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Howard Stern Wants To Know Why Kanye West Doesn’t Have A Conservator Like Britney Spears ‘If He’s So Mentally Ill’

Howard Stern has weighed in on the Kanye West controversy, and as always, the shock jock did not pull punches. While tackling West’s recent interview with Chris Cuomo, Stern went to town on the rapper’s increasingly open use of antisemitism. West had his Instagram and Twitter accounts restricted after back-to-back posts where he accused Diddy of being controlled by the Jews and vowed to go “death con 3 on Jewish people.” He’s since doubled down on those statements by railing against a “Jewish Underground Media Mafia” during his interview with Cuomo.

According to Mediaite, Stern blasted anyone trying to defend West’s statements due to his admissions that he suffers from bipolar disorder. “You gotta hear the sh*t this guy’s into and f*ck this mental illness, self defense thing that he’s into, you know, like, ‘Oh yeah, he’s just mentally ill. Don’t worry about it.’”

Like a lot of people, Stern couldn’t help but wonder how Kanye isn’t getting the Britney Spears treatment. The pop star was placed under her father’s control for over a decade following allegations of mental illness, but the same hasn’t happened to Kanye.

“If he’s so mentally ill. Why don’t they appoint a conservator over his money like they did with the poor Britney Spears?” Stern asked.

After playing more of Kanye’s antisemitic rants, Stern heard enough and went right for the mother of all comparisons. “This is so depressing. I mean, Kanye used to be fun crazy. Now he’s like Hitler.”

(Via Mediaite)

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Danna Paola, Felukah, And Tamtam Are Covering A Queen Classic For The 2022 FIFA World Cup

Danna Paola will be tackling a classic by Queen this week for upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup. Today (October 19), the Mexican pop star announced that she will be covering “A Kind Of Magic” alongside Egyptian artist Felukah and Saudi Arabian singer Tamtam.

Paola, Felukah, and Tamtam are collaborating on a cover of Queen’s “A Kind Of Magic.” Their version of the 1986 hit will be released as part of Coca-Cola’s “Believing Is Magic” campaign for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Paola’s Latin pop sound will be blended with Arabic culture by way of Felukah and Tamtam’s features.

“It’s inspiring to be part of a global campaign represented by women,” Paola said in a statement. “Working with Felukah and Tamtam was a beautiful and magical experience. Music is the magic key to bring people together. I’m thrilled to be part of this and to put Mexico into the spotlight.”

Paola, Felukah, and Tamtam’s “A Kind Of Magic” music video will be released on Friday, October 21. The FIFA World Cup is set to kick off in Qatar on November 20. Earlier this year, Paola returned to the music scene with her single “XT4S1S.” She is currently touring Mexico on the XT4S1S Tour with US dates expected to be announced soon.

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Lil Baby Addresses His Rumored Beef With Migos: ‘I Don’t Even Want to Comment’

Lil Baby’s third album, It’s Only Me, has proven to be one of the buzziest releases of the year. This is largely due to Baby’s fiery bars, but also partly due to a rumored beef with Migos.

A line from Quavo and Takeoff’s joint album, Only Built For Infinity Links seems to imply a beef with Baby after he allegedly took Saweetie on a shopping spree, though some also thought the aforementioned line was about Offset. Some also thought Baby was taking shots at Quavo and Takeoff on an It’s Only Me track called “Stand On It,” on which, he rapped, “I don’t want yo b*tch, we can’t swap out / They ain’t on sh*t, tell ’em to pop out.”

In an interview with Posted On The Corner, Lil Baby replied “Hell nah!” when asked about any “underlying issues” with Migos.

“I don’t even want to comment on that type of stuff,” he said. “I feel like when I comment on something, it makes it bigger. First of all, I really don’t see sh*t on the internet. People send me sh*t and I be wanting to comment, but then I feel like that’s just gonna make it even more… But they know I ain’t got nothing going on with them.”

You can watch the interview above.

It’s Only Me, is out now via Quality Control and Motown. Stream it here.

