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The JBP Boyz Are Byke To Business: Rory & Mal Return To ‘The Joe Budden Podcast’

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The Joe Budden Podcast went through a lineup change recently when longtime co-hosts Jamil “Mal” Clay and Rory Farrell left for reasons only known to them. On Wednesday (4/28), the JBP Boyz joined host Joe Budden after a few weeks and it appears that loyal fans of the pod are excited about the news.

While Rory and Mal’s presence was definitely missed, Joe Budden’s friends, Ice, and Ish, filled in capably while learning the job of podcasting on the fly. Both men, just like Rory and Mal, have career and business interests not related to the podcast world, but they brought a certain amount of real talk and tough love that fans of the show have rarely witnessed over the past five years.

Fan speculation as to why Rory and Mal vacated their microphone duties has ranged from unspoken beef to money issues and a host of other maladies. While we haven’t listened to the latest podcast episode to know exactly what Rory and Mal’s takes are, it is known that Budden was in contact with Rory over the break and it was apparent Budden missed his friends more than he missed them being co-hosts.

The return to the normal format might be a bit of a shakeup again for some considering the chemistry Ice and Ish provided, along with vocalist Emanny and other random guests. The podcast was just finding a good rhythm with the updated lineup, but the fans were committed to a return of the original crew during the duration.

At any rate, it’s good to see the gang back together. Hopefully, and perhaps with a larger space, Ish and Ice can make it back on later episodes.

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Freddie Gibbs Catches Heat For His Tweets, Twitter Tries To Cancel Him

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Freddie Gibbs comes across as an individual who cares very little about what folks think of about his online exploits and carries himself with an air of assured authenticity. It appears that fans on Twitter are having issues with some of the content Kane posts on his feed and the attempt to cancel him has been fruitless thus far.

For those in the know, that segment of the population was already well aware that Gibbs has a penchant for posting salacious videos and memes, so much so that his Instagram account was permanently banned for repeated violations of the social media site’s terms and conditions. Carrying that streak of IDGAF-ness over to Twitter, Gangsta Gibbs is catching some heat over a number of recent videos he shared with the timeline.

From naked girl fights to a man clearly having a bad day at a hotel desk, nothing is too far or too scandalous for Gibbs to share. Attempts to get Gibbs to remove the videos or check his online behavior from Twitter users have been met with his requisite and unflinching wit.

And while there are many who feel that Gibbs is taking things a bit too far with the videos, some on Twitter have defended the Gary, Ind. star, adding that he’s just displaying his sense of humor. At any rate, the way that fans have tried to come at Gibbs and the expert ease in which he dispatches of his critics, it should be expected that Freddie Gibbs isn’t changing how he tweets or carries himself anytime soon.

Check out the reaction and choice tweets from Freddie Gibbs below.

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HHW Gaming: Nintendo Announces Super Mario Party Update, Gaming Fans Are Super Star Lit

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Since launching in 2017, the Nintendo Switch has transformed the handheld gaming experience with its hybrid console and tablet-like configuration. One of the system’s top party games, Super Mario Party, just got a pretty nifty update that most Nintendo fans are seemingly excited about.

The Nintendo team announced the change via Twitter and also their support page, laying out the new features coming to the popular party game. Given that this is the first update for the game in well over two years and just the second overall, the news is certainly big for Switch users.

Check out the update notes below:

You can now play the following modes over the internet:

・Mario Party

・Partner Party

Free Play (Minigames)

Important: To play over the internet, a subscription to the paid Nintendo Switch Online service is required.

Playing over the internet

To play over the internet, select either Mario Party, Partner Party, or Minigames, then select Online Play.

There are two ways to play over the internet: Friend Match, where you can play with Friends, and Private Game, where you can play with anyone using passwords.

The combinations through which you can play over the internet are as follows:

・Up to 1 player per system (you can play with between 2 and 4 players)

・Up to 2 players per system (you can play with between 3 and 4 players)

If two players are each playing on their own systems, they cannot play with two players using a third system.

Playing over the internet supports the Invite Friend feature. If you select Invite Friend on the screen at which you’re waiting for rivals, your selected Friends can join from the Online Play Invites on their user-page icon in the top left of the HOME Menu.

・Online Mariothon does not support the Invite Friend feature.

When playing over the internet, all 20 characters and all maps are available, regardless of your current in-game progress.

When playing over the internet, 70 of the total 80 minigames are available to play.

The following 10 minigames are not available when playing over the internet.

・Strike It Rich

・Time to Shine

・Take a Stab

・All-Star Swingers

・Rhythm and Bruise

・Pep Rally

・Wiped Out

・Fiddler on the Hoof

・Clearing the Table

・Baton and On

Play data won’t be saved when playing over the internet.

Super Mario Party did have online play prior to this update but the feature was limited to just a handful of the minigames. This effectively opens up the world of Super Mario Party to a global pool of co-players and competitors, and the joy and requisite hate that’s being expressed on Twitter at the moment is impassioned and comical at times.

Check out those reactions below.

