Isaiah Rashad’s long-anticipated sophomore album The House Is Burning drops next Friday, July 30, and with just one week to go, the Chattanooga rapper has shared the album’s full tracklist on social media.
As you can see from the back of the album, pictured below, The House Is Burning features guest spots from SZA, Lil Uzi Vert, Jay Rock, 6lack, and plenty more. Also, production credits range from Devin Malik to Kal Banx (who also guests on the record), Kenny Beats, Hollywood Cole, and more. As previously reported, Rashad first made his comeback earlier this year with “Lay Wit Ya” featuring Duke Deuce, following up with “Headshots (4r Da Locals).” He also shared a few songs that got cut from the album, including “200/Warning.”
Rashad first mentioned The House Is Burning in a May interview with The Fader. “I just wanted this sh*t to sound fun,” he said. “If I’m sad, people don’t need to be able to tell. And this is probably my most depressing album.”
Check out the tracklist below.
1. “Darkseid”
2. “From The Garden” Feat. Lil Uzi Vert
3. “Rip Young”
4. “Lay Wit Ya” Feat. Duke Deuce
5. “Claymore” Feat. Smino
6. “Headshots [4R Da Locals]”
7. “All Herb” Feat. Amindi
8. “Hey Mista”
9. “True Story” Feat. Jay Rock and Jay Worthy
10. “What U Sed” Feat. Doechii and Kal Banx
11. “Don’t Shoot”
12. “Chad” Feat. Ygtut
13. “9-3 Freestyle”
14. “Score” Feat. SZA and 6lack
15. “Thib”
16. “HB2U”
The House Is Burning is out 7/30 via TDE/Warner. Pre-order it here.
Isaiah Rashad is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Aside from the big names that American audiences are likely to recognize, Skepta also tapped Nigerian rapper Teezee, who is also the founder of the Lagos-based African culture magazine, Native Mag. Teezee appears on the track “Peace Of Mind” along with Kid Cudi, while Balvin holds down his own feature on a song called “Nirvana.” Check out the full tracklist below, the project drops this Friday on July 30th. Nothing else big happening that day like Billie Eilish dropping her hotly-anticipated new album Happier Than Ever or anything. Then again, their fanbases probably don’t overlap too much.
All In EP tracklist:
1. “Bellator”
2. “Peace Of Mind” (Featuring Kid Cudi and Teezee)
3. “Nirvana” (Featuring J Balvin)
4. “Lit Like This”
5. “Eyes On Me”
Bo Burnham’s latest special, Inside, has quickly become a career-defining moment for the comedian. That’s also true of the soundtrack album, Inside (The Songs), which became his first top-10 album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when it peaked at No. 7 last month. A lot of the songs are relevant to certain aspects of our lives, and due to recent events, a couple of thematically fitting tunes from the soundtrack saw significant increases in their streaming activity.
Billboard reports that “Bezos I” and “Bezos II” — a pair of brief, interlude-like songs about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — saw increased streams in the wake of Bezos’ trip to space. Bezos’ flight took place on July 20, and on July 20 and 21, “Bezos I” delivered 1.4 million on-demand streams in the US, which was up 22 percent from 1.2 million during the two days before the launch, July 18 and 19. “Bezos II” experienced a similar jump as it went from 263,000 to 304,000, good for a 16-percent lift. Together, the two songs were streamed 1.7 million times on July 20 and 21, up 21 percent from the 1.5 million streams on Jule 18 and 19.
No songs from the album have yet made the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but “All Eyes On Me” is currently No. 2 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. Meanwhile, “Bezos I,” “Look Who’s Inside Again,” “Welcome To The Internet,” and “All Eyes On Me” have all made it onto the UK and Ireland charts, while those tracks, minus “Bezos I” but plus “Goodbye,” reached the top 30 of the New Zealand chart.
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Unless you’re an armchair beer historian, you likely have some confusion about the pale ale and its origins. A quick primer: pale ale isn’t a remotely new category. This style of beer — made using warm fermentation and pale malt — has been in existence since the 1700s. It’s just the American version that’s in its infancy (along with its many offshoots).
