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It may be only in video game form, but for the first time since 2014, Brock Lesnar is making his long-awaited return to the Octagon as a DLC character in UFC 4.

Joining the former UFC heavyweight champion are fellow fighters Jennifer Maia and Askar Askarov, in addition to all-new vanity items available just in time for Halloween.

Lesnar will be available for download until Friday, October 30. Players who haven’t purchased UFC 4 just yet can jump into the Octagon as well with Free Play Days until October 22 until Sunday, October 25.

The new Halloween vanity items will drop on October 22 and October 29, including more than 40 new cosmetic items, including a skeleton set and skulls and roses shorts.

Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champion, hasn’t fought since 2016 but is currently a free agent after his WWE contract expired earlier this year and the two sides were unable to agree on terms of a new deal. Lesnar’s last bout was ruled a no-contest after failing a pair of drug tests in the lead up to UFC 200. He had verbally sparred with former two-division champion Daniel Cormier on a potential return bout, even jumping into the Octagon to confront him after his win over Stipe Miocic, but nothing ever materialized.

It’s been a while since Beyonce last released a new collection from her Ivy Park athleisure line with Adidas, but it looks like the Beyhive will soon have new gear to work out in — even if we’re all really just working from home. Beyonce first teased the upcoming drop a few days ago on Instagram with a cryptic photo of a poppy field captioned “Drip 2 October 30.” Of course, that was all it took to send her fans hunting for their credit cards but it still took a few days to see what she had in store — pun intended.

Today, Beyonce and Adidas Originals finally shared the first glimpses of the new collection via a tongue-in-cheek, infomercial-style video combining VHS workout tape references with some interview audio and fashion-commercial-esque quick cuts for an ad that is equal parts informative, funny, and enticing. Who wouldn’t love to see Beyonce doing her own Abs Of Steel-style workout tapes (my ’90s kids feel me on this one)?

The teaser arrives just a day after Beyonce interrupted her own promo campaign on social media to share a statement on the current police brutality protests in Nigeria. She was also recently celebrated by DC Comics as a “Wonder Woman Of History” in a graphic novel anthology for Wonder Woman Day.

With Pennsylvania continuing to be a tense battleground state in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Michael Keaton felt compelled to film a special endorsement directed at his home state, and he brought out the big guns to do it.

In the ad endorsing Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Keaton introduces himself by his full name of Michael Keaton Douglas and reveals that he grew up in a small Western PA mill town just outside of Pittsburgh. However, the actor is keenly aware that average folks aren’t exactly itching to listen to Hollywood celebrities, and he certainly doesn’t blame them for that, but he makes a very compelling argument: “Let’s be honest, I’m frickin’ Batman.” From there, Keaton highlights Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus response as he goes on to prop up Biden, who’s also a PA native, as a decent, honest man who can “right the ship.”

As for his decision to make a rare political endorsement, Keaton told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that, “All bets are off. This is too important, this election.” In an interview with the the local station, he again stressed a need to listen to the experts, which has been sorely missing during the pandemic. “Really listen to scientists, really listen to teachers. Really listen to people who know more than I know,” Keaton said. “But if I can do anything, I feel it’s my responsibility to do a little something.”

The Biden endorsement also popped up on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live where Keaton was asked who is the best Batman ever, and the Mr. Mom actor didn’t even hesitate when it came time to answer. “Me,” he said without a shred of doubt.

(Via Pittsburgh’s Action News 4)

Gus Dapperton has shown that videos are more than an afterthought for him with visuals like “Post Humorous.” Now he’s back with another clip, a cerebral “First Aid” visual.

The clip starts with Dapperton getting into a disagreement with somebody before the clip zooms into the inner reaches of Dapperton’s brain. There, he is chained and beaten up before reconciling IRL. Dapperton says of the video, “This video was definitely a passion project. From the inception of this idea it’s taken us about a year to finally finish it. I’m so thankful for the team that worked with us on this and so thankful we were able to accomplish this idea during covid.”

In a recent interview with Uproxx, Dapperton also said of “First Aid,” “It’s about these deeper and darker thoughts I’d neglected to be a strong person — but in reality, being a strong person is about confronting those feelings. When I’m feeling depressed and lost in the world, there’s not many things that help me. Therapy doesn’t help me very much. But putting it into the music is very therapeutic for me.”

Dapperton also hosted a livestream leading up to the video’s premiere, during which he chatted with fans and played a couple songs.

Watch the “First Aid” video above and read our interview with Dapperton here.

