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Drake and 21 Savage’s joint It’s All A Blur Tour has several questionable visual aid choices. Some of these are holograms. One of the most discussed images included a swimming giant sperm and a young Drake lookalike that Drake himself interacts with during the show. Attendees of the latest tour stop just spotted one creepy new addition to the collection: an Anna Wintour -inspired hologram.

Fans took to TikTok to share clips of the onscreen projection, jokingly calling out the entertainers for being petty about their feud with American Vogue‘s editor-in-chief. Although neither of the musicians has outrightly said that the hologram is pulled from Wintour’s likeness, the precise bob cut and bang combo, along with the conspicuous black designer sunglasses, leave little room for guessing.

The pair’s supposed legal settlement with Vogue‘s publisher Condé Nast furthers attendees’ speculation. The company initially sued Drake and 21 Savage for trademark infringement after the duo’s marketing teams released a fake Vogue cover to promote their album, Her Loss, in late 2022. Although Vogue wasn’t the only media company’s branding to be included in the project’s rollout, it appears Condé Nast was the only one to take legal action.

Meanwhile, NPR Music was flattered by the pair using their Tiny Desk Concert series set-up for a phony promotional video. The social media team for the series even invited Drake and 21 Savage actually to film an episode.

After some white powder, later identified as cocaine, was found in a well-traversed part of the White House, conservatives classily made jokes about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, who suffers addiction issues. But that only opened them up to other jokes about another presidential scion: Don Jr., whose amped-up speeches and videos have regularly been deemed coke-like. Jr. has always insisted he’s not into blow, and now he’s at it again.

As per The Daily Beast, Jr. spoke at the far right Turning Point Action conference on Sunday, where he inevitably brought up Blowgate. He naturally turned it into a riff on his own sense of self-victimization, claiming that had the nose candy been found during the Trump administration, everyone would have pointed the finger at him. (He’s right about that, but perhaps he’s earned it.)

“My guys who I stayed in touch with—many of them just dear friends—they’re like, ‘Hey dude, there’s no way you would’ve gotten away with that,’” Jr. told the crowd. “I go, ‘I know!’ Luckily, I don’t snort, uh, cocaine! It’s just not my thing.”

That Jr. said this while gesticulating wildly and speaking in his usual braying, hyperactive style made his claim all the more convincing.

The White House cocaine inevitably prompted a meltdown from the GOP, with Marjorie Taylor Greene accusing Joe Biden — surely one of the chilliest presidents in history — of being a potential cokehead. Jr.’s dad went arguably the furthest, saying the drug caused Biden to order the feds and the Justice Department to raid Mar-a-Lago. Things got so out-of-hand that Kayleigh McEnany was the right’s voice of reason.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Ed Sheeran‘s music crosses genre lines. While the singer wants to explore the world of country music eventually, the entertainer has already dabbled into rap. During his Detroit stop on the Mathematics Tour, Sheeran gave fans a glimpse of that when he decided to cover hometown hero Eminem’s 2002 song “Lose Yourself.”

The sold-out crowd sang along as he passionately strummed the chords to the Oscar & Grammy Award-winning track. Little did they know Sheeran had something greater planned. In the beginning portion of the song, Eminem secretly took the stage to join in for a surprise performance which sent fans over the edge.

If this may seem like a random pairing, it isn’t. It wasn’t thefirst time the shared the stage. During Eminem’s 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction performance, Ed Sheeran accompanied him for the song “Stan.”

Sheeran has spoken at length about how Eminem has influenced him. “I think it’s different with Eminem because he is quite reclusive and doesn’t see or meet that many people,” he once said on The Howard Stern Show. “I’ve known him now for six years, and we’ve done three songs together. I’ve played with him twice onstage. He’s another person I really relate to, as he lives in his hometown still and has his eco-system around him.”

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

When DeAndre Hopkins was released by the Arizona Cardinals, it gave teams still needing a wide receiver upgrade a chance to sign the former All-Pro. For a long time, the expectation was for the New England Patriots to land the star receiver, but a deal never materialized between the two sides and on Sunday, word broke that Hopkins had shifted his attention elsewhere in the AFC.

Doug Kyed and Dianna Russini reported early Sunday afternoon that Hopkins was expected to join the Tennessee Titans, giving them a veteran presence in their wide receiver room.

