In May, Yo Gotti’s birthday wish was for 42 Dugg, his fellow Collective Music Group (CMG) artist, to be released from prison. That wish was granted on Wednesday, October 18. Outlets such as Complexand The Fader reported that 42 Dugg was released from the United States Penitentiary Atlanta. XXLconfirmed the news with the Federal Bureau Of Prisons, and Yo Gotti posted an Instagram video showing him joyfully embracing the Detroit rapper. He served six months.
In March, 42 Dugg pled guilty to “failing to report to prison camp in West Virginia for illegally possessing a firearm,” and he reportedly received a one-year sentence in April (as per Detroit Newsat the time). Dugg was previously arrested because he’d recently been “convicted of illegally possessing a firearm (a crime for a convicted felon) and was supposed to report for a six-month sentence last month,” as Uproxx’s Aaron Williams relayed in May 2022.
Upon Dugg being arrested in a federal gun probe in March 2020, XXL provided context for his converging legal troubles, as excerpted below:
“According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reviewed video surveillance and documents from the gun range and discovered that Dugg, born Dion Marquise Hayes, and two others visited the gun range on Nov. 8, 2019. Investigators claim that surveillance video shows the ‘Whole City’ rapper allegedly possessing, loading and firing a 9 mm Glock pistol. Authorities learned of Hayes firing the weapon from an anonymous tip.
Dugg is not allowed to possess a firearm due to convictions for carjacking and felony firearms possession in 2010, reports the The Detroit News.”
An unnamed source told Complex that 42 Dugg “was picked up by Yo Gotti” as well as his family and friends, and, “At Dugg’s request, he went straight to the studio after being picked up.”
42 Dugg is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Is America really going to make president a narcissistic chaos agent with 91 criminal charges against him and who can’t even spell “rumor”? Again? That’s still a year away, but maybe. Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of pals in Hollywood, and he has plenty of enemies. Among the haters is someone who’s a legend of both music and movies, who definitely can’t put up with another four years of the orb guy.
In a new interview with The Guardian, Cher — while promoting her new, non-traditional Christmas album — perhaps inevitably dunked on 45, whom she’s not happy may reclaim power. Back before he was elected, she threatened to ditch America for greener pastures.
“I almost got an ulcer the last time,” Cher protested. “If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].”
Cher is also steamed at the modern Republican party, which has made the trans community one of their most targeted groups.
“It’s something like 500 bills they’re trying to pass,” Cher fumed. “I was with two trans girls the other night – and of course my own child [Chaz, who is trans]. I was saying ‘We’ve got to stand together.’ I don’t know what their eventual plan is for trans people. I don’t put anything past them.”
Cher isn’t the only one who’s recently zinged Trump. Mark Hamill found himself agreeing with the president he often mocks, at least on his claim that he should go to jail.
On October 18, 2021, for the fifth installment of her annual Vanity Fair “Same Interview,” Eilish confirmed she had three tattoos and said, “I love tattoos. My mom has her hands on her head. […] My mom hates tattoos. No, I’m not gonna be all tatted up, but I have some more ideas.”
Below are the tattoo ideas Eilish has made permanent so far.
“Eilish”
In the 2020 version of Eilish’s Vanity Fair “Same Interview,” she said, “I did get a tattoo, but you won’t ever see it.” In the 2021 iteration of the chat, Eilish shared that the hidden tattoo was “Eilish” inked somewhere on her chest. This June, the fourth photo in Annabel Zimmer’s Instagram carousel gave a very abstract glimpse of it in the middle of her chest, made impossible to 100% decipher because of Eilish’s bikini top.
Black Dragon
Eilish covered the June 2021 issue of British Vogue. The cover spread included a photo displaying a very large tattoo on Eilish’s right thigh.
As the cover star for Rolling Stone‘s July/August 2021 issue, writer Brittany Spanos explained, “Eilish describes her life as ‘normal as hell,’ and at times, it is. She’s watching Twilight. Going on first dates again, as discreetly as possible. Getting first tattoos (she got a giant black dragon on her right thigh in November [2020] and ‘Eilish,’ in an ornate, gothic font, in the middle of her chest the day after the 2020 Grammys).”
“Sweet Little Guardian Angel Fairies”
Again, we reference Eilish’s 2021 “Same Interview.” Around the 17-minute mark, Eilish explained, “I just got this a few weeks ago, which is some fairies that are from a book that I had growing up. A little fairy book called Fairyopolis. They’re like my little guardian angel fairies.”
