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Reports began circulating on Wednesday morning that Tyreek Hill‘s time with the Kansas City Chiefs could be coming to an end. The two sides reportedly could not come to terms on a contract extension for the All-Pro pass catcher, and as a result, trade rumors began to circulate with two teams coming to the forefront: the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets.

It was reported that both teams made offers for Hill, and it was up to him to decide where he wanted to end up. Ultimately, Miami was able to get the job done, parting ways with a package of picks to give Tua Tagovailoa a dangerous option in the passing game.

Hill has only played for the Chiefs in his NFL career, but has been among the league’s most dangerous players in the open field. Last year, Hill a career-high 111 balls for 1,239 yards with nine touchdowns.

The trade does present some issues for Kansas City in its wide receiver room. The team signed JuJu Smith-Schuster in free agency, still has Mecole Hardman, and of course, Travis Kelce is perhaps the most dangerous tight end in football. Perhaps the team can turn to the NFL Draft, which has a very, very good class of pass catchers, to add some reinforcements.

Following a slew of dreamy, poppy singles from their upcoming album Forgiveness, including the Los Angeles love letter “Dragging My Life Into A Dream,” Girlpool has another soft jam on their hands. On their latest, “Nothing Gives Me Pleasure,” Girlpool’s Harmony Tividad searches for joy within herself after feeling unrequited love.

The song’s video, directed by Aerin Moreno, takes both Tividad and her bandmate Avery Tucker through a debauched night filled with vibrant make up and prosthetics, pole dancers, and make-out sessions in a swimming pool.

“‘Nothing Gives Me Pleasure’ is about trying to love yourself when it feels like no one else will,” said Tividad in a statement. “It was written during a time when I was working so hard to get someone specific to love and recognize me. On the path to doing that, I diluted myself so much that I lost sight of my own needs. This video plays with the lengths we go to feel loved and how so many faces of intimacy may disguise what love actually looks like to us specifically. I have a history of getting lost in the labyrinth in the struggle for affection. In this video, I wanted to interface with my own patterns in the attempt to better see and love myself.”

Check out “Nothing Gives Me Pleasure” above.

Forgiveness is out 4/19 via Anti- Records. Pre-save it here.

Genre-bending singer Harry Styles is releasing his first album in three years, Harry’s House. Styles made the announcement with a teaser trailer revealing the album’s title and release date, May 20.

Harry’s House will be the singer’s third album and the follow-up to 2019’s Fine Line, which contained the smash hit “Watermelon Sugar,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, as well as a 2020 Brit Award for British Single Of The Year for “Watermelon Sugar.” The album also broke the record for the biggest debut from a British male artist since Nielsen SoundScan began, coming in a hair under 500,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. The project was supported by the Love On Tour after the original tour was postponed due to COVID-19; the tour raised $1 over million for charity.

The release date for Harry’s House is just about a month after Styles’ upcoming headlining performance at Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, which could mean that his set will include songs from the new album in addition to fan favorites like “Sign Of The Times” and “Watermelon Sugar.”

Watch the trailer for Harry’s House above.

Harry’s House is due 5/20 via Columbia Records. Pre-save it here.

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Vocally, there’s nobody that sounds like Chicago post-punk trio Dehd right now. The carefree harmonies between singer-guitarist Jason Balla and bassist-singer Emily Kempf is downright fun and it’s the hallmark of the surging band. As they gear up to release Blue Skies, their fourth album (and first on the Fat Possum label), they’ve shared the video for the latest single, “Stars,” and once again, it totally rules.

The song opens right into the catchy hook, with Balla singing, “Stars above, I get too much, my heart ain’t strong enough,” before Kempf joins him in a jump up and down duet over Eric McGrady’s pounding drums. Kempf says the song is about “…reaching past the boundaries of understanding our personal comfort,” and the video that she co-directed with longtime collaborator Kevin Veselko visually speaks to that theme.

