Forbes recently dropped the Richest Self-Made Women list and a lot of popular musicians were at the top.

Rihanna reigned among the musicians at No. 20 — as she headlined the Super Bowl earlier this year. Oh, and she also runs the Fenty Beauty brand, which reportedly doubled in value. There’s also her Savage x Fenty lingerie company. Her reported net worth is $1.4 billion and has a self-made score of 10, according to the publication.

Taylor Swift followed close behind at No. 34 and has a net worth of $740 million. She’s set to bring in way more with her record-breaking The Eras Tour, which recently announced a Latin American leg, and led to a large-scale Ticketmaster controversy. She is also working on her first feature directing job.

Queen Bey is also featured on Forbes’ list, with her net worth at $540 million and a ranking at No. 48. Between currently embarking across Europe on her Renaissance World Tour and a recently-announced Balmain collaboration, she has her hands in quite a few successful industries. She also purchased the most-expensive home that has ever been sold in California.

Both Swift and Beyoncé earned self-made scores of 8.

Other notable female musicians on the list include Madonna at No. 45, Céline Dion at No. 56, Dolly Parton at No. 59, and Barbra Streisand at No. 61.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Just a few weeks after teasing a small snippet of her new music, it seems Olivia Rodrigo is also hinting at when fans can expect her sophomore era to start.

Today, some spotted a new countdown on the pop star’s website to 27 days from now. Once the math is calculated, this puts the possible release to drop when the countdown ends on June 30. And yes, it is a Friday — when most new music drops.

It also appeared in Rodrigo’s fan newsletter, likely to make sure that fans had seen it. For those who still might not be convinced, she also recently hinted at the same date with a selfie that had a heart drawn around it.

While not much is known about the particular lyrics and the song or album titles, Rodrigo’s teaser on her Instagram stories noted that it is a piano instrumental, so perhaps it will be an emotional one.

Fans also won’t have to worry about her diverging too much from the sound of her 2021 Sour debut, as she is also working with her same producer, Dan Nigro.

“We have such a good groove together. We are always sharing ideas back-and-forth and have been carving out time to work together in the studio,” Rodrigo told Billboard last year. “I trust him so much and really enjoy the music we’ve been making.”

Check out some fan reactions to Olivia Rodrigo’s website countdown below.

Hitting a cocktail bar is great — we love it! It’s also expensive as f*ck. Granted, you’re accessing ingredients and talent (sometimes) that you simply don’t have access to at home, and that’s 100% worth paying a premium for. Still, there are some basic and classic cocktails that you don’t need to go out to enjoy. In fact, you should be able to make a solid roster of classic cocktails at home (and riff on them endlessly). And we’re here to help you do exactly that.

Below, I’m breaking down and making five iconic cocktails that you can easily make at home: A classic martini, bourbon old fashioned, classic margarita, rye Manhattan, and a Negroni. As with anything in this life of ours, your home bartending skills are a journey. You have to start somewhere, practice, fail, refine, fail some more, and repeat until you start getting a groove where this shit becomes simple muscle memory. So don’t fret, the learning part is fun… and gets you buzzed!

At the end of the day, there are a few things to know that’ll help you make better cocktails. Consider the following rules to live by at your home bar:

• Always use base spirits — bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, tequila, whatever — that you actually like drinking. There is no top price for good booze to add to cocktails. When I make Manhattans, I use a bottle of rye that costs around $300. Why? Because it tastes freaking amazing. Always use good booze. Period.
• All cocktails need water — it’s a vital ingredient (all cocktails are a mix of a base spirit, sweetener, acid or bitter, and water). Ice does two things: It dilutes the cocktail while cooling it. You can get super detailed about ice but always use very good and deeply frozen ice when making cocktails. Get the good stuff.
• Don’t get all caught up with gear. You can make a cocktail in a pint glass with a chopstick as a barspoon. Seriously. You can shake a cocktail in an old jam jar. Again, seriously — it already has a lid! Sure, a nice bar kit looks great and can help. But you can get started with what you have in kitchen cabinets right now (probably).
• At the end of the day, you’re generally aiming for a four-ounce cocktail. That’s typically 3 to 3.5 ounces of ingredients and 0.5 to 1 ounce of water. It just depends on what you’re making. For instance, a Negroni needs a full ounce of water to balance out. A Manhattan needs 0.5 ounces. (Trust me, part of my training was mixing cocktails and pouring them into measuring cups to make sure I hit four ounces perfectly every time.)
• Lastly, practice. You simply need to put in the reps. The best part is that you can drink your practice cocktails.