In 1975, Anchor Brewing’s Anchor Liberty Ale was, technically speaking, the first American Pale Ale. In 1980, Sierra Nevada brought the style to a mass market. While classic pale ales rely on Noble hops, American pale ales are known for their citrus zest notes and floral flavors due to the “C” hops from the Pacific Northwest — Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, or Columbus (most typically Cascade). Generally speaking, these beers are medium-bodied and balance their hops with a nice toasted maltiness.
As the American Pale Ale continues to expand and evolve, we got to wondering: Can the classics still stand up, flavor-wise? To investigate, we decided to put them to a blind taste test. Check out our notes and results below.
Part 1: The Taste
For this blind test, I picked eight classic American pale ales — most of which have been available for years. For what it’s worth, they’re all fairly easy to locate at your local grocer (or online retailer). Next, I blindly tasted and ranked each one to determine which is actually the best using only my sense of smell and taste.
As always, there were some interesting surprises once the various labels and all the history that comes with them were covered. Here’s our lineup:
Three Floyds Zombie Dust Pale Ale
Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
Half Acre Daisy Cutter Pale Ale
Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale
Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale
Sweetwater 420 Extra Pale Ale
Let’s get this pale ale party started!
Taste 1:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer has a really fruity nose. Instead of simply citrus and pine, there are also fresh berries, wet grass, and various tropical fruits. To say a lot is going on is an understatement. The palate reveals a more citrusy beer that still carries the fruity elements of the nose.
It’s juicy, filled with tropical fruit flavors, and has a nice malt backbone. The finish is slightly bitter but pleasing.
Taste 2:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose, too. At the forefront is citrus zest. This is followed by slightly fruity, resinous notes and a final hint of caramel malt sweetness. The palate is loaded with lemon, lime, grapefruit, honey, and caramel flavors. All in all, it’s maltier than most of the other pale ales I’ve tasted.
Taste 3:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer starts with extremely dank, resinous, and citrusy aromas. The palate continues the trend with grapefruit, pine, and more citrus flavors. It’s spicy, filled with citrus, and has a good deal of hop bitterness at the end.
Not a bad beer by any means. I just wish it was a little more well-rounded in the malts to hops ratio.
Taste 4:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
The nose swirls with scents of pine trees, guava, ripe grapefruit, citrus peels, and a nice hint of caramel malts. The flavor is littered with stone fruits, citrus, fir tips, and just a hint of light bitterness at the finish.
This is a very citrus-forward pale ale, but there are enough other flavors to round it out nicely.
Taste 5:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
The aroma is all hops — with wet grass, a field of wildflowers, and pine taking center stage. There’s a tiny hint of caramel malts, but I wish there was more. It honestly smells more like an IPA than a pale ale. When I sipped it, I found grapefruit, pine, and a lot of bitterness.
Overall a decent beer, if a little hoppier and more bitter than I’d prefer for an easy-drinking pale ale.
Taste 6:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This features a complex nose. There’s a nice mix of lime zest, grapefruit, floral hops, and biscuity and caramel-like malts. Sipping it reveals a well-balanced beer that begins with a nice fruity, citrusy kick of hops followed by slight pine and sweet, toffee-like malts. The finish is hoppy, fruity, and slightly bitter.
Taste 7:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer has very fragrant aromas of resinous pine, wildflowers, tart lemons, biscuity malts, and just a hint of spice. The palate is filled with notes of wet grass, flowers, pine, orange peels, grapefruit, and a nice caramel malt finish.
This is a well-rounded beer that highlights pine nicely.
Taste 8:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
While caramel and biscuit-like malts are prevalent, citrus is the dominant scent on this beer’s nose. The palate revealed pine resin, grapefruit, dry hay, and a nice, sweet malty backbone. It showed a semi-sweet, slightly bitter finish that’s tempered by sweet malts.
First launched in 2002, this pale ale is Oskar Blues’ flagship beer. The “original craft beer in a can” is aggressively hopped and filled with pale malts and dominated by citrus and floral hops. When it comes to a pale ale, this is beer is a few hops away from being an IPA.
