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As the youth say, Metro Boomin is outside. Not only is hit producer outside, he’s bringing his superstar friends Future and Don Toliver with him. The hip hop heavyweights linked up for the woozy yet epic music video for their collaborative song “Too Many Nights” off Metro Boomin’s latest album Heroes & Villains.

Co-directed by Boomin, Hidji World and Zac Facts the musicians show that if they’re going to work hard then they have to party equally as hard. In the late night into the wee hours of the morning shenanigans, the trio hop from a neon dancefloor, strip club, to the studio and more. Don Toliver keeps each location live showing off killer dance moves.

When asked by collaborating with the rapper, Boomin told GQ, “I told [Don Toliver], ‘Like 2001, you’ve got the Nate Dogg role.” The late singer Nate Dogg was famously know for delivering the perfect balance as a guest feature.

Later Boomin was sure to add, “You can still make great songs with them, but as a producer, it’s like, what are you bringing? You’ve got to break artists, you’ve got to bring new artists. That’s a big part of your duty.”

Fellow fashionable rapper A$AP Rocky makes a guest appearance in the visual. Another made an appearance in thoughts, Young Thug, as he is currented incarcerated. As the video closes, the group hold up t-shirt featuring the rapper’s picture with the word “FREE.”

Watch the full video for Metro Boomin’s song “Too Many Nights,” featuring Future and Don Toliver above.

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

Give Dan Crenshaw some credit: He won’t roll with the MAGA trolls flooding Congress, and he’s for the fact that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump. That doesn’t mean he can’t still get into a far right tizzy every now and then. As per The Daily Beast, the Texas representative tried to boycott Bud Light because they dared embrace a progressive practice. But the attempt wound up backfiring spectacularly.

Why was Crenshaw mad at beer? Because Anheuser-Busch, which owns the popular light lager, dared partner with trans TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. And he wasn’t having it.

“Just saw Bud Light’s stupid ad campaign,” Crenshaw said in an Instagram video, not specifically getting into an anti-trans panic. “So guess what we’re going to do? We’re going to throw out every single Bud Light we have in the fridge.” When he opened the fridge, there was plenty of beer cans, but none of them were Bud Light.

“Alright, well I guess that was easy,” he joked.

Thing is, the fridge was packed with Karbach, a Texas-based craft brewery that, as Houston Chronicle pointed out, is owned by Anheuser-Busch. Whoops! So much for that boycott.

It’s far from the first time Crenshaw has embarrassed himself while trying to appear cool. Who could forget his ridiculous action movie-style video in which he beat up BLM?

(Via The Daily Beast and Houston Chronicle)

Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour is no casual affair. When the “Love Story” singer performed in Glendale, Arizona, the city temporarily changed its name to Swift City. When she stopped in Arlington, a Texas city changed the name of a road to Taylor Swift Way. Now Tampa, FL, is joining in welcoming the pop star.

In an enchanting video, Mayor Jane Castor invited Swift to be honorary mayor for a day, saying, “Mayor Swift has a nice ring to it.” She’s performing from April 13 to April 14 and will be presented with a key to the city. Read the full speech to Swift below.

“Hey Taylor, this is Mayor Jane Castor. We are so excited to welcome you to Tampa April 13th through the 15th. Let me tell you, our weather never goes out of style. Your fans have spoken and they want to know what we are doing to welcome you to our beautiful city. We know Glendale changed its name, Arlington made a street sign, and Vegas illuminated their Gateway Arches, but here in Tampa, we’ve got a reputation to uphold. We want to go bigger. So I want to present you with a key to the city and invite you to be our honorary mayor for a day. Mayor Swift has a nice ring to it. We can’t wait to welcome you and your fans to Tampa (Taylor’s Version).”

George Santos hasn’t made too many waves in the last couple months, not like he did late last year and early 2023, when a day wouldn’t go by without some new, wackadoodle tall tale he told being made public. (Last we heard from him he was getting mocked by Jordan Klepper to his face.) But don’t worry, he’s still got it.

As per The Daily Beast, the Jewish news outlet The Forward has a report on the Yiddish-language publication Moment Magazine, in which two reporters dropped in on New York representative’s office and scored a sit-down. They did so covertly, not telling Santos that they were reporters, assuming (probably rightly) that he wouldn’t talk to them if he knew.

