Despite being on house arrest in Utah, Baton Rouge rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been menacing the rap world for the past several weeks, taunting would-be rivals like Lil Durk, Soulja Boy, and Drake. And while it appears they’ve mostly ignored his attention-baiting antics, there’s at least one person who took him seriously enough to take action.
However, unfortunately for fans of rap beef, J. Prince decided to put YoungBoy and Drake on a video chat to see if they could work out their differences. The Houston rap impresario posted a photo of himself with the young rapper, detailing how he encouraged him to take Drake off his “enemy list.”
“As you all can see, I had a good time kicking it with the homies in Utah,” he wrote.
On behalf of the lil Homie YB, me and my brother Birdman were able to have a real conversation face to face. We talked about the past, the present, and the future. But most importantly, we left each other with a mutual respect moving forward. Even though I wasn’t there for a meeting with bird man I must say the lord works in mysterious ways. With that being said, I must address the song where my name and drakes name were mentioned. To the lil homie, as I said to you privately, I say to you publicly that Drake is my son, he roll with me. Therefore, I think it’s a good idea to take him off your enemy list because the truth of the matter is that we got nothing but love for [Lil] Durk and your accomplishments. When I put Drake on that facetime call with you, my intent was for y’all to move forward, not backward. “Two things we get every day is a chance and a choice. The choices we make determine our destination.
The trouble appeared to stem from NBA YoungBoy’s new mixtape, Richest Opp, which featured the song “F**K The Industry Pt. 2.” The “How To Rob”-style track found the prolific spitter calling out names. While most of his ire was directed at Lil Durk, it seemed Drake’s association with the Chicago rapper was enough to earn a dismissive bar or two.
“B*tch, I send them hitters to hit at you, boy, don’t say sh*t to me / Talk to Drake ‘cross FaceTime, he wasn’t feelin’ me,” he raps on the song. “Told me that he f*ck with Durk, damn, that sh*t was gettin’ to me / Told me that he like the sh*t I’m doin’, but can’t do sh*t with me / So when we cross our ways, f*ck what you say, b*tch, you my enemy.”
To be fair, Drake already takes enough heat for his associations with Chris Brown and Baka Not Nice, one of whom is on his label. With YoungBoy’s seeming inability to keep himself out of trouble for 6 consecutive months at a time, that’s one collab the Canadian just might continue to avoid.
Pride Month is almost here, so Procter & Gamble is teaming up with iHeartMedia for another year of their annual event Can’t Cancel Pride. Hosted by JoJo Siwa, the virtual affair will take place on June 15 from the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles and will be streaming online for fans to watch. 2021’s lineup had Lil Nas X and Demi Lovato, and this year’s roster is as exciting.
Can’t Cancel Pride 2023 will feature performances from Brandi Carlile, Adam Lambert, Big Freedia, Ciara, Billy Porter, Hayley Kiyoko, Kesha, Kelsea Ballerini, and more. It’s the fourth year of the event, and so far it’s raised $11 million to LGBTQ+ organizations such as GLAAD, The Trevor Project, National Black Justice Coalition, SAGE, CenterLink, and OutRight International.
“The return of ‘Can’t Cancel Pride’ is always an exciting time, as we bring iHeartMedia’s audiences together across broadcast, podcasts and social to celebrate the strength of the LGBTQ+ community,” said Gayle Troberman, Chief Marketing Officer for iHeartMedia, in a statement. “This year we shine a spotlight on how far we’ve come and how much more there is to do to fuel equality and inclusion in support of these important organizations making the world better for the LGBTQ+ community everyday around the nation.”
As someone who firmly believes that getting a prom date shouldn’t be anywhere near as exciting ask asking someone for their hand in marriage, I’m generally loath to share “promposal” videos. Not to be too bah humbug about it, but the elaborate asks have gotten out of hand, and creating a memorable prom proposal feels like a lot to put on already-pressured teens.
That being said, one “promposal” video making the rounds on Reddit and other social media sites is worth watching. Not only does it shine with its clever concept, deft delivery and wholesome hilarity, but the simple joy it evokes crosses generations.
Monty Python has had a rather miraculous hold on several generations and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in particular has been a cult classic for nearly 50 years. So seeing a group of high schoolers use it as inspiration for a prom proposal has people of all ages giggling with delight.
