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Takeoff was shot and killed in the early hours of November 1. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner and Sgt. Michael Arrington urged the public to help them identity a suspect in the beloved 28-year-old Migos rapper’s senseless murder. More recently, Kashara Marshall, Quavo’s sister and Takeoff’s aunt, took to Instagram to beg for the arrest of Takeoff’s killer.

As of today (November 27), Houston Police have still not publicly identified a suspect. However, according to HotNewHipHop and RapTV, 22-year-old Cameron Joshua (known as Lil Cam 5th) has been arrested by Houston’s Harris County Sheriff’s Office and handed a felony charge for “unlawful carrying weapons.” There is heavy speculation that this arrest is in connection to Takeoff’s investigation because Lil Cam 5th is alleged to have unlawfully had a handgun in his possession on the night of Takeoff’s death in Houston, though that connection has not been explicitly nor officially drawn.

Takeoff died at 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston. He was attending a private event with Quavo. Houston Police confirmed that an altercation during a dice game outside of the venue led to shots being fired, fatally striking Takeoff. His celebration of life took place at State Farm Arena in his hometown Atlanta on November 11.

Earlier this week, Chief Finner provided a vague update on the ongoing investigation to KPRC 2 (as noted by iHeart), noting he felt “confident” that a suspect will be brought to justice and dispelling any notion that his department’s manhunt was running dry.

“I feel good where we’re progressing,” he said. “You remember on that day, I met with his mother. I talked with that lady personally, made a promise and there’s a lot being said. We want all investigations on murders when people are being killed to move. But the main thing is we get it right. I do not want to send family members on a rollercoaster ride, and then we have to come back and say, ‘Whoa, that wasn’t the person.’ I want everyone to be patient and just understand there will be some justice here in Houston, Texas.”

Hugh Grant may be best-known for playing self-deprecating charmers, but he’s had a very diverse career. He can play nice, but he can also play evil, in prestige HBO shows as well as Paddington sequels. One thing you won’t see probably him doing again is hoofing it up in a musical, as he’s not a fan of one of the most popular bits from the very popular Love Actually.

As per Deadline, on the ABC News special The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later, the beloved actor singled out the scene where his prime minister character breaks into a big dance set to The Pointer Sisters’ “Jump (For My Love).”

“I saw it in the script and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll hate doing that,’” Grant recalled. “I didn’t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.”

Writer/director Richard Curtis, who worked with Grant on films like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, remembered that Grant “kept saying no” to the scene, and that he was “grumpy” the day it was set to be shot. “I think he was hoping I’d get ill or something and we’d say, ‘Oh, well, what a shame, we’ll have to lose that dancing sequence.’”

Grant eventually went through with what he called a “a contractual guillotine.” He pointed out that he’s not even in rhythm, “especially at the beginning when I wiggle my ass.”

But the scene has endured. “And to this day, there’s many people, and I agree with them, who think it’s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid,” Grant said. “But then some people like it.”

It’s clear he’d rather do a Dungeons and Dragons movie than dance onscreen. After all, at least with D&D he can make saucy sex jokes. Meanwhile, you can watch Grant’s “excruciating” dance below.

(Via Deadline)

In honor of DJ Khaled‘s 47th birthday, his frequent collaborator Drake gifted him a set of luxury loos.

The “Jimmy Cooks” rapper gave Khaled four luxury Toto toilets.

The toilets come with several state-of-the-art features, including a UV-light cleaning system, an air deodorizer, a bidet function, heated seats, and the Tornado flush system.

Khaled took to Instagram to show off the generous gifts.

“Listen,” Khaled said in a video. “This is not no regular toilet bowl. My brother Drake just bought me and my family about four big toilet bowls. This is called a Toto toilet bowl. If you ever been to Drake’s house, his toilet bowls are incredible.”

Khaled continued, saying, “This is called a Toto toilet bowl. I’m not even joking, Drake, we’ve been wanting this. Me and my queen been talking about getting Totos for the whole house … If you’ve ever been to Drake’s house, you know its worth $500 million. It’s not about the money, it’s just about, he went and got the best of the best. He gifted us a few of these Toto toilet bowls … I ain’t try it yet, but I’m hearing there’s some music involved.”

