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Doja Cat is a rapper but her music and singing have an undeniable pop appeal to them, too. Now, though, Doja is saying that when it comes to her impending fourth album, she wants to put a strong focus on rap.

A new Elle profile reports Doja noted her upcoming album will be “predominantly rap” and Doja said of it, “I haven’t started just because of all the rehearsal and touring. I’ve got a lot going on, but it’s coming up. I have been getting songs and things sent to me… Oh f*ck, I wish I could tell people! There’s some really cool stuff that I got sent from friends. They’re all working on beats, and I’m giving them notes and they know what I want, so I’m excited.”

Elsewhere, she said, “I want to finish this tour up, kill it, and see my fans happy. And then I want to start writing again. I’m going to finish this next album, and then I’m going to get the f*ck out for a second. I want to disappear for a little bit and just do things like wear slides and go to the farmers market. I don’t give a sh*t about vegetables, but how fun! And I want a dog, too. It’s f*cked up that I don’t have a dog. It’s not fair. I want to take care of a dog. I want to raise it and run around in the grass and touch it.”

This interview was conducted before Doja’s recent announcement that she’s canceling her upcoming shows due to tonsil surgery, so perhaps Doja will get to making new music sooner than expected.

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In case you haven’t heard, it was an exhilarating week for pop with the release of Harry Styles’s new, long-awaited album Harry’s House, and the announcement of Rina Sawayama’s next album Hold This Girl, which came with the ferocious single “This Hell.”

Each week, Uproxx rounds up the best new pop releases. Listen up.

Harry Styles — “Music For A Sushi Restaurant”

Let’s get straight to the point and kick this off with the opener of Harry’s House, a bombastic, disco-inspired anthem with mesmeric vocals and a personable bassline. It’s a grand start to the record, welcoming the listener with its endearing charm and sparkle.

Oliver Tree — “I Hate You”

It seems like the unpredictable Oliver Tree is going in the direction of Machine Gun Kelly; this new track “I Hate You” moves at a pop-punk pace with aggressive vocals and angsty lyrics: “I hate you / You’re the worst best friend I ever had,” he declares on the chorus. Even if it’s not totally original, he makes the sound work.

Conan Gray — “Yours”

This piano-driven ballad “Yours” from Conan Gray will tug at your heartstrings in the same way that Olivia Rodrigo’s “Traitor” does. His vocals are powerful, but full of longing and pain, while he sings lines of regret: “The only thing that’s harder than sleeping alone / is sleeping with your ghost.”

Hayley Kiyoko — “For The Girls”

Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” was the upbeat, women-empowering summer anthem we all needed, and now Hayley Kiyoko is providing us with one of her own with this irresistible track “For The Girls” which confidently proclaims: “Summer’s for the girls / The girls that like girls / The girls that like boys / The girls the girls the girls.”

Rina Sawayama — “This Hell”

Rina Sawayama is unabashedly reveling in recklessness in this new single “This Hell.” The track has a ridiculously catchy melody and her vocals burst with attitude, but she also manages to confront serious issues as well: “Posing for the paparazzi / F*ck what they did to Britney / To Lady Di and Whitney,” she sings. There’s also a sick guitar solo.

Ericdoa — “Victim”

Hyperpop experimenter Ericdoa doesn’t hold back on this song “Victim,” which catapults forward with a bouncy, rapid rhythm. He sings and raps, but sounds earnest throughout all of it as he gets existential, wondering: “You’re stuck in your dead end job / What’s the point of it all?”

Ali Gatie — “IDK”

“IDK” watches Ali Gatie falling head over heels, and nervously admitting and expressing his surprise: “I lose track of time when I’m around you / I’ve never been in love / Then it hit me like a truck,” he sings, blending together pop and rap. Despite all of his worries, he’s hopeful and excited, and it’s infectious.

Mxmtoon — “Scales”

Mxmtoon’s new album Rising is finally out, and this track “Scales” is a highlight. The hallucinogenic backing vocals add to a trippy atmosphere, meanwhile Mxmtoon whisper-sings about astrology, trying to make sense of what’s going on in her life with a brave sense of honesty.

Lykke Li — “Carousel”

Another album that arrived this week was Lykke Li’s stunning Eyeye, a captivating collection of songs that glimmer and haunt. “Carousel” is gorgeous, packed with soft, ethereal harmonies and soaring synths painting a vivid scene: “Flying and I can’t come down / Yeah, I’m high as hell / And I can’t let go / Oh, carousel.”

