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A-listers have had Ice Spice’s name in their mouths after she broke through with her Drake-approved single “Munch (Feelin’ U)” and last month’s “Bikini Bottom.” Cardi B uploaded an unofficial “Munch” remix on Instagram. Lil Nas X dressed as Ice Spice for Halloween. NLE Choppa named a song after her, and Drake allegedly dissed her on Her Loss.

Ice Spice is about to give everyone more to talk about.

“I’m excited for this new music,” the Bronx breakout said on The RapCaviar Podcast. “I’m about to put out an EP. It’s about to be like six songs. ‘Bikini Bottom’ is on there, and then there’s some that people haven’t heard. It’s about to be a vibe. Visuals coming with it, too. Yeah, a bunch of content around it. It’s lit.”

Ice Spice appeared on the November 9 episode alongside Doechii and Rico Nasty, who wanted to hear all the “Munch” tea. Rico asked whether Ice Spice knew she had struck gold when she was recording the viral track.

“The crazy thing is, nah,” Ice said. “You know that’s how it goes, though. Like, when I recorded the song, I was in my room again, and I was just like, ‘How can I make a song real fast?’ Same thing, like you said, I didn’t wanna overthink. So it literally came out line by line. That’s why it sounds like that.” She added, “It’s not that I didn’t know it was a hit. It’s just like, I didn’t realize it would be so big. ‘Cause I feel like all the songs that I make is a hit, you know? This is like my first one that blows up. I feel like all my other songs was hits, but they didn’t blow up.”

Watch the RapCaviar clips below.

The Charlotte Hornets got off to a rather dreadful start to this season, falling to the second-worst record in the East at 4-11 entering Wednesday night against the Pacers. The only bit of good news for Charlotte was the recent return of LaMelo Ball, who missed the first 13 games of the year with a sprained left ankle he suffered in the preseason.

Ball had struggled shooting in his first two games back on the floor, but was looking to play his way back into his All-Star form of a season ago after missing nearly a month. Unfortunately, on Wednesday, the young star guard re-injured that same ankle late in a loss to Indiana on a freak incident in which he was slowing up after chasing a ball out of bounds and stepped on a fan’s foot, turning that same left ankle over again and coming away limping.

The official update from the team was a left ankle sprain, with the severity still to be determined.

It’s a brutal sight for a Hornets team that has had little in the way of positives to start this season, as they were desperately hoping Ball getting back in rhythm would bring the team back to life as well. For now, they’ll wait with baited breath to find out how bad this re-injury is, with the hope being that it’s a mild tweak that won’t cost him much time, but to lose a player in this manner that late in the game is awful to see.

Fivio Foreign is putting Brooklyn drill on his back. Just last week, he made New York City the main character of his “1 On 3” video. And who could forget his Brooklyn Nets halftime performance last month? But as involved as Fivio is in the New York conversation now, he credits Nas as wearing the all-time crown — even if 21 Savage doesn’t.

Savage raised a lot of eyebrows on Twitter Spaces earlier this week. “I don’t feel like he’s relevant,” he said. “He just has a loyal-ass fanbase, and he still makes good-ass music.” The Her Loss rapper then backtracked, tweeting, “I would never disrespect Nas or any legend who paved the way for me y’all tryna take stuff and run with it.” The tweet was complete with a facepalm emoji, and the facepalm emoji depicts how Fivio feels about the whole ordeal.

“That n***a Nas did too much to be disrespected like that. That’s big bro where I’m from,” Fivio told TMZ today (November 16). “I was just on his album. We just got a Grammy for the album I just was on.”

Nas won his first Grammy in 2021 for his 2020 album King’s Disease. Fivio and A$AP Ferg were the featured artists on “Spicy,” the album’s closer.

When asked by TMZ if there’s any validity to Nas becoming irrelevant, Fivio shut down the notion. “When you a legend, it’s like you can do what you want,” he said. “You come back when you want. You leave when you want. That’s what it is.”

Kodak Black also came out against Savage’s Nas comments. See what he had to say below.

