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After Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s divorce last February, their split was described “as amicable as a divorce can be.” Apart from Kanye’s attempts to get back in Kim’s graces, which Kim said were not good enough to change her mind, the former couple hasn’t had any major issues. They’ve both moved on to other people, Kim dating Pete Davidson, while Kanye has been out and about with actress Julia Fox. However, according to Kanye himself, there have been issues between him and Kim’s new partner.

Jason Lee provided Entertainment Tonight with excerpts from Kanye’s full interview with Hollywood Unlocked. In it, Kanye claimed there was a moment where he was blocked from seeing his four children at Kim’s home. He claims security blocked him from entering because Pete Davidson was there at the time.

But he tried to be diplomatic. “But, I didn’t want to argue about it,” he said. “So I just chilled, took my kids to school, and then took my kids back. I am driving. I bring them back and North was like, ‘I want you to come upstairs and see something.’ And it’s like, ‘Oh, Daddy can’t come see something. Daddy can’t come inside.’ But that hadn’t been defined.”

Kanye added that he and Kim did not discuss any restrictions, yet he was still blocked by security. “My daughter wanted me to go inside,” he said. “I was like, I am the richest Black man and North’s father, right, and the security was able to stop me from going into the room with my daughter and that had not been defined.” He then suggests that Pete Davidson being home at the time was the reason he was blocked from entering the home.

“And, I am hearing that the new boyfriend is actually in the house that I can’t even go to,” Kanye added. “And, that’s where I call my cousins. And, my cousin is real opinionated, you know that. And I said, ‘I need you to go and say these two things.’ Security ain’t going to be in between me and my children, and my children ain’t going to be on TikTok without my permission.”

The interview arrives after he and The Game released “Eazy,” a track Kanye used to send shots at Pete Davidson and address his divorce with Kim Kardashian.

The Dallas Mavericks sit in fifth place in the Western Conference at 23-19. Despite that, the gap between themselves and the four-seed is considerably larger than the gap between themselves and an appearance in the play-in tournament, as Dallas is five games behind the Utah Jazz and two games up on the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers.

With that in mind, Dallas is apparently looking to get in on the race for one of the two standout big men who rumors indicate are available in the lead-up to the trade deadline. According to Marc Stein’s newsletter, the Mavs would like to figure out a way to bring either Atlanta’s John Collins or Indiana’s Myles Turner on board.

Dallas has been trying to get into the trade mix for Turner or Collins. Jalen Brunson and Dorian Finney-Smith, two low-salaried but highly rated Mavericks headed for unrestricted free agency this summer barring contract extensions by June 30, have no shortage of suitors.

One thing Stein noted is that Dallas might need to find a home for Tim Hardaway Jr., who signed a $75 million contract over the summer, to facilitate a trade. While Kristaps Porzingis has played well for them this season, it’s not hard to see how Collins or Turner could fit in admirably — both guys can space the floor and serve as exciting options in the two-man game with Luka Doncic. Additionally, both players have reportedly expressed their frustrations about their roles in their current situations this season.

Last year, Lil Wayne placed his 2009 mixtape No Ceilings on streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify. While the move certainly excited many of his fans, they were quickly disappointed as it was missing several tracks. The reason could be that the rapper and his teams were unable to clear samples for certain songs. More recently, Wayne announced that his 2011 mixtape Sorry 4 The Wait would be placed on streaming services, which people hoped would appear in its original form. That was almost what happened.

Sorry 4 The Wait is now available to enjoy on streaming platforms, but there are some minor changes. For example, many of the song titles have been altered. Some of the changes include “Rollin’” now being titled “Tunechi’s Rollin,’” “Throwed Off” being “Throwed,” “Marvin’s Room” being “Tuenchi’s Room,” and “Gucci Gucci” being “One Big Room.” Despite these alterations, nothing about the song’s musical aspect has changed. Additionally, Wayne added four new songs to the mixtape, two of them featuring Lil Tecca and Young Money artist Allan Cubas, respectively.

Wayne also appears on “Sinister” from Cordae’s new album From A Birds Eye View, which comes after a week after he appeared beside The Weeknd on “I Heard You Were Married” from Dawn FM.

Sorry 4 The Wait is out now via Young Money Records. Get it here.

Cordae is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Online platforms have been finally cracking down on COVID misinformation. As it just so happens, everyone who’s been suspended or booted has been on the far right. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked off the new year by being permanently banned from Twitter (and later briefly suspended by Facebook). Then there’s Trump, the big dog, who hasn’t been on most of social media in over a year. Now one service has flagged another big Trumpist.

