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Less than six months after famed New York City restaurateur Keith McNally banned (then unbanned, then banned again) late-night host James Corden from his perennial hotspot Balthazar for reportedly being an “abusive” “tiny cretin of a man,” someone else is coming for the Cats star. As The Wrap reports, director Craig Duncan — who worked with Corden a decade ago — just posted a YouTube video in which he called out Corden as “the most difficult and obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with.”

In 2013, Duncan was asked to direct an episode of A League of Their Own, a sports-focused panel show that Corden hosted from 2010 to 2019. Before he even agreed to shoot the episode, Duncan says the production company asked how he was working with “difficult presenters.” Having previously worked with The Three Tenors, Duncan says he was pretty used to prickly personalities. “You can’t get much more prima donna than an opera singer.” But Duncan had yet to meet James Corden.

The task was to film a sort of MasterChef-like cooking competition, and he and the rest of the creative team were given very little time to build the set — or shoot it. But Duncan was thrilled with how it all turned out, and made sure to let the team know. “They busted their guts to get this thing ready, and I appreciated it,” Duncan said. Corden, however, was a different story.

While Duncan really enjoyed meeting the show’s other personalities, at one point he started noticing “a creeping sense of anxiety.” Eventually, Corden made his way onto the set while the director commenced shooting the segment. Eventually, the segment got to the part where the winner was going to be revealed. As they only had about six minutes left, Duncan realized their original plan for shooting would take too long, so he huddled with his team to come up with a quick Plan B. “We were working it out, to save time, when old buggaluggs pipes up: ‘What the f**k is going on here? It’s obvious what you do. You put a camera there, you put a camera there, you put a camera there, and you put a camera there… It’s so obvious how you shoot it. You’re stupid.’”

Rather than get annoyed, Duncan played along for appeasement’s sake and shot the rest of the segment the way Corden had suggested, which ended up taking about 40 minutes longer. “So cheers, James,” said Duncan. “You got your way. Well done. Well done for treading all over my toes. I don’t care; I’ll get paid at the end of the day. And I hope I never, ever work with you again.”

Since the media picked up on the story, Duncan posted a postscript statement on his YouTube page:

This video is just intended as a benign anecdote. I have a tiny following, so didn’t think it would be seen TBH. For the media to pick up on James Corden being rude to me 10 years ago is insane. It’s a non-story as far as I’m concerned. Bosses are ‘short’ with staff all the time. James never told me “You’re stupid” in fact, I can’t remember the exact things he said… it was more a rant at me about camera positions with an element of swearing involved. It probably “felt” worse than I portray in the video, but it was certainly as bad as I say it was. In the video I’m mumbling “It’s stupid,” not saying he said I was stupid. I’d have walked if he had.

(Via The Wrap)

Because we are obligated to talk about the biggest indie news of the week — it’s right there in our introduction — we were required to open this week’s episode with an overview of the Boygenius discourse. Which turned toxic over the weekend for all of the predictable reasons. However, is it possible to think that The Record is neither a masterpiece nor the worst thing ever but simply … okay?

One album we think is a lot better than okay is Rat Saw God, the latest from North Carolina band Wednesday. Steve and Ian both wrote about this album this week, and we both came away impressed by Karly Hartzman’s ability to evoke a real sense of place in her lyrics. Coupled with the band’s heavy guitar sound, Wednesday brings to mind one of their biggest influences, Drive-By Truckers. Might the critical acclaim of Rat Saw God bring more people to the DBT fold? We came up with some suggested albums for newbies.

Next we turn to the mailbag, and address an interesting listener question: What is the best album of the decade so far? Which leads to other interesting questions: How did the pandemic mess with how we perceive early 2020s music? Has the album that will define this decade even been released yet? After that, we proceed to talk about the legacies of two very different acts: The Beastie Boys and Coheed & Cambria.

Finally, in Recommendation Corner Ian recommends the reissue of an emo classic by Braid, while Steve stumps for the patio and cookout friendly jams of Sluice.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 133 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Blackpink have reached world domination status. They’re about to be the first girl group and K-pop act to ever headline Coachella. But with wild success comes some downsides.

Rumors have been spreading about drama between the members. In a new interview, Jisoo was asked (translated from Korean), “Some people might think that as Blackpink is so famous there will be trouble between members and some might think that a certain member has trouble with the other.”

