Prior to this month, Wizkid was pretty quiet in the afrobeats world in a year that’s been one of the best for the genre in recent memory. However, his silence isn’t shocking as he spent most of 2021 in the spotlight thanks to the success behind “Essence” with Tems and his Made In Lagos album. The song peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, making it the highest-charting Nigerian song to date. While things have certainly cooled off for Wizkid, he returned to form this month with the release of the amapiano-focused “Bad To Me.” It turns out that it’s not all the Nigerian star has up his sleeve.
Just a week after Wizkid released “Bad To Me,” Apple Music announced that he would be the next artist to have a live performance through the platform. The show will be held in London next week on September 27 and be released later this fall, and it turns out that Wizkid will perform new music during the show. “Biggest bird bringing #AppleMusicLive to London!” Wizkid wrote in a tweet. “For one night only at the Roundhouse performing my new album,” he added before sharing a link to purchase tickets for the show.
Wizkid previously revealed that the album would be titled More Love, Less Ego, but a release date for the project was not shared.
You can view Wizkid’s tweet about his upcoming Apple Music Live show above.
Alex Jones continues to derail his own defense in the ongoing defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of Sandy Hook victims. His latest stunt involved holding a press conference just steps away from the Connecticut court where his latest trial is taking place.
Despite already being on the hook for a cool $49 million to the family of one of the children killed in the 2012 massacre, Jones went on a tirade about the poor treatment he’s faced from the judicial system and the media during both cases. During his minutes-long rant (via Raw Story), Jones admitted he “did say things that were hurtful and not true,” likely referring to the claims he made years earlier alleging the shooting was a hoax. But, he quickly absolved himself of any guilt adding, “as an American, I have a right.”
The InfoWars host went on to attack the justice system and the media reporting on the case saying he showed up to every deposition and court appearance but was turned away, presumably by the judge.
“The headlines were ‘Jones doesn’t show,’” he shouted. “They said we don’t want you! I show up yesterday. We don’t want you! I show up today! We don’t want you!”
There’s no evidence Jones was turned away from attending his own trial, but that didn’t stop him from losing it on the press, growing hysterical as he accused reporters of printing lies about him.
“And this guy is going to report I didn’t show up today!” he shrieked while pointing at a reporter. “That’s lying! That’s corporate fake media and that’s shame on you!”
Jones also tried to argue that his coverage of Sandy Hook was minimal and that there’s a conspiracy in place to make it seem like InfoWars profited off his claims more than the company actually did. It’s been reported that Jones made millions from his hoax theories, but to hear him tell it, Sandy Hook coverage only amounted to a small percentage of what he talked about on the show.
“They didn’t find us premeditatedly with some Lex Luthor plan to get rich off Sandy Hook,” he screamed. “It was a small part of our coverage. Their evidence is like 24, 23 minutes of me talking about this.”
If someone would like to pull the tapes, we’ll wait. Until then, enjoy Jones’ full meltdown above
Los Angeles police are reportedly looking into the possibility that one of PnB Rock’s “known enemies” is responsible for the rapper’s murder at an LA restaurant earlier this month, according to TMZ. The investigation has detectives checking on connections in Rock’s hometown, Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta, for any suggestion that his death was premeditated and not a spur-of-the-moment robbery attempt as originally thought.
Rock was dining at Roscoe’s House Of Chicken ’N Waffles in South Los Angeles on September 12 when he was approached by an unknown assailant who apparently demanded he hand over his jewelry. After a short struggle, Rock was shot as the gunman escaped, and was pronounced dead after being transported to a nearby hospital. Los Angeles police suggested that the killer may have been tipped off by the rapper’s social media tags, which he posted before entering the restaurant.
Fans had previously discussed the possibility that he’d been targeted due to his posts on Twitter, with many lashing out at commenters like Nicki Minaj who warned against entertainers posting their locations online, drawing parallels to the recent death of New York rapper Pop Smoke during a home invasion after accidentally revealing his temporary address on Instagram. Meanwhile, local artists have admonished both out-of-towners and locals to stop flashing jewelry and also stop engaging in reckless robbery attempts.
A YouTuber who critiqued Nicki Minaj as being “a horrible person” is planning to file a lawsuit against Minaj’s fans (familiarly known as Barbz) who she claims crossed the line in continuously harassing her, her family, and threatening violence.
