Talib Kweli and Madlib have announced that they are reuniting for a sequel to one of their most beloved projects. Liberation 2, due March 6, will be released through the Luminary podcast network, echoing the nontraditional release of the original in 2007.
The album is set to feature collaborations with Q-Tip, Roc Marciano, and Westside Gunn, along with a posthumous appearance from Mac Miller. In a statement accompanying the announcement, Kweli detailed the album’s decade-long recording process and its content:
“People today are taking stock of what is most important — family, health, wellness, love. The materialism and debauchery that is stereotypically associated with hip-hop has lost some of its luster. Madlib and I have been consistent in our messaging. Never has there been a better time for such honest, message-driven music that pays tribute to the sounds that came before us.”
In 2007, Kweli and Madlib teamed up to release Liberation, which was available as a free download from Stones Throw’s Rappcats website. The album was seen as a return to form for Kweli after 2004’s The Beautiful Struggle disappointed some listeners.
Madlib’s beats were seen as a perfect compliment to Kweli’s rhymes; the two have since collaborated a few more times, including most recently on Kweli and Yasiin Bey’s Black Star reunion album No Fear of Time, which was also released through Luminary. Madlib also recently released a critically acclaimed project with Freddie Gibbs, Bandana.
The first single is “After These Messages,” the video for which you can watch above.
Like most authoritarian leaders, Vladimir Putin has a fragile ego. (See, also: Trump, Donald J.) The Russian president is apparently so temperamental that an entire team works “around-the-clock” to make sure he’s not exposed to any online images where he’s portrayed unflatteringly. However, considering the internet is the Wild West when it comes to memes, the Russian team’s efforts require a heightened level of diligence and a vast knowledge of things that Putin never wants his face on. Like, for example, crabs.
We swear to god we’re not making this up. Via The Daily Beast:
Putin’s image is reportedly monitored almost around-the-clock, with staffers signing on at 8:30 every morning to look for any online chatter that could pose a threat to the Russian leader—including any memes that diminish his macho image, such as his face superimposed over the body of a crab, or the equally threatening declaration, “Putin is a crab.”
The team is, of course, on the lookout for any instances of Putin being portrayed as a pedophile or serial killer, but the list doesn’t just stop there and gets oddly specific. According to The Daily Beast, Putin must never be referred to as “Putler” (Hitler references are big no-no), “bald dwarf,” or Zaches, “a freakish little boy from an 1819 German fairytale.”
Putin’s strong, authoritarian image must also never be near pornography, homosexual images, pictures of trash cans (???), or human excrement. Whether that last one is because of the report that Putin fell down a flight of stairs and pooped himself is unknown at this time, but it’s probably a factor.
After months of chatter and rumors about teams asking the world for players and there seeming to be little traction on trades, the NBA trade deadline finished with a flourish, as some seismic deals sparked a flurry of action leading up to 3 p.m. ET on Thursday.
There were mammoth deals, headlined by the Nets blowing it up and sending Kevin Durant to the Suns days after moving Kyrie Irving to Dallas, smaller ones to address depth, and the always popular cap relief maneuvers. It could get hard to track everything that happened in real time, particularly as the trades seemed to come in waves, but we’re here to list out every player on the move, big and small, from every team this week (which is to say, trades like the Rui Hachimura deal aren’t included).
This list also doesn’t include the mind-numbing number of draft picks that changed hands, as second round picks were flying around the league, but is just to note who is on what rosters now.
