Saweetie Once Removed Her Tongue Piercing After A Few Days Just So She Could Eat A Cheeseburger

Along with her viral music, Saweetie is known for cooking up some head-scratching food combinations like oysters and instant ramen or spaghetti and ranch dressing. The rapper is not shy about her tastes and oftentimes posts her concoctions right to Instagram and Twitter. Now, she recalls the time she removed a fresh tongue piercing because she was craving a burger.

Saweetie sat down with Twitter for a #BehindTheTweets segment where she explained the story behind some of her most memorable tweets. One tweet in particular touched on a time she pierced her tongue junior year in college. “Unfortunately, my tongue was swollen and I couldn’t eat,” she said. “And you know your girl loves to eat. So I remember I thugged it out for like a week and was eating nothing but soup. But then one day I was just really craving a cheeseburger so I popped it out so I could eat my cheeseburger.”

Elsewhere in the video, Saweetie explains how odd it feels to log onto social media to see her name trending. “You know that photo from SpongeBob that’s just like, you walk in and then you walk out? I don’t know. Sometimes I’m just minding my business and then I log on and then I’m trending for some odd reason. Peole are talking sh*t. Sometimes I’m just like, ‘Y’all weird.’”

Watch Saweetie’s #BehindTheTweets segment above.

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

Sean Kingston Makes His Return With The Moody ‘Darkest Times’ For ‘UPROXX Sessions’

Jamaican American superstar Sean Kingston is on the album comeback trail after a half-decade hiatus with his new album Deliverance and its lead single “Darkest Times” featuring G Herbo, and his latest stop is UPROXX Sessions. Kingston stops by the studio in LA to deliver a smooth performance of the moody new track, showcasing his vocals, undulled by the time away and ready to compete with a new generation of singing rappers and rapping singers.

Kingston, whose last album Back 2 Life was released in 2013 and featured the Hot 100 single “Beat It” with Wiz Khalifa, had been relatively inactive in the years since, although he maintained that he was working the entire time. Deliverance, which is set for release later this year via Empire, is called “a rebirth” in press materials, and if anyone can manage a successful comeback, it’s an artist whose calling card includes one of the biggest hits of the resurgent 2000s, “Beautiful Girls.”

Watch Sean Kingston’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “Darkest Times” above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

Jay-Z Admits He Used To Forget His Lyrics When He Performed On LeBron James’ ‘The Shop’

LeBron James‘ HBO Show The Shop returns for its fourth season this Friday, bringing with it an impressive list of guests including Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny, WNBA champion Nneka Ogwumike, and Bron’s big homie Jay-Z. In a new clip previewing the season premiere airing this Friday, the latter makes an admission that might surprise a few fans of the 30-year rap veteran: He wasn’t always as cool, calm, and collected as his rap persona might have you believe.

When LeBron asks whether his guests ever got “so zoned out they couldn’t see anything,” Jay confesses, “In the beginning, I used to get on the stage and just forget all my lyrics.” Of course, Jay is far from the only rapper ever to forget his own lyrics — on stage or otherwise. Both Eminem and Lil Wayne have copped to having to Google their rhymes to ensure they don’t repeat themselves, while current hitmaker Lil Baby was stumped by a TikTokers lyrics quiz when he couldn’t complete his own bars. Among them, it’s probably easiest to forgive Jay and Wayne, who’ve both embraced a style of songwriting heavy on mental formulation without writing anything down.

The Shop airs 5/28 at 9 pm ET on HBO. Watch the promo above.

Polo G Announces His Highly Anticipated ‘Hall Of Fame’ Album

Chicago rapper Polo G is riding on a string of major successes. Now with a recent No. 1 single to his name, the 22-year-old rapper details his highly anticipated third album, Hall Of Fame.

The rapper took to social media to share a short teaser clip as an album announcement, revealing Hall Of Fame is slated for a release on June 11. “I got somethin special for you I hope you appreciate it,” he wrote.

In the video, Polo G lays out his hopes for the LP. “My goals for Hall Of Fame was just to make sure that I can show my diversity as an artist, really like elevate my sound, for the people to hear something that I ain’t ever did before,” he says.

