–99% are excited to see more new movies debuting in theaters.
–97% will attend the theater more often in 2023 than in 2022.
–82% claim the moviegoing experience can’t be recreated at home.
–72% would like to see more movies in IMAX and other premium large screen formats.
Here’s the complete list, along with release dates:
1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (May 5)
2. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse (June 2)
3. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (February 17)
4. John Wick: Chapter 4 (March 24)
5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (June 30)
6. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (December 25)
7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (July 14)
8. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes (November 17)
9. Creed III (March 3)
10. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (April 7)
Highly-anticipated movies that didn’t make the cut include Cocaine Bear, M3GAN, and Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Cocaine bears, murder dolls, and male strippers just can’t catch a break, y’know?
It has only been a few months since Adidas cut ties with Kanye West and the company is reportedly already preparing to start releasing its former Yeezy Supply models without the rapper’s branding. Alleged photos of the rebranded Adidas 350 V2 model hit Twitter, setting the trending topics abuzz with users weighing in on the move. The overwhelming sentiment appears to be that without the Kanye co-sign, the 350s could end up being DOA when they supposedly hit shelves early next year.
Adidas will be moving forward with releasing Yeezy designs without the Yeezy branding in 2023. The first pair will be the Adidas 350 V2 “Granite” releasing January 2023, retailing for $230 dollars pic.twitter.com/eQTcgv9n0h
Kanye’s partnership with Adidas hit the skids sometime over the past year, with the rapper using his social media to criticize Adidas employees, including former CEO Kasper Rørsted and Vice President Daniel Cherry. He called the Adilette Slide a “fake Yeezy” despite some pretty obvious cosmetic differences, and even called out the brand for its Yeezy Day promotion going ahead without his approval — approval industry sources say he refused to give unless his demand to be installed as CEO was granted. When he started making antisemitic comments on social media and in interviews, claiming a cabal of Jews controlled the world economy, Adidas put the partnership under review. In the end, Kanye was sent packing with 100 percent of his brand but none of the designs, which Adidas created with its own resources and some input from Kanye. As it turns out, that brand may not be worth much at this point.
$230 without Ye himself not even associated & the Yeezy branding removed.
gonna be interesting to see if ppl buy the “off-brand” yeezys lol. esp given the fact that a lot of ppl say that yeezy was the only reason the shoes sell (def true for the 350s lol) https://t.co/DoEeok6X07
$230???? Bro people weren’t buying Yeezy because it was Adidas it was because it was attached to Kanye LMAO he’s not there anymore people are not about to be buying this shit surely right??
I definitely won’t at this price point. Comfiest shoes I’ve ever owned but not $230 comfy https://t.co/AI74GKetku
It was later revealed that throughout the partnership, Kanye had behaved extremely unprofessionally, bullying employees, harassing them with porn, and otherwise terrorizing anyone who had to work with him. Although Yeezy Supply brought in at least a billion dollars annually, in the end, Adidas seems better off without him — and if the 350s don’t sell, something tells me they’ll be just fine without them.
As Raw Story reports, Don Jr. took to Twitter to wail about how “Disgusting!” it was that the Times’ crossword puzzle seemed to mimic the shape of a swastika.
Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle. Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO pic.twitter.com/eZHr0SQbT4
While Junior wasn’t the only person to take issue with the puzzle, which both the paper and designer swear was unintentional, his problem seemed to be less about antisemitism and more about allowing for accidental antisemitism, as evidenced by the question: “Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them?”
For their part, The New York Times is defending its puzzle. In a statement to The Jewish Chronicle, a Times spokesperson said: “This is a common crossword design: Many open grids in crosswords have a similar spiral pattern because of the rules around rotational symmetry and black squares.”
This is not the first time the paper’s Games section has had to defend itself against what readers have perceived as anti-Jewish imagery. In 2017, they were accused of another design that looked an awful lot like a swastika, though their response to it was far less formal:
Yes, hi. It’s NOT a swastika. Honest to God. No one sits down to make a crossword puzzle and says, “Hey! You know what would look cool?”
