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
07/30 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
08/01 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Pavilion
08/03 — St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland Music Festival
09/19 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
09/20 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Icon Festival Stage at Smale Park
09/21 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
09/23 — Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
09/24 — Toronto, Ontario @ Budweiser Stage
09/25 — Laval, Quebec @ Place Bell
09/27 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
09/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann
09/30 — Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
10/02 — Charlottesville, VA @ Ting Pavilion
10/05 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/06 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/08 — Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion
10/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
10/11 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
10/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
10/13 — Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit
10/15 — St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre
10/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
Remember your good pal Godzilla? Even after all this time, he’s still here for you. He’s 398 feet of pure friendship, love, and cute little naps, and he has a new movie out! Sure, he might arrest you, but you guys go way back, so it’s fine.
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is the latest movie in the Monsterverse, and it brings together your two favorite big guys: ‘Zilla and Kong as they team up to fight even bigger guys. As the trailer states, “They don’t have to like each other. They just have to work together,” making Godzilla X Kong the next great workplace comedy everyone has been waiting for.
The film hit theaters last week, and critics are calling it “an absolute slobberknocker” so take that however you see fit. The cast includes Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Kaylee Hottle reprising their roles from the previous installment, in addition to Dan Stevens, Alex Ferns, and Fala Chen. Here is the official synopsis:
This latest entry follows up the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong with an all-new cinematic adventure, pitting the mighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own. The epic new film will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.
The movie is expected to hit Max after its initial theatrical window, which is normally at least 45 days. Depending on how well the monster flick does at the box office, it could be longer, but odds are good we will see the two buddies streaming by the end of May. Just in time for your Memorial Day BBQ! Zilly can light that grill up for ya. You’re welcome.
This week saw the release of a ton of great new pop music. Beyoncé put on her cowboy hat and recruited a ton of A-List legends for her new album — proving exactly why she’s a Texas girl at heart. J-Hope of BTS released some new solo material while the band is on a hiatus, giving fans something to listen to alongside his recently released documentary.
Check out the rest of Uproxx’s Best New Pop Music roundup below.
Beyoncé — “Protector” Feat. Rumi Carter
Beyoncé has taken over the world again, as her anticipated full-foray into country music with Cowboy Carter dropped. Spanning 27 songs and shining with features from Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, it’s hard to pick just a single favorite — given it varies with each listen. For this week, “Protector” seems like an underrated but moving pick. The gentle track is a dedication from Beyoncé to her children, emphasizing the hopes she has for them and the advice she wishes to give. Her daughter, Rumi Carter, also makes an appearance on it, giving it an added layer in terms of an emotional tie. “Mom, can I hear the lullaby please?” Rumi asks at the beginning before Bey launches into the song.
J-Hope — “Lock/Unlock” Feat. Benny Blanco
J-Hope of BTS dropped a new documentary on Prime Video and gave fans an album, Hope On The Street: Vol. 1, to go along with it. One of the highlights from his latest solo project is “Lock/Unlock,” which features Benny Blanco. The track builds up the energy with a rising danceable instrumental, as J-Hope seemingly sings about a rollercoaster of a relationship, changing with each line of the chorus.
D4vd — “Feel It”
D4vd has continued to be on a roll when it comes to incredible songs this year. His latest track “Feel It” was created for the animated TV series Invincible — so he taps into the energy of feeling unstoppable from a loving relationship. There’s also speculation that fans can expect a new album from him later this year with his Genius page seemingly hinting at it.
Isabel LaRosa — “Favorite”
Isabel LaRosa turns up the tension on her bilingual “Favorite” as she details a hotter side of her love life. “I swear you’re heaven, but boy, you’re no angel / You take me places only we go / You’re so pretty, God, I swear that it’s painful,” she points out.
Blu DeTiger, Magdalena Bay — “Disappearing”
“Disappearing” finds bassist queen Blu DeTiger joining forces with the pop duo Magdalena Bay — as they also co-produced it. A bubbly jam just in time for summer, the song is set to be included on DeTiger’s forthcoming debut album, All I Want Is Everything.
1999 Write The Future — “Pump It Up” Feat. Rich Brian and TiaCorine
1999 Write The Future dropped a debut album in February, but it’s clear they have no plans to slow down in 2024. Their latest track “Pump It Up” features Rich Brian and TiaCorine, providing an instant mood boost. Just as the title suggests, it is a dancefloor hit with an instrumental that just radiates positive energy.
Blusher — “Accelerator”
Blusher is a rising Australian pop group not to miss. Back in January, Uproxx spotlighted the band’s “Rave Angel” as a Best New Pop highlight. Since then, the trio have been hard at work, being listed among a list on Rolling Stone and now releasing their latest single “Accelerator.” The band goes full throttle for the party anthem, describing it as something straight out of a “big-budget action movie.”