Shortly after, Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport brought word that Hopkins was set to join the Titans on a two-year contract worth $26 million (plus some incentives), giving Tennessee a top-level receiver they didn’t have last year after trading AJ Brown to Philadelphia.

The biggest question of Hopkins is what level he can still reach as a receiver. He hasn’t been an All-Pro since 2020, his first season in Arizona, having appeared in just 19 games across the last two seasons due to injury and a PED suspension. Even if he’s not quite the dominant outside threat he was at his absolute peak, he does give Tennessee a much-needed big body on the outside and a veteran to help bring along Treylon Burks.

Did you know “MAGA rap” was a subgenre? You do now. On Sunday, amidst this weekend’s far right Turning Point Action conference, Marjorie Taylor Greene did more than make an appearance. As if to make the whole conference all the worse, she popped up in a rap video, which you can watch above, if you dare.

The video is from Forgiato Blow, aka Kurt Jantz, aka Mayor of Magaville. Blow’s a pioneer of what he calls MAGA rap, which touts conservative lyrics about Donald Trump and whatever culture war issue the far right is harping on now. His latest song is called “MTG,” a paean to the ever-shouty ex-bestie of Lauren Boebert, but it’s also about that whole anti-LGBTQIA+ “grooming” nonsense a slither of conservatives keep harping on about.

As Blow goes on about the “deep state” and “RINOs” and (of course) AOC, Greene can be seen sitting on a golden throne with angel wings (why not) and making rap video facial expressions. Blow sings her praises about protecting kids from an uprise in school shootings — sorry, we meant from learning about the existence of gay people, which is not a problem:

She’s fighting for our children.
She’s fighting for our freedom
She’s fighting for the Jan Six-ers
She’s fighting good versus evil

You can watch the video above. Or you could just go on living your life.

(Via Mediaite)

Although fans’ live show etiquette has been on a decline lately, the number of tours, festivals, and more are on a steady incline. Lil Baby is just one of the dozens of artists hitting the road for a national tour. However, several of his It’s Only Us Tour dates were quietly canceled, which sent impacted ticketholders into a frenzy.

In Lil Baby’s latest post on Instagram, where he’s been marketing the tour, ten tour dates were noticeably missing, including the previously planned stops in Phoenix, San Diego, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Louisville.

Fans flooded the comment section of the post to demand an explanation for the canceled shows.

That wasn’t the only thing new about the tour flyer. To make up for the canceled show, two new dates were added. In August, his tour will stop in Philadelphia and New York. Pre-sales will begin on Tuesday, July 18, at noon ET. Find more information here.

View the updated It’s Only Us Tour schedule below.

07/26 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
07/28 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
07/29 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
08/05 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
08/06 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
08/12 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
08/17 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
08/18 — Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum
08/23 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
08/24 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
08/26 — Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
08/29 — Philadelphia, PA @ TBA
08/30 — New York, NY @ TBA
08/31 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
09/02 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
09/03 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
09/07 — Memphis, TN @ Fedex Forum *
09/09 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena *
09/11 –Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
09/12 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
09/15 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
09/16 — Jacksonville, FL @ Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena
09/19 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
09/22 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ FLA Live Arena

* – No GloRilla

The It’s All A Blur Tour with Drake and 21 Savage has been filled with a few uncomfortable onstage moments, including a huge floating sperm appearing in the concert’s displayed visuals to Drake being pelted with objects while performing. However, it’s also offered a wealth of information about the “Search & Rescue” rapper’s next moves.

After he brought out fellow rapper J. Cole for a surprise performance in Montreal, Drake had one special request for the Dreamville boss. While praising him for his dedication to the hip-hop culture, Drake had one special request for his friend: “Hopefully, there’s an album? Hopefully, there’s an album I can actually get on.”

Cole tried not to let anything details slip, so Drake tried again, this time flat-out asking, “Can I get on the album? I’m going to ask in front of Montreal. Can we get on your album?”

Cole thunderously replied, “Say less, goddammit!”

Before Cole left the stage, Drake showered him with one more round of compliments. “Montreal, I want you to understand something. It takes someone that not really only loves the art of this shit but really loves all of you to get on a plane to come here for two nights and represent for Montreal,” proclaimed the entertainer.

J. Cole hasn’t shared any details about his next album’s release. However, if the collaboration with Drake does come to fruition, it will make the duo’s first collaborative track since the 2021 song “Pipe Down” off of Drake’s album Certified Lover Boy.

