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It’s the beginning of a new era for JT of City Girls. After sharing her solo single “No Bars,” she’s already garnered much buzzy for her quick-witted punchlines and fiery flows. Today (July 15) she has shared the video for her viral new track.

In the video, she is seen dancing behind blue bars, rocking matching hair and a hoodie. This is juxtaposed with clips of JT partying and meeting fans across London and Paris, emphasizing the she and City Girls have become a worldwide sensation.

In a statement accompanying the song’s release this past week, JT said she hopes the song is the beginning of a new chapter in her artistry, and leads to more people taking her seriously in hip-hop.

“I hope this freestyle finds you in a great place and is a start of the respect I deserve in music,” she said. “I love music! I love my voice! I love poppin my sh*t.”

In addition to the song and the video, JT also launched No Bars Reform, a program designed to help formerly incarcerated women readjust to society by providing them access to employment opportunities, housing, and mental health services.

You can see the video for “No Bars” above.

Steph Curry is known for taking a ball and putting it into the thing it’s meant to go through from very far away. He normally does this on the basketball court, but on Saturday afternoon, Curry did this on the golf course, as the Golden State Warriors star got a hole-in-one while competing at a celebrity tournament.

A longtime golfer who has participated in the event in the past, Curry is one of the many big names participating in this year’s American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe. After shooting a 3-under 69 on Friday, Curry entered Saturday’s round atop the leaderboard. His performance on the seventh hole will certainly help his chances of winning the event for the first time, as Curry recorded the first ever hole-in-one on the 152-yard par 3 in the event’s history.

Curry has done a whole lot in his professional career, so it says a lot about how big of a deal this was that he reacted with so much excitement. We’ll see if he’s able to ride this high into winning the tournament — coming into the weekend, Curry was tied for the seventh-best odds to win the American Century Championship, with former NFL quarterback and three-time winner Tony Romo coming in as the favorite.

Having been in the rap game for nearly four decades, rapper Snoop Dogg has stories for days. And given the number of historic hip-hop moments he’s been a part of, it’s amazing he can remember them all. During a stop on his High School Reunion Tour with Wiz Khalifa and Too Short, Snoop caught up with Canadian journalist Nardwuar backstage. Nardwuar revealed that he was interviewing Snoop for the 11th time in 23 years.

During the interview, Nardwuar and Snoop recalled various stories, including one about a roach who lived in one of his first apartments.

“He wouldn’t die so we called him ‘The Gooch,’” Snoop said. “We used to leave food out for him and everything. He just kept getting bigger and bigger. I stayed in that apartment for like about six, seven months — cuz grew to the size of about a whole dollar bill.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the two talked about some of Snoop’s iconic magazine covers, including that famous Vibe cover, on which, he was featured alongside Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Suge Knight.

Snoop recalls on the day of the shoot, “it felt like a mafia movie. Like the end was near.”

You can watch the full interview above.

A little more than a month after Lionel Messi announced his decision to come to Major League Soccer, his new club has finally completed the most consequential move in league history. A video posted to Inter Miami’s official Twitter account gave soccer fans their first glimpse of the greatest player to ever step foot on a pitch in the club’s kit.

In a statement, MLS commissioner Don Garber said the league is “overjoyed” that Messi decided to come to the United States following his departure from Paris Saint-Germain.

While both Messi and Inter Miami announced that he would join the team back in June, reports indicated that the hang-up revolved around getting the final details all sorted out in his contract, which runs through the next two and a half year and features an option for the 2026 season, according to The Athletic. It’s a move that has been in the work for quite some time, but Messi’s deal has reportedly been a bit more complex than the average contract, with stakeholders in the league like Apple and adidas being involved in getting all the details sorted out.

Now, that’s all been sorted out, and Messi is set to be unveiled to Miami supporters on Sunday evening at DRV PNK Stadium alongside another one of the club’s new signings, Sergio Busquets, a midfielder who played with Messi at Barcelona from 2008-21. It’s unclear exactly when Messi will play his first game for Miami, but the plan is for him to suit up for the first time on July 21, when the team plays Mexican side Cruz Azul in the Leagues Cup.

