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Kanye West admitted that he’s addicted to porn and has suffered the consequences.

“Pornography destroyed my family,” Ye wrote Thursday in a since-deleted post on Instagram. “I deal with the addiction.”

He also expressed concern about his daughters becoming involved in pornography. “Instagram promotes it. Not gonna let it happen to Northy and Chicago,” the Donda rapper continued.

Ye’s pornography statements were part of a larger rant in which he addressed his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, noting he was going to be the one to decide where his four kids go to school. “I’m the kids father,” he wrote.

He posted a since-deleted screenshot from Kim, where she responded, “Can u please stop.” West replied, “No. We need to talk in person.”

Also mentioned in the rant was Kim’s mother, Kris Jenner. In a since-deleted message addressed to Kylie Jenner‘s former assistant, Victoria Villarroel, Ye wrote, “Don’t let Kris make you do playboy like she made [Kylie] and Kim do.” He then shared another since-deleted screenshot from Kris in which she asked Kim to have him end the public exchange.

“Tell him to please stop mentioning my name,” the screenshot of Jenner’s message read.

After escalating the social media feud, West asked Travis Scott and Tristan Thompson, the father of Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian‘s children, respectively, to support him, writing, “We in this 2gthr.”

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will be bringing their Oscar-winning scoring skills to two new films.

The Nine Inch Nails duo is providing the soundtracks to the upcoming movies Bones and All and Empire of Light.

Bones and All is directed by Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, while Empire of Light is the latest from American Beauty and Skyfall director Sam Mendes. Both films are premiering at separate film festivals this weekend — Bones and All at the Venice Film Festival and Empire of Light at the Telluride Film Festival — followed by theatrical releases later this year.

Reznor and Ross have previously composed the scores for movies including The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl and Bird Box, as well as the Pixar film Soul alongside Jon Batiste. Both The Social Network and Soul won the Oscar for Best Original Score.

In addition to hearing Reznor and Ross on the big screen, you can see them live on Nine Inch Nails’ tour, which picks up again Friday at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

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Alicia Keys is ready to talk after a female fan grabbed her mid-performance and kissed her on the cheek.  

Hollywood Unlocked shared footage of the shocking moment to its Instagram.  The clip starts with the Grammy winner walking through the crowd while belting out Jay-Z‘s “Empire State of Mind.” A fan then grabs her face and pulls her in for a kiss. Alicia jerks away and looks shaken — but she continues singing.

The outlet captioned, “We love this song too, but damn, lady!” They also asked their followers if “this fan was doing too much” for kissing the singer.

The outlet’s three million followers agreed the woman was out of line and took note of the ongoing pandemic.

Alicia echoed those sentiments when she shared her two cents on the situation. “Trust me, I was like what the F***!!!!!!!!,” she commented. “Don’t she know what time it is???”

The fan has not been identified, but this has renewed fans’ calls to respect people’s personal space no matter how famous they are.

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A long-lost promo video that Motörhead had filmed to promote their 1982 album, Iron Fist, and its supporting tour has finally been officially released.

The unearthed clip shows the “Ace of Spades” trio — frontman Lemmy, guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor — dressed as medieval knights searching for the mythical Iron Fist weapon.

Forty years later, you can now watch the video, soundtracked by the previously unreleased instrumental demo “Ripsaw Teardown,” streaming on YouTube.

Iron Fist was the follow-up to 1980’s Ace of Spades and would be the final Motörhead album to feature the band’s classic lineup of Lemmy, Clarke and Taylor.

As previously reported, Iron Fist is being reissued on September 23 in honor of its 40th anniversary. The deluxe collection features a variety of bonus tracks, including demos, alternate versions, instrumentals and live recordings.

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Mariah Carey is the guest on the latest episode of Meghan Markle‘s podcast Archetypes, and a good part of their conversation has to do with the word “diva.” Mariah says being called a “diva” is a compliment and a criticism, noting that for her, it’s both. Now, she wants to clarify that when she used that word to describe Meghan in the podcast, she meant it only in the most positive way.

In the episode, when Meghan said she doesn’t “connect to” the “diva thing,” Mariah playfully teased her, “You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan,” the singer said. “Don’t even act like [you don’t].” Meghan starts to sputter and stammer and cries, “What kind of diva moments do I give you?”

“It’s the visual. It’s the visual,” Mariah quickly explains, saying that Megan’s beauty and her “gorgeous ensembles” make it seem like she’s “giving” us “diva.” “Oh, it’s the look,” says a relieved Meghan.

After the interview portion concludes, Meghan then reveals that when Mariah said that, she started to sweat and squirm in her chair, and her mind was “spinning” at the idea that the singer would ever use that word to define her.

Now, Mariah has tweeted further clarification. “Really enjoyed talking to Duchess and Diva Meghan Markle about ‘The Duality of Diva,” she writes. “Yes! I called her a diva, in the most fabulous, gorgeous, and empowering meaning of the word!!!”