The video begins with a girl standing in her doorway watching someone perform a trumpet blast in her yard. Then we hear the clippity-clop of fake horse hooves just before a small group of guys come “galloping” into view on hobby horses.
A wigged scribe “dismounts” and unrolls a scroll before declaring, “Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!” and making the announcement.
The beauty of this promposal is that it succeeded in being over-the-top silly without actually being over-the-top. The paper crowns, the fact that they’re in normal clothes except for the red robe and goofy wig, the little detail of the kid being lifted off the horse, the scroll simply reading “Prom?”—it all harkens back to a simpler time before viral when kids would do stuff like this just for the fun of it.
Even the man in the background, presumably the girl’s dad, chuckles with approval throughout.
It’s not easy to hit the mark across generations, but they nailed it. Way to go, guys.
“I’ve known Harry since I was 19 and he was 16, and there’s something about going through your formative years — it’s quite weird,” Sheeran said. “He’s obviously on top of the world right now and has gone from being in the biggest boy band in the world to then being the biggest solo artist in the world. It’s an amazing journey to see, and I’m really super, super proud of him.”
Sheeran also compared his long-standing friendship with Styles to his long-standing friendship with Taylor Swift.
“It’s the same thing as Taylor. There’s rarely people that totally understand you, and I think both of them — because they are solo artists and are at this level, you kind of talk and there’s an understanding there that you don’t necessarily get from everyone,” he explained.
“I have long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she’s one of the only people that actually truly understands where I’m at,” he told Lowe.
Back on Spout, Sheeran also touched on Swift: “I think because we don’t do a hell of a lot of business together, like, we’re very much — every now and then, we’ll come together and do something, but I’ve hung out with her more times than I can count and I can count on one hand how many songs we’ve released together. It is a friendship friendship, and we just happen to be in the same business.”
Watch Sheeran’s Spout Podcast interview above.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
With less than a month to go until The Flash zips into theaters, the DC Comics film just received its biggest endorsement yet. Stephen King has given the Ezra Miller multiverse adventure his seal of approval, which is notable given the prolific author isn’t a big fan of superhero movies.
“I got an advance screening of THE FLASH today. As a rule I don’t care a lot for superhero movies, but this one is special,” King tweeted. “It’s heartfelt, funny, and eye-popping. I loved it.”
I got an advance screening of THE FLASH today. As a rule I don’t care a lot for superhero movies, but this one is special. It’s heartfelt, funny, and eye-popping. I loved it.
Of course, it probably didn’t hurt that The Flash is directed by Andy Muschietti, who previously delivered the two part adaptation of the King classic It. However, The Flash needs all of the help it can get. Miller’s legal troubles will likely keep the lead actor out of the film’s promotional tour, and the latest trailer made it a point to lean heavily into the return of Michael Keaton’s Batman instead of the main character.
That said, early reactions for The Flash have been overwhelmingly positive, and it has reportedly done well with test audiences, hence Warner Bros. Discovery’s refusal to shelf the film despite Miller’s repeated run-ins with the law.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Worlds collide in “The Flash” when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
“I’ve known Harry since I was 19 and he was 16, and there’s something about going through your formative years — it’s quite weird,” Sheeran said. “He’s obviously on top of the world right now and has gone from being in the biggest boy band in the world to then being the biggest solo artist in the world. It’s an amazing journey to see, and I’m really super, super proud of him.”
Sheeran also compared his long-standing friendship with Styles to his long-standing friendship with Taylor Swift.
“It’s the same thing as Taylor. There’s rarely people that totally understand you, and I think both of them — because they are solo artists and are at this level, you kind of talk and there’s an understanding there that you don’t necessarily get from everyone,” he explained.
“I have long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she’s one of the only people that actually truly understands where I’m at,” he told Lowe.
Back on Spout, Sheeran also touched on Swift: “I think because we don’t do a hell of a lot of business together, like, we’re very much — every now and then, we’ll come together and do something, but I’ve hung out with her more times than I can count and I can count on one hand how many songs we’ve released together. It is a friendship friendship, and we just happen to be in the same business.”
Watch Sheeran’s Spout Podcast interview above.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
“We are also excited to welcome Beauty School Dropout, Destroy Boys, KennyHoopla, Landon Barker, and White Reaper on select dates of our North American tour. See you soon!” the band wrote on Instagram.
The North American leg is scheduled to wrap at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on July 16. The tour’s European leg will run from September 2 to October 15 in Glasgow and Manchester, respectively.