Em Beihold — “Too Precious”

Em Beihold doesn’t want to be judged on “Too Precious,” a song about not being as reckless as other young people are. It doesn’t make her better than others, but it certainly doesn’t make others better than her: “Do what you want I can’t pretend / That I’m a rebel / Not on your level,” she sings.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Soon-to-be outgoing The Late Late Show host James Corden has grown accustomed to Tom Cruise’s antics. The Risky Business star famously forced Corden to skydive in 2018, and Corden recently revealed that Tom casually decided to land a helicopter on Corden’s front lawn. So the stage was set (to promote Top Gun: Maverick) with more Cruise-daredevil shenanigans, and Corden had no choice but to head into the sky with Tom as he piloted them into the sky in a vintage plane.

Granted, there was fun and hooting and hollering to be had at first, as well as Corden mentioning a bathroom break, Tom denying him, and then Corden declaring that a break was no longer needed. Classy stuff for sure, but Corden ultimately could have done without the high-flying antics while holding up a “Help Me” sign to draw laughs from the audience. Yes, the pair survived their initial voyage, and James was thrilled to feel the ground again, but of course, Tom decided to drag Corden back into the thick of things while cranking up the drama in a straight-up, modern-day fighter jet, one that could fly straight into a war zone.

“You absolute bastard” did come out of James’ mouth around the 12:30 mark above, and Tom totally deserved it. Hey, not everyone casually perches upon a speeding train for fun or enjoys being upside down in a fighter jet. (To each his own.)

Top Gun: Maverick soars into theaters on May 27.

Despite reaping some pretty serious consequences for his trolling so far, Tekashi 69 hasn’t eased up on the antics one bit since being released from prison. He continues to antagonize any number of street rappers from Lil Durk to Meek Mill to Young Thug, more or less daring them to respond — something most of them have done in some respect, whether musically or in person. However, one veteran rapper foresees a more grisly end to the shenanigans and is convinced that the 26-year-old has a death wish.

Appearing on battle rapper Math Hoffa’s podcast, Fat Joe declared that he thinks very poorly of Tekashi, despite previously trying to help him out with words of wisdom. “I’m gonna just be honest with you,” he said. “This n****s a sucka. He’s pussy, a sucka, a bitch… This type of shit this n**** doing, I’m convinced he wanna die—and I don’t wish it on him or nothing like that but I’m convinced he’s miserable in his body. He can’t look in the mirror.” Joe was one of the many rappers who disapproved of Tekashi’s decision to testify against his gang-affiliated associates in 2018.

Tekashi, however, seems delighted to have a new playmate with whom to trade barbs and keep his name buzzing. After all, all publicity is good publicity in his mind, so he went to his favorite publicist, TMZ, to offer a response. “Fat Joe is jealous of 69,” he said. “69 has done more in his young career than Fat Joe has ever done in his long career…Fat Joe said I was miserable and want to die? Fat Joe is miserable and wants to die because Fat Joe doesn’t have half of what 69 has in money and cars. Fat Joe said I’m not a gangster, it was all for promotion? That’s fake news. What’s his proof that I ever said that? There is no proof. He’s lying.”

Considering that he literally got a reduced sentence on the racketeering charges against him by effectively saying exactly that as he turned over his cohorts in the Nine Trey gang (not that he needed to, considering the amount of evidence the gang had left behind), I’d say Fat Joe is at least telling a smidgeon of truth here.

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If you’re anything like me, when you heard that a “Top Gun” sequel was being made nearly three decades after the original, you may have rolled your eyes a bit. I mean, come on. “Top Gun” was great, but who makes a sequel 30 years later and expects people to be excited? Especially considering how scrutinizing both audiences and critics tend to be with second films.

Then I saw a trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick,” and was surprised that it looked … super not terrible. Then more and more details about the film emerged, then more trailers and behind-the-scenes footage were released, then early reviews started rolling in and … you guys. You guysssss. I don’t know how the filmmakers managed to pull it off, but everything about this film looks absolutely incredible.

And frankly, as a member of Gen X who saw the original “Top Gun” at least a dozen times, I could not be more thrilled. We deserve this win. We’ve been through so much. Many of us have spent the better part of the past two decades raising our kids and then spent the prime of our middle age dealing with a pandemic on top of political and social upheaval. We’ve been forgotten more than once—shocker—in discussions on generation gaps and battles. So to have our late-’80s heartstrings plucked by an iconic opening melody and then taken into the danger zone in what reviewers are saying is the best blockbuster in decades? Yes, please.

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I was concerned that “Maverick” might not be as good as the initial trailer looked, but the vast majority of film critics who have screened it have said it will exceed everyone’s expectations. It got a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. More than one reviewer has used the word “perfect” to describe it. Seriously.

Check out this sampling of rave reviews:

“I’m stunned, STUNNED at how absolutely outstanding TOP GUN: MAVERICK is! Perfect pace, thrills, cast, chemistry!!!” – Rob Liefeld.

