Saweetie is still aiming for a summertime release for her long-awaited debut album, Pretty B*tch Music, and continued her seemingly everlasting media tour with a cover story for Complex and an appearance on the outlet’s interview show GOAT Talk. In the latter, she named her favorite culinary concoctions (for which she’s garnered almost as much attention as her music), as well as her favorite songs from her prime influences, J. Cole and Nicki Minaj.
Long before she’d released her breakout single “ICY GRL” and become a household name, Saweetie rapped for J. Cole outside one of his shows, receiving a bit of encouragement from the older rapper. When asked which of his songs is his greatest of all time, Saweetie chose “Cost Me A Lot” from Cole’s 2010 mixtape Friday Night Lights. In the interview for the cover story, she’s asked whether she’d want to collaborate with her underground hero and replies in the affirmative… with one caveat. “On production, yes,” she says.
When it comes to her favorite Nicki Minaj song, Saweetie can’t settle on just one. “I feel like we have to go into two different libraries,” she argues. “There’s mixtape Nicki and mainstream Nicki… For mixtape Nicki, ‘Itty Bitty Piggy‘ [from 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty] is the obvious choice, but a song I just loved from the depths of my soul was [Lil Wayne-featuring 2008 Sucka Free cut] ‘Higher Than A Kite.’” Saweetie picks “I Wanna Be With You” from DJ Khaled’s 2013 album Suffering From Success because of the velocity Nicki’s flow reaches.
Watch Saweetie reveal her “GOATs” in the latest episode of GOAT Talk above.
Saweetie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Back in March 2021, Old Forester dropped the first in a new line of bourbons with a limited-edition expression. The newly minted line is called “The 117 Series” and the first entry is “High Angels’ Share.” The new series and flagship bottle were created utilizing the palate of Old Forester’s Master Taster Jackie Zykan, of whom we’re big fans. So naturally, it had us pretty excited.
High Angels’ Share also marks the first time in Old Forester’s 150-year history that a woman’s signature adorns the bottle. It’s a well-deserved nod to Zykan’s prowess and another step in the march towards better gender balance in bourbon.
While High Angels’ Share is the first release in The 117 Series, it certainly won’t be the last. Each future whiskey will carry on the experimental nature Old Forester has become known for. While their plans for future releases have not yet been made public, it’s safe to say there will be bottlings that highlight specific barrelhouses, interesting blends, and much more. To say the launch of this series is exciting for aficionados is an absolute understatement.
“Creating The 117 Series has been a labor of love and seeing my signature on the label is one of the highlights of my career,” Zykan said in a press release. “My mind is exploding with the endless possibilities of this smaller scale of experimentation and innovation. We’re playing in uncharted territory here and those who love Old Forester, like we do, will have the chance to explore with us.”
After tasting this initial release, we’re definitely hyped for any and everything that is coming next. Here’s what we thought of High Angels’ Share.
The 117 Series is named for the location of Old Forester’s original home in Louisville (KY), where the distillery resided from 1882 to 1919, only to return with a brand new distillery in 2018 on the same spot. The bourbon in the bottle is a marrying of casks selected specifically because they lost a large amount of their volume to evaporation (known as the angel’s share) during the maturation process. The result is an exceedingly rich, full-bodied, highly complex juice.
It’s bottled at 110 proof, so it should appeal to the most ardent, high-proof whiskey aficionados.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find exciting, vibrant aromas of the musty rickhouse as well as caramelized sugar, raisins, subtle maple syrup, and rich, charred oak. The palate swirls with sticky toffee, raw sugar, candied pecans, and features a nice herbal backbone. It all finishes with a one-two punch of butterscotch candy and subtle peppery rye, leaving you with a lingering warmth.
The Bottle:
This is a classic Old Forester bottle. The label is a little word-heavy but to the point and subtle. Overall, it’s a good-looking bottle for any shelf.
Bottom Line:
To truly appreciate a whiskey of this magnitude (and this potency), you’ll want to pour it into a glass with a single ice cube or a few drops of water — that’ll help open up the various, nuanced flavors.
This expression was made available to the public at Old Forester’s retail shop on March 24th. While it probably won’t be easy to find a bottle at the retail price of $49.99, the price doesn’t seem to have spiked too much yet. This is still a very solid value (and piece of history!) as it nears the $80-$100 range.
