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Dave Chappelle released a new stand-up comedy special, The Dreamer, on Netflix a few days ago. In it, he devotes some time to poking fun at Lil Nas X, but what did he say?

What did Dave Chappelle say about Lil Nas X in his new Netflix stand-up special?

During the special, Chappelle recounted his first time meeting Lil Nas X, saying:

“I know a dreamer when I see one, and I’ve met many powerful dreamers in my life, none more powerful than the man who calls himself Lil Nas X.

I met this n**** at a party, I had no idea who he was. But the minute he walked in that party, I knew I was in his dream. Everybody in the party was another dreamer. Everyone was famous, but when that n**** walked in, he was dressed like C-3PO. He was shining! And everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, there he is! That’s Lil Nas X!’

I didn’t know who he was. For some reason, out of all them dreamers, he walked right up to me. And he said, ‘I tried to get you in my video.’ I didn’t know what the f*ck he was talking about. I said, ‘What? What video?’ And he was just looking at me like, ‘You know what video,’ and walked away. And I watched him walk away. I said, ‘Man, this n****’s having a very powerful dream.’”

Elsewhere, he went through a fictional scenario of a teacher asking young Lil Nas X what he wants to be when he grows up, saying:

“What do you want to be when you grow up, Lil Nas X?’ That n**** stood up in front of the whole class: ‘I want to be the gayest n**** that ever lived. I want to do a music video, slide down a stripper pole, all the way to the depths of Hell, and suck the devil’s dick at ten o’clock on BET while all the kids are awake and can see me.’ Shockingly, that was the only dream that worked out.”

Check out clips of those moments below.

Although Selena Gomez originally started in the acting world, she has worn a lot of hats throughout her career, including being a pop star and owning a beauty line. However, in the past few years, she’s focused more on her role in Only Murders In The Building and running Rare Beauty, making it four years since she last dropped an album.

Is Selena Gomez retiring from music?

During a recent interview with the Smartless podcast, Gomez answered whether or not she would be retiring from music for good.

“I started having a lot of fun with music and then touring was really fun,” Gomez shared. “But I was doing my TV show at the same time [2007’s Wizards Of Waverly Place] and I just found it really fun, so I just kept going, but the older I get, the more I’m kind of like, I would like to find something to just settle on.”

“I do feel like I have one more album in me but I would probably choose acting,” she added.

It does seem like Gomez may have a final record on the way, given she recently dropped her “Single Soon” song. Yet, right now, not much else has been revealed about what she has planned on the music front.

If you still haven’t seen Killers of the Flower Moon, one of the best movies of 2023, you’re out of excuses. The Martin Scorsese film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro, will make its streaming debut on Apple TV+ on January 12th.

Killers of the Flower Moon has already won dozens of awards, and it’s up for even more this weekend at the Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for DiCaprio, and Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Gladstone.

In a roundtable interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the actress talked about her family’s reaction to being cast in a Scorsese film. “My dad’s favorite movie is Kundun. That was my introduction to Marty. I had no idea about Goodfellas. My grandma was born and raised in a little log cabin during the Depression, on the Nez Perce reservation in Lapwai. But she loved movies. Her hobby was going and buying VHSes. She had about 4,000 titles of films that she was recording constantly,” she said. The collection included Titanic:

“She’s passed away, but she was around when we told her that I’d gotten cast in this. We told her, ‘Yeah, I’m going to be in a Martin Scorsese film.’ (Imitating her grandmother) ‘Ooh, Martin Scorsese!’ ‘And Robert De Niro.’ ‘Ooh, Robert De Niro!’ ‘And Leonardo DiCaprio.’ ‘… Who?’ Then I pulled Titanic out of her collection. ‘Ooh!’ And it was sweet because, one of the gifts of dementia was getting to surprise her with that information several times a day, and it was always fresh and exciting. Always the same reaction.”

Gladstone needs to win an Oscar, if only for her grandmother (and because it’s a remarkable performance).

