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Saweetie’s brand continues to grow, adding another new partnership to her ever-expanding compilation of them. Her latest big-money team-up is with Beats By Dre; Saweetie appears in the latest campaign for the noise-canceling Beats Fit Pro headphones arriving this Friday, November 5. In addition, she contributes a new song, “Get It Girl,” which plays over the ad. She struts the streets of LA with the headphones on, tuning out the world with the noise-canceling turned all the way up.

In addition to Beats By Dre, Saweetie’s growing portfolio of brand collaborations includes work with Crocs, with whom she’s partnered on a campaign promoting new Hidden Valley Ranch-themed jibbitz, and McDonald’s, where Saweetie put her viral snack tendencies to work coming up with oddball food combinations and Icy-branded merch. Saweetie also hosts the Netflix comedy special Sex: Unzipped alongside a plethora of horny, sex positive puppets.

Hopefully, Saweetie’s extracurricular activities won’t cause any further delays to her debut album, though. She says it’s finished and teased that something will “unfold during the holidays,” so perhaps we’ll be hearing more new music from Saweetie very soon — no commercial needed.

Watch Saweetie’s Beats By Dre ad above.

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

Dwayne Johnson has regrets about making his “candy ass” feud with Vin Diesel public, but he admits that he “shouldn’t have shared that. Because at the end of the day, that goes against my DNA. I don’t share things like that. And I take care of that kind of bullsh*t away from the public.” It’s not too far away from the public, though, as two of The Rock’s movies have referenced his Fast and Furious co-star. First, it was the Florence Pugh-starring Fighting with My Family (“Yeah, and I’m Vin Diesel, mate”), and apparently there’s also a Diesel joke in Red Notice, Netflix’s most expensive movie ever.

“The jokes never end. People were asking me about [making Diesel jokes] and they just, they find a way, and you know, what’s interesting is, you know, these Vin Diesel jokes, which play great by the way to the audience, which is always a good thing because it’s all about [the audience],” Johnson told SiriusXM (via IndieWire). He continued:

“But, people think these jokes come from me and they actually don’t. I mean, you’d be surprised at how many people come to me with ‘I got a great one.’ I’m like ‘OK.’ ‘I got another great Vin Diesel joke.’ ‘I’m sure you do.’ [Laughs] Always funny.”

What do you think The Rock hears more, “I have a great Vin Diesel joke for you” or “here’s a supplement that will make you even more muscular”? It’s a dead heat. If I could tell him one thing and one thing only, it would be, “New Scorpion King movie, when?”

You can watch Johnson’s interview above. Red Notice comes out November 12.

(Via IndieWire)

Ariana Grande has been a fixture on the current season of The Voice, as she is serving as a judge on the singing competition show. Ed Sheeran is also on the new season, acting as a Mega Mentor to the show’s contestants. As Sheeran gave advice to the singers on Grande’s team, Grande found herself in a position to make a self-deprecating joke, and she went for it.

One of the contestants, Sasha Allen, gushed to Sheeran about his lyricism, saying, “You are, like, top two songwriting inspirations. Like, the reason I started writing songs.” Grande responded to being excluded from the compliment with a playful jab at her hit 2016 single “Side To Side,” saying, “I’m a bit offended that ‘Boy, you got me walking side to side’ didn’t earn me a spot as top lyricist.

Grande previously shared her thoughts about how enjoyable it was to film the show, writing on Instagram, “hello and screaming !!!! cannot wait for everyone to see our first promo tomorrow for season 21 of @nbcthevoice !!! it’s ….. the most ridiculous and fun. i adore these humans so much and am already an emotional wreck worrying about saying goodbye to everyone the day of the finale and nothings even happened or aired yet. but yes ! tomorrow ! first promo. i love these people and this crew and my TEAM OH MY GOD and everything about this. i can’t say anything else. but… simply cannot wait til we get started.”

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There was a time on The View when it seemed like Meghan McCain brought up how much she loves Yellowstone almost every single episode, so it’s not exactly a total surprise to see that the former co-host chose characters from the show for her family’s Halloween costume this year. McCain showed off the family portrait on Instagram where she and her husband, Ben Domenech, were dressed as Yellowstone power couple Beth and Rip Dutton. Along for the ride, was their one-year-old daughter, Liberty, who was dressed as an adorable deer.

“Rip and Beth forever. And a Dutton ranch baby fawn! (We had to!) Happy Halloween!” McCain wrote in the caption.

Just to put a point on how much McCain loves Yellowstone, earlier in the year, The View panel was getting especially hot and steamy while talking about Regé-Jean Page’s Duke on the hit Netflix series Bridgerton. However, McCain was the only co-host who wasn’t into the series or Page’s character and she kept trying to steer the conversation towards, you guessed it, Yellowstone.