Rating:
90/100 – Bottled at 110 proof, you’d assume this would be a little potent for some drinkers. But even with its high alcohol content, this expression still manages to be extremely mellow, rich, and highly sippable. Definitely, a whisky to seek out.
Courtney Love has spoken openly about her experiences with abuse in the entertainment industry. In February, for example, she said “a bunch” of incidents prompted her to leave acting behind. Over the weekend, she addressed something similar in a now-deleted Instagram post, in which she accuses Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor of “systemic abuse” of “girls as young as 12.”
Screenshots and a full transcript of the post were shared by Metal Injection. The publication does not note the date post was made, but NME reports the post was shared on June 13.
Describing Reznor as “talented but still a creep,” Love wrote, “I’ve never seen so much systemic abuse of kids, girls as young as 12, by him and his crew, we all (the members of Hole) witnessed it.”
Elsewhere in the post, she had some criticisms about Dave Grohl, criticizing his handling of financial matters related to Nirvana. She wrote:
“3 months before I left LA, I signed a document that effectively gives Dave (and Krist [Novoselic]) my descendants money in perpetuity. I was so broken. So scarred, so exhausted by him, I just f*cking signed it. But it’s a lie. So I’m unsigning it.
Because it’s nonsense. The chaos and fury over Kurt’s death being directed at me, deflected by Dave, while he enriched and continues to enrich himself, gorging on Kurt’s fortune and Kurt’s goodwill. 27! Years!!! I’ve had enough.
I’m over being made small. And being ‘forced’ to ‘just drop it’ when it affects every generation of my descendants. Nicest guy in Rock ? No.”
Read Love’s post in full below.
“Here’s a few receipts from some mega aggressions I’ve had to deal with, make myself small for, stop righteous lawsuits over, (‘we are not doormats’ my sponsor always quotes to me) due to male privilege in all its vile toxicity. When @sharonstone was asked if she had any #metoo’s, she just laughed. [woman raising hand emoji]. We only get 1 right?
I’ve had enough of this [poop emoji] from these clowns leaning into my being scapegoated for breathing, for my husband’s death, for my ‘overt’ sexuality, because I’m an addict, etc, and a WOMAN, for over 27 years.
3 months before I left LA, I signed a document that effectively gives Dave (and Krist) my descendants money in perpetuity. I was so broken. So scarred, so exhausted by him, I just f*cking signed it. But it’s a lie. So I’m unsigning it.
Because it’s nonsense. The chaos and fury over Kurt’s death being directed at me, deflected by Dave, while he enriched and continues to enrich himself, gorging on Kurt’s fortune and Kurt’s goodwill. 27! Years!!! I’ve had enough.
I’m over being made small. And being ‘forced’ to ‘just drop it’ when it affects every generation of my descendants. Nicest guy in Rock ? No.
As for Reznor, At least? HE’S talented but still a creep. I’ve never seen so much systemic abuse of kids, girls as young as 12, by him and his crew, we all (the members of Hole) witnessed it. So while these two jack asses are not my #metoo’s because I’m saving my 1 up (because we only get 1) they’re darn close.
#f*ckoff @treznor @nineinchnails @foofighters I really hope my example of standing up to them, putting a stop to them, will prevent any other women (or men) from this soul shattering level of personal and cultural abuse in future . Sexually, spiritually, financially.. #metoo #me3 #me88 etc etc ad nauseam. [poop emojis] [folded hands emoji] #blessed? Yeah to be breathing long enough to tell the tale. I’m cramming as much into every song as I can. Nam myoho renge kyo. ‘We are not doormats.’”
Those aren’t the words commercial lobster diver Michael Packard expected to go through his head on Friday—or any day—but that’s what he thought when he found himself swallowed whole by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod.
Packard dives to the bottom of the ocean every day to collect lobsters, but he’s never had an encounter like this one before. When he was about 45 feet down, he suddenly found himself enveloped in darkness. He told NBC 10 Boston it hit him like a truck, and for 30 seconds he was trapped inside a humpback whale’s mouth. His scuba regulator fell out of his mouth, which caused extra concern momentarily, but he was able to retrieve it. However, during the ordeal, he was sure he was going to die.