This year, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have taken a different approach to The Hanukkah Sessions, their annual series of covers of songs by Jewish artists. Instead of sharing studio recordings of the songs, Grohl, Kurstin, and a bunch of guests got together for a not-really promoted concert at Los Angeles’ Largo At The Coronet earlier this month, and it’s those performances that the duo is gradually sharing.
The series kicked off on December 18, when they shared their rendition of “Spinning Wheel” by Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which they were accompanied by Judd Apatow. The second performance dropped last night, and it was a rendition of “Get The Party Started,” for which they were joined by Pink herself.
For this rendition, Grohl was on drums while Kurstin took to the synth, delivering a relatively simple instrumental backing for Pink to sing her 2001 hit. The whole thing felt particularly off-the-cuff and fun, with Pink even forgetting her own lyrics at one point before playing it off and carrying on.
Aside from the aforementioned, artists who were also at the concert were Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Karen O, and Beck. If you want spoilers about what other recordings are on the way, here’s the concert’s setlist.
Update 12/20/22: You can now watch the official trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin below. The Witcher: Blood Origin makes it debut on Netflix on Christmas Day. Scroll down to read everything you need to know about the upcoming series.
Original Article 11/23/22: The Witcher franchise went to an unexpected place recently. Henry Cavill, whose presence was an integral part of why this show is more enjoyable than it needed to be, decided to leave the building. He shall be replaced by Liam Hemsworth, presumably so that Cavill can go back to being Superman with fewer projects on his plate. Hemsworth did the semi-stoic thing on The Hunger Games, but can he please a rabid fandom who loved that Cavill lived and breathed the video games like they were his own nerd-children?
That remains to be seen. Cavill’s second-season co-star (and onscreen mentor as Vesemir), Kim Bosnia, told us how Cavill was the soul of the show as well as its heart and brain. We’ll see Henry for one more season, but the franchise feels different now, and Hemsworth cannot be looking forward to the inevitable scrutiny that his arrival shall bring in Season 4. However, the franchise must travel back in time now for a pre-planned jaunt into the days when elves weren’t considered vermin.
That’s quite a departure from the conflicts seen in the O.G. series, which infamously saw Geralt of Rivia and Jaskier tangle with some angry, ostracized elves. That conflict led to Jaskier amplifying (with a banger) what had actually transpired and painting Geralt as the kicker of elf asses. It’s something that was completely ridiculous, but Geralt didn’t bother to correct The Bard. Now, the elves will get their day in the spotlight with the limited prequel series called The Witcher: Blood Origin.
Netflix’s four-part event series will stream on Christmas Day. A teaser trailer reveals enough sword-and-ax swinging to make John Wick take notice. Now, I’m dreaming of a crossover, but first, here’s that teaser trailer, which travels 1,200 years back in time:
This series, which will star Michelle Yeoh portrays Scian as an elven swordmaster, also stars Jodie Turner-Smith, Jacob Collins-Levy, and Sophia Brown. We’ll probably see the inception of the first Witcher prototype, but before that happens, we’ll see a world where elves weren’t nearly as shunned as they are in the series proper. We’ll see no Geralt, Ciri, or Jennifer, but I can always dream that Jaskier will time travel. Maybe not? Oh well. Let’s do an official synopsis:
Set in an elven world 1200 years before the time of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri, The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell a tale lost to history: the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that led to the pivotal Conjunction of the Spheres, when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres on December 25.
Amid a very public lawsuit with Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift is expected to take in a good chunk of her upcoming tour’s sales. Forbes is reporting that the “Anti-Hero” singer will pull in 48 times more than Ticketmaster will from her upcoming Eras tour. Meanwhile, Ticketmaster will earn substantially less.