Atlanta Hawks
ADDED: Saddiq Bey, Garrison Mathews, Bruno Fernando
LOST: Justin Holiday, Frank Kaminsky
Boston Celtics
ADDED: Mike Muscala
LOST: Justin Jackson
Brooklyn Nets
ADDED: Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson
LOST: Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Markieff Morris, Kessler Edwards
Chicago Bulls
ADDED: No one
LOST: No one
Charlotte Hornets
ADDED: Reggie Jackson, Svi Mykhailiuk
LOST: Jalen McDaniels, Mason Plumlee
ADDED: Thomas Bryant
LOST: Bones Hyland, Davon Reed
Detroit Pistons
ADDED: James Wiseman
LOST: Saddiq Bey, Kevin Knox
Golden State Warriors
ADDED: Gary Payton II
LOST: James Wiseman
Houston Rockets
ADDED: Frank Kaminsky, Justin Holiday, John Wall, Danny Green
LOST: Eric Gordon, Garrison Mathews, Bruno Fernando
Indiana Pacers
ADDED: George Hill, Jordan Nwora, Serge Ibaka
LOST: Goga Bitadze (waived), Terry Taylor (waived)
Los Angeles Clippers
ADDED: Eric Gordon, Bones Hyland, Mason Plumlee
LOST: Luke Kennard, Reggie Jackson, John Wall
Los Angeles Lakers
ADDED: D’Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, Mo Bamba, Davon Reed
LOST: Russell Westbrook, Patrick Beverley, Thomas Bryant, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Damian Jones
Memphis Grizzlies
ADDED: Luke Kennard
LOST: Danny Green
Miami Heat
ADDED: No one
LOST: Dewayne Dedmon
Milwaukee Bucks
ADDED: Jae Crowder
LOST: Serge Ibaka, George Hill, Jordan Nwora
Minnesota Timberwolves
ADDED: Mike Conley Jr., Nickeil Alexander-Walker
LOST: D’Angelo Russell
New Orleans Pelicans
ADDED: Josh Richardson
LOST: DeVonte’ Graham
New York Knicks
ADDED: Josh Hart
LOST: Cam Reddish, Svi Mykhailiuk, Ryan Arcidiacono
Oklahoma City Thunder
ADDED: Justin Jackson, Dario Saric
LOST: Mike Muscala, Darius Bazley
Orlando Magic
ADDED: Patrick Beverley
LOST: Mo Bamba
Philadelphia 76ers
ADDED: Jalen McDaniels
LOST: Matisse Thybulle
Phoenix Suns
ADDED: Kevin Durant, TJ Warren, Darius Bazley
LOST: Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnon, Jae Crowder, Dario Saric
Portland Trail Blazers
ADDED: Matisse Thybulle, Cam Reddish, Kevin Knox
LOST: Gary Payton II, Josh Hart, Ryan Arcidiacono
Sacramento Kings
ADDED: Kessler Edwards
LOST: No one
San Antonio Spurs
ADDED: DeVonte’ Graham, Thaddeus Young
LOST: Josh Richardson, Jakob Poeltl
Toronto Raptors
ADDED: Jakob Poeltl
LOST: Thaddeus Young
Utah Jazz
ADDED: Russell Westbrook, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Damian Jones
LOST: Mike Conley Jr., Jarred Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker
John Candy is one of those comedians who had a short but prolific career that shot him to stardom in the late ’80s and early ’90s. He starred in some of your dad’s favorite movies, including Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Cool Runnings, and Uncle Buck, while also voicing the little seabird Wilbur in The Rescuers Down Under. The man could really do it all. Candy passed away after a heart attack in 1994, and now Ryan Reynolds and Colin Hanks are working together to piece together his legacy for a new documentary that is in talks to premiere Amazon Prime.
The doc will recount the life and career of Candy before his untimely death, by utilizing home videos, archives and interviews with his peers and family. Hanks is directing while Reynolds is producing alongside George Dewey. Reynolds has been dipping his toes into the documentary game lately after producing FX’s Welcome To Wrexham docuseries.
You might be thinking, “Wait, why is Colin Hanks involved here?” That might be because Tom Hanks starred with Candy in Volunteers. Reynolds, on the other hand, has shared his love of Candy over the years by frequently celebrating him on Twitter. They are also both Canadian, so they share a special bond.
