Young Dolph’s death hasn’t stopped at least one of his rivals from keeping their beef alive. Blac Youngsta, a fellow Memphian with whom Dolph had a longstanding feud, has drawn the ire of fans on Twitter after a video of him performing the Dolph-dissing track “Shake Sum” surfaced online. In the song, Blac Youngsta denounces Dolph’s claims to Memphis’ rap throne, saying, “You ain’t from the city, you from Chicago.” There are also the typical threats of gun-related violence, which to some fans reads a little tacky in light of how Dolph died.
Why would Blac Youngsta think it’s ok to perform that? What’s wrong wit u niggas?
Blac Youngsta himself, meanwhile, took the criticism in stride. He semi-addressed the critics in an Instagram post of his new video “I’m Assuming,” adding a lengthy caption. “I’m the type of n***a who ain’t neva sat back and looked for nobody to feel sorry fa me!” he wrote. “I come from the heart of South Memphis where you get no sympathy, don’t even know what that is. With that being said, I could give 2 f*cks what the world think about me.”
I love Dolph but idk why y’all thought or think Blac Youngsta supposed to give a damn that he died. If you my enemy today and you die tomorrow, you still my enemy. Ain’t shit changed
Yall trying to shit on Blac Youngsta for performing a song made years ago but praise and sing Durk’s lyrics like he’s not throwing shots at dead folks? King Von was steadily smokin on “_____” and yall thought it was funny even as his mama cried on the net.. Stop playin favorites
In addition, the new video is shot in a graveyard, with some astute fans noticing that the name on a mausoleum behind me reads “Thornton” — Young Dolph’s real last name. I suppose some beef lasts forever — even when one party already had the last word.
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Big Thief – “No Reason” / “Spud Infinity”
Big Thief’s massive 20-track album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You is just a few months away, and we’ve already heard almost half of it. “No Reason” and “Spud Infinity” are the latest additions to the list, and both show completely different sides of the band. “Spud Infinity” is a relatively funky affair featuring an epic jaw harp section, while “No Reason” boasts an equally epic flute solo.
Pom Pom Squad – “Popular” (Nada Surf cover)
All the way back in March of this year, Pom Pom Squad’s Mia Berrin tweeted, “I’m gonna recreate the video for popular by Nada Surf but I’m gonna play every character.” Nine months later, Berrin has made good on her promise with a cover so faithful that she even recreated the original video nearly shot-for-shot. For added effect, Nada Surf vocalist Matthew Caws even contributed backing vocals to the track.
Waxahatchee – “Tomorrow”
In just a few weeks, AppleTV+ will release their animated adaptation of Cece Bell’s 2014 graphic novel El Deafo. The show features an original soundtrack by Waxahatchee, and this week we got the first taste of what to expect from the accompanying music. “Tomorrow” doesn’t sound too far from Katie Crutchfield’s recent work as Waxahatchee, with a bit of extra upbeat punchiness to accompany the show’s animation.
Band Of Horses – “In Need Of Repair”
It’s been more than five years since the last Band Of Horses album, but that’s all about to change with the release of their sixth LP, Things Are Great, early next year. “In Need Of Repair” is the latest taste of the album, which Derrick Rossignol describes for Uproxx as “an easygoing and heartfelt single,” and continues the narrative of the band looking to return to their musical roots.
Cat Power – “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Billie Holiday cover)
Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) is no stranger to covers albums. Next year, she’ll follow up The Covers Album, released in 2000, with an all-new collection titled Covers. Along with the album announcement, Marshall shared a sparse, emotional rendition of Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You,” which Marshall described in a statement as “a conversation with those on the other side… and it’s really important for me to reach out to people that way.”
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story in which two women accused actor Chris Noth of sexual assault. (Noth claimed both interactions were consensual.) From there, more women have come forward, including actor/director Zoe Lister Jones, to share their own experiences stories about inappropriate behavior on the part of Noth dating back decades.
Later that evening, the New York Post reported that a deal for Noth to sell Ambhar, his tequila brand, to Entertainment Arts Research (EAR) for $12 million had been called off. “We thought it would be in our best interest to withdraw from the transaction,” Bernard Rubin, EAR’s president, told The Post.
By Monday, Noth was getting more bad news. The Hollywood Reporter announced that the actor had been fired from The Equalizer, the CBS series that is currently in its second season. CBS and Universal Television, which co-produce the series, issued a joint statement in which they said that “Chris Noth will no longer film additional episodes of The Equalizer, effective immediately.” (He will, however, be seen in one more episode, which had already completed production.)
