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Killer Mike has issued a public apology to Ayesha Curry, Steph Curry‘s wife, after he commented on a TikTok video that made fun of her. Speaking to Shannon Sharpe on the Club Shay Shay podcast, he explained he was high when he wrote it. 

“Steph Curry, Ayesha Curry — boy, my wife done cussed me out. My oldest daughter called me. My youngest daughter called me. … Homeboys that have played in the NBA called me,” Mike said of the situation, which taught him “that maybe I shouldn’t smoke and get on Instagram.”

“So let me say this, ’cause I appreciate you checking it; it shows you have a tremendous amount of respect for me,” he added. “Mrs. Ayesha Curry and her husband, Steph, I apologize for my statement being misconstrued.”

“I was just stoned up, trying to make a joke,” he said. “It wasn’t my damn business, like my wife said. So, I’m sorry, y’all.”

Mike’s apology to Ayesha was for the comment he made in reaction to a video by BooWoodz, who suggested Ayesha was craving attention. 

“She wants to be GloRilla or some s***. Like we get it, bro. Just drop an an album or some s***. Stop embarrassing this man, bro. This s***’s getting pathetic,” BooWoodz said in the post, which prompted a response from Mike.

“My n**** said she wanna go be Glo!!! Man Steph doesn’t deserve the embarrassment frfr. God Bless him,” Mike wrote. Steph responded, “Naaaa not you Mike.”

“I’m cool [staying] silent and letting these other clowns have [their] moment! And you’re the worst of them [BooWoodz]. But you’re better than that [Killer Mike],” Steph continued. “Stay in your lane and let God keep blessing me like he is. We r good over here.”

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You’ll find Lainey Wilson on the November cover of Southern Living, and you can get a glimpse of her house in an article titled “Lainey Wilson’s Tennessee Home: Celebrating in style with country’s biggest star.”

“I always say that this house is kind of like the inverse of me because I feel like a farmhouse on the inside but a hippie on the outside,” she tells the magazine. “And I feel like my house is a farmhouse but a hippie on the inside, you know?”

Southern Living‘s interview took place in Lainey’s basement, which is decorated like “a cozy, kitschy speakeasy.”

“For so long, I’ve said, ‘When I get a place of my own, I want to walk in and just see a bunch of different colors and feel inspired and creative,'” she explains. “I write a lot of songs in this area. I get to look at these velvet paintings on the wall, I see Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton over here, and I wanna feel inspired.”

You can check out the full profile online, complete with a preview of what Lainey’s Thanksgiving will be like.

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Chad Kroeger is going from “Rockstar” to TV star.

The Nickelback frontman has been cast in an upcoming comedy series called I Kill the Bear, set to premiere in 2026 on the Canadian streaming service Crave.

I Kill the Bear is created by Jared Keeso, who also created the Canadian series Letterkenny and its hockey-themed spinoff, Shoresy. It follows a “family of bear wranglers for film sets, and why – after 100 years – they’ve decided to make this film their last,” according to a press release. 

As far as we can tell, I Kill the Bear is not at all related to a certain Chicago-set, high-stress restaurant dramedy.

Nickelback’s most recent album is 2022’s Get Rollin’.

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Jordan Davis, Mitchell Tenpenny, Tigirlily Gold, Colbie Caillait, NSYNC‘s Chris Kirkpatrick, LANCO, Maddox Batson and Olympian Shawn Johnson East are all confirmed to play in The Lucky Classic on Nov. 16 at Nashville’s First Horizon Park. 

University of Tennessee head baseball coach Tony Vitello is also set to lead one of the teams in the game, which raises money for The Burger Family Foundation. 

The new players join Russell Dickerson, Ashley Cooke and Tucker Wetmore, who are among the previously announced contenders, along with more than 20 MLB All-Stars.

The event is put on by the Texas Rangers’ Jake Burger and his wife, Ashlyn Burger, who live in Nashville. The Burger Family Foundation was inspired by their daughter, Penelope Burger, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome.

