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The Wolf of Wall Street is a famously debauched movie. The “What Parents Need to Know” section for the Martin Scorsese-directed film on Common Sense Media includes the words: “graphic sex,” “Quaaludes,” “bloody face-bashing scene,” and the “f-word [is] uttered nearly constantly, as well as almost every other vulgar word in the book.”

It’s a good time.

But Margot Robbie, who played the “hottest blonde ever” in The Wolf of Wall Street, promises that her next movie will be even more wild. “I remember being on set for [The Wolf of Wall Street] and thinking, ‘I’ll never be in a film as crazy as this ever again.’ And then I made Babylon,” she told Empire. “There’s a dizzying amount of debauchery. One of the most disturbing, chaotic scenes I’ve ever witnessed is in this film, and it involves a fight with a snake. I won’t tell you who wins or loses that fight, but trust me, it’s insane.”

I’ll never forget seeing The Wolf of Wall Street in the theater, and during the scene where Robbie appears in a doorway naked, a man seated a few rows behind me yelled to no one and everyone, “Oh my god.” I bet that guy will watch Babylon on opening weekend.

Babylon opens on December 23.

(Via Empire)

The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market has been taking a massive plunge as of late. Crypto exchange platform FTX — which had endorsement deals with Larry David, Steph Curry, Larry David, and the Miami Heat — filed for bankruptcy this month, making it the largest crypto-related bankruptcy in history. And its founder has allegedly been doing some sketchy things in the wake of it, too.

Naturally, Rick Ross predicted this. Well… sort of.

A viral video of Ross from last May has been making the rounds again, namely because Rozay’s call-outs in it are aging pretty well. “The metaverse, crypto… Y’all getting so much money, where you at? Show us,” Ross says in the clip as he walks around his mansion in a Martha’s Vineyard crew neck and thick gold chains. “And I don’t mean, ‘Oh I’m tryna get money,’ nah. I got a lot of money. I don’t even need that fake money. But show us. Show my homies what the metaverse about.”

To be fair, Ross wanted answers from the crypto community as to why their money-making plans were so sensational and merited his attention. At one point, he emphatically says, “Educate us!” That’s been a sticking point within crypto and NFT communities; it’s hard to wrap your head around the new technology and its accessibility.

Ross went on: “One of y’all big boy crypto dudes, guru crypto picture takers. Step up and say, ‘This what we gon do Rozay!’ Where ya at? Huh? Yeah, everybody giggling… all that fake rich money, where’s it at? Educate us! I know some rich homies who getting money. Bitcoin Rodney. that boy gettin’ real money, but come on man, bring it to the Renzel-verse, man.”

Well whoever is gonna hip Rick Ross on the merits of crypto, it’s not going to be FTX.

Is this what they’ve been waiting for? Yes, sir. The wait is officially over as rapper Meek Mill dropped his long-awaited mixtape, Flamerz 5. After teasing fans with the snippet early this month, the rapper dropped the official video for his “God Did” freestyle.

Flipping his friend DJ Khaled’s Grammy-nominated single, Meek leaves it all in the booth. In the song, the Philadelphia native reveals the status of his relationship with mentor Jay-Z, the murder of his late friend PnB Rock, and more.

Meek gets straight to it in the first verse of the song. The rapper dismisses rumored beef with Jay-Z in the bar, “Never turned my back on Jigga, and every time he talk, I listen / but I got so much murder on my mind that it be hard to listen.” He doubled down on the fact that his decision to step away from Roc Nation Management did not cause a rife in their relationship.

Nearing the song’s midpoint, Meek opens up about the amount of violence he has had to victim. In his youth witnessing his best friend’s death and recently seeing fellow Philly native PnB Rock gunned down in Los Angeles. Rapping, “Like, what you slidin’ about? / don’t stand for nothin’ then what you dyin’ about / just seen my man died on the Gram, like, what is you cryin’ about,” Meek wants to emphasize most conflicts are connected to ego rather than a noble cause.

Before the record ends, Meek managed to take a dig at Ye (aka Kanye West). On the throwaway stanza, “Make a hundred million dollars and still go get my friends after / and that don’t go for everybody, just the only ones that bend backward for me / I will never sell my soul for money like I’m Kanye,” Meek is having a laugh at the former Yeezy brand owner’s expense.

