Grammy-nominated rapper Lil Baby is leveling up and putting his focus on the work grind. The hip-hop star delivers an unexpected and much-appreciated new “Real As It Gets” music video to the masses. Lil Baby’s Back With New Music Video Following mounted buzz and anticipation, LB came through with his new single and visual. Instead […]
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When LeBron James went to the Los Angeles Lakers just a few seasons ago, it was pretty well an admission that he wanted to get into the Hollywood lifestyle. LeBron is someone who likes to divide his attention into various different ventures, and it always seemed like movies were something that he wanted to embark on. Eventually, it became public that LeBron James would be starring in a new Space Jam movie which pretty well confirmed all of our suspicions.
LeBron has done a whole lot of filming for the new movie and with the film coming out this summer, it’s understandable why LeBron would be so excited to share new promotional photos. Today, LeBron did just that as he took to Instagram with some new stills from the movie, all while showing a new Entertainment Weekly cover.
As you can see in the series of images above, LeBron can be found amongst some of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, including Tweety Bird, the Tazmanian Devil, and Lola Bunny. Based on the visual effects, there seems to be a ton of surreal elements, and it’s clear that the production value will be much different compared to the original which is fairly dated.
The movie is set for a July release, so stay tuned as we will be sure to bring you any updates related to the movie.
Lil Durk is one of the game’s notable success stories, having recently built himself up to be one of hip-hop’s latest superstars. Though it’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment where the Chicago rapper’s fortunes began to shift, it’s clear that many have since embraced his latest studio album The Voice, netting Durk the highest-selling first week of his career. Now, only a few short months after its initial release, the project is already eligible to be certified gold by the RIAA.
Chart Data confirms that Durk’s The Voice has officially sold a grand total of five-hundred-thousand album-equivalent units, a milestone likely helped by the recent release of the Deluxe Edition. Released at the end of January, The Voice Deluxe featured an additional twelve tracks including the Lil Baby-assisted “Finesse Out The Gang Way,” as well as a collaboration with 1017 signee Pooh Shiesty “Should’ve Ducked.” At this rate, it’s easily one of the year’s best-selling bodies of work, and will likely hit platinum status before summer rolls around.
While it’s not the first Durk project to have hit gold eligibility, it may very well be his fastest. And what’s wild is the fact that Durk is only getting started. Lest we forget that he’s been sitting on a complete collaboration album with Metro Boomin, No Auto Durk, which has the potential to be an even bigger release than its predecessor. All things considered, 2021 may very well end up the year of Lil Durk, should he retain this same pace on a consistent level. Congratulations to The Voice!
COVID-19 has been one of the hardest things to deal with over the past year. The pandemic continues to rage on and while the vaccine continues to be distributed all throughout the United States, there are still fears over new strains and some of the damage that has already been done as a result of the virus. The NBA has certainly dealt with its fair share of issues with the Coronavirus, especially when it comes to the Toronto Raptors, who recently had two games postponed.
According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, a large chunk of Raptors player tested positive for the virus, and it seems like a clear-cut reason is at fault. As Charania notes, the coaching staff has reportedly been exercising poor mask etiquette, which is what ultimately led to the outbreak.
The issue of wearing masks has been one that continues to be debated, despite the science that suggests it does, indeed, help. Coaches throughout the NBA and NFL have been wearing masks for months and this is a practice we doubt will come to an end anytime soon.
With the Raptors back on the court, it will be imperative that they get their mask-wearing together, moving forward. Not to mention, this is a fair warning to the rest of the league on what can happen if masks aren’t worn properly.
Mello Music Group has officially announced the release of their new compilation album Bushido. Due out for release on April 2nd, the stacked project is set to feature appearances from ApriQuelle Chris, Open Mike Eagle, Solemn Brigham, Oddisee, Homeboy Sandman, Zackey Force Funk, Skyzoo, Namir Blade, Oddisee, James Shahan, Joell Ortiz, Stalley, Dueling Experts, RJ Payne, Murs, Cambatta, Kool Keith, B-Real, and The Perceptionists.
Now, the first single “Black Rock,” featuring Joell Ortiz, Namir Blade, Stalley, and Solemn Brigham, has arrived in a flurry of bars. Over an ice-cold banger, Joell Ortiz whips up a relentless flow, stringing together words with precision as he raises the stakes with his opening verse. “That Brooklyn borough is thorough, over bitches Bengals they through bullets like Burrow, and put you in the ground like you burrowed,” he spits. “Then spin your block again just to make all that murder shit plural / I can’t believe I made it like sperm that’s supposed to be sterile.”
What follows are verses from Blade, Stalley, and Brigham, each of whom fleshes out the posse cut with distinctive style and well-honed lyricism. It’s clear that Mello Music Group values the art of penmanship, and expect Bushido to feature plenty more where that came from.
Will you be tuning in when the compilation lands on April 2nd?
