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It was just a minor victory over Canada for Team USA in Wednesday night’s (July 10) basketball exhibition in Las Vegas, but the U.S. Olympic team celebrated in style with Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” booming through the T-Mobile Arena speakers.
Following the 86-72 win in Sin City, footage showed “Not Like Us” playing while LeBron James gave a speech to the team at mid-court.
They fittingly broke the huddle and waved to the crowd while thanking them for coming out. The public address announcer then interrupted the Drake diss track to ask the audience to give the team a final ovation before heading home.
“Drake and the entire nation of Canada took an L tonight,” a fan wrote on X.
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Another deemed that “Not Like Us” will continue to be an anti-Canada troll for a long time. “This song will get played any time Canada loses in anything for the foreseeable future,” they said.
The victory over Canada marks the first of five total exhibition games coming up for Team USA before heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, where they’ll tip-off the group phase on July 28 against Nikola Jokic and Serbia.
After facing an 11-1 deficit to start the game, Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards and the bench lineup gained control, and Team USA ended up cruising to a double-digit win in the second half.
Edwards finished with a team-high 13 points, while Steph Curry added 12 of his own. Lakers big man Anthony Davis stuffed the stat sheet with a double-double (10 points, 11 rebounds) and four blocks.
It was a good opening statement for the Americans with Kevin Durant not playing and Kawhi Leonard leaving the team, both due to injuries. (Leonard will be replaced by Boston Celtics guard Derrick White.)
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USA Basketball isn’t the only team trolling Drake recently. The X account for Argentina’s soccer team jabbed at the 6 God following the team’s 2-0 Copa America semifinal win over Canada July 9 at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
“Not like us, not with us,” the team tweeted. The accompanying photo featured Argentina’s players huddled up, with “Not Like Us” written across the top of the image. It was more salt in the wound for Drake after he also bet $300,000 on Canada to pull off the upset against the heavily favored Argentinians.
Comedian Steve Harvey has heard it all as the host of Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud over the past 14 years. But the always quick-on-his-feet stand-up was caught dumbfounded on Tuesday night (July 9) when Megan Thee Stallion offered up a predictably body-ody-ody-positive answer to the query “name something that might be curvy.” Wearing […]
Sexyy Red is pushing back against rumors of low ticket sales for her upcoming Sexyy Red 4 President tour. The “Pound Town” rapper took to X on Monday (July 8) to address reports about poor ticket sales. “My fans are buying tickets we’re doin just fine. We not cancelling no tour,” she wrote in response […]
The Kendrick stimmy pack is the gift that keeps on giving. Tam’s Burgers No. 21 — located on Rosecrans Ave. in his hometown of Compton — has seen a major uptick in business after being prominently featured in his video for “Not Like Us,” according to TMZ. We called and confirmed that they’ve seen around […]
Cardi B can’t believe her and Offset’s first-born daughter, Kulture, is six years old already. Following a family outing earlier this week, Cardi posted a pair of photos of Kulture to X on Wednesday (July 10) to celebrate her child’s sixth birthday.
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“My baby really six…..Like how?” she wrote in disbelief while seemingly wishing she could press pause on life and stop time. The cute post featured a pair of heartwarming photos of Kulture growing up. One being her first Christmas grinning in a Santa hat and pajamas while the other finds her a few years older in a white dress making a heart sign with her hands.
“Time flies fr. happy birthday kk so beautiful,” one fan replied. Another wished Kulture a happy birthday, “Aww happy bday kulture!!! your kid really your clone!”
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Cardi B, Offset and their kids enjoyed a family day at Disneyland Paris earlier this week to kick off the celebrations for Kulture’s birthday.
The Grammy-winning rapper sported a massive silver Chanel bag that could fit just about everything her family could ever need at The Happiest Place on Earth.
The adventures continued on Wednesday with Cardi B giving fans a look into their eventful day via her Instagram Story at the zoo. Kulture and brother Wave had the chance to pet and feed giraffes. Kulture looked like a princess with a pink bedazzled dress, a pearl necklace and bow in her hair.
🚨Cardi B & Family visit the Zoo and enter a giraffe Enclosure Wave’s little scream about to start a stampede 😭 it even scared meKulture is so brave walking towards the giant animal omg😭 pic.twitter.com/SRwNQj9tOJ— C𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 (@cardistics) July 10, 2024
Earlier in the day, what appeared to be hotel staff presented her with a birthday cake as everyone joined in on singing “Happy Birthday” while momma Cardi captured some footage.
Last year, for Kulture’s fifth birthday, Cardi and Offset treated their daughter to a fun-filled day at Nickelodeon Universe in New Jersey.
With Cardi doing it big for Kulture’s sixth, the bar is high for their son Wave’s third birthday coming up in September.
Following the birthday festivities, it remains to be seen if Cardi will get back to music and her long-awaited sophomore album. She teased a Janet Jackson-sampling track earlier in July and appears determined to overcome her detractors praying on her downfall.