Leigh-Anne — “Stealin’ Love”
Leigh-Anne, who some fans might know from Little Mix, dropped her solo track “Stealin’ Love” this past week. When describing the intention behind the vulnerable lyrics, she said that it “speaks to those times when you feel like you are pouring so much love into someone and not getting what you need back. I think it’s incredibly powerful to be open and honest about these moments.”
Sophie Cates — “Moments”
Sophie Cates dropped her new album Supernova, a treat for fans who have been keeping up with her since the Silver Sphere era. “Moments” opens the record, as Cates details the quiet and romantic moments that she clings to. However, by the second verse, she also opens up about her struggles in relationships — putting her full heart on display in the process.
Maude Latour — “Too Slow”
Maude Latour had been previewing “Too Slow” for a few weeks on TikTok before its release, giving it just the right amount of time for the song to get stuck in fans’ heads. As she shared on the platform, she was inspired to write a song as a joke in an hour after feeling burnt out. However, it wound up being a lighthearted encapsulation of pregaming before heading to a party — and has become another viral sensation. After catching Latour perform at a college showcase before the pandemic, it’s been truly exciting to see others discover how talented she is.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Louisville crooner Bryson Tiller might be plotting on a low-key career change but first, he’s planning on releasing his first album in four years, Bryson Tiller. After 2020’s Anniversary, the “Don’t” singer took a long break, explaining that it took him a while to get back to himself, hence the self-tilted album for his long-awaited comeback.
As he put it in a recent interview, “I just feel like it wasn’t time to try to get people to believe in some new concept or some new world that I’m trying to create for people. I feel now is the time to just show people what I’m capable of.”
Here’s everything to know about Bryson Tiller’s self-titled album.
Release Date
Bryson Tiller is out 4/5 via RCA Records. Find out more information here.
01. “http://”
02. “Attention”
03. “Stay Gold”
04. “Persuasion” Feat. Victoria Monét
05. “Ciao!”
06. “Peace Interlude”
07. “Rich Boy”
08. “Random Access Memory” Feat. Clara La San
09. “No Thank You”
10. “Find My Way”
11. “Prize”
12. “Waterfalls”
13. “ÆON L U S T”
14. “Calypso”
15. “Outside”
16. “Undertow”
17. “F4U”
18. “Assume The Position”
19. “Whatever She Wants” [Bonus]
Singles
Bryson Tiller has released two singles: “Outside” and “Calypso.”
Features
The features include Manchester, England singer Clara La San, who, like Tiller himself, first rose to prominence a decade ago with a unique blend of bedroom pop and R&B. She released her first and only album, Good Mourning, in 2017. Victoria Monét is also featured on “Persuasion.”
Artwork
Bryson Tiller
Tour
You can view the dates for the The Bryson Tiller Tour below.
05/11 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds
05/12 — Vancouver, BC @ UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
05/14 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
05/15 — Wheatland, CA @ Hard Rock Live Sacramento
05/16 — San Diego, CA @ Gallagher Square at Petco Park
05/17 — Inglewood, CA @ YouTube Theater
05/20 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
05/22 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
05/24 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
05/26 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
05/28 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell
05/30 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
06/01 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
06/03 — New York, NY @ The Theater at MSG
06/06 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
06/07 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at the Mann
06/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
06/11 — Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
06/12 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
06/15 — Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live
06/16 — Tampa, FL @ Yuengling Center
06/18 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
06/19 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
06/22 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
06/23 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
06/25 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
06/26 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
06/28 — Minneapolis, MN @ Armory
07/05 — Milwaukee, WI @ Milwaukee Summerfest
07/11 — Calgary, AB @ Calgary Stampede
09/21 — Puyallup, WA @ Washington State Fair
Euphoria star Hunter Schafer confirmed that she had a past relationship with Rosalía, during a new interview for the cover of GQ. Schafer started off by discussing her documented time dating another musician Dominic Fike.
“I had dated other famous people before, but people didn’t know about it,” Schafer added. “It was completely different.”
This led the interviewer to ask specifically who, to which she responded, “People who care enough and have done their research probably know what’s up.” Initially, Schafer doesn’t go into too much detail because she wasn’t sure if Rosalía was going to be comfortable with her sharing. The two had previously been spotted earlier this year going out to grab smoothies together.
However, the next day, she did get permission and decides to share more about the relationship they had. The two had specifically dated for five months during the fall of 2019 — and they still have a close bond, despite the fact that it didn’t work out.
“I have really beautiful friendships with people that I was once romantically involved with,” she shared. “She’s family no matter what.”
“It’s been so much speculation for so long,” Schafer continued. “Part of us just wants to get it over with, and then another part is like, ‘It’s none of anybody’s f*cking business!’ It’s something I’m happy to share. And I think she feels that way too.”
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 podcastA 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.”
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“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.”
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:
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