“I just was struggling, but I knew this was this massive creature. There was no way I was going to bust myself out of there,” Packard said. He thought of his two sons, ages 12 and 16, his wife, and his mother, believing he was going to die inside a whale and leave them all behind.
However, the whale thankfully decided that it did not actually want to have a human dessert, swam to the surface, and spit Packard out. “All of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted, and just started shaking his head, and I just got thrown in the air and landed in the water, and I was free.”
It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched to be believed. But Packard’s crewmate, Josiah Mayo, was driving the boat and witnessed Packard’s release from the whale’s mouth.
“It was just a huge splash and kind of thrashing around,” Mayo to NBC 10 Boston. “I saw Michael kind of pop up within the mess and the whale disappeared.”
Lobster diver survives after nearly being eaten by humpback whale
Dr. Iain Kerr is a marine biologist at The Ocean Alliance and has been studying whales for more than 30 years. He told CBC This Morning that this is the second time he’s heard of something like this happening.
In fact, in 2019, wildlife photographer Rainer Schimpf found himself with his head and torso inside a 15-ton whale’s mouth off the coast of South Africa, missing a story like Packard’s by a mere few feet. That incident was caught on camera.
Both incidents were quite clearly accidents. In general, whales are not aggressive to humans and certainly don’t want them as food.
“Basically, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Kerr said of Packard’s adventure. “I think he was very lucky. It could have been a nasty situation. But I am sure the whale was almost as freaked out as Michael was.
Packard was examined at Cape Cod Hospital, having sustained some soft tissue damage but no broken bones or serious injury. He says as soon as he is healed, he’ll be back in the water catching lobster again.
And he’ll definitely have one heck of a tale to tell the rest of his life.
You may have noticed that Chrissy Teigen went quiet again on Twitter following her apology to Courtney Stodden. Well, this has been quite a saga that’s worth a brief recap. Back in late March, Chrissy quit Twitter (not for the first time) after writing that “my life goal is to make people happy. The pain I feel when I don’t is too much for me. I’ve always been portrayed as the strong clap back girl but I’m just not.” A month later, she resurfaced while writing that “it feels TERRIBLE to silence yourself.” During that interval, TMZ noted Courtney Stodden’s remarks about Teigen bullying her on the platform a decade ago.
In the process, TMZ published screencaps of several 2011 tweets by Teigen, who had told Stodden to take a “dirt nap,” among other trolling remarks. The Daily Beast then published an interview with Stodden, who revealed that the behavior extended to private messages (“[she] would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself”). This all resulted in Chrissy’s aforementioned apology to Stodden, which she publicly made and stated, “I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll.”
Fast forward a few weeks, and Teigen has stayed quiet while fallout continues from the resurfaced tweets. She pulled out of a Netflix show, and unsubstantiated reports say that she’s possibly lost out on partnership deals. Teigen has now published a lengthy essay on Medium, in which she writes, “I’ve been sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment” that has involved feeling “crushing regret” every moment and day. She describes this recent period as an ultimate time-out, and here’s more:
“As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced. I’m truly ashamed of them. As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?
There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets. My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor… I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.”
Chrissy says she has endlessly reflected upon how she didn’t see red flags in her behavior when they popped up, and she says that she’s grown up and sought plenty of therapy in an effort at self-improvement:
“I wasn’t mean in my everyday life. More than once, someone would come up to me and say, ‘You’re so much nicer in person.’ Why was that not a huge red flag? But I took it in and tossed it aside. I did book signings where girls would call me a bad ass bitch, and I’d stretch my arm toward them as they walked away, looking at my friends and saying, ‘I promise, I’m not!’”
At the time, I just didn’t get it. Believe me, I get it now… The truth is, I’m no longer the person who wrote those horrible things. I grew up, got therapy, got married, had kids, got more therapy, experienced loss and pain, got more therapy and experienced more life. AND GOT MORE THERAPY.
You can read Chrissy’s full apology essay on Medium.
