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Uproxx cover star Freddie Gibbs has been more prolific than ever in recent years, releasing no fewer than five projects over the past five years. Beginning with Freddie in June 2018, he’s released at least an album a year since (if you count October 2018’s Fetti with Curren$y as his 2019 project). That number is about to rise drastically according to a new interview with XXL in which he boasts he’s now working on not just one but four joint projects with different producers, including ones with past collaborators Madlib and The Alchemist and his long-awaited R&B album.

“I’ma hit y’all with some sh*t that y’all thought y’all was ready for, but you really ain’t ready for,” he promises in the interview. Alchemist and Madlib ain’t going nowhere, so keep that in mind. And me and Boi-1da in the studio now real, real, real heavy. I’m making the best music of my life, so it’s no reason to stop. And I’m the king of R&B, so I gotta do that album as well.”

Gibbs first teased an R&B album in 2021, telling Revolt that Soul Sold Separately, his Warner Records major label debut from last year, “might be” one of his final rap albums. “I ain’t gotta rap no more, man,” he said. “After SSS, I’ma show y’all … I’m ’bout to bust out with an R&B album. R&B is what I started out doing before all the rap sh*t. Now, all you n****s just wanna make me rap all day, and I don’t wanna rap.” Given Fred’s sense of humor, he could well have just been joking, but considering he’s earnestly moving into movies and television and proving equally adept at acting, I wouldn’t put it past him to follow through and become just as accomplished while singing instead.

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That people even know Madison Cawthorn’s name might be the most surprising thing about the former North Carolina congressman. During his two-year stint in government, he managed to make a reputation for himself by missing more votes than any other new congressperson, throwing random temper tantrums, advising young men to drop out of school and get married shortly before announcing the dissolution of his own eight-month marriage (which may or may not have been to a Russian spy), claiming that drug-fueled orgies were a regular GOP way of socializing, and — after losing his reelection bid — threatening that there would be a Dark MAGA uprising. Whatever the f**k that means. But really, Cawthorn’s time in congress seems like it was all just a runup for him to officially become a true “Florida Man.” And it might very well be the case that he spent the rest of the time sharpening pencils and watching the clock to see if it was time to go home yet.

At least that’s probably what it seems like to Chuck Edwards, the newly sworn-in congressman who took Cawthorn’s place in the House of Representatives. According to the Associated Press, Edwards’ team is at a loss in terms of what Cawthorn was working on or any constituent requests they should be following up on. Because after repeated requests for Cawthorn’s team to hand off any unfinished work so that the incoming team could see whatever projects Cawthorn had started through to completion, Edwards has gotten zilch.

On Monday, Edwards’ office released an official statement that read something like a ransom letter. Essentially, it was a plea for anyone who was waiting on something from Cawthorn to reach out to his office — because chances are they are unaware of it. Though the transfer of casework was scheduled to be completed by December 23 (and is a practice that all outgoing congresspeople take part in), Cawthorn was basically MIA.

“Repeated attempts to reach Congressman Cawthorn and his staff were made over the past month, but no response or action was provided,” according to the release.

Cawthorn, who recently confirmed that he has relocated to Florida, has clearly been busy with other things:

(Via AP)

Robi is letting his fans into his musical world with his new single “Tu Mundo.” Last night (January 10), the rising Puerto Rican singer released the trippy video for his punchy alternative track.

Robi broke through last year with the global hit “Pantysito” alongside Alejo and Feid. Though he found his groove in reggaeton music, Robi is proving himself to be an all-around Latin pop star. In “Tu Mundo,” he flexes the alternative edge of his artistry. In the guitar-driven track, he sings about a romance that’s got him entangled in his lover’s world. Towards the end of the haunting love song, house music beats take over and highlight Robi’s genre-bending sound.

“‘Tu Mundo’ arose at a time when I was deciphering my sound, and it has become one of my all-time favorite singles because it’s a song that I identify with, from the lyrics to the sound,” Robi said in a statement. “It showcases the essence of what I want to do with my music this year, and it’s a song that through time, I’ve grown very fond of, as have my fans.”

In the “Tu Mundo” video, Robi lets his wild mind run wild. In scenes that were seemingly shot in a 8mm camera, he lives out his freaky romance fantasies. The song will be included on Robi’s debut EP, which is due out later this year via Interscope.

It feels like it’s been years since Ellen Pompeo mentioned that she was ready to hang up the proverbial scrubs from Grey’s Anatomy and that’s because she has been hinting at her exit since 2018. At that point, the show has already been on for nearly 15 seasons, and her contract would be up after 16, so everyone collectively decided that maybe the iconic series would be laid to rest. Then 2020 happened and nobody really knew what was going on with television. Season 16 came and went, as did 17 and 18…. and it was beginning to seem like Pompeo would never leave the halls of Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital.