Okay, that’s a lot of preamble so let’s just dive in and make some great cocktails!

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Classic Martini

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. London dry gin
• 0.5 oz. dry vermouth
• Lemon peel
• Ice

What You’ll Need:

• Coupe or cocktail glass
• Mixing jar/glass
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife
• Barspoon

Method:

• Prechill the glass, mixing jug, spoon, and jigger in the freezer. 10 minutes is enough. Overnight is ideal. Ice-cold tools make a better martini since you’re going for a drink as cold as you can get.
• Add the gin, vermouth, and two handfuls of ice to the mixing jug and then stir until the drink is ice-cold — about 20 to 30 seconds.
• Strain the drink into the prechilled glass and then express the oils from the peel over the cocktail. You can trim the peel and then twist it like a pigtail and drop it into the glass or just discard it. Serve.

Bottom Line:

This is a perfect cocktail. It’s so clean and crisp. The lemon oils are essential and make it pop in a way that feels professional. Overall, this is very easy to have more than one of them on a lazy afternoon.

And look, if you want to add an olive or a pickled onion, or whatever, do it! No one is stopping you and don’t let anyone judge you for enjoying what you like. I like mine clean, simple, and ice cold. I’ve had phases where I’d add gorgonzola-stuffed green olives and anchovies and all that. Find your groove. No matter what, you need that lemon oil over the top to complete the cocktail though.

Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. bourbon whiskey
• 3 dashes of Angostura Bitters
• 0.25 oz. simple syrup
• Orange peel
• Cherry
• Ice
• Large ice cube

What You’ll Need:

• Rocks glass
• Mixing jar/glass
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife
• Barspoon

Method:

• Prechill your glass.
• Add the simple syrup, bitters, and bourbon to a mixing glass, and then add two large handfuls of ice.
• Stir the drink until it’s ice-cold to touch — about 20 seconds.
• Strain the drink into the prechilled glass over a large ice cube.
• Express the orange oils over the glass and drop in the peel with a dark cocktail cherry. Serve.

Bottom Line:

This is the perfect classic cocktail that runs deep with bourbon notes — a little dark fruit, wood spice, and vanilla. You can get really chef-y with this — I tend to use raw sugar instead of syrup and create a base from that but that’s getting into the weeds. It’s 100% okay to use simple syrup and really dial in your technique before getting overly persnickety.

Once you do start getting fastidious about making old fashioneds at home, you can start playing around with the sugar component to add seasonal vibes. Cinnamon sugar for fall, orange chocolate for the holidays, mint for spring, and so, so much more. The sky really is the limit.

Margarita

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. blanco tequila
• 0.75 oz. triple sec
• 0.75 oz. fresh lime juice
• Pinch of kosher salt
• Ice
• Lime wheel

What You’ll Need:

• Rocks glass
• Cocktail shaker
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife
• Hand juicer

Method:

• Prechill your glass.
• Add the lime juice, triple sec, tequila, and salt (seriously just a small pinch) to a cocktail shaker, and then add two handfuls of ice.
• Affix the lid and shaker vigorously for about 15 seconds.
• Add fresh ice to the rocks glass and strain the margarita into the glass. Attach a lime wheel to the rim and serve.

Bottom Line:

I love talking about classic margaritas because it gives me a chance to use one of my favorite bartending memes of all time…

Cointreau is a brand of triple sec — it’s just orange liqueur.

Lastly, don’t salt your rim. That’s over-salting and will ruin the balance of the cocktail. The drink needs a pinch of salt to add depth. Salting the rim means that you’ll get way too much salt on the first sip and then not enough as you avoid the salted rim the rest of the time. Or do, I’m not your boss.

Manhattan

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. rye whiskey
• 0.5 oz. sweet vermouth
• 2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
• Orange peel
• Cherry
• Ice

What You’ll Need:

• Coupe or cocktail glass
• Mixing jar/glass
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife
• Barspoon

Method:

• Prechill the glass in the freezer.
• Add the rye, sweet vermouth, and bitters in a mixing glass, and then add two handfuls of ice.
• Stir the drink until it’s ice-cold — about 20 to 30 seconds.
• Strain the cocktail into a prechilled glass, express the orange oils and discard the peel, and then add the cherry and serve.

