An unreleased Beastie Boys video, reportedly directed by Roman Coppola, made the rounds Monday. It features Nas and accompanies 2009 song "Too Many Rappers" from the band's final album—2011's Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. The clip was cut and posted to the website of editor Neal Usatin (a frequent Beastie collaborator) in 2012, but a fan on the Beastie Boys' message board noted its existence this morning, and it's been an opportunity for the world to dig it.

Nice moment to enjoy a legendary, defunct crew—even better considering how good it is. It's bizarrely playful and runs on a series of astute, eight-measure verses from the four veteran rappers. Nas raps about how wet Russian women get; it's melancholy to hear Adam Yauch rap "I never die, 'cause death is the cousin of sleep" (he passed away from cancer in 2012).

It's also very easily the most exuberant Beasties video since the late '90s Hello Nasty era. Proof positive: all of these places and things the Beastie Boys appear alongside. Here are the 10 best. You can watch the video below.

10) With tartar sauce

9) In a tree

8) With this tiny dog

7) Around the Parthenon

6) Appearing to fashion a bong from a prescription drug container

5) On this dope-ass bridge

4) By this dumpster

3) At Lee's HAIR & DOLLAR store

2) Arby's, son

1) The grocery store

Update 5:52pm CT, Jan. 13: The Beastie Boys and Nas are rapping at the Parthenon in Nashville. 

The film hits theaters May 1.

Screengrab via Marvel Entertainment/YouTube

Anyone who’s ever taken a peek at the bottom of a eye shadow case, or sought a new tinted moisturizer, knows that makeup names can be downright absurd. The sheer volume of bizarre and provocative makeup names abound is enough to make your head spin.

What exactly is going on in those marketing meetings where companies dream up new makeup names?

A new video from UCB Comedy written by Anna Rubanova, one of the creators of the Left Handed Radio sketch comedy podcast, takes us behind the company doors and dares to ask, what happens once you realize all the makeup names are taken?

Rubanova’s hilarious, absurdist writing uses classic wordplay: suggested names include “Like What” and “Did That,” but, spoiler alert, they’re taken. The meeting zips along at a frenetic pace and the names they blow through will have beauty fans chuckling out loud.

But, warning, the name they finally come up with is so funny it might make your head explode.

Update 12:43am CT, Jan. 13: The sketch is about eye shadow. 

Screengrab via UCBComedy/YouTube

While he may be a Hollywood A-lister today thanks to his Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club as well as memorable roles in everything from The Wedding Planner to Interstellar, McConaughey was little more than a pretty face with a difficult-to-spell surname back in 1993. Nevertheless, he amused audiences with his turn as 20-something stoner David Wooderson, best known for the lines "That's what I like about these high school girls: I get older, they stay the same age" and, of course, "All right, all right, all right."

Now, McConaughey's audition tape for Dazed and Confused has surfaced, affording his fans a rare glimpse at the earliest years of the superstar's career.

He didn't look too comfortable with his now-classic line, did he?

Compare it with the finished product.

BroBible has the backstory on how he landed the gig:

McConaughey actually got the part as a matter of chance. He said he was hanging out at a hotel bar in Austin, Texas, when he just so happened to run into Don Phillips, a casting director. The two did some drinking and quickly developed a bond. “Top of the Hyatt, Thursday night!” McConaughey said. “I went there because the bartender there gave me free drinks because he was in my film school class [at the University of Texas at Austin]. We got kicked out! We were really drunk. We were talking about a golf hole that we had both played and we were just so loud that management told us to leave.” Matthew sure knows how to make a first impression.

H/T Digg / Image via Denise Cross Photography/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Last month, it was reported that Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of Britney, pulled a knife at a Louisiana Pita Pit after a friend of hers was allegedly hit over the head with a bottle.

The altercation took place in Hammond, La., and according to TMZ, Spears “went all Saving Private Ryan” and pulled the injured friend to safety. She then grabbed a long bread knife from behind the counter to fight off the assailant(s). 

In this newly released security footage procured by TMZ, you can see the fight start. Take note of how unfazed the guy behind the counter is, even when Spears walks toward him wielding a bread knife. This is either the best or worst Yelp review ever. 

