Xzibit’s Instagram comments were flooded by cat-loving fans across the globe who wanted to know how he was able to keep Thunder Cat alive for more than 20 years, and the West Coast rapper posted a follow-up video explaining his tactics on Monday.

“I had no idea you guys liked cats that much, but Thunder Cat has been in my life for a long time. She’s seen it all,” he said. “Everybody’s asking how I kept her alive for, you know, this long. Well, first of all, I love my cat. I take care of her and I look out.”

The former Pimp My Ride host revealed that Thunder Cat has a dry food diet for the most part, but gets a junk food treat when Thunder’s on his best behavior.

Xzibit credited doctors for getting her on an IV fluid regimen to treat her previous kidney and thyroid medical issues.

“People have loved my cat as much as I have for a long time, so people send me sh– all the time associated with my cat,” he continued. “The fact that this is going crazy is beyond me. But this is the kind of sh– I get.”

Fans have sent him gifts over the years, ranging from a sweater that he’s worn with Thunder Cat’s face emblazoned across the garment as well as various paintings and portraits. “People love Thunder Cat. I love Thunder Cat,” X added. “I’m glad you guys like her as much as I do.”

The feline has been getting so much love that X decided to make Thunder Cat his own Instagram account, which now boasts more than 25,000 followers.

On the music side, Xzibit’s last album came with Kingmaker last year. In May, he joined forces with D-12 and Ice-T for the band’s “Nightmare Walking” single.

Lil Wayne was an open book during his recent appearance on Lil Dicky, Benny Blanco and Kristin Batalucco’s podcast Friends Keep Secrets.

During a conversation about how he watched mostly Naked and Afraid and sports while he was behind bars, the New Orleans rapper admitted that Ancient Aliens is a guilty pleasure of his when he’s not watching sports.

“I love everything about Ancient Aliens,” he admitted after Batalucco asked if he watched the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure. “But that [documentary], Age of Disclosure, that’s when they’re exposing everything that the government is watching.”

He then said we still don’t truly know the real truth about aliens while also bringing up the conspiracy theory that an extraterrestrial by the name of “J-Rod” survived an alleged UFO crash that happened in Kingsman, Arizona, in 1953. “We also have to understand what an alien is,” Wayne said. “None of us know. We don’t even know if they’re from another planet. The only alien that we supposedly knew is the one from Roswell that lived, J-Rod.”

He added: “J -Rod said, ‘I’m not from another planet.’ He said, ‘I’m from another time.’ He said that your world will end in a cataclysm, and some people will make it — a lot of people will — and they’ll have to live within the planet, basically going like ants. And that civilization, that time, will last so long that we’ll adapt to living there, and just like we adapt to everything else, we’re gonna start adapting to being an insect, devoid of light. That’s why alien eyes are so big because wherever they came from, there’s no light and the atmosphere is so dense. That’s why they don’t grow too tall because the atmosphere don’t allow them to. They don’t eat the same food, that’s why don’t get so big like that.”

Elsewhere in the podcast, Weezy revealed that he eats “breakfast for dinner a lot” and that he’s not the biggest fan of milk even though its essential when enjoying a bowl of cereal. “I don’t do milk, and I still eat cereal. I put milk in it; I just can’t look at it,” he said. “I don’t eat a lot of things that are white and soft. So, like, mashed potatoes I don’t f— with. Ranch, I can’t do. Stuff like mayonnaise, nothing. Milk is the only thing, and white rice. That’s the only thing I can do.”

Oh, and we almost forgot: When asked who his favorite rappers were, Wayne answered with Jay-Z (despite the supposed Super Bowl snub) and Missy Elliott.

You can watch the full episode of Friends Keep Secrets featuring Lil Wayne below.

Liverpool’s Magical Mystery Tour has long been one of the city’s most in-demand tourist attractions, with fans of The Beatles taken on a city-wide excursion to key locations in the Fab Four’s story. Now it comes with added star power: Sir Paul McCartney himself.

The band’s bassist made an unexpected cameo on a daily tour yesterday (July 20) when guests on the Magical Mystery bus spotted him at a set of traffic lights. After waving to fans in the serendipitous moment, they then received an added bonus when, after waving to fans, McCartney showed them that he was currently on a Facetime call with former bandmate Ringo Starr.

Speaking to the BBC, driver and tour guide Neal Morton said “it was surreal” to spot the musician while on the tour of the city.

“I had pulled up at the traffic lights on Hope Street when who should I see – Sir Paul with Ringo on Facetime”, he said. “He waved to us, and everybody took photos. The passengers could not believe it.”

McCartney was in town ahead of a presentation to actor Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Irishman) with a companionship of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA); McCartney is a co-founder of the school and often attends graduation ceremonies for students.

The unofficial tour, named after their 1967 LP, is a two-hour visit to the city’s locations that played a part in the band’s stories, visiting their childhood homes, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, and finishing at the Cavern Club, where the group played early shows.

It’s the latest team-up between McCartney and Starr after the pair duetted for the first time on the former’s latest album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, released in May.

