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What was supposed to be a regular trip to Amsterdam took a turn for the worst when Ari Lennox was arrested after an incident at the city’s Schiphol Airport. The singer claimed she was detained “for reacting to a woman racially profiling me” and she shared more details about the matter as it unfolded in a string of posts on Twitter. According to Reuters, Dutch military police accused Lennox of public intoxication and being aggressive to a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines official. “Our unit found a woman full of emotions, that wouldn’t calm down,” a spokesperson said. “That’s why she had to be taken into custody.”

A few days after the incident, Lennox returned to Twitter with an update. “Hey loves I’m safe,” she wrote in a tweet. “Thank you so much for your prayers and love.” Today she shared additional thoughts on her arrest, which were not as comforting. “My only regret is my reaction to the racism and discrimination I experienced,” she wrote in a tweet. “I would like to explain what happened to me but KLM has made it clear that they never cared to hear it from jump. It’s painful being silenced like this. It’s painful what I went through. I’m not ok.”

This comes after she and Smino joined Khalid for their new collaboration, “Scenic Drive.”

Over the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matters protests were held across the nation, people starting remembering some sketchy things about popular comedy shows that were only a decade or so old: An alarming number of them featured blackface jokes. 30 Rock. Scrubs. Community. All made jokes in which white characters applied burnt cork (or some substitute) to their faces. These episodes were subsequently pulled from streamers, often at the creators’ request.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was another guilty show. But they went farther than most. As per Deadline, the latest episode of the long-running FX show addressed the controversy directly in their latest episode.

The show did two episodes featuring blackface. The first, from 2010, entitled “Dee Reynolds: Shaping America’s Youth,” finds the gang shooting scenes from a fifth Lethal Weapon, with Glen Howerton as Mel Gibson and Rob McElhinney as Danny Glover, his face painted black. They did it again in a later episode, where they film Lethal Weapon 6.

Those episodes were taken down a year-and-a-half ago, and in the latest episode, entitled “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7,” they tried to make amends, as per Deadline:

Mac acknowledges he made a mistake on Lethal Weapon 5, while Dennis and Charlie remind Mac and Dee that they did blackface as the Murtaughs in 6 too. The solution is that they hire a local Black actor to play Murtaugh this time.

Meanwhile, a real fifth Lethal Weapon is allegedly en route, directed by Mel Gibson himself.

(Via Deadline)

The highlight of Thursday night’s Verzuz battle between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia, unfortunately, had nothing to do with the music that was played. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone and Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J got into an argument on stage that nearly led to a brawl. After one of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s performances, Bizzy Bone said to his opponents, “You ugly motherf*ckers ain’t finna be mockin’ me while I’m on stage.” Juicy J told him to “shut the f*ck up,” which caused Bizzy to throw a water bottle at Juicy.

Now, nearly two days after the incident, Bizzy Bone spoke out about the fight and he was fairly chill about the whole scrape. “I just think, you know, it’s pretty self-explanatory how it went down,” he said during an interview with TMZ. “I can’t even say it on TMZ, you know, they’d have to bleep it out.” He continued, “Yeah, it ain’t really about bothering me. It’s just about class, it’s just about being a grown man and being in the heat of the moment and sh*t like that. Everybody pretty much understood what it was. From what everybody was telling me, they was like, ‘You really ain’t do no wrong.’ But, you know, it is what it is man, it’s hip-hop, people fight.”

Bizzy also said that Swizz Beatz, who co-founded Verzuz along with Timbaland, was not upset with him. “Swizz was like ‘it’s hip-hop, I ain’t tripping,’ and everybody was acting like he was saying something, he wasn’t talking about us,” he said. “We do our own prayers, we ain’t have no problem with no money, we ain’t ask for no special cups or none of that, we street dudes. He wasn’t talking about us, but of course, he’s being politically correct and I dig that and I appreciate that about him.”

You can watch Bizzy Bone’s interview with TMZ here.

There’s been an avalanche of Trump tell-alls of late, each one featuring exclusive, oft-shocking details about the former president. It’s how we learned that one of his closest confidants was a 28-year-old former body man who was dubbed a “f*cking idiot.” But the latest barnburning tome comes from inside the White House. It’s called The Chief’s Chief, from Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows. Meadows clearly thought it would be a valentine to the one-term, twice-impeached former Commander in Chief. But some of its stories are so unflattering that it’s reportedly left Trump pissed.

As per The Daily Beast, sources close to Trump say that he’s been going around calling Meadows’ book “f*cking stupid.” Why? Well, for one thing, because it’s how the world found out that he tested positive for COVID earlier than once reported, mere days before a Biden debate. (On a slightly lighter note, Trump also gorged on McDonald’s as he was being treated in the hospital for the virus that very nearly took his life.)