However, in a rare moment of compromise, McCain did make a deal with co-host Sara Haines. If Haines agreed to watch Yellowstone, McCain would watch Bridgerton to see what all the fuss is about. And then she she shut the whole thirst fest down. “That was not what I agreed to talk about on air. Meghan does not want any more topics like this,” McCain said, but it wasn’t enough to stop Whoopi from getting in one last joke about how she’s sending all the ladies vibrator. Gotta love Whoop.

(Via Meghan McCain on Instagram)

Over the years Cardi B has become as well-known for her boisterous personality as her club-friendly music. According to Billboard, she’ll soon apply that personality to the task of hosting the upcoming American Music Awards. The show, which will air live on Sunday, November 21 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, has been kind to Cardi since her 2017 breakthrough with “Bodak Yellow,” giving her five wins at previous shows along with three nominations this year. She also performed “I Like It” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin at the 2018 AMAs.

In a statement, Cardi said, “When I received the invite to host the AMAs, I was so excited. I’m ready to bring my personality to the AMAs stage! Thank you to Jesse Collins, ABC, and MRC for making this happen.” Cardi’s selection makes her the fourth Black woman to host the AMAs in five consecutive years. In 2017-18, the show was hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross; in 2019, Ciara took over hosting duties; and last year’s show was MC’d by none other than Taraji P. Henson.

The nominees, which were announced last Thursday, include Ariana Grande, BTS, Drake, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd, who are all nominated for Artist Of The Year, while the show’s host Cardi B is nominated for Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist alongside Coi Leray, Erica Banks, Megan Thee Stallion, and Saweetie.

The 2021 American Music Awards will air live at 8:00 pm ET on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu. You can still vote for various awards here.

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

Ted Cruz may have had a delightfully “evil” response to a group claiming to uncover the Zodiac Killer’s real identity, but people aren’t thrilled with his reaction to that Cancun-and-Snowflake themed Halloween costume. Sure, he’s being a little bit self-deprecating, but there’s also plenty missing from his response. Let’s back up a bit.

A pair of brilliant Halloween costumes surfaced down in Texas from Rose Clouston, the director of voter protection for Texas Democratic Party, and Steven Becerra, who dreamed up “the scariest thing we could think of.” They did a pitch-perfect rendition with Steven dressing up as Ted doing the Airport Walk of Shame after he fled responsibility for his frozen constituents for a sunny Cancun vacation. Ted left his dog, Snowflake, behind with a security guard, and the dog was spotted (looking all lonesome) in the front glass door of his home. And Ted, apparently, loved the recreation

“Ok, I laughed out loud at this one,” Ted merrily tweeted. “Snowflake had a wonderful Halloween, and he was thrilled to be remembered in a costume!”

To give Cruz the benefit of the doubt here (I know), he may have thought the best political move here was to show that he can, you know, laugh at himself. What a sport! However, a lot of people wanted to know why he found anything about this situation — a fatal one, in which people literally froze in their homes — to be so funny. If he had acknowledged, even slightly, that he actually made a wrong move, these responses would have turned out much differently.

On Monday, Jessica Simpson commemorated a personal milestone: four years of sobriety. “This person in the early morning of Nov 1, 2017 is an unrecognizable version of myself. I had so much self discovery to unlock and explore. I knew in this very moment I would allow myself to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity,” she wrote on Instagram, along with the “unrecognizable” photo of herself.

Simpson continued:

“Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol because it kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction and quite honestly I was exhausted. I wanted to feel the pain so I could carry it like a badge of honor. I wanted to live as a leader does and break cycles to advance forward- never looking back with regret and remorse over any choice I have made and would make for the rest of my time here within this beautiful world. I can’t believe it has been 4yrs! It feels like maybe 2. I think that is a good thing. Ha.”

The musician and fashion designer said that there’s “so much stigma around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic. The real work that needed to be done in my life was to actually accept failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage. The drinking wasn’t the issue. I was. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do.” Simpson called herself “wildly honest and comfortably open” and ended the post with: “I am free.”

You can read the entire Instagram post below.

Tucker Carlson is apoplectic! An evergreen statement to be sure, but this time he’s mad at fellow conservative Lindsey Graham, which is what makes this a story.

On Sunday, just one day before Carlson’s reprehensible January 6th docuseries Patriot Purge aired its first of three episodes, The Washington Post published a detailed accounting of the events that led to the insurrection on the Capitol. Among the new revelations was that as members of the Senate and the House were being evacuated from the Capitol, Graham—a longtime Donald Trump ass-kisser—snapped out of MAGA mode for just long enough to become enraged and scream at the Senate sergeant-at-arms: “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them. We give you guns for a reason. Use them.” Which, in turn, has enraged Carlson.