“I have everything planned, locked, and ready to go. Every thing I said I would do this year, I’m going to do it. Nothing is going to stop me. I proved myself before and I’m going to do it again… now rest,” she wrote on June 29.
Megan Thee Stallion loves her some anime. The Houston rapper transformed Sailor Moon into Sailor Hottie while cosplaying one of her favorite anime series. Meg posted a TikTok on Tuesday (July 9) that’s gone viral and has over six million views as of press time. In the 12-second clip, Thee Stallion rocks a blue skirt […]
The long-awaited Gladiator sequel is finally on the way, and the Ridley Scott-directed film released the first trailer for the Roman Empire blockbuster on Tuesday (July 9) featuring Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Jay-Z’s “No Church in the Wild.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Ye’s bars didn’t […]
DeMar DeRozan addressed his controversial “Not Like Us” cameo. During an interview with Sacramento’s Fox affiliate Fox40’s Sean Cunningham, the new Sacramento Kings player talked about how he ended up in Kendrick Lamar‘s video and whether or not the Kings are still allowed to play Drake inside their home arena the Golden 1 Center. “We […]
Eminem making a “Hawk Tuah” joke probably wasn’t on many fans’ bingo cards for 2024, but here we are. The rapper’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) album is just a couple of days away, and Slim unleashed another trailer on Wednesday (July 10) teasing the LP centered around killing off his alter ego while tapping into the viral trend.
The ominous clip features Slim Shady’s tombstone on a rainy night. The gravestone is inscribed with “Beloved Antagonist Slim Shady 1997-2024 It Feels So Empty Without Him” in an homage to lyrics from his 2002 hit “Without Me.”
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A person walking by the tombstone hawks a loogie on the tombstone. Then seconds later, a battered and bruised arm emerges from the dirt, signaling a possible Slim Shady revival.
“It feels so empty without him” HAWK TUAH #TheDeathOfSlimShady 7/12,” Em captioned the graveyard trailer on social media.
Fans found it hilarious that the 51-year-old was plugged into the trending topic. “Eminem saying Hawk Tuah was not in my 2024 agenda,” one person tweeted. Another replied in shock, “EMINEM JUST SAID HAWK TUAH AINT NO WAY.”
For those unfamiliar, per The Cut, the now famous Hawk Tuah Girl is named Hailey Welch. She went viral in June when asked in a Nashville street0-side interview about moves that make guys “go crazy” in bed, and she replied with the sexual spitting noise. “You gotta give them that hawk tuah and spit on that thing,” Welch said. “Ya get me?”
Back to Eminem, the Detroit legend is gearing up to deliver his The Death of Slim Shady album on Friday (July 12). A tracklist popped up on Apple Music boasting 19 songs, including a sequel to 1999’s “Guilty Conscience” with Dr. Dre. However, the featured artists remain a secret.
Em heated up his 12th studio album’s rollout with a pair of singles, starting with “Houdini,” which gave him his highest charting Billboard Hot 100 entry of the decade at No. 2. “Tobey” featuring fellow Detroit natives Big Sean and BabyTron, followed as the second single.
Watch the new trailer for The Death of Slim Shady below.
Sexyy Red and André 3000 bonded over haters during a recent appearance on the Uninterrupted’s The Shop.
In a clip posted on The Shop‘s Instagram page, the St. Louis rapper was speaking about doubters when André stepped in to tell her to let the hate motivate her.
“They still don’t believe in me, so I just be like, ‘I’ma show you who I am,’” she said. “And like he said, they don’t understand like we really came from nothin’ and then we be makin’ big achievements. Like, that’s something for us. And then they just be like, ‘You ain’t doing nothin’.’ But for us, it’s like, ain’t nobody doin’ this.”
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Stacks interjected to give her some advice, saying, “Fuel. Use it for fuel. Hater fuel, man, it’s the best shit. It’s free energy.”
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Sexyy Red then replied, “I like it when they talk about me, I ain’t gonna lie,” to which André then said, “That s–t free energy, that make me go, that make me go in. I love when somebody doubts you.” She then responded in agreement, saying, “‘Cause now I’m finna show you somethin’.”
One fan took 3000’s “hater fuel” quote as a challenge, telling the rapper-turned-flautist to “stick to that lil’ flute,” which started a hilarious thread of replies of things such as he wouldn’t be able to handle a Madlib beat or that Sexyy Red could out rap him.
On Tuesday (July 9), The Shop posted a clip of André 3000 telling a story about the time Pimp C got mad at him for taking the beat off his verse when they were making the classic love song “Int’l Players Anthem.”
This particular episode will also include fashion designer Jerry Lorenzo, BMX athlete Nigel Sylvester and comedian-actress Jiaoying Summers, and premieres Thursday, July 11, at 12 p.m. ET.