As per The Hill, YouTube has temporarily suspended Dan Bongino, the conservative commentator whose vibe is “what if a bulging forehead vein became a human?” The frequent Geraldo Rivera squabbler isn’t allowed to post new videos for a week and he’s been demonetized for at least 30 days.

The reason? He can’t stop spreading COVID misinformation, of course. The video that did it involved him calling masks “useless,” which violates one of YouTube’s specific rules, namely that you can’t deny the efficacy of masks in slowing the spread of a highly transmissible virus.

It’s the first “strike” Bongino has received. Should he receive a second, he’ll receive a two-week suspension. The third is permanent banishment from the internet’s largest video sharing service.

It’s ambiguous whether Bongino will return. In a post on Instagram, the pundit wrotem, “If I said I was surprised here I’d be lying,” calling them a “tyrannical, free-speech-hating, bulls*it, big tech shit hole.” He even said he “anxiously awaited” being suspended.

Till his suspension ends, he can always go hang out at the MAGA social media joint GETTR, which even Joe Rogan finds unpleasant.

(Via The Hill)

After attempting towards the end of 2021 to reconcile his marriage with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West seems to have finally moved on. The rapper’s been spotted on multiple dates with actress Julia Fox. That being said, Kanye and Kim still have four children together, and developing a successful co-parenting system will be their next task to complete. Kanye’s first step in doing that was purchasing a home near his ex-wife, a move many assumed was a way for him to hound Kim about their divorce.

However, during an interview with Jason Lee on Hollywood Unlocked, Kanye explained why he bought the house. “My solace comes from seeing my kids and getting a solid schedule,” he said. “That’s why I even got the house. The media flipped into there was something wrong with me getting a house next to my kids.”

It also seemed to be related to an experience he had with his own father as a child. “You see when my mom took me from Atlanta to Chicago, my dad didn’t come to the coldest and most dangerous city in the world to be next to [me],” he recalled. “He said, ‘I’m going to stay down in Atlanta.’”

Kanye made sure to reiterate his feelings about his kids, saying that “nothing with my career, with this rap, with this media, with none of that, that’s gonna keep me from my children. And that’s what I want everybody to know.” He added, “Don’t play with me, don’t play with my children. Ain’t no security gonna get in between me and my children and you ain’t gonna gaslight me.”

You can watch the interview with Hollywood Unlocked in the video above.

For decades Fox News ruled the roost of conservative media. Then along came some Eve Harringtons: Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN or OAN), virulently pro-Trump networks that would go where Rupert Murdoch’s baby wouldn’t, even though its employees don’t believe the nonsense they fling. But now it appears the latter is in more trouble, on top of their billion dollar Smartmatic and Dominion lawsuits.

As per Bloomberg, OAN (or OANN) is getting the boot from DirecTV, the cable provider and its largest distributor. DirecTV’s contact with Herring Networks, which also owns AWE (“A Wealth of Entertainment”), is up in April, and they have decided not to re-up.

“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” a DirecTV spokesperson revealed in a statement.

For the next three-and-a-half months, DirecTV subscribers will still be able to enjoy the network that Trump loves to call into to rant about this and that. After that, OAN (and AWE) will no longer be among the wealth of channels offered by one of the nation’s largest cable providers.

DirecTV, which is owned by AT&T, played a pivotal role in making OAN a name among conservative media, though it may not have been DirecTV’s fault. OAN forced its way onto their coffers by way of a lawsuit in 2017, which obligated them to carry their station.

But the company that made them can also break them. Such contracts tend to last five years, and those five years are up in April. The loss of their largest distributor may put the kibosh on the network’s plans for expansion, which include a Spanish-language version of the network.

Founded in 2013, OAN didn’t take off until the Trump presidency, especially when the former president got mad at Fox News for being insufficiently dutiful to him, directing his base to OAN instead. The network has had its share of controversies, not the least being when one of its hosts called for the execution of thousands of people he alleged were involved in fictitious voter fraud.

(Via Bloomberg)

Khazali is the next name you need to know in UK electro soul and R&B. The North West London singer and producer grew up inspired by acts like Little Dragon and Sbtrkt, and his evocative delivery bears a similarity to Sampha’s velveteen vibe.

On the newly released “Passion Controller,” the second single from his upcoming EP The Rush (out March 11th on Kitsuné), Khazali drives home an aesthetic he’s been sharpening over the past two years. Touched with house strings and an electro thump, the track proves a fluid canvas for Khazali to wash over with his glistening vocals. The tune is a free-flowing groove that’s easy to latch on to — a good fit for both the dance floor and the afterparty. Speaking about his upcoming debut in a statement, Khazali shared some insight into his process:

“My sophomore EP, The Rush, is what happened when I took four dream journal entries and turned them into a fully fledged pop universe – complete with colour, character and story. It follows a Californian couple, Tony and Lennie, and their rise and fall through love and life.