As captured by Insider, Eilish’s hand and wrist tattoo partially poked out of her sleeve while walking the red carpet at the No Time To Dieworld premiere in London on September 28, 2021. Shortly after her October 18, 2021 filming with Vanity Fair, Eilish posted a full photo of the hand tattoo to her Instagram Story in response to a follower’s question about her favorite tattoo.
Back Tattoo
Following the same script as the fairies tattoo, Eilish gave her newest tattoo a soft launch. On September 20, Eilish posted an Instagram photo showing the tippy top of her back tattoo. We could only see an unidentifiable design on the skin between her hairline and her shirt’s collar. On Wednesday, October 18, Eilish posted a photo of her bare back entirely covered down her spine. The design is still indistinguishable, but Eilish also posted to her Instagram Story that she was on set with Vanity Fair earlier today to film her seventh annual “Same Interview,” so we’ll almost certainly get a proper description soon enough.
The Bear has done so much for so many. It’s been a boon for the fine city of Chicago, and for one of its better delicacies: the Italian Beef. It’s made even bigger stars out of Shameless’ Jeremy Allen White and Girls’ Ebon Moss-Bachrach. It did the same to up-and-coming actress and stand-up Ayo Edbiri, who plays young, ambitious chef Sydney. She’s already co-starring in popular movies, like the exceedingly funny Bottoms. But where else can you see her? Here are some ways:
Big Mouth
Back in 2020, two years before The Bear, Edbiri took over as Missy, the biracial, nerdy, Nathan Fillion-loving girl on Netflix’s popular cartoon about preteens going through the pangs of puberty. The character was originally voiced by Jenny Slate. “Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,” Slate wrote as she handed the reins to Edebiri. “I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy, and that in me playing ‘Missy,’ I was engaging in an act of erasure of Black people.”
At the time Edebiri noted on how perfect she was to take over as Missy. “I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings, which still resonate with me as an adult,” she said then. “I was a true dork. So I don’t think I have to go too far to connect with Missy,” as seen on Twitter.
Big Mouth streams on Netflix.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Action
Over the summer, Edebiri could be heard in two big animated blockbuster with outside-the-box styles of animation. She had but a small role in the second Miles Morales Spider-Man outing, voicing Glory, one of the bandmates of Hailee Steinfeld’s Gwen Stacy. Her role in the Seth Rogen-co-written revival of TMNT was quite a bit larger: She voiced April O’Neil, the intrepid reporter who befriends the oversized, pizza-loving reptiles.
Spider-Man streams on Netflix starting Oct. 31 and TMNT:MA streams on Paramount+.
Theater Camp
Released around the same time as Bottoms — which, in case you don’t know it, stars her and Rachel Sennott as high school besties who form a fight club so they can hook up with cheerleaders — this comedy concerns a dilapidated theater summer camp in Upstate New York whose residents fight to keep it alive. Edebiri is sixth billed, and it reunites her with a fellow Bear cast member, Molly Gordon, who both co-stars and co-directs.
Theater Camp streams on Hulu.
The Sweet East
Edebiri has six films out this year, including this eccentric indie satire directed by acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams (a regular of the Safdie brothers, including Good Time) and written by film critic Nick Pinkerton. Talia Ryder, of the abortion drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always, plays a high schooler led astray during a class trip, whose picaresque adventures lead her to run-ins with all manner of characters, played by all manner of name actors. Among them are New York filmmakers played by Edebiri and Jeremy O. Harris. Also appearing are Simon Rex (hot off his comeback Red Rocket), Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi, and The Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes.
The Sweet East begins its limited theatrical release on December 1.
One-off TV show appearances
Since breaking through with The Bear, Edebiri has scored lots of work on TV. She played a runaway slave in the Hulu sequel to Mel Brooks’ classic parody film History of the World: Part I. She’s done Abbott Elementary and a sketch in the second season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. These are comedies. Black Mirror is decidedly not, and she appeared in its sixth season debut, in the episode where a woman learns her life has been turned into a popular prestige drama in which she’s played by Salma Hayek. She also had a recurring role as a ghostwriting maid on Apple TV+’s Dickinson.
Stand-up comedy
Edebiri’s career began nearly a decade, when she kicked things off as a stand-up. Before her breakthrough, she was featured on Comedy Central. In this 2020 set, she talks about the distress of learning that real life really isn’t much like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Podcasts
The last episode aired in 2020, but Edebiri used to co-host the podcast Iconography with Olivia Craighead, in which they — and sometimes guests — would discuss their favorite legends. In one episode Edebiri chose Robert Townsend, the actor and filmmaker behind the groundbreaking 1987 satire Hollywood Shuffle. As it happens, Townsend would go on to play her dad on The Bear.