McGrady is in a stoically, pensive zone, searching for inner peace as the world wooshes around him. Kempf and Balla go through the same emotions, but process it in different ways. It speaks to how nobody is the same and that finding that “comfort” that Kempf describes, looks different for everyone. It’s almost as if it describes the beauty of Dehd: three different people giving each other space to find their own version of harmony, and when they come back together, it sounds awesome.

Watch the video for “Stars” above.

Blue Skies is out 5/27 via Fat Possum. Pre-order it here.

Outspoken rap impresario Dame Dash has a solution for the Grammy Awards’ controversial ban on Kanye West performing at this year’s show: “We make our own Grammys,” he said when he encountered some TMZ photographers recently. Dash didn’t hold back, saying, “I’m not trying to fit into somebody else’s system. So we just create our own so we ain’t gotta worry about nobody else’s rules. … It’s not for them to judge who’s hot. It’s for us. They really shouldn’t be giving us the awards. We should be giving them the awards. They gotta respect our culture.”

For what it’s worth, it isn’t so much the culture of hip-hop that the Recording Academy seems worried about. West was only banned from performing at the ceremony after he spent the first two months of the year railing against his ex-wife, her new boyfriend, and anyone who dared suggest that maybe he was doing too much. At this point, it seems the Academy simply wants to avoid a possible meltdown onstage, although Kanye is apparently still welcome to attend and is nominated Album Of The Year for Donda. Meanwhile, another hip-hop figure, Houston’s J Prince, wants to organize a separate, hip-hop-focused show opposite the Grammys with artists who have felt slighted by the Recording Academy, such as The Weeknd.

As far as “creating our own” goes, well, BET has multiple awards shows including the BET Awards, the BET Hip-Hop Awards, The Soul Train Awards, and the NAACP Image Awards — all of which artists on Kanye’s level feel like they’re too big to attend or even acknowledge. Maybe “we” should be supporting our own, and that also includes holding our own accountable for behaving like jilted middle school boys in public.

FX’s Atlanta has the most cryptic episode descriptions since Mad Men. Here’s what the Hulu summary for the season two finale reads: “Sometimes you gotta go where the money goes. But it be feeling like something is holding me back. Like I can’t leave.”

That’s maybe not the most helpful recap for when you’re trying to remember what happened in an episode that aired nearly four years ago. But don’t worry, ahead of the season three premiere (finally!) this Thursday, we’ve got you covered.

After taking a meeting with an entertainment lawyer ahead of a European tour, Alfred, a.k.a. Paper Boi (played by Brian Tyree Henry), instructs Earn (Donald Glover) to get rid of the “golden gun” that his uncle (Katt Williams) gave him earlier in the season. Earn puts the firearm into his backpack, but forgets about it after accompanying Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) to a passport agency to get his expired passport renewed. He’s preoccupied by Van (Zazie Beetz) potentially moving back in with her mother with their daughter and that Alfred may fire him. “I see you, man. I see you.. learning,” Darius comforts him. “But learning requires failure. Al just trying to make sure you ain’t failing in his life.”

Earn proves his worth at the airport. After realizing he still has the gun on his possession, he discreetly slips it into a bag belonging to rapper Clark County (RJ Walker) before going through security. His quick thinking does not go undetected by Alfred. “I saw what you did,” he says on the plane. “Just know that’s exactly what I’m talking about.” Alfred is impressed because they have to do “whatever they got to do to survive, ’cause [we] ain’t go no choice.” Earn might be a f*ck up, but “you give a f*ck.”

That’s enough for Alfred heading into season three.

Atlanta returns to FX on March 24 with a two-episode premiere.

In many ways, March is the dead zone in the NBA. The league takes a step back in the national consciousness as college basketball zooms to the forefront and, with the stretch run on the way, teams are simply trying to reach the finish line after an 82-game grind. That can lead to weird results, off-the-charts individual performances, and defensive numbers that are ugly around the league, and most results must be evaluated with a skeptical eye. However, the Phoenix Suns continue to coast above the fray, to the point where the squad’s dominance is being underplayed, if anything.