One expert told the magazine that Swift could earn $620 million for the Eras tour. If this is the case, Billboard predicts that Ticketmaster would pull in $12.9 million of this.
While the Eras tour is expected to prove lucrative, several Swift fans weren’t able to get tickets, due to an allegedly botched and rigged presale. And hell hath no fury like Swifties scorned. Several fans have filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster, alleging fraudulent practices and various antitrust violations, including price discrimination and price fixing.
According to a complaint filed in in LA County Superior Court last month, and has since been obtained by NPR, the “Defendant’s anticompetitive behavior has substantially harmed and will continue to substantially harm Taylor Swift fans, as well as competition in the ticket sales marker and the Secondary Ticket Services Market.”
At the time of writing, 26 plaintiffs, who live in 13 states across the US, are among those suing Ticketmaster.
If you didn’t watch the 2022 World Cup final, you missed a historic event. I’m not even a soccer fan and I was sweating long before it was over. It was truly a riveting game.
First, a brief synopsis. At the end of regular time, France and Argentina were tied 2-2. After two harrowing 15-minute overtimes, they were still tied, at 3-3.
Only two other World Cup finals in history have still been tied after two overtimes, in 1994 and 2006. The game then came down to a penalty kick shootout, in which five players from each team faced off one-on-one with the goalkeepers. France missed two of their first four kicks, so when Argentina’s Gonzalo Montiel successfully kicked the fourth goal, the Argentine team walked away the victors.
But there was more that made this game historic. France won the last World Cup in 2018, so if they triumphed this year, they’d be only the third team in history to win back-to-back titles. However, Argentina has Lionel Messi, who has played professional soccer for 18 years and has long been seen as one of the best players of all time but had never won a World Cup. In a career full of championship wins and records, the World Cup title was the only major soccer achievement he had yet to accomplish.
And, to make the match-up even more interesting, France’s star player, Kylian Mbappé, is viewed as the next Lionel Messi, so there was the old guard versus new guard element to this game as well.
It was a World Cup fraught with significant players, but there was one more person to watch—Argentine-American sports announcer Andrés Cantor.
Cantor moved to the U.S. from Buenos Aires, Argentina, when he was a teen and has citizenship in both countries. He watched Argentina win the World Cup in 1978 and in 1986 before he started announcing the global event in 1990. Since then, 59-year-old Cantor has become famous for his sports commentary on Telemundo and his epically long “Gooooooooooooal!” when a player scores. He has also had to call two losing World Cup finals for his home country of Argentina, in 1990 and 2014.
Soccer is popular in a lot of countries, but it’s particularly huge in Argentina. If you want to feel the emotion of an entire country wrapped up in one man, look no further than Andrés Cantor making the call as Argentina scored the knockout goal:
u201cIncredible: Witness Andres Cantor, Buenos Aries born Argentinan-American Broadcast legend calling the penalty which won World Cup for Argentina. All that is good about sports and life ud83cudde6ud83cuddf7ud83cudf99ufe0fud83dude4cu201d
“GOOOOOOAL, Argentina is the champion. Argentina is the world champion. ARGENTINA IS THE WORLD CHAMPION! ARGENTINA IS THE WORLD CHAMPION! ARGENTINA IS THE WORLD CHAMPION! Argentina! Is the world champion! From the sky they did it. You guys did it, players. They won the sky. Argentina is the world champion. Messi is the world champion. It couldn’t be any other way. Argentina. Lionel Scaloni’s Argentine selection is the world champion. Argentina. Argentina is the world champion. … 36 years, waiting … Argentina, Argentina is the world champion.”
However, you don’t have to understand a word he says to understand what he was feeling.
“It was a roller coaster of emotion,” Cantor told the hosts of NBC’s TODAY. “I was just trying to be calm, cool and collected, but I was overwhelmed.”
What an incredible moment for Cantor, who has waited his entire career for an Argentina World Cup win. And to win it in such a dramatic fashion with the legendary Messi gaining the final jewel in his crown—it’s just the stuff sports fans live for.
