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Cardi B has been living her best life as of late. She just released a new episode of Cardi Tries with Megan Thee Stallion and it features the “WAP” collaborators showing off their football skills with help from some Los Angeles Chargers players. Days after that episode was released, Cardi and Offset were spotted on vacation, and while the couple might have expected to enjoy a regular day at the beach, things took an unexpected turn as they watched a yacht sink underwater some hundred feet away from them.

The whole thing was caught on camera thanks to a video that Cardi provided and posted on her Twitter. In the video, which she captioned, “I can’t believe I’m actually watching a yacht sink,” Cardi is clearly taken aback by what she’s witnessing. “What the f***?!!? Oh my — it’s sinking!!! Y’all see this?!!?” Cardi says as she watches the yacht slowly sink underwater. “Oh my God, they can’t do nothing about it? “There ain’t no big boat that could save it?!?” After accepting that there was nothing that could be done to save the boat, Cardi gave her farewells to the yacht. “It’s gone! It’s gone!” she said. “Bye-Bye! Bye!!”

You can view Cardi’s video of the whole ordeal above.

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One of hip-hop’s current longstanding beefs is that between The Game and 50 Cent. The two have not seen eye to eye in almost two decades as every now and then, one side pops out to take a shot at the other. It was just last month that The Game challenged Eminem to a rap battle because of 50’s refusal to spar over music. “50 can’t rap,” The Game said when he was asked about his decision to challenge Em. “So I gotta go a level up and challenge the better rapper, that’s why.” While a rap battle between Game and 50 may never come to fruition, Game will never forget his past wins.

During a recent appearance on the All The Smoke podcast, The Game claimed that 50 Cent and former Interscope CEO Jimmy Iovine gave him $1 million to stop saying “G-Unot” at the height of his beef with 50 Cent and G-Unit. “They wrote me a check, they bought it,” Game said. “I had to trademark the G-Unot. And you remember when I was going around with the rat and doing all that sh*t, that sh*t hurt—killed G-Unit.”

He continued, “You stopped seeing the candy cane tank tops and all that sh*t. The whole G-Unit/Mark Ecko, the shoes, all that sh*t died. That sh*t was a hot commodity at once, G-Unit clothing. N****s was wearing the sweats, headbands, the masks, everything.” Game added that the only way to stop him from using the “G-Unot” phrase was to buy the trademark for it.

“So they had to pay me. I should have asked for more but them n****s gave me a million,” he said. “But I’m a hood n****, a million dollars just to stop saying this word? Where’s the check? They wrote the check and I stopped saying it.”

You can watch the clip from the All The Smoke podcast in the post above.

The gun massacre in Uvalde, Texas, which took the lives of 19 children and two adults, has shocked the nation. Democrats have invariably put most of the blame on one thing: guns, and the easy availability thereof. Most Republicans have blamed everything but guns. Some even blamed doors. (Then there’s whatever Lauren Boebert is talking about.)

Then there’s Don Jr. The former president’s went on one of his unhinged, slurry, motormouthed video rants, in which he not only defend semi-automatic weapons but also put the blame on, among other things, “crazy teachers” — despite two teachers being the casualties of the tragedy in Uvalde.

The video, posted on Rumble, finds him in sarcastic mode. “It’s the gun, it’s not the sociopath wielding it, folks,” he fumed while making spastic, Showgirls-esque hand movements. “If it wasn’t for the gun, this kid would be a well-adjusted, reasonable individual, he’d be a wonderful human being, right? He’d be a wonderful human being. He wouldn’t have done the exact same thing with a bat or a bomb or some sort of improvised device or a machete, he’s a great kid, don’t judge him.”

He then tried to find the real culprit. “We can’t acknowledge what the actual causes are. It’s not a drug-addict mother and a missing father and a lack of religion, indoctrination programs in our schools, crazy teachers teaching some of the crap I’ve talking about in these videos. It’s none of those things,” he ranted. “It never ends man.”

In summing up, he said, “Our own stupidity, apathy, wokeness, laziness, that’s the problem, folks, and until we fix that, the rest is just talk and crap.”

Or maybe Don Jr. should keep recording deranged videos that erase credibility from already dodgy arguments.