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Tucker Carlson Really Wants You & Your Kids To Catch COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic is still very much a global issue and despite the great strides made in the United States, we’re not out of the woods yet. Bucking the advice of scientists who study coronaviruses and deadly diseases, Fox News host Tucker Carlson essentially ignored their expertise and challenged the purposes of masks to prevent the spread.

During a segment of his nightly program on the Fox network, the longtime pundit and television host expressed concerns over children wearing masks in public and wondered out loud if it posed a health risk to them playing outdoors.  In the segment heard, the text read, “Masks Are Just A Sign Of Obedience,” sending a clear message to anti-maskers that decried state and local mandates to wear a protective covering over their faces.

Carlson insisted that masks on children in public should be viewed as abuse and that police and child protective services should get involved. Like many who oppose masks, Carlson framed it as an attack on one’s freedoms and not a mitigation strategy to get the number of cases down so that the country can get back to the normal he and others like him covet so highly.

“Masks have always been incompatible with a free society,” Carlson said. “We used to know that. Masks strip people of their identity as individuals, transform people from citizens into drones. They isolate us and alienate us to shut us off from one another, they prevent intimacy and human contact. If I can’t see your face, I can’t know you.”

What’s dangerous about Carlson’s missive is that he’s all but saying to his loyal viewers and anyone paranoid enough to believe his words to basically attack the mask-wearing public and to snatch masks off kids despite most not knowing or understanding the ramifications of infection in children as this is a novel coronavirus that is consistently changing.

Many in the media and across Twitter have condemned Tucker Carlson for siccing his flock on mask-wearers, and we’ve got those reactions below.

Salute to The Daily Beast for getting eyes on this in a hurry.

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Ludacris Getting The Respect He Deserves After Sharing Some Bars Via Instagram

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Ludacris hasn’t released a studio album since 2015 but there’s no denying that he’s been a viable force in Hip-Hop for quite some time. While Luda has moved on to star in action-packed Hollywood blockbusters, he’s still very much sharp with the bars and it appears Twitter has chosen today (Feb. 12) to celebrate him.

At the top of the week, the rapper born Chris Bridges blessed his followers with a verse that appears to be a feature on super producer Drumma Boy’s upcoming compilation album. In the verse, Luda displays why he is considered one of the best wordsmiths of his era while also demonstrating that there’s still plenty left in the tank should he decide to focus his time on music.

Over the course of eight studio albums, Ludacris has sold over 24 million records worldwide along with a pair of gold-selling compilation albums with his Disturbing tha Peace collective. He also dropped six acclaimed mixtapes, including sets with DJ Green Lantern and DJ Drama as hosts.

Ludacris will be resuming his role as Tej Parker for the Fast & Furious franchise’s latest film, F9: The Fast Saga. Ludacris has won both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critic’s Choice Award for the role of Parker. A ninth studio album is slated to be released sometime in 2021, but a title or release date has not yet been announced.

Across Twitter, fans are saluting Ludacris for his lyrical exercise, as he framed it, and he’s in tip-top shape apparently. Keep scrolling to peep all the reactions below.

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Dave Chappelle Announces ‘Chappelle’s Show’ Return To Netflix, Makes Peace With Comedy Central

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Dave Chappelle will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the greatest comics of his era, if not all time. What he also deserves credit for is his business savvy after obtaining the rights back from Comedy Central for his famed Chappelle’s Show series, ending a long-running saga positively.

Chappelle, 47, shared a 10-minute video from his stand-up performance at Stubbs in Austin, Texas. The event has to be fairly recent as much of the bit is centered on the comedian’s fight to retain his rights to the popular series that he famously walked away from at its heights.

The show was added to HBO Max’s service without cutting Chappelle in on the deal and he urged his legion of fans not to support the move. Apparently, the strategy worked and now, Netflix, which has a standing partnership with Chappelle, will be the new home of Chappelle’s Show.

In the bit, Chappelle opens about regarding his bout with COVID-19 but also weaves in some expert commentary on the numbers of protests surrounding the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. But what has folks buzzing most of all is his mention of the series.

“I never asked Comedy Central for anything. If you remember, I said, ‘I’m going to my real boss,’ and I came to you [ because I know where my power lies,” Chappelle said, referencing the crowd.

“I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did,” Chappelle added. “You made that show worthless because, without your eyes, it’s nothing. And you stopped watching it. They called me and I got my name back and I got my license back and I got my show back and they paid me millions of dollars.”

Chappelle was able to work things out with CBS Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, thus brokering the deal that will bring Chappelle’s Show back to Netflix beginning this Friday (Feb. 12).

With the news still being absorbed, fans on Twitter are reacting to the good news. We’ve got those reactions below.

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Chick Corea, Legendary Jazz Pianist, Dead At 79

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Chick Corea, a versatile Jazz pianist whose career spans several decades, has died according to reports. The legendary musician was battling a rare form of cancer, according to details provided by his family.

