Snoop Dogg is setting the record straight about how much weed he smokes in a day.
After Snoop’s “professional blunt roller” Renegade Piranha claimed that the rapper smokes between 75-100 joints a day — or around 450,000 joints total since she’s been rolling for him — Snoop took to Instagram Sunday.
In his Instagram post, he showed the pile of joints he had actually smoked in a day — which looked to be around 10.
“B***, this is all in a day’s work,” Snoop said in the clip. “Stop lyin’. How the f*** am I gonna smoke all that weed in one day? What am I a f****** machine?”
Claudio Sanchez and company have announced the 2023 SS Neverender concert cruise, setting sail October 23 from Miami and traveling to the Dominican Republic before returning October 27. It’s the second edition of the seafaring event following its inaugural launch in 2021.
“At first, I was reluctant when the idea was initially presented to us,” Sanchez says of the first cruise. “But sharing that time with people that are equally passionate about this bizarre corner of rock we’ve cultivated has made me a believer that this crazy outfit from Nowhere, NY, can do anything.”
During the 2023 cruise, Coheed will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2003 album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, which spawned the single “A Favor House Atlantic.” The performer lineup also includes Sunny Day Real Estate, Animals as Leaders, Anthony Green and Bartees Strange.
For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit SSNeverender.com.
Dolly Parton sings “Jolene” with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Dolly Parton officially became a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer over the weekend, an honor she initially tried to recuse herself from because — despite being a legend of the country and pop worlds — she didn’t quite think she qualified as a rock star.
But her fans, fellow artists and the Hall of Fame all begged to differ. Dolly was ushered into the Rock Hall Saturday night, inducted by pop star Pink and joined by an all-genre cast of artists, including Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, for a celebratory performance of “Jolene.”
Now, Dolly says she’s been inspired to put out a rock album. On the red carpet before the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, she dropped some details on that project to ET Online.
“It is happening. I’m gonna have one come out next summer, summer or fall,” the singer said, going on to say that the track list will include covers of rock classics and some big-name special guests.
“I’m doing a lot of classic rock songs and I’m gonna have a lot of icon singers sing with me, so it’s gonna be fun for me,” she continued. “Hope the crowd enjoys it.”
The “I’m So Sick” rockers have seemingly confirmed their original lead singer’s return in a tweet Monday, which is accompanied by an image of a flame surrounded by the words “Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm.” The tweet itself reads, “Arise and be all that you dream,” which is a lyric from Flyleaf’s 2009 song “Arise.”
Sturm sang on Flyleaf’s first three albums: 2005’s self-titled debut, 2009’s Memento Mori and 2012’s New Horizons. Just days before New Horizons was set to be released, Sturm announced her departure from Flyleaf and was replaced by vocalist Kristen May.
Flyleaf released one album with May, 2014’s Between the Stars, before she, herself, left the band in 2016. The group’s been on hiatus ever since.
Sturm, meanwhile, has pursued a solo career, dropping her debut album, Life Screams, in 2016.
Rihanna says becoming a mom gave her the extra boost of confidence she needed to be able to tackle the Super Bowl halftime show.
In a new interview with Extra, the singer says that having her son is one of the things that pushed her to say yes to the high-profile gig.
“I feel like it was now or never, really,” she says. “There’s this weird s*** that happens when you become a mom, that you just unleash or unlock other parts of your superpower, you feel like you can take on or you could do anything.”
She continues, “I wanted to take on the challenge and I wanted to do something that would force me to get back onstage.”
As for what motherhood has been like, Rihanna, who welcomed her first child with A$AP Rocky in May, says, “It is crazy. It is amazing. It’s wild. It’s weird. It’s all of those things, all at once. The best feeling, the best. The most love I’ve ever known. I can’t describe it. It’s new. It’s fascinating. Every step, every facial expression, every new milestone. I love it.”
Rihanna will take the Super Bowl halftime show stage on February 12, 2023. Before that, she’s got her Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4, which debuts November 9 on Amazon.
Over the weekend, Cher seemingly confirmed rumors that she’s dating 36-year-old music producer Alexander “A.E.” Edwards. The two were first spotted out together November 2, and TMZ reported that Edwards was seen kissing Cher’s hand in the back of a car.
On Sunday, Cher posted a closeup of Edwards on Twitter and captioned it, “Alexander” with a red heart emoji. When a fan asked if he was her “new man,” she responded with a smiling emoji surrounded by hearts. In another exchange, she confirmed that the two met during Paris Fashion Week.
When one fan expressed concern that Cher was being “taken advantage of,” the 78-year-old icon responded, “As we All Know …I WASNT BORN YESTERDAY, & What I Know For Sure…There Are No Guarantees. Anytime you make a Choice You Take a Chance.I’ve Always Taken Chances…It’s WHO I Am.”
After another fan wrote that Alexander “better be treating you like the queen you are,” Cher responded, “LIKE A [crown emoji].” When a fan asked if Cher’s bestie Paulette met Alexander, she replied, “No …Everyone in my family has.”
Afterward, Cher posted a separate tweet addressing the age difference between her and Alexander, stating, “I’m Not Defending us. Haters are Gonna Hate…Doesn'[t] Matter That & Not Bothering Anyone.”
