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Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor isn’t afraid of a heated disagreement with other rockers — but spicy hot wings are a different story.
On the latest episode of Hot Ones Versus posted Tuesday (Oct. 1), the frontman battled tastebud-burning chicken wings with bandmate Shawn Crahan, aka Clown — and yes, both musicians wore their signature spooky masks while chowing down. At one point, Taylor avoided having to take a spice-loaded bite by ranking three of his famous feuds with opponents Limp Bizkit, MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and Nickelback.
“If I was going to say it with that ugly ego… at the top, I would put Limp Bizkit,” he began of the two bands’ name-calling spat in the 2000s. “My issues truly weren’t even with Limp Bizkit, they were with Fred [Durst]. It was just about what Fred represented at the time, the things that were being said and the people in the band that were actually saying stuff about us.”
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“I would put MGK in the middle,” Taylor continued of the “My Ex’s Best Friend” musician, with whom he traded jabs throughout 2021. “Before the beef, I did have respect for him and I liked his music. We butted heads ego-wise and creatively because of a song he and Travis [Barker] invited me to be on. Him and I are very similar, and I hope he’s figuring s–t out.”
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Finally, the “Unsainted” singer ranked his mutual trash-talking with Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger in 2017 last. “Honestly, they’re just a musical echo,” he said. “It’s just the same thing.”
“There’s some stuff of theirs that I like,” Taylor added, making Crahan scoff.
Throughout the episode, Crahan also criticized the getups of other mask-wearing musicians — Daft Punk, Gwar and Marshmello — and revealed that his favorite “pop princess” is Britney Spears. “Real deal,” the percussionist said of the “Toxic” singer. “She’s a legend.”
Plus, the duo enjoyed a spontaneous 25th birthday party for their band’s debut album Slipknot — which reached No. 51 on the Billboard 200 in 2000 — complete with a piñata. The group recently wrapped up the North American leg of its anniversary tour in September, and they’re set to perform in Latin America and Europe later this year.
Watch Taylor and Crahan take on Hot Ones Versus above.
Rich Homie Quan’s cause of death has been ruled to be an accidental drug overdose, according to a report from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office released to PEOPLE on Tuesday (Oct. 1).
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Per the report obtained, there was a toxic mix of drugs in Quan’s system at the time of his death, which included fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine, promethazine and THC.
Born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, RHQ reportedly had no signs of trauma related to his death and it was ruled an accident. Quan passed away at 33 years old on Sept. 5. An autopsy was performed a day later and he was officially laid to rest with an Atlanta funeral service held on Sept. 17.
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Billboard has reached out to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office for comment.
The celebration of life ceremony saw Quan’s parents, siblings and peers deliver moving speeches paying homage to the late rapper.
“I appreciate him for taking me from 285 Old National to the Eastside, to endless flights. From endless oatmeal and cereal to continental breakfast and continental breakfast and personal chefs,” Quan’s brother Andre Munford said. “We went from apartments — sometimes no hot water — we didn’t stop. I love you, man.”
According to a 911 call obtained by TMZ, Rich Homie Quan’s girlfriend discovered him motionless on the couch and put a blanked on him the morning of Sept. 5.
However, upon returning from dropping her kids off at school, she noticed he still had not moved and didn’t feel a heartbeat. After turning him over, she saw foaming of the mouth and alerted emergency services. Quan was ruled dead shortly thereafter.
With the hip-hop community still in mourning, the “Type of Way” rapper’s family released a posthumous song titled “Song Cry,” which was followed by a gut-wrenching visual on Sept. 30.
Rich Homie Quan charted seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in his career, including top 20 hits “Lifestyle” (No. 16) alongside Young Thug and Rich Gang as well as YG’s “My Hitta” (No. 19) with Jeezy.
Before endearing herself to American households with her nationally syndicated daytime talkshow The Wendy Williams Show, she was the rap industry’s gossip queen on popular NYC-area radio stations like Hot 97 and WBLS. So its natural for some fans on social media to be curious about what Wendy Williams would have to say about the legal situation Diddy currently finds himself in.
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Well, everyone can put those curiosities to bed, because Williams has broken her silence as she continues to deal with serious health issues.
The Daily Mail was able to get in touch her, and she had some interesting things to say about the man she has a long history with. “What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people, ‘Wendy, you called it,’” she told the British outlet. “Including some people from my family who have said the same.”
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Williams — who also let fans know that she’s “doing good” — said of the Cassie assault video, “You know how I feel about that? It is about time. To see this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled… it was just horrific.” Adding, “But now you have to think, how many more times? How many people? How many more women? It’s just so horrible.”