Kimberly Nicole Foster runs the relatively popular YouTube channel “For Harriet,” which has 202,000 subscribers at press time and markets itself as “Celebrating The Fullness of Black Womanhood.” Foster, a Harvard graduate, drew the ire of the Barbz with a tweet last week where she said, “Nicki is so clearly a horrible person. Negativity sticks to her like glue. Idk if we’ve ever seen this before.” She told The Daily Beast that her mentions had blown up at first with “normal, annoying stuff,” but then soon got far worse.
“The messages became more threatening and dark, and then it started to be, ‘We’re gonna find you. I’m gonna kidnap you, I hope you get raped.’”
Nicki is so clearly a horrible person. Negativity sticks to her like glue. Idk if we’ve ever seen this before.
Foster said that the harassment has gone beyond the online space. She tweeted about going to her niece’s school for a day before a commenter replied that her niece would be “collateral damage.” Foster claims that Minaj has exacerbated the backlash towards her by liking the harassing replies from the Barbz and posted a video showing the activity from Minaj’s verified account on Twitter.
“There’s an understanding among the Barbz that the harder they go for her — the more virulent the nastiness — there’s more of an opportunity for her to recognize them,” Foster told The Daily Beast.
There are other instances of Foster critiquing Minaj’s music that fans were unhappy about, where Foster was perhaps being ageist in her choice of words and what she chose to highlight.
In the meantime, the report indicates that Foster is still gathering information like Twitter handles, IP addresses, etc. before filing her lawsuit. Minaj is said to not be the focus of Foster’s impending legal filings. It’s a strange turn of the tables in the Nicki-verse though, after Minaj recently filed a lawsuit against a blogger who called her a “cokehead.”
One of the greatest feats a Jeopardy! contestant can accomplish is running the category. That’s when a player — like fan favorite Ryan Long — correctly answers an entire column of clues under one topic, which doesn’t happen often. As a user on the game show’s subreddit pointed out, “It used to be so much easier to follow a run category when play was top-down, straight-down. These days with bouncing and DD-hunting it’s so much harder to track one contestant getting every clue in a category right.” But category runs could happen more frequently if a proposed rule change goes through.
“I have been thinking about trying out, perhaps in one of our other tournaments this season, experimenting with giving out a cash bonus for contestants who run a category,” executive producer Mike Davies said on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. “It’s a moment in the studio; it’s a great thing.” But controversial Jeopardy! champ Buzzy Cohen, who also appeared on the podcast, isn’t so sure.
Cohen pointed out that “Twitter exploded with pros and cons” when the proposal was first mentioned in the Sept. 13 episode. He asked if the bonus would affect the game score total. Davies and Foss both answered “no,” agreeing that it would be a “separate bonus.”
Cohen believes the proposal could “affect gameplay strategy, and I don’t know if that’s something you’re interested in doing,” but Davis countered that “it might also give incentive to people who are trailing to try and go into a category and get something from the game beyond their second or third place prize.”
The first contestant who runs the category for “I Think You Should Leave Jazz Icons” and answers no other question correctly will go down in history.
For the first time, Shakira opened up about her recent split from soccer star Gerard Piqué and the allegations of tax evasion in Spain. In a new interview with Elle that was published today (September 21), the Colombian superstar also talked about how she’s “healing” by creating new music.
It’s been a difficult year for Shakira since her recent separation from her ex Piqué. On top of that, Shakira will soon be going to trial for alleged tax fraud in Spain and she’s taking care of her ailing 91-year-old father. In the cover story, she described this year as “one of the most difficult, darkest hours of my life.”
After Piqué reportedly cheated on Shakira, the couple announced their separation in June. In April, she released her global hit “Te Felicito” where she sarcastically congratulated an ex on being a good actor in their relationship. Shakira seemingly confirmed that song was inspired by Piqué.
“I can only say that either consciously or subconsciously, everything I feel, everything I go through is reflected in the lyrics I write, in the videos I make. When the glove fits, it fits. Like I said before, my music is that channel,” Shakira said.
As their separation is unfolding in front of the world, Shakira’s top priority is maintaining her two sons’ privacy during this time. She mentioned that she’s working with Piqué on a custody agreement that will best suit their family.
“Regardless of how things ended or how Gerard and I feel about each other as ex-partners, he is the father of my children,” Shakira said. “We have a job to do for these two incredible boys, and I have faith that we will figure out what is best for their future, their own dreams in life, and what is a fair solution for everyone involved.”