According to E!, Edwards previously dated model Amber Rose; the two share a three-year-old son. Cher has been married twice — once to Sonny Bono, the father of her son Chaz, and once to late rocker Greg Allman, the father of her son Elijah.
Over the years, Cher has dated a number of celebrities, including Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Bon Jovi‘s Richie Sambora, Warren Beatty and Gene Simmons of KISS.
Keith Urban heads back to Las Vegas next March for an all-new residency, according to Billboard.
After a three-year residency that lasted from 2019 to 2022, Keith’s created an all-new show for a different venue — Zappos Theater — that he says will accommodate a somewhat larger crowd and a new, exciting feel for the fans coming to see the show.
“I haven’t played in there yet, but I’ve been in there and it felt a little more geared towards the kind of energy I was trying to create at [the venue for the last residency,] the Colosseum,” Keith explains.
As for what concertgoers can expect? Keith says that he’s hoping to strike a happy middle ground between flashy production and a simple, performance-driven show.
“I want to take advantage of being able to build stuff that’s just going to stay, but the spirit of my show, I’m never going to change that,” he says. “I’m going to have a certain way of playing that isn’t going to be too dependent upon behemoth props and production that kind of sweeps and drowns me. I’ve never been a fan of that for what I do.”
Keith’s residency launches March 3, with shows continuing on March 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 17 and 18. He’ll be back a couple of months later for more shows on June 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 30 and July 1. Tickets go on sale to the general public November 12.
When Mark David Chapman stared at a picture of John Lennon, he said to himself, “Wouldn’t it be something to kill him?” That’s according to a transcript of Chapman’s parole hearing obtained by ABC News through a New York State Freedom of Information Law request.
“At that point, the seed was planted to kill him. That seemed like the way out of all my problems and that’s it, basically, in a nutshell,” Chapman told the parole board, which denied him parole for a 12th time in September.
The transcript shows the parole board thought releasing Chapman “would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.” It conceded Chapman, 67, poses a low risk at this point after 41 years in prison, but cited his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence” in deciding to keep him locked up.
“The worldwide impact of your crime resonates such as to evoke images, memories and emotions internationally, leading the panel to concur that your release at this time would be incompatible with the welfare of society,” the decision said. “The panel is significantly concerned about your behavior before and during the [incarcerating offense], underscoring your stated quest to be immortalized, identifying, murdering your victim as your path to said end.”
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on December 8, 1980. He told the parole board he acted on a “compulsion to kill” Lennon.
“I was that desperate for attention. I gave up everything in my life, my wife, my family, my location in beautiful Hawaii, for one thing and that was to be somebody. I was feeling like a big nobody in the world, and this would change that, and that’s why I did it,” Chapman said.
Ozzy Osbourne apparently isn’t completely on board with moving back to England.
The metal legend, who’s long lived in Los Angeles, is gearing up to return to his home country with his wife, Sharon Osbourne. However, in an interview with Consequence, the Prince of Darkness shares that if he “had [his] way,” he’d “stay in America.”
In speaking about their decision to move, Ozzy brings up Sharon’s 2021 departure from the U.S. talk show The Talk, which happened after she asked former co-host Sheryl Underwood to explain how Piers Morgan‘s comments about Meghan Markle‘s then-recent interview with Oprah Winfrey were racist.
“When my wife got called a racist on, she is absolutely not a racist,” Ozzy says. “Her friend is Piers Morgan. She didn’t say, ‘I agree with him.’ She just respected his ability to have freedom of speech. That’s all that she said. And she got a lot of flak from that, so we actually had to have f***ing armed guards and all that.”
“It hasn’t gone sideways, it’s gone down,” Sharon adds of LA. “It’s not a fun place to live. It’s dangerous here. Every big city’s got crime, but I don’t feel safe here. Neither does Ozzy.”
Even so, Ozzy says, “To be honest with you, I don’t want to go back [to England]. F*** that.”
Speaking previously with The Observer about the move, Ozzy said he was “fed up with people getting killed every day,” adding that he doesn’t “want to die in America.”
“I’m English. I want to be back,” he said. “But saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go.”
The Osbournes’ return to England will be documented in the upcoming series Home to Roost.
Gomez and Raisa in 2014; Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Unlikely Heroes
Selena Gomez has responded to criticism that she slighted her friend Francia Raisa.
In her new Rolling Stone cover story interview, Selena said, “I never fit in with a cool group of girls that were celebrities. My only friend in the industry really is Taylor [Swift], so I remember feeling like I didn’t belong.“
Raisa, an actress who’s appeared in grown-ish, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and How I Met Your Father, famously donated her kidney to Selena in 2017. She apparently took issue with Selena’s categorization of Taylor as her “only friend in the industry” — if by “industry,” Selena actually meant the entire entertainment industry and not just the music industry.
As allegedly captured in a recent TikTok on an Instagram post highlighting Selena’s quote about Taylor, Raisa wrote “Interesting,” and then quickly deleted the comment. Fans immediately took sides, with some saying that Selena had dissed Raisa, and others defending Selena and saying Raisa should have reached out to Selena privately.
Now, Selena has directly responded to the TikTok: In the comments section, she wrote, “Sorry I didn’t mention every person I know.”
Raisa was also not mentioned at all in Selena’s AppleTV+ documentary, My Mind & Me.
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