Noth released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, in response to their original article, stating: “The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. … The encounters were consensual. It’s difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don’t know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women.”
Every year we hear a lot of the same classic holiday songs. There’s no denying the holiday power of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas,” or DMX’s “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” But bless the artists who keep pushing the holiday music envelope and are giving us new tunes to break up the monotony of the season. So with that, these were the songs, albums, and more that stole the show this holiday season.
There I Ruined It’s Mariah Carey x Twisted Sister Christmas Mash-Up
You didn’t think you were gonna get through this list without a Mariah Carey song, did you? So we’ll get it out of the way right now, but it’s not what you think. The folks at the There I Ruined It YouTube channel present some of the most unpredictable mash-ups of songs. Think Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” expertly collided with a K-Pop band. For the holiday season, however, they have taken the liberty of mashing up Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” with Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take it” in dedication to “the warriors of Christmas retail during another Mariah Carey Season.” It’s the stuff that holiday heavy metal dreams are made of. I wonder if Mariah’s gotten wind of this one yet? While she’d probably be repulsed, she’d certainly applaud the fact that the song is part of the “Un-Ruin Christmas” fundraiser for Toys For Tots. Donate here.
HAIM’s Reboot of Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song”
The Sandman created a timeless joint back in his SNL days with “The Hanukkah Song,” but who better to give it a re-fresh than Los Angeles’ most famous trio of Jewish sisters, Haim? But you know what the funniest thing is about this song? It’s the little differences. Maya Rudolph, Japanese Breakfast, and Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National kick off the tune’s laundry list of famous Jews, then instead of naming who “eats together at the Carnegie Deli” (a la Sandler’s original), Este, Alana, and Danielle swap in LA institution “Canter’s Deli.” The Haim version has a distinct knack for including prevalent pop culture personalities and lines like “Doja Cat’s half-Jewish, Chalamet’s half too. Put ‘em both together, what a fine-looking Jew!” would make the Sandman proud. The big payoff comes at the end of the clip, when we find out that the video released during Hanukkah, is actually a clever ruse to tease their 2022 tour.
The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special Featuring the All My Friends Sitcom
If you hadn’t heard yet, the Omicron coronavirus variant forced LCD Soundsystem to cancel the final three shows of their 20-night residency at New York City venue Brooklyn Steel. It’s definitely the prudent move given the circumstances in NYC right now, but rest assured, you can celebrate with LCD Soundsystem on Christmas week by watching their brand new holiday special. The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special is part concert and part LCD sitcom, and the sitcom is directed by comedic genius Eric Wareheim. It stars Wareheim as James Murphy, alongside Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, Luenelle, and more. It airs on December 22nd via Amazon Music here and the trailer below is can’t miss stuff.
Jhené Aiko – “Wrap Me Up”
A holiday love song from Aiko, “Wrap Me Up” opens with jingle bells and a harp as she hopes to spend the holiday season with a lover by the fire. Where a lot of holiday pop comes across as an over-produced year-end formality, Aiko’s gorgeous voice is undeniable here. She evokes the imagery of the sights, sounds, and feel of the holiday season as she sings:
“Every December you’d make sure you’re here
So I pray as soon as I wake
That we spend today up under each other
‘Cause there’s nothing more I need
Than you here with me, no gift would be better”
A Very She & Him Christmas Deluxe Edition
There is no album I’ve played more this holiday season than the now classic and officially ten years old holiday album from the She & Him duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Deschanel’s voice has this built-in nostalgia that makes us think about her singing Christmas carols in the movie Elf, an iconic modern Christmas tale if there ever was one. But I digress, because the deluxe version of A Very She & Him Christmas comes with new bonus material like a cover of Madonna’s “Holiday,” and a splendid take on “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” that’s a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. Also, all proceeds from album sales benefit 826 National, which funds creative writing programs for kids. Get it at Bandcamp.
Nathaniel Rateliff and Jon Batiste’s Video Magic On “Run Rudolph Run”
Chuck Berry’s raucous “Run Rudolph Run” always seems to call to mind the Home Alone scene when the McAllister family is running for dear life through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport as they attempt to barely make their flight to Paris. Now the soul and folk rock and roll of Nathaniel Rateliff meets the dizzying multi-instrumentalism of 11-time 2022 Grammy Award nominee Jon Batiste on this new version. Debuted at the end of a Late Night With Stephen Colbert episode (where Batiste serves as the bandleader), they totally do Berry’s bluesy song justice. But the way they filmed their video is eye-popping to say the least, as our eyes are drawn to multiple Jons and Nathaniels playing the song. Watch it below.