Burna Boy is picking up the celebration of his fifth album, Twice As Tall, where he left off when he triumphantly took home the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album (we here at Uproxx thought he’d been royally snubbed the previous year). Coasting on that Grammy glory, the Nigerian afro-fusion rapper revealed new dates on his Space Drift Arena tour that winds through lots of festivals through 2022 and takes him from North America to Europe.
Burna announced that he will also perform his first headlining show at the Hollywood Bowl, on Friday, October 8th, 2021. Tickets will be available for the public to purchase on Friday, June 18 at 12 p.m. local time.
Burna Boy will also play New York’s Governor’s Ball festival on Sunday, September 26, and San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival on Sunday, October 31.
Below is the full list of dates for Burna Boy’s Space Drift Arena tour. Purchase tickets on his website here.
07/02/2021 – 07/03/2021 — Sumol Summer Festival 2021 @ Ericeira, Portugal
08/20/2021 – 08/21/2021 — Blockfest 2021 @ Tampere, Finland
08/27/2021 — The O2 @ London, UK
09/11/2021 – 09/12/2021 — Parklife Festival 2021 @ Manchester, UK
09/24/2021 – 09/26/2021 — The Governors Ball Music Festival 2021 @ Queens, NY
10/08/2021 — Hollywood Bowl @ Hollywood, CA
10/29/2021 – 10/31/2021 — Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival 2021 @ San Francisco, CA
11/10/2021 — Accorhotels Arena @ Paris, France
11/20/2021 — Arkéa Arena @ Floirac, France
11/21/2021 — Zénith Nantes Métropole @ Nantes, France
06/02/2022 – 06/03/2022 — Primavera Sound Festival Weekend 2 2022 @ Barcelona, Spain
08/11/2022 – 08/13/2022 — Way Out West Festival 2022 @ Gothenburg, Sweden
Burna Boy is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Orlando Magic are one of four teams with a head coaching vacancy currently, along with the Boston Celtics, Portland Trail Blazers, and Indiana Pacers, and for most are the least desirable of the available jobs. The Blazers and Celtics each have established stars with postseason expectations, while the Pacers hope to get back to the playoffs after a rather disastrous 2020-21 season, but still have an All-Star talent in Domantas Sabonis and other high level players.
The Magic are more of a development situation coming off of, effectively, a lost season due to injuries that saw them finally commit to a rebuild by trading Nikola Vucevic to Chicago and Evan Fournier to Boston. Markelle Fultz and Jonathan Isaac will be returning from serious injuries and there are young players like Cole Anthony and Wendell Carter Jr. that present interesting upside, but a coach going in knows it’s going to take time before that’s a contender again and there will be growing pains along the way.
Scoop: The Orlando Magic have requested to interview Jason Kidd for their vacant head coaching gig and the Lakers granted permission, sources told FOX Sports. Kidd, an assistant coach for the Lakers, will interview with the Magic this week.
When Kidd turned down the chance to interview for the Blazers job, there was a thought that he had his eyes on another job, but few would’ve guessed Orlando was that spot. It’s possible that he sees the Magic as a comfortable place to work his way back into the head coaching ranks with low expectations and high upside for him should he succeed there, while struggling wouldn’t be viewed as a coaching failure in the way that it would be if the Blazers didn’t improve.
Still, it’ll be interesting to see if the Magic want to go with Kidd or a younger coach who could grow with the team and might be seen as having more upside than a retread.
Despite being fired from The New Yorker after being caught masturbating during a Zoom call ahead of the 2020 election, Jeffrey Toobin made a surprise return to CNN on Thursday after being off the air since the incident. Toobin maintains that the whole thing was “moronic,” but it was an honest mistake caused by the anchor not realizing his end of the Zoom conversation was still on-camera.
Naturally, Toobin returning to CNN is a controversial decision for the network, and it seems like exactly the type of topic that would make for a spirited debate on The View. Instead, the co-hosts were mostly in agreement that the Toobin incident was a stupid thing to do, but rests in a “gray area” because, as Ana Navarro noted, the only person he sexually harassed was himself. Joy Behar took things a step further by saying that what Toobin did doesn’t make him a “bad person.” Via Mediaite:
“He said that he wants to be a better person. He’s working at a food bank. I don’t see the correlation between needing to engage Mr. Happy and being a bad person,” Behar said while addressing the interview. “I mean, maybe it causes blindness, but I don’t see how it causes you to be a bad person.”