Joyce Manor had a simple goal for their newest album, 40 Oz. To Fresno. “I wanted to make a weirder Joyce Manor record,” frontman Barry Johnson told Uproxx in June, when the LP came out. Now, they’re bringing those songs on the road alongside Pup for a co-headlining tour.

“We’ve been big fans of Joyce Manor for a long time,” Pup frontman Stefan Babcock said in a statement about the tour. “We listened to a lot of Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired when we were making our first record. It’s wild to think we’ve never played together before. Really excited to watch them rip every night.” The run kicks off in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March and ends in Boise, Idaho.

Check out the dates below. Find ticket information here.

03/01/2023 — Baton Rouge, LA @ Chelsea’s Live
03/02/2023 — Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
03/03/2023 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
03/04/2023 — Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live
03/05/2023 — Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
03/07/2023 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
03/08/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
03/11/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
03/12/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
03/13/2023 — Santa Cruz , CA @ The Catalyst
03/15/2023 — Seattle , WA @ The Showbox
03/16/2023 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
03/17/2023 — Portland , OR @ Wonder Ballroom
03/18/2023 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
03/19/2023 — Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall

There’s only one more Guardians of the Galaxy film en route, which means the end for the MCU’s wackiest ensemble. Will it be the last time we see any of them? Will some pop up in some other wing of the franchise? Or will everyone be recast and the whole shebang rebooted? Who knows! The future is an open road. But in a new chat with Variety (in a bit caught by The A.V. Club), it sure sounds like Zoe Saldaña is done playing Gamora, or at least done with one aspect of playing her.

“I can never say no to anything, but that green makeup? I wouldn’t be upset if it didn’t happen again,” Saldaña said. “I miss Gamora but I don’t miss 3:30 a.m. calls and five-hour makeup sessions and trips to the dermatologist afterwards.”

Speaking of make-up, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 recently broke a specific record, namely for “the most makeup appliances created for a single production.” They surpassed 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey! Mazel tov!

Anyway, it’s also worth noting/reminding people that when Saldaña appears in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, she’s no longer playing the same Gamora she once did. And for that we can all thank time travel tomfoolery.

(Via Variety and The AV Club)

If you’re one of those people who spends New Year’s Eve watching CNN — and who isn’t — this year’s soiree is going to be a little different. There’s a new sheriff in town, namely CEO Chris Licht, and he’s been cleaning things up. One of his changes is a new rule for their NYE coverage: no getting plastered on-air — with two exceptions. (And one isn’t Don Lemon.)

As per Variety, Licht, who took over in May, took part in a town hall with CNN staffers, during which he discussed CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage. Traditionally it’s been a time for everyone on air, anchors and whatnot, to knock back a couple, or much more than that, all while on live television. But no more: Licht feels the sight of boozing reporters damages the “respectability” of the news network, and now they’ll have to stand around, enjoying the booziest night of the year while stone cold sober.

There are, as state, two exceptions, and it’s not hard to guess who they are. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen can still get tanked on their New Year’s Eve show, probably because them getting stinking drunk on air has become a holiday tradition. Last year, for instance, saw a visibly hammered Cohen ranting against his NYE coverage competitor Ryan Seacrest (but not Pete Davidson and Miley Cyrus) as well as then-exiting NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. Cohen later apologized to Seacrest but not de Blasio.

Anyway, there’s nothing more fun than being one of the only drunk people in a room full of sober folks, as Cooper and Cohen will soon find out.

(Via Variety)

Bruce Springsteen’s residency on The Tonight Show is in full swing. The Boss is not only the musical guest for each night, but is also in conversation with Jimmy Fallon (who’s rocking a pretty decent beard these days.) The residency began on Monday, November 14th, with Springsteen’s schedule also including last night (November 15th), Wednesday the 16th and then finally the Thanksgiving night show on Thursday, November 24th. He’s promoting his latest album of soul music covers, Only the Strong Survive, and last night, performed a rendition of “Turn Back The Hands Of Time” backed by a 20-person band. Just a casual Tuesday night for The Boss.

