For the past four years, Drakeo was locked up in Los Angeles’ Men’s Central Jail following a pair of arrests that stunted what seemed to be a steady and promising rise to fame. In November, the rapper was freed from prison and he quickly got to work. Among his accomplishments: the new video for “Captions,” a track off his late 2020 mixtape We Know The Truth.In the video, the West Coast rapper stands tall in front of the camera, letting the rap game know he’s back.
Draeko released the We Know The Truth mixtape — which originally boasted 18 songs but grew to 25 with its deluxe release — a month after his release from prison. But that wasn’t all. Before 2020 was up — and again, with less than two months after his release from prison — Drakeo dropped a second mixtape, Because Yall Asked, proving through its 15 tracks the rapper will undoubtedly make an impact now that he’s home.
The new “Captions” video is also his second of the month. A few weeks back he shared another one for “Mr. Mosely Claps Back” a few weeks back.
You can watch the “Captions” video above.
We Know The Truth is out now via Stinc Team. Get it here.
If you’ve never seen a Maori haka performed, you’re missing out.
The Maori are the indigenous peoples of New Zealand, and their language and customs are an integral part of the island nation. One of the most recognizable Maori traditions outside of New Zealand is the haka, a ceremonial dance or challenge usually performed in a group. The haka represents the pride, strength, and unity of a tribe and is characterized by foot-stamping, body slapping, tongue protrusions, and rhythmic chanting.
Haka is performed at weddings as a sign of reverence and respect for the bride and groom and are also frequently seen before sports competitions, such as rugby matches.
Here’s an example of a rugby haka:
Maori All Blacks Haka at sold-out BC Place in Vancouver
The intensity of the haka is the point. It is meant to be a show of strength and elicit a strong response—which makes seeing a tiny toddler learning to do it all the more adorable.
Danny Heke, who goes by @focuswithdan on TikTok, shared a video of a baby learning haka and omigosh it is seriously the most adorable thing. When you see most haka, the dancers aren’t smiling—their faces are fierce—so this wee one starting off with an infectious grin is just too much. You can see that he’s already getting the moves down, facial expressions and all, though.
As cute as this video is, it’s part of a larger effort by Heke to use his TikTok channel to share and promote Maori culture. His videos cover everything from the Te Reo Maori language to traditional practices to issues of prejudice Maori people face.
Here he briefly goes over the different body parts that make up haka:
Unfortunately, it’s not just ignorant commenters who spew racist bile. A radio interview clip that aired recently called Maori people “genetically predisposed to crime, alcohol, and underperformance,” among other terrible things. (The host, a former mayor of Auckland, has been let go for going along with and contributing to the caller’s racist narrative.)
That clip highlights why what Heke is sharing is so important. The whole world is enriched when Indigenous people like the Maori have their voices heard and their culture celebrated. The more we learn from each other and our diverse ways of life, the more enjoyable life on Earth will be and the better we’ll get at collaborating to confront the challenges we all share.
It’s been three weeks since a mob of whipped-up Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, attempting to overturn the 2020 election but succeeding only in causing the deaths of five people. The blowback has been severe: It got Trump finally kicked off Twitter, for one. (Ditto the MyPillow Guy.) But to some it hasn’t been severe enough. Two of the senators who helped instigate the siege, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, have refused to step down from their positions, or even apologize. Most House Republicans have also said they won’t impeach the just-departed president. But there’s one conservative who’s still pissed: Joe Scarborough.
.@JoeNBC slams Republicans in the Senate who want Americans to “forget” about the Capitol attack.
The longtime MSNBC host — and former Republican representative — spent part of Wednesday morning’s Morning Joe tearing into those in the GOP who think America needs to move on from the failed MAGA coup. One of those people is Senator Lindsey Graham. But Scarborough wasn’t having it.
“He wants us to forget about the fact that people were bludgeoned in the head with an American flag because of Donald Trump,” Scarborough shouted. “He wants us to forget that a cop was beaten to death, and the reason why the cop-killer beat the cop to death was because they were inspired by Donald Trump to do so. Ted Cruz wants us to forget because he led the sedition along with Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.” (Joe got so worked up he forget he’d already mentioned Cruz earlier in the sentence, but perhaps some extra emphasis on his involvement was needed.)
“Forget? Forget? You are out of your mind and you’re not a conservative. That’s how conservatives do not talk,” Scarborough continued. “We don’t forget: If you attack our country, we go after you, we jail you, we throw away the key.”