Bottom Line:
While this beer contains pale malt, I wish it had a little more impact on the flavor. This is a beer for fans of piney hops who don’t mind bitterness and don’t really care about any other flavors.
Sweetwater’s most popular beer, 420 Extra Pale ale is a dry-hopped pale ale that is designed to appeal to fans of dank, piney pale ales. Brewed with midnight wheat, wheat, and Munich, and 2-row malts, as well as Centennial and Cascade hops, it gets added flavor from dry-hopping with even more Cascade hops.
Bottom Line:
You know what you’re getting when you crack open a beer with “420” in its name. This cannabis reference indicates that this beer will be a bitter, floral, hop bomb. It definitely is — which can be a bit much for some pale ale fans.
Another classic pale ale, Great Lakes Burning River was named for the 1969 burning of a Cuyahoga River. This malt-forward pale is brewed with 2-row, Crystal 45, Caramel 60, and Biscuit malts. It gets its bright, floral hop flavor from the addition of Centennial and Cascade hops.
Bottom Line:
This is a fairly well-rounded pale ale. I can see why this has won numerous awards over the years. The only thing stopping it from being rated higher today is the absence of a few more floral hoppy flavor notes in addition to all the citrus.
This year-round, 5% pale ale is brewed with 2-row, Carapils, and Munich malts, as well as classic Cascade hops. One of the most popular, classic pale ales on the market, Mirror Pond is known for its complex flavor and balance between malts and hops.
Bottom Line:
This beer isn’t as crushable as some of the others on this list and that’s not such a bad thing. While it still has a great citrus flavor, it’s maltier and richer than most pale ales — a little more full-bodied.
One of the most beloved American pale ales ever made, 3 Floyds Zombie dust is a 6.5% hoppy, floral, citrus-filled beer that has a cult following from coast to coast. Instead of the usual Cascade hops, 3 Floyds opts to use Citra hops as its base. In fact, it was one of the first Citra-hopped beers on the market when it launched back in 2010.
Bottom Line:
This is an extremely flavorful, memorable beer. There are so many flavors dancing around this beer, you’ll need to (and want to) drink multiple pints before you uncover them all.
3) Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue Pale Ale (Taste #4)
Another beer that bucks the trend of brewing pale ales with Cascade hops, Toppling Goliath’s iconic Pseudo Sue is a single-hop pale ale that is exclusively brewed with Citra hops. The result is a surprisingly flavorful, well-balanced, citrus bomb of a pale ale.
Bottom Line:
Even though this beer is dominated by citrus flavor, it’s definitely not one-dimensional — there are a good deal of tropical fruit flavors and a nice malt finish, too. All in all, a very drinkable, thirst-quencher.
Sierra Nevada is the pale ale that started a revolution when it was launched back in 1980. Unsurprisingly, it’s still as respected today. Brewed with simple ingredients like 2-row and Caramelized malts and Cascade hops, it’s piney, citrusy, and totally refreshing — just as it was forty-one years ago.
Bottom Line:
This is one of the most well-balanced pale ales I’ve ever tasted. There’s a lot of citrus, floral, piney flavors but they work perfectly with the added malts. All in all, a beer I continue to go back to again and again.
Daisy Cutter, launched in 2009, was one of the first beers Chicago’s Half Acre ever made. It began as a limited-edition offering, but beer drinkers loved its piney, fruity, yet well-balanced flavor. Today, it’s the brewery’s most well-known, sought-after beer.
Bottom Line:
While this beer is well-rounded with a nice ratio of hops to malts, the malts included aren’t overly sweet, thus letting the pine and citrus shine.
As a Drizly affiliate, Uproxx may receive a commission pursuant to certain items on this list.
In an unprecedented move for unprecedented times, Marvel Studios has bumped up the home video release for Black Widow, which will effectively make its theatrical window a month instead of the already industry-shattering 45 days that became the norm during the pandemic. The film is currently available in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access, where it had an impressive showing, but the Scarlett Johansson solo flick saw a sizable dip during its second weekend. With the Delta variant causing a dramatic increase in COVID cases since Black Widow debuted towards the beginning of July, Marvel may have read the tea leaves for theatrical attendance and adjusted accordingly. Via /Film:
Marvel and Disney have announced that Black Widow will arrive on all major digital platforms starting on August 10, 2021. That’s a full month after the movie hit theaters on July 9, making this the shortest theatrical window that a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has ever received. It will then be followed by a release on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 14, 2021, which is also a fast turnaround for one of Marvel’s major releases.