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Instagram Is Reportedly Pulling A Page From MySpace’s Book By Testing A ‘Profile Song’ Feature For Users

Instagram has undergone several design changes over the course of this year, from briefly testing a full-screen version of the app to imitate their competitor TikTok, lowering recommended posts, and slowly removing the Shop section of the app. However, they have plans for even more updates in the works. Developer and self-proclaimed leaker Alessandro Paluzzi frequently shares behind-the-scenes details of what they’re planning next.

Since September alone, Paluzzi has posted that Instagram is testing a repost feature, which was later confirmed to TechCrunch, as well as the ability to search for reels, a “Roll Call” feature, and the ability to comment with gifs.

Arguably the most interesting recent reveal from Paluzzi is Instagram’s plans to allow users to add a song of their personal choice to their profile. Meta (the umbrella of what most know as Facebook and Instagram) spokesperson Christine Pai told CNET in an email statement that Paluzzi’s music update discovery “is an internal prototype, and not testing externally.” Still, it means it is something they are, at the very least, considering bringing to the app.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is. And you were also likely a teen, or older, active on MySpace during its prime era. (I was not.) Following the teaser of getting your own song on social media again, many users who stumbled upon the news were incredibly enthusiastic about getting some of that e-nostalgia back. There’s also something comedic in borrowing inspiration from something you helped destroy, like Netflix dropping a Blockbuster show.

While Instagram has allowed users to share specific songs from Spotify and other streaming platforms on their IG stories, this one would appear directly on your profile. Out of all the choices of songs out there, how do you even narrow down your one true theme song? For me, it’s like choosing a favorite child from Taylor Swift’s complete discography — and that’s just wrong.

Continue scrolling for more MySpace-era nostalgia reactions about Instagram’s (potential) new music-focused feature.

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Discount Irish Airline Ryanair May Or May Not Have Banned Emerging Supervillain James Corden From The Skies

Misery loves company, which might explain why Ryanair is currently trolling “tiny cretin of a man” James Corden. On Monday, famed New York City restaurateur Keith McNally announced via social media that he was 86’ing the outgoing The Late Late Show host from his perennial SoHo hotspot, Balthazar.

McNally shared a story to his Instagram in which he publicly demolished Corden for being a total a**shole to his waitstaff and management team on more than one occasion. The latest confrontation came earlier this month, when Corden reportedly pitched a fit after his wife’s egg-yolk omelette (WTF?!) ended up with some egg white in it (huh?!). According to McNally, Corden’s behavior toward the restaurant’s staff was “abusive” — so he banned him.

While other New York City restaurant owners have stepped forward to defend Corden and say that he is, in fact, a friendly and lovely man, there was really no need. As McNally and Corden appear to have cleared up the matter, with each man feeling badly about what had transpired and how the incident was shared with the public. (Though something tells us it was Corden who was the more contrite.) In the midst of all the hullabaloo surrounding the matter, low-cost European airline Ryanair decided to jump in on the fun and announce that they, too, were banning Corden from all Ryanair flights.

Something tells us that won’t be a huge problem for Corden. Based on a recently resurfaced story from 2017, the late-night host has a preference for flying business class — and not having to contend with crying babies (even his own). Low-cost Ryanair, meanwhile, is regularly ranked among the worst airlines in the world and was once crowned the very worst “short-haul airline.” In addition to offering zero in-flight entertainment options, the airline likes to nickel-and-dime its customers on everything. Which, if McNally’s stories are true, doesn’t seem like something Corden easily abides by.

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Zac Efron Takes His Irresistible Brand Of Enthusiasm Down Under In Netflix’s New ‘Down To Earth’ Trailer

Bye bye, Troy Bolton of High School Musical fame. Zac Efron has fully come into his own power as a performer and a presence. Not only have we heard that Alexander Skarsgård was inspired to go pantless by the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile star, but Efron has moved on from Baywatch mode into an upcoming A24 project. In addition, Netflix is preparing to bring us more of his unwaveringly pure unscripted series (one of our favorite docuseries of 2020), in which Efron learns about science and explores nature and generally lives everyone’s best life.