The Suns are 58-14 with 10 games to play, holding a nine-game lead on the entire NBA field. Phoenix has the best home record (30-8) and the best road record (28-6) in the league this season, posting the NBA’s best net rating (+8.4) and top-three marks in offensive efficiency (114.5 points per 100) and defensive efficiency (106.1 points allowed per 100). The Suns haven’t had perfect health either, as Chris Paul has been sidelined since the All-Star break. On cue, Phoenix is 10-4 in his absence, winning the last five games in a row, and Devin Booker has stepped up to the tune of 30.4 points and six assists on 55/41/100 shooting during the winning streak.

With the top overall seed all but sewn up at this stage, Phoenix could afford to coast. Instead, the Suns just keep rolling. In addition, Sam Amick of The Athletic reported this week that Paul is “likely to return even sooner” than his earliest projected date of April 3, giving the Suns ample time to reintegrate the future Hall of Fame guard before the playoffs begin. Phoenix likely won’t push at a 100 percent clip all the way to the April 10 regular season finale, but having the opportunity to get the band back together, even for a week or 10 days, could do wonders to prepare the Suns for the marathon second season that awaits.

Overall, the discussion around the Suns is highly interesting, as there is a certain respect level for what Phoenix has done, all without the level of favorite status that one might expect from a group that has performed to this level. There is only one thing Phoenix can do to answer any lingering questions but, at the moment, it is more than fair to say the Suns occupy a tier by themselves across the NBA landscape.

Phoenix lands in the top spot, once again, in our DIME power rankings this week. How does the rest of the field shake out? Let’s explore the studio space.

1. Phoenix Suns (58-14, Last week — 1st)

The schedule is pretty tough for the Suns in the next two weeks, with road games against Golden State, Denver, Minnesota, and Memphis wrapped around a home date with Philadelphia. Fortunately, the results don’t really matter for Phoenix the rest of the way, other than for the historical precedent of potentially winning 65-plus games.

2. Boston Celtics (45-28, Last week — 7th)

Boston is 9-1 in March with a +13.7 net rating. Even before February was over, the Celtics were clearly playing at an elite level over a growing sample, and they haven’t slowed down at all. It’s fair to point out that they aren’t close to the top of the standings, but ignoring Boston’s progress would be silly.

3. Miami Heat (47-25, Last week — 3rd)

Miami still has the inside track at the coveted No. 1 seed in the East. Of course, that might not be the best position to be in if the Nets end up at No. 8, but the Heat can’t really worry about that. They did lose in Philadelphia to end the week, but Miami’s full-season profile isn’t really in question.

4. Memphis Grizzlies (49-23, Last week — 4th)

March basketball is weird, and Friday’s loss by Memphis was a great example. The Grizzlies, riding high and playing well, went into Atlanta and lost by 15 points to the Trae Young-less Hawks. They’re also 5-1 in the last six games and that doesn’t bite them, but it was a weird one.

5. Milwaukee Bucks (45-27, Last week — 5th)

The Bucks are 9-2 in the last 11 games, and Milwaukee absolutely bludgeoned Chicago on Tuesday. That singular win doesn’t erase all context, but if all else fails, deferring to the reigning champions isn’t the worst strategy. Brook Lopez made a few plays on Tuesday that reminded us how he changes their team, too.

6. Dallas Mavericks (44-28, Last week — 6th)

It wasn’t perfect, but the Mavericks just navigated a very difficult five-game stretch at 3-2. Dallas knocked off Boston and Brooklyn on the road with a home win over Minnesota, and there is no great shame in losing to the Sixers or Hornets in road games. The Mavs are 8-3 in March and still rolling.

7. Brooklyn Nets (38-34, Last week — 9th)

Brooklyn has won six of the last seven games, and the only loss came by two points at home to Dallas. Of course, the Nets are the only team in the NBA that has a reason to be worse at home than on the road, but Brooklyn still took care of business against Utah in its last matchup. Brooklyn is pretty scary when Kevin Durant plays. Who knew?