Congratulations to Cantor, Messi and all of Argentina for their team’s hard-fought victory. Argentina campeón del mundo!
A city in Washington state has pulled off a successful gun buyback event just in time for residents to get some extra holiday cash. The event took place at the Everett Police Department and offered people who turned in their firearms up to $300 per gun, according to The Seattle Times.
The only catch was that the people who participated had to prove that they were in fact residents of the city of Everett. But outside of showing an ID or utility bill with a local address, there were no questions asked about the guns collected. That didn’t stop people from telling their stories on how they acquired their firearm.
Gun ownership in America is like a rite of passage in some families and several of the stories collected by The Seattle Times described inherited firearms. But with the holiday fast approaching and some people wanting to clear out space as well as afford to buy gifts for their loved ones, the “guns for gift cards” exchange couldn’t have come at a better time.
It’s not surprising to most people that Americans have a strong feelings about guns and take full advantage of their constitutional right to own them. The average gun owner in America owns five guns according to researchers. Most people report having guns for protection, while others say they have them for hunting or sport.
Everett Police Department’s “guns for gift cards” buyback, a program that was modeled on similar ones in other U.S. cities, was a great way to reduce the number of guns people have in their houses. Everett resident Guy Axelson told The Seattle Times, “They’re just locked up all of the time. I don’t want any more around than what I need.”
The line to exchange guns for gift cards at the Everett PD was so long that it took people nearly two hours to get to the front to hand over their firearm and collect their gift card. The success of the program contradicted the notion that people don’t want to part with their weapons, as well as showing that if an effective and organized way is presented to reduce the number of guns that people will literally line up to take advantage of it.
One of the best things about this event is that there was no need for political posturing. No one was arguing about guns or Second Amendment rights. There weren’t any protests about what the police department was doing. Everyone there was simply there for a transaction that would put money in people’s pockets right before Christmas.
The entire event took place without any issue. Some residents turned in guns that no longer worked properly and some decided it was better to have fewer guns in their home while they had small children living there. The Seattle Times reported that several folks turned in the firearms due to concerns of rising crime.
Each gun turned in had a monetary value attached to it depending on its type and functionality. For example, AR-15s and AK-47s were worth the most at $300, while rifles and shotguns equaled $200, handguns were $100, and owners of guns that didn’t work were offered $25.
Overall, the police department collected 241 guns, people walked out with a few extra dollars and an entire city felt a little safer.
Naming the best whiskey of the year is a fool’s errand. There’s just so much whisk(e)y released every year worldwide that it’s impossible to try it all. But I’m more than happy to play the fool in this year’s endeavor. I’ve tasted over 1,500 individual whiskeys this year. I’ve judged spirits competitions. I’ve traveled the world tasting whiskey from the source, often from barrels that most will never see. Hell, I’m already tasting whiskey for 2023. And through all of that, there were a handful of whiskeys that stood above the overfilled crowd of releases out there.
Michter’s Limited Release Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 20 Years Old 2022 Release (Best Bourbon Whiskey)
Instead of throwing a proverbial dart at the board and just picking a single whisk(e)y as UPROXX’s Best Whiskey of 2022, I’m doing a blind taste test of each of these otherworldly pours and crowning a winner. I’ve even included Nate Gana’s favorite whiskey of 2022 to test my own mettle — did I miss something by ranking it fifth instead of first, as Gana did? I need to know! The people need to know! Plus, this is Uproxx’s Best Whiskey of 2022 after all and we see Gana joining our team more and more in the year to come.
This blind test is really about finding out which bottle actually is the best. I can remember the first place I tried each of these gems. The Yamakazi, Michter’s, and the Last Drop were all tried at my home in Kentucky. Whereas, I first tried the Caol Ila in Edinburgh, the Rare Character at a whiskey bar in Louisville, the Heaven Hill at my former home in Berlin, and the Westward at the distillery in Portland. I’m taking away all the variation of atmosphere and mood and leveling the playing field at home with blind pours (well, as blind as can be since these pours are all instantly recognizable on the nose when poured next to each other).