Whilst what you’ll hear is fresh AF, I’m proud to say that my EP took cues from the people I admire to help shape its overall sound. Expect to hear hints of the bands I grew up listening to; Metronomy, Little Dragon and The xx, as well as the pop I discovered relatively recently, like Dua Lipa , Arlo Parks, and Alfie Templeman.”

Listen to “Passion Controller” above.

The Rush EP is out 03/11 via Kitsuné Musique.

Last week, the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol storming came and went. President Joe Biden made a speech directly blaming the riot on his predecessor. Donald Trump, meanwhile, backed out of some vague press conference commemorating the day that ended his presidency in disgrace, then reportedly whined about it to anyone who would listen. We’re still learning things about what happened that day, thanks to the House select committee investigating its lead-up. For instance, did you know some of the perpetrators gave themselves away to the feds after they called Nancy Pelosi’s office looking for a “lost and found”?

This comes from Insider, who spoke to Rep. Jamie Raskin, who’s on aforementioned committee. He said that on Jan. 7, the day after the failed insurrection, some rioters called the office they had ransacked one day prior, looking for items they may have left there, including purses.

“The officers quickly got on the phone and said, yeah, just give us your name, your address, your social, you know, and we’ll tie up those loose ends,” Raskin told Insider.

It’s the kind of satire a satirist couldn’t make up, but to Raskin it also spoke to the mentality of Trump die-hards. “But what’s so fascinating to me about that there really were people who felt as if they had been summoned to Washington by the president,” Raskin said. He added:

“And when they were told that they were trespassing and invading the Capitol, they said the president invited them to be there … They didn’t have any kind of subtle understanding of the separation of powers. They just thought that the number one person in the US government had invited them to be there, and therefore they had a right.”

“It underscores the central role that Donald Trump played in it,” Raskin said. “But it does create a problem for assigning guilt at different levels of conduct.”

(Via Insider)

Lately, Kanye West has been in the news for a lot of things that aren’t related to music. He had quite an interesting date with Julia Fox and the two seemed to be going steady. His brand Yeezy Gap teamed up with Balenciaga for a new collection that will arrive at some point in the future. His Netflix documentary Jeen-Yuhs is set to drop on February 16. Long story short, Kanye is quite busy, and now comes his new single, “Eazy” featuring The Game.

It marks the pair’s first song together since 2016’s “Mula,” which appeared on The Game’s album Documentary 2. “Eazy,” which is driven by a sample of Eazy-E’s “Eazy Duz It,” is also produced by Hit-Boy and it marks his and Kanye’s first song together in years after they fell out nearly a decade ago.

But the most attention-grabbing aspect of the song comes when Kanye sends a shot at Pete Davidson. “God saved me from that crash,” he raps. “Just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass.” Kanye also addresses his and Kim Kardashian’s divorce. “N****, we havin’ the best divorce ever,” he says. “If we go to court, we’ll go to court together / Matter of fact, pick up your sis’, we’ll go to Kourt’s together.”

Kanye also criticizes the Kardashians’ parenting style. “I got love for the nannies / But real family is better,” he raps. “The cameras watch the kids / Y’all stop takin’ the credit.” He also takes a moment to praise Julia Fox saying, “And my new b*tch bad / I know Illuminati mad.”

The new song comes after Kanye confirmed Donda 2 was in the works. It’s unknown when the project will arrive and if “Eazy” will appear on it.

You can listen to “Eazy” on Spotify here.

The Chicago Bulls have been one of the best stories of the 2021-22 NBA season, as the team has raced out to the top of the Eastern Conference. While the team’s handful of offseason have gotten plenty of attention, Zach LaVine has continued to be exceptional for the team, putting forth a campaign that has led to him being in a very good spot in the All-Star Game’s fan vote.

Unfortunately for the Bulls, LaVine was barely able to play in Friday night’s nationally televised game against the Golden State Warriors. Just three minutes into the game, LaVine landed after reeling in a rebound and started dribbling. While nothing appeared to be wrong, he checked out of the game shortly after.

LaVine immediately made his way into the locker room, and a little while later, the team ruled him out with a knee injury.

LaVine had previously torn the ACL in his left knee, so there will always be some extra level of concern when that causes him an issue. But according to multiple reports, the team isn’t worried about another ACL injury, and there is early optimism that this won’t be the kind of serious injury that derails the entire season.

Unfortunately for the Bulls, the loss of LaVine meant that they did not have the firepower to keep up with the Warriors offense, and as a result, Golden State took a 78-47 lead into the locker room at halftime.