In the video, Khaled revealed that he installed the toilets in his and his wife’s main bathroom, the guest bathroom, the home theater, and the studio. He noted that the studio bathroom will be specifically reserved for Drake.

Lizzo is loved for her effervescence. The Grammy and Emmy winner embodies unabashed confidence and hard-earned self-worth. Her recently wrapped first leg of The Special Tour took her across North America, spreading joy everywhere she went — from playing James Madison’s flute to bringing out Cardi B, Missy Elliott, and SZA. But just because the Yitty founder makes dominance look effortless doesn’t mean it is.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly hooked around the premiere of Love, Lizzo, her HBO Max documentary, Lizzo was asked about “people saying that you and your music weren’t Black enough” and whether the gross criticism is a symptom of pop stigmatization. Lizzo’s nuanced response laid out how all genres perpetuate deeply embedded racism, including a well-executed guacamole analogy:

“Absolutely. Well, genre’s racist inherently. I think if people did any research they would see that there was race music and then there was pop music. And race music was their way of segregating Black artists from being mainstream, because they didn’t want their kids listening to music created by Black and brown people because they said it was demonic and yada, yada, yada. So then there were these genres created almost like code words: R&B, and then of course eventually hip-hop and rap was born from that. I think when you think about pop, you think about MTV in the ’80s talking about ‘We can’t play rap music’ or ‘We can’t put this person on our platform because we’re thinking about what people in the middle of America think’ — and we all know what that’s code for.

“So yes, because of that — fast-forward to 2022 — we have this well-oiled pop machine, but remember that it has a racist origin. And I think the coolest thing I’ve seen is rap and hip-hop artists become pop. Now pop music is really rap in its DNA — rap is running the game, and I think that’s so cool. But we forget that in the late ’80s and the early ’90s, there were these massive pop diva records that were sang by Black women like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. And I’m giving that same energy. I’m giving that same energy with a little bit of rap, and I think that people just have to get used to me. I think anything that’s new, people are going to criticize and feel like it’s not for them. But once you know what it is — just like I’ve got a friend who don’t like avocado but she likes guacamole; it don’t make no sense — but once you get used to something, it might be for you. So for people who don’t like pop music or don’t like Black artists that make pop music, they may eventually like me. I might be guacamole to them. You just gotta get used to me because I’m making good sh*t. You missing out.”

Lizzo previously revealed that people claiming she made music for white people particularly bothered her as the November cover star for Vanity Fair:

“That is probably the biggest criticism I’ve received, and it is such a critical conversation when it comes to Black artists. When Black people see a lot of white people in the audience, they think, Well this isn’t for me, this is for them. The thing is, when a Black artist reaches a certain level of popularity, it’s going to be a predominantly white crowd. I was so startled when I watched [YouTube clips of gospel great] Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was an innovator of rock and roll. She was like ‘I’m going to take gospel and shred guitar,’ and when they turned the camera around, it was a completely white audience. Tina Turner, when she played arenas — white audience. This has happened to so many Black artists: Diana Ross, Whitney, Beyoncé.… Rap artists now, those audiences are overwhelmingly white. I am not making music for white people. I am a Black woman, I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself [from] the experience we call life. If I can help other people, hell yeah. Because we are the most marginalized and neglected people in this country. We need self-love and self-love anthems more than anybody. So am I making music for that girl right there who looks like me, who grew up in a city where she was underappreciated and picked on and made to feel unbeautiful? Yes. It blows my mind when people say I’m not making music from a Black perspective — how could I not do that as a Black artist?”

Lizzo will continue spreading her powerful messages next year on her recently announced Special 2our, a second North American leg added on top of her previously scheduled 2023 European and UK dates.

Special is nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Grammys. “About Damn Time,” its lead single that hit No. 1, is up for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. With EW, Lizzo also discussed loving music beyond the external validation represented by the Grammys, having her identity stolen, being inspired by Harry Styles, and more. Read the full interview here.

Love, Lizzo premiered on HBO Max on Thanksgiving (November 24). Watch the trailer above.