The visual, directed by Benjamin Carter, is a highlight reel meant to inspire the viewer as it shows the rapper boarding a private plane, flashing wads of cash, and enjoying a meal in a luxurious mansion with his entourage.

Watch the full video above.

Flamerz 5 is out now. Listen to it here.

Meek Mill is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Whew, Doom Patrol turned out to be one of the only safe DC projects (for HBO Max) at Warner Bros. Discovery amid their ongoing programming shuffle. This is marvelous news for not only Brendan Fraser devotees but also lovers of the entire ensemble cast, which (thanks to Diane Guerrero and the show’s marvelous writers) has yielded a timely take on Karens and a flourishing Danny the Street. We’ve already seen a Season 4 teaser, in which Fraser’s Cliff Steele told us that daddy is home, and now, we’re witnessing a bevy of dancing butts in action.

The trailer announces the impending arrival of [likely General] Immortus and a hint that the characters will head back to where they all began. That likely explains why we’re seeing Fraser’s face without the Cliff/Super-Tin Man apparatus, since he’s now essentially a disembodied (and frustrated) brain. Yet Cliff’s exasperation continues, as he mentions to Crazy Jane, “At least you got to have an orgasm before you die.” Feel free to relive that collective pleasure scene again, and here’s more from the longline.

Season four opens with the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?

Also returning this season: Matt Bomer as Negative Man, April Bowlby as Elasi-Girl, and Jovian Wade as Cyborg, along with Michelle Gomez as Madame Rouge. Hold onto those dancing butts, y’all.

Doom Patrol returns to HBO Max on December 8.

Typically, when a high-ranking politician writes a tell-all memoir about their time in office — particularly during a tenure that puts the person at the center of a seemingly never-ending stream of scandals — it would be making headlines the world over. In the case of Mike Pence’s new book, the eye-rollingly titled So Help Me God, the biggest story seems to be how little interest people have in actually reading it. Jimmy Kimmel went so far as to dub Pence’s promotional blitz for the book “the saddest book tour of all time.” He’s not wrong.

On Monday night, Kimmel shared a clip of Pence talking with Chuck Todd about what the host described as “those precious moments” just before the January 6th insurrection caused a rift between the vice president and his then-boss Donald Trump, who was reportedly totally cool with seeing his second in command be hanged.

Pence — who even Rudy Giuliani recently called a “loser” — shared how on the morning of January 6, 2021, Trump pointed out the window of the White House to the crowd of soon-to-be rioters who were gathering on the Ellipse and told Pence: “Those people love us.” To which Pence responded: “Those people love you.” Trump’s reply, according to Pence: “Well, that’s probably true.” The (hilariously) demoralizing nature of the story, and Pence’s robot-like emotion in retelling it, prompted Kimmel to declare that “this might be the saddest book tour of all time.”

What’s even worse, according to Kimmel, is that “for all the press he’s doing, [Pence’s book] didn’t even make The New York Times Bestseller List.” In fact, the book is so inoffensive that not even Trump has expended any energy on attempting to tear it apart. The former president has had other things on his mind, though — like his recent announcement that he’ll run for president again in 2024 and a weird obsession about the price of turkey.

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 5:35 mark.

As lawyers for the new management of cryptocurrency exchange FTX appeared in bankruptcy court on Tuesday, they painted a grim picture of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and his rampant mishandling of the exchange that at one point boasted ads featuring the likes of Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, and Larry David. (All three are currently being sued by FTX customers.)

“Your honor, what we have is a worldwide organization that was run effectively as the personal fiefdom of Sam Bankman-Fried,” James Bromley, counsel to FTX’s new management, argued before the court. According to Bromley, the house of cards fell apart the moment the exchange was wrestled from Bankman-Fried’s control.

Via Yahoo! Finance:

The crypto empire of roughly 130-affiliated companies built by 30-year old Sam Bankman-Fried slid from digital asset powerhouse into bankruptcy in a matter of days earlier this month.