During their chat, one subject inevitably came up: Santos’ bizarre claim that he was Jewish, which he later downgraded to “Jew-ish.” Santos still claims at least partial Jewish ancestry, and he has proof, sort of: He took four separate DNA tests to prove he wasn’t entirely lying. He didn’t have proof, claiming he was “just waiting for their returns.”

Despite that, Santos did reveal to the reporters the exact percentage of Jewish ancestry in his blood. He just asked them not to make it public.

Among the many, many, many half-truths, fabrications, and outright lies Santos was caught telling during his congressional campaign — all of them only discovered after he’d been elected — among the strangest was that he was telling donors that he was a “Latino Jew” and “halachically Jewish.” He also claimed that his maternal grandparents had fled anti-Jewish persecution first in Ukraine and then in Belgium. The Forward was the magazine that debunked that one, using genealogy sites to show that both grandparents were born in Brazil.

So we’ll have to wait and see if Santos can scientifically prove he’s a member of the tribe, if he ever actually makes public the results. And yet this line still has nothing on Santos falsely claiming his mother died on 9/11.

(Via The Daily Beast and The Forward)

Last year Twitter introduced a fun new way to tweet without having to start an alt account: Twitter Circle, which allows users to only tweet to accounts they deem trustworthy when it comes to posts you don’t want the world to see. But if you’ve been using it to air your darkest secrets, you might want to put the kibosh on that, at least for now.

As per TechCrunch, Twitter Circle addicts have been reporting a bug in which posts they meant only for an elite group were mysteriously winding up where they shouldn’t. Sometimes they pop up in the “For You” timeline of people who follow them but are not in one’s Circle. Other times they’re out there in the general public, for anyone to see.

Is this yet another Elon Musk-era bug? Something more nefarious? One former employee told Tech Crunch a theory on what was up:

“Twitter seems to be outright failing to filter out private content before serving it to users,” Theo Browne, a creator and former Twitch engineer, told <em>TechCrunch</em>. Twitter recently revealed the source code behind its recommendation algorithm, which uses multiple models to source, rank and filter tweets. Browne hypothesized that the sourcing model is surfacing private content, but these private tweets are not adequately being filtered out.

Of course, it’s hard for anyone to confirm what’s going on since Musk canned Twitter’s public relations team, like he did the janitors at Twitter HQ. But a number of people have tested out the problem, with unhappy results:

Upon finding out that Twitter Circle posts were materializing outside their Circle, people were not pleased.

Perhaps Musk and his team will eventually get around to fixing this problem, as they have with other Twitter hiccups. In the meantime, maybe don’t overshare or make fun of that mutual friend in a forum that’s supposed to be only semi-public.

(Via TechCrunch)

Cardi B has always been open about her thoughts, even when they turn out to be controversial. Sometimes, that means defending herself when her words are used against her, as she did on Instagram, addressing her criminal past of “drugging and robbing” strip club customers following her tweets responding to a news item involving some questionable behavior on the part of the Dalai Lama.

The Tibetan spiritual issued an apology to a young boy’s family that showed him kissing the boy and allegedly telling him to suck his tongue. Cardi B seemingly responded to the news by tweeting a warning that “this world is full of predators.” In it, she gave some advice to parents: “Constantly talk with your kids about boundaries and what they shouldn’t allow people to do to them.”

However, after she tweeted this and the story was picked up by Instagram gossip accounts, the comments were apparently riddled with users cutting her down for admitting to robbing drugged men when she worked at a New York strip club years ago (a la the Jennifer Lopez film Hustlers — which Cardi also had a cameo in).

Cardi went Live on Instagram to address the commentary, pointing out the difference between sneaking cash from sleazy customers and urging small children to commit inappropriate acts. “Y’all not gonna keep doing this,” she said. “For y’all to said that I’m some predator… because n****s wanted to buy some p*ssy from me? … These weren’t no vulnerable men… Did I touch their body?… No. Robbing and raping is two different type of sh*ts.”