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

Every now and then Donald Trump that worries even his die hards. Think the Access Hollywood tape or him attempting to overthrow democracy on Jan. 6. Nothing much usually comes from them; the GOP expresses horror, then forgives him. That will probably be what happens with his latest scandal: having Thanksgiving dinner with two anti-Semites, one of them also a white nationalist Holocaust denying incel. But for now, even far right hellsites are mad at him, which means he’s still in the midst of one of his patented frothing meltdowns.

Since the story broke, Trump has struggled to put out the fire. First he claimed — not very convincingly — that he had no idea who Nick Fuentes, the worst of his dinner companions, was. Now he’s saying he was just trying to help one of his other guests, newly anti-Semitic Kanye West.

“So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed ‘advice,” Trump wrote on his rinky-dink Twitter clone.

He then doubled down on his initial, unconvincing claim. “He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years,” Trump continued. “I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went crazy.”

It’s a pretty loaded — and also not very effective — statement. There’s him trying to paint a celebrity who torched his own career with bigoted statements as a victim. There’s the whole “who happens to be black” bit. Then there’s him lazily falling back on the “Fake News” line, which presumably now include the aforementioned Trump site, which is also known for publishing creatively moronic conspiracy theories about the pandemic.

Trump may weasel his way out of this — and his many, many other problems — just as he’s done his whole life. But for now, enjoy his panicky nonsense.

Rick Ross and Meek Mill have appeared to squash their rumored beef.

Last night (November 26), Meek Mill performed a special concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of his debut album, Dreams & Nightmares. During the special homecoming show, which took place at the Wells Fargo Center in his hometown of Philadelphia, Mill brought out his Maybach Music Group label founder during a performance of “Ima Boss” from the label’s 2011 compilation album, Self Made, Vol. 1.

Also during the night, Ross performed his 2006 breakthrough hit, “Hustlin’,” with Mill showing support on stage.

At the end of the night, Ross took to Instagram, sharing a picture of the two, captioned “Maybach Music.”

Rumors of a feud between Ross and Mill date back to May of 2021, when Mill reportedly denied Ross entry into his birthday party.

Though neither of the parties had confirmed rumors of a beef, fans were excited to see the two share the stage again.

“The world wants to see this,” commented one Instagram user on Ross’ post.

Following the show, Mill took to Twitter, further emphasizing that the anniversary concert made for a night of healing.

“Before I go to sleep ima pray for that whole building,” said Mill. “it was a lot of move in there tonight regardless of what pain the city going thru!!!!”

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

It’s been a good while since Zorro was on the big screen. There are a few small screen versions in the works, one with Wilmer Valderrama. But the masked avenger hasn’t gotten the blockbuster treatment since 2005’s The Legend of Zorro. Speaking of, that one’s star, cape-loving Antonio Banderas, was recently asked if he wouldn’t mind handing the bullwhip to some younger star. Not only is he up for that, but he knows who should get it.

Banderas has been promoting the belated sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, in which he revives his Zorro-inspired take on the Italian feline. During a chat with Comicbook.com, Zorro came up, and he was asked if he’d return to the role.

“If they called me to do Zorro, I would do what Anthony Hopkins did for me, which is to pass the torch,” Banderas replied.

But to whom would he pass the torch? Why not Tom Holland? “I did ‘Uncharted’ with him, and he’s so energetic and fun,” Banderas replied.

One minor quibble: Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, of Spanish descent. In 1998’s The Mask of Zorro, de la Vega was played by Brit Anthony Hopkins, but at least he passed the baton to Banderas’ Alejandro Murrieta, who was either Mexican or Chilean. Holland, like Hopkins, is British. Having a Spaniard hand off a Latinx character to a Brit might not fly in today’s climate. Then again, Banderas is right: Holland is energetic and fun. Besides, it may make up for the aborted Django/Zorro movie Jerrod Carmichael was going to make with Quentin Tarantino.

(Via Comicbook.com)

Ty Dolla Sign revealed that he was hospitalized this past Saturday (November 26) following a skateboarding accident. The singer and go-to R&B hook master shared a photo of himself to Instagram laying in a hospital bed. As the photo was vaguely captioned, this sent fans into a panic.

