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When Drake crowned himself a “certified lover boy,” it wasn’t a reach. The “One Dance” rapper has been romantically linked to dozens of women across the industry. From Rihanna to SZA, Drake’s Canadian charm seems to pull in entertainment’s biggest names. Although he’s currently traveling the world with J. Cole for the It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What? Drake isn’t going to let his love life take a backseat.

According to fanfare online, Drake might’ve found his next romantic muse in Uproxx cover star Latto’s sister. Continue below for more information.

Is Drake Dating Latto’s Sister Brooklyn Nikole?

Yesterday (March 8), footage began to circulate online of Drake making a grand exit from a quiet dinner. Usually, the footage would not cause a huge stir. However, upon closer examination, fans pointed out that one of the guests exiting the restaurant with Drake was, in fact, Latto’s younger sister, Brooklyn Nikole. Although the clip doesn’t show the two showing any public displays of affection, users believe the two are, in fact, dating.

Fans’ first piece of supporting evidence is none other than Drake’s latest verse on OVO Records’ latest signee 4Batz’s song “Act II: Date @ 8 (Remix).” In the track, Drake raps, “How you get all of that body and face, though?/What kinda water they servin’ in ClayCo,” which listeners claim refers to Brooklyn Nikole’s stomping grounds.

The pair also follow each other on Instagram, and fans pointed out Drake often hearts Brooklyn’s uploads.

Users online had a mixed response to the claims, calling out the age difference between the two.

“Brooklyn is only 22 years old, and Drake is 37. When will he date someone his age???? I don’t see why he talks about marriage, but he keeps going after young girls,” wrote one user.

While others stick to the previously denied rumors that Latto and 21 Savage are a secret couple, therefore, her sister dating Drake is the perfect fit.

The public initially thought Drake started to date Camila Cabello after the pair were spotted on vacation. However, Cabello offered a work-related explanation for those images. But what about Drake’s last rumored girlfriend, Lilah Pi? Reports say the two called it quits late last year.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Bad Bunny has had enough of his naughty fans. As the “Baticano” rapper travels the globe for his Most Wanted Tour, he’s pulling out all his showman tricks (including taking to the stage on horseback). However, nothing stays a secret long, with concertgoers armed with smartphones ready to capture every moment.

While he’s okay with shared aspects of his concerts, such as the setlist, Bad Bunny wants everything else under wraps for ticketholders to enjoy. According to TMZ, Bad Bunny is willing to ride his beliefs all the way to the courthouse. On March 8, the outlet revealed that Bad Bunny has reportedly sued one fan for posting footage of his Most Wanted Tour on YouTube.

In the documents, defendant Eric Guillermo Madronal Garrone is accused of sharing entire song performance clips on his channel, MADforliveMUSIC (which has over 30,000+ subscribers). Bad Bunny’s legal team alleges that after Garrone attended the show on February 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah, several full-length videos were posted onto the channel, which, in their eyes, could discourage viewers from purchasing tickets to the show.

Referring to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Bad Bunny’s team contacted YouTube to have the videos takedown using their standard strike-down system, where users alert the platform of copyright infringement. Bad Bunny’s team alleges Garrone filed a counterclaim, stating his right to the footage as the capturer. Although that could be right, ultimately, the intellectual property rights remain with the artist in these cases. This is often disclosed in the fine print on many ticketing system servers.

However, Garrone’s counterclaims were allegedly successful as the video reappeared on his account. As of today (March 9), only one clip can publicly be viewed. Sources say the videos reappearing on the channel after the DMCA claims were the catalyst for the lawsuit.

Eric Guillermo Madronal Garrone has not issued a public statement regarding the matter.

Asking someone how much money they make is taboo, at least in American culture. Unless someone’s salary is posted publicly, most of us don’t even know how much our own coworkers or bosses make, much less complete strangers.

Google isn’t a whole lot of help on this front, as compensation in specific jobs can vary wildly depending on the market, someone’s education level, years of experience and other factors. So if we’re curious about how much someone around us makes in their job, we’re often just left to wonder and guess. We’re not going to ask out of common courtesy, and most people aren’t likely to volunteer the information unprompted because that’s also seen as uncouth.

None of that awkwardness around money questions has stopped Hannah Williams, creator of Salary Transparent Street, though. The company’s popular social media videos have garnered millions of views and likes with a simple premise: asking people on the street what they do for a living and how much they make.

