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A Los Angeles jury has found Bill Cosby liable in a civil case regarding sexual battery, ordering him to pay out $500,000 in damages. The case was filed by Judy Huth, a woman who claims the disgraced comedian sexually assaulted her as a teenager in the 1970s.
Despite the payout, TMZ reports that Cosby was happy with the verdict.
“What? That’s all?” he said referring to the $500,000, according to his attorney, Andrew Wyatt. “Booyah!”
Wyatt explained to Yahoo Entertainment that the payout could have been much higher: “This was a huge victory for us because they [were] looking for millions of dollars. That amount will not cover the legal bills and we will be appealing that matter. However, Mr. Cosby will not be paying punitive damages.”
Conversely, Huth said that she was happy with the verdict too.
“I was elated,” she said. “It has been so many years, so many tears.”
Nathan Goldberg, an attorney for Huth, added that the case “proves that you can run but you can’t hide.”
The case was first filed in 2014 with Huth claiming that the attack happened in 1975 when she was just 16. In addition to the battery, she cited both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Huth says that Cosby brought her and a friend to the Playboy Mansion. After being served multiple alcoholic drinks, Huth was brought by Cosby to a bedroom where he molested her.
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XXL Freshman Doechii has been getting plenty of attention over the past few months, mainly as a result of the TikTok popularity of her 2021 song “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake.” But since then, she’s released two new songs, “Persuasive” and “Crazy,” showing off a new direction influenced by the dance music of the ’80s and ’90s — just in time to catch the wave generated by Drake’s head-turning surprise album, Honestly, Nevermind (I guess it’s true: High tides lift all boats). And now, in a feat of timing that frankly feels fated, Doechii’s XXL Freshman freestyle has arrived.
Just like the rest of the freestyles, Doechii’s finds her rapping acapella as the camera rotates around her and she shouts out her “stripper peers” while showing off a flow that shows off the Nicki Minaj DNA that runs throughout her work. She even lets out a primal scream, highlighting the next level that her live performances often reach and showing off the charm and charisma that are guaranteed to make her a star.
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The genre-bending TDE rapper’s new Vevo DSCVR performance is also going viral as Drake’s house music turn dominates the discourse. Doechii performs both “Crazy” and “Persuasive” with the help of her DJ in a lightbox that allows her to capture all the attention. The video has reached Twitter, where it’s already going viral in multiple tweets, bringing added attention to the rising rapper. Knowing TDE, they’ve already got a plan to capitalize.
Watch Doechii’s Freshman freestyle and live performances above.
Back in April, Gorillaz kicked off their tour and made a splash by debuting some new music. One of the songs was a Thundercat collaboration called “Cracker Island,” and now they’ve gone ahead and shared the studio version of the track.
Thundercat’s influence on the tune is clear, as it’s a funky, punchy number, on which his rhythm and backing vocals mesh so well with the Gorillaz sound that’s always been so open to guest influence. Gorillaz also produced the song alongside Greg Kurstin and Remi Kabaka Jr.
Virtual band member 2D says of “Cracker Island,” “It’s nice to be back, I’m well into our new tune, it brings back weird and scary memories of stuff that hasn’t happened yet.”
As for the narrative behind the tune, a press release notes, “The world’s biggest virtual band have relocated to Silverlake, California where it turns out that the answer to life’s question — the one truth to fix the world — is to invite fans to join ‘The Last Cult,’ with Murdoc as its self-appointed Great Leader.”
The new song is the latest in a long line of collaborations for Thundercat, who has recently worked with Kehlani, Flying Lotus, Kaytranada, and others.
Listen to “Cracker Island” above.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