On that note, the Down Under Season 2 has arrived, and the show is now apparently renamed as Down to Earth with Zac Efron: Down Under. Get ready for plenty of “sick” and “mind blown” exclamations coming your way, man. Above, Zac and Darin Olien preview their “deep dive” into Australian culture with an eye towards sustainability. They hang with kangaroos and koalas! That’s the dose of adorableness that we need, and hopefully, we’ll see more incredible moments like those from Season 1, which included Zac changing a woman’s life by removing debris from her Hurricane-devastated home in Puerto Rico. Those small gestures mean everything when it comes to healing our very broken world, and some “whoa!” sprinkled everywhere never hurts matters.

The season promises to take Efron and Olien “from Sydney to the Greater Blue Mountains” while they tango with eco-warriors, explore local customs, and have a ton of fun (and good eats) in the process. Let’s go.

Down To Earth returns on November 11.

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Lil Nas X’s ‘Long Live Montero’ Tour Is A Magnificent Showcase Of His Dedication To The Performance

Back in 2019, as Lil Nas X rode the wave of his historic hit “Old Town Road,” I wrote that he was handling the song’s outsized success just as he should. Later that year, after getting the chance to actually talk to him about it in person, I opined that his precipitous rise was no accident. Last night, at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, the latest stop on his Long Live Montero Tour, he more than justified my belief in him, putting on a show unlike any other I’ve seen.

For one thing, I’ve never been handed a legit Playbill in the lobby. Thumbing through its pages reveals that Nas has taken the time to acknowledge literally every single person who contributed to the show, from the dancers to the designers to the security. One page shows off the designs for the six costumes he’ll wear throughout the 90-minute show, which maintains the Broadway theme with a three-act structure and a loose narrative. Nas leans into the Renaissance aesthetic, with cotumes inspired by that era right down to his sparkly heels.

His costume changes are concealed by interludes presented by “The Wizard Of Naz,” a woman who is projected on the stage curtain between the acts, breaking down what each part represents in the story of Nas coming to terms with himself and his desires. In addition to advancing this narrative, the setlist also loosely re-tells the story of his rise to stardom — the first act is highlighted by early career hits such as “Old Town Road,” “Panini,” and “Rodeo,” while album cuts such as “That’s What I Want” and “Montero” buttress the second.

The finale, naturally, is “Industry Baby,” the song that proved Nas isn’t just a one-hit-wonder and solidified him as even more a provocateur and pioneer than we had ever originally imagined. (Yes, “Call Me By Your Name” exploded behind the music video hype, but “Industry Baby” has been a lasting, resonant megasmash, even helping to launch collaborator Jack Harlow into his own No. 1 hit).

While an offstage band blows out all the songs, one of the things Nas does to keep the familiar hits more interesting is incorporating elements of other artists’ hits. “Old Town Road” gets remixed with Genuwine’s “Pony,” Beyonce’s Renaissance favorite “Pure/Honey” gets smashed into “That’s What I Want,” and Prince’s manic guitar intro even makes an appearance. Meanwhile, like Megan Thee Stallion before him, Nas invites exuberant fans onstage to twerk it out to “Down Souf Hoes.”

What makes the level of presentation and confidence in his performance all the more impressive is not just that Long Live Montero is Lil Nas’ first tour. It’s also the scale of the show in relation to where he is in his career. Like many young breakout artists of the last few years, Nas lost what amounted to two years of development. Instead of starting out at, say, 1,500-cap venues and scaling up over successive tours, he’s been thrown into the deep end at 6,000-plus-cap venues like YouTube Theater.

The stakes are higher here; there’s more pressure, a slimmer margin of error, and further to fall with a misstep — which becomes more likely without significant tour experience under his belt. Sure, working with so many awards shows definitely contributed to the scale and complexity of the production, but Nas hasn’t really had to perform for a live audience night after night while zigzagging across the nation in a tour bus before. That he’s able to do so as coolly as he has is a testament to his dedication to the craft.

That’s what makes the difference between Lil Nas X and the artists that the industry has based on his blueprint. He wasn’t just a TikTok sensation that blew up by accident and took the brass ring when it was offered. He worked for it. He made “Old Town Road” go viral by sheer force of will, and when circumstances conspired to give him more attention than he was ready for, he worked his butt off again to deserve it. He’s been forced to grow up before our eyes, but he’s risen to that challenge magnificently.