At this point, 80 percent of the original cast has moved on to bigger and (sometimes) better things, but Pompeo’s Meredith Grey is still clocking into her surgeries on a regular basis, that is until her final episode as a series regular airs next month.

In a new teaser for the upcoming goodbye episode, Meredith is finally given a proper sendoff after almost two decades of the most insane medical mysteries you could even fathom, along with annoying love triangles and all of that fun stuff. The clip shows that Meredith gets a fun little party in the hospital lobby, which always seems to happen and never seems to alarm anyone else working in the hospital. It’s been almost 20 years of this, after all.

Ellen Pompeo’s last episode will air on Feb 23rd, though she has confirmed that she will be popping back in from time to time. It happens a lot with this show. Check out the clip below.

Taylor Swift broke a ton of records last year after dropping her tenth studio album, Midnights, back in October. As it turns out, those album sales provided a significant boost to her already strong year. Billboard’s new report, via Luminate, states that Swift sold the most total albums last year, with 2.928 million across “her entire catalog.” They also note that this combines physical and digital sales.

The runner-up in terms of 2022’s most album sales was Harry Styles at 1.06 million — meaning Swift nearly tripled past him for the title. As a fan in the replies joked, “I also stay away from my ex’s.” Another added, “The gap is gaping.”

In addition, Swift recently broke another record for Midnights specifically, as the vinyl outsold its CD counterpart in the UK. According to The Guardian, the last time this feat occurred was back in 1987. Her album has been reported to have sold over 800,000 vinyl copies.

Other notable facts tied to Swift’s Midnights were that she both became the only artist to have ten songs occupy the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 and achieved the best week for an album in just four days.

Continue scrolling for some fan reactions to Taylor Swift’s recent achievement.

Parents have been contending with kids and video games since the first arcade game was introduced. Kids get immersed in the fictional world and forget—or sometimes downright ignore—that there are responsibilities to take care of outside of the game. A mom from Chicago, ChaCha Watson, used the Roblox video game to get her daughter’s full attention.

Watson repeatedly called her 11-year-old daughter, Miracle, to tell her to take dinner out of the freezer to defrost but Miracle didn’t answer. Instead of jumping to the worst-case scenario, Watson knew exactly what her daughter was up to and how to get her attention.

Miracle was immersed in the video game Roblox instead of answering her mom’s phone calls, so Watson decided to join. Yep, the savvy mom hopped into the Roblox game from her location and jumped into the car with her daughter’s avatar to tell her to take the lasagna out of the freezer. She shared the screenshots of the exchange on Facebook where it went viral.

Watson told Today, “She just so happens to be in the beginning stage when you first pop up on the game. So when I popped up, she just so happened to pull up. And I said, ‘You see me calling you!’ and then she was like, ‘I’m sorry mom.’” Roblox has been around for a while now. It’s an interactive game where kids can create avatars that look like them, build things and apparently, drive cars. Watson had been playing the game with her daughter as a way to bond with her, she told Today.

If you’ve ever been a “latchkey kid” or just the oldest child at home while your parents step out, then you know the cardinal sin is to forget to take the food out for dinner. There’s really no way to fake your way out of unthawed food because the rock solid item will tell on you every time. Before video games, parents didn’t have the luxury of popping into one of their kids’ video games to remind them to unthaw dinner.

Parents across social media are loving this mother’s ingenuity of getting her daughter’s attention. One parent tagged a friend and said, “We gotta figure out how to do this.”

Another person replied, “Screaming! It was the 2nd pic ‘It’s your mom, I know you saw me calling you,'” with multiple rolling on the floor laughing emojis.

It seems that most parents commenting on the post are planning to download Roblox and Minecraft to drop in on their kids when they’re being ignored. But Watson advised that parents actually try playing the game with their kids and not just download it to tell them what to do, according to Today.

Watson told Today, “Being a single parent, you just want to make sure that you’re spending time with your kids. That’s really important to me — to make sure I’m spending quality time with her. So I downloaded Roblox and … that was just one of the best things ever.”

Michelle Yeoh won the award for Best Actress in a Comedy at the 2023 Golden Globes for her leading role as Evelyn Wang in the acclaimed film “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” It was a moment the actress had been waiting 40 years to have, and she wasn’t about to let anyone rush her through it.

Yeoh, 60, has been acting in action films in Hong Kong since the 1980s and in the U.S. since the late ’90s, kicking martial arts butt alongside the likes of Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan’s 007. With major roles in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” among other films, she’s become a well-recognized face to any regular filmgoer. But until “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” she had never played the lead role in a Hollywood film.

Winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy was Yeoh’s moment to revel in her success after decades of uphill battles as an Asian actress in an industry filled with underrepresentation and misrepresentation. So when the music cue indicated she needed to wrap up her acceptance speech at the two-minute mark, she simply wasn’t having it.

