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Almost four months ago, Guapdad 4000 and Denzel Curry linked up to give fans their second collaboration with “Lil Scammer That Could.” The track landed on Guapdad’s Platinum Falcon Returns EP and followed his and Denzel’s first collaboration, “Izayah,” from Guapdad’s 2019 album, Dior Deposits. The video for “Lil Scammer That Could” was quite the surreal affair, one that depicted Guapdad and Denzel wreaking havoc in a suburban neighborhood. There was even a scene that found the two rappers running over a tied-up police officer with Guapdad portrayed as a train and Denzel as its conductor. Expanding on that scene from the video, the two rappers have debuted a new game that follows a similar concept.

Joining forces once again, Guapdad and Denzel shared their Lil Scammer That Could game on Monday through Instagram. The game presents a Looney Tunes-esque world to fans in which Guapdad and Denzel reprise their roles as train and conductor. Using the train and conductor combo, fans are prompted to eliminate police officers in quite the bloody fashion. Speaking on the new game, Guapdad said the game was a “very ‘Guapdad’ way to call back to both a great song and video but more importantly the state of this country.”

You can try your hand at the Lil Scammer That Could game here.

Guarded 4000 is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Before the NBA resumed its season in Orlando this summer, there was plenty of trepidation among players, who were simultaneously concerned about the implications of returning to play amid the nationwide protests and the specter of a dangerous virus that had put the country on lockdown.

Most players eventually opted to join the Bubble at the Disney World campus in July, but there were some who ultimately decided it wasn’t worth the risk their family’s safety. Avery Bradley was one such player who declined to travel to Florida with the Lakers, and as a result was forced to watch his team raise the championship trophy from the other side of the country.

Bradley made the decision to skip the restart because of concerns for his son, who suffers from asthma. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that is particularly hard on groups with compromised lung functioning. But despite the bittersweet experience of celebrating the title away from his teammates, Bradley says he’s come to terms with how the situation played out.

Via Dave McMenamin and Malika Andrews of ESPN:

“I think it is something that is hard, obviously, not being there,” Bradley said. “But I think from the beginning I’ve been able to be at peace.”

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“You play your whole career working for a championship,” Bradley said, “and knowing that I was this close and a part of something, even though I wasn’t there, is still an amazing feeling.”

Bradley started 44 games for the Lakers before the shutdown and was a key factor in their run to the No. 1 seed in the West, and he’ll receive a well-deserved championship ring because of it, despite not participating in the Bubble games.

Bradley spent his time during the restart home-schooling his three children but still managed to watch all of the Lakers games and texted with his teammates and head exec Rob Pelinka throughout their championship run in Orlando.

(ESPN)

After performing as a retro sci-fi queen in her last televised performance, Doja Cat borrowed more inspiration from the past for a Moulin Rouge-inspired burlesque medley of her hits “Juicy” and “Say So” at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.

Doja Cat has had an eventful 2020. After her disco-scented “Say So” became a TikTok smash early this year, her and Nicki Minaj’s fans teamed up to take the glittery single to the top of the Hot 100 with some risque encouragement from Doja herself. Unfortunately for her, she may have overplayed her hand, leading some of her jilted-feeling fans to dig up a questionable old song and accuse her of participating in racist chat rooms.

She bounced back with a string of features that helped her find her footing, only to find herself sick with COVID-19 and being pit against Nas after he name-checked her on his new album. When she shrugged off the rumors and speculation, she again lived up to her name by landing on her feet with a big performance at the VMAs, where she also won Best New Artist, despite floating around the music industry since 2016. Time will tell whether she’ll use up all nine of her lives, but with her third album complete and covering all the bases, she’s certainly in position to keep giving her haters bad luck.

Watch Doja Cat’s performance above.

Bad Bunny has blessed fans in a number of ways in 2020. The popular Latin artist kicked off his 2020 campaign with his Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana album only to follow it up with a second full-length project, Las Que No Iban a Salir, a couple of months later. In a year where fans have been unable to see their favorite artists perform live, Bad Bunny gives them a close alternative by bringing his talents to the 2020 Billboard Music Award stage with a lively performance of “Yo Perreo Sola” alongside fellow Puerto Rican singer Ivy Queen and newcomer Nesi.

The YHLQMDLG singer aimed to make a big statement with his “Yo Perreo Sola” video earlier this year as he underwent a full drag transformation for the visual. Prior to the video, he revealed that different perspective her wrote the song from in an interview with Rolling Stone. “I wrote it from the perspective of a woman,” he said. “I wanted a woman’s voice to sing it — ‘Yo Perreo Sola’ — because it doesn’t mean the same thing when a man sings it. But I do feel like that woman sometimes.”