Williams and Diddy have had their fair share of run-ins, most notably in 1998 when the mogul allegedly got the then-radio show host fired from her Hot 97 gig, at least according to her protégé Charlamagne Tha God, who mentioned the rumor during an appearance on the Flagrant podcast. “Wendy’s whole thing was, Diddy was gay,” Charlamagne said. “That’s why Wendy got fired from Hot 97. Wendy got fired from Hot 97 by Diddy ’cause that’s when Bad Boy was smoking hot. She got fired for putting that out there.”
Charlamagne speaks on Diddy allegedly having sexual relations with actor Reginald VelJohnson, who played Carl Winslow on “Family Matters,” and confirms that Diddy got Wendy Williams fired from Hot 97 in 1998 for claiming he’s gay.(🎥 FLAGRANT/YouTube) pic.twitter.com/5d4Xr9AUyW— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) May 29, 2024
Back in 2022, Diddy’s former bodyguard Gene Deal alluded to his then-boss getting Williams fired from Hot 97 in an interview with Art of Dialogue. “You started the conversation earlier about what did I mean about the power Puff had. With the radio stations in New York? Mother—-ers didn’t breathe hard if Puff didn’t want them to. … Puff got one of the hottest DJs off of Hot 97 because she wanted to put up a picture of him getting his pants pulled down,” Deal said.
Adding, “Puff told Hot 97 if they didn’t get rid of her before he got back in New York, that they was not going to get any music from any of his friends, any of the record label executives that was cool with him, everyone was going to boycott their station. We was out in L.A. for about three days; before we landed back in New York, Wendy Williams was in the radio station in Philly. It was over for her. She was fired.”
Diddy is now facing lawsuits from 120 new abuse victims as he continues to appeal for bail.
Ken Page, the Broadway veteran who provided the voice of the ghastly villain Oogie Boogie in the Tim Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, died Monday at his home in St. Louis, his reps said. He was 70.
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In his Broadway debut, Page stepped in as a replacement to play the Lion in the original 1975-79 production of The Wiz.
The baritone also originated the role of Old Deuteronomy in 1982 in the original production of Cats; starred in the original 1978-82 Broadway production of Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’; and played Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the 1976-77, all-Black revival of Guys and Dolls, a turn that earned him a Theatre World Award.
Page was memorable as Oogie Boogie, the bug-filled Boogeyman, in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), directed by Henry Selick.
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In a 2022 interview, he said producers were looking for “someone who was Cab Calloway-esque, Fats Waller-esque.” He added that he saw the character as “somewhere between the voice of the demon in The Exorcist and the cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.”
He later voiced Oogie Boogie in video games and at Disney theme-park attractions.
Kenneth Page was born on Jan. 20, 1954, in in St. Louis, where he attended Bishop DuBourg High School. He then majored in theater at Fontbonne College in Clayton, Missouri.
He played Joe “Cheesecake” Tyson on the 1987-88 ABC series Sable.
His résumé also included the films Torch Song Trilogy (1988), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) — as the voice of King Gator — I’ll Do Anything (1994) and Dreamgirls (2006) and guest spots on such shows as Charmed and Touched by an Angel.
More recently, Page developed and starred in a cabaret show, Page by Page. He often appeared in plays at The Muny, a historic outdoor venue in St. Louis.
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Alex Warren has already forged a successful career as a popular YouTube creator and member of the Hype House TikTok collective, and now he’s also a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist.
Warren makes his first appearance on the Hot 100 (dated Oct. 5) with his new single “Burning Down.” Released Sept. 20 on Atlantic Records, the song debuts at No. 76 with 6.6 million official U.S. streams and 3,000 downloads sold through Sept. 26, according to Luminate.
The song’s first-week reception can be partly attributed to interaction on TikTok, where Warren teased it leading up to its official release. To date, the song has soundtracked over 90,000 clips on the platform. Warren boasts over 16 million TikTok followers and his videos have amassed over a billion likes.
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While “Burning Down” becomes Warren’s first Hot 100 hit, he has been climbing charts with another single: “Carry You Home” returns to its No. 36 high on Pop Airplay and places at No. 32 on Adult Pop Airplay, after reaching No. 27. It has also reached No. 19 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs.
Warren earned his first overall chart entry in April with “Save You a Seat.” The track debuted at its No. 11 high on the Digital Song Sales chart date April 13, as Warren bowed on Emerging Artists; he bounds to a new No. 2 best on the latest list.
“Carry You Home” and “Save You a Seat” have also both benefitted from exposure on TikTok. The latter has been used in over 144,000 TikToks and the former in over 20,000.
Both songs, along with “Burning Down,” appear on Warren’s debut studio album, You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1), released Sept. 27.