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

In December, Madonna commenced the US dates of her Celebration Tour. A video from one of the shows has been making the rounds online, and some have used it to mock Madonna over her age.

As NME points out, the video shows Madonna dancing on stage while holding onto a horizontal bar behind her. Comments included, ““I’m glad to see that Madonna has a grab bar so she doesn’t fall,” and, “65-year-old Madonna has to use a bar to dance on stage to prop herself up as she performs a dance routine.”

Others, though, noted that the video doesn’t tell the whole story of what was going on. One commenter chimed in, “Dumb asses got jokes, but failed to mention the fact that she’s dancing on a MOVING PLATFORM.” Somebody else wrote, “She is on a thin platform that is moving across the top of the audience! Of course there’s a bar! She’s also clipped onto it!”

At one of her recent shows, Madonna addressed her 2023 health scare, saying, “It’s been a crazy year for me. I didn’t think I was going to make it, neither did my doctors. That’s why I woke up with all of my children sitting around me.”

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Around this time last year, Iggy Azalea teased that she was up to some “scandalous sh*t.” That was soon revealed to be an aesthetic project called “Hotter Than Hell” as well as a very profitable OnlyFans page. Her “scandalous sh*t” announcement also promised new music by the summer, and sure enough “Money Come” arrived in August. However, there have been no signs of an album, which shouldn’t be too much of a surprise considering her 2021 effort was titled The End Of An Era. She also told Billboard it was “probably the last project I’m going to put out musically.” Still, the door has remained slightly ajar — until now.

Is Iggy Azalea Retired From Music?

It sure sounds like it. On Tuesday, January 2, Azalea wrote an extremely long post on X (formerly Twitter) that confirms she is “not going to finish my album” and likely not going to write music anymore at all. Read the full post below.

“This is gonna be long….
so only bother reading if you love me.
(If you still bother anyway you’re a weirdo who has been warned [shrug emoji, laugh-crying emoji].)

I’ve always been someone who finds my joy in being creative & seeing my ideas come to life.
For a long time I used music to deliver my big crazy ideas to the world.

I know a lot of people have this idea that I was ‘bullied away from music’ and that’s something I’ve always laughed at because I’d never be bullied out of anything!
In fact, I’m too stubborn.
I think I’ve even resisted changes within myself at times, purely because I don’t like being viewed as someone who quits.

In truth what I’ve known for a long time is that I feel more passionately about design and creative direction than I do about song writing.
To many of you that’s no shock to read.
It shows in my work. Haha!
Jokes aside, i do spend a lot more time on that part of things… because Im most confident at that.

That’s why I want to let you know that I’m not going to finish my album.
It’s been paused for a few months while I was giving direction for a different project & in truth I just haven’t felt the urge to go back to it.
I feel really happy & passionate in my day to day life when my minds focused on that and so I want to stick to what’s undeniably best for me. [flower emoji]

Cant wait to start sharing some of the things I’ve been involved in creating & hoping you’ll see my quirk & humor in anything I touch!

I know for some fans this probably makes you feel a little deflated –
I’m sorry to let you down.
But, it’s more important I don’t let myself down.
I hope youll understand.

Talk soon! I Love you. [silver heart emoji]”

Donald Trump may be crushing it in the polls, but that’s only amongst Republicans. What about the rest of the country? For instance, how’s he — or any Republican these days — faring with the youth of America? Not very well! The most prominent young Republicans in 2024 are bedhair enthusiast Charlie Kirk, possible fake cryer Kyle Rittenhouse, and sexless anti-Semite Nick Fuentes. Surely the former president spending New Year’s Eve with Vanilla Ice, of all musicians, isn’t helping.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Five, token Democrat Jessica Tarlov got into an argument with the colleagues when she refused to buy wishy-washy polls that have the former president walloping the current president, except in the ones where he’s not.

“This idea that Trump is blowing him out of the water is just not supported by the data,” Tarlov charged. “Look at the last three or four polls. Trump’s up two in one, then it’s tied in the other, then Biden’s up one in the other.