Armando Anthony Corea was born on June 12, 1941, in Chelsea, Mass., was influenced by his father, a Jazz trumpeter of South Italian descent. Corea’s father played in clubs around Boston, which a young Chick witnessed and developed an interest in the musical genre. He began playing live shows while still in high school ahead of a stint in New York City to study music at both Columbia University and the Juilliard School, quitting both early.

Corea began his professional career in the 1960s with Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, and Mongo Santamaria, all known names in the Jazz world. As a bandleader, Corea recorded his debut Tones for Joan’s Bones in 1966 and it was released two years later.

As a session player for Miles Davis, Corea played the electronic piano, using a device called the ring modulator. This innovation gave way to the heavy electronic experimentation heard in the burgeoning Jazz Fusion scene in the early 1970s. It was this style of music that Corea earned many of his chief accolades and his playing left an indelible mark on the genre as a whole.

Corea eventually made his return to a more traditional jazz sound by way of the acoustic piano, replaying standards of the legends before him. Corea’s final studio album as a bandleader, Plays, was released last year.

Over the course of his career, Corea won 23 Grammy Awards and was nominated over 60 times. He released 81 studio albums, several live albums, and dozens of collaborations with other Jazz players.

Across Twitter, Corea’s name is trending with fans giving their respects to the pianist.

Chick Corea was 79.

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Westside Gunn Maintains Hunger With ‘Pray For Paris’ & Twitter Applauds The Project

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Westside Gunn released his third studio album Pray For Paris after 2019 saw the Griselda Records honcho drop two mixtapes and a studio album alongside Conway The Machine and Benny The Butcher with WWCD. The latest set from the Buffalo, N.Y. rapper is more of the same gritty fare fans have come to expect and Twitter so far believes Gunn has delivered.

Fresh off from recovering from contracting COVID-19, the GxFR mastermind’s latest collection of songs doesn’t waver from the formula of detailing the tough upbringing he endured with his soldiers along with the mention of high fashion outside the realm of most working-class people.

Pray For Paris has several familiar names attached to the project beyond the aforementioned Griselda gang. Roc Marciano, Boldy James, Tyler, The Creator, Joey BadA$$, and Freddie Gibbs all show up to support. Production comes from DJ Muggs Camouflage Monk, Beat Butcha, Daringer, DJ Premier, and The Alchemist among others provide the exact heat necessary for Gunn and his cohorts to float over.

What also had some fans stunned was hilarious YouTube personality Jay Versace producing a track on the album titled, obviously, “Versace” and it’s one of the many standout tracks.

Gunn has hinted that he would be walking away from the microphone to focus on the business aspects of Griselda and to continue supporting Benny and Conway’s rise, but he sounds as hungry as ever so maybe there’s more music from him to come in the near future.

Check out Westside Gunn’s latest Pray For Paris in the streams below.

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Fidgety Fingers Twitter Ready To Risk It All After Declaring April 16 National Horny Day

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If the stay-at-home and quarantine orders have already shown, people are losing their minds bored at home and nothing but time on their hands. Speaking of hands, today (April 16) has been declared National Horny Day and we’re trying to figure out how it’s different than any other day.

The shut-in folks are upping their bawdy bandwidth usage most definitely, considering sites like Pornhub has offered their premium package for a limited-time free promotion. Tory Lanez’s Quarantine Radio has also been a spot where the backed-up and horny can get their ogle on from the safety of their homes.

It isn’t known to us how the day got the designation, but already Twitter users are ready to risk it all by requesting nudes, video chats, and upping their OnlyFans contributions. With the trend, several clever folks on Twitter have already got their memes crafted to commemorate the one-day holiday.

Check out some of the reactions to National Horny Day via Twitter below.

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Fades Offered, Love Declared During Jhené Aiko & Big Sean’s IG Live Session

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Gunning for “Quarantine’s Cutest Couple” awards, Jhené Aiko & Big Sean melted all the lonely hearts during their Instagram Live session on Wednesday. Although the two declared that they’re both single, it was clear to many that a connection exists between the two.

The Instagram Live session had a fair share of fans tuning in along with some of their celebrity pals but for the most part, it just featured the on-again, off-again couple attempting to be entertaining while broadcasting from their respective locations. During one portion of the IG Live session, which Aiko didn’t want the moment to be shared with Twitter, Sean let it be known that he’s ready to serve hands and feet to anyone over his sometime-y boo.

There were also some fans who thought that their banter was a little on the boring side, but there was a funny OnlyFans moment after Sean asked Aiko if she had a page in operation. There was also a moment when Aiko asked the Detroit rapper, who declared his love publicly, why he hasn’t married her and he replied slyly “it’s in the works.”

In regards to the pair’s turbulent romantic dealings which some have deemed to be toxic, Aiko addressed that chatter and blasted social media fans for overusing the word and essentially saying that many are just learning the word for the first time. It was clear during that moment that they’re both aware folks are watching their moves. Aiko kicked Sean off her life and then told the fellas to get their sweatpants ready, which got some laughs.

Check out some of the reactions from Twitter to Jhené Aiko & Big Sean’s Instagram Live session below.

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