What makes this latest move by Marvel even more interesting is that the National Association of Theatre Owners blasted the studio for releasing Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access, which the association claims had a negative impact on its second weekend. As of this writing, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is currently slated for a theatrical only release, so narrowing Black Widow‘s theatrical window could create even more tension in an already delicate situation.
As Disney prepares to release Jungle Cruise this Friday with a dual theatrical and Premier Access strategy, it’ll be interesting to see how this situation develops, and whether we’re looking at yet another shift in how movies are delivered.
A few weeks ago Snoop Dogg asked fans and friends to send prayers to his mother, Beverly Tate, without sharing many other details. Now, he’s given the public an update on what’s going on with the beloved matriarch. “Happy Sunday me and my brothers went to c mama today and she opened up her eyes to c us and let us know she still fighting,” the rapper posted in an Instagram caption yesterday. “God is good thanks for all the prayers 1 day at a time.”
The photo he posted along with the brief update showed Beverly in a hospital bed, and it looks like she might be intubated. Snoop hasn’t shared details on what she’s fighting or if her health issues are related to COVID-19, but his community is definitely showing their support in the comment sections. Fellow artists like Lizzo, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah and Busta Rhymes all chimed in on the post, letting Snoop know that his mom is in their thoughts.
Tate has been struggling since May, when Snoop made a post asking for “all my prayer warriors for momma right now please and thank you,” and shared several photos of her from better times on his grid. Sending all good thoughts and hope for healing to Beverly as she continues to fight.
It’s no secret to hip-hop fans that there are a lot of talented individuals locked up in prison. Many of our favorites, like Gucci Mane, Meek Mill, Offset, Tupac, and more have spent time behind bars — time they used to refine their rap skills so they can return with improved focus. One such rapper who has recently returned home from a lengthy bid is Bobby Shmurda, who was asked to comment on the quality of the rappers he encountered during his appearance on last night’s episode of Desus & Mero.
“What type of rappers were approaching you when you were locked up?” Desus asks. “Because I know people were coming with bars, people were coming with trash bars, you probably had people doing, ‘Mom’s spaghetti, mom’s spaghetti” — a reference to Eminem’s complicated intro to “Lose Yourself,” still the Rap God’s biggest hit nearly 20 years after its release.
“Funniest sh*t is when the C.O. [Correctional Officer] came up to me rapping,” Bobby replies, bursting into laughter. “But he had some sh*t. The next time is when I seen the cold people in there with talent. But what f*cked me up, is when I seen the cold people with talent and the number they got… I be feeling like, ‘Damn, bruh. You got too much talent to be in here locked up.’” He agrees with Desus and Mero that the encounters sobered him up to the reality that the same sentiment could be applied to himself, prompting him to change his mindset.
Elsewhere in the interview, the trio discusses how trying to eat healthy in prison is like a video game and demonstrates why some golf courses restrict certain demographics, in the words of Desus.
South Korean multi-hyphenate Park Hye Jin has unveiled the second single from her forthcoming debut album, Before I Die. Titled “Whatchu Doin Later,” the downtempo track is partially rapped in English and Korean and follows earlier release “Let’s Sing Let’s Dance.”
Earlier in the month, the singer, rapper, producer, and DJ announced plans to release her debut LP, Before I Die, in the fall via Ninja Tune. The album is entirely written, produced, and performed by Park Hye Jin and follows a lengthy list of high-profile collaborations with artists like Clams Casino and Take A Daytrip (“Y Don’t U”), Blood Orange (“Call Me (Freestyle)”), Nosaj Thing (“Clouds”), and Galcher Lustwerk. Along with the album news, Park Hye Jin announced that she’s hitting the road in the fall; her upcoming US tour dates kick off in Toronto in October.