H/T Defamer | Photo via r.nial.bradshaw/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

The family that pranks together stays together—or at least that's the logic behind Jack Vale: Offline, a new HLN series that follows the exploits of a family of YouTube pranksters and what it takes to pull off their epic videos.

"For a few years, we’ve had networks and production companies interested in what we’re doing with the family, but it wasn’t something we’d pursued," explained Vale, who's been making prank videos on YouTube since 2007. He's amassed 1.2 million subscribers and won the 2014 Streamy for best pranks.

"When the Osbournes were on, we watched them," Vale told the Daily Dot. "All of that stuff is super entertaining to us and our family; even the Kardashians are interesting to us. This is just so different because a lot of reality shows have that element of drama or conflict going on. That’s not really in this show. There’s some things that happen that cause a little bit of stress in terms of getting the right shots, but this is really a family-friendly show. There’s a lot of laughter in our house all the time, and the show really captures that."

"It definitely didn’t change the style, but it changed the structure," Vale said. "The interesting thing to me is we’re shooting this for TV, so we 100 percent have to get this done. So if I’m shooting for YouTube, I might have a crappy day where we don’t get the reactions we want, so we have to go back and do it another day. The fun thing about this is we have this whole crew, a team of people around you, to just really make stuff happen really quickly." Thanks to the help of a TV crew, they had the ability to easily switch locations, figure out alternatives, and get the shots they needed for their prank videos.

While Vale is not the first YouTuber to make the jump from computer screen to TV screen, he thinks the allure of networks is much less now than it was in the early days of YouTube.

"[YouTubers are] making a lot of money doing what they’re doing, and they’re in control of everything," Vale said. "For me, I’m an old-school guy. This has always been my goal. I love that thought of branching out and putting my eggs in different baskets, but I’ve been open to everything, whatever God wants for the family."

"Anybody with a camera can be on YouTube," he said. "Networks and production companies have a lot to weed through."

In the field of pranking, many have come under fire for either questionable tactics that cross the line to physical and sexual harassment or methods that end up with less-than-honest video premises. For Vale, who's kept his work family-friendly, he says the laugh is always the focus, not the prank.

"I know that the type of pranks that I do really are harmless and fun," he said. "For me it’s not about the pranks; it’s about the comedy. I love making people laugh, and pranking is an avenue to make people laugh, I’m all for it. If someone does get upset, if that does happen, I’m a pretty good talker. I can smooth things over."

Jack Vale: Offline premieres Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 10pm ET on HLN. 

Photo via Jack Vale | gothopotam/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) | Remix by Jason Reed 

Macklemore’s going beyond the thrift shop searching for bargains.

The rapper recently visited Sesame Street and joined up with the Grouches to find the most disgusting pieces of trash around. It's a parody of “Thrift Shop” that could double as a commentary for how some people feel about the original. It’s at least a year late but no less enjoyable, as Macklemore is fully willing to poke fun at himself.

After all, one man’s trash is another grouch’s outfit.

Of all the media famed and controversial director Woody Allen is known for—films, plays, books, jazz—TV had long been conspicuous by its absence. California is so clean, his alter ego in Annie Hall says, because “they don’t throw their garbage away, they make it into television shows.”

Perhaps now that we’re moving beyond the era of Nielsen-grubbing network broadcasts, Allen sees things differently: Fresh off two Golden Globe wins for the groundbreaking Transparent, programming newcomer Amazon announced a deal with the nebbishy auteur to produce a full season of a 30-minute TV episodes. Untitled Woody Allen Project, which we really hope is the official and not working title, will be available “exclusively on Prime Instant Video next year.”

Cast and plot details are more or less nonexistent at the moment, but with Allen’s late work, you pretty much know what you’re going to get, and you just have to pray it’s not set in Europe. “I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin,” the cinema legend remarked. “My guess is that [Amazon Studios chief] Roy Price will regret this.”

Amazon’s streaming TV service costs $99 for a year subscription, which these days is the equivalent of going to the movies about six and a half times. So choose wisely.

Rumor has it that baseball Hall-of-Famer Wade Boggs once drank 70 beers during a cross-country flight. But according to Charlie Day, star of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, that number is higher than anyone even imagined.