It’s the 25th anniversary of John Candy’s passing. We cooked up a small tribute to a comedic genius and Canadian hero. If you haven’t seen much of his work, take a look at his films. He was a treasure. Thanks to @chriscandy4u and @therealjencandy. pic.twitter.com/dHvuviKnBs
Call Me by Your Name star Armie Hammer’s career took a swift public nosedive in late 2020 upon the release of alleged Instagram DMs regarding his alleged cannibal fantasies and sex life. This led him to lash out about what he called the “bullsh*t” controversy while also dropping out of Shotgun Wedding. Since that time, Hammer has (seriously) embarked upon a career of selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands. Years later, he’s the butt of film festival jokes, and that hasn’t quelled the accusations.
This week, a woman who alleged that Hammer “violently” raped her has also accused the (former) actor of attempting to “shut me up,” and now, we’re hearing from someone who hasn’t spoken (too) publicly about this matter yet. Hammer’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, who was previously reported to have leaked stories about Hammer’s affairs, is now stepping into full public view. In an interview with ELLE, Chambers revealed that Hammer truly was “the worst” at the beginning of the pandemic. He chose to ditch their family, which was apparently the “nail in the coffin” after his infidelities. This was before the cannibalism controversy surfaced, and Chambers revealed that she found out about this stuff at the same time as the general public:
At first, the public response was tittering, but as more allegations surfaced, it seemed like this wasn’t just a case of celebrity kink-shaming. Hammer was being accused by multiple women of emotional manipulation. “I was learning things as the public was,” Chambers says. “I was like, ‘There are no words. What the f*ck?’”
As Chambers tried to piece together her ex’s secret sex life in realtime, her sister Catherine says his accusers were in her DMs asking questions she didn’t have answers to. “It was all still so new to her,” Catherine says. “She put on her support hat to be there for these women who had gone through terrible, terrible situations that were brought on by her former husband, but Elizabeth chose to be there for them rather than for herself first. She listened to horrible, deep, dark details regardless of what it meant for her own life.”
Before this controversy cracked open, Hammer had gone on record as with British GQ about how pandemic quarantine left him feeling “caught in a snare” and wanting to “chew his own foot off.” Little did the public (or Elizabeth Chambers) realize at the time that Hammer would soon be subject to accusations that he “wanted to cut off” a woman’s toe and carry it around with him like a secret trophy. Yikes.
Over the years, Harrison Ford has earned a reputation for being sort of grumpy in interviews. It’s tempting to read that as a pejorative, but for the most part, I mean it as a compliment. If you’ve ever been to a junket or seen what a movie press tour entails, it often consists of some of the most overcaffeinated dorks in the world (take it from me, I’ve been one of those dorks) asking you the same stupid questions all day, and if you didn’t eventually start to respond glibly to that, people would naturally wonder if you’d been lobotomized.
If you ever watch a supercut of an actor giving the same “candid” answer to 20 different interviewers you’ll be able to actually see your soul leaving your body. I love an actor who’s cranky in interviews. A cranky actor makes me feel seen. I eat up every story about Tommy Lee Jones telling Jim Carrey “I cannot sanction your buffoonery” and if you tell me it’s not true I will put my fingers in my ears and go “La la la.”
In that way, Harrison Ford is one of “my guys.” At this point, he’s such a consistent delight for crank enthusiasts that every new interview feels a little like “put your coin in the slot to hear him growl!” Ford has got a new, nicely long talk in the Hollywood Reporter this week and, naturally, I analyzed it closely for the best grump nuggets.
Before I get to that, it’s also worth noting that, as Mike Ryan has pointed out, Harrison Ford interviews aren’t fun solely because he’s grouchy, they’re fun because he’s also really funny. The curmudgeonliness is part shtick at this point, and he uses it to land jokes, which he does with the precision of a surgeon. When I read his gruff-sounding answers in print, I’m imagining him saying them with a little smirk on his face, which he usually seems to have.
Your Shrinking character Paul is, I would imagine, closer to how you are in real life than your other roles. He’s low-key, smart, affable but also sometimes grumpy. Would that be fair?