It’s a common annoyance in award shows for winners to be interrupted by the music during their speeches, which must be kept short so the event doesn’t drag on for too long, but Yeoh could have won an award for how quickly and decisively she reacted as soon as the piano started playing.

“Shut up, please,” she said, mid-sentence. “I can beat you up, OK? And that’s serious.”

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As if this woman wasn’t legendary enough already. Congratulations on your Best Actress win, Michelle Yeoh. You deserve it, and you have most certainly earned your full moment in the spotlight.

Is there anything more fun than epic remixes of classic bops? No there isn’t.

This universal law gets magnified when two seemingly antithetical styles get blended together. Like, say … I don’t know … maybe ’90s hip-hop with opera.

For the BBC version of the musical game show “That’s My Jam,” singer Jason Derulo was promised something that was gonna “test his range as a musician” in front of millions of people, and the show delivered.

Derulo is widely known for his pop singles “Whatcha Say” and “Talk Dirty”—not to mention singing his own name in multiple songs—so getting assigned to perform Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” might not initially seem like much of a stretch.

But then, he was tasked with singing it in the style of musical theater. “With a little opera thrown in there,” quipped musical director Adam Blackstone.

This might have been an impossible task for many. However, don’t let his pop icon status fool you. Derulo is a classically trained vocalist, and absolutely slayed it and left us all wanting a Sir Mix-a-Lot musical on Broadway.

Watch below. The way he holds out the note on “spruuuuuuuuuung.” Heaven.

For loyal Derulo fans, this might not come as a surprise. On more than one occasion he has gone viral after sharing his secret talents. It’s sometimes forgotten just how skilled many pop stars are. They are often capable of way more than their branding would suggest.

After hearing Derulo’s epic rendition, both long-time and first-time listeners were sending their praise.

“Oh, wow! He had some fun with that. I don’t know what he normally does with those pipes, but what a beautiful voice he has!” wrote one person

“I’ve got goosebumps. So powerful. Baby indeed got back and looking good too,” quipped another.

Hopefully Derulo’s next album is nothing but operatic versions of ’90s hip-hop jams. Then the world would truly be a better place.

It appears new music from The National is coming soon. In recent weeks, fans of the band have taken to Reddit to share that they’ve received cryptic postcards in the mail.

Some of the Reddit users claimed to have received a cutout of a face, with a nametag with the name Paul. On the back of the cutout is a message reading, “TRANQUILIZE THE MIND.” Below the message is a note reading “FRIDAY THE 13TH, JANUARY 2023.”

Another piece of mail was formatted the same way, however, instead of saying “TRANQUILIZE THE MIND,” it read “EVIL FOREBODINGS.”

The National has been teasing new music since last summer, when they began playing new material at various shows and festival gigs. In an email sent to fans, they said that the material was coming from “a new album we are close to finishing and very excited about.” Since then, they have only officially released “Weird Goodbyes,” a collaboration with Bon Iver.

In the meantime, The National members Aaron and Bryce Dessner are teaming up with their sister Jessica, along with composer and vocalist Rebekka Karijord, for a new musical supergroup, Complete Mountain Almanac. Their self-titled debut album arrives Friday, January 27.

Over the past three years, the Dessners have kept relatively busy, as Aaron has produced Taylor Swift’s albums Folklore and Evermore. Bryce has scored films like C’mon C’mon and Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. It looks like this year is shaping up to be even busier for the twin brothers.

Donald Trump clearly woke up with conspiracy theories on the brain. The former president dropped a four minute long video on Truth Social where he more or less accuses Joe Biden, the FBI, and “tech tyrants” of wielding their dark, deep state powers against him. But don’t take Trump’s word for it. According to the former president, Elon Musk has been exposing the whole nefarious plot with his “Twitter Files.” It’s all right there. Don’t you see?!

“The now-famous Twitter Files have proven beyond all doubt that the corrupt officials at the FBI have been coordinating censorship and surveillance propaganda campaign against the American people and, frankly, against me,” Trump ranted, via Mediaite, before getting into, sigh, COVID lockdown conspiracies. “They suppressed doctors and health experts who dared to question approved health narratives. They censored voices who criticized school closures, lockdowns, and mandates, and they even banned people for stating proven scientific facts and anything bad about China, they didn’t want out.”

Of course, this most concerning part of Trump’s video came when he tasked the now Republican-controlled Congress with holding hearings to investigate the “deep state” that’s wronged him so.

“The new Congress should immediately hold hearings to investigate the role of the FBI and other federal agencies in censoring lawful speech,” Trump declared. “Congressional leaders should promptly issue subpoenas in furtherance of this goal. The revelations also highlight why my proposal to end the revolving door between the deep state and there is a deep state indeed. I wasn’t a believer, but everybody’s a believer right now.”

Great. Cool. This is just how things are now, apparently. Everything is fine.

(Via Mediaite)