On the Tonight Show, Day told host Jimmy Fallon all about the season premier of It's Always Sunny, which is entering its 10th season, where the gang tries to break Boggs's impressive/worrisome beer-guzzling record.

Day managed to get Boggs on the show to play himself, as Day’s character is hallucinating after 30-something beers. According to Day, Boggs told him that the record wasn't 50, or 60, or even 70—it was actually 107. That's right, 107 beers.

“He’s got a hotdog-eating stomach, but for beer,” Day explained.

When we last left YouTube star Shane Dawson, he was being called out by fellow YouTuber Franchesca Ramsey for doing blackface in past YouTube videos and suffering no repercussions from the community. Dawson apologized—but not before he got a few condescending jabs in at critics.

Some YouTubers, in the wake of controversy, retreat from social media and reexamine their life choices. Dawson is not one of them.

Last night, Dawson shared his opinions on ABC’s prime-time lineup. 

If you want to get familiar more with what Dawson considers entertainment, just take a look at his latest video.

H/T Fusion | Screengrab via Shane Dawson TV/YouTube 

Whitey is a story loaded with drama, salvation, redemption, crime, brutal fighting, and integrity. The show, with half of the planned 18-episode run online, is pretty good as well.

Jeff Hennessy, creator/writer/star of Whitey is a character in every sense of the word—and a truly talented one at that. A conversation with Hennessy takes you from Southie Boston to the squared kickboxing circles of South America to regular Alcoholic Anonymous meetings. Out of this meandering path came a webseries about one of America’s most notorious and colorful criminals, Whitey Bulger. The series, rooted in the true story of one of Boston’s more celebrated racketeers, uses true facts as the ballast but branches out into many “what if” scenarios over the course of the series.

“It is fictionalized reality,” Hennessy told the Daily Dot. “I took creative license to make this mine as well as Whitey’s.”

The initial eight episodes accurately portray the cat-and-mouse game that is Bulger’s life. He's currently serving two consecutive life sentences in prison, but Bulger was often noted as a clever sort who worked both sides of the law, serving as an informant for the FBI in its attempt to bring down a prominent Mafia family. That storyline, carefully captured but slightly embellished, is the prominent theme that adds some unexpected twists and turns to the series.

The release of Whitey is timed to take advantage of the buzz surrounding the scheduled September release of Black Mass, the big-budget Johnny Depp film that offers a big-screen account of Bulger’s life. Hennessy said character actor Donald Watson, who stars as Bulger in the webseries, “will blow Johnny Depp out of the water.” While lacking the pedigree and award hardware of Depp, Watson’s brashness and manic ruddiness makes him the perfect Southie going through life with a large chip on his shoulder.

Whitey comes out of the gate with a familiar ring to it, grabbing a few notes from Jack Nicholson’s performance from The Departed and the good-versus-evil dichotomy that was a strong element in the 2010 Ben Affleck film The Town. The production is a little rough in spots—for example, the locations used as FBI headquarters don't ring true—but the writing and acting are both strong, especially for the webseries genre.

Hennessy’s view of the future for Whitey is fluid and could take him—and his project—in several different directions. The initial episodes were self-funded, but Hennessy has added a PayPal link to encourage fans to donate to keep the series going. He said there is enough material to do 50 episodes, and he sees no end in site for his show. That said, L.A. resident Hennessy says he can see himself being approached by literary and theatrical agents with some writing and acting opportunities. In terms of his own path, Whitey is powerful proof that Hennessy has what it takes to helm a major project.

As characters go, Jeff Hennessy is an original. He prides himself on giving others a second chance with a dual commitment to his own sobriety and a future as an actor and writer. As with Bulger’s story, Hennessy is a bit bigger than life. Luckily, the webseries creator has more altruistic motives in mind for his future work, as he hopes to gain fame for good deeds and a goal of continued salvation.

Screengrab via Whitey Web Series/YouTube

Another semester at Greendale is about to begin.

Yahoo announced that Community, which it brought the cult comedy back from cancellation, will premiere on Yahoo Screen on March 17 during its Television Critics Association (TCA) panel Tuesday.

“You know Community,” Joel McHale said. “It’s the best show in the history of all-viewed anything. I’m not gonna say television because it’s not on television. You know why? It’s better than television.”