In the hearing, FTX’s legal counsel also described the transition when founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried signed over corporate control of FTX at petition date as an “emperor has no clothes moment.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, lawyers for the new management also informed the court that a “substantial amount” of assets are missing and “may have been stolen as a run on customer deposits and a liquidity crunch precipitated a crisis of leadership and led the firm to collapse.” The legal team raised suspicions about just how those assets seemingly vanished.

“FTX was in the control of inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals, and some or all of them were compromised individuals,” Bromley told the judge.

The bankruptcy proceedings are an attempt by FTX’s new management to “secure customer funds” following the crash. However, the exchange is reportedly still “suffering from cyber attacks,” which has sparked an investigation from the Department of Justice.

(Via Yahoo! Finance, Wall Street Journal)

As the characters in this season of The White Lotus slowly begin to unravel, it’s clear that Aubrey Plaza’s Harper is not having a lot of fun on her picturesque Italian vacation with her husband’s cocky college roommate. Who would have thought?

After a rowdy night that consisted of Harper’s husband Ethan and his college buddy Cameron doing drugs and getting involved in potential criminal business activities, they decided to top off the night by meeting up with Lucia and Mia, the two Sicilian sex workers originally hired by Michael Imperioli’s character, Dominic. Cameron’s wife Daphne seems to know that her husband is a cheater, she just doesn’t care. Ethan and Harper are a different story.

Ethan ultimately decides against cheating on his wife (who is a lawyer, by the way!), which is probably for the best, but of course, their troubles had already been brewing due to their lack of sexual chemistry while on the trip.

In this week’s episode, Harper is trying to give her increasingly depressed husband a chance to come clean about their escapades the night before, but instead of confronting him, she just stews as any person on vacation would do. Hey, you paid a lot of money to be there, you might as well just pretend things are going great! But many fans do not agree with how she is handling things.

There are only three more episodes of this season, meaning that the tension will have to break at some point. But will there be a happily ever after, or will Harper and Ethan call it quits? Even worse, will she never address anything and be forced into a sexless marriage filled with Ted Lasso reruns? Only time will tell.

The White Lotus airs Sundays at 9 pm on HBO.

In a wild twist of fate, Eminem is facing his most-challenging rap opponent yet… Spider-Man. In celebration of The Amazing Spider-Man #1 release in April, Hustl has shared a new limited edition cover that features the Detroit rapper and the famous web-slinger battling it out. Spidey is also wearing a sick pair of headphones while Em holds the microphone. The artwork serves as a tribute to the movie 8 Mile, as a crowd of onlookers watch the battle.

Interestingly enough, Miles Morales, Luke Cage, Black Panther, and Spider-Gwen also appear to be in the crowd as supportive onlookers. Perhaps one of them will battle another rapper next for a separate issue. Who knows!

“I’ve always been a huge Spider-Man fan since I was a kid — he’s definitely in my top 5… so being on a cover battling Spider-Man is such a thrill and an honor,” Eminem said in a statement.

“It’s truly an honor to be able to bring Eminem and Spider-Man to fans slinging raps on this official Marvel variant cover,” Keri Harris, Hustl’s COO, added. “There is no doubt that fans lucky enough to find themselves holding one of these will possess a highly sought-after collectible.”

5,000 prints of art by Salvador Larroca are currently available on Eminem’s official store, with the remaining thousand pressings available on November 29 here.

Thanksgiving and the first of the holiday season breaks are just around the corner. And this week’s musicians have been blessing fans with nothing less than amazing material ahead of turkey time. Whether you’re celebrating with loved ones, taking time off work, or just sipping hot chocolate somewhere warm, we’ve compiled a list of some shining-star new pop releases to soundtrack any form of company.

Continue scrolling for Uproxx’s Best New Pop music of this week.

PinkPantheress – “Do You Miss Me?”

The latest in a handful of singles this year, PinkPantheress’ “Do You Miss Me?” opens with an incredibly enticing dance beat produced by Kaytranda and Dill Aitchison. Her gentle voice gets blended over the electronic instrumental with a catchy chorus that details a complicated relationship. “All I wantеd was to scream / When I saw one of hеr messages that popped up on your screen,” she notes in the second verse.