박혜진 Park Hye Jin – Whatchu Doin Later The new single taken off her forthcoming debut album ‘Before I Die’ releasing 10 September. Listen now ➜ https://t.co/O3Ak2TZC7U
In a 2019 interview with Hypebae, Park Hye Jin described her myriad influences, saying, “Beenzino is definitely one of my major influences. He’s a Korean rapper and artist. I started listening to him the very moment I started making music alone. Since my Europe tour, I’ve had the opportunity to play alongside so many artists who have inspired me, like Jamie xx.”
Listen to “Whatchu Doin Later” above.
Before I Die is out 9/10 via Ninja Tune. Pre-order it here.
Tucker Carlson shares dangerous anti-vaccine “propaganda” with his millions of loyal viewers every night, but someone calling him it out on his bullsh*t? That’s a step too far for Meghan McCain. During Monday’s episode, the hosts of The View, including McCain, discussed the viral video of a man in Montana, a.k.a. Montana Man, confronting Carlson and calling him the “worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that.”
“Maybe you guys thought that man was being polite. I thought he was being a total jackass and incredibly rude, and we’re living in a time when people like Steve Scalise are being shot and wounded to the point where we don’t know if he’s literally going to survive and now he has to walk with a cane because people aren’t in control of themselves and aren’t in control of their mental health and they want to take out their aggression on public figures,” McCain said. “It was incredibly dangerous”:
McCain sunk one final dig into her View co-hosts, suggesting they take a look at their own safety before claiming the confrontation was passable. “I think it’s a very, very slippery slope,” McCain said. “I know how much people don’t like Tucker Carlson. People equally don’t like Meghan McCain and Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin and Whoopi and Sara. When you’re putting your opinion out there, you’re making yourself a target.”
McCain also quoted Winston Churchill and said that “if you think accosting a public figure while they’re shopping for fishing gear with their family on vacation is somehow accomplishing something or changing anyone’s hearts or minds, you’re a hypocrite and have totally lost the plot.” You know who’s the real victim here? The multi-millionaire who shares anti-vaccine misinformation and grossly mischaracterizes his first-grade teacher, someone who’s not the public eye, on his nationally televised show, that’s who.
TUCKER CARLSON CONFRONTED OVER VACCINE STANCE: The co-hosts weigh in on the viral video of the Fox News host getting confronted by a man at a Montana fishing store and called Carlson “the worst human being known to mankind.” https://t.co/cVclFZQmjApic.twitter.com/9C8RKa4Ncv
After releasing Pang in 2019, Caroline Polachek is starting her comeback. She dropped the single “Bunny Is A Rider” a couple weeks ago, and now she’s back with a new visual for the track, as well as a run of live shows, the 2021 “Heart Is Unbreaking Tour.”
Polachek says of the visual, “‘Bunny Is A Rider’ takes place in the storage facility of my mind. In this labyrinth, the camera is the Minotaur, but I’m the Matador so it’s game on. But like I said before, I can teleport.”
She also previously said of the track, “‘Bunny Is A Rider’ is a summer jam about being unavailable. Bunny is slippery, impossible to get ahold of. Maybe it’s a fantasy, maybe it’s a bad attitude. But anyone can be bunny, at least for three minutes and seventeen seconds. The song features a scorching bass performance from producer Danny L Harle, plus his baby daughter’s first vocal cameo.”
Watch the “Bunny Is A Rider” video here and find Polachek’s upcoming tour dates below.
08/05 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
09/09-11 — Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
09/12 — Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
09/26 — New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
10/28 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
10/31 — San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
11/16 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
11/18 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
11/19 — Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
11/20 — Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall
11/22 — New Orleans, LA @ The Republic NOLA
11/23 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
11/24 — Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
11/27 — Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
11/29 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/30 — Boston, MA @ Royale
12/02 — New York, NY @ Terminal
12/03 — Washington D.C. @ Lincoln Theatre
12/04 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
12/07 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
12/08 — Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
12/10 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
12/11 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
12/13 — Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
12/14 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
12/15 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
12/17 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
12/18 — Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
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thanks for all the prayers 1 day at a time.”
Dan Medhurst 
