Today (October 13), Judge William Ray ruled that YouTuber Tasha K must pay $4 million to Cardi B following defamatory claims she made about the rapper in 2019, according to a report by Billboard.
At the time of writing, Tasha is attempting to pause the ruling and hopes to appeal it. Judge Ray says he will only allow Tasha to pause if he can post a supersedeas bond covering the entire $4 million. If Tasha loses her appeal, the money will reportedly go directly to Cardi.
In one of the videos cited in the lawsuit, Tasha claimed that Cardi had been unfaithful to her husband, using cocaine, and worked as a prostitute.
All the while, Cardi seems confident she’ll win her case. Back in February, she posted a tweet, saying, “Think is a game but trust imma come for everything …..BBHMM.”
Earlier this week, the “Up” rapper celebrated her 30th birthday with a cabaret-themed celebration. She took to Twitter to express gratitude for the life she’s created, sharing pictures of herself in a red unitard with a feathered headpiece
“Made it to 30 with 2 cribs, 6 whips, multiple properties and bless kids,” she said.
If you grew up in the ’90s, chances are you watched the original “Hocus Pocus” and declared yourself one of the three Sanderson sisters. But did you know that Kathy Najimy was committed to being respectful of practicing witches when she first read the script for the movie in the early ’90s? Me either. A resurfaced video of Najimy has recently gone viral on TikTok showing an interview by Katie Couric on the “Today” show. In the video, Najimy expresses the importance of being respectful of other people, cultures and things she may not understand, including practicing witches.
In present day, this is not something that anyone would provide fanfare around, because we absolutely should be respectful of others in our art form. It’s something that people have been working extremely hard at for the past several years as we’ve evolved as a whole. But in 1993, things like cultural appropriation and mindfulness of people who were different from the majority was essentially scoffed at publicly. Funnily enough, in the interview Najimy says, “At the risk of having America roll their eyes, I just feel supportive of all groups, whether they’re women’s groups or gay groups or racial groups, and I know that there are groups of witches out there.”
The exchange between Najimy and Couric is just wholesome because even in today’s world, this level of genuine compassion around things you don’t understand is refreshing. Najimy explained to the host, “This is really perpetuating a stereotype about an evil ugly witch and I know that there are groups of really strong women who sort of bond together, within our very spiritual and powerful. I didn’t want to be part of perpetuating that myth.”
But Najimy wasn’t done. She went on to talk about the steps she took to make sure she was remaining respectful, including voicing her concerns to higher-ups and Gloria Steinem. Yeah, she called in one of the queens of women’s rights to talk through her hesitation. The entire interaction is fascinating. Watch the video below.
It’s a little funny that there are people who make tremendous differences in our lives that we never speak to again when their job is done. People in the healthcare profession regularly save people’s lives and then, after we thank them, we’re likely to never see them again.
That’s why this story is so touching. A family appreciated the work of a NICU nurse so much, they asked her to be part of the family.
Good Morning America reports that when Austyn Evans was pregnant with her son Conrad, she and her husband, Branden, learned that he had a rare birth defect known as lower urinary tract obstructions. The defect can be life-threatening, so Austyn and Branden moved from Florida to Houston in her third trimester so she and Conrad could be cared for at Texas Children’s Hospital.
“It’s a very bad diagnosis to get,” Austyn told Good Morning America. “A lot of these kids do not survive past zero or they just survive a few days past birth.”
u201cBaby Conrad was born with a lot of medical complications and fell in love with the NICU nurse that helped save his life — so his mom asked her to be his godmother. u2764ufe0f https://t.co/JPY82QK76Bu201d
— Good Morning America (@Good Morning America) 1665547140
As soon as Conrad was born he was rushed into the neonatal intensive care unit where he was cared for by Carly Miller, 27, a NICU nurse at the hospital.
“Carly was instantly charismatic and funny. She kept talking about how cute Conrad was,” Austyn told Today. “The way she talked to him when she was doing his vitals or she was taking blood, she was constantly talking to him in this really cute little mom voice and trying to be as comforting as she could even though he was extremely sedated.”
Conrad’s needs were so intense that he would often be Carly’s only patient. She regularly worked the night shift, so when Austyn would call, she’d hear about Conrad’s condition from Carly.
“She never started a phone call telling me all the bad. It was always, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s so cute,’ or, ‘All the nurses think he’s so cute,’ and then obviously I’d get the medical report,” Austyn told Good Morning America. “It was such a small thing but it helped immensely.”