Gucci Mane and 1017’s So Icy Christmas mixtape
Gucci Mane has put his East Atlanta Santa series to bed and now has the So Icy Christmas mixtape on deck featuring artists from his 1017 records label. 1017 Signees like Big Scarr, BigWalkDog, Enchanting, and Hotboy Wes grace tracks on the album that don’t necessarily fit into the holiday theme, but it’s the Christmas bangers that Gucci Mane himself is on that stand out best. Album opener “Street Ni66a Christmas” is produced by long-time collaborator Zaytoven. “All I Want For Christmas” is a street rap Christmas carol for the ages, where Gucci Mane spits: “All I want for Christmas is my Glock with the extension / A handgun with some monkey nuts, that’s all I want for Christmas.” He then takes a moment to say a prayer for Young Dolph on the Metro Boomin and Zaytoven-produced tribute track, “Long Live Dolph.” As far as holiday music traditions in rap go, Gucci Mane might as well be on his way to sainthood.
Kurstin x Grohl: The Hanukkah Sessions 2021
Picking up on the tradition they started last year, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and super-producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Foos) posted a YouTube video of them performing a cover of a song by a Jewish artist on each of the eight nights of Hanukkah. It was something to look forward during Hanukkah with Grohl (not Jewish) and Kurstin (Jewish) performing songs like Van Halen’s “Jump” (shout out David Lee Roth,) “Copacabana” with Grohl doing his best Barry Manilow impression, and Amy Winehouse’s “Take The Box,” with Grohl’s daughter Violet on lead vocals.
Jucee Froot As A Raunchy Grinch In The “Christmas List” Video”
Christmas just got a little more ratchet with Jucee Froot’s latest…errrr…holiday video. The rapper tips her Santa cap to the magic of Dr. Seuss with her provocative Grinch costume that spares no detail (all the way down to the green body paint. Uproxx Hip-Hop Editor Aaron Williams said this one best: “Her daughter’s also in the video, which lends another layer of heightened absurdism to the proceedings as Jucee reels off a Christmas list that will probably not only land her on the naughty list, but also send Santa to the doghouse for a week should Mrs. Claus peek over his shoulder while reading it.” Smash that play button below.
Beach Bunny – “Christmas Caller”
Holidays or not, this is just a damn great song and a welcome addition to the indie rock holiday music canon. Singer Lili Trifilio has a knack for oh so sweet hooks and she rides a poppy guitar hook on this one while delivering sugar cookie and cinnamon spice dusted “doo doo doos.”
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
As far as I can tell, Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore have only appeared in the same movie once (1986’s Babes in Toyland), but after watching them on Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, I demand we get a new movie with them being effortlessly charming together. It can be a romantic-comedy, it can be a horror movie, it can be a musical (especially if it’s a musical). I don’t care, as long as it happens. I mean, come on.
Outside of the Pillsbury Doughboy-esque giggle, Barrymore also praised Reeves for being “kind, humble, gracious, hardworking” and recalled the time they went on a motorcycle joyride on her 16th birthday. “We drove at the warp speed of my life. We went and you took me on the ride of my life, and I was so free, I was such a free human being, and it was just this moment where I just remember loving life and being so happy,” she said. Reeves doesn’t remember the specifics as well as Barrymore, but if he wants to relive the moment with me, I’m around. I’ll even bring my own motorcycle helmet.
Later in the interview, Reeves embarrassed himself with a corny expression.
As The Batman gets closer to its March premiere, the cast and director Matt Reeves have been spilling details about the latest take on the Dark Knight that puts Robert Pattinson under the cowl. Taking over the role of Catwoman is Zoë Kravitz, who recently shared the unique fighting style that she brings to the iconic villain/hero.
While talking to Empire, Kravitz revealed that she studied the fighting style of actual cats and worked with her stunt coordinator to develop a more grounded combat approach that isn’t just a bunch of “impressive backflips” that wouldn’t make any sense for this version of Selina Kyle:
“We watched cats and lions and how they fight,” Kravitz tells Empire in the world-exclusive new The Batman issue, “and talked about what is actually possible when you’re my size, and Batman’s so much stronger than me. What is my skill? It’s being fast and tricky. So we did some really interesting floor work that incorporated different kinds of martial arts and capoeira and a kind of feline, dance-like movement.”
