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An 18-year-old man who was charged in the 2020 shooting of rapper Pop Smoke has admitted to killing him in a juvenile court hearing, according to a report from Los Angeles Times.

The hearing took place this past Friday (May 12), wherein the 18-year-old also admitted to home-invasion robbery along with allegations that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm at the time. The man was 15 years old at the time, and is reportedly expected to serve time in a state juvenile facility until he turns 25.

During the hearing, L.A. County Superior Court Judge J. Christopher Smith told the 18-year-old and his 19-year-old co-defendant that Pop Smoke, whose real name was Bashar Jackson, “lost his life over no good reason.” The judge has issued an order for the names of the defendants who were minors at the time to be withheld.

“You have no right to take somebody’s life. You have no right to take somebody’s property,” Smith said, per City News Service.

Additionally, three other people were charged in the killing of Pop Smoke during the hearing, according to the Associated Press. A teenager, whose name was also ordered to be withheld by the media, as well as Corey Walker, who was 19 at the time, and Keandre Rodgers, who was then 18, were charged with murder during the commission of a robbery and burglary.

Earlier on Friday evening, Dennis Schröder got a technical foul for an incident with Draymond Green in which Green hit the deck and Schröder decided to stand over him and laugh. It was a bit harsh, but it was the kind of thing that will almost always get a guy T’d up in a basketball game.

Fast forward to the third quarter and a second incident involving the two players led to a pair of technical fouls getting assessed, which meant that Schröder’s night came to a premature end. Anthony Davis converted an alley-oop by LeBron James, then stole the ensuing inbounds pass, which led to Green fouling him to prevent a second dunk in about three seconds.

Schröder went over to Green and flexed a little, and in return, Green did not appear to do anything other than take the basketball that was in his hands and put it right up against Schröder’s lips. He held it there for a few seconds before a ref came in and issued a single technical foul to Schröder.

It was eventually determined that Green would also get a technical foul for this, but not until after Schröder made his way into the locker room to watch the rest of the game.

The Los Angeles Lakers took a 10-point lead into halftime of Game 6 in their Western Conference Semifinal series against the Golden State Warriors. While it looked like they weren’t going to have a double-digit cushion heading into the break, a heads-up defensive play by Anthony Davis beget a halfcourt buzzer-beater by Austin Reaves that sent the fans at Crypto.com Arena into a frenzy and gave them a 56-46 cushion.

Klay Thompson airballed a three, but the ball landed in front of Donte DiVincenzo. Unfortunately for the former Villanova star, Davis was standing right there and swatted his attempt away. After Reaves was able to corral the ball with about three seconds left before the break, the former second-round pick took two dribbles, launched from halfcourt, and made it.

Reaves had an excellent first half in Game 6, as he scored 13 points with three assists and three rebounds. Los Angeles is looking to knock off the defending champions and avoid having to go back to San Francisco, where the two sides would play a winner-take-all game with a spot in the Western Conference Finals on the line. Whichever team ends up winning this series will end up taking on the Denver Nuggets, which punched their ticket to the next round on Thursday night.

A rumored new photo of Ice Spice posing with her mom back in 2021 is making the rounds online, as many users are shocked by not only how much they look alike, but are also making jokes about how hot she is.

“I’m not the step dad I’m just the dad that stepped up,” one user joked.

“Damn!!! There’s some good genes there,” added another.

Meanwhile, some even had trouble completely spotting the difference, as Ice Spice didn’t have her signature orangish hair in the photo.

“What’s impressive is it took my brain a second to pick out which one was ice spice lol good for her mom,” someone said.

According to HipHopDX, Ice Spice and her mom are seventeen years apart in age, which should place her around forty years old. She is also reportedly of Dominican descent. Not much else is known about her currently. However, as Ice Spice’s fame grows, it’s likely more will be — including this alleged photo being just one example.

Ice Spice (aka Isis Gaston) was born on January 1 of 2000 in NYC and has been raised there since. Her parents also separated when she was two, according to Freshers Live.

Check out the pic of them together above. Continue scrolling for some more internet reactions to Ice Spice and her mom.

The Los Angeles Lakers entered Friday night needing a win to earn a spot in the Western Conference Finals. While the game was taking place in their own building, the task ahead of them was a formidable one, as they needed to beat the defending champion Golden State Warriors if they wanted to secure a berth in the next round.

Tensions are always high in these sorts of environments, and at one point in the first quarter, a technical foul ended up getting assessed to Dennis Schröder, who was inserted into the starting lineup on Friday night after coming off of the bench in every game this postseason. The reason: He stood over Draymond Green while he was on the ground and taunted him.

There was some contact between Green and Schröder after LeBron James passed Green off to his teammate so he could guard Steph Curry, and while Green looked like he embellished a little, Schröder seemed very happy to stand right over him and bend down a bit while Green was getting up.

Schröder was smiling and laughing the whole time, and seemed like he was a little surprised when the referees hit him with a tech.

The New York Knicks’ season came to an end on Friday night in Miami. Despite racing out of the gates and leading by as many as 14 points in the first quarter, New York was unable to beat the Heat in their building, as Jimmy Butler and co. punched their ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 96-92 win.

The Knicks kept getting close in the fourth quarter but never found themselves able to wrest the lead away from Miami. With less than a minute remaining and New York trailing by six, they needed a miracle that somehow came, as Gabe Vincent inadvertently clocked Jalen Brunson while the Heat were trying to inbound the ball, which was given as a Flagrant 1.

After Brunson made both free throws and Josh Hart scored on the ensuing possession, New York needed a stop to get the ball back with a chance to tie. They got it, gave the ball to Brunson, and let him take it up the floor. He got himself into some trouble by dribbling into the corner, where he was trapped by Jimmy Butler and Max Strus.