The relationship meant the world to the Evans family because they were all alone in Texas.
“We were so isolated because of COVID and being away from our family,” Austyn told Today. “A relationship that was so professional over time became so personal to me.” When it came time for Conrad to be moved to a complex dialysis machine, Carly learned how to work it so she could remain by Conrad’s side.
After six months of round-the-clock care, Conrad was finally able to go home with his family. Even though the family had moved on to the next stage of their lives, they knew they couldn’t walk away from the woman who meant so much to them.
u201cShe Was There From The Night He Was Born: After 6 months in the NICU, parents ask son’s nurse to be his Godmother (u2018It feels like it was meant to be. It feels like weu2019ve known her forever.u2019) (A wonderful story about a wonderful nurse) https://t.co/wRKVCr8YYxu201d
— Richard Patterson Jr (@Richard Patterson Jr) 1665201773
“We kept everything as professional as we could in the NICU but just the conversations we had sitting in his hospital room or the victories that we celebrated and we cried over together were really important to me,” Evans told Today. “Thinking about leaving that place and having to never see Carly again was heart-wrenching.”
To make it official, the couple gave Carly some flowers with a card from Conrad with a note attached that read, “Will you be my godmother?”
Carly said yes.
“I just feel very honored,” Carly told Good Morning America. “It’s something I never expected and the fact that they wanted me to do that for him means the absolute world.”
Jessie Reyez’s second album, Yessie, came out in September and The Yessie Tour is officially underway. The “Figures” singer is set to tour through the U.S. and Canada from Miami’s date on October 13th at The Oasis, until the tour’s final stop in December 4th at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. And in a pleasant surprise, Jessie Reyez announced her tour openers a day before the tour being. So who are they?
Who Are The Openers For Jessie Reyez’s ‘The Yessir Tour?’
For starters, Armani White and Sadboi will be the support acts for the first half of the North America The Yessie Tour dates. Armani White is a rapper from Philadelphia best known for his viral hit, “Billie Eilish.” Meanwhile, Sadboi is Toronto dancehall rapper Ebhoni (fka SadBoi.) The second half of the our will feature Nija and Leila Dey as the openers for Jessie Reyez. Nija was featured alongside Beyoncé, Tierra Whack, and others on the track “My Power” from the Lion King: The Gift Soundtrack. Leila Dey is an up and coming R&B singer who like Reyez, is from Toronto.
Check out all of Jessie Reyez’s Yessie Tour Dates below and get tickets here.
10/13 – Miami, FL – The Oasis +&
10/15 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues +&
10/16 – Houston, TX – House of Blues +&
10/18 – Austin, TX – Emo’s +&
10/19 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues +&
10/20 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre +&
10/23 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren +&
10/24 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium +&
10/25 – San Diego, CA – SOMA +&
10/27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic +&
10/28 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater +&
10/30 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre +&
10/31 – Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum +&
11/02 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot +&
11/03 – Denver, CO @ Summit +&
11/06 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore +&
11/08 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues +&
11/08 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues +&
11/11 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore !^
11/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore !^
11/14 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore !^
11/16 – Charlotte, NC @ Underground at The Fillmore !^
11/17 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues !^
11/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle !^
11/20 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl !^
11/22 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues !^
11/26 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS !^
11/28 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY !^
12/02 – New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place !^
12/04 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom !^
According to Deadline, we’re inches away from a green light for a Naked Gun reboot where Liam Neeson fulfills his destiny and becomes this generation’s Leslie Nielsen. He’s the last piece of the puzzle which already has Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer directing, and Dan Gregor and Doug Mand (Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers) set to co-write the script.
Plot details are being kept under wraps except that Neeson might be playing the son of Detective Frank Drebin instead of stepping into the role made famous by Leslie Nielsen
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Neeson might not seem like an obvious choice for the role but has shown his comedic chops over the years especially in MacFarlane comedies. The Family Guy creator and Ted director and Neeson still have strong ties, and when MacFarlane came to him with the idea, Neeson committed to star.
This is the second major attempt at rebooting the classic spoof franchise after Ed Helms was set to take on starring duty back in 2013. It’s also a year and a half since Neeson revealed that Paramount and new Naked Gun producers Erica Huggins and Seth MacFarlane had approached him for the project. In other words, Neeson taking the mantle as Detective Frank Drebin, Jr. has been a long time coming. Maybe they’ll make fun of how he and Nielsen look nothing alike. Enrico Pallazzo’s son, I’d buy, but Drebin’s?