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Ever since Miley Cyrus revealed her upcoming album She Is Miley Cyrus sounds “super rock and roll,” the singer has been purposefully pivoting more toward the genre. Just before the singer announced she was making an entire album of Metallica covers, Cyrus transformed her backyard into a stage to share a cover of Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” for her MTV Unplugged session.

Taking the backyard stage in a shimmering dress, Cyrus delivered an animated rendition of the song backed by two acoustic guitars. The singer managed to stay true to her own style as she leaned on her textured voice to infuse some soaring melodies to her lyrical delivery.

Along with the “Just Breathe” cover, Cyrus transformed a handful of her favorite songs from across genres. Throughout her Unplugged session, the singer gave renditions of Cardigans’ “Communication,” Britney Spears’ “Gimme More,” Nico’s “These Days,” and the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.”

Ahead of her MTV performance, Cyrus said Metallica has been her inspiration behind her upcoming album. “In my sets, I cover Britney Spears to Metallica, so my record will be reflective of who I am, which is just kind of all different pieces of inspiration and influence,” she said.

Watch Cyrus cover “Just Breathe” above.

Rudy Giuliani was “America’s Mayor,” the (fabled) savior of post-9/11 New York City. He was named Time‘s Person of the Year, knighted by the freaking queen (not to be confused with Queens; the Yankees fan isn’t welcome there), and appeared in an Adam Sandler movie, the greatest honor of all. But now and forever, Trump’s personal attorney, who once revealed confidential information after butt-dialing a reporter, will forever be known as the guy who got into a feud with Borat. Not Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, out this Friday, features a scene where Giuliani gets duped by Borat’s daughter, played by actress Maria Bakalova. As described by the Guardian, “The pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite… After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers.” That’s when Baron Cohen, as Borat, barges in and says, “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.” Giuliani, who called the encounter a “hit job” on WABC radio, tweeted about the incident on Thursday. It’s… something!

“Today show features Borat’s false description of me. Anything Trump. But they censor Biden’s partner saying Joe Biden is THE BIG GUY getting money, 10% of millions, from Chinese Communists. I got the cops on Borat. And I finally got the FBI on the #BidenCrimeFamiily,” Giuliani tweeted. It has since been deleted. I have no idea what the hell he’s talking, because a) it’s gibberish, and b) “I got the cops on Borat” broke my brain. Does Rudy think Borat is a real person? It’s a question many people are saying.

Rudy Giuliani, Borat, Trump — it’s somehow 2001, 2006, and 2020 all at once.

Usually, when Black Thought appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, it’s as a member of house band The Roots, a position that lets him riff with the host and show off his impressive rhyme skills in funny sketches. Last night, though, he received the opportunity to appear on the show as a musical guest, performing a medley of songs from his upcoming Streams Of Thought, Vol. 3 EP. The Roots frontman was joined by guests The Last Artful, Dodgr and Portugal. The Man to perform “Quiet Trip” and “Nature Of The Beast.”

Naturally, Thought employed a framing device that was fitting for the current social climate, presenting the performance as a Zoom call between himself and his featured artists, overlaid on a cleverly-designed desktop. Black Thought, Dodgr, and the members of Portugal pop up in windows, then as a multi-paneled chat with Streams Of Thought producer Sean C. making a cameo appearance with his MPC as Thought ruminates on the “Nature Of The Beast.”

The road to the third volume of Streams Of Thought has hit its fair share of bumps and curves. After sharing “Thought Vs. Everybody” in July, he was forced to delay the release in the wake of the death of former Roots crew member Malik B. However, he’s been pretty visible all year, joining Public Enemy for a remix of their seminal hit “Fight The Power,” giving a Tiny Desk Concert from his home office, and sharing the single “Good Morning” featuring Killer Mike and Pusha T.

Watch Black Thought’s Tonight Show performance above.

Netflix released their second volume of Unsolved Mysteries revival episodes earlier this week, and authorities are already following up on progress that’s finally being made in a decades-long case. It was an installment that I found particularly chilling, given that convicted killer Lester Eubanks was somehow allowed to leave an Ohio prison (where he sat on death row but had his sentence commuted to life when the Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be unconstitutional in 1972) to go holiday shopping. Naturally, he went on the lam and decided never to return, and an on-air investigator pointed out that there weren’t even warrants out for his re-arrest, 20 years later.

The details of the case read like a bad horror movie. Eubanks had been convicted of killing a teenage girl, Mary Ellen Deener. He raped and beat her, shot her twice, and then bashed her head in with a brick to finish her off. Yet someone still believed that it was a wise idea for Eubanks to take an out-of-prison break (while unguarded) because of “good behavior.” The justice system dropped the ball and repeatedly declined to pick it up again, but now, authorities believe their trail to Eubanks is getting warmer.

