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Grimes & Elon Musk’s Unusual Baby Name Isn’t Valid in California
Elon Musk and Grimes‘ new bundle of joy sent the Internet into a spiral of confusion when the couple announced that their baby boy’s name is X Æ A-12. It remains unclear whether or not they’re trolling, or if the name is a code for another, more pronounceable one, but if they are being serious, the moniker won’t be valid in the state of California where the baby was presumably born. “In California, you can only use the ’26 characters’ of the English language in your baby name,” family law attorney David Glass told People. “Thus, you can’t have numbers, Roman numerals, accents, umlauts or other symbols or emojis. Although an apostrophe, for a name like ‘O’Connor,’ is acceptable.” Furtherm...
Here Are the Lyrics to Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Sasuke’
Lil Uzi Vert‘s love of anime landed him at No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his “Sasuke” single (chart dated May 9). He named the song after Sasuke Uchiha, his favorite character from the Naruto manga and anime franchise. It’s his first single since his sophomore studio album Eternal Atake blasted to the top of the Billboard 200. Check out the lyrics below. I can make her left-right when she shake her a– cheeks (whoa)Yeah, she’s so nastyYeah, she’s so nasty (oh)Yeah, she’s so nastyYeah, she’s so nasty (oh)Yeah, she’s so nastyYeah, she’s so nastyYeah, yeah Yeah, Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke, SasukeThis is not no Naruto, but I chop that like SasukeShe keep tryna clean me up, but I ju...
Jenni Rivera Scores 14th Top 10 on Regional Mexican Airplay Chart with ‘Engañémoslo’
Plus, Calibre 50 & Joan Sebastian’s “Que Sea” lands in the top 10. Jenni Rivera notches her third posthumous top 10 on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart as “Engañémoslo” jumps 13-8. The tune was recorded by Rivera prior to her death in 2012 and co-written by Rivera alongside Espinoza Paz. It’s also the theme song of a campaign launched by the Rivera family in support of women empowerment throughout Mexico and U.S. “I assumed she didn’t get to record it,” Paz commented via a press release. “What a pleasant surprise to find out she did.” “Engañemoslo” lifts to 4 million in audience impressions (up 14%) earned in the week ending May 3, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The song marks the second previously unreleased recording by the Rivera family following Rivera’s death. It fol...
Kitty Talks Getting Scratched From ‘Masked Singer’ After Proving She’s ‘Not Just a Little Girl With a Big Voice’
[Spoiler alert: This story contains the identity of the eliminated contestant on Wednesday night’s (May 6) The Masked Singer.] It’s getting down to the wire on The Masked Singer. Wednesday night’s show had the top five facing off after the previous week’s bouncing of Astronaut Hunter Hayes. You would imagine that, at this point, we’re dealing with some serious pipes on the remaining contenders for the crown: Kitty, Rhino, Frog, Night Angel and Turtle. So let’s focus on Kitty, shall we? She’s been one of the most consistent contestants all season, nailing the sultry take on Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend,” crushing Sia’s “Unstoppable” and Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” putting on a pop clinic with Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Woman,” as we...
HHW Gaming: Ellie Goes Full Savage Mode In New “The Last of Us Part II’ Trailer
Source: Naughty Dog / The Last of Us Part II We’ve been avoiding The Last of Us Part II leak like Future avoids paying his baby mamas. Today (May.6) Naughty Dog rewarded those who didn’t dare look at any of those leaked cutscenes with an intense, dramatic trailer that hints at painful journey for Ellie full of loss and despair for the still highly-anticipated sequel to 2013’s The Last of Us. Players will take control of Ellie, who is now an adult and is on a quest for revenge. The official synopsis for the game posted under the trailer states: “After a vicious and violent event disrupts the relative peace that Ellie has found in Jackson, she sets out to bring justice to those responsible. As she hunts them down one by one, she is confronted with the devastating physical and emotional reper...
The RZA Launches 36 Cinema With ‘Shaolin Vs. Wu Tang’ Screening & Live Commentary
Source: NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 03: RZA and Method Man of Wu-Tang Clan perform during 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival – Day 2 at Randall’s Island on June 3, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/WireImage) The Coronavirus quarantine has given many people lots of time to contemplate and plan on their next moves in life and it looks like the RZA is taking advantage of his down time and giving his fans something to get excited about. Yesterday (May 5) the king Ruler Zig Zag Zig Allah took to IG to announce the launch of 36 Cinema, which will be streaming movies with live commentary from respected film experts, and informed fans that this Friday they’ll be kicking off the festivities with the screening of Shaolin Vs. Wu Tang. Showcasing the film that inspired the name of the ico...