Weirdly, Chip ‘n Dale is the closest inroad we have to a vision for the project, because Schaffer directed it from Gregor and Mand’s script. Beyond all the cartoon-based, kid-angled comedy, it featured the new brand of parody that’s largely self-referential and tongue-in-cheek, as opposed to the straight-arrow version that Nielsen excelled at. Fortunately, Neeson has the bonafides to be self-serious as a bumbling cop. So, prepare yourself accordingly. As with any reboots, this will either tarnish the great name of Naked Gun forever or be the best of all time with no in-between.
Fresh off the news that Stephen Colbert will be hosting a celebrity pickleball tournament, The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on a documentary film about the new … fast-growing sport? In partnership with Peter Berg’s Film 45 production house, director Mary Pilon and Seth Porges will make the as-yet-untitled documentary examining pickleball’s meteoric rise and its incipient monetization.
It’s possible that this will be the bougiest documentary in the history of the form. It’s also possible that it will take advantage of a rare opportunity where a new sport has jumped from the suburban landscape into the professional sphere in a terrifyingly short amount of time, checking how much longevity a faddish, pandemic-born pastime might actually achieve. At the very least, it should be lighthearted and weird.
This will be the first time Porges and Pilon will direct together. Pilon — known for writing an explosive book on the game Monopoly — appeared in Porges’ film Class Action Park, about the notoriously dangerous Action Park. Their team-up seems apt for the subject matter, where a throughline of serious inquiry can invade a profoundly absurd subject. Hopefully, they’ll be able to mint the documentary as an NFT stuffed inside a Beanie Baby. Like, print out the NFT, then stuff it inside.
Hot off the release of his DJ Drama-produced project, Results Take Time, Symba has dropped the video for “Can’t Win For Nothing.”
In the video, directed by Keoni Mars, Symba struggles to pay his rent on time, and finds an eviction notice affixed to his door. He runs late to work at his restaurant job, where he sees a young woman, who is also struggling to pay her rent. Earlier in the video, the woman pulls money from her rent fund to pay to get her hair done, take Uber rides when her car has issues, and pay for a date in the restaurant, where she and Symba first cross paths.
“And this for all the nights that we spent / tryna come up with the rent /I’m tryna stay legit / but this sh*t ain’t makin’ me rich / Can’t win for nothin’, can’t win for nothin’ / When you at your lowest points, some nights you feel alone / Even when you right, sometimes you feel wrong / I can’t win for nothin’, can’t win for nothin’,” Symba raps on the song’s chorus.
Check out the video above.
Symba is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
“Affordable” bourbon whiskey is often equated with trash whiskey these days. People are more than happy to pay $50, $80, and more for a bottle of bourbon that’s maybe only four years old and has a fancy label (and some good marketing). That’s sort of wild, considering there are tons of great bottles of classic straight bourbon on the shelf ranging from $15 to $30 per bottle that are generally just as refined, and often older.
No on wants to help pay off the marketing budget for a whiskey that isn’t very good, so I thought we’d focus on the latter group in our latest blind taste test. Sound good? Great!
These days you do hear a lot of, “How can it be good if it’s so cheap?” Well, your standard straight bourbon whiskey has to adhere to pretty strict rules about how it’s made, including having no additives. It’s also generally four to six years old when bottled by the big distillers out there, and the people doing the distilling and bottling tend to know what they’re doing since they can put a bottle on the shelf for around $20 and still turn a profit. Of course, not all of it is good. There’s plenty of trash on those lower shelves even amongst something as refined as straight bourbon whiskey. That’s where the blind taste test comes in, folks.
Below, I’m blind taste-testing 10 of the most recognizable and revered affordable bourbons on the shelf. These are cheap straight bourbons that actually win awards and make those subjective “underrated” lists all the time. These are all bottles that are also still gettable and affordable (depending on where you live). Once I taste these bottles, I’m going to rank them according to which ones taste the best, carry the most depth, and actually feel like something… well… more.
Our lineup today is:
Maker’s Mark
Old Tub
Elijah Craig Small Batch
Wild Turkey 101
Benchmark Small Batch
Heaven Hill Old Style Bourbon 6 Years Old
Jim Beam Single Barrel
George Dickel Bourbon Whisky Aged 8 Years
Weller Special Reserve
1792 Small Batch
Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Bourbon Posts Of The Last Six Months
There’s a soft and grassy nose with a sour cherry vine next to sweetgrass, vanilla, and a touch of caramel apple — pretty classic bourbon. The palate leans into the caramel apple vibe while adding layers of dark winter spices, plums, black cherry soda pop, and apple pie with a hint of thinness. The end has a black cherry tobacco twinge next to wet granite and apple-cider-soaked cinnamon sticks.
