Month: May 2022

Jack Harlow Says Drake Offered Him Words Of Encouragement After Their Collaboration Leaked

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Jack Harlow‘s upcoming sophomore album, Come Home, The Kids Miss You features a promising selection of collaborators. Fans, however, have already gotten a taste of some of the upcoming tracks in the form of a leaked Drake collaboration, which surfaced online last month. The track was revealed to be titled “Churchill Downs” yesterday, following Harlow’s unveiling of the album’s tracklist.

In an interview on Hot 97, Harlow admitted that he was upset by the leak.

“It hurt my feelings,” he said. “I’m really tight about leaks. I don’t bounce my music so I haven’t had leaks in a long time. I don’t ride to my music while I’m working on an album… the only time we get to experience it is in the studio. [The leak] was heartbreaking, especially because [Drake]’s an idol of mine. I wanted to control that moment, but it’s destiny.”

Harlow mentioned that Drake was also sad about the leak, but as an artist who has dealt with his music leaking for years, Drake was able to offer Harlow some words of encouragement.

“[Drake] kind of, you know, nudged me like, ‘Aye, don’t trip. This what was meant to happen,’” he said. “I think his experience, he let me know like, ‘You think this is gonna affect your life? Like, it’s fine.’”

In addition to Drake, Harlow also collaborated with Lil Wayne, Pharrell Williams, and Justin Timberlake on the album.

Check out the full interview above.

Come Home, The Kids Miss You is out 5/6 via Atlantic. Pre-save it here.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Dave Chappelle’s Attacker Was Reportedly Roughed-Up By Busta Rhymes

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If you’re just waking up and checking Uproxx before your Twitter feed, number one, thank you. Number two: Batten down the hatches. You’re in for a wild day.

Last night, Dave Chappelle performed at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the ongoing Netflix Is A Joke Fest, which has seen seemingly the entirety of the comedy community descend on LA for a month-long slate of events. However, it seems unlikely that any will top the outrageous happenings toward the end of Chappelle’s headlining set. As Dave was closing out the show, an unidentified male assailant tried to rush the stage, apparently brandishing a replica handgun.

He was able to tackle the comedian before a group of people, which reportedly included rapper Busta Rhymes (with whom Chappelle is soon to launch the Dave And Busta Tour, no joke) and the multitalented Jamie Foxx, intervened, packing the attacker up and taking him backstage. Later, he emerged on a stretcher doing his best impression of a human pretzel, as seen in a video posted to social media. He was loaded into an ambulance for transport to a local hospital, where I’m sure doctors will try their best not to practice their own tight fives as they sort his arms back into some semblance of their original shape.

Fans on Twitter have naturally been buzzing, expressing awe at how badly beaten up the attacker looks (here’s your reminder that Busta is 6’1 and well over 200 lbs.) and comparing the incident to Will Smith and Chris Rock’s recent Oscars outburst — including Chris Rock.

For his part, Chappelle seemed unharmed and like Rock, played it off with his own improvised riff, which Foxx joined. “I been doing this 35 years, I just stomped a nigga backstage,” joked. “I seen Busta Rhymes, he was like, ‘That’s how you do it, god.’”

That is, indeed, how you do it. Let’s all hope no one else gets any ideas about trying this stunt again.

Kanye West Is Being Sued By A Pastor Over The Song ‘Come To Life’ From HIs Album ‘Donda’

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A Texas pastor is suing Kanye West for using part of one of his sermons without permission, according to TMZ. Bishop David Paul Moten is sampled on the Donda song “Come To Life,” which uses about 70 seconds of the sermon looped throughout the song. Moten’s lawsuit calls the uncleared sample an example of musicians “willfully and egregiously sampling sound recordings of others without consent or permission.” The lawsuit also includes Kanye’s label, G.O.O.D Music, and its parent entities Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group. Donda, released in August 2021, sold 309,000 equivalent units, topping the Billboard 200 in its first week.

Kanye was previously sued over a religious sample in 2019. Andrew and Shirley Green, the adoptive parents of a little girl whose prayer is sampled on “Ultralight Beam” from The Life Of Pablo, sued Kanye for pulling the audio from a viral video on social media. Although Kanye reached out to the girl’s biological mother Alice Johnson for permission to use the clip, the Greens, the girl’s legal guardians, said they were never contacted, and that Johnson was never given a written license agreement or payment.

More recently, a music rights company, Declan Colgan Music Ltd., sued Universal over a sample of the band King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” from the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy single “Power.” DCM said that UMG has been underpaying the agreed-upon 5.33-percent cut from streams.

Chuck D Joins Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick On Biopic, Signaling A Militant Bend

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Chuck D announced on social media that he would be featured in a Spike Lee documentary about Colin Kaepernick airing on ESPN.  The involvement of the Public Enemy frontman indicates the film will lean heavily into Colin’s militant and social justice side. Chuck D posed with legendary film director Spike Lee in celebration of being […]

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Draymond Green Reacts After Flipping Off Grizzlies Fans

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If you have been paying attention, then you would know that the series between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Golden State Warriors has been filled with some vitriol. The Warriors are veterans looking to prove that they still got it, while the Grizzlies are a scrappy set of young guns who want to show that they can beat anyone.

After being ejected in Game 1, Draymond Green of the Warriors furthered his villain status as he gave Grizzlies fans the finger while going back to the locker room. Green did this after suffering a facial injury that left him all bloody. The Grizzlies fans were cheering the injury, and Green had had enough of it.

Following the match, Green was very adamant that he does not care about a potential fine as he already makes a lot of money. Simply put, he is daring the NBA to punish him.

“It felt really good to flip [the Grizzlies’ fans] off…I’m assuming the cheers was because they know I’ll get fined, great…I make $25M per year I should be just fine,” Green said matter of factly.

With the series tied up at one game apiece, there is no doubt that we are in for a long and scrappy series. Hopefully, we see even more dramatics as the series goes on.

Snoop Dogg Trolls 6ix9ine With “Memorial Snitch Award” In Peacock Series

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Snoop Dogg trolled 6ix9ine on his Peacock series, So Dumb It’s Criminal, by naming his “Memorial Snitch Award” after the rapper. Snoop had been discussing an Ohio woman who told a reporter that her cousin burned down her home.

“It wouldn’t be the American Witness Awards without someone ratting out a relative,” Snoop joked on the show. “Here’s the winner of the Tekashi69 Memorial Snitch Award, talking about a string of house fires.”

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Snoop’s latest joke isn’t the first time that he and 6ix9ine have gone after each other for snitching. Back in 2020, 6ix9ine accused Snoop of rating on Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight.

“Ur in denial the paperwork is online and suge knight speaks on it from prison but we choose to ignore who we want to call rats,” 6ix9ine said at the time.

Snoop fired back with a lengthy post on his Instagram Story labeling 6ix9ine “rat boy.”

“Last time you said something, I ain’t have time. But today, I got time,” Snoop said. “You better get the fuck off my line, n***a. Rat boy, you really better leave me alone. I ain’t the one. No way … Go on and do yo’ shit and get out my way, bitch. You funky dog-head, rainbow-head, dog-head bitch. Yeah, you. Better leave the Dogg alone. Go find you a cat. Tom and Jerry shit. Fuck with the Dogg, nothing nice, bitch. Rat boy.”

Snoop launched the So Dumb It’s Criminal series, earlier this year, on 4/20. The unscripted comedy show features Snoop reacting to clips of the “dumbest criminal antics ever caught on camera,” as a synopsis puts it. A number of comedians, including Jay Pharoah, Ron Funches, and more, have already appeared on the show.

Check out a clip from Snoop’s Peacock series below.

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