Scarborough was out for blood, which is to say “justice.” Over disturbing images of the siege, he screamed, “This is what the Republicans in the Senate want you to forget.” He then refused to sugarcoat his words. “You know what these people are? These are Trump terrorists. Call them by their name.”
Mind you, many on the left won’t find much else to agree on with him, and his language did have similarities with conservative sentiments expressed in the lead up to the Iraq War. But strange times make strange bedfellows.
WNBA free agents won’t be able to officially sign new contracts until Monday, but Wednesday brought a flurry of news regarding some major players changing teams in the W for this upcoming season.
The first domino to fall was Candace Parker leaving the Sparks after 13 seasons to go home to Chicago to play for the Sky, where she’ll immediately boost expectations in Chicago to be a championship contender. The Sparks did get good news elsewhere, as Nneka Ogwumike will ink an extension to stay in Los Angeles, but there’s work to be done for L.A. to fill the massive hole left by the future Hall of Famer.
Another top team in the West saw a longtime former All-Star depart, as three-time All-Star Kayla McBride will go from Las Vegas to Minnesota to play for the Lynx, first reported by Rachel Galligan of Winsidr.
Sources have told @winsidr that Kayla McBride has verbally agreed to terms of a multi-year deal with the Minnesota Lynx.
McBride figures to bring more shooting to the Lynx backcourt, as she looks to bounceback from what was a bit of a down season in the Wubble, but was an All-Star in 2018 and 2019, shooting 41 percent from deep across those two seasons. It’s a big get for Minnesota, who finished 4th in the standings in the Wubble and can fit McBride in between their sensational youngsters, Crystal Dangerfield and Napheesa Collier, to create a formidable trio capable of contending in the loaded West.
Mulatto’s rap name has brought the Atlanta native plenty of criticism. For a long time, some have called on her to change the moniker, as a “mulatto” refers to a person of mixed Black and White parentage, though its original usage was for livestock, specifically a hybrid offspring of a horse and donkey. Most recently she was called out during a discussion on Clubhouse, the popular voice-based social media app. She recently said she’s ready to change her rap name, and in a recent interview with Hot Freestyle, she explained why.
“You know you might know your intentions, but these are strangers who don’t know you, never even met you in person,” she said. “So you gotta hear each other out, and if you know those aren’t your intentions and that’s how it’s being perceived, it’s like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the name. So now I’m like, ‘OK, my intentions was to never glorify being mulatto.’” She added, “So if that’s how it’s being perceived and people think I’m saying, ‘Oh, I’m better because I’m mulatto’ or ‘My personality trait is mulatto’ … then I need to change the matter at hand.”
While she hasn’t shared the new name just yet, she did reveal that it will not be a version of her legal name, Alyssa Michelle Stephens. However, she did say that some fans have “definitely” figured it out. “I want them to also understand that the name change at this level in your career is a big decision,” she said to her fans. “Freaking investors, labels, everything has been riding on this name, so it is a big decision.”
Kid Cudi is back in a big way since the release of his third Man In The Moon album, Man On The Moon III: The Chosen in late December. The Cleveland rapper recently let fans know that aside from being back in the music game, he’s also planning to branch off into clothing. “Finally startin my own clothing line,” he wrote on Twitter yesterday. “Been a long time comin and another dream of mine. More madness, true vision, freshness comin soon!!!”
Finally startin my own clothing line. Been a long time comin and another dream of mine. More madness, true vision, freshness comin soon!!!
Cudi isn’t the only rapper to get into the style game recently — the obvious precedent is his mentor Kanye West’s foray into fashion and footwear, and last year Travis Scott partnered with McDonalds for a series of exclusive Cactus Jack merch. Fans responded excitedly asking when they could expect pieces and Cudi let them know that he anticipates as early as this summer
No word on who any of Cudi’s potential distribution or design partners could be, but considering he’s still on pretty good terms with Kanye per their Kids See Ghosts collab in 2018, there’s always a chance that Yeezy will be involved. And given his recent collaborations with Travis, too, maybe some pieces will feature a collaboration with The Scotts. Keep an eye out for more
Anyone who’s an educator knows that teaching is about a lot more than a paycheck. “Teaching is not a job, but a way of life, a lens by which I see the world, and I can’t imagine a life that did not include the ups and downs of changing and being changed by other people,” Amber Chandler writes in Education Week.