“Turn Back The Hands Of Time” was originally sung by Tyrone Davis in 1970, and the vintage soul recording featured backing singers and a modest horn section. But Springsteen took that arrangement to a whole new level. He had seven backup singers and a horns section, but also two violinists, keys, bass, drums, guitar and additional percussion. Clad in a sleek black leather jacket, the gregarious Springsteen delivered the epitome of a tour de force, making night two of his residency on the Tonight Show a memorable one to say the least.

Watch Bruce Springsteen perform “Turn Back The Hands Of Time” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon above.

Bruce Springsteen is wrapping his three-night residency on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight (November 16). The Boss has performed songs off of his new covers album Only The Strong Survive, including “Do I Love You,” and discussed whether he will appear on Taylor Swift’s 2023 The Eras Tour.

On Halloween, Springsteen talked about Swift with someone else. He visited The Howard Stern Show for a wide-ranging conversation on SiriusXM. One clip posted to YouTube on November 1 shows Springsteen praising Swift’s Midnights album. “It was good,” he said. “She’s super talented, super talented. … She’s a tremendous writer, and I know her producer Jack Antonoff very well. They’re making great records.”

Variety reported today that the interview will air on HBO on November 27. The two-plus-hour conversation, according to the publication, “marked Stern’s first time back in his SiriusXM radio studio” and is complemented by acoustic and piano performances by Springsteen.

“The incredible Howard Stern interview with Bruce Springsteen will air in full on HBO on Sunday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 27),” Stina Sternberg tweeted. “(These kind of moments make me ecstatic to be with this company.) It’s really the most remarkable thing you’ll watch in a long time.”

HBO uploaded a 54-second teaser to YouTube, too, which features Stern admitting that Springsteen is the first to make him cry on the air. Watch it above.

No landscape is as lovely as a woman.

And dozens of a dudes leering at her is still as menacing as it was in 1960.

Season 2 of White Lotus sees the gang in Italy, and the Mike White series has taken full advantage of the landscape, especially in the third episode where Aubrey Plaza strolls front and center through a shot-for-shot remake of an iconic L’Avventura scene. Mike White told Variety that it was cinematographer Xavier Grobet’s idea to film the homage, since the production found themselves in the same plaza in Noto, Italy where Michelangelo Antonioni filmed the original scene.

L’Avventura starts with a missing woman, becomes a romance, and dissolves into a brilliant rumination on life as well as a gorgeously maddening experience for anyone who craves closure. In the scene, Monica Vitti walks slowly through a loose crowd of men in the plaza as they openly and aggressively ogle her. In White Lotus, Plaza takes a few steps in Vitti’s shoes with a new pack of oglers looking on.

The side-by-side is so cool. Only White Lotus offers a sense of relief.

White noted the clear similarities between the two works, saying, “L’Avventura is about the desperate search for the meaning of life as much as the actual disappeared woman. Obviously, White Lotus touches on the malaise of wealthy people and that kind of search for meaning when you’re just lounging by an infinity pool.”

(via Variety)

As Kaunda does his best to stay focused on devastated ecosystems and a disruption in the circle of life, one mischievous trunk is seen relentlessly prodding and poking his ear and head. To his credit, the reporter stays strong until the trunk finally plops right onto his face. Then his boisterous laughter couldn’t be contained.

Of course, the seriousness of his report is vital to know. Kenya is suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years, killing hundreds of elephants and more than a thousand other animals. We must be aware of how our actions are harming those we share a planet with, as well as how we can help.

But it is the unencumbered playfulness of the baby elephant that reminds us of why it’s important to be aware and make changes. We are all connected to one another, creature and man. When one suffers, we all do. And when one is gloriously happy, we all can tune in and feel that happiness. That connection is sacred, and it’s why we must show up through thoughtful action.

Check out the full video below. It’s only 30 seconds, but contains a lesson good for a lifetime.

As for Kaunda, he plans on taking his ever stoic journalistic skills to even more animals. He told Nairobi’s 89.5FM Ghetto Radio that his goal is to get up close to a “lion and a leopard.” Hey, he’s already proven that he’s cool under pressure!

By the way, if you’d like to help this adorable baby elephant (named Kindani, by the way) you can digitally adopt her and others on the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust website by clicking here.