(Via Raw Story)

Things have been going really well for Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast over the past few months. Zauner ended 2021 with Jubilee, her third album as Japanese Breakfast, being recognized as one of the best albums from that year. Thanks to the project, she was also nominated at the Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Alternative Music Album and Best New Artist. More recently, Zauner made her debut on Saturday Night Live by performing “Be Sweet” and “Paprika” to close out the show’s 47th season. For her latest act, Zauner took her talents to the baseball field before a recent New York Mets game.

It’s here that she threw out the first pitch before the team’s matchup against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. Zauner took the mound rocking a No. 69 Mets jersey with “JBrekkie” written on the back. She also said she was showing love to the Fightin’ Phils by wearing their socks. Ahead of the first pitch, Zauner shared a picture of her wearing the Mets jersey and captioned it, “Lord help her.” As for the pitch itself, Zauner delivered a two-hopper that landed just a bit left of home plate.

You can watch Zauner throw the first pitch in the video above.

Sunday night’s Game 7 between the Heat and Celtics in Miami will sound a bit different than expected, as ESPN will be without its top play-by-play man Mike Breen after the legendary broadcaster tested positive for COVID-19, forcing him out of the booth for Sunday night’s action. In his place, Mark Jones will step in alongside Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, with Breen hoping to be back for Thursday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals on ABC when the Warriors play host to the winner of Sunday night’s contest.

The hope, of course, is that Breen continues to feel fine and is able to clear protocols to be in San Francisco on Thursday. Breen’s presence is synonymous with big moments and big games in the NBA and he will certainly be missed in Miami on Sunday night, but the most important thing is that the voice of the Finals gets well soon.

Mark Jones will surely step in and perform admirably as one of the best play-by-play commentators in the business, but it is almost fitting that in a series that has been defined by major absences on both the Celtics and the Heat, that even the commentary booth will have to deal with a lineup change of its own.

The new season of Stranger Things dropped on Friday, or at least most of it. Netflix did the unthinkable, which is break up the latest batch of episodes into parts, the first seven of nine episodes arriving in time for the holiday weekend, and the other two set to drop this coming week. (The reason? Probably because some of these new episodes are really, really long.) There’s a lot of increasingly dense mythology to get through, but there’s still room for some hang-time and Tarantino-esque pop culture name-dropping.

One of them came in episode three (the shortest one, at a mere 64 minutes). The boys are in the cafeteria, eating lunch, when Joseph Quinn’s Eddie Munson, leader of the Hellfire Club, turns to Gaten Matarazzo’s Dustin Henderson and Finn Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler, taking a moment to reflect on their friendship.

“I knew it the moment I saw you,” Munson tell them. “You sat at that table right over there, looking like two little lost sheep.” He then turns to Dustin, adding, “You were wearing a ‘Weird Al’ T-shirt, which I thought was brave.” (It’s not a non-sequitur. Dustin really did wear a “Weird Al” shirt in an episode of Season 3.)

The moment did not go unnoticed by the man himself, who simply turned the adjective into a hashtag.

The response also elicited a remark by The New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff, who reflected on the novelty musician’s 1986 album Polka Party!, which features such classicsd as “Living with a Hernia,” “Addicted to Spuds,” and, yes, one of his polka medleys, this one including takes on “Sledgehammer!”, “Sussidio,” Party all the Time,” and many more.

It’s a big time for “Weird Al.” Roku will be nipping further into original content with the forthcoming biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe, who already knows his way around novelty songs.

(Via THR)

It’s said that Donald Trump would even turn on his own kids to save his hide. He has a long history of burning bridges, to say nothing of pocketing donations from his own cash-strapped supporters. So when Lauren Boebert tried to paint him as a generous person, it was bound to be unconvincing. And yet you have no idea.

The Colorado representative was in Wyoming on Saturday, taking part in a Trump rally to unseat Liz Cheney, the Republican who dared come out against the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “I want to tell you a story about his generosity, about how kind he is, about how welcoming he is,” Boebert told the crowd about the former president. She then launched into a doozy.

“My family and I were with President Trump,” she recalled. “And even not liking germs, President Trump shared a bowl of popcorn with my 14-year-old son.” Boebert then admitted not even she shares food with her son, because “I know where he’s been.”

As such Boebert was blown away that “President Trump welcomed him and engaged with him and showed him love and respect, just like I’ve seen him do with hundreds and thousands of other people, all throughout America. Because he’s not a politician; he’s a family man. He’s a businessman. And he loves you.”