Every man knows that the surest way to a woman’s heart is through … hyaluronic acid? Well, that’s the pitch A$AP Rocky uses in a new ad for his line of Fenty Beauty skin products in which he co-stars with company founder and his longtime partner, Rihanna.

The minute-long FentySkin spot posted on Rih’s Instagram on Monday (July 20), is titled “DON’T BE DUMB, USE @fentyskin,” borrowing its name from A$AP’s fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb, which dropped in January. In it, the rapper and sometime actor takes on the role of a subway-style hawker, busting into a beauty salon with his loud and proud pitch.

“Ladies, ladies, can I have your attention please,” he says as he opens up his overcoat to reveal rows and rows of high-end beauty products lining the inside of the jacket. “I ain’t sellin’ no gel, I ain’t sellin’ no grease,” he adds as Rihanna sits up at attention and dips her tinted shades down to get a look at the handsome huckster.

Smoothly dropping the product-laden garment to the group, A$AP announces that there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s showing himself around. That confidence allows him to approach a clearly unimpressed RihRih, asking for two minutes of her time to sell her on his elixirs. “You got two seconds,” she says tersely.

A$AP, his hair pulled up on top with pink oversized curlers, tries to sell her on a daily moisturizer cream, mansplaining what SPF stands for along the way. “Don’t be dumb, you gotta use SPF,” he says smoothly, tipping some out to show off its qualities as Rihanna twists the curler-shaped bottle in her hands and coos, “I kinda like that,” after finding out its invisible on all skin tones.

The rapper tries to sell her on a lip balm as well, which comes with a keychain carrying case he personally designed. His pitch clearly lands, as Rihanna says “I’ll take all of it” at the end, adding in a cha-ching wink to close the deal. Check out other items in the A$AP Rocky x Fenty Skin line here.

Rocky will take his Don’t Be Dumb tour overseas next month, beginning with an Aug. 25 date at ING Arena in Brussels, Belgium.

Burna Boy granted fans an all-access pass to one of the biggest performances of his career, and Billboard had a front-row seat.

In a new behind-the-scenes video diary for Billboard, the genre-blending artist takes viewers through every single step of his day as he prepared to perform at the inaugural FIFA World Cup Final halftime show on Sunday. From a police escort at the beginning of the day to the adrenaline of stepping on the field at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium for the halftime show, the video transparently showcases a timeline of all the moments that led up to and followed his high-profile performance.

Along the way, Burna shares several memorable interactions. He poses for photos with collaborator Shakira, with whom he teamed up for the official 2026 FIFA World Cup anthem “Dai Dai.” The song — which the duo performed during Sunday’s halftime — spends a second week atop the Billboard Global 200 and a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. Burna also meets up with streamer iShowSpeed, embraces Justin Bieber in a hug, and even greets Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis, who made an unannounced cameo to introduce Bieber. After making his rounds, Burna squeezes in one final practice session right before taking the stage.

The camera follows Burna stepping onto the field, capturing the celebration. Burna is all smiles as the performance comes to an end, entering the players’ tunnel to return backstage and receiving praise from Chris Martin, who curated the halftime show and co-wrote the song “We Dance” with his Coldplay bandmates for the finale.

Watch Burna Boy’s full day in the life via Billboard below.

 J. Cole‘s The Fall-Off World Tour has gotten off to an auspicious start.

Last week during the tour’s second stop in Miami, a couple got engaged as he was performing “Life Sentence,” one of the latest cuts from his most recent album The Fall-Off, which is dedicated to love and marriage despite the song’s title. “What’s up, baby girl? What’s up, my boy? God bless y’all,” the rapper said once he caught wind of their engagement. “That’s f—ing beautiful. Y’all make some noise for them, man.”

There was also another couple who were getting married the day after the show at Miami’s Kaseya Center and had their seats upgraded by Cole’s team and invited him and his manager Ibrahim Hamad to the wedding. “Aye @KingOfQueenz @JColeNC we just wanna say thank you for tonight’s show in Miami. our original tickets had an ‘obstructed view’ and so y’all upgraded our tickets to the front row,” the fan wrote on X. “Y’all let a bunch of fans since 2010 make a core memory. thank you. my lady and I get married tomorrow at 3pm in Miami if y’all would like to come. shoutout to Cole for showing us love during Life Sentence.”

And now, during the tour’s fourth stop at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, someone threw their bra onstage as Cole was performing his hit record “Work Out” from his 2011 debut studio album Sideline Story. “N—a ain’t got a bra onstage in a long motherf—in’ time, boy,” he told the crowd as he was laughing in shock. “You gotta cherish that sh–.”

The American leg of Cole’s tour ends in his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina, at Crown Coliseum on Sept. 3. He then heads out for the European leg starting Oct. 7 at Uber Arena in Berlin and will end it at Unity Arena in Oslo, Norway, on Nov. 12, so there’s still plenty of time to catch him if you haven’t gotten the chance to already.

Make sure to bring either a bra or an engagement ring — or both.

Taylor Swift attended game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden in June, which saw the Knicks overcome a 29-point deficit for the largest comeback in Finals history. Knicks star Jalen Brunson spoke at Variety’s inaugural Sports & Entertainment Studio last week, during which he showed appreciation for having the pop supernova courtside among the celebrity guests in the crowd.