“As soon as #TopGunMaverick ended, I wanted to watch it again. And again. And again. One of the greatest sequels of all time.” – Cameron Frew.

“Yes I’m gonna say it and I don’t care who disagrees. #TopGunMaverick is a perfect movie. They don’t make movies like that anymore. You wait and see. Your expectations of this movie should be higher than you think.” – Kristian Harloff

“TOP GUN: MAVERICK is the perfect blockbuster. Not only did it feature dazzling aerial combat sequences, but I actually cried, it’s that emotional. And call me crazy, but I humbly predict that it WILL land a Best Picture nod next year. It’s not just THAT good, it’s VERY good.” – Jeff Sneider

Have you seen the trailer? You have to watch this trailer. (Goose’s son. Oh. My. Gracious.)

I’m not a big fan of rah-rah military movies, nor am I a fan of testosterone-filled bro films. I’m not even a huge Tom Cruise fan, so the fact that I can’t wait to see “Top Gun: Maverick” has come as a surprise to some people who know me. I can’t help it. I loved the intensity and excitement of the original and from everything I’ve seen and read, this movie outdoes its predecessor in every way.

“Top Gun,” only better? Be still my cynical Gen X heart.

To understand why this is a movie that must be seen in the theaters, check out how they had the actors actually go through naval training and fly in the fighter jets to film the action scenes. So incredible.

In theaters May 17. Can. Not. Wait.

Carl Cameron and Tucker Carlson are not exactly the Woody and Buzz Lightyear of Fox News. Over the weekend, Cameron—a former Fox New political reporter—chatted with Jim Acosta on CNN and had some pretty harsh things to say about his former colleagues, and Carlson in particular. And, as Mediaite reports, Carlson is none too happy about it.

“Tucker has been screaming ‘fire’ in a crowded movie house for years,” Cameron told Acosta. “And that cliché really comes to the matter of what is free speech. And the fact of the matter is, if you disturb the peace by starting a riot in a movie theater, cops are going to arrest you and you might end up in jail or you might end up in something worse. And that kind of stuff absolutely has to stop.”

Cameron suggested that it might be time to enact laws that would prohibit people like Carlson from using their massive media platforms to spread lies and other dangerous rhetoric without real consequences. Carlson grabbed onto the line about ending “up in jail or… something worse,” which he took as a veiled threat, before turning it around and blaming it all on Democrats:

“What’s ‘something worse’? We are not sure what ‘something worse’ is, but it certainly feels like we’re moving toward it at very high speed at this point. That’s the end point to talk like that, ‘something worse,’ because rhetoric has its own internal logic. You’ve experienced it, you can talk yourself into things. We’ve all done that. Democrats are doing it right now, and what they are talking themselves into right now is ‘something worse.’”

“It’s scary,” Carlson concluded of Cameron’s words, taking no responsibility for the many, many, many lies he has spewed and fearmongering he has engaged in. “It is time to pull back,” Carlson continued, in an attempt to be the voice of reason. “It is time to de-escalate. Otherwise, this is going to get really ugly, really soon.”

(Via Mediaite)

A lot of the time, for some reason, rich people try to pretend they are Just Like Us normal, not rich people. They will go out of their way to try to seem “normal” and most of the time, it backfires. For Kendall Jenner, this happened when she just wanted a nice, refreshing cucumber snack. And nothing was ever the same again.

Earlier this month, Jenner was criticized for how she (attempted to) cut a cucumber in a recent episode of The Kardashians. The video made the rounds on the internet of Jenner trying to cut a cucumber after insisting she can to spite her mother Kris, who said she should just have the chef (!?) do it for them. “You go, girl!” Kris says to Kendall, who insists chipping up cucumber is easy. Except it wasn’t easy for her. Of course, TikTok and Twitter exploded with jokes, and now, reportedly, Jenner is “not happy” with the response.

Jenner’s sister Khloe stopped by the podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat and discussed the incident. “Oh my god, she’s like not happy about that. I feel so bad.” Kardashian said when the ordeal was brought up. She added that her sister is blessed in many other aspects of her life, so not being able to cut a cucumber is just one of the small ways Kendall has to suffer. Being rich is hard!

“I’m like, ‘Kendall, God is fair. You’re the most beautiful human being in the world. You have wild-looking toes. God bless. And you can’t cut a f*cking cucumber,’” she said, though the toes thing was a weird add-on. “The world is good. Because she’s like … how can you be this f*cking perfect? She has this perfect life, this perfect dog, she’s a gazelle of a human being, she walks the runway, she’s all these amazing things. You can’t cut a f*cking cucumber?” Khloe is right on this one, actually.