Shakira maintained that she’s staying strong during the separation proceedings. “For those women like me who believe in values like family who had the dream, the big dream of having a family forever, to see that dream broken or shredded into pieces is probably one of the most painful things that you can ever go through. But I think that women, we are resilient,” she said.
Shakira also talked about the tax evasion claims against her in Spain. She maintained that accusations are “false.”
“First of all, I didn’t spend 183 days per year at that time at all. I was busy fulfilling my professional commitments around the world. Second, I’ve paid everything they claimed I owed, even before they filed a lawsuit. So as of today, I owe zero to them,” she said.
In July, Shakira rejected a plea deal by Spanish prosecutors in the tax evasion case. The case will be going to trial, but no date has yet been set. “I’m confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor,” she said.
As for new music, Shakira revealed she has a “full album’s worth of music that I’m so excited about.” No release date has been set because day-by-day she’s feeling inspired and that’s been translating into more time inside the recording studio. “I feel creative right now, and I feel that is an incredible outlet for me to make sense of things,” she said.
Ever since she was selected as part of the 2021 XXL Freshman class, Quality Control Music rapper Lakeyah’s profile has been steadily rising. While she’s still yet to put out a full-length album, she capitalized on the increased attention she’s been receiving earlier this year with the EP, No Pressure (Pt. 1). After kicking off the summer with the singles “Mind Yo Business” featuring Latto and “Record Straight,” she’s extending the extended play project with five new songs.
Continuing the thread of sisterhood that has been running throughout hip-hop recently, Lakeyah recruits a pair of her fellow rising stars in Gloss Up, who appears on the previously released “Real B*tch,” and fellow Freshman Flo Milli, who is in the midst of her own breakout and sets off on the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Tour with Monaleo in October. In addition, Lakeyah flexes alongside one of the more exciting newcomers in the game today, Icewear Vezzo, as well as R&B standard bearer Lucky Daye.
A few nights ago, at the St. Louis stop of his Twelve Carat Tour, Post Malone had an on-stage mishap: In the middle of walking around and performing “Circles,” Malone stepped into a hole on the stage and took a pretty hard fall, staying on the ground for a short while. He left the stage but returned 15 minutes later to finish the show. He wasn’t completely unharmed, though, as he actually cracked three ribs in the slip.
It’s been a few days since then but Malone isn’t letting it go. In fact, he officially launched some beef with the hole, taking to Instagram to fire shots at the on-stage gap.
Yesterday, he shared a photo of himself on stage, sticking his middle finger up and pointing it squarely at the ground. He captioned the photo, “[middle finger emoji] F U Hole.”
Malone later explained what happened, saying, “Whenever we do the acoustic part of the show, the guitars are on the guitar stand… and there’s this big-ass hole, so I go around there and I turn the corner and bust my ass. [It] winded me pretty good. Got me pretty good. We just got back from the hospital and everything’s good. Everything’s good. They gave me some pain meds and everything so we can keep kicking ass on the tour.”
Confess, Fletchis a fun movie. There’s not a ton to it, really, at least not much beyond “Jon Hamm kind of solves a murder and art theft, sometimes while wearing Hawaiian shirts and/or a baseball cap,” but who cares, you know? There are scenes where he and his former Mad Men co-star John Slattery sit around and trade one-liners for a bit, too, which made me break into an involuntary cheeseball smile as wide as a freeway. I love those guys. It’s a perfect little Friday night movie, one that asks the simple question “What if we put a really cool dude into a series of dicey situations and let him wiggle out of them all by being a really cool dude?” Sometimes that’s all you need from a movie. “Cool Dude Does Cool Stuff” is a legitimate genre of film. We’ll come back to this in a minute.
The fourth and final season of Atlanta premiered last week, too. This is bittersweet because, on one hand, it’s good to have one of the most creative and well-made shows in the history of television back on television again (and back in Atlanta after a brief detour in Europe), but on the other hand, it’s kind of a bummer to see it go. Atlanta is such a good show, profound and weird and serious and occasionally very, very goofy. Go back and watch the Teddy Perkins episode sometime. Even today, years later, with a slew of other shows taking influence from it and trying to reverse engineer the formula, it remains one of the most unique half-hours of television ever made. That’s pretty cool.
