Nobody has time for bug bites, sunburns, or face mask tan lines, y’all.

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US citizen children filed a lawsuit after Congress restricted CARES Act relief money to individuals with social security numbers, excluding undocumented immigrants.

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The aircraft is normally used to provide surveillance for big federal drug and gang busts — but flew over the Black Lives Matter protests in DC earlier this month, as well as over Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests.

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Joel Schumacher, the director best known for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, as well as Brat Pack classics St. Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys, died on Monday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80.

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Tekashi 69 felt like his single “Gooba” was slighted by the folks over at Billboard, but now he has at last landed his first chart-topping song: On the Hot 100 chart dated June 27, Tekashi’s Nicki Minaj-featuring single “Trollz” debuts at No. 1. This is Tekashi’s first No. 1 song and Minaj’s second (following the recent “Say So“).

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At the beginning of the pandemic’s stay-at-home order, Billie Eilish revealed she was enjoying some time off. But the singer promptly faced the negative repercussions of growing up in the spotlight. A man who claimed to be a fan of Eilish repeatedly showed up at her home, and the singer had to get the police involved. Eilish can now rest easy as she has finally been granted a restraining order against the “erratic” person.

Back in March, Eilish sought a restraining order against a 24-year-old man who began harassing the singer and her family. The man trespassed on her family’s property several times after being asked to leave. While camping out on their porch at night, the man began exhibiting “erratic” behavior. He pulled out a book, began reading, and would periodically recite a monologue. Eventually, the man was taken away by security and Eilish was granted a temporary restraining order.

Eilish’s original restraining order had been temporary, but now the singer has been permitted longer-term protection, as reported by TMZ. A judge has granted Eilish a three-year restraining order, which can be extended after its expiration. The order forbids the man from coming within 100 yards of the singer and excludes him from making any sort of contact with her.

Hopefully, Eilish can now enjoy the rest of her time spent at home with more peace of mind.

Papa Cristo’s Greek Deli in LA is getting a huge boost in promotion thanks to TBS’ Celebrity Show-Off, Ja Rule’s fictional television show pitch for the new show, and Ja’s hilarious, tongue-in-cheek viral ad for Papa Cristo’s, which is currently making the rounds on social media after airing a few days ago on TBS. Now, some good old-fashioned rap beef has been added to the formula for success which is making Papa Cristo’s, which was already a Los Angeles institution, an even hotter commodity.

50 Cent, with whom Ja feuded throughout the mid-2000s, popped up on the timeline to take another poke at his fellow Queens native. Despite the good intentions behind Ja Rule’s lighthearted ad, 50 continued to mercilessly troll his old rival, writing, “This is what happens when you f*ck with me. I’ll have you and your whole label selling gyros. Go ahead and try me!”

Of course, Ja’s commercial, hilarious as it is, was actually part of a pitch for a fictional TV show in TBS’ Celebrity Show-Off, a reality competition show premiering this week. The show features celebrities competing to create popular original content, with the winners determined by online engagement. Judging from his content’s reaction online today, Ja Rule’s got a huge head start on the competition, if the show’s producers are tuned into Twitter.

Unfortunately for Papa Cristo’s, Ja’s ad went viral on exactly the wrong day; the deli is closed on Monday and Tuesday. That probably won’t stop them from receiving a huge boost in customers when they open up later this week — which was Ja Rule’s goal all along. 50 Cent may have had a nice chuckle, but Papa Cristo might end up getting the real last laugh.

Check out Ja Rule’s hilarious fake ad above along with 50 Cent’s reaction.

After involving himself in a lengthy diss track feud with Stormzy earlier this year, Wiley has cemented himself as a prolific rapper with the surprise record Boasty Gang. The album impressively marks the second project released by the grime rap pioneer this month alone.

Boasty Gang arrives shortly after The Godfather III, which the rapper had previously announced would be the final record released under his moniker. But it seems as though the rapper still had a few more songs up his sleeve, as he gave fans no warning before dropping the 19-track Boasty Gang, which includes his Idris Elba collaboration “Boasty.”

The new project could be Wiley’s way of making up for last year’s scrapped release Full Circle. Originally slated for an August 2019 debut, Full Circle was supposed to feature all-star guest features from Nicki Minaj, Future, and Drake’s label signee Popcaan. Just two weeks before the record debuted, Wiley announced the entire project had been tossed out because Drake’s OVO label had blocked a verse by Popcaan and Nicki had announced her (short-lived) retirement.

Boasty Gang is out now via Big Dada. Get it here.

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Eminem’s always been known for trolling his detractors and fellow celebrities, even since before it was called “trolling.” He’s also been known to record multiple alternate verses for songs, vaulting the ones that actually cross too far over the line of bad taste even for him. Every so often, one of those vaulted tracks leaks though, and we get a peek into both his creative process and into his latest vendettas. The latest alternate verse to escape from the vault comes from an 86ed take on Conway The Machine’s “Bang,” on which Em guested last year.

On the original, he makes reference to his 20-year-old beef with Canibus and decade-old bout with Ja Rule, as well as calling out Iggy Azalea and “Milli Vanilli hip-hop.” A few months later, a remix of the track appeared on Griselda Records’ group debut, WWCD, along with the other members of the Buffalo drug rap trio. However, today, an alternate take cropped up on which Eminem reserves a few bars for former Shady Records signee Joe Budden and Diddy’s Revolt TV outlet, both of which have been critical of his artistic direction in the recent past.

Of Budden, Em says, “Tell this journalist stick to the stuff he knows / Like always running from Migos,” while he has the following to say on Revolt TV (where Joe eventually ended up as a content director), “Shout to Puffy Combs, but f*ck Revolt / Y’all are like a f*cked up remote / Now I get it why our button’s broke.” As the song is a leak, it’s against Uproxx policy to embed a player, but you can click here to check out the alternate version.

Eminem isn’t only a troll, though. He recently shared an updated list of rappers he really rocks with as well.