“We laugh when we see those things,” Jisoo replied. “I say like, ‘They say that I am your competition so be careful.’ ‘Hey, why didn’t you post it on your Instagram, it made a rumor.’ ‘You should have promoted my album,’ like this right? We treat it as a joke.”

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Jisoo will be releasing her debut solo album. “BLACKPINK’s Jisoo is currently working hard on recording her solo album,” YG Entertainment wrote (translated by Soompi). “While carrying out a busy world tour schedule since last year, she finished the album jacket photo shoot and worked on music production whenever she got the time in order to keep the promise with fans. She will greet [fans] soon with good news.”

“Flower” and “All Eyes On Me” are out now.

Here’s a fun thing that none of us really needed to know: Charles Barkley apparently loves soap. During a recent episode of The Steam Room, Ernie Johnson brought Chuck a listener question about soap, which led to a riff from the Hall of Fame inductee about how much he loves soap, how he travels with “a big bar of soap,” and how an incident in a hotel … you know what, I’m just gonna post the video and you can go ahead and watch.

“These hotels started being cheap,” Barkley said. “Those bars ain’t big enough. Cause I almost had a couple accidents with the soap at hotels.”

Johnson asked what on earth he could have possibly meant, which led to Barkley vaguely describing something that happened while “washing a part of my body.” When pressed further, Barkley said, “Almost lost it, and I was like, woo! That was too close for comfort.”

It was at this point that the camera went back to the Inside the NBA studio, where Johnson was laughing and Shaquille O’Neal was keeled over with laughter. He did, however, compose himself just long enough to say that he is afraid they are going to get kicked off the air before deciding to egg Barkley on, which led to Kenny Smith saying he had a bunch of jokes he did not want to tell. When we update our list of the funniest Inside moments in a few years, we will be sure to give this one some pretty heavy consideration.

It may be rumored that Dua Lipa is cooking up the official theme song for the forthcoming Barbie movie. But Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame nominee Missy Elliott was living in the beloved doll’s plastic world in the late 1990s. Seeing social media go into a full-on frenzy about the release of the movie, the multi-hyphenated talent took a trip down memory lane.

Sharing a clip from her take on the Barbie-verse on Instagram, Missy wrote, “They say a Barbie movie is coming out. Well, let me bring this back one time,” referring to the official music video for her single, “BeepMe911,” featuring the R&B group 702. The video, which, as Missy proudly points out, was released 26 years ago.

“Back then, some folks clowned me, Timbaland, and Magoo, for doing a Barbie-style video. With our arms painted like joints and Tim and Magoo for having Ken hair styles. I remember crying, but I realized I was just years ahead of the game,” wrote the musician.

Barbie has long since been incorporated into the music industry in several ways, especially in hip-hop. Several artists, including Lil Kim, Missy Elliott, and Nicki Minaj, have all referenced the brand in videos, on track, and in promotional photo shoots.

The Barbie movie is set to hit theaters on 7/21. For more information, click here.

Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Stage fright happens to even the most veteran entertainers… yes, even The Jonas Brothers. Although the singing family made their musical debut in 2005, that doesn’t make them immune to nerves. The “Wings” singers are prepping for their big one-night-only show at Yankee Stadium in August, and what better way to promote than by making their return to SNL this weekend?

In part of the hilarious promo trailer, Kevin, Joe, and Nick join host Molly Shannon and cast member Ego Nwodim to tease just what viewers should expect. But instead of the trio belting about a beautiful tune, Shannon teaches them a rather odd performance nerve hack, the armpit trick (a nod to the 1999 film Superstar in which she starred alongside Will Ferrell).

To subdue her anxiety before performing live, Shannon confessed, “Sometimes when I get nervous, I stick my fingers under my arms, and I smell them like that.” Despite just how bizarre the reveal was, the Jonas Brothers and Ego Nwodim join in, and just like that, the group claims to be cursed. Well, at least Nwodim does.

The Jonas Brothers are rightfully so confused about what strange group activity just took place while cameras were recording them.

Watch the promo clip above.

