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Ice Spice has been one of rap’s fastest rising stars for the past two years, from appearing in ads for Dunkin Donuts and Starry to contributing the hit “Barbie World” to the film’s super-successful soundtrack. But in all the fervor for more Ice Spice, she’s had yet to release her long-awaited debut album. However, it looks like her 2024 rollout campaign is about to begin. After her label, Columbia Records, unofficially announed the beginning of her new album cycle with a flag attached to the company’s headquarters in Hollywood, Ice Spice herself shared the next piece of the puzzle, revealing the release date for her next single, “Think U The Sh!t (Fart).”

The new track is due sooner than you might think; it’s due at midnight tonight, and her fans are already turning all the way up.

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Some of Ice Spice’s fans, perhaps believing that she really has inhereted her mentor Nicki Minaj’s beef with Latto, have been comparing the announcement to a pair of Latto verses also coming out tonight (apparently, they’ve never heard of comparing apples to apples). Will the song contain some choice words for the Atlanta rapper? Who knows, but you can probably bet fans of both will find some. We’ll all find out tonight (1/26) at midnight.

Ask your parents (heck, even your grandparents) to say one thing they know about Snoop Dogg, and they’ll probably mention that he smokes a lot of weed. The question, though, is how much?

How Much Weed Does Snoop Dogg Smoke Per Day?

The answer has a bit of history to it.

In a 2013 Q&A on Twitter (now X), Snoop said that he smokes 81 blunts in a day.

In 2022, Snoop’s personal blunt roller (that’s a thing, yes) backed up that number: In an interview, she was asked how many joints she has rolled for the rapper since working for him and she answered, “I calculate it at over 450,000. I do about half a pound a day, which is 75 to 150 joints.”

However, Snoop refuted that claim shortly after. In a video shared on Instagram, Snoop said, “B*tch said I smoke 450,000… b*tch, this is all in a day’s work. Stop lyin’. [How the] f*ck am I gonna smoke all that weed in one day? What am I, a f*ckin’ machine? B*tch, this is the roaches. See? Roaches.” In frame was a pile of ten roaches.

So, it might be the case that while the lofty numbers used to be true, Snoop has perhaps toned down his usage in recent years and is closer to ten blunts per day.

Less than a week before the release of Griselda, a new Netflix series from the creators of Narcos that puts Sofia Vergara in the role of the real-life Cocaine Godmother, both the actress and the streaming platform were slapped with a lawsuit from Griselda Blanco’s family.

The suit was filed by Blanco’s son Michael — the late drug-lord was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2012 — who alleges that he’d been giving a series of interview since 2009 about his mother that were to be turned into a movie and a book. According to Michael, the individuals began shopping the story around Hollywood, but when it landed at Netflix, the streamer didn’t want to use the details he provided.

However, according to TMZ, the lawsuit claims that some of those details still made it into Griselda without compensating Michael, and that he and his sister’s likeness were used without permission. As of now, the lawsuit has not derailed Griselda‘s release, and the show is available for streaming on Netflix. However, Vergara was asked about the legal action during a recent interview.

Here’s what she told Entertainment Tonight:

Vergara describes Griselda as “a complex person.” “There are so many nuances to explore in terms of who she was as a drug lord and, of course, as a woman, as a mother,” she explained. “She was someone who did whatever it took to protect her family.”

She added, “I really wanted to explore that from the point of view of, you know, of her being one of the only women in history to have gone as far as she did.”

While Vergara didn’t directly address the lawsuit, Griselda creator Eric Newman gave a much more blunt response.

“It’s not my first rodeo,” he said via IndieWire. “The Escobar family made similar claims [for the TV series ‘Narcos’]. We had a very specific story we wanted to tell. I believe we told it, and I don’t think it in any way prevents someone else from telling their own version of it.”

Griselda is now streaming on Netflix.

(Via IndieWire, Entertainment Tonight)

A year and a half after Vince McMahon’s retirement, the TKO Executive Chairman has been accused of abusing, exploiting, and sex trafficking a former WWE employee in exchange for career advancement, according to a blockbuster report from the Wall Street Journal regarding a new lawsuit filed against McMahon.

Allegations from the report range from details involving McMahon locking her in a private room, assaulting her during work hours, sharing nude and explicit photos and videos with other unnamed WWE employees, recruiting others to have sex with her, controlling her personal and professional life, and attempting to traffic her to a WWE star, identified in the report by the Wall Street Journal as Brock Lesnar.

