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Warning: Succession spoilers ahead.

It was a tough loss for the Shiv fans on the latest episode of Succession. Sure, she’s been dealing with some of her own real stuff, but she’s also been in cahoots with the suddenly well-dressed enemy and his golden bomber jacket.

Throughout the season, Shiv had been secretly working with Matsson and his weird little jokes to keep the sale going in order to land herself a higher position at the forthcoming media conglomerate. Shiv was hesitant to declare Mencken the winning candidate because if Mencken wins, the deal goes away. You could see her realization in her eyes at the moment when her reality came crashing down on her as Kendall finds out about her and Matsson. But how did that man, who clearly has his own stuff going on, realize what was happening?

After Shiv lied about calling Nate, Kendall asked her what they talked about. She stumbled a bit before Kendall decided to take matters into his own hands and give him a call, where it was revealed that Nate and Shiv never spoke. After this moment, Kendall goes to Greg, and that’s when Shiv knows it’s really over for her, because Greg is the last person you want in your business.

Her brothers then proceed to mock her and her questionable choices by making fun of her stutter, which is how you know the sibling fight has taken a turn for the worse. It will be hard to see her get out of this one.

On the bright side, we had one positive sibling interaction that we can live off of for the time being!

HBO’s Succession airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

The windy city should prepare to feel the rugged breeze of rock music lovers headed to the area in September. Riot Fest 2023 is set to take over Chicago’s Douglass Park between September 15th and 17th. Across the three days, several dozen music acts will shred the stage. However, the headlining talents are Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, and The Cure.

On Friday, September 15, Foo Fighters and Turnstile are top-billed, whereas The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, and Queens Of The Stone Age will take over duties on Saturday, September 16. The festival will be closed out by The Cure and The Mars Volta.

Other notable acts include The Gaslight Anthem returning after an 11 years hiatus at the festival, Tegan And Sara, Death Grips, Bayside, The Aquadolls, and PUP.

Despite the characteristically rock-focused lineup, a few users on social media were actually angered to see non-tradition indie acts on the bill, including rapper 070 Shake, hyper-pop act 100 Gecs, and funk legends Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton.

To that, the person in charge of the festival’s Twitter account replied, “Just remember that I (the person who runs this Twitter account) am solely responsible for all of the lineup and booking choices, and I care very deeply about your opinions and will treat any of your dumb complaints with exactly the respect they deserve.”

General, VIP, and deluxe tickets for Riot Fest 2023 are on sale now. Find more information here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Las Vegas Aces will start their title defense without head coach Becky Hammon, as the WNBA’s highest-paid coach will serve a two-game suspension to begin the season for violating the league’s Respect in the Workplace policies.

Along with the suspension of Hammon, the Aces will forfeit their 2025 first round pick (having already traded their 2024 pick) for a violation of impermissible benefits while negotiating an extension with Hamby. The punishment handed down by the league concludes a months long investigation into allegations from Hamby that she was “traumatized” by the way she was treated after being traded to the Sparks by the Aces following her announcement in the fall that she was pregnant.

Being traded is part of the business. Being lied to, bullied, manipulated, and discriminated against is not. I have had my character and work ethic attacked. I was promised things to entice me to sign my contract extension that were not followed through on. I was accused of signing my extension knowingly pregnant. This is false. I was told that I was ‘a question mark’ and that it was said that I said I would “get pregnant again” and there was a concern for my level of commitment to the team.

The league found that those comments apparently came from Hammon and were deemed a violation of league policies. The WNBA’s official statement does not expound on what was found beyond there being “comments made by Hammon to Hamby in connection with Hamby’s recent pregnancy.”

The investigation also looked into allegations the Aces were circumventing league rules about paying players and providing impermissible benefits this offseason as they landed Candace Parker and others to bolster their roster, but found no evidence of that being the case.