When the heck is the South Park creators’ version of Casa Bonita reopening? That’s a question that’s on a lot of devotees’ minds after a rumored reopening date earlier this month caused locals to line up in Lakewood, Colorado. People want those famous sopapillas. They want them so badly, in fact, that some people decided to either hop on airplanes or plan full-on vacations in hopes of getting lucky enough to be in town for the mystery date.
Previously, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with famed chef Dana “Loco” Rodriguez) revealed that the pink palace’s doors will reopen in May, but that’s all that people know. Staff has been training, permits have been acquired, and the South Park guys expect millions of visitors annually, which will make for one crowded parking lot. So, it’s no wonder that a camp-out event will happen, once an actual grand reopening date emerges.
CBS News noticed the small crowd waiting in line outside the building this week. That includes a family that decided to make the reopening a vacation from Kentucky, and the outlet got the lowdown on how this happened:
“Anniversary, wife’s birthday, son’s birthday — the whole nine yards. We just decided ‘Hey, we’re going to give it a shot,’” John Ashmore [of Kentucky] told CBS News Colorado.
“We saw some really cheap tickets to Denver and we wanted to make sure we were here for the opening. We knew it was opening in May. So we were hoping this would be the weekend and we booked our tickets. Unfortunately, it seems like we just missed it,” said Shani Jonas who came all the way from New York City.
The Denver Gazette recently spoke to a neighboring business owner, who likened the secrecy of the revamped venue to “working next door to the CIA.” Well, when Casa Bonita is about to reopen with its trademark “eatertainment” intact and the promise of actual “good” food on the menu, people can’t resist. Less than two weeks from now, restaurant devotees will hopefully have gotten a taste.
Last last year, Courtney Love went on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast and revealed that she had an unreleased song called “Justice For Kurt.” Yesterday (May 17), the Hole bandleader appeared on a new episode of Rob Harvilla’s Songs That Explain The ’90s podcast and discussed an earlier version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
“Some of these were in these journals, and some of them are unpublished,” she said. She recited the first draft of lyrics aloud: “Come out and play / Make up the rules / I know I hope / To buy the truth / Who will be the king and queen / Of all the outcasted teens,” followed by, “We’re so lazy / And so stupid / blame our parents / And the cupids / A deposit, for a bottle / Stick it inside / No role model.”
She continued, reading the second draft of the lyrics: “We merge ahead this special day / This day giving amnesty to sacrilege / A denial / And from strangers / A revival / And from favors / Here we are now / We’re so famous / Here we are now / Entertain us.”
Love clarified, “The only consistencies that it retains are: ‘Load up on guns and bring your friends,’ and ‘Little group has always been and always will until the end,’ that’s it.”
e91 of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE ’90S is on nirvana’s “SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT” and costars COURTNEY LOVE, holy moly https://t.co/TzOV0SDiQl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is pretty clear about her opinion here. She’s not here for her feelings to be spared, if something is bad, yeah, you’d better just tell her. In You Hurt My Feelings, (her second collaboration with director Nicole Holofcener, after the wonderful Enough Said) she plays Beth, a successful author who is having a tough time getting her new book sold to a publisher. She’s being told it’s great – even by her husband, who she trusts the most – so she can’t understand why no one is interested. That is, until she overhears her husband telling the truth about her book (it’s lousy), which sets off a cascade of emotions as the two debate if it’s better to be emotionally supportive and spare her feelings, or just tell the truth. And this is an interesting debate. Especially when the person asking for an opinion is proud of what they’ve produced.
In the movie, Beth’s husband is a therapist. A case could be made, well, what does he know? But in real life, Louis-Dreyfus is married to writer-director Brad Hall, who she met in college and worked at SNL with. As she says, she very much expects an honest answer, because the opposite would be “gutting.” (I tried to come up with a scenario where, maybe, sparing someone’s feelings could be seen as a good thing and she was not having it.)
Speaking of SNL, Louis-Dreyfus has been pretty clear that it wasn’t her favorite experience. It was an odd time in the show’s history, as she was there during the only five years Lorne Michaels wasn’t running the show. But she’s come back to host three times (and has been wonderful all three times). That’s an interesting dynamic she has with SNL now and, ahead, she explains why she wanted to come back and host, for multiple reasons.