So it’s no surprise that Kelly Klein, 54, who’s taught at Falcon Heights Elementary in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, for the past 32 years still teaches her kindergarten class even as she is being treated for stage-3 ovarian cancer.
Her class is learning remotely due to the COIVD-19 pandemic, so she is able to continue doing what she loves from her computer at M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming, Minnesota, even while undergoing chemotherapy.
“I’m going to make the most of my time,” Klein told “Good Morning America.” “I don’t take anything for granted.”
Klein battled cancer five years ago and had to take off about six months due to treatments. But this time, she swore she wouldn’t let that happen again. For Klein, teaching gives her the ability to keep her spirits up in a depressing situation.
“Teaching 5-year-olds I always say is like going to Disney World. Everything is exciting and they’re so excited about everything that it gets me excited,” said Klein. “When you’re at chemo and you’re around a lot of sick people, it’s kind of a depressing place to be. For me, to be around 5-year-olds during that time, it’s like a slice of normalcy in an abnormal environment.”
Klein told CBS News that her students give her strength. “It’s real easy to go down the ‘Why me?’ — and I think if I didn’t have five-year-olds to teach every day, I would spend a lot of time thinking about that,” Klein said.
She also hopes that by continuing to teach she can show her students and their families that even with cancer, people can continue to live.
As elementary school teacher Kelly Klein undergoes cancer treatment for a second time, she’s finding strength from… https://t.co/pQUxfbAx8T
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt)1611522016.0
After the mother of two learned she had cancer last summer, she pleaded with her principal Beth Behnke to stay on the job. “Please don’t make me take a leave,” she told Behnke who was “not surprised because of who she is as a person and what teaching means to her. It’s her tapestry.”
“She’s a very beloved teacher and she deserves it because she’s the type of teacher who shows up every year,” Behnke said of Klein. “And what she’s doing is part of living in our world, just helping kids manage through lots of situational things that don’t have to define us but are part of our lived experience.”
Receiving a cancer diagnosis has to be completely devastating. But two doctors from Stanford have noticed that one of the most important factors in recovery is maintaining the desire to continue living. “Patients with positive attitudes are better able to cope with disease-related problems and may respond better to therapy,” Ernest H. Rosenbaum, M.D. and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, M.A. writes.
Klein’s decision to continue teaching may mean a lot more than finding fulfillment in a tough situation, it could prolong her life.
There’s rarely been a time in recent history in which travel has been more out of reach. That means we all have to live out our travel dreams vicariously for now. Enter the travel TV genre — our most straightforward path to inspirational and aspirational escapism.
No network has changed the game more in recent years than Netflix when it comes to providing a great list of travel shows that’ll motivate you to hit the road one day while scratching that wanderlust itch between trips. But this being Netflix, there’s a dearth of content to sort through. Knowing where to start and which shows are worth your binging time is tough.
We’re here to help. The fifteen travel series below are the best Netflix has to offer right now. We’ve gone ahead and ranked them, though we have to point out that these rankings represent minor quibbles at most. We also tried to cover multiple types of travel shows from the standard food+travel series to nature shows to reality TV travel escapism.
There’s a weirdness to people — from the West especially — traveling the developing world “without cash” and bartering their way through. For one, it’s assuming your winning personality and skills are more important to people than, you know, real money for their services. The Kindness Diaries’ wonky premise aside, host Leon Logothetis kind of pulls it off without coming across too much like a colonist.
The show shines in its ability to connect people. Logothetis finds a common thread of humanity through travel that inspires. At the very least, he’s been able to show with certainty that travel is never as expensive as you think it’s going to be.
The “fixer-up” aspect of reality TV is a tried and true concept. Gordon Ramsay has umpteen shows doing just that. Where Restaurants on the Edge stands out is the travel and cultural aspect of the show. Restaurateur Nick Liberato, chef Dennis Prescott, and designer Karin Bohn travel the world and find restaurants with amazing views that are on the edge of shutting down (something that’s become even more heightened given recent global events). They team up with the restaurant’s chefs and owners to turn the place around. The ripple here is that the hosts guide the local owners to delve more deeply into the local culture and have their establishments better represent that scene.