Leaving your phone number with a brand at the checkout is always a gamble. On the one hand, you’ll get the latest news on whatever you ordered from wherever you ordered it from and maybe 10 or 20% off your next streetwear buy. Waiting on a gift? Eagerly anticipating something you just treated yourself with? Bought something expensive but don’t trust your neighbors (someone is stealing from my doorstep, Kevin, and I know it’s you)? You’re damn right you’re going to leave that phone number.

On the other hand, sometimes a company goes too far. No, I’m not talking about selling your phone number to scammers and cold-callers, I’m talking about waking up to weird texts with heavy sexual innuendos, like Fashion Nova shoppers did this morning. The text promised ‘The BIGGEST one you’ve ever seen” followed by the eggplant emoji, some shifty eyes, and a wink.

We all know that the eggplant emoji is the universal language for “dick” and paired with the shifty eyes… and winking face — look, a lot of emojis translate to “horny sex stuff” and I know marketers have to do their job and create interest in their customer base, but there are probably a million other ways to advertise a 50% off sale. Just think of all the people who must’ve checked this text half-asleep. We’re not all morning people, some of us don’t have the mental capacity to get a joke that early in the morning.

As a result, a lot of people took to Twitter this morning to say that Fashion Nova has gone too far. Whether you liked the text or not, we can all agree that Fashion Nova are some freaks. In a fun way.

At last count, vasectomy candidate Nick Cannon has welcomed 12 children into this world. And he wishes he had another one, too. Silly Nick Cannon.

By all accounts, all parties remain largely pleased by whatever arrangements have been made in this situation. Cannon, however, admitted that he screwed up this year for Mother’s Day. This was bound to happen eventually, right? It’s like he’s Santa Claus during this holiday or something.

As pointed out by The Daily Beast, Cannon took to his podcast, The Daily Cannon, and revealed how he had screwed up by “doing handwritten messages from the heart,” but he sent them to the wrong women. And “one baby mama [read] the card about how I feel about the other baby mama,” which sounds so cringeworthy.

Cannon appeared to then resolve to go generic from here on out. We’ll see how that goes next year. He may have two more kids by then, you never know. Yet he sees the humor in the situation and even posted a reel to Instagram, so we can all be happy that we don’t have twelve kids, too. “I tried my BEST but #MothersDay didn’t go as planned this year!” he wrote. No kidding.

Miley Cyrus has her sights on the next single from her recent album, Endless Summer Vacation, as she dropped the new music video for “Jaded.”

An early teaser found the pop star lying topless on her bed, which opens the music video. It also is interspersed with shots of Cyrus in a gold swimsuit and outdoor scenery, keeping with the chill-but-emotional anthem.

“I know it was wrong, but never said I was sorry / Now I’ve had time to think it over / We’re much older and the bone’s too big to bury,” Cyrus sings in the song. “And it’s a f*ckin’ shame that it ended like that / You broke your own arm, but you’d never say that / We went to Hell, but we never came back.”

Considering it serves as her reflection on a past failed relationship, presumably about Liam Hemsworth, the lyrics convey all the messy and emotional thoughts that come with it.

Cyrus’ lead single from the album, “Flowers,” was her post-breakup take on being a self-reliant woman who is now completely free to do what she wants. This also paid off immensely, as it became her biggest hit on the Billboard charts. Here’s hoping “Jaded” can see a similar fate.

Check out Miley Cyrus’ new music video for “Jaded” above.

It looks like Cardi B’s Twitter fingers might have gotten her in a little trouble with the platform’s admins, so she’s going to the owner himself for help. It all started when Janelle Monáe dropped her refreshingly racy video for “Lipstick Lover,” prompting a 24-hour thirst-fest on Twitter. Cardi joined in with an NSFW post of her own, which included a photo of a woman sucking another woman’s breast. However, Cardi now believes that her explicit post got her account “shadowbanned” and is even ready to suck up to the app’s owner and former CEO.

“I’m shadowbanned cause I posted a picture of somebody getting their tittie sucked,” she wrote. “@elonmusk please unshadowban me. I won’t do it again.”