Of course, she couldn’t move on without poking fun at her sister, “I was just confused why it was positioned this way. We don’t know,” Kardashian said, adding, “But I love her. She’s so perfect.” Let’s see if Khloe can cut a watermelon now!

Kellyanne Conway has joined the ever-growing ranks of people writing books about their time in Donald Trump’s White House. But while Conway has had no shortage of tea to spill, she’s still a dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporter, which led to her being booed on Tuesday morning’s episode of The View.

While promoting her new memoir/tell-all, Here’s the Deal, Conway was asked by co-host Sunny Hostin if she was among Trump’s enablers who “lied” to the former president that he won the 2020 election. Conway emphatically stated that she never lied to Trump about the reality of his loss to Joe Biden, but she also didn’t hold back that she still wishes Trump had won.

“It broke my heart. I wanted him to get reelected,” Conway told Hostin before taking a dig at Biden. “He should have won huge. He had all of these accomplishments. He’s running against a guy stuck in the basement and you’re in the middle of a pandemic…” However, Conway didn’t get to finish her thought as The View audience started audibly booing.

Instead of letting the moment go, Whoopi Goldberg stopped the panel and actually chastised the crowd for booing Conway.

“Let me do something before you say anything else,” Goldberg said before turning to face the audience. “Listen, this is The View. And this is her view, and she’s talking about how she feels and what she knows. Please don’t boo her.”

Emboldened by Goldberg coming to her defense, a grinning Conway then took another jab at Biden. “I think they’re booing about Biden staying in the basement,” she slipped in before going back to hammering the advisors in Trump’s campaign who told him he was going to win the 2020 election in a “landslide.”

(Via The View on Twitter)

Marjorie Taylor Greene has a knack for pissing people off. Just ask Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who in 2020 was sentenced to spend nine years in a Russian prison after being accused of endangering the “life and health” of a Russian soldier in 2019. Reed, who was recently released after serving two years of his sentence living in horrific conditions, is now back in the U.S. with his family—who have never stopped fighting for him. And, as he told CNN’s Jake Tapper, he’s ready to exact a bit of revenge on lawmakers like Greene, who voted against measures that would help bring him home sooner.

In an interview that aired on Monday night, Reed told Tapper that he looked forward to meeting the many House Republicans who had kept him locked away in a Russian prison cell for so long and how he planned to “go to every single one of their campaigns and thank them personally about that.” While Greene wasn’t the only GOP member on Reed’s sh*t list, she took the brunt of his annoyance as part of a group of Republicans who had slowed down the passage of legislation that would allow him to be released. “How do you justify that?,” Reed wanted to know, before noting:

“That’s embarrassing to me that anyone that represents the United States would vote against something like that. I’m sure that the Russians loved that. I’m sure that they’re all big fans of all of those congressmen who did that. That’s completely unacceptable to me. it’s embarrassing. And I better not see that ever happen again to any other Americans because I promise that I will be at every single campaign that that person runs for the rest of their life to tell everyone that they did that.”

Joey Reed, Trevor’s dad, is just as bothered by Greene and what he describes as “her cronies and that small group of idiots.” Like his son, Joey is also a former Marine, and told Tapper that he was disappointed with the way the service branch handled his son’s imprisonment.

“We heard nothing from Marine Corps,” Joey Reed said. “Not a single representative from the Marine Corps. No Marine Corps groups.”

As Paul LeBlanc wrote for CNN:

Ultimately, Reed was returned to the US as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian smuggler convicted of conspiring to import cocaine. The US commuted his sentence.

“We need to do absolutely everything we can, as Americans, to advocate for those Americans who are being held illegally overseas and do every single thing we can possible to get them out,” Reed told CNN.

You can watch Reed’s full interview here.

(Via CNN)

For Time’s annual 100 Most Influential People issue, rapper Jack Harlow penned an essay about his buddy Pete Davidson and his comedic craft. Though the two had been online friends for months before their official in-person meeting, the two officially linked up for the first time before Harlow’s appearance on Saturday Night Live last year.

Since then, the two have remained close, and Harlow considers Davidson one of his biggest inspirations.

“Pete’s appeal to the world has everything to do with his authenticity,” wrote Harlow. “He doesn’t try to hide the person that he is. It’s a classic recipe for success and connection. I would consider myself truthful, but being around Pete makes me want to continue to reach even further for the realest version of myself.”

Harlow’s essay coincides with the season finale of SNL‘s 47th season, which marked Davidson’s last show as an SNL cast member. Ahead of his SNL swan song, Davidson took to Instagram (by way of Dave Sirus), saying, “I got to share so much with this audience and literally grow up in front of your eyes. We were together through the good and the bad, the happiest and the darkest of times.”

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music.