At the end of 2020, Kid Cudi released the seventh album in his decade-long career with Man On The Moon III: The Chosen. It’s a career that first gained steam back in 2008 after the success of “Day N Nite,” Cudi’s breakout single. The record originally appeared on his 2008 mixtape A Kid Named Cudi before it was later added to his 2009 debut album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day. “Day N Nite” would also go on to peak at No. 3 on the singles chart. As history and Cudi himself tell it, many of us have credited Kanye West with helping Cudi rise to fame. However, Jim Jones claims that the credit is all his.
In a recent interview with VIP Saturdays on Sirius XM, Jim Jones spoke about being the first big-name artist to appear on “Day N Nite.” Jones also spoke about his first meeting with Cudi. “Kid Cudi was nobody,” Jim Jones said. “He worked in a f*cking store under Koch Records. I was signed to Koch Records. I didn’t even know Kid Cudi worked down there.” He added, “Lisa Brunt’s nephew at the time was doing some work for me in my studio, and he’s like, ‘Yo, I manage these video directors, and I want them to shoot a video for you,’ and sh*t like that. I’m like, ‘Show me the video.’ They showed me the video, ended up being a Kid Cudi video that they shot for free for him.”
Jones continued, “They’re like ‘This is the kid that works in the f*cking rock-n-roll store under Koch. They just did it for him,’ and I was like, ‘Give me the record, and I’ll let y’all shoot me a video.’ They got me the record, they shot the video.”
Jones was then asked how the version of him on “Day N Nite” ended up on HOT 97’s radio airwaves and why he was eventually removed from the song.
“I put it on YouTube. Somebody at Hot97 ripped it off of YouTube and started playing it at Hot97. When he got his deal, they took me off the record and went for ads without me on the record. DJ Cassidy did that, you dig. You know I bumped into him, but that’s my man, though. It’s always a joke, though, but it happens like that. I’m solely responsible for Kid Cudi’s career. You can go tell him that, and he’s going to tell you, ‘He’s right.’”
You can view the clip from the VIP Saturdays interview above.
The Starbucks Frappuccino is almost at the age where it’s ready for an existential crisis — closing in on 30 years old. 29 years ago, Starbucks first blended coffee beverage was tested at a single store in LA’s San Fernando Valley. It was a hit. By the next year, a whole district of SoCal Starbucks were making it. By ’95 the whole nation was sucking the icy, sugary-as-shit drinks down.
The Frappuccino was a wild success. It has spawned more spin-offs and imitators than any fast food invention ever.
Starbucks didn’t invent the blended coffee drink. In fact, they didn’t even name it — they took the name from The Coffee Connection, a Boston coffee house that Starbucks acquired in the ‘90s. But here in 2022, the word “Frappuccino’” has essentially become shorthand for any icey blended coffee drink at any coffee shop. Ask for a ‘”Frappuccino” and every barista is going to know what you’re asking for, even if they call their drink by another name.
During the Frappuccino’s inaugural week of wide distribution, 200,000 drinks were sold. 400,000 drinks moved the next. 800,000 by the third week. That’s pretty astounding when you consider that in ’95 Starbucks had two flavors — Mocha, and Coffee. Today there are 17.
So to celebrate the drink that turned Starbucks into the global icon it is today, we decided to order every single Frappuccino on the menu and rank and review them from least essential to best tasting. We suffered a lot of brain freeze to put this article together and our big takeaway is this — Starbucks has too many fucking Frappuccinos. It’s not as bad as the redundant and bloated menu of iced coffee drinks that they have, but nearly half of these could leave the menu and you wouldn’t miss them. Probably wouldn’t even notice.
Here is what’s worth your money and what isn’t.
17. Vanilla Bean Crème
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
Ahh the Vanilla Bean Crème, a drink that by all measures is explicitly for kids. There is just nothing here, no flavors to grasp on to, sure it’s called a “Vanilla Bean Crème,” but it doesn’t give you much vanilla. It’s more icy than creamy, tasting like little more than sweetened ice.