I don’t have Parkinson’s [like Paul] or a deep knowledge of therapy, and I’m not in business with a couple of f*cking maniacs. But I recognize that maybe he’s like me. Or maybe he’s not like me — and that’s acting.
“Of course my character not like me, do I look like I have Parkinson’s?”
So whether he is or isn’t is not something you’d want me to know.
You’ve hit on the first rule of Acting Club: Don’t talk about acting.
Actors are maybe rivaled only by comedians in their propensity to wax on about “the craft,” which in both cases seems only to cheapen the thing. What a great answer.
Your fans online have done some armchair diagnosis, looking at things you’ve said about being shy in social situations and some of your talk show appearances. Some assume you’ve wrestled with social anxiety disorder. Are they onto something?
[…] No. I don’t have a social anxiety disorder. I have an abhorrence of boring situations.
Holy shit, that’s not a quip, it’s a mantra. I want that tattooed in script on my forearm. Ford just opened his mouth and the collective id of every dad who’s ever been forced to mingle with the other be-shorted buffoons at a Chuck E. Cheese gushed out with the force of a Pacific monsoon.
Has Taylor given you a sense of how season two is going be different than season one?
I haven’t got a fucking clue.
“You think I care enough about TV to be out here speculating about future TV? I haven’t thought about it. Nerds do that.”
You’ve also rescued several people with your helicopter. How do stranded hikers react when they’re rescued by Harrison Ford?
Well, one time we picked up this woman who was hypothermic on the mountain. She barfed in my cowboy hat but didn’t know who I was until the next day. I stopped doing it because we would be lucky enough to find somebody and then they’d be on Good Morning America talking about “a hero pilot.” It’s nothing fucking like that. It’s a team effort. It’s lame to think about it that way.
“She barfed in my cowboy hat” is such a great line. Beautiful imagery. Also telling that it wasn’t the getting his cowboy hat barfed in that put him off mountain rescue, it was that people couldn’t keep their stupid mouths shut about it.
I know you don’t pick favorites, but is there a role you feel was underappreciated at the time that you’re proud of?
I’m proud of 42. I’m proud of K-19: The Widowmaker, where I played a Russian submarine captain.
Asking him about favorite roles and him immediately coming up with the submarine one is another beautifully dad thing to say.
I know you’re not a nostalgic guy, but how did it feel putting on the hat and the jacket and whip for what is probably the last time?
(As if first learning of the role) I’m playing this archaeologist … who wears a brown fedora … and a leather jacket regardless of the weather … and carries a whip? OK, I’ll do it! Look, it was bizarre to start with, and it’s bizarre again.
God, what I would give to get Harrison Ford about four beers deep and wind him up to make fun of Speilberg and Lucas. Then again, I say that, but the reality is, I enjoy reading and watching Harrison Ford interviews almost certainly far more than I would enjoy doing them. At one point, the interviewer asks Ford a question about Ford’s “youthful” side, and Ford responds, “do you fish?”
I feel like a kid who’s about to disappoint his dad just reading that, and my dad doesn’t even fish. A national treasure, this man.
The song opens with a bewitching verse from SZA, immediately addressing the constant influx of hate she receives and not hesitating to call it out: “Woke up this morning to somebody in a video / Talking about something I posted in a video / If it wasn’t me then would you even get offended? Or / Is it just because I’m Black and heavy?”
With SZA hopping on the track and contributing strong, beautiful vocals, “Special” becomes even more motivational and encouraging than it originally was. The both of them together are unstoppable, and it’s sure to be a chart-topping hit that’ll remind fans of their worth.
Listen to the “Special” remix above.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Like its larger rival in brewing, Germany, Belgium can trace its brewing history back to the Middle Ages. Over those centuries, the distinct Belgian brewing tradition has spawned some of the best beers in the world. From lambics, Flemish red ales, abbey ales, farmhouse ales, pale ales, witbiers, and many other styles, Belgium has something for every beer drinker.