Forthcoming: Thunderbolts
Edebiri’s star has risen so quickly that she’s already doing Marvel movies. It’s not clear what her role will be in the Thunderbolts movie, which is due on December 20 of next year, but it will team her with a bunch of returning MCU vets, including Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wyatt Russell, and Olga Kurylenko. So that’s cool, but is it as cool as her returning at some point for The Bear Season 3?
The Las Vegas Aces were heading back home no matter what after Wednesday night’s Game 4 of the WNBA Finals. All that needed to be decided was whether or not they’d be heading back for a parade or a Game 5 against the New York Liberty with the right to call themselves champions on the line. After 40 minutes of ball, we got the answer, and despite injuries to Kiah Stokes and Chelsea Gray, Las Vegas was able to pick up a 70-69 win to go back-to-back as WNBA champions.
The Aces looked like their injuries were going to catch up to them throughout the first half. While they battled admirably early on, New York was able to establish a lead thanks to an 18-4 run at the end of the first quarter, and whenever it looked like Las Vegas was going to chip away at the lead and ultimately take it, the Liberty had an answer.
Thanks to brilliant first half performances by Courtney Vandersloot and Betnijah Laney, New York took a 39-30 lead into the locker room. It did not look like they’d have that much breathing room, though, as the Aces got the lead down to one before the Liberty scored eight points over the final 90 seconds of the half.
And then, in the third quarter, Wilson took over. While she had a good first half — she brought nine points and eight rebounds into the locker room — Wilson exploded for nine points and six boards in the third alone.
Wilson’s size and physicality were just too much for New York to handle, while Cayla George and Alysha Clark were also able to add some offensive firepower in the frame. While the Liberty led by as many as 12 in the third, the Aces just kept going at them, and thanks to a 9-0 run to end the quarter, Las Vegas took a 53-51 lead into the game’s final frame to move 10 minutes away from back-to-back titles.
In what sure seemed like a statement of intent, the Aces started the fourth on a 7-2 run, further extending their lead and putting them in control of their own destiny in front of a stunned crowd at the Barclays Center. But a cold spell by Las Vegas beget a run by New York, as the Liberty were able to go ahead thanks to a 9-2 run of their own.
Every basket by one team seemed to have a response from the other down the home stretch. And then, the Aces were just able to get some breathing room. After four straight points by Jackie Young to give Las Vegas a 4-point lead, Wilson did what she does best, going to work in the midpost and drilling a jumper with just under 90 seconds left.
A monster triple by Vandersloot out of a timeout got the lead back down to one possession. She picked Kelsey Plum’s pocket on the ensuing Aces trip down the floor, and Sabrina Ionescu hit a jumper from the free throw line to get the lead back down to one.
Becky Hammon had to call two timeouts — one before, one during — as the Aces tried to set something up. They got the look they wanted, as Wilson had an opportunity near the rim, but multiple New York defenders blocked her effort, setting up a chance where a bucket would give the Liberty a win.
New York got a near-perfect look, as the ball was inbounded to Breanna Stewart, the Aces over-rotated, and Vandersloot got a wide open look from three in the corner. But her effort couldn’t hit the rim, and Las Vegas earned their second title in a row as a result.
Wilson’s 24 points and 16 rebounds led the way for Las Vegas, while Young chipped in 16 points and seven assists. George had 11 points, Clark had 10, and while Plum had a bad shooting night (seven points on 2-for-12 shooting), she pitched in eight rebounds and five assists. For New York, Vandersloot had a 19-point, 7-rebounds, 6-assist night, while Laney went for 15. Like Plum, Stewart was able to have her fingerprints all over the game despite struggles from the field, as she had 10 points on 3-for-17 shooting with 14 rebounds, five assists, and two steals.
Sting, an icon in the world of professional wrestling, is officially hanging up his boots in 2024. Sting announced his decision on AEW’s Dynamite Wednesday night.
At 64 years old, Sting’s run in AEW may be one of his best. Unbeaten since joining the promotion in 2021, Sting quickly teamed up with Darby Allin and hasn’t turned back since, with a slew of classics late in his career.
He’s fresh off performing in front of more than 80,000 fans in London, England, as part of AEW’s All In event, where he and Allin defeated Christian Cage and Swerve Strickland in a coffin match. Ahead of All In, AEW’s founder Tony Khan had this to say about what it’s meant to have Sting apart of the roster and to give him this type of run at this point in his career.