That Brooklyn borough is thorough
Over bitches Bengals they through bullets like Burrow
And put you in the ground like you burrowed
Then spin your block again just to make all that murder shit plural
I can’t believe I made it like sperm that’s supposed to be sterile
As previously reported last summer, Patrick Star, one of the fan-favorite characters from Nickelodeon’s insanely successful cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants has been destined to receive his own spin-off for a while now, and today, the Viacom television channel has announced that it has officially given The Patrick Star Show the green light. According to Complex, The Patrick Star Show is set to premiere later this summer, and it will focus on a young Patrick as he lives with his family and proceeds to host his own makeshift TV show with the help of his loved ones.
The WandaVision-esque concept will mark the second SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff, following the recently debuted Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years. As expected Bill Fagerbakke, who has voiced the character of Patrick since 1999, is set to voice young Patrick over the series’ inaugural 13 episodes. Other voice actors appearing in The Patrick Star Show include Tom Wilson, Cree Summer, Jill Talley, and Dana Snyder.
One of the most significant critiques of Hollywood as of late is its tendency to focus too much on sequels, spin-offs, and reboots. Skeptics are likely to say the same thing about the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, but The Patrick Show will debut later this summer nevertheless.
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Lady Gaga recently had to endure a pet owner’s worst nightmare: Her dog walker was shot and two of her beloved dogs were kidnapped. Fortunately, in a matter of days, the dogs were recovered and everything was in its right place. Gaga offered a $500,000 reward for whoever brought the dogs back, which just goes to show how much some people care about their pets. That got us thinking about other famous artists and their four-legged friends who we see pop up from time to time on social media and whatnot.
We’ve rounded up a handful of my favorites below, but this is by no means a comprehensive list of celebrity pets, so our sincerest apologies if your preferred artist’s furry/scaly/otherwise textured friend isn’t included. Now, if you’re recently found yourself asking, ‘Who’s a good boy,’ you can find some answers to that question below.
Grande’s dogs make social media appearances pretty often, but fans may not realize just how many puppers she actually has: According to Ariana Grande Wiki (which is surely the authoritative source on such matters), she currently owns nine dogs. That’s enough for 5-on-5 basketball if they let Grande’s pig Piggy Smallz play. As if that wasn’t enough, Grande is also working on an animal rescue center in Los Angeles, which indicates that she is perhaps the best friend to animals in the biz.
blue monday pic.twitter.com/hT8crXyLoz
— Lavender (@lavendertowndog) March 1, 2021
Towards the end of last year, indie-rock power couple Baldi and Dupuis decided to adopt Lavender, a pitbull with atypical facial features. In a recent interview with MTV News, Baldi said of Lavender, “She’s a one-of-a-kind dog. People will just stop and be like, ‘Look at this dog,’ and want to be with this dog in a way like no other dog I’ve seen. It’s like having a rare Pokémon.” He doubled down on his admiration of the unique pet with a Twitter follow-up: “if we did a tour, charged $50 for tickets, and all that happened was this dog came out onstage and walked around for a bit? you would still feel like you spent $50 correctly. incredible dog.”
Like other famous pets, Trappy S. Goyard (which is easily the best name on this list) has his own Instagram account. Goyard probably also has a SAG card by now based on all the appearances they’d made. In addition to popping up on 2 Chainz’s Most Expensivest, Goyard also co-starred in the “Grey Area” video from earlier this year, in which Goyard and their human swapped heads.
Sheeran stayed mostly out of the public eye during 2020 as he decided to take a break. What he didn’t stop doing, though, was posting about his cats on their dedicated Instagram page, which boasts over 300,000 followers. Calippo and Dorito are doing well, although Dorito could apparently stand to lose a bit of weight: In October, Sheeran shared a photo of the cats accompanied by a note that reads, “Don’t feed the cats!!! Even if Dorito gives you ‘the eyes’… She has a bad tum… naughty puss…”
About a month ago, Eilish celebrated the first birthday of Shark, the rescue dog she adopted in April. She wrote in a now-unavailable Instagram post, “My sweet rescue baby boy was born a year ago today. You have made my life 1000x better happy birfday little shark.” While the two share a special bond, the journey to today wasn’t without (expensive) complications: In August, Eilish shared that Shark left some unwanted presents in and around some pricey sneakers.
Not many pets win awards, but Megan Thee Stallion’s has: Foe Thee Frenchie (who has nearly half a million Instagram followers and is coming after Trappy S. Goyard’s best-name-of-this-feature crown) was Paper‘s Celebrity Pet Of The Year for 2019. Meg recently shared a progress pic showing off how much Foe has grown over the course of five months, and understandably, in the more recent photo, Meg has a hard time carrying her increasingly large pet.
Hayley Williams’ dog Alf has been an important figure in her life and has helped her through some difficult times. She told EW, “I got Alf when he was, like, 11 weeks old. I raised him, but I feel like he raised me. I was 23 or 24 when I got him. He keeps me present because he’s present all the time: He’s so happy and very in tune with me when I’ve gone through life-altering changes or moments.”
