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Last summer, during a series of tweets, Kanye West proclaimed Lil Baby as his favorite rapper but said he “won’t do a song with me.” Days later the Atlanta rapper revealed that he was unaware that Kanye wanted to collaborate with him.

“Nobody told me ye was trying to get me on a song [face with monocle emoji] that’s f*cced up,” he said before adding, “@kanyewest no disrespect nobody told me [shrugging emoji].” A month later, the two were spotted in the studio working on what appeared to be new music. In a recent profile with NME, Lil Baby shared what it was like working with Kanye and why he “respected” the rapper for the opportunity.

“[After the tweets] I tried to reach out to him,” he said. “I got his number to give each other a direct line then he sent me on a jet to Wyoming – and the rest is history.” He also said the compliment from Kanye was “definitely amazing to hear” and noted it’s not a compliment West throws around often.

“It’s not a regular thing that a lot of people get. A lot of people never get that opportunity or would die for that opportunity,” he said. “And the fact that I wasn’t even pressing for that opportunity and I got it – I think I respected [that] more.”

When he was asked about the music he and Kanye worked on, Lil Baby didn’t share too much about it saying, “he had some songs that I started to lead on.” He added, “I didn’t actually see [West] work on music too much… but I saw him working more in a different form – working on his clothing line and his shoes. That’s even more inspiring than the music.”

(via NME)

Cyberpunk 2077‘s release was fraught with issues, with glitches that have ranged from the hilarious to the infuriating and eventually led to the game being pulled off of the PlayStation Network. Despite years of hype behind it, the game released in a state that many would consider unfinished, which means fixes were dramatically needed.

Since the game’s release, the developers have apologized multiple times and promised to fix many of the more infuriating bugs that exist in the game. With Patch 1.1 releasing they did manage to fix a large variety of the game breaking bugs that were plaguing the game. As of the most recent patch the game is officially more playable. That is unless you come across the new bug they managed to add to the game with this patch, via Kotaku.

Patch 1.1 addresses an issue in the mission “Down on the Street” where Takemura would not call, thereby preventing any progress in the mission. He’ll call now, apparently, but then won’t say a word. Some users say that reloading old saves or creating new save files doesn’t fix it either.

There’s at least one apparent workaround. First, try to call Judy before Takemura calls. When he does, hang up the line, then tackle a side job. (The player who reported this workaround tackled a Delamain side-quest.) Wait 24 hours in-game and Takemura should call in—with dialogue and everything—allowing you to progress in “Down on the Street.”

So close! It feels so fitting that even as CD Projekt Red continues to fix their broken game they somehow manage to break it in new ways at the same time. That said, it’s somewhat appreciated that they’re taking the time out to fix their game. Even if there’s no excuse for it releasing in the state it did.

One of the bummers of Cyberpunk being such a broken mess of a game is that many have found it an enjoyable experience when it does manage to work. Who knows, maybe one day the game will be an enjoyable experience and worth playing. As of this moment though, you still can’t buy it digitally if you own a PlayStation and clearly there are still issues with it. They have a long road ahead of them before we can even begin considering a potential redemption story, but they’re trying — it’s just they manage to take a few steps forward and at least one more backward.

The NFL’s playoff championship round between Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills as well as the Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicks off on Sunday with the respective winners setting the matchup for next month’s Super Bowl LV. On the music side of things, we know that The Weeknd is set to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show as he looks to extend the success of his 2020 album, After Hours. Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church will also deliver the national anthem at the game and now it has been announced that Miley Cyrus will take part in the pre-game festivities for Super Bowl LV.

The NFL revealed on Sunday that Miley would headline their upcoming TikTok Tailgate showcase. The event was curated to celebrate healthcare workers who were invited to attend the Super Bowl. According to the announcement, 7,500 vaccinated healthcare workers will be in attendance at the show. It’s unknown at the moment if any other performers in addition to Miley will take the stage. The TikTok Tailgate event will kick off on February 7 at 2:30 PM EST/11:30AM PST and premiere on both TikTok and CBS.

This news comes as Miley continues to work on her upcoming Metallica covers album which she recently revealed is set to include guest appearances from Elton John, Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s Chad Smith, and legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

You can read the announcement above.

While their Verzuz was delayed for more than a month, Ashanti and Keyshia Cole’s battle still saw a large audience for their matchup this past Thursday. In fact, the pair broke an Instagram Live record for most viewers watching a livestream. The news was shared by Verzuz on Saturday night as the platform revealed more than 8.1 million viewers tuned in to watch the battle across their Apple Music and Instagram livestreams.

Of that number, more than 6 million people tuned in on Instagram, surpassing the previous record of 5.5 million that they set for November’s Jeezy and Gucci Mane matchup. That battle still holds the Verzuz record for most overall viewers with more than 9.1 million viewers.

There were plenty of memorable moments that surrounded Ashanti and Keyshia Cole’s battle. O.T. Genasis making a surprise appearance to sing “Love” beside Cole and 21 Savage letting his Verzuz vocals fly from the comfort of his home, which seemed to impress Missy Elliott, are just a couple that stood out.

