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Drake jumps on Metro Boomin’s ‘BBL Drizzy’ diss
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon didn’t strike out when they met their idol Kevin Costner in their early acting days.
During a Wednesday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Costner recalled meeting the young actors on the set of his 1989 baseball drama “Field of Dreams.”
Costner had an exchange with Affleck and Damon, who were 16 and 18 respectively at the time of the film’s release, during a scene shot at Boston’s Fenway Park. In their roles as extras, Affleck and Damon played baseball fans visiting the famous stadium.
Kimmel then revealed he had texted Damon about the encounter, and the “Oppenheimer” star gushed about his interaction with Costner.
“I literally had an ‘Untouchables’ poster on my wall,” Damon wrote to Kimmel, referring to Costner’s 1987 film “The Untouchables.”
An unexpected contender jumped on Metro Boomin‘s beat diss against Drake titled “BBL Drizzy.”
The Canadian rapper, 37, spit over the beat on Sexyy Red’s song “U My Everything“from her new album “In Sexyy We Trust,” released Friday.
“Me and the surgeon got history / I changed a lot of girls’ lives for real, they need a new body, they hittin’ me,” Drake raps before the beat switches to Metro’s “BBL Drizzy.”
He continues, “BBL Drizzy, they want a new body, they ask me for it / The last one drunk, he did it for free ‘cause I sent over so many passports for him, for real.”
Metro and Drake became locked in a feud when Kendrick Lamar dissed the “Certified Lover Boy” rapper on Future and Metro‘s “Like That” song, released March 22.
Corrin opens up about ‘vitriol’ over their gender identity
Emma Corrin has stopped reading online comments due to the hate they receive on social media.
Three years after they announced their preferred use of they and them pronouns, the actor revealed, “The vitriol is worse than I anticipated” in an interview for the June/july issue of Harper’s Bazaar, which published online Wednesday.
Corrin, a Cambridge University graduate who broke out in 2020 for portraying Princess Diana in Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown” and won a Golden Globe for their transformative performance, mused about why people might react the way they do.
“People follow me because they’ve watched something I’m in. They think I’m one kind of person, and then they’ll see who I actually am and how I present,” Corrin said. “I will never understand why. Who are you hurting by being yourself? Why am I controversial?”