8. Golden State Warriors (47-25, Last week — 2nd)

It isn’t breaking news to suggest that the Warriors are keyed by Stephen Curry. He’s out right now, and Golden State is on a three-game skid with losses to San Antonio and Orlando. It’s a shame that the Warriors were without Draymond Green for an extended period, and now they have to navigate life without the offensive centerpiece.

9. Denver Nuggets (43-30, Last week — 8th)

There are enough wild Nikola Jokic stats to fill an entire column, but here’s another one. In every game since March 6, Jokic has led the Nuggets in points, rebounds, and assists. That is, of course, insane, and he’s averaging 30.1 points, 12.5 rebounds, and 8.1 assists while shooting 59 percent.

10. Philadelphia 76ers (44-27, Last week — 10th)

Philadelphia is 8-3 when James Harden plays, including a very nice win over Miami on Monday. There have been hiccups along the way, but the development of Tyrese Maxey has been notable in the No. 3 role, and we’ll have two nationally televised opportunities to monitor the Sixers in Los Angeles this week.

11. Minnesota Timberwolves (42-31, Last week — 12th)

The Wolves have been the best team in the NBA, at least on paper, for the last three weeks. Minnesota is 10-2 since Feb. 28, beating up on opponents by 15.5 points per 100 possessions. There is a loss to the Magic (yikes) in there, but it’s been a remarkable push from the Wolves.

12. Utah Jazz (45-27, Last week — 11th)

It’s a League Pass game, but the most intriguing matchup of the upcoming week might be Utah at Boston on Wednesday. The Jazz still have tremendous metrics, but they just lost in Brooklyn (meaning Kyrie didn’t play) and there have been too many shaky performances.

13. Toronto Raptors (40-32, Last week — 13th)

It wasn’t the best week for the Raptors with a 1-2 record and a home loss to the Lakers. In zooming out, Toronto is still 6-2 in the last eight games and in perfectly fine shape. Toronto also has the next four games at home with a clear opportunity to keep it rolling.

14. Cleveland Cavaliers (41-31, Last week — 15th)

Cleveland is just 6-8 since the All-Star break with the No. 20 net rating in the NBA. To be fair, there have been roster challenges along the way, but the Cavs face an interesting set of games this week against Toronto on the road and Chicago at home.

15. Chicago Bulls (42-30, Last week — 14th)

Only the Blazers and Thunder have been worse than the Bulls since Feb. 26. Chicago is 3-9 with a -8.2 net rating and, even as they get healthier with the return of Patrick Williams, the Bulls can’t seem to avoid issues elsewhere, as evidenced by Lonzo Ball’s delay.

16. Charlotte Hornets (37-35, Last week — 17th)

When Charlotte’s offense is good, they are very good. The Hornets are on a five-game winning streak, scoring almost 1.3 points per possession in the process. That keeps Charlotte ahead of Atlanta for the No. 9 spot, and the Hornets have another home game against New York to begin this week.

17. Atlanta Hawks (36-36, Last week — 16th)

There is nothing more on-brand for the 2021-22 Hawks than what happened over the weekend. Atlanta, without Trae Young, stunned Ja Morant and the Grizzlies on Friday, turning in arguably the team’s best defensive performance of the season. Forty-eight hours later, the Hawks lost to the Brandon Ingram-less Pelicans at home. Atlanta’s entire season has been an enigma, but they did follow that up with a win at MSG on Tuesday.

18. Los Angeles Lakers (31-41, Last week — 23rd)

LeBron had quite a night in Cleveland on Monday, and that helped the Lakers pick up a good win. It would be accurate to say they are playing better basketball recently, but Los Angeles does have a very stiff test against Philadelphia on Wednesday.