As for the show’s future, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland revealed that their “holy grail” Verzuz would be Tupac vs. Notorious B.I.G. and Michael Jackson vs. Prince, a set of battles they both hope to execute in the best way possible.

You can check out the stats from Ashanti and Keyshia Cole’s battle above.

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

When we last saw Godzilla on the silver screen, the lizard was doing its best to protect humanity from the other big bads some nefarious humans were working hard to wake up. He was the good guy, narratively, at least. But according to the trailer for Godzilla Vs. Kong, it may have the role of antagonist in the latest monster flick.

The trailer, which dropped on Sunday, sets up King Kong as the beast with a better connection to humanity by way of a young girl he seems to be protecting. That connection is reestablished while Kong is being transported, for one reason or another, in chains by boat.

Which is when Godzilla inevitably shows up to wreck some boats, and when Kong gets free of those chains he inevitably yells at the water and starts fighting the lizard while standing on the wreckage. It’s an epic battle, one that later is carried out amid the neon-glow of a metropolis, but it’s still a mystery what’s making the two monsters battle it out.

“There was a war,” a voice says, as footage shows King Kong flinging a flying beast around by its tail into another one. “And are the last two standing.”

This battle was set up by the end credits of King Of The Monsters, of course, but it’s unclear exactly how these two Titans know each other, what their beef is and whether Ghidorah’s severed head will play into the plot in any way. We’ll see who’s actually the good guy or if there’s really anyone to root for while they destroy human cities later this spring. The movie is slated for a March 26 release, both in theaters and on HBO Max.

For the second straight year, officials at Ultra Music Festival has reportedly canceled their upcoming showcase as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The news was shared by Billboard just ten months after the festival canceled its 2020 show. After Ultra Music Festival canceled last year’s show, organizers for the festivals did not reveal a new lineup for their 2021 edition which, according to Billboard, led many to believe that a festival this year was very unlikely. The festival’s hope is that they will be able to make a return next year as they’ve already begun working with the city of Miami to secure a new date.

“We anticipate that the City will again invoke the Force Majeure clause. We respectfully request the rescheduled dates to be March 25, 26, and 27, 2022,” the festival’s attorney Sandy York said in a statement shared by Billboard. York added that Ultra’s payment obligations to Miami “be deemed modified to correspond with the rescheduled dates.” The plan for the 2022 festival is for it to take place at the Bayfront Amphitheater on March 25-27.

Ultra’s 2020 cancellation resulted in a class-action lawsuit from ticketholders who were upset that the festival opted to rollover tickets to 2021 rather than offer refunds. In November, a judge in Florida’s district court reportedly ruled that the lawsuit filed against the festival to go into arbitration where it has remained ever since.

One of the biggest surprises when Breaking Bad premiered on AMC back in 2008 was how incredibly good the guy from Malcolm in the Middle was in a heavy drama about a high-school teacher (with cancer), who turns to a career in meth to take care of his family. It seems very obvious now that Bryan Cranston — currently starring in Your Honor — is one of the best television actors of his generation, but that wasn’t nearly as obvious when he took the lead in Breaking Bad. In fact, some of those early viewers initially tuned in to see the novelty of a sitcom actor starring in dark drama.

It obviously worked out well for not only Bryan Cranston, but the extended Breaking Bad universe, which is still operational 13 years later with Better Call Saul. However, as Bryan Cranston recently revealed on the Smartless podcast — hosted by Sean Hayes, Will Arnett, and Jason Bateman (the latter of whom created a very Breaking Bad-like series in Ozark) — Breaking Bad nearly didn’t come together for him because of Malcolm in the Middle.

“Fox said, ‘Keep the sets up. We might do an eighth season of Malcolm In The Middle,” Cranston said on the podcast. “And everyone was like, ‘Yeah that’d be great.’ In late April and early May, they called when the upfronts are going on, they said, ‘Nope, we had a very good pilot season. Thank you guys, you did well. You’re on your own.’ So we thought, ‘Ahh, that’s too bad.’”

It probably was too bad for the rest of the cast (has anyone seen Christopher Masterson lately?), but it worked out splendidly for Cranston.

“Later that month, I get the call to go see a guy called Vince Gilligan. ‘Do you remember him from X-Files?” they asked.

“Kinda,” he replied.

“He wants to see you about a new project called Breaking Bad,” they said.

Cranston read the script and thought, “Oh my god this is amazing.” He met with Gilligan, who told him that he wanted to “turn Mr. Chips into Scarface and I think you’re the guy to do it.”

Cranston shot the pilot a few months later.

“So had we got that eighth season of Malcolm In The Middle, I would not have been available to shoot that pilot and someone else would be talking to you.” That someone else might have been Matthew Broderick or John Cusack, both of whom were reportedly also up for the role of Walter White. It’s hard to imagine, however, that anyone else is well suited to the role than Cranston.