With a pass to Hart a little too risky, Brunson tried dumping it off to a cutting Julius Randle. But the ball was unable to get to him, as Miami forced a turnover that let them seal a win.

It is a brutal way for this game to end for Brunson, as he was nothing short of magnificent on the night — the team’s prized offseason acquisition had 41 points on 14-for-22 shooting with four rebounds and three assists in 45 minutes of work. He’s almost certainly the main reason the future’s so bright in New York, but his final moment during his debut season in the Big Apple is one he’s going to want back.

Grandaddy is giving fans a treat with a special 20th-anniversary edition of their 2003 album, Sumday. This new set, dubbed Sumday Twunny, will include the original LP, a disc of demos from the original album, and a collection of “rarities and B-sides,” per a press release.

“After many years of hammering away at writing and recording as Grandaddy, Sumday seems to be the center of it and where it all peaked. To the journalists we were, ‘On the verge of greatness, underrated, overlooked, unsung.’ It was a tumultuous and exciting time for us for sure. Also very exhausting,” member Jason Lytle said.

Fans can currently stream the demos on all plaforms and the physical version arrives this fall.

View the cover art and complete tracklist below.

Sumday
1. “Now It’s On”
2. “I’m On Standby”
3. “The Go In The Go-For-It”
4. “The Group Who Couldn’t Say”
5. “Lost On Yer Merry Way”
6. “El Caminos In The West”
7. “Yeah Is What We Had”
8. “Saddest Vacant Lot In All The World”
9. “Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake”
10. “O.K. With My Decay”
11. “The Warming Sun”
12. “The Final Push To The Sum”

Sumday: The Cassette Demos
1. “Now It’s On”
2. “I’m On Standby”
3. “The Go In The Go-For-It”
4. “The Group Who Couldn’t Say”
5. “Lost On Yer Merry Way”
6. “El Caminos In The West”
7. “Yeah Is What We Had”
8. “Passed Out In A Datsun”
9. “Stray Dog And The Chocolate Karaoke”
10. “O.K. With My Decay”
11. “The Warming Sun”
12. “The Final Push To The Sum”

Sumday: Excess Baggage
1. “Derek Spears”
2. “The Town Where I’m Livin Now”
3. “Dearest Descrambler”
4. “My Little Skateboarding Problem”
5. “Now It’s On” (Recorded for the Colin Murray Show on BBC Radio 1)
6. “Gettin’ Jipped”
7. “Build A Box”
8. “Trouble With A Capital T” (Muzak Version)
9. “Sure It Worked”
10. “Running Cable At Shiva’s”
11, “Emit Anymore”
12 “I No How You Feel”
13. “The Rugged And Splintered Entertainment Center” (A Gospel Hymn)

Sumday Twunny is out 9/1 via Dangerbird Records. Find more information here.

When Lana Del Rey dropped her recent album, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, fans immediately were interested in the meaning behind the song, “Margaret.” Del Rey had written it about her friend and collaborator, Jack Antonoff, and particularly his fiancée Margaret Qualley.

One line also caught some people’s attention, as Del Rey sings, “I mean, join the party / By the way, the party is Dec. 18.” This led to possible speculation that Antonoff and Qualley were either 1. already married or 2. were planning that date as their eventual wedding.”

However, Qualley did a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, where she confirmed that December 18 was not her planned wedding date.

“I am not,” Qualley said. “[Lana] was kind enough to not put my real wedding date in the song. But I love that song so much. It makes me feel like I’m living in a dream. She’s my favorite poet. I adore her.”

Antonoff has also shared a similar sentiment about the song, while on stage as the two performed it during a concert for his band Bleachers. “One day I met Lana in the studio in California, and she said, ‘Let’s write a song about your fiancée,’ and I said ‘Okay,’ and I thought she was joking, and she wasn’t,” he said.

Here’s hoping we find out what party is ever happening.

Ed Sheeran recently stopped by The Howard Stern Show to chat about his new album, Subtract. During their interview, Sheeran also shared a unique story about how a certain rapper’s album helped him overcome a stutter as a child.

Specifically, it was Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP that helped him out. Sheeran received it as a gift when he was nine and found he stuttered less when performing along to the songs. (According to NME, he was also in speech therapy at the time.)

“[My uncle] just said to my dad, ‘This guy is the next Bob Dylan. You gotta let him listen,’” he said. “And by learning that record – and rapping it back to back to back to back – it cured my stutter.”

Sheeran was so impacted that he’s even told this story to Eminem throughout the time that they’ve known each other. He even joined the rapper on stage last year during Em’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction.

“I think it’s different with Eminem because he is quite reclusive, doesn’t see or meet that many people,” Sheeran added. “I’ve known him now six years and we’ve done three songs together, I’ve played with him twice onstage. He’s another person I really relate to, as he lives in his hometown still and has his eco-system around him.”

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Toronto Raptors‘ search for a new head coach took an interesting twist this week, as it was reported that the team held an interview with ESPN analyst J.J. Redick about potentially filling the vacancy. It is unclear if anything has happened beyond that, but the report gave a glimpse into just how wide of a net Toronto is trying to cast in its quest to find a replacement for Nick Nurse.

While the team continues to go through its process, Redick continues to do media work, whether that’s his podcast, TV appearances or what he has going on Friday night. Redick, Richard Jefferson, and Ryan Ruocco are ESPN’s booth for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks. During the first quarter, Jefferson decided to goof around while on the broadcast, as he waited for Redick to explain something that happened before calling him “coach.”

Ruocco saying he knew that Jefferson wouldn’t be able to resist this and Redick apparently missing it the first time around were both terrific. Redick, of course, has never been a coach in his post-playing days, as he went from the NBA right into what has been a pretty successful media career.