Okay, that’s enough preamble. It’s time to get down in the dirt and figure out which whiskey really is the true “Best Whiskey of 2022.” Let’s go!
The nose opens with a clear sense of winter spices, especially cinnamon bark, whole cloves and allspice, star anise, cardamom pods, and nutmeg with a buttercream bespeckled with dried lavender. The palate carries on that floral vibe with a hint of agarwood, sweet cinnamon, and almost sour mulled wine with a hint of molasses. The end has a bark-heavy floral note that’s part potpourri and part pine cones wrapped in dried orange and cinnamon with a whisper of holly and dark tobacco stems with a woody vibe.
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Chocolate cookies and honey-dipped Graham Crackers drive the nose towards toffee and almond with a creamy espresso depth. The palate digs into the dark chocolate with sesame seed and honey cracker vibe next to tart red berries and dry old cedar planks with a hint of cinnamon bark and allspice. The end is full of dark honey with a touch more of that sweet Sesame Snaps character with a sense of brown-sugar oatmeal spiked with winter spices.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
This is classic bourbon with a serious age to it thanks to old boot leather, musty cellar beams, tannic oak staves with a worn char, and this cherry-cinnamon syrup drizzled over buttercream-encrusted waffles. The palate has a toffee sweetness that leads to woody winter spices soaked in red mulled with cut with cherry cola and a whisper of old pipe tobacco. The end flourishes with notes of cherry cobbler, egg nog, roasted hazelnut, more toffee, and cherry bark tobacco packed into old cedar boxes with a hint of wild sage and worn leather lurking underneath.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear sense of an old rickhouse — black mold, dirt floors, red stone — next to green grass, saddle leather, and very old oak barrels of whiskey with a deep woody spice that leans toward dried ancho chilis and sharp cinnamon bark with an underbelly of pine resin and used up vanilla pods. The taste is warm with a nice sense of burnt orange and marzipan next to salted caramel, cacao, Kiwi boot cream, cream soda, and pecan waffles. The end is full of wood old spice barks and dried orange peels wrapped up in old bailing twine and rolled with piney tobacco and fir needles.
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose is nutty and almost feels like a chai latte with a sense of macadamia and Brazil nuts next to woody old spices, dry ginger, and vanilla cut with marzipan and dark orange chocolate. The palate has a deep spiciness that’s more woody than hot next to tart red berries, more dark orange and chocolate, a waxy sense of incense-heavy candles, and old hand-woven carpets that have been in a shisha bar for too long. The end is full of spicy cinnamon bark and star anise with a hint of cream soda and old straw next to stewed stone fruit and berry syrup cut with chocolate and orange.
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a sense of a cold and dark beach with a campfire spitting through the rain with rum raisin, creamy nougat, sour and sweet mulled wine, clove-studded oranges, and dark and sharp spice barks. The palate leans into that mulled wine and sea-side campfire feel with a sense of stewed old dried fruit — prunes, dates, figs — next to salted toffee and a soft vanilla cake frosted with deep chocolate kissed with salt and old rank wood resin. The end lures you through the taste with red-wine-soaked cinnamon bark next to apple cider-soaked cloves with salted caramel tobacco rolled with seawater-soaked cedar bark and a thin line of briny campfire smoke.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose opens with a sense of dark cherry with deep rummy molasses, dried rose petals, old almond shells, and cedar bark with a fresh pipe tobacco leaf just kissed with apple and pear essence with a hint of vanilla oils and old wintry wine spices. The taste leans into smoldering vanilla pods with a sense of old oak staves from a dusty old cellar next to sweet cinnamon and cherry over dried sage and sharp spearmint with a clove syrup base and a dash of singed marshmallow sweetness. The end is full of dark cherry and woody spice with moist marzipan, burnt orange oils, and chewy fresh tobacco wrapped up in old leather and cedar bark with a hint more of that old cellar sneaking in.
