Month: June 2022

Yung Joc recently explained how T-Pain’s “Buy U A Drank” came together, revealing that the song was inspired by Lil Flip refusing to shake T-Pain’s hand. Joc recalled the incident during an interview with Vlad TV, Friday. 

Joc, who is featured on the classic track, said that T-Pain was a big fan of Flip’s at the time and wanted to meet him, but when he went to shake Flip’s hand, T-Pain caught him off guard.

“Put ‘er there,” Joc recalls Pain telling Flip, describing it as “some white boy shit.” Flip allegedly left T-Pain hanging during the interaction.

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Afterward, Joc offered to buy T-Pain a drink to cheer him up. Months later, T-Pain called up Joc to ask him to be featured on “Buy U A Drank.”

“How can I make a song called ‘Buy You A Drank’ and you probably the only n***a that bought me a drank?” Joc quotes T-Pain as having said.

T-Pain responded to a post of the video on The Shade Room with a cap emoji.

“Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” was released in 2007 as the lead single from T-Pain’s second studio album, Epiphany. The song reached as high as number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Later in the interview, Joc revealed that it was difficult to get the song cleared initially despite it going on to become one of the biggest hits of both artists’ careers.

Check out Yung Joc’s full explanation with Vlad TV below.

Method Man and HBO are celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Wire by launching a podcast titled The Wire at 20, in which the legendary rapper reflects on the show and interviews members of the cast and crew who worked on it. In the first episode, Method Man sits down with series co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns.

Method Man starred in a recurring role on the show as Melvin “Cheese” Wagstaff from seasons two through five. The show premiered back in 2002 and ran through 2008. While The Wire struggled with poor Nielsen ratings at the time, it was highly regarded by critics and is still often cited as one of the best TV shows of all time.

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“Twenty years ago, June 2, 2002, the pilot episode of ‘The Wire’ premiered on HBO,” Method Man said in a trailer for the podcast. “Now, no one knew it at the time, but that day, the bar for television went through the roof. Back then, most cop shows were procedural, they had heroes and villains. But ‘The Wire’ wasn’t most cop shows. And over time, it became clear that it wasn’t a cop show at all.”

In addition to Method Man, The Wire starred an ensemble cast of Dominic West, Michael K. Williams, Sonja Sohn, Clarke Peters, Lance Reddick, Idris Elba, and many more.

David Simon and Ed Burns recently reunited for another series based in Baltimore with We Own This City. The show premiered on April 25, 2022, on HBO.

Check out Method Man’s podcast on The Wire below.

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Lizzo is known for her successful music career, but she also gets a lot of recognition for her confidence and body positivity. The 34-year-old songstress loves showing off her physique, and has no problem firing away at haters who don’t like it– in fact, she did it today.

The “Good as Hell” artist took to Twitter with a message for her trolls. She wrote to her nearly two million followers and said, “Dudes be ugly w no bitches talking bout “oK LiZzO” as an insult in girls comments… I’m beautiful rich & get immaculate dick… ISSA COMPLIMENT. If u can’t make it past the cheeks… just say that.”

In an effort to redeem the negativity surrounding the “okay Lizzo” comments, the Detroit native made it the caption to her recent post. She posted three pictures of her attending the official “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls” screening at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles, California. She wore a hot pink spaghetti strapped dress with matching leggings, gloves, and heels.

In recent news regarding the artist, back in April, she revealed that she was in a relationship. When asked, by Andy Cohen, if it was hard being dating while being a superstar, she responded, “If you have the right person, no. Not at all. It’s not even a factor. Because it should be mutually supportive no matter what that person does.” 

Whether you’re enjoying Post Malone’s twelve carat toothache or not, the 14-track project’s first week sales projections don’t lie – there’s a chance it could debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. As HipHopNMore notes, though he could still earn the coveted top spot, this also marks the 26-year-old’s most dismal opening week since he made his debut with Stoney in 2016.

Malone’s last project – 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding – moved 489K copies in its first week out, with approximately 200K of those coming from pure sales. His latest effort, which boasts features from Gunna, Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, The Weeknd, The Kid LAROI, and more, is expected to move 115K – 130K copies in the first week.

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This puts him right on pace with Jack Harlow, who was anticipated to move 110K – 135K during the first week of his sophomore record, Come Home The Kids Miss You. 

On a Reddit thread dedicated to Malone, several users discussed the apparent difficulty that artists have been having moving units like they used to. “Given the fact that Kendrick Lamar just sold 283K after the amount of hype he carried and selling 600K+ with his last album, it feels incredibly harder to move units nowadays than before. Especially with the new Billboard rules.”

Are you surprised by Post Malone’s first week sales projections? Sound off in the comments below, and stream twelve carat toothache here if you haven’t already. 

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Craig Robinson is not someone to shy away from the spotlight. The actor has had roles in massive movies and TV shows, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Office, This Is The End, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Pineapple Express. And he’s not just an actor- he’s a pretty talented pianist as well.

When Craig Robinson was in Austin, Texas, for the ATX TV Festival on Friday, he surprised guests at the Driskill Hotel by sitting at an empty piano and playing a selection of songs.

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His performance was filled with hits, including Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” a-ha’s “Take On Me,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This),” Prince’s “Purple Rain,” “Summer Lovin'” from Grease, and Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles,” among others. He also couldn’t help but play the Office theme, which got the audience cheering.

Before his surprise serenade, he spoke on the “Funny AF” panel with writer Phil Augusta Jackson, Dancing With Myself host Liza Koshy, American Auto star X Mayo, and his former Office co-star Ed Helms. Robinson was at the festival promoting his new series Killing It. At the festival, Robinson detailed his experience on Killing It, which is a show following a man who enters a snake-killing competition in order to win money that will allow him to pursue the “American Dream.”

Robinson claimed that he had to get over his fear of snakes, and realized that he “was misled by the bible and Indiana Jones.” He added, however, that not all the snakes in the show were real: “We had three different versions of snakes, we had the rubber fake ones, we had the CGI and then we had the real snakes.” You can check out the show on Peacock.

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By now, everyone should know that Boosie is far from shy. The Louisiana rapper is known for using his Instagram to share his explicit thoughts and talk about whatever he deems necessary. Today, he’s celebrating the news that he’s not a grandfather.

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Last year, it was revealed that his son, who goes by Tootie Raw, was expecting a child with his girlfriend at the time, Ramya. Boosie talked about the situation when he appeared on The Breakfast Club, claiming that he didn’t believe the girl was really pregnant. He stated that she and her mother had been trying to “trap” his son since he was young.

Now, a year later, it appears that Boosie’s claims might have been true. The 39-year-old hopped on IG to allege that his son’s ex-girlfriend was lying about the entire ordeal. He started his video by yelling, “Just found out that ain’t my son baby, haha! I’m not a grandpa.” The “Set It Off” artist claimed that the family took someone’s baby and acted as if he was theirs.

His caption wrote, “The things these women do these days is CRAZY‼️ my son has had the most stressful year of his life because of this situation ‼️ok yall wanna do this too my son bet n the moma of the daughter the worst.”

The father of seven also came with receipts. He stated that a fake birth certificate was made, shared a DM from a woman claiming that the baby was actually hers, and even shared pictures of the baby, claiming he was too heavy to be his son’s child.

Boosie also shared images of all the items his son has bought the child– clothes, a car seat, food– and wrote, “U can bring all that back my son just paid for back!!!” Check out his posts below.