Who Is It For?
Kids. It’s clearly designed to satiate the children of the parents that can’t function without their morning Starbucks run. If this is your favorite Starbucks drink you’re probably like a child — basic as f*ck.
The Bottom Line:
Don’t let the little black granules of vanilla bean fool you, you have to strain your taste buds (is that a thing?) to taste anything other than milk here. If you want to make it palatable, mix in your whipped cream to the drink to give it some flavor.
16. Coffee
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
I get that the Coffee Frappuccino was one of Starbucks’ debut flavors but, does anyone actually order this drink? I ask that because when I ordered one I was met with the longest pause to ever occur in a busy Starbucks drive-thru. I imagine the conversation between two baristas went something like this:
“This guy is asking for a coffee Frappuccino?”
“What flavor though?”
“He just said ‘coffee…’ do we have that?”
“Yea, we have an Espresso flavor?”
“Sir, did you mean an Espresso Frappuccino?” the barista finally asked over the crackling speaker.
“No, Coffee flavored please.”
“… well, hold let me ask the manager.”
Anyway, this flavor tastes like a botched Frappuccino. Like the barista forgot to add the flavor. It’s still sweet, in fact, it’s sweetened with what Starbucks calls “Frappuccino Roast Syrup,” but it tastes… incomplete.
Who Is It For?
No one. I’d like to see some hard numbers from Starbucks about how many of these they actually sell.
The Bottom Line:
Imagine what a 7/11 coffee Slurpee might taste like and you’re in the ballpark of this thing.
15. Double Chocolatey Chip
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
It’s like slightly thick chocolate milk with tiny granules of sweet blended chocolate-covered espresso beans. It doesn’t have the luxurious consistency of a milkshake — it’s airier and icey — but flavor-wise it’s in the ballpark. There isn’t a lot to like about this drink, but we can’t say we dislike it either. It’s middling and probably only exists because Starbucks has the ingredients for it.
Who Is It For?
Kids.
The Bottom Line:
It’s like really cold poorly mixed Nesquik.
14. Chocolate Cookie Crumble Crème
Starbucks
Tasting Notes:
It’s a step up from the Double Chocolaty Chip Crème thanks to the chocolate cookie crumble mixed in and on top of the whipped cream. But the flavor is still the same, it’s just chocolate milk.
Who Is It For?
People who like their Nesquik chunky.
The Bottom Line:
Starbucks’ best chocolate-based non-coffee blended beverage. Which isn’t saying a whole lot.
13. Caramel Ribbon Crunch Crème
Starbucks
Tasting Notes:
Despite having three different sources of caramel here (caramel syrup, dark caramel sauce, and crunchy caramel sugar) there is something noticeably lacking about this flavor. It tastes like caramel, but it’s lacking something that pulls the different iterations of the flavor together, leaving each sip tasting like it’s missing something.
Even a simple drizzle of chocolate sauce around the cup might be enough to make these different caramel notes taste distinct from one another.
Who Is It For?
Parents to give to their kids so that they can feel included in the Starbucks run.
The Bottom Line:
It’s the same price as the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino with coffee, but tastes significantly worse, and uses fewer ingredients.
In other words, a rip-off.
12. White Chocolate Crème
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
If you tasted the White Chocolate Crème Frappuccino without knowing what it was, you’d just think it was vanilla bean. It doesn’t really have that chalky light chocolate taste characteristic of white chocolate, it tastes heavy on the vanilla notes with a mostly creamy body and finish.
White chocolate vanilla fans are probably fuming but before you come for me in the comments let me just say that yes, I do know that white chocolate is made by mixing cocoa butter with sugar, milk solids, and vanilla. So white chocolate should taste somewhat like vanilla in the first place, but this straight-up comes across like vanilla soft serve. No cocoa to be found!
Who Is It For?
Confusingly, this is the coffee-free blended drink you should order if you want something that tastes like vanilla. Not the Vanilla Bean.