She also shot down people calling her “the wrong messenger,” due to her experiences with motherhood and being abused as a teen. Meanwhile, over on Twitter, Cardi offered her final thoughts on the subject: “Wow all this support I’m getting at the same time is beautiful. It was deep in my heart to talk about this cause me & my friend was talkin last night & then the dalai lama thing happen this morning …Thank you everyone..I just have to realize the people attacking me are just projecting.”

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

Netflix’s The Night Agent took off so quickly after its March 23 release date that the effect is almost dizzying. In short order, the series hit people’s queues and started rising towards the Top 10 English-speaking series list, where it should soon join the likes of Wednesday, Dahmer, and Stranger Things. So of course, fans quickly wondered if Netflix would renew the show, and somehow, those hopes have already been answered.

Yes, The Night Agent has been renewed for a second season. The Gabriel Basso-starring spy series (with a side of romance) therefore managed to buck the current trend of Netflix hanging back for awhile to make sure shows are sure things before opening the production wallet for more. So, we’ll get to see more of the story based upon Matthew Quirk’s bestselling book, and this goes to show that espionage will never get old for viewers. Heck, all of those Tom Cruise movies prove as much.

As well, the streaming services have never stopped cranking spy-involved shows out with Jack Ryan and Slow Horses landing among other recent successes. As far as timing goes, it’s far too soon to predict a landing date for more of The Night Agent, but Basso recently sat down with Collider (before the renewal news) to discuss how his character, Peter Sutherland, will handle his increased confidence in the next round:

“Yeah, he was thrown in above his head, and he had to look to Rose and all these other people to help him out. But I think if there was a Season 2, his MO would almost shift completely because he’d now be a Night Agent. I’d have to talk to Shawn about what that mission would be. I’m sure it all depends on the context of where you’d see him next, but I’m sure his training would shift from, “I’m an FBI agent,” to killing people. Whatever he’s being asked to do, I’m sure the emphasis would shift and the goal would shift, significantly. He’d probably feel a little out of his depth again.

Hopefully, this one is fast tracked, and fans will see more concrete plans soon.

(Via Collider)

SPOILERS from this week’s Succession will be found below.

Save for a last bit of psychological warfare with Roman and a few obscured body parts as his character lay dying, we barely got any Brian Cox magic last night as we bid adieu to Logan Roy on Succession. Weird as it is to say, it might be the first time in history that less Brian Cox was the right decision in a show or movie. But series creator and episode writer Jesse Armstrong and director Mark Mylod knew exactly what they were doing — they were turning their toxic nepobabies into relatable and sympathy-worthy characters.

While Logan will return for a couple of flashback scenes, as Cox confirmed to Vulture, we know that his active presence on the show is basically complete and that he will be missed in ways that are hard to comprehend right now as we face a stretch run that could get quite ugly without him at the center.

Logan was intimidating, ferocious, frustrating, enthralling, dryly comedic, and even vulnerable on rare occasions. Brian Cox gave us a maximum performance that’ll be studied among the best in TV history. But following that tour de force last week with his seeming renewed vigor and his meager efforts to tie up loose ends on the family side before showing a peek of heart with his bodyguard/pal, what more was there to say?

How do you top this?

Or this?

Sure, Armstrong could have flipped Cox another slab of red meat to tear into with a big attention grabber of a death scene that would have overshadowed everything else with its actorly brilliance, but he and Mylod wanted to avoid cliches (as Mylod confirmed on the Succession podcast). They also wanted to put the audience and the Roy kids on the same footing during the chaos of that 28-page one-shot scene as the kids speedily ran through the stages of grief, their poses from the karaoke bar and smugness shattered with the hammer of hopelessness and loss.

This season began with Shiv, Roman, and Kendall perched in a luxurious lair, toying with the idea of a new media company like the bored Gods that they are. For all of their endearing ridiculousness, the power of the show’s amazing writing and tremendous acting, and the real trauma of being raised and crushed by Logan and his toxic demands and actions, the kids are, at their core, rotten. They’re entitled brats. But last night, none of their power or money made a bit of difference as they sat all alone on a crowded superyacht. And seeing them reckon with those limitations mattered because we all feel that way and all confront our limitations in that moment.