That’s the story on display in his Long Live Montero set (which also explains its brevity; the kid only really has one album out). Many artists these days preach self-belief during their sets, but Lil Nas X doesn’t just tell us; he shows us what it looks like. He puts his life story and his career arc on display, then plays it to the tilt, adding a flair for drama that makes it truly entertaining. It’s not just a great show, it’s a perfect example of an artist doing everything he can to make sure it’s a show worth seeing and talking about because he knows what it took to get here.

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NxWorries Is Finally Back After Six Years Away With ‘Where I Go,’ Anderson .Paak And Knxwledge’s New Song With HER

Anderson .Paak is one of the busiest collaborators in music. The past year or so in particular offered a couple of career highlights on that front: His and Bruno Mars’ project Silk Sonic had a No. 1 single with “Leave The Door Open” and won a bunch of Grammys. On top of that, .Paak joined Dr. Dre, Eminem, and company to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year. Now, he’s once again focused on collaborating.

In 2016, .Paak and producer Knxwledge formed the duo NxWorries and dropped Yes Lawd!, their well-received debut album. A new chapter was added to the duo’s story last week, when it was revealed they were back “in the lab.” Now, new material has popped up faster than most fans probably expected: Today, NxWorries dropped a video for “Where I Go,” a new song featuring HER.

It’s an endlessly smooth tune and .Paak sings on the chorus, “She wanna know where I’ve been / And who I seen / She wanna know where I’m goin’ / And can we meet? / She say I’m so terrible / But this is me / I love her from head to toe / And in between.”

While is the first proper new NxWorries song since Yes Lawd!, .Paak did feature on Knxwledge’s 2020 song “Itkanbe[sonice].”

Watch the “Where I Go” video above.

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The Biggest Question Facing Every Team In The Southeast Division

A reasonable case could be made that the Southeast Division is perhaps the least exciting in the NBA for the 2022-23 season. After all, only two teams are projected for playoff consideration, with one full-blown rebuild underway, and a pair of teams largely projected for middling status. Still, the Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets, and Orlando Magic each present intriguing questions, and we’ll aim to highlight the single biggest prompt for each squad in advance of the regular season opener.

Atlanta Hawks: Who is De’Andre Hunter going to be?

Even before De’Andre Hunter signed a four-year extension just before the rookie-scale extension deadline on Monday, there was pressure on the former No. 4 overall pick. Hunter is not the best player, or even in the top three or four players, on Atlanta’s roster, but the Hawks have been highly invested in his future from the moment they traded a large haul to select him in the 2019 NBA Draft. Hunter showed all kinds of signs in his second season, but injuries limited him to only 23 games, and the former Virginia star took a step back in performance in 2021-22.

Hunter doesn’t have to be a star for the Hawks and, realistically, that isn’t a probable outcome at this juncture. What he does need to be is a solid, available, two-way role player for an Atlanta team that has sky-high aspirations. The Hawks can’t replace him, which is likely part of why an extension happened, and Hunter might be the single biggest X-factor between Atlanta returning to the Play-In or being in contention for a top-four seed.

Charlotte Hornets: What is the plan to replace Miles Bridges’ production?

Miles Bridges isn’t on an NBA roster, and he shouldn’t be. It is near impossible to talk about anything related to basketball and Bridges, but the reality is that Bridges averaged 20 points and seven rebounds for Charlotte last season, was the team’s most athletic and explosive player, and landed only behind LaMelo Ball in the team’s overall pecking order.

With the Hornets’ current roster and salary cap situation coupled with the way everything happened with Bridges, it wasn’t as if Charlotte could simply go sign a replacement. A healthy Gordon Hayward would go a long way, and players like Kelly Oubre and PJ Washington can function in partial roles, but the reality is that Charlotte has an uphill battle toward the playoffs. That isn’t where a team wants to be that clearly isn’t rebuilding, either.

Miami Heat: Who is playing power forward?

Miami made a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals and nearly made the NBA Finals. Miami also has Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, and Erik Spoelstra. With those realities in place, the Heat have a very high floor, but Miami lost a key piece in P.J. Tucker with no clear replacement.