The Bottom Line:
It’s Starbucks’ best vanilla-flavored coffee-free drink. But if you love White Chocolate, you’d be better served by ordering one of Starbucks’ white chocolate iced coffees, which for whatever reason, deliver more on that white chocolate promise.
11. Strawberry Crème
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
In 2018, Starbucks changed its Strawberries and Crème Frappuccino to the Strawberry Crème flavor. It’s the sort of menu change that only fans of the OG noticed, if you have no interest in this drink you probably don’t even know they changed it. For those who did notice, this much is clear — that change was for the worse.
This thing used to taste sweet, creamy, and decadent, like a strawberry shake, now it’s much more tart (so Starbucks could include ribbons of strawberry syrup, which end up separating from the drink and make it generally more watery) less creamy, and more refreshing than it is indulgent. It can’t seem to decide whether it wants to be a smoothie or a milkshake and as a result, doesn’t succeed at being either.
Who Is It For?
It’s a slap in the face to fans of the original.
The Bottom Line:
It tastes halfway between a strawberry milkshake (creamy and sweet) and a strawberry smoothie (tart and light), which is to say — it sucks.
10. Caffè Vanilla
Starbucks
Tasting Notes:
It’s the weakest of the main three Frappuccino flavors. Sweet vanilla bean notes dominate with a floral character on the backend and the subtlest notes of toffee and brown sugar on the aftertaste. It tastes good, but it hardly comes across as tasting like coffee, which is a problem if you actually like coffee.
Who Is It For?
People who don’t like flavors that stray away from sweetness, coffee included.
The Bottom Line:
Tasty, delicious even, but lacking in coffee flavor. It’s another Starbucks drink that is in desperate need of a shot of espresso.
9. Mocha
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
It’s the drink that started it all — we’re assuming it was the Mocha Frappuccino that first captured the public’s imagination, not the boring Coffee Frappuccino flavor that debuted alongside it — and for that reason alone we think it deserves permanent menu status, even though Starbucks has since reiterated upon this flavor to much better results.
The mocha has a rich milk chocolate flavor that pairs excellently with whipped cream. There isn’t a lot to it, though — it’s good but not great.
Who Is It For?
People who love chocolate-flavored coffee drinks but hate texture (more on this later).
The Bottom Line:
It’s never going to leave the menu and that’s okay with us. Still, you should never bother ordering it.
8. Espresso
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
I think what bothers me most about the Coffee Frappuccino is that in addition to it tasting like a drink that’s missing ingredients, it’s totally redundant because of the similar, but much better, Espresso Frappuccino.
The Espresso Frappuccino is the Coffee Frappuccino, only it has an added shot of espresso which makes all of the difference. Not only does this frap deliver a strong kick of caffeine, it has much more pronounced coffee flavors imparting a toffee-like body with a distinct roasted after taste. It actually has layers of flavor.
The Coffee Frappuccino is missing ingredients and it turns out that ingredient is espresso.
Who Is It For?
Espresso fiends on a hot day and people who don’t like the overly sweetened flavors of the average Frappuccino.
The Bottom Line:
When you want that bitter kick of espresso in a more palatable sweetened and frozen form, this is the best Frappuccino on the menu.
7. Caramel
Starbucks
Tasting Notes:
If people weren’t convinced of the power of the Frappuccino when it first launched in the mid 90s, then by the time the Caramel Frappuccino was added to the menu, it was clear that the word (and drink) “Frappuccino” was here to stay, forever a part of the American cultural canon.
As a drink, this still tastes remarkably solid. It’s creamy, with a sweet vanilla and buttery caramel flavor, accentuated by ribbons of caramel right on the cup that slowly leeches into your frappe for a bit of extra flavor. The more you drink it the more it disturbs the caramel and the better it tastes.
Who Is It For?
People who want something a little bit different than chocolate or vanilla, but not so different that it makes you miss either of those flavors. It’s the Lawry’s season to chocolate and vanilla’s salt and pepper.
The Bottom Line:
At one point it was probably Starbucks’ most interesting drink. In 2022, it’s still good, if a little played out.