Tom Morello Is “Disgusted” That Young People Won’t Practice Guitar Eight Hours a Day
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello had some choice words for young musicians trying to cut corners to get famous, especially when it comes to practicing. In an interview that previously ran in Metal Hammer’s print edition but was just shared online this week, Morello lamented over the current lack of guitars in popular music. “I’m disgusted by the fact that a lot of young people these days aren’t willing to sit down and practice the electric guitar for eight hours a day,” said Morello. “They are all looking for an easier route to becoming famous. Look at the Top 50 songs on the radio in the U.S. — there are no guitar solos in them.” While it’s tough love from the ever-opinionated guitarist, he went on to suggest that young musicians likely don’t have a chance of topping th...
Roger Deakins and Wife Launch New Filmmaking Podcast
Roger Deakins is taking his talents to audio. With every major Hollywood production shutdown, the Academy Award-winning cinematography (The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Blade Runner 2049), has launched a podcast with his wife James that they’ve aptly dubbed, Team Deakins. The goal of the series is to offer a platform for Deakins to dispense his wisdom for either young filmmakers or cinephiles who pick up their jaws and wonder how he achieved such sterling, magnificent portraits. “Over the years, we have done many Q&As and, afterwards, answered individual questions and realized that we often answer the same questions,” James Deakins told Collider. “So the idea of a podcast came to me late last year and Roger thought it would be something interesting.” James went on to credit the “s...
Sundance Film Festival May Have Contributed to Spread of Coronavirus
The Sundance Film Festival may have been a contributing factor to the spread of COVID-19, at least according to a new report by The Hollywood Reporter. The publication profiled several attendees — from festival regulars to one anonymous high-profile actor — all of whom reported similar symptoms linked to the coronavirus. One of the report’s more forthcoming interviews involved actress Ashley Jackson, who admitted that she and her colleagues had been calling their illness the “the Sundance Plague” at the time. “We all had the same symptoms, all had the cough, all had trouble breathing at night,” she explained. “Some of us got humidifiers and some got oxygen.” Eventually, Jackson recovered three weeks later. However, once news of COVID-19 began to spread, she stopped speculating and contacte...
Kamasi Washington Scored the Michelle Obama Documentary Becoming
Multi-instrumentalist and jazz composer Kamasi Washington has written the score for the new Michelle Obama documentary Becoming. The Netflix film drops today, while the score will be released on May 15th. Based on the former First Lady’s memoir of the same name, Becoming picks up where the 2018 book left off, following Obama on a 34-city promotional tour while revisiting some of the memoir’s most striking moments. It was directed by Nadia Hallgren, who knew she wanted to work with Kamasi Washington before she put the book down. She said in a statement, “Mrs. Obama loves music, and when I read the line in her book ‘And heaven, as I envisioned it, had to be a place full of jazz,’ I knew immediately Kamasi was the artist that could interpret her experience musically.” In a press rel...
Kaskade Announces Twitch Stream of His Historic 2015 Coachella Set
Back in 2015, Kaskade was the only electronic dance music artist to perform on Coachella‘s main stage. In astonishing fashion, he went on to attract two of the largest crowds in Coachella’s illustrious history, thrusting an EDM flagpole in the peak of mainstream music and marking the genre’s territory in music’s most ubiquitous live arena. Kaskade is now turning back the clock to that monumental moment, as he took to Twitter today to announce a livestream event chronicling the milestone on Twitch. “This is certainly electronic music’s time,” Kaskade told Mashable at the time. “When I saw the aerial shots, my eyeballs popped out and my jaw dropped,” he continued. “It was insane to see it stretched so far ba...
MVRDA and Samplifire Drop Face-Melting Remix of SNAILS’ “RKO (feat. Rico Act)”
If you had any intention of waking up the neighbors today, look no further because MVRDA and Samplifire are here to aid you with their speaker-breaking new remix of “RKO” by SNAILS, which features Rico Act. The track, which will be featured on the upcoming official World of Slime remix EP, will have you body-slamming your quarantine mates like you’re Randy Orton. Proceed with caution. The monstrous release takes SNAILS’ in-your-face production and cranks up the sharp wobbles and intense, padded synths. This remix will have listeners headbanging to their heart’s content, as the melding of the dubstep and wrestling worlds is conveyed brilliantly in its high octane battleground of an arrangement. UK-based MVRDA and French producer ...