19. New Orleans Pelicans (30-42, Last week — 19th)

The Pelicans did what they needed to do this week, going 2-1 on the road. That leaves the Pelicans with a two-game lead for the No. 10 spot and only a one-game deficit behind the Lakers for No. 9 in the West. Now, they face a three-game homestand this week, including a matchup with the Lakers.

20. New York Knicks (30-42, Last week — 22nd)

What a roller coaster. The Knicks began February with a 1-11 stretch, then won three in a row, lost two in a row, won two in a row, and now have lost two in a row again. New York had a real chance to pull an upset over Atlanta at MSG on Tuesday and just couldn’t hold on down the stretch. That loss probably slammed the door for good on the play-in with a six-game deficit and only 10 games left.

21. L.A. Clippers (36-38, Last week — 18th)

Even with a four-game losing streak, the Clippers still have a four-game lead on the field for the No. 8 seed. That doesn’t mean L.A. is playing well, though, and the next four games are against Philadelphia, Utah, Chicago, and Milwaukee.

22. Washington Wizards (30-41, Last week — 20th)

Washington is technically alive in the play-in race, but the team’s recent slide probably closed the door. The Wizards are 1-7 in the last eight games, and Washington is 5.5 games behind Atlanta for the No. 10 spot.

23. San Antonio Spurs (28-44, Last week — 21st)

The Spurs are two games out of the No. 10 seed, and this is a big week if they want to close the gap. San Antonio has road games against Portland, New Orleans, and Houston, and the matchup with the Pelicans could directly decide the final play-in berth.

24. Indiana Pacers (25-47, Last week — 26th)

Indiana isn’t exactly putting the pedal to the floor at this point in March, but they are on a two-game winning streak. The Pacers beat the Rockets and Blazers to end the week, but Indiana has one of the ten toughest remaining schedules in the league. That should quell the winning spree.

25. Sacramento Kings (25-48, Last week — 24th)

The Kings did take the Suns to overtime in their last game, and that isn’t something to sneeze at. Sacramento is still 1-6 in the last seven games, though, and the Kings are No. 28 in the NBA in defensive rating. Domantas Sabonis is dealing with a knee issue, and there isn’t much to play for at this point with a 5.5-game gap between Sacramento and the No. 10 seed.

26. Orlando Magic (20-53, Last week — 28th)

It wasn’t a shock that Orlando beat Oklahoma City over the weekend, but the Magic beating the Warriors on Tuesday was more of a stunner. Granted, Steph Curry didn’t appear for Golden State, but the Magic played quite well in that matchup. Now, they get a rematch in OKC on Wednesday that could be big for lottery purposes.

27. Portland Trail Blazers (27-44, Last week — 27th)

Portland stays put after beating Detroit on the road on Monday, but the numbers for the Blazers since the All-Star break are awe-inspiring. Portland is 2-10 overall with a -20.9 (!!!) net rating since flipping the switch. On the bright side, the Blazers begin a five-game homestand on Wednesday.

28. Detroit Pistons (19-53, Last week — 25th)

Detroit had a very frisky 6-2 stretch in late February and early March, but the Pistons are just 1-6 since then. The win featured a 51-point outburst from Saddiq Bey, but Detroit just lost at home to a Portland team that has packed it in with vigor.

29. Houston Rockets (18-54, Last week — 30th)

Behind a 39-point, 10-rebound game from Christian Wood, the Rockets picked up a win over Washington on Monday to escape the basement. Houston still has the worst record and the worst net rating (-8.9) in the NBA this season, but the Rockets have been a bit more competitive than at least one team lately.

30. Oklahoma City Thunder (20-52, Last week — 29th)

There is a new No. 30, and the Thunder earned it. OKC hasn’t won since March 2, losing ten games in a row, and the Thunder allowed more than 1.24 points per possession for three weeks. That is hideous, and OKC’s injuries have made the roster situation tenuous.

We all know the story about Nicolas Cage‘s money problems. Lavish spending on castles and dinosaur skulls, which coupled with the 2008 crash and a string of flops, landed him in hot water with the IRS and creditors. To dig himself out, Cage embarked on a marathon film-making run starring in sometimes as many as four VOD movies a year. While Cage himself will readily admit that some of those movies didn’t work, the actor recently revealed that despite claims to the contrary, he “never phoned it in.”