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The cast of Tyler Perry‘s Why Did I Get Married? will reunite for the movie’s threequel, set to release on Netflix. Perry recently announced the stars joining him in Why Did I Get Married Again?, naming original cast members Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Lamman Rucker and Sharon Leal. New to the cast are Everett Osborne, Da’Vinchi, Laya Deleon Hayes, Jaden Michael, Sydney Winbush and Taraji P. Henson.

“Look at God,” Taraji wrote on Instagram, alongside a screenshot of Variety‘s article announcing the news. “Honored to join the iconic cast of Why Did I Get Married Again? alongside my brother @tylerperry and this powerhouse crew!!!”

Released in 2007, Why Did I Get Married? — inspired by Perry’s play of the same name — follows a group of close friends on their annual weeklong married couples trip, which ends up exposing the cracks in each of their relationships. The couples reunite and share updates while vacationing in the Bahamas in 2010’s Why Did I Get Married Too?

The threequel will find them gathering again for the wedding of Marcus and Angela’s daughter — an experience that shows the group that their children mirror them in many ways. “Realizing their children have grown up to be so much like them, they must reflect on the examples they’ve set and ask themselves that age-old question, why did they get married… again?” reads the logline, according to Deadline.

Why Did I Get Married Again? is Perry’s latest film with Netflix. He has also written, directed and produced Ruth & Boaz, Madea’s Destination Wedding and Straw for the streamer.

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The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a deluxe reissue of their 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in honor of its 30th anniversary.

The expanded set features the original track list accompanied by over 80 minutes of previously unreleased live recordings from the Pumpkins’ 1996 tour. It’s due out Nov. 21 on CD, digital and as a six-LP vinyl box set accompanied by a hardcover book of new liner notes written by frontman Billy Corgan.

You can listen to the included live version of the song “Geek USA” now.

“Unearthing these live recordings from the original lineup’s true, last large-scale tour was a labor of love, and for me certainly a bittersweet as once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same: be it emotionally, or spiritually,” Corgan says. “Thankfully, I can say this as the band is now enjoying our greatest public success since that time, and one can hear in these tapes the raw power that such nascent faith afforded us, then, and the will and wisdom to persevere that followed.”

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was originally released Oct. 23, 1995. The double, 28-track album spawned a number of the Pumpkins’ biggest hits, including “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Zero.”

Corgan is also celebrating the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness anniversary with a series of performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago beginning in November, featuring “newly commissioned arrangements and orchestrations” of the album’s songs.

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On her song “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” the title track off her new solo album, Hayley Williams sings, “I’ll be the biggest star at this racist country singer’s bar.” When asked about the lyric in an interview with The New York Times’ Popcast, the Paramore frontwoman has no qualms with naming names.

“It could be a couple, but I’m always talking about Morgan Wallen,” Williams says, referring to the hitmaking “Last Night” singer.

“I don’t give a s***,” Williams adds. “Find me at Whole Foods, b****, I don’t care.”

Also during the interview, Williams speaks on the status of Paramore after previously describing the band as being on break.

“Paramore’s not ever going away,” Williams says. “We need breaks. We are three people that have been in a washing machine since we were teenagers, and it really affected all three of us in vastly different ways. … I don’t get to say, ‘This is exactly what we’re gonna do next,’ because, like I’ve been saying my whole career, Paramore’s a band.”

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Lee Brice is getting introspective on his new track, “Killed the Man,” which drops Oct. 31. 

“When I first heard this song, it made me look back at my own life and see the man who I was isn’t the man I am today,” he explains. “I think the message is something anyone can relate to as we all strive to evolve and grow through life and its challenges.”

“For me, ‘Killed The Man’ captures that stripping away of the ego to become who God intended me to be, leaning into family, faith, and something bigger than myself,” he adds.

Lee promises it’s just the beginning of new music to come. “Killed the Man” follows July’s “Said No Country Boy Ever” and his recent single, “Cry.” 

His last full-length album, Hey World, came out in November 2020 and featured the number ones “One of Them Girls” and “Memory I Don’t Mess With.”

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