Snoop Dogg was in the house as a presenter for best podcast at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards — or as Snoop calls it, “the double-G’s” — on Sunday night (Jan. 11), and a portion of his speech was censored while he was speaking.

“Stop the music! I need y’all to loosen up a little bit. This is the double-G’s, the double-G’s, it’s the Golden Globes, and you’re with the D-O-double-G,” he began after being introduced with his 2004 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Drop It Like It’s Hot” on the CBS and Paramount+ broadcast. “So, make sure you enjoy yourself, don’t be no stiff biff! Move around a little bit!”

Snoop continued: “Best podcast is a very important category for me because before podcasts, I was what y’all would listen to driving around in your cars. To you podcasters, you better hope I don’t get in that game. Shout-out to the Golden Globes for putting the podcast category in this awards show. And shout-out to all of the podcasters. You all are winners, but the real winner is …”

And right before announcing that Amy Poehler’s Good Hang was going to take home some hardware, the Death Row legend had a moment of candid reflection in true Snoop Dogg fashion. “I’m high as a motherf–ker right now,” Snoop admitted, according to Entertainment Weekly, who was in attendance at the awards ceremony. “Y’all had me here too damn long!”

The moment brought some comic relief, breaking the tension inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Still, millions of viewers were left in the dark as CBS censored Snoop talking about getting a little too stoned, even with his sky-high tolerance.

Snoop had a blast on the red carpet as well, which saw him leaving Hollywood’s finest starstruck. Holding down the carpet for Access Hollywood, Odessa A’Zion, Glen Powell and The Rock were among those hyped to catch up with Snoop.

Next up on the side quests for Snoop, the West Coast icon is heading to Italy in February, where he’ll serve as a special correspondent at the 2026 Winter Olympics and a the first-ever honorary coach for Team USA.

Watch the clip of Snoop Dogg presenting below.

At the 2026 United States Figure Skating Championships on Friday (Jan. 9), Alysa Liu proved once again that she’s a monster on the ice and a Little Monster in her heart.

Despite there being just a few weeks left until the Winter Olympics in Italy, the 20-year-old skating prodigy debuted a brand new routine set to two of Lady Gaga’s best known classics: “Paparazzi” and “Bad Romance.” Taking the ice in a shimmering silver leotard, Liu dazzled the crowd and judges with a slew of unbelievable jumps, turns and spins.

As Mother Monster’s voice filled up the arena, Liu let the song speak through her movements, emotion playing out on her face. She would end the competition with 228.91 points, coming in second place behind Amber Glenn.

In just a few weeks, Liu will head to Milan as part of Team USA for the Winter Games starting Feb. 6. As she told Olympics.com, however, she probably won’t perform the Gaga routine in Italy, even though she “really wanted to do it once at least” at the U.S. Championships.

Liu had previously performed a routine featuring Gaga’s Wednesday single, “Bloody Mary,” though copyright issues prevented her from continuing with the use. She also switched up the music to her short program in September, dropping D4vd’s “This Is How It Feels” collaboration with Laufey from the soundtrack after the body of a 15-year-old girl was found in D4vd’s impounded Tesla in Los Angeles.

“In light of recent news, my team & I are confidently pursuing a different direction that aligns with my values & just my overall ethos,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “I’m eager to start brainstorming new ideas, & I want to ensure my creative process isn’t rushed.”

Watch Liu’s Lady Gaga routine below.

SEVENTEEN‘s JOSHUA thinks KPop Demon Hunters has given K-pop a lot of golden opportunities.

While speaking to Billboard‘s Tetris Kelly on the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet Sunday (Jan. 11), the star shared how incredulous he feels that the Netflix animated film has been so successful — both on the streaming service and on the charts. “KPop Demon Hunters, I’m really happy … it’s opening up new doors for K-pop,” JOSHUA said.

The musician added, “[I] can’t believe it got this big.”

Ending 2025 as Netflix’s most streamed title of all time, KPop Demon Hunters has had unprecedented success since its premiere in June. One of the songs on its soundtrack, “Golden,” shined at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks — and on Sunday, it took home the Globe for best original song.

“It’s a dream come true to be part of a song that’s helping other girls, other boys and everyone of all ages to get through their hardships and accept themselves,” said EJAE, one of the singers behind fictional Demon Hunters girl group HUNTR/X and “Golden” cowriter, during her acceptance speech. “It’s never too late to shine like you were born to be.”