In practice, Butler is slated to play power forward at times, and he is more than capable of doing so. Otherwise, Miami has Caleb Martin slotted at the 4, even though he is clearly a wing-sized player, and guys like Haywood Highsmith and rookie Nikola Jokic may log minutes. Tucker’s absence may actually help Miami’s offense if it leads to more of Max Strus and/or Duncan Robinson, but defense is where the Heat shine, and they have more questions there than they would probably like in October.

Orlando Magic: Which guard(s) will make the team’s inner circle?

With Paolo Banchero now on board and Franz Wagner poised for a breakout, the Magic have a tremendous future-facing setup in the frontcourt. Orlando already has a starting-caliber center in Wendell Carter Jr., and the Magic might eventually get something from Jon Isaac to further stabilize matters. Banchero and Wagner are both capable of perimeter-based creation, but the Magic also have a bevy of guards with a lot to prove.

Jalen Suggs has the highest level of investment as a recent top-five pick, and he is already showing tremendous defensive potential. Suggs also struggled mightily on offense and has battled injury concerns. Orlando also has a sizable contract invested in Markelle Fultz, who is a solid player that still faces shooting issues, and Cole Anthony is a proven bucket getter that might be best-suited as a third guard type off the bench. Everything with the Magic should be viewed through a long-term lens, but it would be helpful if Orlando already had at least part of its long-term guard room set by the end of the 2022-23 season.

Washington Wizards: So, what’s the plan here?

Same story, different season for the Wizards. Bradley Beal recently became the tenth player in NBA history to have a true no-trade clause, and he signed for all the money in the world. Washington does have a legitimate No. 2 in Kristaps Porzingis, who performed well after joining them last season, but the the Wizards are still in purgatory.

On one hand, the Wizards have a bunch of quality role players. Kyle Kuzma is a very solid player. Delon Wright and Monte Morris are both professional guards who will make a team run. Will Barton will get a bucket. Daniel Gafford is a nice rim-runner and rim protector. The question is what this all means. At present, Washington appears geared entirely toward a potential Play-In run, with a series of recent first round draft picks that were not exactly focused on ceiling. The Wizards aren’t setting up salary cap room, nor are they tanking with an eye toward Victor Wembanyama or Scoot Henderson. They are just in the middle somewhere, and that probably shouldn’t be an organizational plan for a franchise that hasn’t won 50 games since 1979.

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Donald Trump Is Insisting That ‘It’s Over’ For ‘SNL’ After The Show Put Him On A Gold Toilet During A Jan. 6 Sketch

The January 6 Committee cold open drew some big praise from fans of Saturday Night Live, but don’t count Donald Trump among them. The one-time host of the sketch comedy show has become a huge hater of the NBC mainstay in recent years, and after another episode that took aim at his role in a coup attempt last year and the ensuing fallout, Trump decided it’s time to declare the show “over” once and for all.

The show still spends plenty of time on Trump, spending much of Weekend Update on Trump and a lengthy response to the actual January 6 Committee hearing last week. And the cold open featured James Austin Johnson showing off his Trump impersonation while on a golden toilet, swigging Diet Coke and asking whether Mike Pence is “dead yet?” as the insurrection attempt aired on live TV. It wasn’t flattering, of course. And apparently he’s had enough of all that attention.

Posting into his own personal online shout box, Truth Social, Trump said the show is not “funny or smart” and said it should probably be canceled. As Newsweek notes, this falls in line with what he typically says about things he does not like:

“I once hosted Saturday Night Live, and the ratings were HUUUGE! Now, however, the ratings are lower than ever before, and the show will probably be put to rest,’” Trump said.

“It is just not, at these levels, sustainable—A bad show that’s not funny or smart. L.M. [producer Lorne Michaels] is angry and exhausted, the show even more so. It was once good, never great, but now, like the Late Night Losers who have lost their audience but have no idea why, it is over for SNL—A great thing for America!”

Declaring something “over” happens a lot these days online, so it’s funny to see Trump become just another poster on a mostly obscure social media network made only for him. But speculation about how long SNL will continue isn’t really new these days. There aren’t many people who assume the show should be “put to rest” because they’re the subject of entire sketches, though. That’s really only Trump in that category these days.

[via Newsweek]