Welcome to our Yellowjackets Sting Meter. We’ll measure the erratic, unexplainable behavior of the show’s main lineup, ranking them according to how dangerous, deadly, and certifiably insane they appear in each episode. Who’s just a whacky worker bee and who gets crowned Mad Queen of episode three’s “Digestif”? Let’s find out.

Morning after regrets look a bit different in the world of Yellowjackets. The dry mouth? The pounding headache? The desire to gnaw your own arm off so you can slink away from the random body next to you, unnoticed and unbothered? That’s mere child’s play. Almost comforting in its familiarity.

No, for the teen girls of Yellowjackets, hell is a place of their own making, filled with the kind of shame that can’t be walked off. It’s a teammate’s burnt flesh regurgitating on snow-covered ground, a collection of bones, picked clean, to be buried, hallucinations of adolescents frothing at the mouth with unsated hunger, and the guilt-ridden-yet-gleeful admission that actually no, the act of cannibalism wasn’t actually that bad.

This is the hangover no one warns you about, and in episode three’s “Digestif,” all of the girls are suffering from it. In the past, they cope with jerrybuilt baby shower gifts and dark humor. In the present, they confront their darker natures, with guns and beehives, and bathroom mirrors that put the truth in plain sight. The kids, they’re not okay.

Queen Bee — Misty Quigley

Misty Quigley has always been this way. Were it not for an errant plane crash and a bit of cannibalism, she might still have ended up on a boat with a man named Walter Tattersall feeding him torture tactics through a Bluetooth earpiece. Misunderstood and ill-fitting to the teenage girldom she’s surrounded by in the past, Misty’s managed to find a friend who’s just as batsh*t as she is because, well, crazy attracts more crazy. Sally Field monologues as baby shower gifts. Critiquing the taste of Jackie Taylor, post-feast. Finding a f*cked-up Moriarty to her neurotic Sherlock Holmes by way of a failed interrogation ruse. Misty Quigley was always meant to reign atop the chaos ladder.

Taissa

When we interviewed Tawny Cypress about her character’s wild journey this season, she was adamant that Taissa’s problems extended way past a bit of worrisome sleepwalking. She was right. In the past, Taissa has been consumed by this other personality so completely that she can’t remember dining on her teammate, despite seeming awake and fully present at the moment. She’s also lying to her partner about the man with no eyes who stalks her dreams at night. And in the current timeline, she’s drawing those weird symbols on the hand of her comatose lover before getting into miming arguments with her sentient reflection. Whatever meds Taissa was swallowing down with her gallons of espresso in the last episode, they’re just not working. Up that dose, girl.

Lottie

Despite inspiring her teammates to build her an altar of dead birds, it’s Adult Lottie who feels the most dangerous this season. While Teen Lottie tries to keep the peace by throwing festive (if a bit rustic) baby showers and therapizing her friends, Adult Lottie is running some kind of cult commune, wielding sinister metaphors about queen bees stinging their young to death and decorating her cabin with antler skulls. Her hallucinations seem to have her spooked, but is that just because they’ve been dormant for so long, or do they represent a threat to whatever hive she’s trying to build out in this wilderness?

Shauna

Sophie Nielssen got to nibble on her best friend last week so it’s only fair that Melanie Lynskey gets her unhinged moment in “Digestif.” Shauna doesn’t do much more than guilt-trip herself and feign excitement over some tacky homemade baby gifts in the past but in the present? In the present, Shauna passive-aggressively shaming her husband for his aversion to strawberry lube and holding a carjacker at gunpoint, and delivering sinister monologues that give in-depth instructions for how to effectively skin a human being alive. On the one hand, it’s bone-chilling. On the other, she’s got a point about the sweat.

Natalie

I still maintain that Natalie is one of the more well-adjusted characters on this show, which is probably why she has addiction issues and thoughts of self-harm so often. She’s haunted by what the group did to survive, so much so, she can’t heal and move past it to live a normal life — no matter how many workshops Lottie encourages her to sign up for. But Nat’s brush with insanity extends to her past self too. Was that moose real or just a hallucination?

Crystal

A newcomer to the lineup, Crystal has been quietly rising through the ranks ever since she befriended Misty earlier in the season. We don’t know much about the girl, but what we have gleamed is sufficiently unsettling. She’s a theater kid. She has a bleak outlook on humanity. And Jackie Taylor wasn’t the first time she “consumed” a body.