After the story broke, Meadows flailed about for damage control. He tried to pass the story — in which a president and his staff knowingly endanger the lives of many, including the person who would soon take his job — off as a lighthearted anecdote. He also went on Newsmax and called the story “fake news” — despite the news coming from his own book.

Trump is famously temperamental, and he’ll turn on his closest allies on a dime. Indeed, back in October, well before the book was mined for damaging stories, Trump was doing his best to turn The Chief’s Chief into a bestseller among the MAGA crowd. He called it a “fantastic book” about “politics, truth, our great administration, and exciting achievements that took place in government.” He assured supporters it “would make an incredible Christmas present.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teen charged with killing four and injuring more at Oxford High School, were discovered in a most unusual way. After disappearing shortly after the incident, the pair were found “hiding” in an industrial building. Hours later, they were arraigned and pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges.

As per The Associated Press, earlier in the week James and Jennifer Crumbley had left town earlier, as per their attorney, “for their own safety,” with the alleged intention to return to Oxford later to face charges. Days later, a car tied to the Crumbleys was spotted outside a Detroit building, where they had been camping out. When they were captured, the parents were said to appear “distressed.”

Detroit Police Chief James E. White believes the Crumbleys “were aided in getting into the building.” Whoever helped them may also face charges.

It’s rare for parents of school shooters to face criminal charges, according to AP, unless authorities believe they contributed in some fashion:

A prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the Crumbleys on Friday, accusing them of failing to intervene on the day of the tragedy despite being confronted with a drawing and chilling message — “blood everywhere” — that was found at the boy’s desk.

The Crumbleys committed “egregious” acts, from buying a gun on Black Friday and making it available to Ethan Crumbley to resisting his removal from school when they were summoned a few hours before the shooting, Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said.

Moreover, the Crumbleys had been ordered to give their son counseling within 48 hours after he was caught with disturbing drawings of a gun and the words “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” They didn’t check his bag, which contained a handgun, and were even reluctant to take him away from the school. Shortly thereafter, their son opened fire on his classmates.

The Oxford shooting follows a long string of mass murders in the nation’s schools.

(Via AP)

More than two years after releasing his last album, 2019’s Port Of Miami 2, Rick Ross is getting ready to drop another. The Florida rapper’s next record, Richer Than I Ever Been, is locked in for a December 10 release date. So far he’s released two singles, “Outlawz” with 21 Savage and Jazmine Sullivan, as well as “Little Havana,” with The-Dream and former drug kingpin Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon. Now, with just six days left until the new album arrives, Rick Ross unveils the tracklist.

Ross opts to keep things relatively short this time around, with a mere 10 songs. In addition to features from 21 Savage, Jazmine Sullivan, The-Dream, and Willy Falcon, the album also includes appearances from Benny The Butcher, Wale, Future, Yungeen Ace, Major Nine, and Blxst.

“Really, I feel this is the best album I’ve ever done,” Ross said about the album back in September. “I make progress every day. I feel like some of the stuff I’m saying on this album is really going to separate it from others.”

You can view the full tracklist for Richer Than I Ever Been below.

1. “Little Havana” Feat. Willie Falcon & The-Dream
2. “The Pulitzer”
3. “Rapper Estates” Feat. Benny The Butcher
4. “Marathon”
5. “Warm Words In A Cold World” Feat. Wale & Future
6. “Wiggle” Feat. Dreamdoll
7. “Can’t Be Broke” Feat. Yungeen Ace & Major Nine
8. “Made It Out Alive” Feat. Blxst
9. “Outlawz” Feat. Jazmine Sullivan & 21 Savage
10. “Imperial High”

Richer Than I Ever Been is out 12/10 via Maybach Music Group/Epic Records.

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

LeBron James only ended up missing one game after being placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocols. The Los Angeles Lakers star missed the team’s 117-92 drubbing of the Sacramento Kings as a result, and on Friday, he returned for the team’s 119-115 defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Despite this, James was not happy with the fact that he had to miss time. James spoke after the loss about the sequence of events that led to him entering the protocols, which left him “confused, frustrated, angry.”

“The fact that I tested negative first, and then my second test came back positive, and usually when you have a positive test, they will test you right away to make sure,” James said when asked what part of the angered him. “There was not a follow-up test after my positive test, it was straight isolation, and you’ve been put into protocol. That’s the part that kind of angered me, and I had to figure out a way to get home from Sacramento by myself, they wouldn’t allow anyone to travel with me — no security, no anything when I traveled back from Sacramento. And then, I had to put my kids in isolation for the time being, and put people in my household in isolation for the time being. So, it was just a big-time inconvenience, so that was just the angry part.”

James said that, because he was put into the protocols, he was unable to do anything from “Monday evening all the way until I got cleared at like 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon,” and that he picked up a basketball for the first time in a few days on Friday morning. He said it’s “unfortunate when you get a false positive and you get put right into isolation,” but said he was optimistic he’d get cleared sooner rather than later.