Several of his collaborators and peers in the industry sent well wishes his way, including Khalid, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, 03 Greedo, and Rich The Kid, the latter of who told Ty, “Brother get well.”

Shortly after, Ty took to his Instagram story to explain exactly what happened.

“They just let me out [of the hospital]. Had a skating accident and was knocked out for a few but I’m back praise God,” he said. “Thanks to everyone that prayed for me and showed love. I love you more.”

Also in his post, he thanked pro-skater Dashawn Jordan, leading fans to believe they were together at the time of the accident. He also thanked his daughter, Jailynn, for standing by his side while he was in the hospital.

At the time of writing, the extent and specificities of the skateboarding accident have not been shared.

Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

“Good or bad I don’t watch, listen to, or read reviews on my music. I know how I felt when I made it and I know how I feel when it’s out,” IDK tweeted earlier this month. And yesterday (November 26), it became clear how he feels about his May album Simple, executively produced by Kaytranada.

The DMV artist quote-tweeted his April Simple announcement and teased, “Pt.2 coming…” He also posted videos to his Instagram Story of Kaytranada and Lou Phelps grooving at a turntable.

IDK has been busy since May. He performed a soulful at-home NPR Tiny Desk Concert, complete with a Mike Dean appearance, and he’s been on the road as a headliner for the Simple World Tour and as the opener on Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry Tour. Singles “Drive” and Free Slime” arrived in August, while “Monsieur Dior” dropped last month.

A sequel to Simple would be welcomed, considering the original project is only eight tracks long. Standouts include “Breathe,” “Dog Food” featuring Denzel Curry, and “Taco.” As a whole, Simple masterfully juxtaposes the brutal realities found in Simple City, a Washington, DC neighborhood that IDK grew up near, with Kaytranada’s pulsating dance production.

Cohesion is a common thread in IDK’s discography, from IDK & Friends (2018) and IDK & Friends 2 (2020) to last year’s memorable sophomore offering USee4Yourself receiving a deluxe edition.

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

This article originally appeared on 03.23.20

Palm Beach Post/YouTubeThey say a crisis brings out the best and the worst in people. It also reveals the best and the worst in our leaders.

A city commission meeting in Lake Worth Beach, Florida has gone viral after Commissioner Omari Hardy took his fellow city officials to task for their seeming indifference to their constituents during the coronavirus crisis.

Hardy confronted Mayor Pam Triolo and City Manager Michael Bornstein, who he said refused to call an emergency meeting last week, per Hardy’s repeated requests, to discuss issues coming about from the coronavirus crisis. And he let his frustrations show.

“You’re calling me disrespectful because I’ve interrupted people, but this gentleman has turned off people’s lights in the middle of a global health pandemic,” Hardy said, referring to Bornstein.

When Triolo tried to call a recess, Hardy wasn’t having it. “A banana republic is what you’re turning this place into with your so-called leadership,” Hardy said.

“We cut people’s utilities this week and made them pay—with what could have been their last check—to turn their lights off in a global health pandemic! But you don’t care about that. You didn’t want to meet.”

Triolo walked out, saying “Out of order. You’re done.”

Hardy is being hailed a hero by people who have watched the video and see him as a staunch supporter of the citizenry he serves. He wrote a post on Facebook about how overwhelmed he was by people’s responses to the video.

“It was not about me. It was about the people in our city who are struggling, whose futures are uncertain, whose finances are unstable, who may be wondering if they will be able to work and earn a paycheck during this pandemic, and who came home on Tuesday or Wednesday to find the lights off, or the water off, at a time when water and lights couldn’t be more important. It was about them. It is still about them.”

“I was heated, yes. I was loud, yes,” he wrote. “But I was trying to get across an important point: that elected officials work for the PEOPLE. The PEOPLE put us on that dais. The PEOPLE put us in those chairs. The PEOPLE put those titles before our names. Everything we do is for the PEOPLE, and when the PEOPLE need us, it’s our job to step up for them. I was frustrated with three of my colleagues because they had forgotten who we work for.”

Thank you, Commissioner Hardy, for showing us what a true public servant looks like.