Pop culture is best when it’s at its worst – when headlines are so bad they’re good.

The Tone Deaf Trash Can is where we take some time to celebrate the funniest, weirdest and tackiest stories in music.

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Kendrick Kicks The CEO Of That Salad Company Off Stage For Not Knowing The Lyrics

I’m still trying to pretend that Kendrick Lamar never teamed up with overpriced rabbit food company sweetgreen to release that heinous pun salad, Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe.

So it warms my cold, cholesterol-strained heart to watch this video of King Kunta humiliating the CEO live on stage. As far as beef goes, this one is more mini pork slider than 32-ounce steak, but it’ll still satisfy your hunger.

As it happened, this week Kendrick was performing at sweetgreen’s Sweetlife Festival when he got to the point during his set where he likes to search for a lucky fan to bring on stage to help him spit bars on ‘m.A.A.d city’.

After looking through the crowd, asking specifically for someone who knows the lyrics, he pulls up man by the name of Jonathan, who Pitchfork have reported is actually the CEO of sweetgreen.

“Mind you, he’s representing all of y’all tonight, so y’all make sure y’all show him some love up here,” Lamar says as he introduces the man in white.

From there it gets extremely hard to watch. Old mate Jonathan flat-out chokes, possibly on a small flake of organic quinoa, and promptly gets kicked off in place for a true fan who proceeds to kill it.

Watch the train wreck unfold from around the 2:50 mark.

What’s that saying?

Blur’s Alex James on Oasis: “I hope [they] get back together. They can support us”

It’s always hard to know exactly where Blur and Oasis stand at any given moment. Just when you think they’re going to be happily ever after, Blur’s Alex James goes and throws shade over our parade.

In a new interview with The Independent, James seems pretty flattered when he’s asked to comment on Liam Gallagher calling Blur’s ‘Lonesome Street’ the “song of the year” in a tweet last month. The bassist even goes on to say that Damon Albarn is “quite good friends” with Noel.

“Liam’s come out and said ‘Lonesome Street’ is his favourite song of the year, God bless him. And Damon and Noel are quite good friends now. So, I think, let’s focus on the positives. It’s lovely that it’s got a happy ending,” he said.

Unfortunately, the quote didn’t stop there. He continued:

“I hope they get back together. They can support us.”

They can support us.

Zinger.

Well, that happy ending was nice while it lasted – a whole half a second.

It’s Started: Rogue Drone Attacks Our Hero Enrique Iglesias, Gives Ominous Glimpse At What’s To Come

Let me start by saying I have never been chill about drones becoming a thing. They can’t bribe me with pizza. I’ll never fucking trust them.

This week Enrique Iglesias learned the hard way what happens when you let an unmanned aerial vehicle that looks like it was pulled straight from a George Orwell novel into your life.

Fooled like many into believing he trained a robot wasp with only one thing on its mind – the blood of its creator – Iglesias was ultimately reminded of his, and the human race’s, futility.

Iglesias has a regular stunt during his arena shows that involves him catching a flying drone with his hand and filming how he sees the crowd from up on the stage. But the drone finally had enough, and proceeded to cut apart its owner’s hand with its razor-sharp blades.

It wasn’t pretty. Blood pouring everywhere, Iglesias had to cut the show short after continuing for another 30 minutes from the incident, and it’s going to take him several weeks to recover from the reconstructive surgery on his fingers.

I thought you were our hero, Enrique? Now who’s going to kiss away the pain when the drones have taken over and our world goes up in flames?

We’re fucked.

Erykah Badu Brilliantly Shuts Down Pregnancy Rumours With Three Words

A world in which neo-soul icon Erykah Badu – or any woman, for that matter – is the victim of sexist tabloid objectification that reduces the worth of her entire being to the measurement of her waist at any given moment is one I don’t want to live in. Did you know that if you don’t look like you’ve just walked off a photoshoot, you’re expecting a child?

Good thing Badu’s response to recent pregnancy rumours will give you the strength to go on.

Queen.

Is Kanye West Going To Buy Michael Jackson’s Neverland?

With Kim Kardashian freshly announcing that she’s pregnant with her second child – and possibly even twins – they’re going to need a whole lot more room for the kids to run around, right?

The internet has been getting giddily excited about the rumours that Kanye West has his eye on buying Michael Jackson’s $100 million mansion for his growing family.

Do we believe “an anonymous source” to a random newspaper called the Daily Star? Look, probably not. But do we want to? Yes. So shut up and roll with it.

According to this mysterious source, “Kanye is desperate to own the Neverland but he’s not prepared to pay the price they want.”

It’s the classic random-exclusive-magazine-source quote: vague and general, but with enough bold conviction to play at our imagination and leave us wanting more.

Eh, I’ll ship it.

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