The performance arrives after took over the streets of New York last month in a live stream performance that found him performing from a moving flatbed track. Among the many tracks that he performed there, he made sure to give fans a live take of his “Una Vez” track with Puerto Rican singer Mora. Soon after the performance, he shared a new visual for the track, one that finds an astronaut, in full space gear, exploring the Earth and its varying landscapes. Bad Bunny, along with Selena Gomez, was also honored at The 2020 Hispanic Heritage Awards where he received the Vision Award for being a “powerful voice” in music.

You can watch the performance in the video above.

After years of staying under the radar, especially in terms of her music, Brandy came back stronger than ever in 2020 thanks to the release of her seventh album, B7. The album was her first full-length release since her 2012 album, Two Eleven, and saw her working with notable names including Chance The Rapper and Daniel Caesar. Bringing the album and a pair of tracks from it to the big stage, Brandy kicked off her set at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards with an ethereal performance of “Borderline” before inviting Ty Dolla Sign on-stage to perform their newly-released collab, “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2.” Reaching further back into her discography to close out her set, Brandy ended her performance with “Almost Doesn’t Count” from her 1998 album, Never Say Never.

Brandy and Ty Dolla Sign released their “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2” track earlier in the day prior to the Billboard Music Awards, a day that also proved to be newsworthy for Ty Dolla Sign as well. After putting fans through well over a year of promotion and singles for his upcoming album, the West Coast crooner finally confirmed that his upcoming third album would arrive on October 23 and be titled Featuring Ty Dolla Sign.

As for Brandy, the performance arrives less than two months after she took the Verzuz stage for a battle with fellow R&B singer Monica. The battle proved to be one of the more successful ones the Verzuz platform held as it reeled in over six million viewers across its Instagram and Apple Music setups.

Check out their performance in the video above.

Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

It’s been just over eight months since much of the country went into quarantine, and it’s safe to say that a lot of us taken binge-watching next level. Some, like Kevin Smith, have been incredibly productive, using the acres of free time to write and create and do things. But even those people have to have plowed through untold seasons when they weren’t being creative and smart. Perhaps you’ve reunited with some old favorites, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That’s what its star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, has been doing. The twist is she’s been watching it with her kids.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actress was on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, when the conversation perhaps inevitably steered to her iconic show. She said she’d never even thought about showing it to her and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s two kids, both of them far younger than she was when she started the show in 1997. It all started when they were trying to find shows to binge, only for them to demand Buffy.

“I didn’t even know if they’d be into it, but they are like so into it,” Gellar said. That said, when they ask her questions about the show, she invariably fails them. “They’ll always ask questions and I’ll be like ‘I don’t remember. I’ll have to text someone and ask.’” Still, watching their mother fight vampires and demons and other assorted riff-raff while being an otherwise mostly regular youngster has left them impressed. “My son actually thinks that I’m cool now.”

Gellar played Buffy over seven seasons, ending in 2003. And, hey, since Amazon is remaking another Gellar property, the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer, can a Buffy revival — be it a reunion or a reboot — be that far off?

(Via THR)

Post Malone has spent the last three years as a fixture of the Billboard music charts, so it’s only right that he would perform at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, even as the show proceeded with no audience thanks to the social distancing required by coronavirus guidelines. Post Malone and Tyla Yaweh performed at a “top secret” location in Los Angeles, revealed during their performance to be a construction site. After Post opened up with “Circles,” he was joined by Tyla for their collaboration “Tommy Lee.”

Ever since his 2015 breakout with “White Iverson” (remember braided, rapping Post Malone?), Post has straight-up dominated both the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 singles chart. His debut album Stoney, is still on the 200, spending 200 weeks(!) on the list, while Beerbongs & Bentleys has hung around for 128 weeks. 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is still hanging around the top of the list, coming in at No. 14 on the list dated October 17.

Meanwhile, “Circles” just dropped 5 spots to No. 22 after spending 58 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 1. Post has spent much of the 2020 lockdown branching out, performing an all-metal jam session, plotting to start a beer pong league, and launching his own brand of rosé. He also appeared on Big Sean’s Detroit 2, on the song “Wolves.” They’ll be releasing the video sometime soon after shooting it last weekend.

Watch Post Malone’s performance above.