According to the report, the subject of the lawsuit, Janel Grant, signed a non-disclosure agreement in 2022 in exchange for $3 million in payments. McMahon reportedly paid $1 million before he stopped making payments. McMahon allegedly continued to abuse her after the NDA was signed leading to Thursday’s lawsuit that “seeks a judgment that the NDA is invalid under state and federal law and compensatory and punitive damages under other laws, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.”

This lawsuit comes a year after McMahon returned to the WWE, where he used his majority voting power due to his ownership of WWE’s Class-B stock to elect himself to WWE’s board of directors and eventually led the TKO merger with the UFC.

Rapper TiaCorine is going to have another great year, as she is heading out on her first headlining run with the Almost Here Tour. She partnered with Monster Energy for the shows, which will kick off in Chicago this March.

Presale tickets for TiaCorine’s North American tour opened today (January 25). The general sale will then open to the public tomorrow, January 26 at 10 a.m local time. Visit here for more information.

“I’m honored to have the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour supporting me on my first headliner!” she shared in a statement. “I’ve seen so many big artists have this opportunity so to see it happening to me is nothing short of amazing. My fans have been asking for a tour for so long so I’m just blessed and thankful that I can finally make it happen!”

Continue scrolling for a complete list of TiaCorine’s headlining shows.

TiaCorine’s 2024 Tour Dates On The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour

03/02 — Chicago, IL @ Avondale Music Hall
03/03 — Columbus, OH @ Woodlands Tavern
03/04 — Detroit, MI @ El Club
03/06 — Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
03/08 — New York, NY @ Racket
03/09 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03/10 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at the Fillmore
03/13 — Washington, D.C. @ Howard Theatre
03/14 — Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
03/16 — Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
03/17 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
03/19 — Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Cambridge Room
03/20 — Houston, TX @ House of Blues Bronze Peacock
03/23 — Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
03/24 — San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
03/27 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos

A few weeks ago, I asked if you knew Paul Giamatti is dating the actress who played his dominatrix on Billions? Now that this question has been answered (you do), I’d like to ask another: Did you know Paul Giamatti has a podcast where he has in-depth discussions about Bigfoot? His insistence on wanting to play a big ape suddenly makes a lot more sense.

On Chinwag, the Oscar-nominated actor and his co-host, author and philosopher Stephen Asma, have “a freewheeling series of conversations that dive deep (like, really, really deep) into the wilderness of the mind,” the podcast’s description reads. They ask questions like “are we living in a simulation?” and “what’s the most perfect sentence in literature?” and cover “science, the occult, philosophy, magic mushrooms… it’s all fair game!”

But mostly, Bigfoot. And Godzilla. And the Loch Ness Monster. Like here:

Marc Maron: “Who are your guys?”
Paul Giamatti: “Bigfoot.”

In a recent episode, Giamatti and Asma “read a letter from Keith, an airline pilot in Idaho who shares his incredible UFO sighting and belief in Interdimensional Sasquatch Travel,” before talking to guest Natasha Lyonne about, among other topics, doomsday preppers and body horror movies.

Oh yeah, and they interviewed Tom Hanks.

If Giamatti wins an Oscar, he better thank Bigfoot in his acceptance speech. After going to In-N-Out, of course. You can listen to every episode of Chinwag here (and thanks to @Srirachachau for bringing the podcast to my attention).

Kayshon Boutte was once one of the most highly touted young wide receivers in college football after he burst onto the scene for LSU as a freshman, breaking the SEC record with 308 receiving yards against Ole Miss in 2020. However, Boutte never quite built on the promise of that season as hoped, and when he declared for the NFL Draft as a junior in 2023, he ended up as a sixth round pick of the New England Patriots.

Apparently over his last year at LSU, Boutte, who was not 21 yet, created an online betting account under a false alias and was an incredibly frequent bettor. On Thursday, Boutte was arrested by Louisiana State Police and booked in Baton Rouge on “one felony count of computer fraud and one misdemeanor count of gaming prohibited by persons under 21.” LSU released a statement regarding their cooperation with the investigation that eventually led to Boutte’s arrest, insisting no other players were involved in the gambling activities, via NOLA.com.