Of course, her request might be a little too late; Elon reportedly stepped down from Twitter, installing a new CEO — who is, unfortunately, not Dionne Warwick — and is said to be focusing on “product design & new technology.” What “product design” has to do with spreading antisemitic memes remains to be seen. Maybe it’s part of that “free speech” he keeps railing about (to recap: titty tweets=not okay; virulent Nazi symbolism=okay).

For what it’s worth, though, it does appear that Cardi is any kind of banned. Her last tweet, a video of the huge bunch of roses Offset got her for Mother’s Day, has nearly 2 million impressions since yesterday, which means her tweets probably aren’t being secretly suppressed by the algorithm. More likely, she’s been in what’s colloquially known as “Twitter Jail,” when the app won’t let you post for a while because you violated terms of service somehow. It’s less public than an official suspension, and usually, it only lasts about a day. Cardi’s latest tweet kind of proves that she’s off timeout, and we’re sure she’ll be posting something controversial again in no time.

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

The Russo brothers have reunited with one of their superheroes for another high-stakes tale of good vs evil, only this one uses a lot more guns than Thor normally does. Extraction 2 brings back Chris Hemsworth as black ops mercenary Tyler Rake after he narrowly survived the events of the first movie. You can’t keep a man like Hemsworth down, though, and Rake is already on his next mission to help protect a young family.

As the official logline states, “Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.” The cast also includes Golshifteh Farahani, Tornike Gogrichiani, Adam Bessa, Daniel Bernhardt, Tinatin Dalakishvili, and Olga Kurylenko.

This trailer has everything you could ever want from an action movie, conveniently packaged into 2 minutes and thirty seconds of thrills and Hemsworth’s impressive jawline. There’s a carefully timed elevator grenade, a fight on a treadmill, and even Rake punching the enemy while his hands are engulfed in flames. It’s just another day for Hemsworth, though, who has been consistently getting jacked for the last decade or so. This man knows how to throw a punch no matter what the laws of physics are.

Extraction 2 hits Netflix on June 16th. Check out the trailer above.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

In early March, LeBron James was watching NBA games on a Lakers off night and came to the realization that his son, Bronny, was already better as a high school senior than some guys in the league.

James tweeted as much, sparking plenty of chatter with many of us just chalking it up to James being maybe a bit overenthusiastic as a proud father. While some in the league were probably not thrilled that James would say that, there are at least a couple stars who get LeBron’s point. On this week’s episode of Paul George’s “Podcast P”, DeMar DeRozan was the guest and was asked about James’ tweet, and somewhat surprisingly agreed with James, saying there’s “a lot of sorry motherf*ckers in our league.”

DeRozan goes on to explain that he thinks there’s an issue with how some young players enter the league not wanting to put in the work and expect to get playing time just for existing. George then chimes in that of the 450 players in the NBA, there’s a good 75-100 that “stink” but are “good dudes.”

I would really enjoy a follow-up pod where DeRozan and George tier out all 450 players in the league so we can find out exactly who belongs in the “stinks” tier, but for now we’ll just have to do our best to figure out on our own who falls into that category.

Travis Scott fans are in luck. The rapper’s fourth studio album Utopia is ready to be released, or so Scott says. In February, in a clip posted to social media, the producer told fans that although he couldn’t wait for the project to be released. However, he wouldn’t drop it until a few artists signed to his Cactus Jack label, including Don Toliver, were taken care of first.

Staying true to his promise, Travis Scott is preparing to share the project with the world. During his scheduled appearance at the Houston Astros’ Minute Maid Park, he allowed the players to be the first to preview it before its public release.

When asked how he felt to be onsite in his hometown with new music on the horizon, Scott told Mark Berman, Fox 26’s sports director, “Man, you know, fresh from Utopia. Nah, mean? Live from the Utopia. It’s on the way now, Mark.”

Continuing, “I had to come down and play Utopia for the boys in the locker room. I had to get them right for the game. Finished and mastered, Mark. You know how we do, Mark. from the clubhouse to the stu.”

Travis Scott has shared no further information about the project. Instead, telling fans to keep a lookout for what’s to come.

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