While sitting down for a lengthy profile where he claims to have the “liver of a 13-year-old choir boy,” Cage revealed that his VOD strategy actually worked, and as of last year, he’s now debt-free thanks to his most recent film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Cage also opened up about the circumstances that landed him in financial trouble, and how he refused to file for bankruptcy.

“I’ve got all these creditors and the IRS and I’m spending $20,000 a month trying to keep my mother out of a mental institution, and I can’t. It was just all happening at once,” Cage told GQ:

Cage was adamant that he would never file for bankruptcy, even when people kept telling him to press that button. And he wants to clear up a misconception about the work he took on to prevent that from happening. “When I was doing four movies a year, back to back to back, I still had to find something in them to be able to give it my all,” he says. “They didn’t work, all of them. Some of them were terrific, like Mandy, but some of them didn’t work. But I never phoned it in. So if there was a misconception, it was that. That I was just doing it and not caring. I was caring.”

While Cage’s career seems to be on an upswing, don’t expect to see him in National Treasure 3. When the topic of the third film potentially happening came up, Cage waved it away and called out Disney for being a “fair-weather friend” that left him in the dust after The Sorcerer’s Apprentice flopped.

(Via GQ)

Days away from his sixth studio album, Mainstream Sellout, rapper-turned-rockstar Machine Gun Kelly recalls the first time he ever wrote music with his late father. While his upcoming album boasts contributions from Willow, Lil Wayne, and Bring Me The Horizon, he says the seal of approval that meant the most to him was that of his father.

Kelly’s father kicked him out of the house after high school. In an interview with Billboard, Kelly remembers writing his first song on guitar with his father, shortly before his death in 2020.

“In that moment, when he acknowledged my music and we bonded over a song, it gave me the richest memory I’ll ever have,” Kelly told Billboard. “To me, that was the ultimate success. And everything else that preceded that in our relationship didn’t matter because we had finally made it.”

Kelly’s father died on July 5, 2020, the one-year anniversary of his fourth album Hotel Diablo.

Later in the interview, Kelly admitted that he cringes watching old interviews of himself, noting that he was putting on an “exoskeleton of arrogance and cockiness.”

“I’m overcompensating so much for how I actually was inside,” he says. “I was scared to be myself.”

Mainstream Sellout is out 3/25 via Bad Boy/Interscope. Pre-save it here.

When Pusha T shared his Arby’s-championing new song “Spicy Fish Diss” earlier this week, needless to say, some fans were thrown for a loop by the admittedly silly corporate partnership. Not only was the coke rap connoisseur rhyming sincere, wordplay-laced bars about a fast-food sandwich but he was also throwing jabs at another fast-food giant, McDonald’s, after claiming responsibility for its inescapable commercial jingle. But it looks like the Virginia rapper is getting the last laugh after all after a new report claims his track was worth more than $8 million in advertising exposure for Arby’s.

Upon catching wind of the impressive statistic, Pusha gave a characteristic boastful response, quoting himself to celebrate the achievement. “Critics he’s out of his mind/Haters he’s outta his prime” he wrote. “…yet, always where the money’s at like lottery signs.”

Part of the reason it seems Pusha has held a grudge against McDonald’s all this time is that he resents not negotiating for songwriting credits on the chain’s “I’m Lovin’ It” ads, telling Rolling Stone, “I did it at a very young age at a very young time in my career where I wasn’t asking for as much money and ownership. It’s something that’s always dug at me later in life like, ‘Dammit, I was a part of this and I should have more stake.’”

Weirdly enough, this isn’t even the first time McDonald’s has been directly dissed by a competitor in the medium of rap. In 2018, Wendy’s released a mixtape titled We Beefin? based on months of Twitter jabs that also took aim at Burger King and Dairy Queen.