Also, soon after Seinfeld, she and Hall collaborated on an NBC show called Watching Ellie, which was pretty ambitious. Premiering in 2002, it was a single-camera show set in real-time, in a time period when comedies didn’t really use single camera like they would only a few years later with The Office. Louis-Dreyfus is still incredibly proud of that show, which didn’t really get a chance. Ahead, she also talks about what her mindset was post-Seinfeld and why she wanted to take a big swing. And why she still feels the note they got from NBC to abandon the format was “pretty shitty.”
This movie, I’ve thought about it a lot, it puts some interesting questions out there about the person you’re with and what you really want to hear from them critically…
Yeah, totally.
In the movie, your character’s husband’s a therapist. But in real life, Brad Hall, he has a similar job that you do. I couldn’t help but think, what is that dynamic like? Has he ever said something like, “You know what, you just didn’t have it this time”?
Well, I definitely rely on his opinion and judgment in many ways. I really respect his point of view, and I always need his thinking on any project that I’m working on. I’m always running material by him, footage by him. I’ll show him an edit because I really value his input and I feel like we’re sort of a team in that sense. So, the notion of him withholding critical information from me would be a devastating thing. More than that, not just withholding, but if he were to completely not tell me the truth about something, I think that would be gutting to me.
Obviously, you two were on SNL together. Did the relationship start with trading ideas and being honest about ideas, and then that just continued and that dynamic just never changed?
We met at Northwestern. We met before SNL and we started dating when I was in college. He was no longer in college, but he had been there, and then he actually started a theater company in Chicago and I joined the theater company. It was a part of a number of shows that we did. That’s sort of when we really started dating at that time, and we’ve been together ever since. So, there you go.
But even back then, I assume you had to be honest with each other about your material to be successful. To this day, it’d be weird if that dynamic changed.
Yeah, we are honest with each other. I mean, we are. I’ll tell him I don’t like something and he will tell me the same, for sure.
And Brad’s directed three episodes of Veep? That’s a situation where people have to be pretty honest with each other, I assume?
Of course, because it’s a level of trust that’s in play and that engenders respect. So yeah, it’s all in play.
I guess I just keep thinking about what the movie is saying because I don’t know the answer. Sometimes I don’t know if I want to hear the truth. I guess deep down I do. But your character hears the truth behind her back, which is particularly hurtful.
Totally. I think he definitely mishandles that in the movie. The character of Don completely mishandles that dynamic and that situation in particular. So, it’s definitely a fuck-up on his part. The fact that she’s hearing him essentially betray her to her brother-in-law in a way that is… I mean, it’s egregious, what he does. And he could have handled that very differently. But I guess because of her neediness, he just couldn’t find a way to do it. But if I’m the ethics police, I might have advised him to change his ways.
Right. And if he’s going to go ahead and say he likes something he doesn’t like for the benefit of someone’s feelings, he should probably stand by that statement no matter who he’s talking to…
Yeah… I guess that’s another way of handling it, which is to keep the lie up. [Laughs] That’s not something I’d recommend.
Well, right. But I feel like telling other people the truth when it can get back… You’re right. Actually, you’re right. My point was wrong.
I mean, he’s not going to get a job working for the CIA with that move, let’s put it that way.
No, he’s not.
He’s not. It’s a boneheaded move! Boneheaded!
Between this and Enough Said, why do you and Nicole Holofcener work so well together? What is the relationship between you two?
Well, we’re very good friends. We’ve known each other a long time. In fact, when we first met, and it was on Enough Said, we both had a feeling like, how is it possible that we’ve never met each other before?
Oh, that’s good.
We really have a shared sensibility. A shared sense of what’s funny and a shared interest in a kind of drama comedy that’s based on human behavior and character. That’s her skill set, of course. That’s where she does her best writing, and I’m drawn to that kind of material. Also, I just like her as a person. We have a good time together. We’re always laughing. And we both have two boys. We’re roughly the same age. I don’t know. I just dig her the most.
Selfishly, I just hope it doesn’t take another ten years for another collaboration.
Oh, believe me. I feel the same. It was hard because we had opportunities to work together, but they didn’t work out schedule-wise because of my schedule and her schedule before. But now, moving forward, I’m very hopeful that we can find a way to do something again and lickety-split. I mean, I’m definitely badgering her about it.