Part 2: The Ranking (#’s 7-2)
7. Westward American Single Malt Cask Strength — Taste 2
Westward Whiskey — out in Portland, Oregon — is really starting to come into its own, especially as its whiskey gets older. This expression is a prime example of Westward’s prowess that’s made in-house from top to bottom and mellowed in new American oak until it’s just right for cask-strength bottling as-is.
Bottom Line:
This is delicious whiskey that has transcended “craft” taste and vibes on the profile. It’s deeply hewn with a truly complex and inviting flavor profile that just keeps going in all the best ways. Still, this felt like the best craft whiskey on the list, not the best overall whiskey in the world.
6. Rare Character Single Barrel Series Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Amburana Casks — Taste 5
This is a niche whiskey company started by whiskey legend Andrew Shapira (if you know, you know) with partners Peter Nevenglosky and Pablo Moix. The whiskey is a single barrel of whiskey that was hidden away as an “experimental” cask until Shapira’s team rescued it and gave it to the world. The experiment in this case was aging classic rye in Brazilian Amburana casks to see how a non-oak wood finish would work with rye whiskey.
Bottom Line:
This is funky and fresh with a deep age to it that just works. In the end, it felt like a whiskey I can’t wait to pour for people in 2023 more than a whiskey for the ages in 2022.
5. Heaven Hill Heritage Collection 17-Year-Old Barrel Proof Bourbon, First Edition — Taste 3
The base of the spirit is Heaven Hill’s classic bourbon mash of 78% corn, 12% malted barley, and a mere 10% rye. This particular whiskey is built from several barrels from four warehouse campuses in the Bardstown area. In this case, three different ages were pulled with 17 years being the youngest. The whiskey is made from 28% 20-year-old barrels, 44% 19-year-old barrels, and 28% 17-year-old barrels. Once those barrels are vatted, the bourbon goes into the bottle as-is, without any cutting or fussing.
Bottom Line:
This is a big whiskey and bourbon that has deep age and flavor. It’s just not quite as nuanced and convivial as the next bourbon on this list. It feels more like something you drink from a balloon glass next to a fire with a cigar and copy of the 1850 London Times in your lap.
4. Yamazaki Japanese Single Malt Whisky Mizunara Cask 2022 Edition — Taste 1
This is one of the most sought-after whiskies from Yamazaki. The juice spends over 12 years maturing in Mizunara casks only — this isn’t some whisky that’s “finished” in old Mizurana casks for a few months. After over a decade of mellowing, the casks are hand-picked for their excellence, vatted, and just proofed before bottling.
Bottom Line:
This is the whiskey I’d pour for someone who wanted to know what exactly is so special about a Mizunara cask. It’s the height of why that cask is so revered and sought-after.
3. The Last Drop Signature Blend No. 28 A Blend Of Kentucky Straight Whiskeys — Taste 4
This blend is from Buffalo Trace’s Master Blender Drew Mayville, who’s been at the distillery since 2004. Mayville created this blend by sampling bourbons and ryes from the rarest and sometimes oldest barrels of whiskey in Buffalo Trace’s vast and numerous warehouses. While the exact details of the final blend are unknown, we do that the whiskeys in this blend are some of the rarest that the distillery had on its ricks. And since it is a blend of bourbon and rye whiskey, this is technically a “blended straight whiskey.”
Bottom Line:
This didn’t stand up quite as high as I thought it would when tasted blind against some absolute killer whiskeys. That said, it’s unquestionably delicious.
2. Michter’s Limited Release Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 20 Years Old 2022 Release — Taste 7
Master Distiller Dan McKee personally selects these (at least) 20-year-old barrels from the Michter’s rickhouses based on… I guess just “pure excellence” would be the right phrase. The bourbon is bottled as-is — no cutting with water.