“No, I can’t have that.” – Shiv Roy

This show about billionaires tugged on a relatable thread, recreating the nightmare that is being caught in the moment between finding out a loved one is likely and definitely gone, especially when that nightmare happens from a world away with only the hollow substitute of technology to act as a bridge. Something many of us have had to deal with.

“My dad is dead and now I feel old.” – Connor Roy

Death is sudden even when it isn’t. It’s messy, destabilizing, and forces people to confront their own mortality and call upon instinct even when they spend their lives trying to suppress it. Note the reflexive “I love yous” and Kendall standing firm in his conviction to not forgive while also, basically undercutting that same statement in his own farewell call. Look at Connor, falling into the habits formed by a lifetime of self-blame, missing the latest instance of his siblings treating him like an afterthought while costing him the chance to say goodbye to his father.

It would have been interesting to see Brian Cox get to play being on the other end of those calls, reckoning with the end and what it meant for his character’s relationship with his children. Same as it would have been powerful to see Logan bowed, pale and panicked while brought to the gates of his own mortality with all the fear and questions that brings. But we’ve seen those things before across the expanse of this amazing show, or at least moments that conjured those same feelings. How many times do we need to see the magic trick to be sufficiently amazed?

We haven’t seen the Roy kids this helpless, this shaken, this human before. I’m at a loss trying to think of another show that has ever delved into grief so intensely in such a concentrated dose before. That one-shot scene is as jaw-dropping as it was uncomfortable and resets this show in a way, challenging Kendall, Shiv, Roman, and Connor to react to and be changed by this in ways that are sure to be compelling, wrongheaded, possibly ruinous, or maybe profound.

Last night, Succession stopped being about the giant that was Logan Roy. Next week, it’ll be about the world without him and how sycophants scatter and scrape as industries, governments, and economies move on. The kids will be front and center, for better or worse. But for a pocket of time last night it was about the loss of a father – a surprising reminder that all these treasures, rivalries, and games are utterly meaningless in the end.

The Super Mario Bros Movie hit theaters last week, but you are probably hoping to watch Bowser serenade Princess Peach in the comfort of your own home, and who could blame you? Luckily, you can watch that music video right now, here.

But if you want to watch the full movie (what a concept!) you’ll have to wait a little bit longer unless you want to take the rainbow road back to the theaters. Nobody would blame you for that, though.

While the movie is currently available for pre-order on various VOD sites, the official release online date hasn’t been announced yet. This, in part, has to do with the fact that the movie is currently dominating theaters around the country, so we will likely have to wait a bit longer.

Thanks to a Universal deal, the movie should end up on Peacock at some point soon. In the past, Illumination films like Minions and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish hit Peacock about 80 days after their initial release, meaning that we can expect Mario to hit the small screen around June. On the other hand, other movies like M3gan and A Knock At The Cabin were streaming just six weeks after the movie’s initial release, so it really depends on how much longer people will pay to see Mario will reign out there.

It doesn’t stop there! After sitting on Peacock for four months, Mario will make his journey over to Netflix, thanks to another deal Universal cooked up in 2021. That will likely happen sometime this fall, just in time for you to don Princess Peach’s racing outfit for Halloween.

(Via Collider)

Rocket Raccoon. You know him, you love him. But can I interest you in Blurp?

The four-eyed brown alien appears midway through the latest trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and while I know absolutely nothing about him, I would pay $100 for a Blurp plush at Disneyland. Maybe even $150 if he’s holding hands (paws?) with a Lady Lylla.

“Probably the most important character to the Marvel Universe going forward is Blurp,” Guardians of the Galaxy writer and director James Gunn joked to Empire. Please, Mr. Gunn, this is no laughing matter.

Blurp, who belongs to one of the Ravagers in Vol. 3, is “what’s known as a furry F’saki,” he continued. “In the very first movie, if you remember, there was that Orloni table that they were betting on, with that beast that was eating the animals. The bigger thing was eating the smaller things. That thing was a non-furry F’saki. Blurp is a furry F’saki. So that’s what he is. He’s a pet.”

Blurp is more than that. He is the moment. He’s also “a great character and offers a lot to the Guardians universe,” Gunn added. Your time is up, Groot.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 opens on May 5th.

(Via Empire)