On Monday night, as Mediaite reports, the Fox News host actually seemed to care about whether any of his fellow Americans live or die when he called out Graham for suggesting that a person officially entrusted with a gun and protecting the safety of the Capitol building and its inhabitants actually take measures to do that. According to Carlson:

What we just learned from this very long Washington Post “rebuttal” to our documentary series is that on January 6th, Lindsey Graham was running around the Capitol ordering the Capitol police to murder the protestors. Quote: “‘You’ve got guns. Use them. We give you guns for a reason,’ shrieked Lindsey Graham.”

Shoot American citizens for the crime of trespassing. Really? This is the conservative position? Unarmed protestors? They shouldn’t have been there. We’ve never defended that and never would.”

(But we will air a three-part docuseries titled Patriot Purge, in which we suggest that the insurrection was a “false flag” operation, after regularly downplaying the incident.)

“But kill them?,” Carlson continued. “What the hell’s wrong with you, Lindsey Graham? How long before you’re ordering drone attacks on people whose politics you don’t like?”

Probably about as long as it takes for Carlson to claim that a 17-year-old white kid with a gun is just “maintaining order.”

(Via Mediaite)

It is obviously never a good time to receive a positive COVID-19 test, but Ed Sheeran’s diagnosis came at a particularly inconvenient moment: He announced last month that he had tested positive just days before the release of his new album = and shortly before his planned stint as Saturday Night Live musical guest. There were fears that the show would have to replace Sheeran, but now that will no longer be necessary.

Today, Sheeran took to Instagram to let his followers know that he no longer has to quarantine and this his SNL performance will go on as scheduled. Sharing a photo of himself performing, he wrote, “Posting this pic to say I’m released from covid isolation today, so if you see me out and about I’ve had the all clear and done my quarantine. Excited to hit the ground running with work again, and SNL is still on, so tune in Saturday, see you there x.”

He also recently shared a post about making = with collaborator Johnny McDaid, writing, “Me and Johnny started this album June 2017 in Los Angeles, and finished it July 2021. What a journey, man. When lockdown hit we locked in together and started creating. Overpass Graffiti and Sandman came in those first few weeks, and countless others. Shivers was a pillar that the album oddly formed around. When things opened up we started working in more interesting spaces to write songs. Johnny would set up in old farms or country houses and we’d just make mad songs. Bad habits, Joker and the Queen and Be Right Now came all in a bonkers couple of weeks in Glemham Hall in Suffolk in January. We’ve had 10 years of making songs now, from Photograph to Shape of You. It’s a joy to work with you brother, thank you for guiding me on this album whenever I got lost. Thank you for pushing me, and doing 92 versions of a production just to get it right. We made something very special, and you are very special. Up the lads, youl never beat the lads.”

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

If ever there was a story that could simply begin and end with its headline, this is it. In what sounds like what would have been an amazing cover story for The Weekly World News back in the day, Raw Story is reporting that QAnon followers began gathering at the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas on Monday night… to await the reemergence of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Yes, the same John F. Kennedy, Jr. the world watched salute his father’s coffin in 1963. And the same man who tragically died in a plane crash in 1999.

Yet, despite the fact that he was a lifelong Democrat hailing from a staunchly Democratic family, JFK Jr. seems to have become an icon for the batshit conspiracy theorists of the world (earlier this year, they flocked a man they for some reason believed to be JFK Jr. at Trump rallies… the man was not JFK Jr.). And they have somehow come to believe that his death was all a big ruse and that the son of the 35th president has been quietly working behind the scenes for the past 20-plus years to take down the “deep state.”

On Monday evening, journalist Steven Monacelli took to Twitter to post images of the scene and reported that “A popular QAnon theory recently is that JFK Jr. of the Kennedy family will be making a big announcement at Dealey Plaza by the grassy knoll sometime tomorrow.”

Based on some of the T-shirts seen in the crowd, it seems that at least a few of them believe that JFK Jr.’s announcement might not only be “Hey, I’m alive,” but also, “I’ll be running alongside Trump in the 2024 election.” (Has anyone told Mike Pence?)

Even more bafflingly, according to Newsweek, is that some of these people believe that JFK Jr. will reemerge to simply declare Donald Trump president. And that his mother and father may be there with him? Which… well, we’re not exactly sure how that works. Or what would give him the power to declare Trump president. Or why I’m trying to work logic into the equation at all.

It’s not the first time QAnon message boards have predicted JFK Jr.’s resurrection. In 2019, they also made a lot of noise about the former George publisher coming forward on July 4th to announce that he had been hiding out in Pennsylvania for two decades, as Rolling Stone reported at the time. No word on why that didn’t happen, though Fourth of July traffic is notoriously brutal.

For now, we’ll just wait and watch.

(Via Raw Story)