This was a nice pour that’s a little sweet and wet (as in, a little over-proofed with water in my opinion).
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a whisper of cumin and chili pepper on the nose with a sweet yellow corn meal, a hint of butterscotch, and a mix of creamy honey and creamy eggnog with plenty of nutmeg and allspice next to a very distant dry woody note. The palate has a touch of candy corn next o Almond Joys, sweet cinnamon Hot Tamales, and black cherry tobacco leaves rolled up with dried sweetgrass. The end is lightly dry with a sawdust vibe next to apple stems and burnt orange.
This is pretty good overall and fully formed.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose opens with a hint of taco seasoning mix next to vanilla malts, caramel apple, and a touch of fresh mint. The taste opens with smooth vanilla and spicy winter spice mix that’s cinnamon and allspice heavy with a touch of anise next to oaky tobacco. The end has a nice woodiness that leans more toward pine tar and broom bristles with a soft and sweet vanilla cream cut with toffee and vanilla lattes.
This is really nice.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Sweet and buttery toffee is countered by burnt orange, old oak, and a hint of cumin and red chili pepper flakes. The palate leans into soft vanilla pudding cups with a touch of butterscotch swirled in next to orange oils, nougat, and a hint of menthol tobacco. The midpalate tobacco warmth gives way to a finish that’s full of woody winter spices and a whisper of Cherry Coke next to orange/clove by way of a dark chocolate bar flaked with salt.
This really works well. It’s deep and kind of playful with citrus and spice notes.
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Soft leather and old vanilla pods mix with old lawn furniture sitting in green grass with a hint of floral honey and apple pie on the nose. The palate has a rich toffee vibe next to sweet cinnamon and plenty of eggnog creamy/spicy vibes that leads to a nutmeg-heavy mocha latte. There’s a sense of dried corn husks on the finish with a mix of rum-raisin, vanilla pound cake, and cherry bark-infused tobacco layered into an old cedar box.
This really popped on the nose and the palate. It’s fun and tasty.
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a sweet sense of oak on the nose next to mint chocolate chip ice cream, brown sugar, and dried cinnamon sticks. The palate has a light smooth vanilla base with a pecan waffle vibe next to maple syrup and cinnamon butter. The end adds a layer of warm but mild chili pepper spice next to cherry/vanilla tobacco with a whisper of sweet oak.
This is fine. It’s nice and easy.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
You’re greeted with vanilla pound cake drizzled with salted caramel, mulled wine spices, and a cherry hand pie with powdered sugar icing that’s just touched with dark chocolate and maybe some broom bristles and corn husks. The taste leans into floral honey cut with orange oils next to sticky toffee pudding and cherry tobacco packed into an old leather pouch. There’s a hint of coconut cream pie next to woody winter spices on the finish with a touch more of that cherry tobacco married to salted dark chocolate all layered with dry sweetgrass and cedar bark.
This is a winner right here. It’d deep yet playful and accessible. It’s also just freakin’ classic from top to bottom.
Taste 8
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Speaking of classic, the nose opens with creamy vanilla next to spiced tobacco with plenty of apple pie vibe and winter spices with a butter underbelly. The palate has a light bran muffin with a molasses vibe next to vanilla/nougat wafers (hello, Tennessee) that then leads to peach skins and gingerbread. The end leans into the nutty chocolate and vanilla wafer with a touch of orange zest, marzipan, and mint tobacco with a dry wicker end.
This is subtle and nice, though it’s very clearly an outlier.
Taste 9
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Nougat and old oak staves mingle with sour cherries, old vanilla pods, and sourdough apple fritters all wrapped up in new leather. The palate adds in stewed apples with plenty of allspice and nutmeg next to rum-raisin, pecans, and ginger tobacco. The end brings about dark cherry sour/sweetness with a touch of brown sugar, cinnamon-spiked apple cider, and fresh pipe tobacco with a twinge of dry wicker and old cedar.
This is another winning bourbon. It’s just good, full stop.
Taste 10
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose opens with a woody cherry bark next to sour apple pies, distiller’s beer, and caramel candies next to vanilla cream with a counterpoint of cumin and dry chili lurking in the deeper reaches of the nose. The palate opens with a Cherry Coke feel next to rich and buttery toffee, vanilla malts, and sharp Hot Tamales cinnamon candy with a nod toward allspice and root beer. The end is soft and lush with vanilla smoothness leading to black cherry tobacco braided with cedar bark and wicker.