“If you believe that Trump will win by 20 points of the Black vote, I have many, many bridges to sell you,” she continued. “Or the youth vote. The guy had Vanilla Ice at his New Year’s Eve party and you think he’s winning the youth vote?”

Co-host Jesse Watters tried to spin it as a joke, but Tarlov interjected, saying, “Ice, ice, baby, you’re losing the youth vote.”

It’s true: On the same day 90210 alum Ian Ziering somehow found himself embroiled in an all-out biker brawl, Trump threw a Mar-a-Lago bash featuring the early ‘90s’ most notorious whiteboy rapper. Vanilla Ice, aka Robert Van Winkle, has been a joke for decades, and has sometimes leaned into it. He’s even in multiple Adam Sandler movies, one time as Mark Twain. What he’s not is a sign of youthful with-it-ness. Instead he’s the opposite.

In other words, people can chill out over the guy who gets into fights with the Village People winning over Gen Z. For now.

(Via Mediaite)

Every now and then, a contestant on Wheel of Fortune will be their own worst enemy due to their inability to solve a puzzle because they can’t quite figure out a word. You’ve surely seen this happen before, the times when a contestant will have everything but, like, three letters left and they seem like the only person on the planet who can’t figure out what T_OPI_AL _ACATION is supposed to be.

And then, you get what happened on Wednesday night, when one contestant had an entire puzzle solved but still didn’t win the round. Basically: Shauna didn’t have a ton of money and there was only one letter left on the board, so she spun the wheel and was able to pick up an extra $700. The puzzle read “CONGENIAL COMPANY & CLEVER CONVERSATION,” and Pat Sajak treated this like a formality. But unfortunately, this happened, instead.

The good news is that this was not a huge sum of money, and ultimately, a different contestant on this episode would go on and win. Still, as a person who is extremely good at mispronouncing things, I think they should have just given Shauna the money for completing the puzzle and not worried all that much about how “congenial” got pronounced.

Britney Spears made a semi-return to music in 2022 by teaming up with Elton John for their collaborative single “Hold Me Closer,” which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2022. Still, Spears hasn’t released a full-length album since 2016’s Glory. So long as pop is a genre, there will always be a collective hunger for more Britney Spears, and there have been conflicting rumblings about a potential new album this week.

Is Britney Spears Working On A New Album?

Well, it depends on who you ask.

On Wednesday, January 3, Page Six reported that Charli XCX and Julia Michaels are involved in writing songs “for what Spears’ team hopes will become” her first album since 2016. However, “Spears has not recorded any new material yet, as the project is only starting to take shape.” (The US Sun also reported on the matter.)

Spears responded with a lengthy Instagram post that shot down not only the possibility of an album in the nearish future but also the possibility of her releasing music ever again.

“Just so we’re clear most of the news is trash !!!” Spears captained a Guido Reni painting. “They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album … I will never return to the music industry !!! When I write, I write for fun or I write for other people !!!”

She continued, “For those of you who have read my book, there’s loads that you don’t know about me … I’ve written over 20 songs for other people the past two years !!! I’m a ghostwriter and I honestly enjoy it that way !!! People are also saying MY BOOK WAS RELEASED WITHOUT MY APPROVAL ILLEGALLY and that’s far from the truth … have you read the news these days ??? I’m so LOVED and blessed !!!”

That’s probably that, considering Britney Spears has the final say as to whether Britney Spears will make an album, but Rolling Stone‘s Tomás Mier added more context following Spears’ Instagram post.

According to Mier, the Page Six report has some truth to it in that, while Spears isn’t actively working on music, people around her are working aggressively to spark her interest. Read an excerpt of Mier’s report below.

“Minutes before her post, however, a source close to the Spears project-in-the-works tells Rolling Stone that the singer’s team was preparing new music to get the singer to return to the studio, but that she had not yet been ‘actively in recording.’

‘Right now, management and A&R are trying to get her excited for the music,’ the source says. ‘As of right now, she’s not actively in recording but they’re getting [songs] done to present to her.’