Designer Genevieve Gorder and real estate expert Peter Lorimer join forces in Stay Here to help homeowners turn their spaces into short-term vacation rentals. This is all about Airbnb’ing your digs even though “Airbnb” is never mentioned. This is a fun and breezy travel show that goes deep enough to show you how much works goes into the sharing-economy to make it actually work for you. In the end, you’ll have a whole new appreciation for that perfect Airbnb you stayed in.
This show is addictive. Let’s get this out of the way. This is luxury and lifestyle porn first and foremost. It’s a traveling show, we guess, by proxy. However, it’s intoxicating.
The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes takes us inside architectural wonders around the world. These range from the homes of the elites in places like Greece, Los Angeles, and New Zealand to the homes of a fisherman in Japan and writers in Holland. Hosts Piers Taylor (an architect) and Caroline Quentin (a British actor) offer a great entry point. Taylor offers professional insight, while Quentin is the audience’s awed surrogate.
Tales By Light isn’t your average travel show per se. The focus here is on great travel photographers and how they operate around the world.
The photographers the show follows just happen to be some of the best in the world who have devoted their life to globetrotting to find the absolute best shot. Every corner of the world is covered over three seasons of breathtaking episodes and crazy escapades.
Seriously, one episode is about swimming with anacondas in the Amazon.
Shows like Night On Earth offer a glimpse into the world that beckons you out into the wider world. These are the shows that lay a foundation of wanderlust in our young souls. On top of all of that, this show is visually mesmerizing. It’s a trippy, unique, and captivating look at our world, and it’ll make you want to be someone who seeks these places out.
Our Planet is Netflix’s very own Planet Earth. They even got Sir David Attenborough to narrate this beautiful series. Again, yes, this is a nature series. But, we argue that a series this intriguing and beguiling will stoke your wanderlust fires and get you out there enjoying everything nature has to offer. If this series doesn’t get you itching to see new places on our planet, nothing will.
David Chang’s second Netflix travel and food show is a little broader than Ugly Delicious. This four-part series finds Chang hanging out with big-name celebrities and diving into local food scenes around the world. Seth Rogan shows Chang around Vancouver while getting very stoned. Internet star and model Chrissy Teigen wanders around Marrakesh with the chef. Writer and actor Lena Waithe takes Chang through her Los Angeles. Finally, the show’s final (and best) episode finds Chang hanging out with SNL superstar Kate McKinnon in Cambodia. Overall, this is an easy, fun watch to breeze through on a shut-in Sunday.
Chef David Chang’s food show, Ugly Delicious, is a travel show at its heart. Chang travels the world eating food and talking to people about culture, life, and what they do while experiencing it all for himself — that’s all travel really is. The beauty of the show lies in the lack of pretension — a child-like curiosity really — that Chang carries with him as he travels, talks, and eats. The way Chang travels becomes aspirational with a crazy good dose of food porn along for the ride.
Larry Charles’ Dangerous World Of Comedy is a travel show at its heart. Acclaimed TV and film comedy director, Larry Charles, travels the world seeking out how comedy is done in war zones, on Indian reservations, in theocracies, in slums, and beyond.
This is the sort of show that takes you deep inside the harder side of life around the world. It’s a part behind-the-scenes look at TV comedy around and a part subversive travelogue with a keen eye on finding the grey areas of life and comedy in places few dare to travel. Plus, it’s only four one-hour episodes, making this one a very easy binge.
David Farrier’s Dark Touristisn’t what you think it is. This isn’t about the western gaze, looking down upon the weird or “other.” Farrier’s nuanced approach to travel and diversity shines through as he parses some of the lesser-known parts of varying cultures.
The show shines in its ability to hook you in from the first frames. Episodes about vampires in New Orleans, Pablo Escobar’s hitmen, and haunted forests offer a glimpse into the unknown in our world without judgment.
Phil Rosenthal has cut out a pretty great second act after his days running Everybody Loves Raymond. Rosenthal is traveling around the world eating great food, meeting people, and seeing new places he thought he’d never see.
Rosenthal is on a trip of discovery. There’s a clear food focus to the show. But, really, the series ends up being just as much about the journey as a great meal with new friends.
This series from the creators of Chef’s Table leans more heavily into the travel aspect of great cooking. The series highlights street food vendors across East Asia, Mexico, and Central and South America through two seasons. The series revels in letting those vendors tell their stories and highlighting the food they make with that now iconic Chef’s Table aesthetic. The bonus is that each episode clocks in at around 30 minutes, making this a very easy and enjoyable binge any time.