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And interestingly enough, people seem perfectly happy to share.

Some jobs, such as software engineer, have expectedly high wages, though even those varied quite a bit (which could be based on location, but apparently not based on experience, according to this video):

@salarytransparentstreet

How much do Software Engineers make? #salarytransparentstreet compilation! #salarytransparency #paytransparency #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineer #softwareengineering

But other high paying jobs may not be as well known. For instance, a certified anesthesiology assistant shared that she makes over $200,000 a year.

Williams interviewed people in trades jobs, and that was quite eye-opening. (Did you know tattoo artists and hairdressers can make well over six figures? Perhaps they are outliers, but even if they are, holy moly.)

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Again, these are specific people’s situations, and people in the same job can make a wide range of wages, but one thing Salary Transparent Street does is help people know what’s possible with real-life examples.

How about something like a teacher? There’s a wide range there, too. But considering the above, it’s mostly not amazing. Watch:

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One year ago! How much do #Teachers make? #salarycompilation #salarytransparentstreet #salarytransparency #paytransparency #teacherpay #onthisday

Salary Transparent Street has grown beyond just on-the-street interviews to include career path assistance, a salary negotiation guide, salary database and more, which you can find on their website.

If you want to see a whole lot more salary interviews with travel nurses, data analysts, UPS driver and more, check out Salary Transparent Street on TikTok and Instagram.

Jinky, the Springer Spaniel, has his own social media page, where his doggie parents document his beautiful life in Yorkshire, England. As the photos suggest, he loves playing in the mud. Springers are active, love the great outdoors, and are known for having a lot of energy.

Recently, Jinky’s mom took him on a walk during a loose-leash training session when he took an unexpected turn that revealed where his doggie daddy had secretly been taking him. Loose-leash training is a method trainers use to teach dogs to walk on a leash with some slack without pulling or going after other dogs.

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Here’s the big reveal that got daddy in the dog house.

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After Jinky turned to walk into the village pub as if he had done it a million times before, the wife thought it was hilarious and asked her husband to let her know she was on to him. “It was really funny,” she told Newsweek. “I sent the clip straight to him.”

The clip was quite a hit on Instagram, where it has been seen over 4 million times and has over 200,000 likes. Many of the commenters suspected that there were many great friends and treats inside the pub, and that’s why Jinky wanted to go back. Others thought the wife should have let Jinky into the pub for a pint or two.

“Let the lad have a pint,” Jack Messerli joked in the comments. “My friend’s dog does this, drags me to all the pubs, even if they’re closed,” Milo added.

There isn’t a single person past the age of infancy who has never made a mistake, and the majority of people do something that they’re not proud of at least once in their lives. While some mistakes are bigger than others, they’re all moments we’d rather keep to ourselves most of the time. For some people those mistakes are poor decisions or lapses in judgment that land them behind bars.

One man found himself facing a judge for sentencing after making poor choices. Arthur Booth had the entire internet weeping after a video of him went viral when the sentencing judge in court recognized him as one of her childhood friends. When Booth recognized the judge, he began to openly sob with embarrassment. He was ultimately sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to a drug rehabilitation center.

People wondered what happened after that fateful day in court, and a couple of years later a short update came, showing him reuniting with the judge after finishing his sentence and rehab. But that was years ago, where is he now?

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Turns out, Booth is doing quite well. Rebel HQ uploaded a video showing what the once struggling man was up to, and the update couldn’t be any sweeter. On the day the judge reunited with her former classmate outside of the courtroom, she reminded him, “You’ve got to take care of your family, try to get a job, stay clean. You’re going to do something good for somebody else, that’s what you’ve got to do.”

Booth took her words to heart, making good on his promise and exceeding the expectation to succeed. The once embattled man has stayed away from the things that had cost him his freedom–drugs and gambling. In fact, he travels the country as a manager of a successful pharmaceutical company based in Florida, according to Rebel HQ. The man owns his own home and continues to keep in contact with the childhood friend and judge who gave him the words he needed to hear at the right time.

Watch the entire update below:

If you ever wanted luscious locks like “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer Beyoncé, your chance is here. With the launch of her hair care brand, Cécred, consumers are promised to have tresses fit for the main stage. As buyers’ reviews begin to pour in about the products, there seems growing online chatter about something other than the luxury items.