Well, that’s interesting. This is one of the few times, ever, you’re not a lead character on a television show, which takes such a time commitment. Where now you do have the freedom to say, hey, let’s do something soon.
Correct. Yes. Exactly.
What’s that like for you? Now being able to schedule a movie or project, as opposed to before?
First of all, I love working on series. I think it’s incredibly exciting and challenging to work on something long-term like that.
And, obviously, you’ve had a lot of good ones. I even loved Day by Day. I watched that show every week.
[Laughs] Oh! Thank you. Thank you. But that being said, I do in fact love having the freedom sort of being able to bounce around. I mean, I’ve made, I don’t know, like four movies – I’m about to start a fifth – in the last year. I love that as well. Frankly, I’m just happy to be employed.
I’ve always wondered about something, a show you and Brad collaborated on, Watching Ellie. I watched every episode of that show. It was your first big project after Seinfeld. Is there a tendency after something big like Seinfeld to be like, oh, we have to do something completely different? Because it had that really unique aspect of being set in real-time. Which was a big swing. Then that aspect of it went away if I remember correctly.
I definitely wanted to diverge from Seinfeld. And I thought it was a really cool thing to have it be in real-time…
Yeah. It was.
It was single camera and I was playing a musician, which was very appealing to me. So, all of those things kind of separated it from what I’d done before, and that was appealing. I think it was sad for me when NBC came in and decided we had to do a hybrid for the second season.
It became multi-cam, I think, am I remembering that right?
It became a hybrid. We still did single-camera work, but it was also multi-cam. Some of those episodes are still funny, but I think it was a pretty shitty note from NBC, to be honest. But it was the only way we could keep the show going because they didn’t want to do any more single-camera shows. So they said in that moment they didn’t want to do any more single camera…
Yeah, that sure changed a few years later.
Exactly! Yeah. But I stand by that show because I think it was ahead of its time.
It certainly was. Also, you had Steve Carrell. Whatever happened to that guy?
Yeah, exactly! We had Steve Carrell. We had Peter Storemayor. We had Darren Boyd from the UK who is an amazing comic and dramatic actor. Anyway, it was too bad that show ended because I think we were onto something pretty good there. But it doesn’t matter. Whatever, we still had a good time doing it.
I am well aware of your feelings towards your time at Saturday Night Live, but you’ve also come back to host three times. Which is interesting. I didn’t love high school, and if someone there were like, “Hey, you want to come back and teach for a week,” I’d be like, “No.” But you’ve always come back, and done great on the show. So, I find that an interesting dynamic and I’ve always wondered about that.
Well, first of all, the first time that I went back to host, do you know that I was the first former female cast member to ever come back and host the show?
I did know that.
For the first time! That’s, in and of itself, mind-blowing. So, I was happy to sort of crack that particular glass ceiling. I was also happy to go back because I think the show was… it was a particularly good cast. It was being better run than when I was there. So, I think show to show, it was just elevated. But really, primarily, it’s always a good thing to promote whatever it is you’re promoting. It’s always good to be on SNL. Obviously, people go on and promote whatever their project is. But I was looking back with the knowledge that I had that I didn’t have back in 1982. So, I knew what it was I needed to do to be a good host and to get it done well because I had all that experience under my belt. So, that was an opportunity. It was like getting a redo.
I see.
Or getting a do-over, to a certain extent. Even though I was a host, I wasn’t a cast member. Still, I understood the dynamics. I understood the schedule on that show, it has not changed since. I mean, they had not changed. It was the same thing. I knew it was a great opportunity and I enjoyed the shit out of it, even though it’s incredibly difficult.
Your era, that’s probably the strangest five-year run in the history of the show, when Lorne was gone. I did a set design magazine piece once and I asked a question about that era and the person I asked said that wasn’t a good time for him and didn’t want to talk about it. So, I get that it wasn’t your favorite time period. But I always love it when you come back and host because you’re so great at it.
Thank you. That’s nice that you say. I appreciate it.
I think I’m out of time. You have to understand, I’ve been doing this a long time, but sometimes, if it’s someone like you, I almost don’t want to do the interview, because if something goes wrong, it would ruin my life…
No, no, no…
Because Seinfeld is on so often, every time I’m flipping through channels I’d be reminded, “Oh, well, I screwed that one up.” I always have to judge the risk and reward when it’s an artist I admire.
Well, first of all, I thank you for the compliment. And second of all, you didn’t fuck anything up.
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