This, again, is really freakin’ tasty, meaning this ranking is going to be brutal.
This is Maker’s signature expression. It’s made from red winter wheat with corn and malted barley and then aged in seasoned Ozark oak for six to seven years. This expression’s juice is then built from only 150 barrels (making this a small batch, if you want to call it that). Those barrels are blended, proofed, bottled, and dipped in red wax.
Bottom Line:
This felt like a great cocktail bourbon from the jump. Mixed into a Manhattan or an old fashioned and this will shine, covering up that lower ABV wateriness on the finish.
Back in 2020, Beam decided to release this “distillery-only” expression nationwide. The classic Jim Beam juice is a tribute to what the brand was before Prohibition. “Jim Beam” used to be “Old Tub” as a brand back then. Anyway, the juice in this bottle is Beam’s low-rye bourbon that’s batched to comply with Bonded laws, meaning the barrels are from one distilling season, from one distillery and distiller, and bottled at 100 proof.
Bottom Line:
This is another bourbon that felt like a great cocktail base from the nose to the finish. The higher ABV here means it’ll cocktail nicely with a little extra oompf while providing a solid flavor profile to build off.
8. Heaven Hill Old Style Bourbon 6 Years Old — Taste 6
Heaven Hill’s Old Style Bourbon is always affordable and very palatable. The whiskey is Heaven Hill’s classic bourbon mash that goes into this, Evan Williams, Elijah Craig, and so forth. This expression adds an extra two years (or so) of aging to Heaven Hill’s entry-level “Old Style” juice (their White Label version).
Bottom Line:
This was very much in the “fine” category. I can see it working wonders in a cocktail but wouldn’t really bother with it as a sipper. Well, maybe over a lot of rocks and a dash of bitters.
This is Elijah Craig’s entry-point bottle. The mash is corn-focused, with more malted barley than rye. The whiskey is then rendered from “small batches” of barrels to create this proofed-down version of the iconic brand.
Bottom Line:
This is where we get into the workhorse whiskeys. This feels as viable as a cocktail bourbon as it does as an on-the-rocks sipper. It didn’t jump out at me like the next entries, but there was exactly zero wrong with this one.
6. George Dickel Bourbon Whisky Aged 8 Years — Taste 8
The whisky in the bottle is the same Dickel Tennessee whiskey but pulled from barrels that leaned more into classic bourbon flavor notes instead of Dickel’s iconic Tennessee whiskey notes. The barrels are a minimum of eight years old before they’re vatted. The juice is then cut down to a manageable 90-proof and bottled.
Bottom Line:
This is just good bourbon with a unique flavor profile. There are a lot more grain and wafer vibes in the mix. I like that, but this still feels like a workhorse that works in cocktails or on the rocks. I wouldn’t really reach for this as a neat sipper.
Classic Wild Turkey 101 starts with their classic 75/13/12 mash bill that inches the malted barley just above the rye in the mix. That whiskey then spends at least six years in the cask before it’s batched and just kissed with Kentucky limestone water before bottling.
Bottom Line:
This is the last of the workhorses but the closest to a whiskey I wanted to reach for neat but wasn’t quite there. That said, this on the rocks with a dash of bitters rules.
This is classic wheated bourbon that’s blended, proofed, and bottled as a just-north-of-budget whiskey expression. We don’t know the age or mash bill though since Buffalo Trace keeps all that information very close to its chest.
Bottom Line:
This was very distinct on the nose and palate and felt like an easy sipper. The only reason it’s a little lower on this ranking is that it was just classic and nothing popped out.
This whiskey from Barton 1792 Distillery is a no-age-statement release made in “small batches.” The mash is unknown but Sazerac does mention that it’s a “high rye” mash bill, which could really mean anything. The juice is batched from select barrels and then proofed down and bottled as-is.
Bottom Line:
This popped a little bit more than the sip above. It’s easy to drink and feels like a fun ride when sipped neat or on the rocks.
This is a one-step-up “small batch” from Buffalo Trace’s budget brand, Benchmark. There’s not a whole lot of information on what this is exactly when it comes to the mash bill or aging. The “batch” could be 20 barrels or 200. We do know that the bourbon is cut down to 90-proof before bottling.