Shortly after the company launched on February 20, beauty brand consultant Fiona Glen took to LinkedIn to call out Cécred’s packaging. Glen accused the company of stealing its designs from the New Zealand-based skincare brand TWYG (which launched in June 2023).

“There’s a good chance that the packaging similarity is a coincidence,” she wrote. “However, it’s proof that it’s harder than ever to launch a truly different product, and IP is increasingly difficult to defend.”

In screenshots captured by HipHopDX (a fellow subsidiary of Warner Music Group), Amanda Gaskin, the designer reportedly responsible for the looks, echoed Glen’s take and expressed her disappointment in their similarities.

“It’s hard to believe that Beyoncé’s brand and packaging team hadn’t stumbled across our work,” she wrote. “Especially considering the recognition TWYG received last year. To say I’m gutted would be an understatement, but thank you for acknowledging the similarity and validating my feelings on this.”

Neither Beyoncé nor Cécred has issued a public statement regarding the claims.

Warner Bros. Discovery ran into a bit of a problem after Barbie made a billion-and-a-half dollars: Neither its star nor its director/co-writer want to make Barbie 2. The corporation still has a Mattel cinematic universe in the offing, but will that capture the magic that was one half of “Barbenheimer”? Possibly not. But despite the unwillingness of the people who made Barbie to do a sequel, Warners isn’t giving up on their dream just yet.

Per Deadline, WBD chief Pam Abdy said she’d still “love” to make Barbie 2, a movie she said “ignited audiences around the world.” Heck, they’re still “always talking” about making it. With whom, exactly? She didn’t say. Are Warners execs constantly calling up Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig (and maybe her cowriter/husband Noah Baumbach), begging them over texts to come back to the well instead of moving on to other projects?

Barbie didn’t just make the most amount of money for any movie in 2023. A movie based on a line of long-controversial dolls, which have been criticized for decades for promoting unrealistic beauty images for women, racked up a whopping eight Oscar nominations, even if none of them were for Best Director or Best Actress. Maybe that’s okay, though, because Gerwig and Robbie are still up for other trophies this Sunday.

(Via Deadline)

This Oscars are happening this weekend, so you know what that means: It’s also time for the Razzies. On Saturday the annual Golden Raspberry Awards dropped their winners, and the big winner wasn’t Oppenheimer or Killers of the Flower Moon. It was a little attention-getting movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

The R-rated take on A.A. Milne’s critter characters took home five trophies. They were: Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple (for Pooh and Piglet as “Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!)”), Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel, Worst Director for Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and Worst Screenplay.

Back in 2021, the rights to Pooh and gang — owned by Disney since 1961 — lapsed, meaning they were now in the public domain. (As of this year, the same thing happened to the original iteration of Mickey Mouse.) It didn’t take long for exploitation filmmakers to, well, exploit that. Winning five Razzies likely won’t deter the Blood and Honey filmmakers; a sequel is already forthcoming.

Alas, Blood and Honey won zero awards for its actors. Two of those trophies went to the same person: Megan Fox, who won Worst Actress for Johnny & Clyde — a movie everyone has definitely heard of — and Worst Supporting Actress for Expend4bles. Fox has been on a comeback of late, making the Razzie wins something of a curiosity. Why gang up on her, as though this was still 2007? Who can ever understand the mind of a Razzie voter?

Worst Actor, meanwhile, went to Jon Voight for a movie called Mercy — another movie that left a major cultural footprint — while Sylvester Stallone collected yet another Razzie for Expend4bles, which will definitely keep him up at night.

On an up-note, Fran Drescher won the Razzie Redeemer Award for kicking butt during the SAG-AFTRA strikes as the union’s president, even if it’s a back-handed compliment. The actress was nominated for a Razzie for 1997’s The Beautician and the Beast.