Messi will join a Miami side that has struggled this season, as the club has 18 points from 21 games to put them in last place in the Eastern Conference. They find themselves 11 points out of the final playoff spot in the East, although the team currently in that spot — the Chicago Fire — have played one more game.

One of the reported issues with a Damian Lillard trade to the Miami Heat revolves around Tyler Herro. While Lillard wants the Portland Trail Blazers to send him to Miami, Herro is the Heat’s most appealing young player, and he doesn’t make a ton of sense on a Blazers’ roster that includes Scoot Henderson, Shaedon Sharpe, and Anfernee Simons.

As such, a few teams have been brought up as a potential third squad to help facilitate a deal and land Herro in the process. The latest of which, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, are the Toronto Raptors, which have reportedly expressed some level of interest in trying to be the team that gets Herro.

The Toronto Raptors can also be added to the list of teams that have expressed exploratory interest in acquiring Herro as part of multi-team trade talks between the Blazers and Heat involving Lillard, league sources told HoopsHype.

Toronto was among the NBA’s lowest-scoring offenses last year — they found themselves 24th out of 30 teams — and were the third-worst three-point shooting team in the league. To make things more difficult, the team’s top scorer in the backcourt, Fred VanVleet, left to join the Houston Rockets in free agency. Herro would make some sense, then, as someone who could provide a spark offensively, but of course, there’s a big difference between being interested in a player and a deal coming to fruition.

Falsehoods spread more easily and more widely in today’s techno future, where social media allows the masses to a) read total nonsense then b) find lots of others who buy the same bull. Often times said misinformation is bad, dangerous. Other times it’s all in good fun. Of the latter breed, take the following recent viral video.

It shows a parade somewhere featuring a man with a blindingly white head of hair marching down the street surrounded by others. People don’t appear to happy with the paraders. Someone throws a water balloon, which lands well behind the man with the white hair. Then a little girl shoots her shot. She scores, hitting said man directly in his head. He walks it off while the little girl chuckles, proud of herself.

Could the man with the blindingly white hair be former vice president and current presidential candidate Mike Pence? That’s what someone on social media claimed. (The answer, by the way, is no, but more on that later.) As the video spread online, jokes flowed. “give this girl the cy young for hitting mike pence in the melon with a water balloon,” one person wrote.

Others, making Jan. 6 and Mets jokes, followed.

Alas, it’s pretty obvious this isn’t Mike Pence getting dinged with a water balloon. For one, we not only never see the man with white hair’s face, but he’s very, very far from the camera.

Sure enough, it was soon confirmed that that was definitely not Mike Pence. As per Mediaite, the video was filmed at the annual Stewart Manor July Fourth parade on Long Island. The doused man was at least a politican: He’s Bruce Blankman, a Nassau County executive. The revelers weren’t venting frustration, though: It’s tradition for the parade to end in a water balloon battle.

Blankman himself joked about getting hit in the head, writing about his water balloon assailant, “The Mets and Yankees could certainly use her!”

Not that Pence hasn’t been dunked on recently. It just hasn’t been with water. Back in May he was roundly mocked on social media for a very strange trip to Dunkin’.

(Via Mediaite)

Cardi B is never one to mince words. Even when she means well, Cardi can’t help but add her humorous touch to her sentiments.

Last month, a fan took to TikTok to share a video of herself crying in her car as “Tomorrow 2,” Cardi’s viral collaboration with GloRilla, plays in the background. While “Tomorrow 2” isn’t necessarily a tear-jerking ballad, the song evidently held significance to the TikTokker.

The video is captioned, saying “me crying to this song because it was one of the last songs I played around my boyfriend before he died is crazy…”

Though the TikTok clip is over a month old, it was only recently brought to Cardi’s attention. Upon seeing the video, Cardi offered a brand of heartfelt reassurance only she could deliver.

“Awwww …I guess …..He in heaven turning up!,” she said.

GloRilla and Cardi B released “Tomorrow 2” last year, which launched a hot run of features for the Bronx-bred rapper. Since then, she’s added her magic touch to Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor” and FendiDa Rapper’s “Point Me 2.”

You can see the TikTokker’s clip and Cardi’s response above.