Reddit is not always known as a place of tact or class, but today the community devoted to the Serial podcast is paying its respects to Hae Min Lee with a day of silence to honor the anniversary of her death.

The subreddit, which has over 40,000 subscribers, is normally a place of discussion, debate, and obsessive theorizing by fans of the podcast. But all discussion is currently on pause. Instead, the subreddit features only the following message, urging readers to honor Lee’s memory, and suggesting donations to the Woodlawn High School Scholarship Fund:

The scholarship fund, which was founded by listeners of the podcast, will be collected by Charitysmith, a non-profit foundation, and given to the high school to distribute to graduating students at their discretion.

Photo via Crimefeed | Remix by Jason Reed

So, you think you’ve got a pretty good grasp on The Big Lebowski? Well, after watching it for the thousandth time with some close bros and white Russians, you probably do.

Still, we bet there’s something in this trivia primer that you didn’t know, hadn’t considered, or just won’t believe—from the rate of expletives to the real-life inspirations for Walter Sobchak to an eerie coincidence of history. But it’s the rug, of course, that ties everything together.

Photo via Max Geiger/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

While 4chan's /b/ board may be notorious for porn, gore, and Internet pranks, the users posting on book forum /lit/ generally stick to discussions of novels and other reading material. 

This changed over the weekend when the forum began sharing videos by a book vlogger known as Katie.

"Hi /lit/," one user wrote, "what do you think of the 'Booktuber' trend?"

"Fuck… I lost hard," one user wrote, referring to the 4chan meme "You Love, You Lose"—posting images of hot women with the intention of finding a new Internet crush.

Then the users went to YouTube to try to get her attention.

Katie took notice.

She added, "I am so disgusted and feel violated beyond belief."

While several on the board showed remorse—"I'm fucking ashamed of us," one wrote—it was too late. Katie took down her YouTube page. 

Katie's Tumblr remains active. A /lit/ user claimed to have sent her the 4chan thread she was featured in. 

Then the forum braced itself for Katie's visit. One user wrote "Luv U Katie" on a piece of paper, placed on top of Coke bottles filled, apparently, with urine.

This is not an isolated incident. Sexualized comments about book vloggers, even ostensibly underage ones, is actually a recurring theme on the board. 

This is far from the first time female YouTubers have faced harassment on the site, especially of a sexual nature. While they continue to speak out about the abuse they face on it and other social media platforms, the tide still hasn't turned to make YouTube a safe space for female voices.

Illustration by Fernando Alfonso III

Nas may well have argued that hip-hop is dead, but he was just talking about the present, playa. In the past, it's as healthy as a horse, forever dressed in Adidas and soundtracking b-boy battles with the Amen break. All we've been waiting for is the technology to tap its goodness. 

Well, according to the new webseries The Adventures of Jamel, it's already out there. Only problem? It's in the hands of the Illuminati and a breakdancing janitor.

And luckily it is the intelligent side of Musson that we get in Jamel. What could easily have been a single-note affair—the creator himself claiming to have dispensed with "superfluous Criterion Collection nonsense like characterization"—is rich, thoughtful, and funny. Of course the Illuminati are caricatures, reduced to base opportunists looking to use the time-traveling technology to go back in time to "hump" their mothers (or, as they chant, "Oedipus that ho"). But Jamel, played by Upright Citizens Brigade's James III, is an urbane contrast to the expected hip-hop archetype that his outfit suggests, riffing on Dubai's construction workers and Eastern European sex trafficking. 

More than anything else, however, it is the love of hip-hop that resonates. References abound: KRS-One's 600-page The Gospel of Hip Hop is predictably useless (possibly because Jamel, being in the past, will have to wait even more than the predicted 100 years before it becomes a new religion on Earth). And when the time-traveling b-boy, finding himself in an uncertain place and in a time of need, calls upon the "17" pillars of hip-hop, it is because Musson knows what we should—that there are only four. That one of them comes to the forefront to save the day will have any fan of the genre excited for future episodes and the possibility of Jamel leaving his mark in Ancient Greece.

Screengrab via The Adventures of Jamel/YouTube

In an interview promoting his new animated film Strange Magic, George Lucas admitted that he once had very different plans for the seventh Star Wars movie. After years of thinking about the possibility of a third trilogy, his idea was to release Episode VII (at that point still untitled) in May 2015. Then he'd hand over the reins to someone else, because a full trilogy would have been too long a commitment for the aging writer/director. Lucas went as far as contacting Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill about returning for the film before deciding to sell Star Wars to Disney in 2012 instead.