Self Esteem – “Hobbies 2 (Acoustic)”

For the first anniversary of her debut album, Prioritise Pleasure, Self Esteem dropped a new deluxe edition of the record — featuring five songs that have been reimagined with acoustic and string accompaniments. One of these that stands out is the stunning new take of “Hobbies 2,” with the airy and hypnotic vocals complimenting the orchestra perfectly.

Nessa Barrett – “Deathmatch”

Nessa Barrett also shared some extended album songs this week from October’s Young Forever. “Deathmatch” sets the scene immediately, building up the listener’s anticipation that something is going to happen. Barrett lyrically battles her own emotions over a fast-paced beat, which also includes an attention-grabbing boxing bell as a brilliant creative flourish to the song’s theme.

Karol G – “Cairo”

“Cairo” is a collaboration between Karol G and Ovy On The Drums that proves the duo work well together — as he provides subtle harmonies to Karol’s leading verses. However, it’s the Latin beat that drives the track forward, making it perfect for the dance floor… Or wherever you might be.

Dermot Kennedy – “One Life”

“One Life” appears on Dermot Kennedy’s new album, Sonder, as an uplifting anthem for someone he cares about. In an interview with The Music, he notes it being one of the songs he’s most proud of. “I was at a point where no song was good enough and I was longing to be back home but after persevering, it made it all worthwhile just for this song,” Kennedy said.

Sam Smith – “Night Before Christmas”

Keeping in theme with the upcoming holiday, Sam Smith returns with a new single, “Night Before Christmas.” The subtle guitar lets Smith’s powerfully recognizable vocals take the lead. It is such a strong performance that follows up their “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” cover from years back. The question is: When are we getting the full winter album?

Sabrina Carpenter – “Nonsense (Sped-Up Version)”

A new remix from Sabrina Carpenter, “Nonsense (Sped-Up Version)” adds an extra ounce of flair to the original. After dropping the music video for the regular version recently, it seems the rising pop star had more surprises in store for the fan-favorite song. It’s exactly as it sounds — Sabrina’s voice is pitched higher, but it adds a quirky bit of fun to the typical dance playlist.

Olivia O’Brien – “Gone Girl”

Included on Olivia O’Brien’s new EP, A Means To An End, “Gone Girl” is a heartbreaking pop song that plays on the themes in the mystery movie. O’Brien contemplates running away from life’s problems completely. “Moved on / Leaving everything behind me,” she sings over a synth beat.

Alan Walker (feat. Upsahl) – “Shut Up”

DJ Alan Walker brought Upsahl on “Shut Up” for his new album. She sings entirely on the track, as the production radiates angst with its pop-rock melody. The vibes shift in the chorus when Walker introduces some electronic flourishes. “We’ve heard it all before,” Upsahl adds as a sarcastically biting line.

Caitlin Rose – “Modern Dancing”

Caitlin Rose’s “Modern Dancing” combines folk songwriting elements with electronic pop — reminiscent of Carly Rae Jepsen. “I’ve got a romance with ruin,” Rose reveals, just before the twinkling instrumental gives listeners their own moment to dance.

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

Back in 2020, we learned about the Louisiana priest who got caught recording himself having sex with two women, both of whom were dressed in corsets and high-heeled boots, on a church altar. The incident, which was deemed “demonic” by an archbishop who had the altar removed and burned, was witnessed by a passerby who “noticed lights on at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church,” according to NOLA.com. “When police arrived, they seized sex toys, stage lights, a cell phone, and [a] tripod-mounted camera.”

A lot has happened since 2020 — arguably too much! — so you might have forgotten about the priest and the dominatrixes (also my favorite Warren Zevon song). But there’s an update: the priest pleaded guilty to a single count of felony obscenity on Monday.

Travis Clark, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, listened to 22nd Judicial District Judge Ellen Creel read the elements of the obscenity statute at the courthouse in Covington. “I plead guilty, your honor,” he said. Clark, 39, received a suspended prison sentence and will serve probation. While the criminal matter is concluded, Clark will have to appear in court again on Jan. 20 when a permanent civil injunction will be heard that prohibits him and his codefendants from ever profiting from the crime.

Clark will also have to serve three years of supervised probation and pay a $1,000 fine. As for the two women, they were also ordered to supervised probation. None of them will be able to watch Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” video the same way ever again.

(Via NOLA.com)