‘Nothing is cemented or in stone,’ they add.

Spears’ team had tapped Julia Michaels and Charli XCX as writers, producer Cirkut, and several of the collaborators from Glory, including Jason Evigan, to make songs to present to the singer, the source says. Evigan worked on ‘Man on the Moon’ and ‘Liar’ from her 2016 LP, while Cirkut produced all of Ava Max’s Diamonds and Dancefloors last year, along with Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy.’

‘The hype around this is that everyone wants her to make music again, but I don’t know if she’s there yet,’ the source says, adding that both pop ballads and uptempo songs had been prepared to present to the singer.”

Ava Max and Charli XCX are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

In October 2022, Rage Against The Machine canceled the 2023 North American leg of their reunion tour. The announcement came after lead singer Zack De La Rocha tore his Achilles during a July show in Chicago, leading to the cancelation of the UK and European leg scheduled for August and September 2022.

Come March 2023, Tom Morello, the band’s guitarist, told Rolling Stone that he didn’t know when (or if) Rage Against The Machine would take the stage together, adding, “When there is news, it will come from a collective statement from the band. There is no news.” On Wednesday, January 3, that sort of came true. It wasn’t a collective band statement, but rather an Instagram statement from drummer Brad Wilk.

“I know a lot of people are waiting for us to announce new tour dates for all the canceled RATM shows,” Wilk wrote. “I don’t want to string people or myself along any further. So while there has been some communication that this may be happening in the future… I want to let you know that RATM (Tim [Commerford], Zack, Tom and I) will not be touring or playing live again. I’m sorry for those of you who have been waiting for this to happen. I really wish it was…”

Wilk captioned the post, “Bottom of my heart.. Thank you to every person who has ever supported us.”

In October, De La Rocha returned to the stage with a surprise performance alongside Run The Jewels, but it was still radio silence on the Rage Against The Machine front. On November 3, Rage Against The Machine was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. What better way to go out?

While most people responded to Wilk’s statement with gratitude for any update at all, many were also very upset to learn of what sounds like the end of Rage Against The Machine. See some reactions below.

Donald Trump makes news every single day, and yet he’s still not as ubiquitous as he once was. He still holds rallies but not as frequently as he once did. He’s never returned to Twitter/X, even after the dork who paid a fortune on it unsuspended his account. Is he even trying to run for president a third time? Or is hiding himself from the public the only way he could get back to the White House? That’s what one of his former aides thinks.

Per Newsweek, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in his administration for years before decamping for The View, did some speculating about her former boss on CNN’s This Morning.

“I don’t want to overstate this notion he has a sophisticated team around him,” Griffin said. “Beyond the two individuals, it’s probably a mishmash of folks that have been clinging to him since 2016 or those that kinda stayed after January 6th.”

Griffin singled out his senior campaign advisers Suzie Wiles and Chris LaCivita for finding ways to keep Trump’s craziness — and increasingly brain mushy pronouncements — on the relative downlow.

“Those two individuals know that keeping Trump out of the public eye, more or less, is actually the best thing they can do,” Griffin said. “Donald Trump is not out giving huge rallies in the way that he was at this time in 2020. We’re going to see that tick up. He’s not on Twitter. He’s not giving big sit down interviews, he’s not on mainstream media in a regular pace.

“So I think the public is kinda forgetting the chaos and the crazy of Trump,” she concluded. “I think that’s reflected in some of the poll numbers that we’re seeing in how much he’s surpassing his challengers. The more that people see him, the more they’re gonna remember.”

If this is indeed the plan, could it be so crazy that it works? Sure, he posts like a madman on his rinky-dink Twitter clone, but no one reads it beyond die-hards and it’s failing anyway. Schedule more rallies and he may be confused about who’s president again or accuse Joe Biden of starting “World War II.” Of course, if Trump found out that his own staffers don’t trust him to speak in public, surely he’d have one of his signature meltdowns. Which would be a shame.

(Via Newsweek)