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After days of teases, fans can now watch Cardi B‘s debut on Hot Ones, which premiered Thursday, September 28, on the First We Feast YouTube page.

Like previous guests, the rapper sat down with host Sam Evans and attempted to eat 10 chicken wings or vegan substitutes, with each serving prepared with a progressively hotter sauce. She also answered a few questions, though at some points she was too distracted by the spiciness of the hot wings.

“I’m trying to say something but I can’t even focus on the f****** question!” Cardi B said. That, however, didn’t prevent her from providing some unfiltered responses.

Among the many topics Cardi discussed: the “annoying” process of recording a radio-friendly version of the Megan Thee Stallion-assisted “Bongos,” her love for former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and her belief that aliens aren’t real.

“If aliens are real, and they’re smarter than us, I feel like, why haven’t they invaded us?” she asked.

Cardi also gave a shoutout to two of her biggest idols/”super moguls,” Rihanna and Jay-Z, and looked back on the time her husband, Offset, and his former rap trio, Migos, read Llama Llama Red Pajama to the beat of their own song “Bad and Boujee.”

“I love that book … I can only picture when the Migos was doing it,” Cardi said. “Good memories. I love having good memories of them in my head.”

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Here’s your chance to meet Kacey Musgraves in person. Well, sort of.

Madame Tussauds Nashville will unveil a brand new wax figure of Kacey on Friday, September 29.

Kacey recently paid her doppelgänger a visit and shared photos of the meetup on Instagram.

“Took a trip to uncanny valley. This is so weird and brilliant and I love it. Thanks for snatching me into immortality, @madametussaudsusa Go see me, y’all. Xx,” she captions the Instagram carousel, which features various shots of her and her wax figure.

“What an honor, I never even knew I wanted this to be a bucket list moment,” Kacey adds in a press release. “You all did an amazing job.”

Madame Tussauds USA has also shared video footage of Kacey seeing her wax figure for the first time on YouTube.

To grab tickets to see Kacey’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds Nashville, visit madametussauds.com.

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Ed Sheeran is going all in with the fall theme of his new album, Autumn Variations, which comes out on Friday, September 29.

He’s partnering with American Express for a pop-up Autumn Variations experience, which will take place on Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza. In addition to the normal exclusive merchandise, fans will enjoy a corn maze and pumpkin painting, as well as various photo ops.

On his Instagram, Ed posted a video of himself saying that he’s really excited about the release of Autumn Variations. He says, “I haven’t released a record independently since I was, like, 19, so I’m super excited to just put an album out for the sake of putting an album out and not having the commercial pressures around it.”

“So yeah: no singles, no videos and I hope you love it,” he continues. “It’s meant to just feel like a warm hug.”

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Matty Healy and Ice Spice are “good” following The 1975‘s frontman’s controversial appearance on a podcast making fun of the viral rapper.

During an episode of The Adam Friedland Show, Healy and the hosts joked about and mocked Ice’s ethnicity and did stereotypical impressions of various accents. Healy later offered an apology during a 1975 show in New Zealand, during which he said, “It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued, it’s ’cause I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d***.”

Speaking about Healy’s comments for the first time during an interview with Variety, Ice shares, “When I had heard that little podcast or whatever, I was so confused.”

“Because I heard ‘chubby Chinese lady’ or some s*** like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that even mean?'” Ice explains. “First of all, I’m thick. What do you mean Chinese? What?”

“But then they apologized or whatever,” she continues. “And the whole time, I didn’t really care.”

Ice adds that she ran into Healy at a recent party, during which he apologized again.

“[Healy] was like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ and I’m like, ‘Of course,'” she says. “He apologized to me a bunch of times. We’re good.”

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Britney Spears may have told her Instagram followers to “lighten up” about the fact that she was dancing with what looked like extremely real and sharp knives, but many people were so worried about it that they reported it to police.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department confirms to ABC News that its deputies went to Britney’s home on September 27. Their visit was prompted by a call from the Los Angeles Police Department’s SMART team, which handles mental evaluations. That team was notified by someone who actually knows Britney and was worried about her well-being, so they notified the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. 

After vetting the info and confirming the person indeed had a personal relationship with Britney, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department decided to investigate.

Deputies who spoke with Britney’s head of security and her attorney determined she was not in danger.

In her initial Instagram post, Britney assured fans that the knives she was dancing with weren’t real. She then claimed that she was “copying Shakira,” because the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer had danced with knives during the MTV Video Music Awards a few weeks ago.  

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Unable to make it out to Thomas Rhett‘s upcoming headlining shows in Nashville? Don’t worry, he has you covered.

Thomas has announced that he’s livestreaming his Home Team Tour 23 concert live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday, September 29, at 9:15 p.m. CT, via his YouTube channel.

“So stoked to tell y’all that we’re live streaming Friday night’s #hometeamtour23 stop from Nashville!” Thomas shares on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Thomas will conclude his Home Team Tour 23 on Saturday, September 30, with his second Nashville show.

To set a reminder for this livestream, visit Thomas’ YouTube.

Thomas’ 20 NUMBER ONES collection and a recently teased “special new track” arrive September 29 and can be preordered now.

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A limited edition version of Jack White‘s Triplegraph Digital Octave guitar pedal is being released in honor of its three-year anniversary.

The pedal was originally released in 2019 and is the product of a collaboration between White’s Third Man Hardware and the CopperSound Pedals company. As described by Third Man, the Triplegraph “triggers an octave down with the left key, octave up with the right key, while the middle key activates a killswitch or auxiliary loop.”

Back when it was first announced, White shared a video of himself shredding a Triplegraph-assisted medley of songs, including The White Stripes‘ “Blue Orchid.”

The anniversary edition is limited to just 300 pieces, each of which comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by White. You can order yours now via the online gear marketplace Reverb.com.

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