One of the plots in the season premiere features Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) trying to return an air fryer to a store that is in the middle of being looted. It does not go well. As he walks out of the store with the air fryer still in his possession, a cranky white lady in a power wheelchair attempts to stop him, thinking he is also one of the looters. Darius wiggles around her and walks off and she spins around and follows after him through the parking lot as he heads to the car.
A few minutes later, as he’s sitting in gridlocked Atlanta traffic…
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It all leads to a game of cat and mouse through Atlanta, with the woman following Darius and Darius trying to explain himself and get home with his godforsaken air fryer. It’s really effective in places, with the humming of the chair in the background serving as a kind of twist on the horror movie device of a monster growling offscreen whenever the person being chased thinks they’re safe. None of this is a problem. But here’s where things get tricky.
The depiction of people with disabilities kind of stinks throughout Hollywood and has for a while. I am admittedly biased on this because I have a disability (spinal cord injury, power wheelchair, etc.), but that doesn’t make the first thing I typed less true. Disabled characters are often portrayed as miserable sadsacks or inspirational angels with very little exploration of the area between those two extremes. Sometimes they get to be, like, employees of a laboratory who look through a microscope or sit at a computer and give important information to the main character. Sometimes they get to be billionaires or science geniuses or both, in a way that almost offsets their disability from a practical standpoint. You know, like this guy.
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I hope this doesn’t come off like I’m picking on Atlanta too much. I meant what I said about it being a really good show, still, today, which is almost a miracle for a show that takes the kind of big swings it does. None of what happened in the episode was, like, offensive to me. The point of the whole thing was to drive home what an obnoxious Karen this woman was and how another historically disadvantaged group of people does not often get the benefit of the doubt from society. Again, the stuff with the humming chair offscreen was an effective piece of business. People in wheelchairs can be assholes, too. Lord knows I have my moments.
This brings us back to Fletch, though, and it gets me to what I think is a reasonable request in the grand scheme of things: Let’s make a movie or a television show that’s about a cool dude in a wheelchair. That’s all. No superpowers or billions of dollars. No moping or misery, or at least not more than we need to get back to the thing where the dude in the wheelchair is cool. Have him solve an art theft, or commit an art theft, or commit and solve an art theft. There are lots of options here. It is very doable. There doesn’t even need to be an art theft, I guess. The main thing is the part about being a cool dude, kind of like if The Dude in The Big Lebowski were the one in the wheelchair instead of the other rich and angry Lebowski. I would really appreciate if someone stole some art at some point, though, if only because I love a good art theft movie.
(Quick note that is probably important: I am using terms to describe a male character here only because I wanted to use “dude” in the headline. It can absolutely be a lady in a wheelchair, too. And there should be a word that describes a cool woman as effectively as “dude” describes a cool man. Let’s work on this one, too.)
Three notes, in conclusion:
This is not just an issue for characters with disabilities, by any means, as Hollywood has a long history of “minority character as criminal or thinly-drawn prop to tell the main character’s story” as its fallback for inclusion
We can and should tell lots of stories about lots of people, good and bad, because that’s a cool thing to do (and something we are making progress on, in general, I think), but this is just the one I want to highlight to today because I watched both Confess, Fletch and Atlanta in the last week and I’ve been thinking about them a lot
If someone out there is going to do this, the thing about the cool dude in the wheelchair, please cast an actual actor in a wheelchair to play the cool dude, just so I don’t have to pitch and write a second article like this about how you messed up my idea
This was a pretty good conversation. I’m glad we are getting it all out there. Let’s circle back to it all in maybe a year to see how things are working out.
Just weeks away from their fifth album studio album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, The 1975 has shared the fourth single from the album, “All I Need To Hear.” In the black and which visual for the song, the band is seen performing the downtempo ballad in a studio.
While “All I Need To Hear” is one of the more romantic ballads on The 1975’s upcoming Jack Antonoff-produced album, lead vocalist Matty Healy revealed to Pitchfork that he took a more humorous approach when writing Being Funny In A Foreign Language.
“I’m projecting something there,” he said. “I’m conditioned to know that I’m gonna f*ck something up, so I go into anything that makes me feel truly vulnerable with an acknowledgment that it may be temporary, or I may be limited in my ability to fulfill this really big thing that doesn’t require me to be sharp or witty or dexterous. It requires me to be f*cking naive and simple and nice and reliable. I worry about it, because I’m better at: make a joke and leave.”
Check out the video for “All I Need To Hear” above.
Being Funny In A Foreign Language is out 10/14 via Dirty Hit. Pre-order it here.
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