While you might think of Belgian beers as funky and yeasty, and many of them are, the country encompasses an impressive, maybe even unrivaled variety. They run the gamut from crisp, easy-drinking everyday brews to earthy, funky, yeasty beers, to sour, acidic, and sometimes over-the-top tart beers, to say nothing of the darker, maltier options. With so much potential for a deep dive, the toughest question is where to start. That’s where we come in.
A wide variety of Belgian beers are readily available almost anywhere, from your local beer store, grocer, or online retailer. To help you out, we picked eight of our favorite, easier-to-find Belgian brews and ranked them head to head.
This award-winning Belgian pale ale is known for its easy-drinking, creamy, flavor profile. The abbey ale is known for its spicy, earthy, lightly bitter palate. It’s a great entry-level Belgian beer for drinkers hoping to dip their proverbial toe in the country’s beers.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of freshly baked bread, yeast, dried fruits, and wintry spices greet you before your first sip. The palate continues this trend with bready malts, yeast, fruit esters, spices, and light vanilla. Overall, it’s surprisingly muted and watery.
Bottom Line:
Leffe Blonde is a decent beer for beginners. It’s just a little thin and watery for more experienced beer fans.
Whether or not you’ve ever tried La Chouffe, you’ve likely seen this bottle, adorned with a gnome riding on a unicycle. This 8% ABV Belgian blonde is known for its spicy, citrus, yeasty, bready flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’re met with yeast bread, cloves, citrus peels, fruit esters, and bananas. The palate continues this trend with flavors of grass, bready malts, yeast, ginger, candied orange peels, bananas, dried fruits, and light spices
Bottom Line:
La Chouffe and Duvel are two of the best, readily available Belgian golden ales on the market. It’s difficult to pick one over the other, but this one is a little heavier on the spice.
This highly-rated Belgian strong ale gets its unique flavor from the use of a yeast strain selected by Albert Moortgat in the 1920s. It’s matured in storage tanks before being bottled where it ferments again in warm cellars. It’s then moved again, to cold cellars, where it ferments for another six weeks.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of yeast, candied orange peels, bready malts, and bananas starts everything off right. Drinking it reveals notes of orange peels, more yeast, freshly baked bread, lemon, cloves, and ripe bananas. The finish is dry and spicy.
Bottom Line:
This is a great start on your Belgian strong ale journey. When it comes to the availability of the style at your local grocery store, you’ll have a hard time finding many better than this.
First launched in 1954 as a Christmas beer, Chimay Grand Reserve is a 9% ABV strong ale that’s now available all year long. It’s known for its yeasty, fruity flavor, which ends drier than some of the other Belgian strong ales on the market.
Tasting Notes:
Dried fruits, yeast, fruit esters, freshly baked bread, caramel, and wintry spices make up the welcoming nose. On the palate, you’ll find flavors of bready malts, caramel, dried cherries, orange peels, yeast, and cloves. The finishing is warming and boozy.
Bottom Line:
Fruit, yeast, spices, and a warming finish, this strong ale has it all. It’s a great example of a strong ale that’s fairly easy to find.
This 6.9% ABV trappist ale is simply brewed with water, barley malt, candi sugar, hops, and yeast. Bottled with Brettanomyces, it’s known for its fruity, dry, lightly bitter flavor profile that leaves you craving more.
Tasting Notes:
Yeast, baked bread, cloves, caramel, candied orange peels, and cidery funk make up a memorable nose. Sipping it brings forth notes of ripe peaches, citrus peels, fruit esters, dried fruits, bready malts, yeast, and more wintry spices. The finish is crisp, dry, and pleasing.
Bottom Line:
This is a great Belgian beer. It’s complex, yet easy-drinking flavor profile will insure that you continue imbibing it for years to come.
If you were to take a poll of brewers and beer fans asking them to tell you their favorite saison or farmhouse ale, you’d get a ton of people shouting out Saison Dupont. Available since 1844, Saison Dupont is brewed in the winter and ferments in wooden barrels until the summer months.