Coach Ben

Coach Ben is pretending to be catatonic so that the rabid teen girls just outside the door don’t munch on his one good leg. He’s hallucinating alternate realities where he said yes to moving in with his gay boyfriend and ditched the small-town soccer team for a life in the city, filled with clam chowder bakeoffs and the freedom to kiss his partner in public. I fear Coach Ben is not long for this world.

Van

“You ate her face, Tai.” — Real words Van was forced to utter, out loud, because her sleepwalking girlfriend won’t seek mystical help from witch doctor Lottie. Van does not deserve this, people.

Jeff

Jeff could’ve gone strawberry! He almost did! But that’s not what lands him on this list. We’ve overlooked some of Jeff’s problematic behaviors — the blackmail, the treachery, the murder cover-up — because he’s just a simple guy who wants to believe his wife when she tells him book club is running late. But when he stopped Shauna from using that gun on some random in the street, it was time to draw a line. Her purse was in there, for god sake!

Citizen Detective Thread

• We finally get to meet Elijah Wood’s Walter Tattersall, and though he did enjoy slapping his perp around a bit too much, is he certifiable, or just a bored internet sleuth with money to burn?
• The Man with No Eyes. Who is he, and why is he so interested in Taissa?
• The symbol pops up three times in this episode, all in different contexts. Is it a form of protection? A call to the wilderness? Or a marking meant to map something Taissa’s other half is looking for?

Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ streams for subscribes on Friday and broadcasts on Sunday nights.

Wednesday, April 5, was 29 years since Kurt Cobain’s death. To honor the anniversary, his daughter Frances Bean Cobain and widow Courtney Love shared posts to mourn the Nirvana leader.

“Life is like a wave crashing upon the shore & death is like the wave returning back to the ocean, back to its most natural state,’” Frances wrote in an Instagram story, according to Rolling Stone. “I forget exactly where I heard this quote but hearing it makes loss seem less scary and more like a return to the collective consciousness of loving awareness. Free from pain or human worry. Death serves a purpose. It is what makes life so precious, in the same way pain is purposeful because we wouldn’t know joy without it.”

“Everyday I aim to have gratitude for everything that surrounds this life including loss,” she continued. “It’s the ultimate teacher. Hold the people you love a little more tightly and a little bit closer for me today.”

Love posted a photograph of the late legend’s hands on Instagram. “It is one of the only images (or sounds/ tastes etc) that makes me miss him deeply,” she wrote in the caption. “But he chanted with me & often, & truly was moved by our Buddhist practice. Thus, I know he’s in an enlightened place, more so, than we hear in mappo are. ‘The arms of a 1000 Buddhas outstretched to greet you’ the gosho says.”

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – Listen to me

A couple very important things happened this week and I need to cover them quickly so I can get to the business at hand. There is no time for an actual introductory paragraph. We are diving right in this week.

NUMBER ONE: The third Paddington movie was finally, officially announced. It will be called Paddington in Peru and it will probably, uh, take place in Peru, where Paddington is from. This is thrilling because I love that freaking guy. I’m not saying that to be ironic or cute. Paddington 2 is a full-on legit good movie. Hugh Grant plays the bad guy and absolutely gorges on all the scenery and it’s just a delightful little work of art from beginning to end. Watch it this weekend. By yourself, if you want. You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone.

NUMBER TWO: Jack Black, a wonderful man who I love very much, was on the red carpet this week for the new Super Mario movie, in which he voices Bowser, and he said the words at the end of this paragraph:

In the movie, Black plays a heavy metal-inspired Bowser whose relationship with Peach isn’t quite captor and captive. And while he “needed to be evil enough that the stakes are high for the characters,” according to Miyamoto, “Bowser has evolved into a unique, lovable villain. You do find cuteness in him.” For Black, the challenge was playing both those notes. “I needed to bring the fire, thunder and brimstone,” he says, “while also finding the sympathetic parts of Bowser.”

“I needed to bring the fire, thunder, and brimstone, while also finding the sympathetic parts of Bowser.”

This is… incredible. Just an incredible sentence, straight-through, one I suspect had never been said before in the English language prior to that moment. I have been thinking about it a lot. And I’ve also been thinking about the next Paddington movie. And then I thought about this…

We should let (or, if necessary, make) Jack Black play the villain in the third Paddington movie. My reasoning for this is based on three equally important factors.