Bottom Line:
This really lights up the palate. The nose is deep and inviting and the taste is fresh while still feeling classic. It’s also really approachable while offering balance and nuance. It just wasn’t quite as deep and fun as the next entry.
Jim Beam’s single-barrel bottlings are pulled from single barrels that hit just the right spot of taste, texture, and drinkability, according to the master distillers at Beam. That means this juice is pulled from less than 1% of all barrels in Beam’s warehouses, making this an exceptional bottle at a bafflingly affordable price.
Bottom Line:
This is just delicious. It’s a super easy sipper neat with real depth (and you will find new nuances every time you go back in for more). This tasted the best and it kind of wasn’t close.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
Zach Johnston
The fact that Jim Beam can put a single barrel expression on the shelf — worldwide — for around $25 is f*cking wild. There are single barrel expressions that cost 10 times that that aren’t that much better. Trust me on this.
Look, all of these bourbons tasted good. Some were a little thinner than others. But let me reiterate — they all tasted good. You’d be fine getting any of these. And, shit, you can buy a case of any of these for the price of a single bottle of something that tastes 10, maybe 20% better? And if you’re mixing cocktails, all of these bottles are the way you want to go. They all work fine and will make a perfectly decent cocktail.
I guess the lesson here is this: The next time you’re in the liquor store, maybe look a little bit lower on the shelf instead of higher.
Ahead of his upcoming third album, It’s Only Me, Lil Baby paid a visit to the Hot 97 studios in New York City to deliver a freestyle on Funk Flex’s show.
Baby delivered flashy bars over a glimmery Wheezy beat, warming us up before the album arrives at midnight tonight.
“Cool lil sh*t / I’m digging her skin complexion, little do she know I’m next / Everybody around me ran up an M or better I don’t really never have to flex / Too much going on to be on my phone, for real / I don’t ever really have to text, when I call she gonna come through/ I’m the wall they gonna run to/ If I’m honest I’ll stun you,” he raps.
While Baby has contributed a hot string of features over the course of the past two years, he’s been hard at work this year on It’s Only Me, which is one of the year’s most anticipated albums. Once it’s out, he’s ready to return to making features, but inquiring collaborators should know, his price has gone up.
In a recent interview on Big Loon’s The Experience podcast, he explained that he now charges between $300,000 to $350,000 for a guest verse.
“I don’t even be doing features no more,” he said. “[I charge] like, $300,000, $350,000. But I ain’t been doing features lately. But if I know I ain’t putting out no album, or I ain’t got nothing going on, like, why not?”
Check out Lil Baby’s Funk Flex freestyle above.
It’s Only Me is out 10/14 via Quality Control and Motown. Pre-save it here.
There may be no team in the NBA where fans are watching closely for signs of discontent on the floor more than the Los Angeles Lakers, particularly when it comes to Russell Westbrook.
The Lakers have been trying to trade him for the better part of a year now to no avail, and while he’s said the right things about going about his business as usual, few would fault him for being a bit less engaged with his continued position on the trade block. On Wednesday night, ESPN’s cameras seemed to capture such a moment when Patrick Beverley tried to pull his Lakers teammates in for a huddle after a foul, only for Russ to be standing off to the side, not joining in.
That clip went viral and sparked plenty of conversation about Russ and his relationship with Beverley (and the Lakers as a whole). However, on Thursday, Westbrook addressed that video — and another of him seemingly ignoring the pregame huddle after intros — saying that in the in-game clip he was talking to the coaches, while it’s been his pregame ritual to run to the corner of the court and take off his warmups for his entire career.
Russ addresses the clips of last night’s game that have gotten traction online, saying in the third quarter video of the huddle, he was talking to coaches. His pregame ritual is something he’s done throughout his career: pic.twitter.com/eGMg4zu9pN
The full videos of both show what Westbrook is talking about, as he darts to the corner in pregame and, on the Spectrum feed, you can see him turning to have a conversation with his coaches, unaware of the huddle happening a few feet away with his teammates.
A Russell Westbrook clip where he’s seen away from another huddle is making the rounds.
If you peep the entire video, though, Russ was with his Lakers teammates at the start.
in re: to that Westbrook/Pat Bev vid going viral, here’s the camera angle from Spectrum Sportsnet which shows what Russ was doing when Pat tried to huddle up. pic.twitter.com/GKnrD4KMLw
You can tell Russ is a bit amused by this becoming a genuine talking point — and that he’s fairly used to it at this point — but for now Lakers fans (and other fans looking to rubberneck at another Lakers trainwreck) can calm down a bit about things unraveling already with Westbrook.
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