Kane Brown struck mainstream success back in 2018 thanks to his Experiment, a project that saw the country singer land his first No. 1 album on the Billboard albums chart. The album helped him earn an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist in 2019 and other nominations across a various other of award shows. Extending his association with award shoes, Kane Brown brings his talents to the 2020 Billboard Award show to perform “Be Like That” with Swae Lee and Khalid. The track is a laid-back effort that finds the three artists accepting the realities of life, an attitude that is reflected in their performance as they calmly move across the empty theater’s stage to deliver each of their verses.

The “Be Like That” track, which was released back in July, arrived as Kane Brown continued work on his upcoming third EP, one that would follow 2015’s Closer and 2016’s Chapter 1. While news of a forthcoming EP may be exciting to fans, Brown did not share a release date for the project, saying in an interview with Taste Of Country that there is no timetable for its release. However, at the time of the interview, he did confirm that the EP is nearly complete.

As for Swae Lee and Khalid, both artists are expected to release projects of their own as Swae Lee has teased his upcoming album with singles like “Dance Like No One’s Watching” and “Reality Check.” On the other hand, Khalid has left optimistic thanks to singles like “Eleven” and “Know Your Worth.”

Check out the performance of “Be Like That” above.

After just two seasons, Brian Agler is out as head coach of the Dallas Wings, the team announced Wednesday. The two agreed to “mutually part ways” following a promising 2020 campaign that saw the Wings fall one game short of advancing to the WNBA playoffs.

“As we look to the future, we believe our team is talented and well-positioned for success,” Dallas Wings President and CEO Greg Bibb said in a release. “After discussions with Brian, we have elected to go in different directions. We are thankful for Brian’s work, dedication to the community and his belief in our dynamic team. We wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.”

In his two seasons at the helm, Agler’s Wings finished with an overall record of 18-38 and failed to make the postseason both times. Prior to joining the Dallas organization ahead of the 2019 season, Agler served as head coach of the Minnesota Lynx (1999-2002), Seattle Storm (2008-2014) and Los Angeles Sparks (2015-2018), winning titles with Seattle and LA.

“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to coach the Dallas Wings, I have great respect for the organization” Agler said in the team statement. “I wish everyone within the Wings organization the best of luck in the future.”

While the Wings went 8-14 this season, there were plenty of reasons to be excited. Dallas was in the middle of its current rebuild and had just drafted Oregon’s Satou Sabally with the second overall pick to play alongside fellow first round draft picks Bella Alarie and Ty Harris. Sabally threw her name into the ring for Rookie of the Year contention, averaging 13.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game despite missing six games due to injury.

Rising star Arike Ogunbowale took a large leap forward in Bradenton, Florida, averaging a league-high 22.8 points on 41% shooting, 3.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game. In doing so, she also earned the 2020 WNBA Peak Performer Award for scoring after posting the highest scoring average by a second-year player in league history. And the former Notre Dame hero had 37 straight games in double-figures scoring in 2020, good for the second-longest double-digit streak in franchise history.

The Wings have one of the brightest futures in the league with so much young talent locked in for the forseeable future. The team will now begin focusing its efforts on the search for a new coach, and with so many talented women already holding assistant coaching positions in the WNBA, Dallas’ next leader could already be in the league.

“We believe our team’s youth, tenacity and talent provide us with the competitive edge to attract the right fit for our club and someone who will lead our continued growth as we pursue a WNBA Championship,” Bibb said about the quest for Agler’s replacement.

Bringing added attention to her newly released track “Courage To Change,” Sia brings her new single to the 2020 Billboard Music Award stage with an uplifting performance of the track. Donning her trademark hidden look, she delivered her first performance of the track in a fluffy white dress backed by neon lighting and the space of an empty theater. Sia has slowly ramped up her activity in 2020, a year that started for her with a string of loose singles. Continuing its promotion, she released her single ahead of the film project Music, which fans can expect to receive soon.

The track is just one of a few releases Sia has shared throughout the year. She started things off by premiering her “Saved My Life” single during May’s Americares’ COVID Is No Joke livestream fundraiser. She then followed up the performance with a performance of “Together” for the first on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sia later joined David Guetta for their “https://uproxx.com/pop/david-guetta-sia-lets-love-video/Let’s Love” single, one that added to the long list of the duo’s collaborations over the years.

As for Sia’s Music film, fans can expect to get the project in the near future. The project will feature appearances from Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom, Jr., as well her dancing collaborator Maddie Ziegler.

You can watch her Billboard Music Award performance in the video above.