Bottom Line:

I’m using a 6:1 ratio for this because the weather is warm right now. That balance gives you a whiskey-forward cocktail that’s very light and almost playful. In the winter, I’ll take that ratio closer to 2 oz. of whiskey and 1 oz. of sweet vermouth to give the drink a darker and sweeter vibe that’s a bit more wintry spice-forward. Play with it to find your favorite ratio.

Negroni

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. dry gin
• 1 oz. sweet vermouth
• 1 oz. Campari Italian Bitters
• Orange peel
• Ice
• Large ice cube

What You’ll Need:

• Rocks glass
• Mixing jar/glass
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife
• Barspoon

Method:

• Prechill the rocks glass in the freezer.
• Add the gin, vermouth, and Campari to the mixing glass, and then add two handfuls of ice.
• Stir until the glass is ice-cold to touch — about 20 to 30 seconds.
• Strain the cocktail into the glass and express the orange oils from the peel over the glass. Dop the orange peel in the glass and serve.

Bottom Line:

This is a drink that you can 100% make in the glass. It’ll be stronger and dilute a lot faster as the ice will melt pretty quickly. But it’s still very fun that way.

I do like to prechill a Negroni in a mixing jug and pour over fresh ice. It is just more velvety that way and lasts longer without over-diluting in the glass. And if you really want to take this to the next level, express some lemon oils with the orange oils to brighten it up even more.

Just don’t shake these in a cocktail shaker. Sorry, Stanley Tucci but that’s just … sigh. This reaction seems appropriate:

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cardi B, Metro Boomin, Moneybagg Yo, and more.

New releases this week came from Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar (“The Hillbillies“), Gunna (“Bread & Butter“), Kid Cudi (“Porsche Topless“), Latto and Cardi B (“Put It On Da Floor Again“), and Saba and No I.D. (“Hue_Man Nature“), while a Hip-Hop 50 celebration found rap vets Nas and Rakim teaming up with new stars GloRilla and Latto to pay homage to rap’s original hit.

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending June 2, 2023.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

Metro Boomin — Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

The St. Louis superproducer assembles his own Spider Society in his soundtrack for the long-awaited sequel, pairing up such collaborators as JID and Offset, Don Toliver and Lil Uzi Vert, and 21 Savage and 2 Chainz. Other superstars who make appearances include ASAP Rocky, James Blake, Swae Lee, and even Nas, who closes things out with a blend of old-school traditionalism with contemporary flair — just like our hero Miles Morales.

Moneybagg Yo — Hard To Love

The Memphis mainstay has been through a lot in the past couple of years. Yet, he shows resilience in his refusal to quit. He calls music his therapy; fittingly, with so much to get off his chest, he ended up with enough music to constitute a pair of projects. Hard To Love is the first, and on it, he details just a few of his roiling thoughts and emotions while sticking to his winning formula of thundering beats and wit-filled, defiant bars.

Toosii — Naujour

Toosii used his real name as the title of his second album, which should tell you what to expect. Artists who break kayfabe usually do so to get real, addressing their biographical traumas and their present emotional state, or revealing new information about themselves. Toosii’s latest album toes the line of sharing his personal reality and maintaining artistic distance from listeners, but always with style befitting the South Coast rapper’s established character.

Singles/Videos

Baby Stone Gorillas — “Jay District”

The LA rap clique is a favorite of the city’s underground scene, with “Jay District” offering an unfiltered example of their unapologetic, culture-filled flows and laid-back post-hyphy production style. You might not totally get their off-kilter cadences and LA gang life references but it’s hard to hear the honesty permeating the final product.

Hit-Boy & Big Hit — “Reckless & Ratchet”

Big Hit home! There’s something truly uplifting about hearing a father-son duo reunite on a record for the first time in a long time. Big Hit’s OG outlook is balanced by his son’s contemporary perspective, while having his father on the track lends Hit-Boy’s latest a certain gravity.