“In July 2023, LSU was made aware of allegations regarding a former student-athlete’s improper conduct related to sports gambling while enrolled at the University,” LSU said in a statement. “Since then, we have fully cooperated with all relevant authorities involved in the investigation and will continue to do so. We have no evidence that any other student-athletes participated in these prohibited activities, and we are grateful for measures that detect and discourage sports gambling related misconduct.”

The news release from the State Police says Boutte placed over 8,900 wagers, at least 17 of which were on NCAA football games and at least 6 of which were on LSU football from April 6, 2022 to May 7, 2023.

Betting on football games you were involved in is never a good idea, no matter what the bet was, but I’m more flabbergasted by the nearly 9,000 bets he placed in the span of just over a year. That is some wild gambling behavior and I cannot help but wonder what his win-loss rate was because that’s an incredible volume of bets. I mean, that is in the range of 25 bets per day for a full year, which is honestly hard to do. Boutte’s football career was already on the rocks after rarely seeing the field as a rookie with 2 catches for 19 yards, and this won’t help his cause trying to find footing in the NFL.

Some things are meant to go together, like peanut butter and jelly or Jesse Plemmons and a weirdly-sized hat. And when Ben Affleck wants to do a movie, he is going to get Matt Damon on board in some capacity (or vice versa), because the two can’t seem to do anything without each other these days, and why should they? It’s been working so far, and they seem to like each other after all this time, despite some obvious shortcomings.

Best buds Damon and Affleck are teaming up (again) for a new Netflix film titled Animals. It probably is not a sequel to Damon’s 2011 flick We Bought A Zoo, but we really cannot be too certain.

The duo previously worked together on Amazon Prime’s sports biopic Air last year, which was also the first time Affleck directed Damon after working on many projects together. Affleck is also set to direct Animals, probably because he’s been overacting in those Dunkin commercials and needs a break from all that hard work. Both he and Damon are producing the project with Dani Bernfeld through their company Artists Equity, which launched in 2022.

The script was penned by Connor McIntyre and Billy Ray, and while no specific plot details have emerged, Variety reports the movie will involve some sort of kidnapping. Maybe it will involve Damon kidnapping Affleck from JLo since she has experience with that type of thing.

(Via Variety)

Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay is quickly becoming a go-to for hot takes and outrageous breakouts in the wake of its incendiary Katt Williams interview a few weeks ago. However, unlike Katt, Shay’s latest guest, 21 Savage, faced at least one challenge to one of his dubious claims from the peanut gallery. In fact, his own frequent collaborator, Metro Boomin, was the one to call him out, joking that “n****s sit on his couch and just feel like they can say anything. Look at this n**** just looking for a lie to tell.”

Fortunately for Savage and Metro’s continued working relationship, his “lie” appeared to be from the “little white” variety, as 21 boasted he won a spelling bee in fifth grade thanks to the word “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Metro extended his roast with a caption reading, “You probably read 3000 books a year too huh @21savage.” 21 has admitted that his often violent lyrical narratives are exaggerations for literary effect, but it looks like Metro won’t let spelling be stolen valor fly.

Of course, lots of rappers might start changing their tunes to promote academic accomplishments over street crime drama soon enough, with various courts using rap lyrics as evidence to support prosecutions. Savage, who just wrapped up his own long battle with the law, is probably not too keen on starting anymore at this point. And with Jay-Z recently also bragging about his academic achievements, this could be one trend in hip-hop that we’d all like to see continue.

You can check out 21 Savage’s full Club Shay Shay interview above.

Many of author Harlan Coben‘s novels have been turned into Netflix series, including The Stranger, Stay Close, and most recently, Fool Me Once.

The thriller (you can watch the trailer below) stars Michelle Keegan as Maya Stern, who is trying to come to terms with the murder of her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage). But after installing a nanny cam in her home to watch over her young daughter, Lily, Maya is “shocked to see her husband in her house, playing with Lily,” according to the Netflix description.

From there, Fool Me Once follows Maya’s search for answers, which “causes her to clash with her all-powerful mother-in-law, Judith (Joanna Lumley), Maya’s niece Abby (Dänya Griver) and nephew Daniel (Daniel Burt) try to find the truth about what happened to their mother and Maya’s sister, Claire. Are Claire’s and Joe’s deaths connected? And whose secrets will reveal the truth?”

Coben described Fool Me Once as “a pulse pounder, a shocking story of how secrets and deceit have the power to bring people together while simultaneously tearing them apart.” All eight episodes are available to watch on Netflix now. And once you’re finished, you could find out whether there’s going to be a second season.