Earlier in the podcast, Mariah and Meghan discussed the evolution of the term “diva,” which originally meant a prodigiously talented female performer and now, more often than not, has the connotation of, as Mariah puts it, “a b***h.”

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It’s the end of an era for Florida Georgia Line fans.

Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley played their final show as a duo at the Minnesota State Fair this week, and it was an emotional set for both the artists and the crowd.

“You’ve enabled us to chase this crazy dream of writing songs and playing shows and hoping someone will show up to listen, so thank you guys,” Tyler told fans from the stage, according to Variety.

“It’s the closing of an incredible, incredible chapter for us,” he continued. “It’s very exciting for us to look at what’s ahead, see what’s next. And the next chapter ahead is very exciting, but we want to celebrate this chapter with you guys.”

FGL announced that they were going on hiatus back in February, explaining that they were planning to pursue solo endeavors and hoped to use the final shows they had on the books as a way to celebrate their time together with their fans.

Both have already started releasing solo music: Brian put out his debut, Sunshine State of Mind, months before the break announcement, and he’s also at the end of a new country-themed musical called May We All. Meanwhile, Tyler is busily readying a solo album, which he kicked off with the release of his Dancin’ in the Country EP. He’ll be on tour with Keith Urban this fall.

For their final song as a duo, FGL performed “Cruise,” their breakout hit from 2012.

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Yungblud has premiered the video for “Tissues,” a track off his just-released self-titled album.

The clip finds the U.K. rocker channeling his inner Zack Morris as he dances around a group of people frozen in place. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

Yungblud, the album, is out now. Along with “Tissues,” which samples The Cure‘s “Close to Me,” the record includes the single “The Funeral” and the WILLOW collaboration, “Memories.”

Yungblud will continue to celebrate the album’s release with a number of record store appearances across the U.S. between Friday, September 2 and Tuesday, September 6. You can also catch him at several upcoming festivals, including Riot Fest, Louder than Life, Firefly and Aftershock.

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Megadeth has premiered the video for “The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead!” — the title track off the band’s brand-new album.

The clip is the final installment in a trilogy telling the origin story of Megadeth’s Vic Rattlehead mascot. Previous videos in the series accompany the songs “We’ll Be Back” and “Night Stalkers” featuring Ice-T.

You can watch the video for “The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead!” on YouTube.

The album The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead! is out now. It’s Megadeth’s 16th studio effort and first since 2016’s Dystopia.

Megadeth is currently on tour in support of The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead! alongside Five Finger Death Punch, The Hu and Fire from the Gods. The outing continues Friday in The Woodlands, Texas.

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Taylor Swift is heading to the Toronto Film Festival not only to screen All Too Well: The Short Film in its original form — she’ll also serve as a keynote speaker.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, who confirmed the report. Taylor is set to participate in an In Conversation With… address on September 9, where she will introduce her short film. 

“We’re excited to hear Taylor’s version of how absorbing influences from cinema led to her creating All Too Well: The Short Film,” Bailey said in a statement, noting “we’ll present in its original 35mm form for the first time at TIFF.”

All Too Well: The Short Film – the music video for the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” — starred Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien. It premiered November 12 in New York City’s Lincoln Square and has since been shown at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

When speaking about her film at Tribeca, the hitmaker said, “It felt very natural to extend writing a song and visualizing it in my head to making a shot list and storyboarding it and picking who we wanted as the head of each department and who would help put all of this puzzle together.”

It should be noted Taylor also performed the song live at Tribeca. It is unknown if she will do the same at TIFF.

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Michael Bublé is back on tour after welcoming daughter Cielo, and he wants his audience to feel just as ecstatic as he does through his live shows.

“I was terrified I’d never get back to work, that people would never be able to get back into a [concert venue] safely again,” he told Chicago Sun Times. “So I wanted this show to be a celebration of joy and love.”

The Grammy winner continued, “I didn’t want to rest on my laurels. People have never seen me in this way in concert before. … I want them to be part of something special for one night.”

Noting his Higher tour is “the biggest tour I’ve ever mounted, production wise,” Michael admitted to having an ulterior motive with this new trek.

“I’m giving people the chance to see something that went extinct a long time ago,” he dished, noting he’s “not trying to sound like a jerk” with these aspirations.

He explained, “If you never had the chance to see Frank [Sinatra] or Dean [Martin] or Elvis we’ve put [that show experience] into a pop setting. So you get the music but you [also get] the raconteur surrounded by a live, big band with string players and a full choir.”

Aside from saluting the legendary crooners, Michael further put a nostalgic spin on his show by arranging his orchestra in descending tiers, similarly to how Lawrence Welk fashioned his on The Lawrence Welk Show.

In addition to resurrecting an “extinct” form of live performances, he notes his new album Higher was also “terribly ambitious.”  

Tracks include covers of Sam Cooke‘s “Bring It On Home to Me” and Barry White‘s “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.”

He says he dabbled in different genres “for a little more fresh sound” and a “sense of newness.”

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