Donald Trump wants his old job back bad, and it’s obvious why: Being president again would protect him from all those legal woes that could throw him in the clink. Besides, he needs a Mulligan. He didn’t follow through on a number of his campaign trail promises. Among them was “draining the swamp” — getting rid of the supposedly corrupt old-timers who’ve kept the country from being its best. Upon his leaving, the swamp was still very much there, as even one of his biggest cheerleaders has noticed.

As per Mediaite, Trump went on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, where he had a sit-down with Maria Bartiromo. She asked him about anything he’d try to do better in his second term, any mistakes he made the first time. Trump acknowledged that he screwed up with certain staffers — a lot of staffers who he fired or has since turned on.

“ I mean, I wouldn’t have put a guy like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr, and he was weak and pathetic. I wouldn’t have put [former Attorney General] Jeff Sessions. And there are some people that I wouldn’t have put in. You know, most people were good, but I had some people… we had [former Secretary of Defense] Mark Esper. I didn’t like him. He was incompetent. I thought we had other people I didn’t like.”

The list of failed personnel was so long that Bartiromo had to ask the big question: “Why did you put them in the job then?”

“I didn’t know the people,” Trump replied. “I know the people now better than anybody has ever known. The people I know, the good ones, the bad ones, the dumb ones, the smart ones.”

Then Bartiromo made a brave interjection. “You didn’t drain the swamp like you said you would,’ Bartiromo declared. You didn’t drain the swamp.”

“I did,” Trump claimed. “I fired [former FBI Director James] Comey. I fired a lot of people. A lot of the people I had, I fired. I fired Comey very early. And, you know, there was a question as to whether or not you could. But I fired Comey. If I didn’t fire Comey, I don’t think I would have been able to serve out my term because that was a plot.”

Bartiromo has been getting unusually testy with GOP candidates. Earlier this month she came right out and asked Ron DeSantis why his campaign was doing so badly. The network is reportedly souring on the Florida governor and may be thinking of going back to Trump, the guy who got them in so much financial trouble. But if so, calling out his bull is a strange way to kiss the ring.

(Via Mediaite)

After trading all of their second round picks to Washington to acquire Bradley Beal, the Phoenix Suns have been working to restock future second round picks in order to have some draft assets available to them in the future. They picked up three second round picks in a trade from the Memphis Grizzlies, offering Memphis a pair of future pick swaps in exchange, and on Sunday they made two more moves to land future seconds from San Antonio and Orlando.

The first was trading Cam Payne to the Spurs, with San Antonio bringing Payne’s $6.3 million deal into space with the two teams swapping future seconds, via Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania.

The Suns also agreed to a deal with the Magic similar to what they did with the Grizzlies, sending Orlando the rights to swap 2026 first round picks in order to get another three second round picks.

All of this shuffling of picks and cap space was done with another move in mind, as Woj brought word they were signing Bol Bol to a deal as well.

Bol averaged 9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game a year ago, and is a bit of a lottery ticket for Phoenix, as they are a team without much young talent and Bol provides an upside play without a ton of risk as they won’t be dependent on him for big contributions should he not pop.

On a list of the best celebrity couples, up around the top would undoubtedly be Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. (alongside folks like Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney.) They’ve been together for 40 years. They clearly adore each other. They’ve even made fun movies together. But there’s one catch: They’ve never gotten married. Why not? Chris Wallace dared ask Hawn that question, and the response he got? Not bad!

“Why should we be? Isn’t that a better question?” Hawn replied when Wallace asked why they never tied the knot.

Hawn then went on to offer a practical reason for never making their union legal: What if they ever broke up?

“When it doesn’t work out, it ends up to be big business,” Hawn explained. “It’s always ugly. Somebody actually has to take a look and say, ‘How many divorces actually are fun? How many divorces actually don’t cost money? How many divorces actually make you hate the person more than you did before? How many divorces have hurt children?’”

Hawn also said she likes technically being independent.

“I like the idea that I can wake up in the morning and make decisions every day if I want to be here,” said Hawn. “I mean relationships are hard. They’re not always easy. There’s all kinds of hurdles we go through. There’s things that we believe in, things we don’t believe in, we agree on.”

“So I think ultimately staying independent with independent thinking is important, so you can hold on to yourself, and you can actually have that feeling,” she concluded.

So good for them! May they just keep on keepin’ on.

(Via Insider)