Warren signed to Atlantic in August 2022. “Growing up with the cards I was dealt, I never thought pursuing music would be a possibility,” he told Billboard at the time. “I’ve always dreamed of working with a record label and have admired Atlantic’s roster of artists for so long. I remember my first meeting with Atlantic so clearly because they immediately believed in what I had to say. They wanted to guide me and surround me with an experienced team to take my music to the next level and I’m so excited to do just that.”
Selena Gomez has always been humble despite her constantly growing success. The star opened up about her recent billionaire status on Monday (Sept. 30) at the premiere of her new film, Emilia Pérez, at the New York Film Festival. “I’m very grateful,” Gomez told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet. “I personally think it’s distasteful to talk about money, […]
Halsey celebrated her 30th birthday in style Sunday, eating cake and singing karaoke with friends and family at a surprise party that was so great, it changed the star’s perspective on the particularly challenging decade that came before it.
Sharing photos from the gathering via Instagram on Tuesday (Oct. 1), the pop star began by writing that their “life has gone through inexplicable changes the past decade.”
“Some beautiful and awe inspiring, some puzzling and painful,” Halsey continued. “But 30 came like those ten years never happened, (much like the beautiful birthdays back home in Jersey before I had ever heard of the name Halsey) SCREAMING in an Italian American heritage hall with the people I love. I thought the only reason I’d have all these people in a room with me at the same time would be because I was in a wooden box in the center, but there we were. With cake and crying and bare feet.”
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The “Closer” singer has been open about the ups and downs she’s faced these past few years, including being diagnosed with Lupus and a rare T-cell disorder in 2022. Last year, Halsey split from longtime partner Alev Ayden, the father of their young son, Ender.
Fortunately, happier days seem to be abundant now for the musician, who recently confirmed their engagement to actor Avan Jogia. The Victorious alum was in many of the photos Halsey shared from the party, feeding her pieces of cake and holding the About-Face Beauty founder in his arms in between karaoke songs.
“I don’t know how they did it,” Halsey continued in their caption. “But they made all the noise of my twenties stop, and replaced it with joy … That buzzer-beater joy is so strong that it settles the 9 years that came before it.
“This birthday is symbolic to me for so many reasons,” the Maxxxine star concluded. “Every birthday till the end of time will be. I am so grateful to see them all arrive. Thank you for all the birthday wishes.”
Halsey’s 30th comes less than a month ahead of their new album, The Great Impersonator, which drops Oct. 25. The star recently unveiled the project’s 18-song track list, having previously shared its cover and variants through a fan scavenger hunt.
The party also comes on the heels of a recent health scare, with Halsey revealing Sept. 26 that they suffered a “very scary” seizure that led to being hospitalized briefly. The “Without Me” artist at one point wished fans a happy Bi Visibility Day from a hospital bed in a video showing Jogia supportively keeping her company nearby.
“I’m home from the hospital now after a few days, so a win is a win!” Halsey later tweeted.
Travis Scott is set to receive the I Am Hip Hop Award at the upcoming 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards. BET announced on Tuesday (Oct. 1) that the innovative Houston rapper will be honored at the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards show on Oct. 15. “Travis Scott is a visionary artist who continues to push […]
Jordan Adetunji’s viral hit “Kehlani” completes the transition to a full-fledged radio success as the single crowns Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart dated Oct. 4. The track ascends from No. 3 after an 18% surge in plays that made it the most-played song on U.S. monitored rhythmic radio stations in the week ending Sept. 26, according to Luminate.
The new champ, released on Indigo Kid/300/3EE, takes over from Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” after the latter’s nonconsecutive 12-week command, including the last three weeks straight. It falls to No. 2 with a 2% decline in plays.
Twenty-five-year-old Jordan Adetunji, who is based in Belfast, Ireland, lands his first No. 1 on a Billboard radio chart. Released in May, “Kehlani,” which references and is named after the American R&B singer, went viral this summer and topped the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart for two weeks in August. The same month, its titular artist hopped on a remix, which came with a new music video. Adding to his breakthrough season, Adetunji was named Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Rookie of the Month in July.
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Kehlani, notably, has reached a No. 2 career high on Rhythmic Airplay on two separate occasions. They reached a runner-up best as a guest on Cardi B’s “Ring” in 2018 and returned to the peak with “Beautiful Lies,” a collaboration with Yung Bleu, in 2022. While the remix “Kehlani” supports at radio, Adetunji remains the only credited artist on the chart as his solo version drives the majority of the airplay.
Elsewhere, “Kehlani” nears the top slot on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, where it climbs from No. 3 to the runner-up rank. The advance occurs through an 11% gain in plays at the format in the tracking week compared with the prior one, with the song securing the weekly Greatest Gainer honor for the largest increase in plays among the chart’s 40 titles. Beyond that, “Kehlani” repeats at its No. 3 high on the audience-based R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, where it registered 14 million in weekly listenership at the format, up 6% from the previous week.