“It is absolutely my belief, I dogmatically believe this,” Cranston added, “that a career in our business cannot be fully realized without a healthy dose of luck sprinkled throughout.” In other words, the best thing to ever happen to Bryan Cranston’s career was the cancellation of his Malcolm in the Middle.

Source: Smartless

When The Walking Dead set an end date for the series (late 2022) and extended Season 10 another six episodes, fans probably starting thinking about the end game. There are only 30 episodes remaining, and on a show like The Walking Dead, we can probably expect a number of people to die between now and the end. The only two people we know will survive are Carol and Daryl, who will get their own spin-off, and if cost-saving measures are part of the reason that The Walking Dead is ending now, it’s probably safe to assume that the show’s other two biggest remaining stars, Maggie and Negan, may not make it to the end, either.

In fact, it’s possible that one of those characters may not even make it until Season 11, or at least that’s what a number of fans fear after the latest The Walking Dead trailer. Those fans have reason to be concerned because there are a number of red-flags in the trailer.

“He asked how his daddy died,” Maggie says in the trailer, referring to his son Hershel (who also makes a brief appearance). “I told him that a bad man killed him. And he wanted to know if that bad man got what he deserved.”

That bad man is Negan, and so far as Maggie is concerned, he most certainly has not gotten what he deserved. She’s along with her mask-wearing ninja friend, and she may decide that now is the time for Negan to get his just desserts.

There’s another clue, too, that suggests Negan’s days may be numbered. At the end of the trailer, Negan sees a hallucination of himself delivering his iconic TWD line, “Little pig, little pig. Let me in.” Viewers of the series know that hallucinations often accompany death scenes.

Fans of the series, and especially fans of Negan, are worried about what’s to come.

The worry is warranted. The extended Season 10 does feature the Negan origins story, which is exactly the kind of story that precedes a big death on this series. Moreover, while Negan is not dead in the comics, he more or less disappears from the storyline after The Whisperer War, so there’s no source material that follows Negan to The Commonwealth. On the other hand, Robert Kirkman has written a one-shot story called “Negan Lives,” which fills readers in on Negan’s whereabouts after The Whisperer War and into the future, which could make an excellent premiere installment of The Walking Dead anthology series.

The Walking Dead returns on February 28th.

Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are just two months away from the one-year anniversary of their Verzuz platform. It began when the duo hopped on Instagram live in March 2020 for a beat battle that saw them reach into their respective catalogs to play some of their best-produced records. Swizz and Timbo went far past the 20 record limit that Verzuz now carries, but their initial battle led to some fan favorite head-to-head matchups which include Babyface vs. Teddy Riley, Erykah Badu vs. Jill Scott, and Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane. Fresh off Keyshia Cole and Ashanti’s Verzuz, Swizz and Timbo shared a pair of matchups they hope to make a reality in the near future with Verzuz.

During a recent appearance on an episode of ESPN’s Jalen And Jacoby, the Verzuz creators were asked what their “holy grail” matchup would be. Swizz replied with Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. saying, “My dream one, I want to figure out how to do Pac and Biggie in a way that the people is gonna really love it.”

Timbaland co-signed the idea and said, “I’ma call you later, Imma text you.” In addition to that battle, Timbo added that a matchup between Michael Jackson and Prince would be ideal for him.

Whether either of the aforementioned battles will happen remains to be seen, but for the time being, fans can expect a matchup between Bun B and 8Ball & MJG in the near future as the former act announced it was in the works earlier this month. Watch Swizz and Timbo’s interview on Jalen And Jacoby above.

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

For weeks after the presidential election in November, Ted Cruz parroted Donald Trump talking points and played a part in stirring up his supporters with misinformation that culminated in a riot at the US Capitol that left five people dead. That hasn’t stopped the senator from Texas from continuing bad faith arguments and online feuds even after Trump left office. And so it seems Seth Rogen is more than happy to continue telling Cruz to f*ck off on Twitter.

The actor and pottery enthusiast has spent the last few weeks occasionally replying to messages Cruz sends online with profane rebukes, and Cruz seems more than happy to pick a fight with the guy who starred in Pineapple Express. The arguments usually go something like this: Cruz says something silly, like incorrectly suggesting the Paris Climate Accords is bad for America because it was written by Parisians, or something. Then Rogen tells him to f*ck off.

Cruz usually calls Rogen a Hollywood elite, or disparages the nature of his movies, and Rogen tells him to f*ck off again.

This happened again over the weekend, with Cruz getting mad about foul language while playing in stereotypes about Tourette’s syndrome. That didn’t sit well with plenty of people watching the exchange unfold.

And Rogen felt the same way, pointing out the stereotype and telling Cruz to f*ck off once again.

As another viral tweet put it plainly, Rogen’s life online has a very specific rhythm these days and no one but Cruz seems to be complaining.

It seems unlikely that Cruz will actually just go away: he’s still an elected official and thus far has seen no real consequences for the role he played in the MAGA coup attempt. But Rogen is certainly trying his best to make life online for the senator a bit tougher. And it’s hard to argue that he doesn’t deserve that at the very least.