The Batman catches up with Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne during his second year of fighting crime, but the film will act as sort of an origin story for Catwoman, who’s moving beyond just learning how to survive. “I think there’s a lot of space to grow and I think we are watching her become what I’m sure will be the femme fatale,” Kravitz told Empire.
If you’re somehow not convinced that Ed Sheeran is a massive star, there’s proof in his streaming figures. “Shape Of You” has been Spotify’s most-streamed song for a while, and now the Sheeran hit has reached a milestone that no other song has reached before: Chart Data reports that “Shape Of You” has eclipsed 3 billion streams on Spotify.
.@edsheeran‘s “Shape of You” becomes the first song in history to surpass 3 billion streams on Spotify.
As of this post, the Spotify app indicates the song has 2,998,778,047 plays. Regardless, if the song hasn’t technically reached 3 billion yet, it likely will in the coming days and may have already by the time you read this. For reference, Spotify’s next most-streamed song is The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” which currently has just shy of 2.7 billion plays.
On December 10, 2018, “Shape Of You” became the first song to top 2 billion Spotify streams. It wasn’t the first to hit 1 billion plays, though, but rather, the third, doing so on June 8, 2017. It achieved the feat after Drake’s “One Dance” (which did it first) and The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s “Closer” did.
Meanwhile, Sheeran has two other songs that are getting close to 2 billion Spotify streams: “Perfect” is at about 1.92 billion and “Thinking Out Loud’ has around 1.9 billion plays. If either of those hit 2 billion streams, Sheeran will join Post Malone as the only artist with multiple songs that have at least 2 billion spins. If they both do, Sheeran will be the only artist with three such tracks.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Anthony Fauci is calling for Fox News to immediately fire commentator Jesse Watters after The Five co-host encouraged people to ambush the doctor in public and “kill shot” his credibility. “The kill shot, with an ambush. Deadly because he doesn’t see it coming,” Watters said at an event for the conservative grassroots organization Turning Point USA this week. “This is when you say, ‘Dr. Fauci, you funded risky research at a sloppy Chinese lab, the same lab that sprung this pandemic on the world. You know why people don’t trust you, don’t you?’ Boom, he is dead! He is dead! He’s done!”
Fauci called Watters’ comments “crazy” and “a reflection of the craziness that goes on in society.” He continued, “The only thing that I had ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices, to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask. And for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot, to ambush me?”
“That’s awful that he said that. And he’s going to go very likely unaccountable. I mean, whatever network he’s on is not going to do anything for him. I mean, that’s crazy. The guy should be fired on the spot!”
The incendiary, dangerous, violent rhetoric against Dr. Fauci continues at AmericaFest. Fox News host Jesse Watters tells them how to go after him to harass him in public: “Now you go in with the kill shot – deadly. Because, with an ambush, he doesn’t see it coming.” pic.twitter.com/V34YZwDdPD
Anyone watching Tucker Carlson on Monday night might have easily thought they had stumbled upon the Comedy Central Roast of Eric Swalwell. But nope, it was just the Fox News host laying into the California congressman for what most people can only surmise is Swalwell’s opinion that unvaccinated people should not be able to travel by plane.
On Sunday night, Swalwell tweeted that he was on a flight headed toward San Francisco and “it is one-hundred percent batty that the unvaccinated are allowed to fly. It’s unsafe in the cabin and we are transporting the virus. Requiring the vaccine to fly is the LEAST we can do to stop the spread.”
On a flight now to Bay Area and it is one-hundred percent batty that the unvaccinated are allowed to fly. It’s unsafe in the cabin and we are transporting the virus. Requiring the vaccine to fly is the LEAST we can do to stop the spread.
Carlson, who may or may not be vaccinated (he’s probably vaxxed and boosted, who are we kidding?), seemed to take severe umbrage at the opinion that people who have not been immunized against a highly contagious virus that has so far killed more than 5.3 million people around the world should not be allowed to share airspace with those who would prefer to not die from COVID. So he launched a very personal attack against Swalwell, whom Carlson described as “the most physically unclean member of Congress”
As Mediaite reports, Carlson—after saying that both the airlines and “any sane physician” would disagree with Swalwell’s anti-vaxxer airplane ban—seems to think that Swalwell’s dick is the real public health crisis. Carlson charged that the congressman “now imagines himself a public health official with the power to make these decisions. So, before we go any further and grant Eric Swalwell that power, we probably ought to see his medical records. It’d be kind of ironic if a guy with multiple chlamydia infections was lecturing the rest of us about how to keep safe from a virus. We await that data.”