You can see the full list of winners (and nominees) below:

WORST PICTURE
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Meg 2: The Trench
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (Wait, shouldn’t that be spelled “Hunny”?) – WINNER

WORST ACTOR
Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
Vin Diesel / Fast X
Chris Evans / Ghosted
Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
Jon Voight / Mercy – WINNER

WORST ACTRESS
Ana de Armas / Ghosted
Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde – WINNER
Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kim Cattrall / About My Father
Megan Fox / Expend4bles – WINNER
Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) / The Pope’s Exorcist
Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables – WINNER

WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) / Ghosted
Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers(!) / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and The Dial of … Still Beating a Dead Horse
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER

WORST DIRECTOR
Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – WINNER
David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench

WORST SCREENPLAY
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Indiana Jones and the Dial of … Can I go home now?
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey – WINNER

RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

When Donald Trump first ran for president, Robert De Niro was, to put it mildly, not a fan. The month before he won the 2016 election, the legendary actor took part in a video in which he absolutely unloaded on him. He even said he’d like to “punch him in the face.” Has he warmed up to him in the last eight years? Judging from his appearance on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the answer is: nope.

Per Mediaite, De Niro had a one-on-one sit-down with Maher, during which they discussed his disturbingly strong showings in the polls. He said he doesn’t want to “feel the way I did” after he won in 2016. Then he went off:

The guy is a total monster. And, anybody. I don’t understand it. Yeah, I guess they get behind that kind of logic. They want to f*ck with people, screw them because they’re unhappy about some. He’s such a mean, nasty, hateful person.

De Niro has played some despicable characters in his time. He’s even Oscar-nominated this year for his most heinous role, in Killers of the Flower Moon. But would he take on the 45th president of the United States?

“I’d never play him as an actor because he’s…I can’t see any good in him,” he said. “Nothing. Nothing at all. Nothing redeemable in him.”

De Niro then got gloomy about what will happen to Trump critics, like himself, should he win a second time:

And we have to. And whoever the people are who want to vote for him and–. Look like intelligent people around this, I mean, for some reason, it can’t be. It can not be! If he is, he wins the election. He. You won’t be on this show anymore. He’ll come looking for me. You know, there’ll be. There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine. That’s what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says. Let’s believe and take him at his word.

De Niro ended by calling Trump a “sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist.”

So, yes, the guy who played Al Capone — another guy who didn’t like paying his taxes — would draw the line at the dictator magnets guy.

(Via Mediaite)

It’s popping off down in Austin this week as 2024’s SXSW rolls on and UPROXX is going to be there — with drinks! This year for our PaulSellsTX x Just Blaze x UPROXX Takeover at the Summit Roof Top Lounge, we’ll be featuring whiskeys and cocktails from Louisville’s coolest distiller, Rabbit Hole. Let’s whet your appetite with a little sneak peek of one of the great cocktails that Rabbit Hole is bringing to the shows (along with some amazing whiskey pours) — the Honey Hop.

The Honey Hop is a honey and grapefruit refresher with a hint of fizz. The drink is a play on the iconic Brown Derby with a touch of sparkling water to add that extra bite and x-factor every good cocktail needs. It’s also just freaking delicious.

Below, I’m going to show you how to make one in case you can’t make it next week to the amazing shows we’re hosting at SXSW. But come on, look at that lineup below! You know you’ll want to be there with this cocktail in your hand!

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Honey Hop

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Rabbit Hole Cavehill Bourbon
• 0.5 oz. fresh grapefruit juice
• 0.5 oz. honey syrup
• Ice
• Top with club soda

The key ingredient here is Rabbit Hole’s delicious Kentucky bourbon. The bottles are readily available nationwide and clock in just under $50. The rest is easy to source at grocery stores.

A quick tip for the honey syrup: If your liquor store doesn’t have any… find a better store! I kid, I kid. You can make it very easily by stirring one part hot water with two parts honey. It’s really that easy. Don’t use straight honey though, you have to mix it with water first. Otherwise, the ice will harden the honey when you try and shake the cocktail and not mix in.

What You’ll Need:

• Rocks glass
• Cocktail shaker
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Paring knife
• Juicer

Method:

• Add the bourbon, grapefruit juice, and honey syrup to the cocktail shaker, add a large handful of ice, and then affix the lid. Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds.
• Strain the cocktail over fresh ice into the waiting rocks glass. Top with less than an ounce of sparkling water. Garnish with a grapefruit peel and serve.

Bottom Line:

I’m sipping this right now and it’s delightful. It’s fresh and fizzy, kind of like a honeyed grapefruit lemonade vibe. The bourbon cuts through nicely with a dash of baking spice and woody vanilla, which balances the citrus and honey very nicely. You’ll definitely want more than one of these if you’re hanging with us down in Texas!

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