“It’s really cool having her there,” Brunson said, before bringing up Swift also being courtside for the Eastern Conference Finals in Cleveland. “I feel like her being in Cleveland for courtside one game, obviously, I think Travis and the Kelces are from Ohio, so I get that. And she’s been at the Knicks’ games before.”

He continued: “So, I mean, whoever comes, as long as you’re cheering us on, we appreciate it. And I think that was probably a really good game to come to as well.”

Swift cheered on the Knicks during the historic comeback in game 4 while rocking a “Stevie Knicks” T-shirt alongside HAIM’s Este and Alana Haim as well as actress Mariska Hargitay.

JB and the Knicks ended up disposing of the Spurs in five games to capture the franchise’s first championship in 53 years.

Page Six reported that Brunson and the rest of the Knicks starting five were invited to Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. JB didn’t confirm whether or not he was invited, but he did relay that he wasn’t at the star-studded affair.

“It’s a great question,” he said. “I found out the same way the rest of the world did. So, I don’t know if it was true or not, but I did not attend.”

Swift and Kelce tied the knot at Madison Square Garden on July 3 in front of more than 1,000 wedding guests, while Adam Sandler served as the ceremony’s officiant.

Hey, sexy ladies! PSY‘s smash hit “Gangnam Style” is now the first K-pop video to reach a major YouTube milestone.

As of Monday (July 20) — almost exactly 14 years after it was posted on the platform — the humorous, dance-heavy visual has amassed more than 6 billion views. No other music video in the genre has reached those numbers to date, underscoring PSY’s legacy of setting the stage for modern K-pop to cross over into the global mainstream in recent years with acts such as BTS, BLACKPINK and more.

Directed by Cho Soo-Hyun, the video finds the South Korean superstar causing chaos wherever he goes with his signature “Gangnam Style” choreography. A number of now-iconic scenes emerged from the project, including PSY busting a move by himself in a horse stable or singing to the camera while lying between a dancing man’s legs.

Reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2012, “Gangnam Style” has long been known as a game-changer. The year it was posted, its music video became the first upload to ever reach a billion views on YouTube, meaning it was the original member of the Billion Views Club that’s now inhabited by Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” and more pop smashes.

Several other K-pop visuals have also entered the club in the years since PSY kicked it off, including BTS’ “Dynamite” and “Butter” as well as BLACKPINK’s “Pink Venom” and “How You Like That.”

It’s been a few years since PSY dropped an album, releasing PSY 9th in 2022.

Add your view to 6 billion others by checking out the “Gangnam Style” video above.

Melanie “Mel C” Chisholm got married to Australian model Chris Dingwall on Saturday (July 18) in a private ceremony in the British countryside. According to British Vogue magazine, Chisholm, 52, known as “Sporty Spice” during her Spice Girls days, wore a simple, white floor-length gown while holding a bouquet of wildflowers during the nuptials at the Country House Cumbria in the Lake District.

Most of the other Spice Girls were on hand, including Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton, Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown and Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell-Horner, though Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham was not on hand because she was in New York for the 2026 FIFA World Cup third-place game on Saturday — where England defeated France 6-4 — as well as the Spain-Argentina finale on Sunday.

The magazine reported that after Dingwall surprised the singer by popping the question while they were on holiday in Mallorca last July, they began working on their summer wedding, which included a legal ceremony in the groom’s native Australia before Saturday’s event. Though Beckham was not there in person, Chisholm checked off the “something borrowed” item on her list by wearing a dress designed by the singer-turned-fashion designer.

“I was actually having dinner with Melanie and asked her what she was up to,” Beckham told British Vogue. “She very casually told me she was leaving for Australia in two days and getting married! When I asked what she was wearing, she mentioned she had actually ordered one of my dresses but that it didn’t quite fit, and she didn’t have time to get it altered before leaving. I happened to have that exact dress in my own wardrobe and offered to lend it to her.”

The lace cami dress was one of a number of pieces Melanie’s stylist had pulled ahead of the wedding, with the bride saying it was “the best, hands down. There’s just something about her clothes… they have a real simplicity, especially the slip dresses. They’re really feminine, but in a way that feels comfortable, and very me.” Once Beckham stepped up to figure out the sizing issue, Chisholm boarded her flight to Australia with the dress in hand. “Victoria’s dress was my something borrowed,” Chisholm said. “It was very special, having her there.”

And, when Beckham heard that a larger wedding was in the works in the U.K., she said she offered to make Chisholm her “dream dress,” using the original lace cami as a starting point. “Victoria wanted to make it much more personal to me. She found some gorgeous vintage lace, and everything was really delicately dyed to the perfect shade. It’s very flattering, open at the back,” said Chisholm, who met Dingwall on the exclusive celebrity dating app Raya in 2023; Chisholm has a 17-year-old daughter, Scarlett Starr, with ex Thomas Starr.

Though Beckham could not make it to the big day, British Vogue posted a series of snaps from the wedding, including one of the happy couple walking hand-in-hand, Chisholm getting a final fitting and the singer posing with the rest of her Spice Girls bandmates.