USA Today relays word from Brian Fitzgibbon of the U.S. Marshal Service, who said that Eubanks is not only “alive,” but “I feel like we’re getting closer.” Fitzgibbon also revealed that tips are pouring in, and as more people watch Unsolved Mysteries, hopefully that trend will only increase, and at least a few of those tips might lead somewhere concrete. Fitzgibbon insisted that all tips are valued, but mainly, “We’re looking for any information to his life on the run or the history of his life on the run.”

Eubanks would be 76 years old now. Yet as the capture and sentencing of Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo (now 74) proved, it’s never too late for citizen detectives to help lead authorities toward nabbing a murderer. Eubanks was 5-foot-11 and approximately 175 pounds when he embarked upon that “holiday shopping” adventure and evaporated without a trace. Unsolved Mysteries is circulating an age-progression sketch (from the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children) that depicts how Lester Eubanks might look today.

(Via USA Today)

A UK musician named Matt Grant found himself at the wrong end of an unfortunate situation recently: He was busking in Edinburgh, Scotland, as he does regularly, when somebody decided to smash his guitar. He started a GoFundMe campaign to help replace the damaged instrument and wrote, “Today the worst thing that could have happened happened. Someone came up while I was busking and smashed my guitar. The lady was a drunk. Often I don’t rise to people coming up and talking nonsense but this lady was pushing it too far. She was in my face swearing and shouting at me. I told her to go away and she wasn’t having any of it. She grabbed my guitar and smashed it over the ground. I got grabbed by The police intervened she was arrested. But now I’m out of a guitar to busk with for the time being.”

Grant didn’t need the money from the GoFundMe, though (he raised £4,196, about $5,500): When Jack White heard about Grant’s story, he decided to help by buying him a new guitar worth £3,600 (about $4,700).

The incident occurred on October 20, and after that, White’s management contacted Grant. White apparently spotted the page and felt bad about what happened, so he found the music store Grant shopped at and arranged to pay for whatever six-string Grant wanted.

Grant told the Daily Mail, “It’s just amazing. I was in the guitar shop and the manager had been trying to get hold of me all day on the GoFundMe page, but I had closed it as I already had more than enough donations in. He said: ‘Jack saw what happened, bud, and he wants to get you a guitar.’ I said I already had one now because I had been in and bought my new acoustic one and he said, ‘Keep that one and get another one. Jack really wants to help.’ I was like a kid in a sweetie shop, going around trying out all the guitars until I picked the one I wanted.”

Grant went with a Fender Stratocaster and wrote on Instagram, “Absolute once in a million lifetimes thing happened today and I cannot thank Jack enough for his absolute generosity. Apparently he saw what happened and hit up his manager just this morning, who then amazingly tracked me down to the guitar shop just in time for me to walk out with this absolute beauty. Thanks Jack. I’d love to thank you personally one day, you’re a legend. ”

Find more of Grant’s posts about the situation below.

During a recent live stream for the Adobe MAX 2020 Creativity Conference, Tyler The Creator revealed a creative video in which he reveals his favorite films and albums to a very special interviewer: Himself. The interview, which was edited by D’Anthony Hamilton on Adobe Premiere for a discussion on “thought leadership” — a category Tyler knows a bit about, as his pioneering vision behind endeavors like Odd Future, Loiter Squad, and The Jellies!, as well as the innovative artistry attached to his own music, has opened doors for other DIY successors like Brockhampton.

The interview video finds Tyler subtly mocking the cultural gatekeepers of hip-hop, adopting a very Funk Flex-ish, New York old head demeanor to grill himself about movies and albums. After running down a list of NY hip-hop “legends” including Fabolous, Jim Jones, and Papoose, “NY Ty” asks “What’s your five favorite albums? And I know you one of them weird, eclectic n****s that be like, ‘Ehhh, Korg,’ and all that.” It’s definitely reminiscent of the way establishment hip-hop heads received Tyler during his initial rise to fame after “Yonkers.”

Tyler reveals that his five favorite albums include Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP, Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun, NERD’s In Search Of…, and Pharrell’s In My Mind. He can’t come up with a fifth. Meanwhile, the movies are easier: 20th Century Women, The Cat in the Hat, Napoleon Dynamite, and Scary Movie 2 all top his list. He also reveals advice he’d give to his 18-year-old self, his favorite places to visit, and which artists he’d want to work with.

The whole thing is hilarious and insightful. Check out his answers above.