Polo G has already previewed the album with a few singles. His track “Rapstar” hovered at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two consecutive weeks and more recently, the rapper dropped his Lil Wayne-featuring number “Gang Gang.”

Hall Of Fame will arrive just over a year after his 2020 sophomore effort The Goat. Featuring artists like NLE Choppa, Juice WRLD, and BJ The Chicago Kid, the LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified Platinum in December.

Watch Polo G’s album teaser above.

Hall Of Fame is out 6/11 via Columbia. Pre-order it here.

Lucky Daye Performs A Stripped Version Of “Floods” For Spotify Singles

Lucky Daye has had an amazing run this year. After appearing on Kehlani, Queen Naija, and Kiana Ledé‘s albums in 2020, the four-time Grammy nominee came back strong in February with the release of the special Valentine’s Day EP Table For Two. The duet-filled project featured several of the leading female voices in R&B, including Ari Lennox, Yebba, and Mahalia, among others.

Months later, Lucky Daye has teamed up with Spotify for a new round of Spotify Singles, and both of his two latest offerings find the New Orleans-born artist looking to the past for inspiration. For one of his Spotify Singles, Lucky Daye covered Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me,” and for the other song, he treated his fans with a stripped-down version of “Flooded,” which appeared on his acclaimed debut album Painted.

When explaining the song’s lyrics on Genius, Lucky Daye said, “The inspiration behind this song was this girl who I loved, and I thought she loved me back. She made me feel like I made her run away from me, but I didn’t know what I did and she couldn’t tell what I did. So, I just wrote it. I was drunk. The floods represent not only tears, but it was drinking. I’m flooding my system with just drinks, drinks, drinks. I was gone that night.”

Listen to Lucky Daye’s “Floods – Live” for Spotify Singles below.

Quotable Lyrics

But you make seasons change with no fair warning
How you make seasons change without saying something? Oh
All these reasons I give lead you to running
Don’t leave me out in the cold without my warm thang

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Benzino Makes It Clear Coi Leray Isn’t His Only Successful Child

According to Benzino, Coi Leray isn’t his only child making be moves in the music industry. While on Instagram Live, he announced that his son, known as Chavo, got a record deal with Interscope when he was just nine years old. He also shared Chavo is currently working with producer Playboy Carti’s Pierre Bourne and “just got about a $75,000 streaming check.”

With origins in the Soundcloud scene, Chavo found his home in the supergroup Sosshouse, along with Pierre, Jelly, Bermuda Yae, J Billz, Sharc, and Fraizer Trill. His upcoming project, Chavo’s World 2 was exclusively produced by good friend Pierre Bourne and elevated with features from little sis Coi Leray. The project and tracklist were announced in March, but fans are still waiting on an official release date.

To close, Benzino added the bold statement, “that’s two kids, who got major deals by these nuts.”

Interestingly, he then went into a rant about how well he knows Coi, when just a few months ago the father-daughter pair were publicly airing out family issues on social media. After so much talk about Benzino’s parenting skills, he seems to be recreating his image by promoting his children while he rides the wave from recent publicity, too.

Check out the full clip below and let us know what you think in the comments. 

For more insight on the Benzino family tree and the Coi Leray drama, read our piece on Coi Leray & Benzino’s Family History & Beef, Explained.

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Darnella Frazier, Woman Who Filmed George Floyd Murder, Speaks Out On 1-Year Anniversary

Darnella Frazier was only seventeen years old when she filmed a video of Derek Chauvin fatally kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes. Had she not taken out her cell phone and started the video, there is a chance that Floyd’s murderer could still be walking the street as a police officer. 

Her video was used as a major piece of evidence against Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of murder last month. On Tuesday, the world remembered George Floyd one year after he was killed in Minnesota. She reflected on the last year with a post on social media.

“Even though this was a traumatic life-changing experience for me, I’m proud of myself. If it weren’t for my video, the world wouldn’t have known the truth. I own that. My video didn’t save George Floyd, but it put his murderer away and off the streets,” said Frazier in her letter. 

She explained that her life has changed dramatically in the last year, relocating out of fear that her home was no longer safe and watching over her shoulder at all times. She says that her nine-year-old cousin, who was also a witness to the crime, lost a part of her childhood. 