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

Last month, after the OceanGate submersible Titan went missing, one name was bandied about early and often: James Cameron. After all, the vessel was heading for what remained of the Titanic, the subject of his second biggest blockbuster. The filmmaker had made many, many (safe) trips down to the wreckage before. He even probably knew about Titan’s fate before most anyone else did. But on the off chance you think Cameron is going to make his own movie about the tragedy, think again.

“I don’t respond to offensive rumors in the media usually, but I need to now,” he wrote. “I’m NOT in talks about an OceanGate film, nor will I ever be.”

Cameron was responding to rumors that alleged the contrary — rumors that had gotten prevalent enough that Cameron, a very busy guy, actually noticed them. Clearly the claims incensed him. He was not amused by the hubristic Stockton Rush, the CEO of the submersible trip company, who ignored repeated warnings about his vessel’s lack of safeness. As a result, he and four other people on board the Titan perished in what was likely a violent implosion.

For over a decade Cameron has repeatedly stressed the dangers of such deep sea diving trips — warnings Rush and company failed to appropriately heed.

(Via Deadline)

Summer League is, above everything else, an opportunity for guys to make a case for why they deserve a spot on an NBA roster. While it’s turned into a gigantic event that attracts fans and gets used by the league to promote other stuff it has going on, at the end of the day, basketball players are out there fighting for a place in the league.

Time will tell if L.J. Figueroa, who went undrafted out of Oregon in 2021 and spent time in the G League in each of the last two seasons, will get a chance to suit up for an NBA team next year — he was with the Santa Cruz Warriors in 2021-22 and the South Bay Lakers in 2022-23. The Lakers decided to bring him with their Summer League squad this year, and on Friday night, Figueroa had an impressive run off the bench in what ended up being a 100-69 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. This included one of the nastiest putback dunks you’ll ever see, as he cleaned up a miss by going up and over G.G. Jackson.

I do not think I have ever heard a more emphatic “oh my God” ever screamed by an announcer than in that above video. Here’s another angle, which shows him just levitating.

On the night, Figueroa went 7-for-10 from the field for 15 points with five rebounds, two assists, and a steal in a little more than 13 minutes of work.

For the past few months, Australian pop singer Troye Sivan has been teasing his new single, “Rush.” The song, along with its video, finally dropped yesterday (July 14). However, despite the anticipation surrounding the song and video, the latter proved rather polarizing.

There’s certainly no shortage of shirtless men in the “Rush” video, however, many have criticized the visual for its lack of body diversity.

“I adore Troye Sivan, but this ‘Rush’ video is making me feel some type of way,” said one viewer on Twitter. “It seems like a case study on how white gays choose to view queer people as a whole. There’s not a single fat person in the entire video. Just white twinks and chiseled bodies.”

He continued, saying, “It’s not that someone like Troye Sivan *has to* include diverse bodies in all his videos, it’s the fact that he chose to promote ‘Rush’ as this gay sex liberation anthem yet left out a massive chunk of the population he’s singing about? Why is critiquing that “boring discourse”?

Additionally, the video has also inspired a few memes, implying that Sivan opted to be very selective when choosing dancers and background actors for the videos.

But despite the discourse, some viewers have come to Sivan’s defense.

Comedian Jay Jurden expressed enjoyment over the song and video, suggesting that there’s no sense in starting discourse over them.

“‘Rush’ is not a song or video you need to think too hard about,” he said. “What happened to fun?”

Pop sensation and frequent Sivan collaborator Charli XCX also appears to have come to his defense, however, she did not specifically mention him by name.

“I feel like we live in a world where audiences feel like expression or art isn’t worth their time unless it appeases every single unspoken requirement,” she said. “IT IS SO BORING. if something breaks common aesthetics it’s ‘weird’ or ‘try hard.’ if something conforms it’s ‘offensive’ and ‘not diverse enough.’ What a boring discourse.”

She then referred to Sam Smith, who, in converse, has been the subject of discourse for the body diversity they’ve included in their videos.

“actually Sam Smith has made a load of great music videos/performances that play with the topics of eroticism and sex and sexiness with very diverse casting and they have been heavily criticized for doing so,” Charli said. “so basically what I’m saying is – no one can ever successfully make art for everyone in this current world, nor should they try to.”