Bottom Line:
This is just delicious while offering that little bit more of the flavor profile that draws your further and further into the beauty of the sip. But alas, there was one other that just went that little bit deeper this year…
Part 3: UPROXX’s “Double Gold” Whiskey For 2022
1. Caol Ila 175th Anniversary Aged 24 Years — Taste 6
This whisky was bottled to celebrate the 175 years Caol Ila has been operating on Islay. 3,000 bottles were rendered from barrels of at least 24-year-old whisky, each of which highlighted the sophisticated brand’s nuanced peatiness and fruitiness, and released in early 2022 in anticipation of the distillery re-opening for tourism in the summer of 2022.
Tasting Notes (Reprise):
There’s a sense of a cold and dark beach with a campfire spitting through the rain with rum raisin, creamy nougat, sour and sweet mulled wine, clove-studded oranges, and dark and sharp spice barks. The palate leans into that mulled wine and sea-side campfire feel with a sense of stewed old dried fruit — prunes, dates, figs — next to salted toffee and a soft vanilla cake frosted with deep chocolate kissed with salt and old rank wood resin. The end lures you through the taste with red-wine-soaked cinnamon bark next to apple cider-soaked cloves with salted caramel tobacco rolled with seawater-soaked cedar bark and a thin line of briny campfire smoke.
Bottom Line:
This truly takes you on a journey that reaches deep into your soul and calms and excites you with a sense of wonderment and comfort.
This whiskey truly is perfect and I feel 100% confident picking it as Uproxx’s Whiskey of the Year. Time to pop some champagne to celebrate!
Remember “Thot Box?” You know, Hitmaka’s 2019 posse cut featuring 2 Chainz, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Meek Mill, Tyga, and YBN Nahmir? No? Well, you almost certainly remember that the remix — which did ridiculously better than the original — featured a who’s-who of up-and-coming female rappers including Chinese Kitty, DreamDoll, Dreezy, Latto (pre-name change), and Young MA. There it is up top.
Well, the guy responsible for it, Hitmaka (formerly known as Young Berg, the walking lick), had some thoughts about female rappers and their X-rated subject matter, and unfortunately for him, he decided to share those thoughts on Twitter. Apparently, he missed how it went for the last handful of guys to offer their two cents on this topic, including Jermaine Dupri.
“Can’t wait to work with a pretty female rapper that’s strictly about bars to even the playing field,” he wrote. “Pussy rap was cool when it had shock value & was rare. Now it’s like every girl taking it there. It’s sum who aren’t but they need a hit producer 4 impact.”
Can’t wait to work with a pretty female rapper that’s strictly about bars to even the playing field.
Pussy rap was cool when it had shock value & was rare.
Now it’s like every girl taking it there.
It’s sum who aren’t but they need a hit producer 4 impact
YUNG BERG you have had your ass WHIPPED and robbed on 3 separate occasions and you worried about what’s getting old? Why did you not get as fed up with being robbed after the first time? https://t.co/od3GLEwNa2
If it’s “strictly about bars” then why is being pretty a requirement? There’s women MC’s out there that don’t sell sex, what’s stopping you from working with em?
Nobody is calling for the end of bang bang shoot ‘em up or drug raps, so pussy rap is fine. https://t.co/gHeRk1yoxa
There’s plenty of “strictly bars” women rappers. But somehow it’s a requirement she be attractive. Dumbass take and we already know why and what that means too. https://t.co/gmgG0l8pGw
I feel like why do niggas always worried bout what female rappers rap about? Niggas been rapping bout the same thing since rap was invented.. ladies rap for the ladies not for you niggas & we running shit rn so let us be US even tho I don’t only rap about my pussy still Stfu
Moral of the story: Stay out of women’s business, gentlemen. It will not go well for you.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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even tho I don’t only rap about my pussy still Stfu