ONE: He would be so good at it. He’s got that playful little devious twinkle in his eye at all times and he’s not afraid to go huge with a performance when it warrants it and he can sing really well if we want to have him put on a little show. He has a history with adorable movies, too, given his role freaking 20 years ago in School of Rock. Picture Jack Black as some evil businessman trying to level acres of forest in Peru and Paddington thwarting him. Think about him yelling and raging at a little cute bear. Get a real good mental image of him housing like a dozen marmalade sandwiches in the third act, right when he starts getting won over by Paddington’s charm. You can see all of this crystal-clear, yes? I know I can.

TWO: He already has the hat from when he was in Jumanji.

Admittedly not as important as the first thing but still worth noting.

THREE: I would really like it. I would. It would make me so happy. I know Florence Pugh wants to get in there, too, and I love Florence and am happy to find her a place in the story, but I need to see Jack Black and Paddington in safari hats doing very polite battle in the wilderness. This is all I ask for. I do not think I am being unreasonable.

Thank you.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – Let’s all go see Barbie

This is the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and about 600 other people you know and which feels like it has been about to come out for like 18 months now. It looks fun as hell. The degree of difficulty is so high here, making a movie so blatantly tied to an iconic toy and/or product and/or lifestyle, but when it works, hoo buddy. Remember The LEGO Movie? That sucker had no right to be any good but there it was anyway winning hearts and maybe making me cry a little. Maybe that makes me a sucker. Eh. I’m okay with that.

But yes, I think we should all go see this. In the theater. Everyone. We deserve to have a little star-studded silly fun. Don’t get self-conscious about it. Call up your dudes and go see Barbie. Groups of bros rolling in thick to see a matinee of the pinkest movie ever made and then hitting the Red Robin next door for an early dinner. This is how we heal as a nation. Save me a seat in the back.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – Good for Ben Affleck

It appears Ben Affleck has fully leaned into his previously unofficial role as Dunkin brand ambassador, adding this new commercial to the one he did back in February for the Super Bowl. My response to this is pretty straightforward: Good. Good for Ben Affleck. People do advertisements for garbage products they don’t believe in all the time. That’s not what is happening here. Ben loves Dunkin so much. Like every paparazzi shot of him and Jennifer Lopez shows them coming into or out of one or just carrying cups of coffee from there as they walk around Beverly Hills. It’s refreshing to have a little honesty in commercials. Now we just need to get him in a Dunkin-themed movie. I have ideas.

Lots of places covered the ad when it dropped, but my favorite was the angle Boston dot com took, slapping the video in there under a headline that read: “Ben Affleck disses Matt Damon in new Dunkin’ Donuts commercial” Here was the diss in question:

“Were you in ‘The Departed?’” asks a cashier played by Matthew Maher, who you can see in Affleck’s upcoming movie “Air.”

“I’m Matt Damon,” Affleck says with a wry smile.

“Yeah, I love him, I love him,” Maher responds. “He’s had a really consistent career, I think.”

“Hmmmm, nah,” Affleck says, shaking his head. “I mean, some of his work.”

Brutal. I don’t see how the friendship survives this one, folks.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Let’s check in with Nicholas Braun

Okay, three things, and we can knock them out quick via bullet point:

• Succession is back and humming along in its final season and I am all kinds of torn up because my beloved Cousin Greg, played by Nicholas Braun, is turning into the worst gangly entitled goon on the show
• This is a post from Nicholas Braun’s Instagram and I really, REALLY need you to click through to see both of the slides here
• This is incredible content

Give him a travel show.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – I am mad

I have good news and bad news…

GOOD: I ducked into Ross last weekend after grabbing lunch, just to bounce around and see if I could strike gold on some fun t-shirts for spr-… HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT SHIRT. It’s so beautiful. I gasped a little in the middle of the store when I saw the lightning bolts in there. This is art, to me. And it would be a hilarious shirt for me to wear, personally, because of the thing where I’m disabled and use a wheelchair and I would really enjoy seeing people’s faces as they try to process the handicapped man wearing the Fast & Furious t-shirt with lightning bolts on it. God, I wanted it.