6. Java Chip
Starbucks
Tasting Notes:
You get double the chocolate notes here, rich roasted chocolate tones with sweeter bursts of chocolate flavor via the blended chocolate chips, with a nice robust roasted coffee finish. It’s good and a significant improvement over the coffee-free version but unfortunately a much better iteration of this drink now exists, so this one will have to live closer tot he middle of our ranking.
Who Is It For?
Chocoholics.
The Bottom Line:
If you love chocolate, this drink does not disappoint.
5. Chai Crème
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
Cinnamon, cardamom, and vanilla forward, like drinkable Christmas. That said, it doesn’t have any of the earthy, nutty, or bold qualities of black tea like chai should and that’s kind of a letdown if you love the spicy journey of flavors characteristic of a good chai tea.
Luckily, adding a single shot of espresso gets you sort of in that ballpark. It adds some bitterness and muddies the vanilla a bit, giving the overall drink a more complex and robust flavor. As is, this is a bit too sweet for its own good.
Who Is It For?
Fans of milk tea and people who want to pretend it’s Christmas in June.
The Bottom Line:
Add a shot of espresso and you have a way better tasting drink.
4. White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
I can’t for the life of me figure out why Starbucks’ White Chocolate drinks with coffee taste more like actual white chocolate than the coffee-free crème based varieties, but they do. The only thing differentiating this drink from the crème version is the inclusion of a coffee base, and yet it has more pronounced cocoa notes and an overall chalky mouthfeel that is characteristic of white chocolate.
Having said that, it doesn’t really taste all that much like coffee so if you want to fix this drink, add a shot of espresso.
Who Is It For?
People who want a great tasting blended white chocolate drink, whether they like coffee or not.
The Bottom Line:
White Chocolate isn’t everyone’s vibe, but if you like it, this is very very solid.
3. Matcha Crème
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
I feel really conflicted over this drink. On the one hand, I really do feel like it’s Starbucks’ best-tasting Frappuccino. It’s grassy, sweet, and even a bit creamy, but as a fan of Matcha… this is a far cry.
I realize that a lot of matcha-based drinks on the market lean on the people-pleasing sweet side. Ordering a matcha smoothie, latte, or milk tea will rarely get you something that truly captures the delicate and complex flavors of good quality matcha, but at least those drinks still taste reminiscent of the ground tea.
Starbucks’ Matcha Creme on the other hand tastes more like some sort of grassy vanilla milkshake than anything resembling the nutty vegetal bittersweet-bordering-on-savory quality of real matcha.
Who Is It For?
People who like milk tea and tea-based lattes and had to compromise because their basic ass friends wanted to go to Starbucks instead of the delicious boba spot or one of the many independent coffee shops that undoubtedly surround you.
The Bottom Line:
It’s Starbucks’ best non-coffee blended drink but if you’re ordering this because you love the flavor of matcha you’re going to be disappointed.
2. Mocha Cookie Crumble
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
The Mocha Cookie Crumble is what the Java Chip should be. It’s the exact same flavor blended with cookie crumbles and topped with whipped cream and an additional dusting of cookie crumbles. Together, the cookie crumbles and blended chocolate chips add a lot of texture to the mouthfeel and even provide a chewable crunch.
If you don’t feel like chewing your drink, you don’t have to, the crumbles will absorb the drink’s base, get soggy and practically dissolve on your tongue if you savor the drink in your mouth for a full second. Not ideal for a person with sensitive teeth but hey, we can’t pander to them — they should have flossed more!
Who Is It For?
Fans of the Java Chip who want something even sweeter.
The Bottom Line:
It’s the evolution of the Java Chip. Cookie crumbles add a crispy mouthfeel to this already textured frappe.
1. Caramel Ribbon Crunch
Dane Rivera
Tasting Notes:
Starbucks took what was once one of their best-selling flavors, tweaked the recipe just a little bit, and managed to actually make something significantly better tasting.