Tasting Notes:
Funky yeast starts everything off, followed by orange peels, lemon zest, banana, and floral hops. Drinking it reveals hints of coriander, banana, yeast, cloves, dried fruits, bready malts, white pepper, and floral, lightly bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
This is a funky, yeasty, fruity, lightly bitter farmhouse ale that needs to sipped to be believed. It will also take a few samplings before you’re able to find all the various flavors.
The flagship beer from St. Bernardus, Abt. 12 is a 10% ABV Quadruple known for its fruity, yeasty, bittersweet flavor profile. It’s a complex, highly-rated beer beloved by Belgian beer fans.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is all freshly baked bread, yeast, dried fruits, and a load of wintry spices. It’s very inviting. The palate is filled with more freshly baked bread, caramel, dried fruits, cloves, fruit esters, yeast, and more wintry spices. The finish is sweet, slightly bitter, and very warming.
Bottom Line:
With its warming alcohol content and complex flavor profile, it’s difficult to find a grocery store Belgian beer better than St. Bernardus Abt. 12.
The name is a reference to severe alcohol withdrawal. And while that seems a bit bleak, there’s nothing bleak about this flavorful beer. There are few Belgian beers more well-known as Delirium Tremens. This 8.5% ABV Belgian strong ale is known for its highly complex malty, spicy, warming flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
A complex nose of dried fruits, orange peels, yeast, freshly baked bread, and light tropical fruit notes greet you before your first sip. Drinking it doesn’t disappoint as there are hints of funky yeast, sweet wheat, more orange zest, banana, bubblegum, fruit esters, and light pepper. The finish is dry and pleasing.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason Belgian beer fans love Delirium Tremens. It’s yeasty, slightly funky, fruity, and has everything they crave.
Yesterday, February 8, Nav posted security footage of Uzi attempting to leap to a landing in the middle of a pool and instead suffering a wicked fall.
“Caught Uzi slippin leaving my studio last night [crying laughing emoji],” Nav captioned the Instagram post. Uzi can be seen cracking up after wiping out, too.
“[crying laughing emojis] that hurt fa sho,” Ty Dolla Sign commented. The comment section was also flooded with amused reactions from the likes of Amir “Cash” Esmailian, RealestK, Lil Gotit, YG, and more.
Nav is bringing RealestK and SoFaygo with him for the 23-date trek, which will finish with “a special show” in his hometown Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on April 11, which will boast Bryson Tiller as a special guest.
The Los Angeles Lakers got busy ahead of the NBA trade deadline after a dismal loss to the Thunder on national TV as the world watched LeBron James break the NBA’s all-time scoring record.
Since then, the Lakers have flipped Russell Westbrook and a first for D’Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Malik Beasley, moved Thomas Bryant to Denver for Davon Reed and three second round picks, and, most recently, shipped Patrick Beverley off to Orlando for Mo Bamba — effectively replacing Bryant in the frontcourt rotation.
The Los Angeles Lakers are trading Patrick Beverley to the Orlando Magic for center Mo Bamba, sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium.
Bamba has played sparingly in Orlando, averaging just 17 minutes per game, but he is a capable three-point shooter (39.8 percent), replacing Bryant in the stretch-big category, and is a deterrent at the rim — even if he’s not an elite defender otherwise. Bamba is also coming off of a brawl with Austin Rivers a week ago, and the Lakers will face Rivers and the Wolves in just over three weeks. It’s not a ground-shaking addition by any stretch, but it addresses a minor need and continues to shift the locker room chemistry.
Given how the Lakers seemed to blast Russell Westbrook as he went out the door, I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear some things about Beverley not exactly being beloved in the L.A. locker room in the coming days. On the court, moving Beverley clears up some of the logjam the Lakers had in the backcourt, as they can now firmly turn things over to Russell and Dennis Schröder at the point guard spot, with Dennis now serving as their primary defensive pest. Beverley, meanwhile, is expected to hit the buyout market along with a number of other players once the deadline passes.
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