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Adele is set to kick off her long-awaited residency in Las Vegas today. On the eve of her shows, which had originally been postponed in January, the pop star opened up about just how nervous she was truly feeling in a series of tweets.

“I’m feeling all sorts as I write this,” Adele shared. “I’m highly emotional, incredibly nervous but can’t sit still because I’m so excited. I feel a million miles away from home, I can’t stop thinking about when I was little and saw Tom Jones in Mars Attacks and thought blimey how did he get from Wales to Las Vegas!?”

“I always get scared before shows, and I take it as a good sign because it means I care and means I just want to do a good job,” she added. “Maybe it’s because I didn’t start when I was supposed to. Maybe it’s because it’s opening night, maybe it’s because Hyde Park went so great, maybe it’s because I love the show, I don’t know. But it’s safe to say I’ve never been more nervous before a show in my career, but at the same time I wish today was tomorrow! I can’t wait to see you out there x.”

Adele’s residency will run at The Coliseum at Caesar’s Palace and continue with select dates into 2023. More information, along with a complete list of performance dates, is available here.

Pharrell and Travis Scott have finally shared their hotly-anticipated collaboration, “Down In Atlanta.”

On their new song, Scott details a vivid, debauched account of an adventure in the ATL.

Following Pharrell’s signature four-count start, Scott shares his love for the ATL, singing, “Down in Atlanta / Stayed at the Centerfold / Downstairs my ‘Ventador / You should’ve seen it / Down in Atlanta / At the Graveyard Tavern / You thought you seen a ghost / It’s just where the Phantoms are.”

Pharrell himself doesn’t have any vocals on the song, however, he is at the helm of the song’s thumping, groovy production.

The song is expected to appear on Pharrell’s upcoming album, Phriends, Vol. 1. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone with BTS’ RM, he detailed the album and the creative process behind it.

“…I don’t want to do anything that just feels like, ‘Oh, that’s cool, that’ll fit,’” Pharrell said. “No, I don’t want to fit. I want to knock the wall down and want to set the whole entire block on fire. Not one room, the block. Not the house, the block on fire. I want it to be on the news at night.”

RM himself is expected to appear on Phriends, Vol. 1 as well.

Check out “Down In Atlanta” above.

There was little doubt that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was going to own the box office, but it’s proving itself to be a genuine dynamo. Despite only being the second-biggest debut on the national chart (behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), the return to Wakanda has already scored $400 million in global sales as it approaches its second weekend in theaters and has the killing field of Thanksgiving to propel it even further, even faster. The Hollywood Reporter projects that it should make around $70 million more domestically through this weekend, topping $550 million globally by the end of Sunday.

Eleven days to make half a billion dollars? Astonishing.

To put it in perspective, Wakanda Forever is already in the top 50 superhero movies all time for total domestic box office in less than a week. If it muscles through December into the holiday season, it could potentially see a billion in its future. That’s also considering the fun caveat that the Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler didn’t (and won’t) screen in China where it could have potentially made eleventy more billion dollars.

It’s also achieved another feat close to Kevin Feige’s heart: successfully planting the seeds for the Disney+ series Ironheart which debuts next Fall.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Nessa Barrett dropped the new extended version of her Young Forever debut album. The added edition includes five new songs, a highlight being a cover of Arctic Monkeys’ popular song, “505.” Compared to the alt-rock original, Barrett opts for a dreamy-pop reimagining that lets her voice shine.

“Each and every song on this album is so personal to me,” Barrett said in a statement about her debut record. “Music is how I cope and writing this album was my therapy. I’ve questioned why I had to go through so much pain in life and always felt like it was a curse. But now I’ve realized it was so I could make songs like these to help others go through theirs.”

“This album is fully manic in the best way and honestly reflects moreso my emotions / how diverse my palette is,” she also told Fault in October. “I would say my personal music taste is also not put in a box so unintentionally reflective I would say!

Other new tracks on Barrett’s extended album include: “Deathmatch,” “God’s Favorite,” “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me,” and “Noose.” As described in the press release, the added songs range everywhere from goth-pop to upbeat melodies.

Listen to Nessa Barrett’s cover of Arctic Monkeys’ “505” above.

Young Forever (Extended) is out now via Warner. Buy/stream it here.

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

Nicki Minaj, Maluma, and Myriam Fares have dropped their new collaboration, “Tukoh Taka.” With verses in three different languages, the song is a fast-paced dance version that will serve as the Official FIFA Fan Festival Anthem this year. Minaj comes in perfectly on a seamless beat change, ending with the lyric, “Some say fútbol, some say soccer,” before it goes back to the chorus.

Maluma offers his verse next, slowing things down slightly but still maintaining the high energy — complete with some soccer-themed innuendo. “She is a goal at the 90th minute / She doesn’t easily give it up,” he sings in Spanish.

Last but not least, Myriam Fares shows off her stunning voice as the instrumental shifts once more. “Let’s all sing together / The world around us feels like heaven / And all the people are celebrating / Our voices are Beautiful and loud,” Fares adds, with her lyrics translated into English from original Arabic. The goal of the track is purely to create a fun global collaboration that promotes bringing everyone together, especially for the World Cup.

The music video for “Tukoh Taka” will premiere at 10 am today, while the soccer games kick off this weekend on November 20.

Listen to Nicki Minaj, Maluma, and Myriam Fares perform “Tukoh Taka” above.

Just in time for the holiday season, Babyface Ray is reminding us to splurge on our loved ones. On his latest single, “Spend It,” Ray lets his lady know that dropping some coin on her is no issue.