Since then, Disney has hired teams of established writers and directors to work on the new trilogy, has rebooted the Star Wars comic book universe, and announced plans for a series of spinoff movies.

"It's better for me to get out at the beginning of a new thing and I can just remove myself," said Lucas. "The time is more important to me than the money." Time to spend with his young daughter, and to work on smaller, more personal projects like Strange Magic.

This was probably the best decision for everyone involved, but the idea of a George Lucas–helmed sequel will still haunt the dreams of Star Wars fans for years to come.

Photo via Joi Ito/Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)

Scrolling through celebrities' Instagram pictures can be a dizzying task these days. Between Chelsea Handler’s rampant nipple postings, Miley Cyrus penchant for photographing her pig, and the ever-mounting back catalog of Kim Kardashian selfies, determining which celebrity has the hottest Instagram presence seems almost impossible.

Luckily for you, there’s no need to guess. The folks over at addiction-treatment have done all the legwork. They even translated their data into this handy chart.

Surprisingly, female celebrities don't even break the top five most active celebrity 'grammers. Snoop Dogg outpaces Paris Hilton’s postings by about 7,000. Next time you get ready to make a joke about Rihanna or the Kardashian Klan's narcissism, make sure you mention rappers Meek Mill, Wakka Flocka Flame, and Diddy first.

The crux of this "Instagram Intoxicated" research project was the search for the answer to a single question. This question keeps millions of Midwestern puritanical moms awake at night. The question is this: "When my precious angel favorites a rapper's Instagram post about drinking or drugs, could it be contributing to the rise of substance abuse and addiction?" 

As far as Diddy goes: leave the man alone! He's got a vodka to promote! 

H/T Jezebel | Photo by simon.carr/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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A sneaker collaboration makes perfect sense for Riff Raff. His biggest hit to date is 2014's “Tip Toe Wing in My Jawwdinz,” which helped push his album to No. 4 on Billboard's rap charts.

What's strange—or maybe not considering Riff Raff's history of online trolling—is that when Hip Hop Wired reached out to Jordan Brand for confirmation, the company denied the collaboration, stating, “At this time there are currently no plans for this shoe or a collaboration with this individual.”

Not to be deterred, over the weekend Riff Raff posted a link to an eBay auction containing the purported "Neon Icon Proto Type Aquaberry Air Jordan" sneakers. While the shoes look suspiciously like a custom painted pair of Jordan Vs—or perhaps even a Photoshop—bids on the auction, which began at $1, reached as high as $1 million before Riff Raff canceled the listing.

Judging by the buzz the auction created, maybe Jordan Brand should consider pairing up with the "Rap Game Martha Stewart."

Image via eBay 

Each year, the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film releases a report on the professional progress of women in the film industry. Although as it turns out, "progress" may be too strong a word.

In the 17 years since the annual reports began, the number of successful female directors has actually fallen. Women made up 7 percent of the directors working on the top 250 highest-grossing movies, a 2 percent drop since 1998.

This news was conveniently timed to coincide with the Directors Guild of America announcing its list of award nominees for 2014. The shortlist in the feature film category consists of five male directors, a decision that many people found surprising because it snubbed Ava DuVernay, director of Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma. The subtext here is that even if you're one of the few women who claws her way to the top of the directorial career ladder, you're still not going to receive recognition for your work.

Variety shared the results of the 2014 study, revealing that "women were best represented as producers (23%) followed by executive producers (19%), editors(18%), writers (11%) and cinematographers (5%)." However, even the comparatively high number of female producers isn't all that impressive—and that number has decreased since the earlier years of the study.

Dr. Martha Lauzen, the primary author of the study, points out that these numbers aren't a result of women not being interested in filmmaking. Between a third and half of film students are women, and there's obviously no shortage of women and girls in the audience—especially for female-led movies like Frozen, The Hunger Games, and Maleficent. 

Women just aren't getting hired to do important jobs in the film industry, and that's a systemic problem. As director Lexi Alexander put it on Twitter:

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