“Sting stepped away from pro wrestling for several years and by all indications, he was going to retire. He felt he had a great run in him alongside his tag team partner, Darby Allin. He’s had some of the most exciting and memorable matches in AEW in the last several years and Sting has accumulated an undefeated record where Sting is, in many ways, the most successful wrestler in AEW,” Khan told Uproxx Sports.
“Every time he steps in the ring we try to pay tribute to his great career and how honored we are to have Sting with us.”
As the days and weeks wind down on Sting’s career, there’s no doubt Khan has something special for the icon’s sendoff.
Drake’s chart-topping album For All The Dogs finds him name-checking several people, such as 21 Savage, and maybe several others, like Kanye West. Many are convinced that “Fear Of Heights” is about Rihanna (for good reason), while Drake directly referenced the commentary surrounding his support of Millie Bobby Brown and their large age gap in “Another Late Night” featuring Lil Yachty. But people have taken more issue with Yachty’s evocation of Billie Eilish in the same song.
“I let her go, she fine as hell, but baby wasn’t stylish (Yeah),” Yachty raps in his verse. “She had big t*ts like Billie Eilish but she couldn’t sing (Drip).” Eilish subtly acknowledged the unsolicited objectification of her body — unfortunately, she’s been dealing with unwanted over-sexualization of her body for years — and it’s especially confusing because there hadn’t been any public evidence that there’s any bad blood between Eilish and Yachty or between Eilish and Drake.
BuzzFeed Newsdid the dirty work of chronicling Eilish’s friendship with Drake. In 2019, during the third iteration of her annual “Same Interview” with Vanity Fair, Eilish complimented Drake as the “nicest dude.” She shared they’d only ever texted, but she was surprised by how nice he was because “he’s at the level where he doesn’t need to be nice, but he is.”
At the time, Eilish was closing in on her 18th birthday, and Drake had just turned 33. As with Millie Bobby Brown, people quickly pointed out how it felt “creepy” for Drake to be texting with underage girls. BuzzFeed News also resurfaced photo proof that Eilish has known Yachty since at least 2018.
can we talk about drake texting billie eilish and millie bobby brown… he’s a whole ass grown man and they’re two underage girls… that’s some creepy shit if you ask me..
“drake didn’t say this” okay i don’t fucking care? by releasing this song he’s complacent in allowing the objectification of women, particularly one he talked when she was just a minor https://t.co/7GuhnLoQl9
That makes Yachty’s “Another Late Night” bar all the more confounding. It would appear that both rappers had gone out of their way in the past to be kind to an up-and-coming Eilish, so why would Yachty go out of his way to insult her now? Nothing blatant has happened to suggest a rift. Maybe it’s a private joke between friends who all happen to lead hyper-public lives; none of us can claim to know where these three currently stand with each other. Regardless, this isn’t the first time Drake has come under fire for housing misogynistic lyrics on an album.
Long before she was one of the hosts of Jeopardy! — but not before she played young Bette Midler in Beaches — Mayim Bialik was a sitcom star. Blossom was her show, and it might be again: There’s a reboot in the works, and if it comes to fruition it won’t be a comedy (with plenty of Very Special Episodes). The show made Bialik a household name — which means it inevitably got parodied in a 1994 sketch on SNL. But Bialik felt that one major detail of it crossed a line.
“The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious,” Bialik wrote in a Variety op-ed, referring to Melanie Hutsell. “But. She wore a prosthetic nose. In order to truly convey that she was ‘Blossom,’ she wore a fake, big nose.”
She continued:
“I don’t know if it was significantly larger than my real nose and I don’t care to remember. I remember that it struck me as odd. And it confused me. No one else on the show was parodied for their features. In MAD magazine, everyone is caricatured, but in this rendition of parody, it was just me that was singled out. More specifically, it was my nose.”
Bialik never publicly addressed the sketch, until now, not wanting to draw attention to it. “I hoped no one noticed,” she wrote. “All of my friends at high school watched SNL. It wasn’t subtle. They would all see it and I felt ashamed.”
One reason Bialik is bringing it up now is due to the uproar over Bradley Cooper’s fake nose in Maestro, in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. After seeing pictures of the actor in the film, she wrote, “I started scrutinizing the photos of Bradley and Leonard and wondering if it was necessary. I don’t know how I feel. I don’t know if it matters how I feel. I assume it matters how his family feels. But maybe it doesn’t?”