Boebert also vowed that “he will be back again.”

The crowd cheered at that last bit, though there were a bit more muted during the story about how Trump’s Christ-like sharing of popcorn with a kid who might have germs. As such, it seems like yet another unconvincing argument from the politician who thinks America shouldn’t pass gun control laws because we didn’t ban planes after the September 11 attacks.

(Via Raw Story)

Fans of Young Thug and Gunna received some unfavorable news about the rappers last week. Thug and Gunna were among 28 members of the YSL collective that were arrested and charged in the 56-count Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act case. Gunna received a single charge of conspiracy to violate a RICO Act, however, during a recent trial prosecutors said Gunna had a “command” role in YSL, which prosecutors described as a criminal organization. As a result of his alleged “command” role, and other allegations, Gunna was denied bond and his next court date was set for January 9, 2023.

Days after news of Gunna’s denied bond and new court date arrived, one of his frequent collaborators took a moment to show him love on Instagram. Roddy Ricch shared his support for Gunna with a sweet post. “Free @gunna,” Roddy wrote on his Instagram Story. “We miss you out here champ. Mom’s praying 4 U.”

Gunna’s arrest was an unfortunate turn in a year that was set to be the best of his career. He kicked things off with the release of his third album DS4EVER, a project that debuted at No. 1 on the albums chart to become his second chart-topping album.

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The weirdest story in baseball right now involves fantasy football and group chat jokes gone wrong.

A pregame altercation between Reds outfielder Tommy Pham and Giants outfielder Joc Pederson on Friday saw Pham slap Pederson and the two being separated. On Saturday, (grainy) video of the incident emerged, showing Pham loading up and giving Pederson a pretty hard smack, earning himself a three-game suspension from Major League Baseball in the process, and Pham said Pederson crossed the line with a joke in a group chat with other MLB players about his old team, the Padres, and there was also a dispute over a fantasy football league where “big money” was involved.

Pham said the group chat comments were “disrespectful” and also referred to himself as a “high roller,” which is an objectively funny thing to say about yourself amid a fantasy football dispute.

After the Reds and Giants played on Saturday, Pederson decided to clear up exactly what happened and revealed screenshots of that group chat, in which he made a rather tame joke about the Padres, causing Pham to get very mad and then drop out of the football league — which Pederson did admit involved a lot of money.

The funniest part of this is Pham getting this mad over a group chat joke and losing money over the fantasy league caused him to lose even more money because of the loss of three game checks for slapping Pederson in the outfield. The lesson, at the very least, is to never confront someone at work over a thing like this where your bosses will see it.

Remember Star Wars movies? There’s plenty of Star Wars shows, including a new one that catches up with middle aged Obi-Wan Kenobi. But the last time there was a big screen missive from the universe George Lucas created some 45 years ago was in 2019, and that didn’t go over so well. But now there’s new hope that the next one will arrive sooner than anticipated.

This weekend marks the annual Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, and they rolled out the red carpet. There was the revelation that Jude Law would be appearing in a Star Wars show about kids, to be helmed by Spider-Man director Jon Watts. Harrison Ford even showed up (to talk about the next Indiana Jones). There was also Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm honcho, who doubled down on her pledge to move away from the Skywalker Saga (i.e., the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and then the trilogy following the original trilogy). Instead, they want to create a “whole new saga,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy also discussed the next Star Wars film on the chopping block: the mysterious one from Taikia Waititi. The film and TV-maker is pretty busy, and it was assumed he’d get around to his SW film whenever he finally had time. But Kennedy claimed they were aiming to get his film ready for release “not [in] 2023, but late 2023” — a fairly confusing pile of words, but it does indicate they want to stick with the holiday release pattern they’ve been doing since The Force Awakens.

What exactly is Waititi’s Star Wars film? There are no details. But Waititi has been teasing what’s in store, telling Wired that the film so far feels “pretty me,” which may indicate that it will have some mix of goofiness and darkness, from someone who can play Korg in the third Thor, which he also directed, and make a Holocaust movie like Jojo Rabbit, which itself has some laughs.

In the meantime, late 2023 isn’t that far away, and big space movies take a while to finish. So they better get cracking.

(Via Consequence)