“It made me realize how dangerous it is to be Black in America,” she wrote. “We shouldn’t have to walk on eggshells around police officers, the same people that are supposed to protect and serve. We are looked at as thugs, animals, and criminals, all because of the color of our skin.”

Read the full post below.

Kim Kardashian Failed The Baby Bar Exam

In a new preview of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, reality star Kim Kardashian reveals she did not pass the baby bar exam.

After announcing she would be attending law school in 2019, the world has kept a close eye on Kim’s progress to see if she was serious or attempting to reenact Legally Blonde.

“I am a failure.” She said on the phone with mentor and attorney Jessica Jackson during the clip. Jackson assured her that she should give herself some leeway for not passing the exam, while taking it online at home, versus in a traditional test environment. 

With an unsatisfactory score of 474, under a passing 560, Kim must retake the exam to continue her journey to becoming a lawyer.

Sisters Khloe and Courtney suggested that retaking the exam in the fall was the best option to prevent another year from slipping by or creating an opportunity to forget the material. 

Kim has made legal waves since 2019, such as with her assistance in freeing Alice Marie Johnson, proving her passion for this to be more than just for promotion and publicity. 

As we reported, Van Jones is quite confident in Kim’s ability to pass. He was recently quoted saying, “I think she’s going to be an unbelievable attorney and she’s already one of the best advocates that we have in criminal justice,” a huge compliment from the CNN host.

Do you think Kim will pass the bar on her next attempt?

Check out the KUWTK clip below.

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Eminem’s Daughter Hailie Jade Pops Out In White Bikini As She Readies For Summer

25-year-old Hailie Jade Mathers, daughter of Eminem, snapped a pic for the Gram on Tuesday, declaring that she is “ready for allllll the summer days,” and we have to co-sign the sentiment.

In a visually-interesting double mirror angle shot, she poses confidently in a bathroom mirror. An all-white bikini set paired with a baby blue bucket hat contrasts against her tan skin. One fan complimented her style in the comments saying, “You look great Hailie! Love the suit!”

Hailie has amassed over 2.1 million followers on Instagram, where she attempts “to curate a feed that accurately represents my life and is somehow still aesthetically pleasing” according to her bio. 

For a celebrity child, the Michigan State graduate has a refreshingly transparent page, sharing her fitness journey and makeup tips along with an array of outfit photos. Hailie also has a large following on TikTok where she shares content as an extension of her Instagram.

Eminem expressed his love for his daughter during a 2020 interview for Mike Tyson’s ‘Hot Boxin’’ podcast, sharing, “she’s made me proud for sure.” He also helped raised two of his nieces and stated keeping them humble was very important to him. The “Lose Yourself” rapper stated,

“So when I think about my accomplishments, that’s probably the thing I’m the most proud of is being able to raise kids..“It’s important to keep your kids grounded when they’re in a situation like I have..people also think too that money just buys happiness, [but] that absolutely is not the truth. You’ve got to be right inside, otherwise none of this sh*t means nothing.”

Check out Hailie’s viral IG post below.

G Herbo Pleads Not Guilty In Federal Fraud Case: Report

G Herbo’s been dealing with some serious legal issues in the past few months in relation to a $1.5M fraud case. The rapper was among six people accused of using false identities to make lavish purchases of upwards of $1M including private jets, designer dogs, and foreign vehicles. 


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Earlier this month, it was revealed that the rapper faced additional charges on top of charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identify theft. Herbo was also charged with lying to a federal agent in December 2018 for allegedly providing false information regarding his relationship with another co-defendant.

According to Mass Live, the rapper entered a not guilty plea to charges of lying to a federal agent. The rapper appeared in court via Zoom where he was reportedly “respectful” and “subdued.” His lawyer Jim Lawson told the judge that his client was well-aware of the charges against him.

“Mr. Wright is an intelligent man; he understands the concept,” Lawson said.

The announcement of Herbo’s not guilty plea arrives a few weeks after it was reported that the rapper was weighing out the possibilities of entering a plea deal. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said that the decision on the possible plea is expected to be made before August of this year.

We’ll keep you updated on any more developments in G Herbo’s case. 

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