Bialik writes that girls “all over the world used to tell me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on TV before they saw me on Blossom.” She added, “Many said they knew I was Jewish and it made them proud to be. That was so touching to me, and it still is… I wonder how those girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comically prosthetic nose. I wonder if that’s different from Bradley Cooper playing a famous person. Does it matter?”
She concluded, “My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am as well. Is it because of my nose? Perhaps. But I don’t have to know because we will always be one and the same.”
Speaking of early ’90s SNL, back in August it was revealed that Hillary Clinton was none-too-pleased with a sketch that sent up then-12-year-old Chelsea.
You can watch SNL’s old Blossom sketch — which also features Mike Myers’ doing a dead-on Joey Lawrence, Sara Gilbert as Blossom’s pal Six, and Kevin Nealon as her supportive dad, played on the show by Ted Wass — in the video below.
Last Wednesday, October 11, Travis Scott opened his long-awaited Utopia — Circus Maximus Tour at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The musician is continuing his North American trek tonight, October 18, with his second of two stops at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas — the home state of his opener, Teezo Touchdown — before jetting to T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday, October 20.
During opening night, it didn’t take long for photos of the tour’s merch options to leak onto the internet. According to a Reddit thread and from photos by people in attendance, there are several graphic tees, short-sleeved and long-sleeved, hoodies, and sweatpants.
The Reddit thread shows photo proof that prices range from $25 graphic tees to the $150 hoodie, the latter of which is cream-colored. The $125 army green sweatpants have “CIRCUS” and “MAXIMUS” screen-printed on each leg.
Earlier this evening, the American Airlines Center account on X (formerly known as Twitter) posted, “RECORD BREAKING: Congrats to @trvisXX + #CircusMaximusTour on BEST single-day merch sales on record at AAC! Get here early to avoid lines before UTOPIA Night 2! [star emoji, tent emoji].” Scott posted a screenshot of the post to his Instagram Story.
The single appeared on Swift’s official website moments before Swift made the announcement across her socials.
“What a truly mind blowing thing you’ve turned The Eras Tour Concert Film into,” Swift captioned an Instagram post of the single’s cover art. “I’ve been watching videos of you guys in the theaters dancing and prancing and recreating choreography, creating inside jokes, casting spells, getting engaged, and just generally creating the exact type of joyful chaos we’re known for [angel emoji].”
The caption continued, “One of my favorite things you’ve done was when you supported ‘Cruel Summer’ SO much, I ended up starting The Eras Tour show with it. For old times sake, I’m releasing the live audio from the tour so we can all shriek it in the comfort of our homes and cars PLUS a brand new remix by @lpgiobbi. Thank you, so much, forever, wow, just thank you!!!”
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This summer, “Cruel Summer” surprisingly became Swift’s latest radio single (as first reported by Billboard in June), despite it being housed on her Lover album from 2019 — six whole albums ago, and soon to be seven once 1989 (Taylor’s Version)drops on October 27. During the second of her back-to-back The Eras Tour stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 17, Swift explained the “Cruel Summer” resurgence.
“‘Cruel Summer’ was on the Lover album,” Swift told the crowd moments after performing “Cruel Summer” (as captured by Holly Caitlin). “That album came out four years ago, and I just need to let you know something: ‘Cruel Summer,’ that song was my pride and joy on that album. That was my favorite song.”
She continued, “You have conversations before the album comes out, and everybody around weighs in on what they think should be singles. And I was finally, finally about to have my favorite song become the single off of Lover, and, um, I’m not trying to blame the global pandemic that we had, but that is something that happened that stopped ‘Cruel Summer’ from ever being a single. So what’s happening right now, thanks to you — and honestly, no one understands how this is happening — but you guys have streamed ‘Cruel Summer’ so much right now in 2023, it’s like at the top of — it’s rising on the streaming charts so crazy, and my label have just decided to make it the next single.”
“Cruel Summer” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2019 but peaked at No. 3 on August 19, 2023. As of this writing, it has spent 23 total weeks on the chart. The single was the second song performed by Swift during the first North American leg of The Eras Tour behind “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince.”
Show after show, Swifties scream-sang the bridge: “I’m drunk in the back of the car / And I cried like a baby comin’ home from the bar / Said, ‘I’m fine,’ but it wasn’t true / I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you / And I snuck in through the garden gate / Every night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh) / And I scream, ‘For whatever it’s worth / I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?’ / He looks up, grinnin’ like a devil.”
1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out 10/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is in theaters now. Find more information here.
Megan Thee Stallion and Paramore are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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