On “Cinnamon,” from the 2020 album Petals For Armor, Williams sings, “On the walls of my home / There are signs that I’m alone / I keep on every light / Talk to my dog, he don’t mind.” She explained that lyric to Pitchfork, saying, “He was my first therapist. And he’s still my favorite therapist.” Around this time last year, she also told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, “My dog is the reason I’m alive, because he would’ve been waiting on me to get home, no matter what. You know how little sweet little puppies sit and they wait? I couldn’t think about it.”
Me 6 months ago: I would never let a dog lick my face.
Me 5 minutes ago: pic.twitter.com/0uhzPCpGI0— Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara) February 14, 2021
Dogs dominated Tegan And Sara’s “100x” video from 2016, and recently, Tegan got a pup of her own, named Georgia. Since then, she has documented the joys and struggles of raising a dog and there have been plenty of both. In November 2020, she tweeted, “Is there an umbrella for people who have a new puppy and have to take it out to pee 700 times a day and need both hands to pick up poo? *must cover human and dog.” While a lot of her Georgia tweets are scatological, there’s clearly a ton of love there and Georgia has essentially become Tegan’s everything. She tweeted in December, “All I dream about is my dog. She’s literally taken over every inch of my life including all dream real estate. It will make ZERO sense that she is in a dream situation, but inevitably she appears regardless. Is this normal?”
Trey Songz goes full method while running his dog’s Instagram account, which is presented entirely from the Frenchton’s perspective. On Father’s Day in 2018, for example, “Kane” posted a photo of him and his father playing basketball and “wrote,” “Happy Father’s day Pops!! Thanks for showing me how to break canine ankles out here in these streets!!” He even did what many others have failed to do when he saw John Cena one time.
Yes, of course Taylor Swift is on this list. After all, Swift has proven to be perhaps the biggest cat person out there (heck, she portrayed a literal cat person in Cats). Thousands of words could be written about Swift’s cats and her love for them, so for this space, let’s just focus on Benjamin Button, the latest addition to the Swift family. Swift actually decided to adopt the cat on the set of her “Me!” video and described how that came to be, saying on Instagram Live in 2019, “[A cat handler handed me this tiny cat and he just starts purring and […] he looks at me like, ‘You’re my mom, and we’re going to live together.’ I fell in love. I looked at Brendon [Urie] and he’s like, ‘You’re going to get the cat aren’t you?’”
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North Carolina rapper Toosii has been on a tear as of late, striking gold on a few of his songs and coming up as one of the most impressive melodic rappers of his generation. He has an exciting catalog of music to his name and he’s only getting started. While you would expect an artist in his position to be wildly confident about their journey, some people are taken aback by his recent claims that he feels like “the Drake” from the current batch of new rappers.
“I feel like the Drake of the upcoming artist,” wrote Toosii on Twitter. “That’s tweet not up for debate though i said what i said.”
As you could likely imagine, people were a little shocked at Toosii’s claim. After his message was posted on DJ Akademiks’ popular blog account, Louisville rapper 2KBABY spoke up and questioned the claim, commenting thinking emojis. “You disagree?” asked Toosii. “Sh*t I must be Michael Jackson of upcoming artist,” said back 2KBABY, shading Toosii. “Respectfully you not fwm…you hard tho!”
The exchange kicked off some back-and-forth between the two up-and-comers on Twitter, with Toosii saying 2KBABY isn’t even the hottest rapper from his state. “You not even the hottest from kentucky. ain’t rubi rose from there?” he asked. “Hmmm how you figure??? Where you from again??? You not even the hottest in your house,” hit back 2KBABY. “Go song for song with me please old streets,” taunted Toosii. “Hmmm that one kill your whole catalog and I haven’t even dropped much,” said 2K. “But like I said you hard tho gang just don’t see you fwm.”
Toosii ended the battle by calling 2KBABY’s new song with Marshmello “kids bop ass music”.
What do you make of this beef?
Baker Mayfield has always been a bit of an eccentric guy, and he’s never been shy to showcase his personality for everyone to see. The Cleveland Browns QB has been one of the more prominent figures in the league as of late, and if something is on his mind, you can be sure that he is going to share it.
On Thursday morning, Mayfield decided to surprise his fans by recounting an interesting event he got to witness alongside his wife. As Mayfield outlines in the tweet below, the quarterback and his significant other actually saw a UFO while coming home from dinner. Mayfield explains the story in great detail, and he seems confident in what he saw.
“Almost 100%, Em and I just saw a UFO drop straight out of the sky on our way home from dinner,” Mayfield said. “We stopped and looked at each other and asked if either of us saw it… Very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis. Anybody else witness this?”
Immediately following this admission, many fans were sketched out by what Mayfield said as there were quite a few people who simply didn’t believe him. The existence of aliens is something that has always been highly debated and more often than not, these UFOs are nothing more than illusions or helicopters with bizarre lighting.
Either way, it would certainly be cool if the object was, indeed, an alien.
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