Huey Briss — “Avirex Leather”

Technically, this dropped last week but I missed it in the rush. Therefore, I find it more than appropriate to spin the block so you all know about the Long Beach lyricist’s latest jazz-inflected effort. Briss raps with the confidence of a rapper with many times his following and as much wisdom as you’d expect from one twice his age. The following will take care of itself, because the talent isn’t going away.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cardi B, Metro Boomin, Moneybagg Yo, and more.

New releases this week came from Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar (“The Hillbillies“), Gunna (“Bread & Butter“), Kid Cudi (“Porsche Topless“), Latto and Cardi B (“Put It On Da Floor Again“), and Saba and No I.D. (“Hue_Man Nature“), while a Hip-Hop 50 celebration found rap vets Nas and Rakim teaming up with new stars GloRilla and Latto to pay homage to rap’s original hit.

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending June 2, 2023.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

Metro Boomin — Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

The St. Louis superproducer assembles his own Spider Society in his soundtrack for the long-awaited sequel, pairing up such collaborators as JID and Offset, Don Toliver and Lil Uzi Vert, and 21 Savage and 2 Chainz. Other superstars who make appearances include ASAP Rocky, James Blake, Swae Lee, and even Nas, who closes things out with a blend of old-school traditionalism with contemporary flair — just like our hero Miles Morales.

Moneybagg Yo — Hard To Love

The Memphis mainstay has been through a lot in the past couple of years. Yet, he shows resilience in his refusal to quit. He calls music his therapy; fittingly, with so much to get off his chest, he ended up with enough music to constitute a pair of projects. Hard To Love is the first, and on it, he details just a few of his roiling thoughts and emotions while sticking to his winning formula of thundering beats and wit-filled, defiant bars.

Toosii — Naujour

Toosii used his real name as the title of his second album, which should tell you what to expect. Artists who break kayfabe usually do so to get real, addressing their biographical traumas and their present emotional state, or revealing new information about themselves. Toosii’s latest album toes the line of sharing his personal reality and maintaining artistic distance from listeners, but always with style befitting the South Coast rapper’s established character.

Singles/Videos

Baby Stone Gorillas — “Jay District”

The LA rap clique is a favorite of the city’s underground scene, with “Jay District” offering an unfiltered example of their unapologetic, culture-filled flows and laid-back post-hyphy production style. You might not totally get their off-kilter cadences and LA gang life references but it’s hard to hear the honesty permeating the final product.

Hit-Boy & Big Hit — “Reckless & Ratchet”

Big Hit home! There’s something truly uplifting about hearing a father-son duo reunite on a record for the first time in a long time. Big Hit’s OG outlook is balanced by his son’s contemporary perspective, while having his father on the track lends Hit-Boy’s latest a certain gravity.

Huey Briss — “Avirex Leather”

Technically, this dropped last week but I missed it in the rush. Therefore, I find it more than appropriate to spin the block so you all know about the Long Beach lyricist’s latest jazz-inflected effort. Briss raps with the confidence of a rapper with many times his following and as much wisdom as you’d expect from one twice his age. The following will take care of itself, because the talent isn’t going away.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Inside The NBA shares a special familial quality as a sports studio show. TNT has accomplished a rare feat by producing the show with the same on-air talent for over two decades now, and we’ve covered the behind the scenes folks who really make the show hum.

But the chemistry and continuity between Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal weave together the familial fabric of the show. Johnson recently sat down with Dan Le Batard to discuss the special bond the Inside crew shares, and made clear that there’s something special about this group.

In addition to being the funniest sports show on television, the continuity between the Inside crew allows their basketball discourse to flow organically without feeling like a roundtable session for each segment. They have watched hundreds of games together, including some of the most iconic playoff games from this century. That collective experience really shines through after big games, because Ernie always knows how to steer the conversation to create space for a monologue or build tension when Kenny, Chuck, or Shaq disagree, all while knowing that they have the time and space to do whatever they want. The natural conclusion to the show each night makes the viewer feel like part of the show, and that ultimately, the four guys you see on the screen are family.

Inside The NBA shares a special familial quality as a sports studio show. TNT has accomplished a rare feat by producing the show with the same on-air talent for over two decades now, and we’ve covered the behind the scenes folks who really make the show hum.

But the chemistry and continuity between Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal weave together the familial fabric of the show. Johnson recently sat down with Dan Le Batard to discuss the special bond the Inside crew shares, and made clear that there’s something special about this group.

In addition to being the funniest sports show on television, the continuity between the Inside crew allows their basketball discourse to flow organically without feeling like a roundtable session for each segment. They have watched hundreds of games together, including some of the most iconic playoff games from this century. That collective experience really shines through after big games, because Ernie always knows how to steer the conversation to create space for a monologue or build tension when Kenny, Chuck, or Shaq disagree, all while knowing that they have the time and space to do whatever they want. The natural conclusion to the show each night makes the viewer feel like part of the show, and that ultimately, the four guys you see on the screen are family.

A major move is going down in the world of sports media, as reports indicate that Shannon Sharpe will end his seven-year stint on Undisputed. Sharpe apparently agreed to a contract buyout with Fox Sports, and as a result, his time sparring with Skip Bayless is going to reach its conclusion after the NBA Finals.

It’s apparently a clean break between the two sides, with Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast also getting out from under Fox’s umbrella. While Charles Barkley decided to take a more sarcastic tone over the entire saga, Stephen A. Smith opened the door for Sharpe to make his way over to ESPN, if that arrangement would work out for Sharpe.

“I don’t know what his plans are, I don’t know what he’s trying to pursue, I don’t know what he’s after,” Smith said on his podcast. “But if Shannon Sharpe needs me, I’m happy to be here for him. And if that included him wanting to come on First Take, the bosses at ESPN know that is something I would support.”

Smith and Bayless, of course, were a longtime duo on First Take before Bayless left the network. The two butted heads last year over some comments Smith made about how he joined the program, but Smith claimed that the two addressed the matter in private. There have been times recently where things have seemed awfully tense between Sharpe and Bayless on Undisputed, and it’s unclear what Bayless would think about Smith and Sharpe joining forces over on ESPN.

A major move is going down in the world of sports media, as reports indicate that Shannon Sharpe will end his seven-year stint on Undisputed. Sharpe apparently agreed to a contract buyout with Fox Sports, and as a result, his time sparring with Skip Bayless is going to reach its conclusion after the NBA Finals.

It’s apparently a clean break between the two sides, with Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast also getting out from under Fox’s umbrella. While Charles Barkley decided to take a more sarcastic tone over the entire saga, Stephen A. Smith opened the door for Sharpe to make his way over to ESPN, if that arrangement would work out for Sharpe.

“I don’t know what his plans are, I don’t know what he’s trying to pursue, I don’t know what he’s after,” Smith said on his podcast. “But if Shannon Sharpe needs me, I’m happy to be here for him. And if that included him wanting to come on First Take, the bosses at ESPN know that is something I would support.”

Smith and Bayless, of course, were a longtime duo on First Take before Bayless left the network. The two butted heads last year over some comments Smith made about how he joined the program, but Smith claimed that the two addressed the matter in private. There have been times recently where things have seemed awfully tense between Sharpe and Bayless on Undisputed, and it’s unclear what Bayless would think about Smith and Sharpe joining forces over on ESPN.

Ron DeSantis had another public meltdown as the Florida governor continues to take his extremely angry presidential campaign outside of the Sunshine State. During a rally in South Carolina on Friday, DeSantis seemingly short-circuited from rage after a woman in the audience called him a “f**king fascist.”

After hearing the insult, a red-faced DeSantis actually thanked her twice before the boos from the crowd snapped him back into reality, and he lashed out at the woman with a promise to continue his ban on books, abortions, and “wokeness” in schools.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” DeSantis eventually shot back, as noted by Mediaite. “We’re not going to let you impose an agenda on our kids. We’re going to stand up for our kids. Those people like that in Florida are the people we beat every single day.”

However, what DeSantis left out is that even members of his own party are growing tired of his obsessive culture war crusades, particularly his feud with Disney. Not to mention, this was his second angry moment in the past 24 hours.

DeSantis lashed out at Fox News on Thursday when asked about his recent penchant for changing the pronunciation of his last name. The Florida governor has said “DeSantis” at least two different ways over the past weeks, and he called the matter “stupid” when Fox asked for the correct pronunciation. He also attempted a little bit of Trump-esque braggadocio, which not play well.

“This is ridiculous,” DeSantis said. “These stupid things. Listen, the way to pronounce my last name? Winner.”

(Via Mediaite)