BAD: They only had it in an adult small. I turned that place upside down looking for a large or extra large. No dice. Unbelievable. I don’t even know if there is a Fast & Furious fan in America who wears a men’s small. It is easily our country’s most “Big Gulp” movie franchise, which I saw with love. Sizes for these shirts should start at XXL. I’m legitimately upset. Today. Five full days later. I might never get over it.

That said, if you are or know a child or very small man who would like this shirt, let me know. I’ll be up that way this weekend again and can pick it up.

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From John:

I had a dream about how the Fast & Furious movies need to end. I don’t know if Fast-Ten is supposed to be the last one, but once you talk to the producers about this idea, they’ll have to make at least one more.

Basically, some arch-villain (who didn’t appear in the dream, so have fun casting that role) has been tracking the Family ever since they became super agents. They’ve been going to every crash site and fight location and collecting DNA, and now they’ve cloned everyone, and for their final ride the Family will have to take on…themselves.

Dom vs. Dom. Han vs. evil clone Han and evil clone Gisele. Statham has to fight his clone and his dead brother’s clone. For some reason Ludacris was cloned several times and he had to take on a whole squad of Ludacri. Then this part wasn’t in the dream, but they would have to do the classic scene where good Mia and evil clone Mia have guns drawn on each other and Dom has to figure out which one is is real sister.

To be clear:

• I love this email very much and fully support people sending me full recountings of their most unhinged movie-related dreams, or any dream that I appear in for some reason, as long as I’m not being too weird in there
• The villain is played by Walton Goggins

Thank you, John.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To Norway!

Police made the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Norway when they discovered 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) of the drug in boxes of fruit in Oslo, officials said.

NORWEGIAN COCAINE SEIZURE

BOXES OF FRUIT

NARCOS: NORWAY

THINK ABOUT IT

Police spokeswoman Grete Lien Metlid was quoted by NTB as saying that it was the largest seizure ever in Norway. She said that it was too early to say whether the cocaine was intended for the Norwegian market, or if Norway was being used as a transit point.

I’m sorry, I really am, but I’m going to have a tough time getting through the serious report about cocaine smuggling when extremely Norwegian names like this are just sprinkled in. This isn’t even the best one. Look at this paragraph.

The fruit boxes had arrived at a warehouse facility of Bama, a large Norwegian fruit and vegetable wholesaler, company spokesman Pia Gulbrandsen said in a statement.

A few things:

• I would absolutely watch a whole multi-season television series about this that shifts focus between international cocaine smugglers trying to ship things through Scandinavia and the Norwegian authorities hellbent on stopping them
• Imagine you’re working at a Norwegian fruit factory and you open a box that’s supposed to contain, like, grapefruit and you discover very many bags of cocaine
• Pia Gulbrandsen

Moving on.

The previous largest seizure of cocaine in Norway was in 2013 when 153 kilograms (337 pounds), were seized, and in 2013 when 145 kilograms (319 pounds) of cocaine were hidden in banana boxes, the news agency said.

Hmm.

Well, now I definitely need that television show, if only for the scene where the drug kingpin decides to ship cocaine in a fruit box again because 10 years have passed and he thinks it’s safe and then this one gets busted and he shouts “GODDAMMIT” really loud in his mansion.

Please start production immediately.

It’s been about a month since Nicki Minaj unveiled a new alter ego on the single “Red Ruby Da Sleeze.” Now she’s back with more fresh music, but this time, it’s a feature on YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s new one, “WTF.”

On the song, Minaj comes through with a quick verse featuring clever wordplay like, “Fully active, I keep my shooters in the gym, n****, practice / You b*tches know it could get sticky like a cactus / I’m the one that they tread like tractors / And still can’t catch a break like fractures.”

What’s been getting more attention than that, though, is Minaj portraying a ballerina in the video. One Twitter user tweeted, “i never thought i’d wake up today and see NICKI MINAJ DOING BALLET ?!!” Another wrote, “nicki ate this ballerina aesthetic up.”

In other collaboration news, Minaj recently showed love to Ice Spice on social media, which prompted rumors/hope that the two would link up and do something together. Minaj followed Ice Spice, which floored the young rapper, who has long been a Minaj fan.

Watch the “WTF” video above and find some more reactions below.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.