“Let’s go spend some time in Chanel / Get your hair done and paint on your nails / Baccarat candles, change up the smell / Run you through Louis, it ain’t going on sale,” raps Ray on his verse.

Nija delivers a smooth chorus, singing “I like when you spend it on me, when you spend it on me,” then encouraging him to “go and spend them bands.”

Blxst charmingly reiterates the song’s message, singing, “I’ll let you ball / I’ll give it and go / Soon as you call / I’m giving you more.”

In the song’s accompanying video, Ray arrives to a mansion with a woman in a blindfold. When the blindfold is removed, she is greeted to a floor of rose petals, leading her to a shopping rack of clothes for her to try, and him to buy. Nija appears throughout the mansion, singing the song’s chorus. Blxst later arrives to the party, dressed to the nines.

Check out the video for “Spend It” above.

LeBron James’ success extends well beyond the basketball court, as he has built and empire off the court in business and entertainment, but the only area where he rivals his on-court excellence is in his ability to spin a tall tale.

James’ lying prowess is the stuff of legend on the internet, with such classics as “I called Kobe’s 81-point game was coming when I watched it live” and “lying about watching soccer to a guy who played for Liverpool,” and he recently became a viral meme after paying tribute to Takeoff by saying he introduced his Heat teammates to the Migos in 2010 despite the Migos not releasing their first record until 2011. All of them are pretty innocent white lies, but it is very funny when you see them all put together in a compilation, as folks on Twitter did after the Migos quote.

On Thursday night, LeBron’s latest effort at spinning a yarn happened during The Shop crossover broadcast on Thursday Night Football, when he told Jalen Ramsey about how he started using him in the slot as a blitzer before Sean McVay. Ramsey, who is very online, couldn’t help but call out LeBron for lying by noting this is exactly what everyone on Twitter says about him.

The best part is, LeBron doesn’t seem to know what everyone’s laughing about at first and just says “we were just talking about this the other day” after Ramsey explains, which feels like another lie to seem like he’s in on the joke. It’s a very funny moment and kudos to Ramsey for being willing to call it out in real time, because if not it would’ve just gotten added to the list like the rest.

With the Lakers off on Thursday night, LeBron James was able to do his first alternate broadcast for Thursday Night Football as part of a collaboration with The Shop, where he, Maverick Carter, Jalen Ramsey, Jamie Foxx, Dez Bryant, and Paul Rivera watched Titans-Packers and talked about ball and life and everything else.

As they watched Aaron Rodgers and the Packers continue to struggle moving the ball consistently, with Christian Watson operating as the only significant receiving threat on the outside, LeBron James voiced his frustration with seeing the Packers front office wasting a “transcendent” quarterbacking talent in his prime by refusing to trade draft picks to put better players around him now.

Rivera quickly stepped in to ask if they were still talking about football or if this was about basketball, noting what everyone else was thinking watching which was, James was projecting a bit about his own frustrations with the Lakers doing the same thing to him. James’ desire for L.A. to trade their 2027 and 2029 first round picks for help now is well-known, but for the most part he’s let the sourced whispers get that out into the world while the front office drags its feet on such a move. This, however, feels like his most blatant and public acknowledgement of that, as he couldn’t help but say “it definitely translates” to basketball as well. We’ll see if the Lakers front office is listening.

Speaking with Elvis Mitchell to promote his new book Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino revealed that his 10th and final film will be completely original. According to IndieWire, Tarantino considered adapting Elmore Leonard’s novel Stick — maybe the novelist’s most famous noir, which was previously adapted as a no-frills thriller by auteur director Burt Reynolds in 1985 — but has instead dismissed doing an adaptation or sequel as his final send-off. For those keeping score at home, that also rules out a new Kill Bill entry (as well as any other Tarantino continuations on your fantasy draft).

However, Tarantino has found a small loophole.

During the conversation he intimated that the rapidly closing theatrical window created an existential crisis for defining “cinema,” and questioned whether creating something for streaming (and not for the big screen) would technically count as a feature film at all. Or at least a final one.

Even without employing the loophole, Tarantino isn’t exactly retiring. He also revealed that he’s directing an 8-episode series for a streaming service due out in 2023. That might be his western Bounty Law, unless all of his talk of making Bounty Law has been an elaborate in-Tarantinoverse joke. He also has another book contract with HarperCollins following Cinema Speculation, a play in the works, as many series as he wants to do, and he can always say he was joking about 10 before coming back for the lucky 11th. The big question for his “final” film is how he’s going to stuff every one of his recurring actors into it.

(via IndieWire)

The YSL trial is set to take place in January, with Young Thug, Gunna, and 26 others as defendants. Thug, Gunna, and several others on Thug’s Young Stoner Life label were arrested back in May on racketeering, armed robbery and murder charges.

Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that “around 300 witnesses” will be called to testify in the upcoming trial.

“I know from historical trials of this nature, it’s going to take a while,” said Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville.

Authorities have alleged that Thug and Gunna are leaders of a criminal street gang responsible for much of Atlanta’s crime. Prosecutors had previously filed a motion to push the trial back to March of 2023, however, said motion was denied by Glanville.

“Most of these people have no bonds, that is something that weighs heavily on the court in terms of a start date for this trial,” he said. “They deserve to have a right to go to trial.”

Earlier this week, Thug and Gunna received Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance Grammy nominations for their collab, “Pushin’ P,” which appears on Gunna’s most recent album, Drip Season 4Ever.

Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.