Tucker Carlson slams Eric Swalwell, who he calls “probably the most physically unclean member of Congress,” for thinking unvaccinated Americans should be banned from airplanes. pic.twitter.com/JFbfGl9BuH
Though Carlson offered no proof of his accusations or truly intimate knowledge of the health of Swalwell’s nether regions, the image posted over his shoulder said a lot (also: we like the art above his bed):
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The “In Bed With Fang Fang” caption was a reference to Swalwell’s reported sexual liaisons with suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang, who raised funds for a number of Democrats, including Swalwell. Fang fled the country in 2015; while Swalwell refused to say whether he and Fang were intimately involved, he swears that he did not share any sensitive information with the reported operative.
It’s worth noting that Carlson and Swalwell got into a bit of a text tiff this summer, with the Congressman claiming, “Sorry, Tucker, I’m just not that into you.”
After years of lying about me and my family, @TuckerCarlson is losing his mind that I won’t return his calls. Sorry, Tucker, I’m just not that into you. Who knows what lie he’ll tell next? #TuckerTantrumpic.twitter.com/vwX7AfwJ1Z
While the CDC reports that approximately 62 percent of Americans are now fully vaccinated, there are some people down in Texas who think that drinking a bleach-like cocktail of disinfectants is the better way to ward off COVID. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this group of pharmaceutical nincompoops are some of the same QAnon cultists who made a pilgrimage to the Big D last month in order to witness JFK Jr. reemerge, possibly with his dad in tow, in order to restore Donald Trump to power so that the big guy can take care of all the Satan-worshipping pedophiles who are currently running our country.
While it’s unclear whether these followers of Q are still waiting for JFK Jr. (who died in 1999, but is either going to be resurrected or reveal that he’s just been hiding out in Pennsylvania for 20-plus years, as one does) or some other batsh*t other thing to happen, The Dallas Observer is reporting that in an effort to protect themselves from COVID, many of them are drinking from a communal bowl of chlorine dioxide (an industrial disinfectant very similar to bleach) and other chemicals. This information came to the outlet via the family of one of the followers, a woman who abandoned her husband and children to follow charismatic QAnon cult leader Michael Brian Protzman to Dallas.
The cultist, whose name has been withheld, has kept in touch with her family and told them about what they’re doing. “She was proud to tell us that she was the one mixing it up and giving it to everybody,” one family member told The Observer.
“She’s always been into, you know, natural remedies, getting aluminum out of deodorant, things like that,” Sean Leek, the woman’s son, explained. “But that led to anti-vaxxing, and anti-vaxxing led to QAnon.”
It is, of course, impossible to forget that moment in April 2020 when then-president/idiot extraordinaire Trump suggested that consuming bleach might be a good way to end the COVID pandemic—while Dr. Deborah Birx, the newly-appointed White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator looked on in a mix of horror, disbelief, and oh-my-god-what-did-I-do-and-where’s-the-nearest-exit.
“The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs” — Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/amis9Rphsm
As Michael Murney wrote for The Dallas Observer: “It’s unclear why the group is drinking the chemical potion, as many believe the coronavirus, which has killed over 800,000 people in the U.S. and millions worldwide so far, is a government fabrication.”
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), chlorine dioxide has “not been shown to be safe and effective for any use, including COVID-19, but these products continue to be sold as a remedy for treating autism, cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and flu, among other conditions, despite their harmful effects.”
It is sold online under various names, including “Miracle Mineral Solution,” “Miracle Mineral Supplement,” “Master Mineral Solution,” and “Chlorine Dioxide Protocol.” Ingestion can lead to respiratory failure, potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythms, life-threateningly low blood pressure, acute liver failure, and the rapid destruction of red blood cells. Members of a Florida family hawking chlorine dioxide through their Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in Bradenton were arrested by federal agents in 2020. They reportedly earned more than $1 million from sales of their “miracle” elixir.
When asked what message he might want to share with his mother, Sean Leek told The Dallas Observer, “We want you home… Your family loves you and when you’re ready to come back we’re here for you.”
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