The award show came amid a short break in SEVENTEEN’s New_ world tour, which ended 2025 with a run of shows in Japan. The trek — which will pick back up Feb. 28 in China — supports the boy band’s 2025 Happy Burstday album, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. In the meantime, members DK and SEUNGKWAN dropped a joint mini album, Serenade, on Monday (Jan. 12).

And while JOSHUA told Billboard that he’s excited for everything coming up for SEVENTEEN, he’d also like try acting — specifically “something in a sitcom, like a comedy sitcom. I grew up watching that.”

The singer also shared which trending show he’s planning to watch soon. “I haven’t seen Heated Rivalry yet,” said JOSHUA, who would meet up with the hockey romance’s stars, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, backstage at the Globes. “A lot of fans have been recommending that to me, so definitely going to check it out.”

A$AP Rocky is gearing up to release his anticipated Don’t Be Dumb album on Friday (Jan. 16), but the Harlem native decided to drop off a single for fans on Monday (Jan. 12) with “Helicopter$.”

Produced by Kelvin Krash, the twitchy track finds Rocky clearing up that he won’t be wearing Nikes on his feet anytime soon. “Not checkin’ my sneakers, no checks on my sneakers/ Just Puma, Gap and, yeah, the goody GRIM,” he raps.

“Helicopter$” arrived alongside a partially animated music video on Monday. The Dan Streit-directed clip brings the chaos as Rocky leads his crew around the city in a stolen helicopter, while a cop chase ensues.

SWAT team members break in to Rocky’s house and he makes a last-ditch escape effort on the chopper, but unfortunately, falls and splatters to his death.

In the football world, a helicopter tackle is when a player is launched by a defender so that their body is planking parallel to the field and does at least a 180-degree spin. That probably isn’t the helicopter Rocky is referring to in his new single, but ESPN synced “Helicopter$” as the official soundtrack to the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Mob frontman’s “Punk Rocky” was also used by ESPN to soundtrack a semifinals spot, while Indiana University will battle the University of Miami next Monday (Jan. 19) in the championship, which will be a de facto home game for the Hurricanes with it being played at Hardrock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

It’s been a turbulent road for A$AP Rocky getting from 2018’s Testing to Don’t Be Dumb, but release week is finally here, with the project set to arrive in just days.

Rocky tested the waters with his first single of 2026 on Jan. 5, which saw the release of his indie-leaning “Punk Rocky” single starring actress Winona Ryder in the music video.

Louis Tomlinson knows more than anyone just how fast the night changes, from being part of the biggest boy band in the world to watching the members of BTS take that label for themselves in recent years.

In his Billboard cover story published Monday (Jan. 12), Tomlinson tells executive director of music Jason Lipshutz that despite not paying “loads of attention to” the success of other groups post-1D, the Bangtan Boys’ astronomical rise has been impossible to ignore. “There was a time when BTS was on the way up, and I felt like, every time I logged into Twitter, they’d just taken one of our records for something — some fastest selling thing, and they’d take it away!” the British singer playfully laments.

“It was just a bit of a shame! But I don’t begrudge them that — that’s the nature of the music industry, it keeps moving,” Tomlinson continues.

That said, the star thinks there hasn’t “been anything similar, really” to the phenomenon of 1D back in its heyday in the 2010s. “I’m sure people are trying, but I think what was really interesting about One Direction [was] pretty much every boy band that had come before us would fit into a quite specific mold,” he adds. “There was a way of doing boy bands back in the day — dressing in the same outfits, dancing. We broke free from that mold.”

Tomlinson’s cover story comes just a couple of weeks ahead of his next solo album, How Did I Get Here?, which is due out Jan. 23. It also follows a deeply difficult year or so for the singer and his former bandmates, who have had to grieve the untimely loss of Liam Payne following the “Strip That Down” artist’s death in October 2024.

“Naturally, there is a closeness — it definitely feels closer than it was,” Tomlinson tells Lipshutz of his dynamic with Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik in the aftermath of Payne’s death. “But I think we’re all so busy, it’s hard to keep that consistency. It also depends person to person. Like, Niall — and hopefully he’d say the same about me — we could not exchange a text in a whole year and then go for a beer and literally be chatting nonstop.”

See Tomlinson on the cover of Billboard below.