Airplay gains continue across other charts, too. “Kehlani” inches 3-2 on Rap Airplay after a 10% boost in audience, prompting another Greatest Gainer award. The improved performance across multiple formats helps the tune jumps 25-19 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart. There, it captures 26 million in total audience, a 12% hike from the week before.
Oasis are heading back to the U.S., Canada and Mexico next year as part of their Live ‘25 reunion tour, their first run of shows since 2009. The Monday (Sept. 30) announcement of a string of stadium dates in Toronto, Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City came with a direct warning shot to some fans: “America. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.”
The Manchester band’s turbulent history and mixed response in the U.S. clearly still sticks in the Gallagher brothers’ craws. At their peak, Oasis conquered the U.K., mainland Europe and developed dedicated fan bases in Latin American and Asian markets. In their 28.6 million monthly listeners on Spotify, their fans’ top locations include Jakarta (Indonesia), São Paulo (Brazil) and Santiago (Chile) alongside London and Manchester. So why did they never truly crack the States?
Next summer’s reunion tour is as big as Noel and Liam’s egos. Nineteen stadium shows in the U.K. and Ireland sold out within hours during a protracted and controversial ticket sale process that attracted 10 million hopeful buyers. There was no questioning if those shows would sell; the demand indicated that they could have comfortably sold those shows several times over.
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But there will be eyes on this Friday’s (Oct. 4) North American ticket sale. The venues are ambitious: the MetLife Stadium across the Hudson River from New York City can host 82,000 people; the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on the opposite coast can seat nearly 90,000 (though depending on staging for concerts, those capacities can be lower). Rumors had another date pencilled in for the Boston area’s Gillette Stadium, though this was absent from Monday’s announcement. Perhaps they want to see how it goes. Dynamic pricing will also not be used in the ticket sale process, presumably to boost the volume of sales rather than the value of each ticket.
Jitters behind the scenes would be understandable. The band’s final tour in North America, supporting their 2008 album Dig Out Your Soul, visited venues half the size of these prospective dates. They performed at New York’s 20,000-capacity Madison Square Gardens, but also at Broomfield, Colorado’s relatively modest 6,500-capacity 1stBank Center.
At the height of their fame during 1996, the band was playing to 125,000 people a night at England’s Knebworth House; in the U.S. however, Oasis’ biggest crowds would peak with support slots on U2’s mammoth PopMart tour in 1997. The group’s word-of-mouth appeal rarely translated to sustained and consistent ticket sales.
Oasis have had limited luck on the Billboard charts. None of their eight studio albums ever topped the Billboard 200, their highest entry being 1997’s Be Here Now, which clocked in at No. 2. 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, however, has gone 4 x Platinum according to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). As for singles, “Wonderwall” peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the rest never had a sniff beyond “Don’t Look Back In Anger” at No. 55.
Things didn’t get off to a good start. On their debut run of dates in the U.S., the band played an infamous, substance-fueled gig at L.A.’s Whisky A Go Go in 1994. As later recounted in 2016’s documentary Supersonic, the band mistakenly scored crystal meth instead of cocaine which Liam said “just kept us up for f–king days” and resulted in a lackluster performance. The brothers fought on stage – Liam clattered Noel with a tambourine – and following the show Noel temporarily quit the band, disappeared from the touring group and cancelled a handful of shows.
It never really got better. In 1996, Liam failed to show up to a string of dates in the U.S., with Noel claiming that his younger brother instead was house-hunting back in London with then-girlfriend Patsy Kensit. Six years later in 2002, Liam walked off stage during a gig in Florida after losing his voice. The band headlined Coachella that year, but two decades later Liam dubbed that festival “pathetic.”
Noel has put the rocky relationship down to a mutual disconnect. “They couldn’t handle the fact that we didn’t give a f–k about anything,” he said in 2023 of the American market. “That’s the reason we’ve never really had a number one album in America – they wouldn’t go the extra mile for us because we wouldn’t go the extra mile for them.” Competing with the grunge titans of the era – Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and more – proved an uphill battle according to Liam: “They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don’t get it.”
But things could be about to change. The reunion tour is already proving to have a cross-generational appeal for Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z alike; for the lattermost, it’ll be the first (and potentially only) time to see the band live. Oasis, for their part, have already struck deals with brands like Levi’s, Urban Outfitters and Amazon in hopes of pushing their name into new spaces. Streams for Oasis material took a healthy bump after the announcement they’d be returning.
The gauntlet has been thrown down; will the U.S. fanbase show up and show out for the much-hyped reunion? When tickets go on sale later this week, we’ll find out.