“I knew I was gonna get cleared because I never, ever felt sick, at all,” James said. “And I know you can be asymptomatic, but, I mean, if what I had was a positive COVID test, then what are we doing? What are we talking about? So, I just thought it was handled very poorly.”

In a statement, the NBA explained what happened with James getting placed in the protocols.

“James was originally placed in the Protocols on Tuesday, November 30 after a series of tests delivered conflicting results, including an initial positive test that was collected on November 29. Additional testing confirmed that he is not a positive case,” the league said, per ESPN.

“In accordance with the Protocols, and the consistent testing practice that has been in place since the 2019-20 Season Restart in Orlando, the sample that produced the initial positive test was re-run twice and returned one negative and one positive result on two different PCR instruments. As a result, James underwent additional testing on November 30, with one test returning a negative result and a second test resulting in a clinically inconclusive result.”

This past Thursday marked what would’ve been Juice WRLD’s 23rd birthday. The late rapper died nearly two years ago after a drug overdose at Chicago’s Midway International Airport. Since then, his estate, which includes his mother Ms. Carmella Wallace, has done their best to honor him, releasing new music and conducting philanthropic work in his name. Now HBO Max is preparing to release a documentary about him, entitled Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss, and the platform recently shared a new trailer for the film. The documentary is directed by Tommy Oliver, who previously helmed the 2013 drama 1982 and 2020’s 40 Years A Prisoner, and it’s set to be released on December 16.

In the trailer, Juice WRLD can be seen talking about his struggles with mental health. “When you’re a fan of this sh*t, you look at it from a certain perspective,” he says at one point. “But when you’re in it, you see it for what it really is. I’m still happy I could change the world, but… It’s not what it looks like.” He also says, “If you’ve got anxiety [or] depression, they all look at you like you’re crazy; that’s not how it should be [but] that’s how it is, and that needs to change. And hopefully I’m one of those people that could bring that change.”

The trailer comes after Juice’s estate released a new single, “Wandered To LA,” with Justin Bieber, from his upcoming posthumous album Fighting Demons, which will be released on December 10.

You can watch the new trailer for Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss above.

Remember when Donald Trump tested positive for the highly transmissible virus whose spread he barely tried to combat? Last week, it was reported the former president caught COVID a bit earlier than expected — just in time to do a public debate with the also immunocompromised Joe Biden. But there’s another detail about this spell that has only now been made public: While being treated in the hospital, he demanded he brought deeply unhealthy fast food.

As per Raw Story, The Chief’s Chief, the new book by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, includes some insider factoids that hadn’t seen the light of day. (There’s also, of course, baseless nonsense about how the 2020 election was stolen.) One of them is that, while he was being a cocktail of fed life-saving drugs at Walter Reed, hanging on death’s door, Trump was still brought his favorite food: McDonald’s.

The tidbit was caught by The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, who also pointed out that Trump and company “had to eat with face shields on at the doctor’s orders, which didn’t thrill any of them.” (Yes, the president-turned-failed blogger was mad at the people who were saving his life.)

But it all worked out in the end. Trump emerged from the hospital, still sick with COVID but adamant that he look strong, even as he almost certainly got a number of staffers sick.

Trump’s love of McDonald’s is well-documented. He infamously fed it to football champs, scarfed it down after he clinched the Republican nomination in 2016, and even paid a bodyguard with a McD’s gift certificate. He even blamed it for his weird hair.

His own former staff has noted his should-be-ruinous eating habits. Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said that on his airplane, “there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.” He didn’t go light either. A typical McDonald’s order, Lewandowski said, was “two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.” The Atlantic noted that that meal is a whopping 2,400 calories, with twice the average daily recommendation of sodium.

Obesity can triple the risk of hospitalization for COVID-related symptoms, but perhaps Trump is the lone exception to that one.

(Via Raw Story)

The Charlotte Hornets are the latest team to deal with a handful of players getting placed into the NBA’s health and safety protocols. According to multiple reports, the team was forced to put its starting backcourt of LaMelo Ball and Terry Rozier into the protocols, meaning they will be sidelined for at least the next 10 days unless they present a pair of negative COVID tests.

That last tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN ended up being prescient, as the Hornets would go on to announce that another starter, Mason Plumlee, and reserve forward Jalen McDaniels will both enter the protocols, too.

The Hornets currently sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with a 13-11 record. While that would put them in the play-in tournament, that puts them a half game behind the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 6-seed and one game up on the New York Knicks for the 11-seed in the East. Unfortunately for Charlotte, this is hitting at quite the inopportune time, as their next three games are a road trip to play the Atlanta Hawks before a back-to-back at home against the Philadelphia 76ers, both of whom are also in the play-in tournament as of right now. Should these four players be out for 10 days, they’d also miss games against the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks.