Month: July 2023

Young Thug’s new album Business Is Business with Metro Boomin nearly dethroned Morgan Wallen’s reign of the No. 1 spot“on the music charts. While second place is still a considerable feat, no hip-hop albums have charted in the coveted spot so far this year. To demonstrate the genre’s impact in another way, Spotify shared its top 50 most streamed rap albums of all-time list.

Based on metrics, Drake, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar have effortlessly dominated the platform. Atop the list is the late XXXTentacion’s 2018 album ?. Drake (Scorpion at No. 2 and Views at No. 3), the late Juice Wrld (Goodbye & Good Riddance), and Travis Scott (Astroworld) round out the top five slots.

Drake made the most appearances on the list with his albums Scorpion, Views, More Life (No. 9), Take Care (No. 19), Certified Lover Boy (No. 22), Nothing Was The Same (No. 26), If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (No. 35), and Dark Lane Demo Tapes (No. 48), all finding a home in the top 50.

Eminem was the second most placed rapper on the list thanks to his albums The Eminem Show (No. 11), Recovery (No. 24), The Marshall Mathers LP – Tour Edition (No. 28), The Marshall Mathers LP2 (No. 29), Music To Be Murdered By Side B Deluxe Edition (No. 30), Kamikaze (No. 36.) landing on the list.

Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West tied for the third most-placed rappers, with three albums each making the list. Lamar’s DAMN. (No. 8), Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (No. 17) and Black Panther: The Album (No. 23) were listed. While Ye’s The Life Of Pablo (No. 18), Graduation (No. 20), and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (No. 34) were credited.

After hearing news of the list, Nicki Minaj seemingly called out the streamer’s flawed metrics. Only one of Minaj’s albums landed on the list, The Pinkprint (at No. 39). However, based on past data shared by the platform, the “Barbie World” rapper is one of the top 10 most streamed rappers.

“Oh, Barbz, send me that top ten list of the most streamed rappers on Spotify. Can’t find it.”

We can debate the best summer beer style for days. Is it a hoppy pale ale? A crisp pilsner? Perhaps, a piney, bitter IPA? Or maybe it’s a flavorful wheat beer? At least for today, we’ll go with the latter. This beer style, which consists of a higher percentage of wheat as opposed to barley, is a great pick for the July heat.

The first thing you need to know before we move on is that there are varying sub-styles and flavors in the wheat beer umbrella. They are the American pale wheat, Gose, Berliner Weisse, Belgian witbier, Hefeweizen, and others. In the US craft beer scene, versions of all of these styles are abundant.

As for summery wheat beers, we tend to lean towards American pale wheat, Belgian-style wits, and hefeweizens. Below, you’ll find eight of the best wheat beers that truly taste like summer in a can. What else would you want to drink on a hazy night while you watch Jaws on a projector under the stars?

8) Jack’s Abby Blood Orange Wheat

ABV: 4%

Average Price: $10 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

Labeled as a radler, this 4% wheat beer might be available all year long, but it just drinks better in the summer. This wheat lager that’s infused with blood orange essence is known for its light, citrus-filled, sessionable flavor profile.

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, you’ll find aromas of sweet wheat and a ton of tangerine and orange scents. The nose isn’t overly exciting. The palate is more of the same with orange peels, wheat, cracker-like malts, and blood orange flavor. Overall, it’s pretty light but does the trick on a hot day.

Bottom Line:

This beer doesn’t purport to be anything it isn’t. It’s a wheat beer/radler. It’s light, citrusy, and easy to drink. Nothing more.

7) Odell Easy Street Wheat

ABV: 4.6%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This hazy, unfiltered 4.6% wheat ale was crafted to be sessionable on a hot summer day. It’s an American-style wheat beer known for its mix of wheat and fruit flavors with a light, crisp finish. It’s surprisingly complex, well-made, and great for the summer.

Tasting Notes:

For a sessional wheat beer, the nose is surprisingly fragrant. It’s yeasty and lightly funky with sweet malts, wheat, and citrus peels. The palate is filled with bready malts, yeast, clove, and orange peels. The finish is sweet and highly refreshing.

Bottom Line:

Session beers are often watery and bland and bland, but this wheat beer from Odell manages to be both light and refreshing and complex and flavorful.

6) Revolution Sun Crusher

ABV: 5.3%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Sun Crusher is an aptly named wheat beer. It’s brewed with flaked oats, 2-row malt, Carapils malt, and red wheat. It’s hopped with Apollo and Amarillo hops and dry-hopped with Amarillo, Crystal, and Mosaic hops. This creates a balanced, hoppy wheat beer you won’t soon forget.

Tasting Notes:

Sweet wheat, bready malts, lemongrass, orange peels, and floral hops are prevalent on the nose. Drinking it reveals hints of grassy, floral hops, orange zest, lemon peels, wheat, grapefruit, and sweet malts. It’s fruity, sweet, lightly tart, and heavenly hopped.

Bottom Line:

This is a perfect choice for wheat beer fans who also love the aroma and flavor of hops. Both kettle and dry-hopped, this is a memorable, summery brew.

5) Sudwerk Hefeweizen

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Another American take on the classic German hefeweizen, Sudwerk’s version is hazy and unfiltered and brewed with house German weizen strain, white wheat, and pale 2-row malt. It gets its floral, hoppy aroma and flavor from the addition of Huell Melon and Hallertau hops.

Tasting Notes:

Traditional aromas of funky yeast, wheat, ripe bananas, and clove are notable on the nose. Sipping it brings forth more clove, wheat, banana, and a hint of citrus zest and other fruity flavors. All in all, it’s a great take on the style and ends with a crisp, clean, refreshing finish.

Bottom Line:

There are more than a few attempts at recreating classic European wheat beers on the market. While Sudwerk’s version isn’t perfect, it’s pretty good on a hot day.

4) Brewery Ommegang Witte

ABV: 5.2%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Brewery Ommegang is located in Central New York just outside of Cooperstown. But you’d think you were transported to Belgium with the appearance of the brewery and the beers themselves. One of the best examples is its Witte. This Belgian-style wheat ale is brewed with malted and unmalted wheat as well as flaked oats and Hallertau Spalter Select hops. It gets its unique flavor from the addition of coriander and orange peel.

Tasting Notes:

Your senses will be transported to Belgium with aromas of yeast, wheat, cloves, and orange zest even before your first sip. The palate is yeasty, lightly funky, and filled with wheat, orange peel, cloves, and other spices. The finish is dry and refreshing.

Bottom Line:

This beer might be available all year long but with its wheat and citrus-forward flavor profile, it’s perfect for the summer months.

3) Allagash White

ABV: 5.2%

Average Price: $10 for four-pack

The Beer:

If you took a poll of random wheat beer fans, you’d find that a majority would at least mention Allagash White. Brewed with malted wheat, raw wheat, and oats, it gets its unique, award-winning flavor from the addition of Curaçao orange peel and coriander.

Tasting Notes:

Complex aromas of lemon, orange peel, wheat, yeast, and coriander fill your nostrils before your first sip. The palate is filled with bubblegum, bready malt, orange peel, and gentle spices. The finish is sweet, smooth, and lightly spicy.

Bottom Line:

There are a lot of reasons why this beer is so popular. Number one is the fact that it’s so well-balanced and complex. Every flavor works in perfect unison.

2) Civil Society Pulp

ABV: 6.3%

Average Price: $19 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

If you’ve never tried Civil Society Pulp, what are you waiting for? You’re in for a treat. This American wheat ale is dry-hopped with Mosaic hops. The result is a mix of wheat, yeast, tropical fruits, citrus, and hops. It’s a truly unique wheat beer that belongs on your summer beer rotation.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is filled with sweet wheat, bready malts, pineapple, guava, ripe orange, and floral hops. The palate is a symphony of tangerine, caramelized pineapple, mango, wheat malt, and floral, lightly bitter hops. It’s a very interesting beer in the best way possible.

Bottom Line:

This isn’t your average wheat beer and that’s more than okay. It’s tropical, fruity, and has a nice hoppy element. A very memorable summer beer to say the least.

1) Live Oak Hefeweizen

ABV: 5.3%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This year-round brew is made with a traditional yeast strain crafted to give it an old-world flavor profile of banana and spices. The addition of wheat malt and limited hops gives it a classic flavor profile that will transport you to Germany in each sip.

Tasting Notes:

This is a well-made wheat beer. You can tell it right from the start as the nose is loaded with aromas like bubble gum, ripe bananas, clove, and other spices. The palate continues this positive trend with more banana, wheat, yeast, clove, and spices. A very great take on the German style.

Bottom Line:

Even if you’re a fan of traditional hefeweizens, you’d have a tough time telling the difference between this version and one that came straight from Bavaria.

If you’re into whiskey, you’ve probably heard all the rumblings about American single malt whiskey. The style isn’t new by any stretch but it’s finally catching fire in a real way. American single malt whiskey is dominating the conversation about what’s new and exciting in American whiskey right now. There’s just so much going on and it’s all so regional that it can be bewildering to keep up with, much less know where to start.

Let’s remedy that right now with one single bottle.

The San Francisco World Spirits Competition just released its Best in Class and Best Overall spirits awards. That list included the Best in Class American single malt whiskey and it’s a doozy of a pick. This year, the best American single malt whiskey in the whole wide world is a bespoke small batch by Lost Lantern of a classic Balcones Texas single malt aptly named “Gentle Giant”.

I was lucky enough to judge this year’s American single malts in San Francisco and I’m also very familiar with Balcones as an early adopter. To that end, I’m breaking down exactly what’s in the bottle. Long story short, this is a great whiskey so let’s just dive in!

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Lost Lantern Gentle Giant Balcones Distilling Texas Single Malt

ABV: 57.6%

Average Price: $100

The Whisky:

This rare blend from Balcones via Lost Lantern is a batch of five-and-a-half super rare casks. The batch is made from single malts aged in a four-year-old double cask apple brandy cask, a three-year-old large European cask that dried outside for three years, another one of those casks but just a little older, a four-year-old ex-bourbon cask, and a half-full European oak cask that was exactly three years and 56 days old when it was dumped.

All of that whisky was vatted and bottled as-is.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: This opens with Granny Smith apple skins over winter spice barks dipped in floral honey and dried next to orange wheels and Graham Crackers as a subtle hint of high-desert sage and mesquite lurk in the background.

Palate: The orchard-iness drives the palate with a sense of soft salted toffee cut with vanilla oils and dipped in dark chocolate orange sauce with a touch of roasted pecan and almond leading to a woody hint of old smudging sage and cedar bark.

Finish: Those orchard and desert woods mingle with soft caramelized malts that round out the finish with a hint of honeyed toffee and spiced apple fritter covered in buttery cinnamon icing.

Bottom Line:

This is a delicate and luscious pour of whiskey. It’s wholly unique. It’s way more a funky Southwest single malt than a dry bourbon or rye whiskey. It feels like its own thing with clear allusions to Scottish heritage buried deep within. Overall, this is a great on-the-rocks pour that’ll get you hooked on both American single malt and the beautiful malt whiskies coming out of Balcones down in Waco, Texas.

Where To Buy:

The current run was available via Seelbachs but is currently sold out. There were only 1,100 bottles made. As of right now, there are still bottles available directly from Lost Lantern for $100. There are also some available via California online retailers for the same price. Beyond that, you’re going to have to scope these out at very good whiskey bars.

Given the popularity of this small batch bottling, there might be another run in the works but don’t rely on that. Get this while you still can as this year’s award-winning version be gone for good soon. Good luck out there!

It’s officially hot dog season. But there are just so many options for the sausages, buns, condiments, and cooking techniques that it’s easy to meander down the wrong path and end up with a mediocre dog in your hand as the fireworks pop off on the 4th of July. While we’ve spent a lot of time figuring out which are the best dogs, toppings, and cooking methods, it still feels like it’s still a crapshoot sometimes — especially if you can’t even find a certain bespoke sausage that we adore or don’t have the kitchen gear to cook a dog a certain way.

Let’s skip all of that. I’m going to simply break down the two crucial “hacks” (they’re simple! Beyond simple — intuitive!) that you need to make the perfect hot dog this 4th of July. This is so fail-proof that you can pretty much use any sausage, bun, or condiment and it’ll be better — that’s both in flavor and in structure — than if it were done any other way.

The key here is twofold, so I’m breaking it down like that below. But the crucial point is that you can do this with any grocery store “jumbo” hot dog or frank and any decent grocery store hot dog bun — I used Hebrew National Jumbo Franks the standard brioche buns from the bread aisle of my local Krogers. You don’t need to pay high prices for Euro-style sausages or hit three bakeries to find the best bread. You can do this right now for less than a tenner and it’ll be fantastic.

Sound good? Let’s dive in!

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Tip 1 — Slice It And Cook It

The best way to cook a standard hot dog is the Five Guys way. You slice it length-wise about 3/4 of the through and fold it open so that there’s a flat surface on one side and two small humps on the other side.

Basically, you’re creating a flat surface and exposing the fat and meat so that it sears and creates a delicious Maillard effect (perfect browning with amped-up flavor) on the exposed inside of the sausage.

The best part is that you can cook this either in a skillet or frying pan on the stovetop or on the grill outside. Just because I’m using a grill doesn’t mean you have to — this works really well in a skillet/pan too. Either way, you’re going to get a lovely seared sausage on the exposed side, thanks to more surface area while still maintaining the classic snap of the outer casing on the other side. See? Best of both worlds!

It doesn’t matter if you cook the dog in a frying pan or on the grill, you’ll need to weigh it down. I used a second skillet for this on a grill — I used my Traeger like a standard grill on high heat. Adding the weight allows the flat inner sausage side to lay flat on the heat source and get a good sear.

Next, make sure to keep that weight on the sausage when you flip it over to the casing side. This will keep the heat even and stop the sausage from curling while cooking.

And that’s really it. You’ll have a deliciously seared and cooked-through sausage for your hot dog with more surface area and a perfect level of that delicious Maillard while still holding onto the snap of the casing. It’s a textural wonder!

Tip 2 — Toast The Bun

While a soft steamed bun is great, you really need to butter, season, and toast that bun.

I do this by laying the bun flat, smearing it with a thin layer of unsalted butter, and then hitting it with a few shakes of garlic salt.

Next, I warm a skillet or frying pan on medium-high heat and toast the bun until it’s nice and crispy. It takes all of one minute and makes a bun that’s about a million times more flavorful with real texture and crunch to it.

And as with toasted hamburger buns, it creates a surface that’ll handle the condiments and meat without falling apart or getting soggy.

BONUS TIP — Add Whatever The F*ck You Want To It

This is a no-brainer. But if anyone tells you what you can or cannot put on your hot dog, they can go and f*ck themselves. Period. Put whatever makes you happy on your dog and don’t judge anyone else for doing the same. It’s not that hard, folks.

Bottom Line:

The best part of this method is that it provides better structure. As you can see in the images above, there’s an evenness to the whole sandwich (yes, we said it) that allows you to get the whole spectrum of your toppings, bun, and sausage in every single bite. There’s no space left in the bun with only toppings or only sausage.

And maybe most importantly, there’s zero slippage. This hot dog holds together from the beginning until the end while holding onto its structural integrity.

Excellent structure and fully realized bites are unbeatable. I hate to overuse the word “elevated” but this is how you truly up your hot dog game with good standard ingredients that we all can find right now. I mean just look at that delectable cross-section full of hot dog goodness below … it’s great!

After hearing overtures from the Houston Rockets, Brook Lopez decided to stay in Milwaukee, re-signing with the Bucks for two years, $48 million.

Keeping their DPOY candidate was vital to the Bucks remaining contenders, but after seeing some of their rotation depth leave in free agency, they needed to find some veteran help to bolster the roster. With one Lopez brother in town, the Bucks decided they should reunite the twins for the second time (they were together in Milwaukee in the 2019-20 season), agreeing to a 1-year deal with Robin Lopez on Monday.

Robin Lopez has played sparingly over the last two seasons in Orlando and Cleveland, appearing in a combined 73 games in two years. Last year he averaged 3.0 points and 1.4 rebounds in 8.1 minutes per game for the Cavs. From a basketball perspective, he will give Milwaukee mostly some emergency bench depth at center behind his brother (and Bobby Portis) who can get some rebounds and has solid scoring touch around the basket, while mostly being a terrific locker room vibes guy. This signing benefits the Bucks’ social media team the most, as they’ll have some great video opportunities with Brook and Robin, who always enjoy messing with each other, along with Robin’s longstanding beef with just about every mascot in the NBA.

Last month, as the case against him over classified documents ramped up — and after he basically confessed to the crowd — something unusual happened to Donald Trump: He began slipping in the polls. Some of them, reflecting certain key states, even showed him getting narrowly beaten by his closest challenger, “Meatball” Ron DeSantis. But the Florida governor is still hurting in most polls, and his team is finally admitting that he’s getting his butt kicked.

“Right now in national polling we are way behind, I’ll be the first to admit that,” said DeSantis spokesperson Steve Cortes during a Twitter spaces event, as per Politico. “I believe in being blunt and honest. It’s an uphill battle but clearly Donald Trump is the runaway frontrunner.”

Cortes, who worked on the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2020 before decamping for DeSantis, tried to spin the news, calling them the “clear underdog.” But he couldn’t help but be gloomy: “In the first four states which matter tremendously, polls are a lot tighter, we are still clearly down. We’re down double digits, we have work to do.”

There was a bit more spin to come. “If we do not prevail — and I have every intent on winning, I didn’t sign up for this to come in second — but if we do not prevail I will tell you this,” Cortes said, “we will make President Trump better for having this kind of primary.”

Of course, DeSantis has been hammering at Trump, which isn’t exactly making him stronger — or at least in theory. Trump definitely looks like the better one after the bizarrely homophobic (yet homoerotic) ad the team put out on Friday. Perhaps DeSantis would poll better if he had a nicer — which is to say completely different — personality.

(Via Politico)

The Golden State Warriors faced a decision this offseason of whether to double down on their longtime core group or to shift their attention more towards the future. If there were any doubt they’d pick their championship core, that was settled when they traded Jordan Poole and picks for Chris Paul to try and make another run at a title.

Adding Paul, who has started to show his age but is still an effective point guard, and then re-signing Draymond Green set up the Warriors to be a contender again this season, but they’ll still need some of their younger players to pop in order to fill out a roster capable of winning another championship. Moses Moody and Jonathan Kuminga are the last of the recent lottery picks still on the roster, and with Donte DiVincenzo leaving in free agency and just a general need for more production from their bench, those two could prove to be critical.

While there was chatter prior to free agency Kuminga could be traded, as of now he’s still a Warrior and there haven’t been any recent rumblings about them shopping him. On the latest episode of Podcast P, Green joined Paul George to talk about Chris Paul’s addition and what he thinks that brings. Green noted a few things like Paul’s ability to bring variety and anchoring the second unit to let Green and Steph Curry play more minutes together, but he also thought Paul would do wonders for Kuminga, noting he’s excited to learn from Paul how to bring the most out of young guys.

“I think he brings a couple things. Number one, I thought last year — and Steph said this in his press conference, we ran out of variety and what I mean about variety is in a team you need to have a variety. Our team last year didn’t have a variety of ways to score and I think CP adds another thing to the menu to address the topic of a variety of ways to score. CP plays totally different than Steph, totally different than Klay, totally different than myself and Jordan Poole. I also think last year, Steph and I got split up a lot and me and Steph together we’re dangerous. Our minutes got split up a bunch because our second unit couldn’t figure it out and in turn I got put into the second unit to help stabilize things. That’s like 15 less minutes a game we’re together. Well now, CP can anchor that unit, and I think that is a big thing to helping unlock our team again.

“I’ll tell you one more thing that I think it unlocks and I look forward to learning this from him — I think Chris Paul will completely unlock Jonathan Kuminga and his growth. CP is great with young guys. Deandre Ayton looked like a bust before Chris came to Phoenix. No disrespect but more of a compliment to CP but people didn’t know what Deandre Ayton was gonna turn out to be and suddenly he became an All-Star level player. So I think what he will do for Jonathan Kuminga and unlocking him is huge. Absolutely huge. And I look forward to learning that from him.”

Green rather famously hasn’t been great at bringing along young players — part of the reason Poole is gone is he frustrated Green to the point Draymond punched him in practice, creating a cloud that hung over the team all season. He also hasn’t meshed particularly well with the other youngsters, and it’s interesting to hear him talk about how he’s excited to learn from watching how Paul handles young players and balancing tough love with encouragement. Paul also has an incredible touch on the court of knowing how to keep everyone involved, which should help Kuminga’s mentality since he has been frustrated with his role with the Warriors. Playing with a point guard like Paul on the second unit who is more likely to go a bit out of his way to get Kuminga the ball in his spots — similar to how he would often feed Ayton early in games — could help as much as anything.

[via Podcast P presented by Wave Sports & Entertainment]

It’s been two weeks since a submersible on a mission to visit the wreckage of the RMS Titanic went missing, only for it to be later discovered that it imploded, killing five, including a teen who didn’t even want to go. The New Yorker already has a lengthy, comprehensive examination of the design flaws, the sketchy behavior, and the hubris that led to the tragedy. In short, plenty of corners were cut, among them hiring college interns to design the electrical system of the doomed vessel.

The piece unearths an article from 2018 by the WSU Insider, the school newspaper for Washington State University. In it, a former intern for OceanGate brags about how he had his fellow students were, while still in school, brought on board to work on a key component of a vessel that would have to survive a deep sea dive.

“The whole electrical system,” the ex-intern said. “That was our design, we implemented it, and it works.”

The New Yorker article painstakingly details how OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died aboard the Titan, tried
to evade safety measures by doing things like structuring the company’s operations so0 that they were outside U.S. jurisdiction — and made sure they couldn’t get sued if they accidentally killed passengers:

In a legal filing, the company reported that the submersible was “being developed and assembled in Washington, but will be owned by a Bahamian entity, will be registered in the Bahamas and will operate exclusively outside the territorial waters of the United States.” Although it is illegal to transport passengers in an unclassed, experimental submersible, “under U.S. regulations, you can kill crew,” McCallum told me. “You do get in a little bit of trouble, in the eyes of the law. But, if you kill a passenger, you’re in big trouble. And so everyone was classified as a ‘mission specialist.’ There were no passengers—the word ‘passenger’ was never used.” No one bought tickets; they contributed an amount of money set by Rush to one of OceanGate’s entities, to fund their own missions.

Throughout the development of the submersible that would later kill him, Rush stubbornly pushed back against concerns that he was endangering lives, including his own.

“We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often,” he angrily wrote to one colleague trying to talk sense into him. “I take this as a serious personal insult.”

Meanwhile, OceanGate is still advertising tours.

You can read the full New Yorker piece here.

The Los Angeles Clippers have been fairly quiet to start free agency, as they are focusing most of their efforts on the trade market, most notably trying to land James Harden after he picked up his player option and requested a trade from the 76ers.

However, even with their pursuit of Harden keeping them from getting in the mix on veteran minimums, they’ve made a couple moves to bolster their roster for next year. After waiving Eric Gordon to save a crazy amount on their tax bill, leading to him signing with the Suns, they traded for KJ Martin as the Rockets cleared roster and cap space for their active summer of signings. Then, on Monday, came the expected news that L.A. was re-signing Mason Plumlee, with Adrian Wojnarowski noting he’ll be back on a $5 million deal.

There have been rumblings that Ivica Zubac may be available on the trade market, with Plumlee potentially becoming the starter in L.A. should they move Zubac in a deal for a non-center. If Zubac stays, Plumlee will be a strong backup who is comfortable with the Clippers roster, averaging 7.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in his 23 games with L.A. last season after arriving in a midseason acquisition from the Hornets.

It’s getting more difficult to remember a Billboard Hot 100 that didn’t include Ice Spice, despite the fact Ice Spice’s Hot 100 debut (“Gangsta Boo” with Lil Tjay) came in January 2023. This week’s Billboard Hot 100 dated July 8 features Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj, and Aqua’s Barbie movie soundtrack single “Barbie World” debuting at No. 7, one slot above “Karma” by Taylor Swift featuring Ice Spice.

Per Billboard, “Barbie World” — Ice Spice and Minaj’s reinvention of the Aqua classic — is Ice Spice’s fourth top-10 Hot 100 entry and Minaj’s 23rd. Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” tops the chart for a 13th week.

The publication contextualized the feat for both women:

“The track bows as Minaj’s 23rd Hot 100 top 10 – extending her record for the most among female rappers – while she ties Whitney Houston for the sixth-most among women overall in the chart’s history. Taylor Swift leads all women with 40 top 10s, followed by Madonna (38), Rihanna (32), Mariah Carey (28), and Janet Jackson (27). Ice Spice scores her fourth Hot 100 top 10, and second with Minaj, after their ‘Princess Diana‘ debuted and peaked at No. 4 in April.”

Along with “Barbie World,” “Princess Diana,” and “Karma,” Ice Spice’s other top-10 entry was “Boy’s A Liar, Pt. 2” with PinkPantheress. In fact, this week isn’t the first in 2023 when Ice Spice had two top-10 hits on a Hot 100 chart, as “Princess Diana” and “Boy’s A Liar, Pt. 2” occupied No. 4 and No. 10, respectively, in late April.

“YALL!!!!! 2 songs in the TOP 10 is crazy!!!!!!! Congratulations!!! Princesssssssss @icespicee_ #PrincessDiana #HeavyOnIt #Barbz #Munchkins Stay tuned Love you guys sm,” Minaj tweeted on April 24.

“Thxxxx queen,” Ice Spice tweeted back. “We eatin good tn !”

Minaj will soon be eyeing the Billboard 200 crown, as she announced the release date for her forthcoming Pink Friday 2 album last week.

Barbie arrives in theaters on July 21. The accompanying star-studded, Mark Ronson-produced soundtrack is also due that day, boasting Ice Spice, Minaj, PinkPantheress, Ava Max, Charli XCX, Dominic Fike, Dua Lipa, Fifty Fifty, Gayle, Haim, Kali, Karol G, Khalid, Lizzo, Ryan Gosling, Tame Impala, and The Kid Laroi.

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