While Whoopi seemed to be the only co-host to chastise Toobin and warned other men like him to just “go to another room,” it was a relatively calm segment thanks to Meghan McCain being absent. While The View co-host is often the source of tension on the panel, she saved her thoughts on Toobin for Twitter, where the conservative host spent the weekend blasting CNN for bringing the legal analyst back.
“SO F*CKING TIRED OF IT!!!!” McCain tweeted when the news first hit.
McCain then tagged CNN and demanded to know the network’s policy for self-pleasuring Zoom calls. “I want to know if the official stance of @CNN is that it’s okay to jerk off on a zoom call to your female colleagues as long as the camera is *off? Since the camera being *on was apparently the issue.”
I want to know if the official stance of @CNN is that it’s okay to jerk off on a zoom call to your female colleagues as long as the camera is *off? Since the camera being *on was apparently the issue.
Square Enix didn’t have too much to show during their E3 presentation on Sunday. In an event that lasted about 40 minutes, their three big announcements were Guardians of the Galaxy, a pixel remaster of the first six Final Fantasy games, and then they ended with an action slasher game called Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin. The trailer for Origin was admittedly not impressive. Mainly it was held back by awful dialogue, but the gameplay itself had potential as long as it was fun to play.
Several reports from journalists and fans indicated that even after downloading it, the demo simply didn’t work. Everyone who’s attempted to play it so far has reported the same thing happening to them. They download the game, start the application, and are met with an error message that informs the player the data is corrupted and they need to re-download it. Except, re-downloading it will do nothing at all. According to reports, they are aware of it and currently working on a fix, but this is not the introduction developers were hoping for when it comes to their game.
We’re aware of issues being experienced while trying to download and play #StrangerOfParadise#FinalFantasy Origin Trial Version.
We’re working to resolve this issue and will tweet an update as soon as we can, we appreciate your patience.
— STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN (@fforigin) June 13, 2021
As someone that tried to download the demo themselves, I can confirm that this does happen upon starting up the game. It’s unfortunate because Team Ninja is well known for fun faction games, but this is certainly an inauspicious start for this title. We’ll eventually get to experience this game for what it is, but that’s not going to be until they fix the demo. We’ll keep you posted.
Greene guested on a recent episode of Steve Bannon’s podcast to tout her completely unsubstantiated claims that the Coronavirus was actually a bioweapon released by, we assume, the Chinese government. That conspiracy theory makes zero logical sense as China was one of the hardest-hit countries when the COVID-19 outbreak first occurred, but it does piggyback on a growing concern that the pandemic originated because of a lab leak at the Wuhan Virology Institute. There have been calls by government officials to trace the source of the virus but, as of now, no official origin has been named so really, Greene and the rest of her anti-vax QAnon groupies are only talking nonsense right now.
Fortunately, AOC is active on social media and always willing to put science-denying public officials in their place. Case in point: Greene argued that COVID had to be a bioweapon because “Why is there any need to create a virus that could spread rapidly to a population, to make people sick and kill them?” on Bannon’s podcast before affirming that she doesn’t believe in evolution, she believes in God. What she was basically suggesting is that COVID had to be a bioweapon because God would never allow a naturally occurring virus to kill millions of people around the world.
Unfortunately for her, AOC came with those Biblical receipts.
Tell me you’ve never read the Bible without telling me you’ve never read the Bible https://t.co/ttMBi1lrXp
Anyone who’s flipped through the Old Testament — or seen that Ridley Scott movie where Christian Bale played a Hebrew prophet whose eyeliner suggested that he was going through a real My Chemical Romance phase — would know that God loves a good plague. Weird, since Greene claims to be a devout Christian. But AOC wasn’t the only one willing to nail Greene to the proverbial social media cross of shame — another Biblical reference she probably won’t get.
Didn’t god flood the earth in the Old Testament and pretty much thanosed all human life?
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who believes wildfires are caused by a Jewish space laser, doesn’t believe in evolution.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) June 13, 2021
All jokes aside, please don’t get your scientific theories from a woman who’s associated with a movement that believes lizard people are secretly ruling the masses. It won’t end well.
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