This is probably the most interesting and unique travel (and food) show on this list. Steve Rinella’s MeatEater might be the best nature-meets-travel-meets-food show, full stop. Rinella and his crew travel around the U.S., Mexico, and even parts of South America to embrace nature in the most visceral way, through hunting and fishing for their own food and then cooking that food, providing us with wild recipes to boot. We’re not kidding when we say that the wild places this show goes are the places you almost never see on the average travel show, which is usually obsessed with hitting the same old spots over and over again (looking at you Rosenthal and Chang).
Yes, hunting or fishing for food is the core of each trip. Still, with sourcing your own wild food being one of the fastest-growing food movements in America (far outpacing veganism with people under 40), MeatEater offers real-world advice as an entry-point to the wild spaces of the world and the food available therein. It’s also about the people around the world who live their lives in harmony with nature. Add in the beautiful cinematography (from the same crew as Bourdain’s shows) and you have a great watch.
This show was the sleeper hit of the travel TV world in 2020. Yes, it premiered during a pandemic when we can’t travel, making it an easy hit. But the show really has some serious heart and insight. Viewing the world through Zac Efron’s always wide-eyes proved really refreshing. His excitement to be seeing the world and trying on new ideas while also making an effort to step out of the most well-worn paths made for solid TV.
There’s a real soul to this show that gets to what’s beautiful about travel. It captures the spirit of wanderlust — learning about the world while learning about yourself.
Despite repeatedly claiming he’s working on it, George R.R. Martin has been taking his sweet time with The Winds of Winter, the penultimate novel in A Song of Ice and Fire. This July even marks the 10th anniversary of A Dance with Dragons, the series’ last novel. Meanwhile, HBO has been busy, planning a series of Game of Thrones prequels and spin-offs and what-have-yous, hoping to fill that void left by the show, which ended almost two years ago. To the increasingly towering pile of possible shows, you can now add an animated one as well.
This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which reports that a cartoon version is in the early stages of development. How early? So early that it could still fall through entirely — and so early that nothing is known about it, including whether or not it will feature lots of dragons. One presumes the answer is yes, not the least because it’s a whole lot easier to animate a dragon than do a life-like one in CGI that hobnobs with flesh-and-blood characters.
Should the animated Game of Thrones show get off the ground, it will join a growing cadre of other GoT shows, among them House of the Dragon, a prequel about House Targaryen, which will star Ready Player One and Sound of Metal actress Olivia Cooke. That one’s officially a go, but other programs that are still being bandied about include an adaptation of Martin’s novella series Tales of Dunk and Egg. That said, surely what everyone wants is some cartoon dragons.
To some, Werner Herzog is an austere and bold filmmaker, one of the leading lights to emerge from the New German Cinema. To most people, though, he’s the forever welcome weirdo who crops up to steal bits of things like Parks and Recreation, that Penguins of Madagascar spinoff, and, of course, The Mandalorian. He’s a great interview, too, prone to, say, calling Jon Favreau a “coward.” So, when he was randomly interviewed for a skateboarding culture site Jenken — why not! — it was the opposite of boring.
Why was the director of Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo interviewed about skateboarding? It’s not clear! But he threw himself whole hog into the subject, even though it was new to him. “I am puzzled because I am not familiar with the scene of skateboarding,” Herzog told his host. “At the same time, I had the feeling that, ‘Yes, that is kind of my people.’”
He even found a perplexing beauty in it. “I see [skateboarders] trying to slide on a metal rail. They do it 25 times and fail. The 26th time, they fail. The 30th… it’s good that you accept failure,” he said. He even found an uniquely Herzogian comparison in the plethora of skateboarding videos. “What comes to mind first and foremost would be Russian Orthodox Church choirs,” he said. “Something that creates this kind of strange feeling of space and sexuality.”
You might ask yourself, “Did the villain from Jack Reacher somehow connect skateboarding to magician David Blaine?” If so, you’re in luck. “I know that David Blaine shouldn’t be trusted in this kind of quest,” he explained. “It’s this kind of absurd quest, and they are meant only for his own publicity.”
You can watch the whole chat in the video above, and then maybe you can chase it with that infamous interview from the mid-aughts in which he’s shot with a BB gun yet still manages to continue talking, even as he bleeds.
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