You get three different flavors of caramel here, the familiar buttery and light caramel syrup of the stock Caramel Frappuccino topped with a layer of richer dark caramel sauce, which has molasses undertones, plus a salty crunchy caramel sugar on top of your whipped cream which you should promptly mix into your drink with your straw.
Who Is It For?
People who want to drink Starbucks’ best Frappuccino.
The Bottom Line:
It’s sweet, salty, rich, creamy, and textural. Everything a great Frappuccino should strive to be. If you’re drinking one Frappuccino from Starbucks this year, make it this one.
The latest edition of The Match on TNT saw four of the NFL’s top quarterbacks go head to head on the golf course without any professionals this time, as what was initially a one-off between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson has become a semi-annual competition with a revolving cast of golfers and athletes.
This time, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers teamed up against Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas, with Inside the NBA‘s Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley on the call alongside JJ Watt and Trevor Immelman. One of the best parts of The Match has always been the interplay between the commentators and the golfers, who are listening to the commentary live through an airpod and can talk back to them.
Charles Barkley is usually at the center of the best bits of back-and-forth, and this time he caused a stir while complimenting Josh Allen’s pace of play and quarterbacking skill, causing Patrick Mahomes and Allen to both get a laugh out of Barkley telling Josh he can “slang that thang, too.”
Josh was going to let it go, but you can hear Mahomes chime in with a “what?!” that caused Barkley to double back and say “throw that thing, excuse me” that made Allen break completely. Barkley has a gift for those turns of phrase, as fans of Inside the NBA know very well, most recently causing Shaq to lose it on set while talking about getting banged in the post.
After a raucous six-week trial followed by just two days of deliberation, a verdict arrived for the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. A jury found Heard defamed her ex-husband in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed about surviving abuse, in which she never mentioned him by name. Heard had countersued him, which also succeeded: The same jury found Depp’s lawyer had defamed her over claims that she and her friends had set up an “ambush, a hoax” to entrap his client. And yet Depp owes far less money than Heard does, and his statement was considerably more upbeat about the outcome than she was.
But this may be far from over. Entertainment Weekly reports that Heard plans to appeal the verdict in an ordeal she has claimed cost her work, and a trial she said got her “hundreds” of death threats.
After the verdict was revealed, Depp — who was not present in the Virginia courthouse — released a celebratory statement, saying the jury “gave me my life back.” Heard, by contrast, said she was “heartbroken,” but “even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.” She saw the verdict as a “setback” that “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”
The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages, plus $5 million in punitive damages, though Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the latter to $350,000 in accordance with the state’s statutory cap. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages for her counterclaim.
In her statement, Heard lamented that “the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.” But this story may not be over.
For those who aren’t fond of Pharrell Williams‘ hit single “Happy,” you may have something in common with the artist himself. Williams admits the song annoys him too.
The song was originally released in 2013 as part of the soundtrack for Despicable Me 2. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year on Williams’ second studio album, Girl. But almost a decade after the song’s release, several Twitter users have said that they don’t care for the song.
“No song annoyed me like Happy by Pharrell did,” said Twitter user @javroar. Williams quote-replied to the tweet saying, “Same.”
“Happy” was one of the biggest hits of 2014, largely in part to the song’s 24-hour music video. When speaking of the video’s creation in a 2013 interview with NPR, Williams said, “We kind of gotta do it ’cause the premise was perfect with the song, ‘Happy,’ and if we can help people rediscover happiness within themselves — and notice, we’re not trying to make anyone happy, we’re just trying to, like I said, help people rediscover it within themselves.”
Despite Williams’ intent to help the listener rediscover happiness, it is clear by the general consensus that the song largely had the opposite effect.
Following a stunning win in his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard after a five-week long trial, Johnny Depp has issued a statement celebrating the verdict, and he’s vowing a new chapter in his career. While Depp wasn’t awarded the full $50 million he was seeking from Heard, he was handed a victory that could potentially reopen doors that were shut during his tumultuous divorce. His legion of die-hard fans were also rewarded for their persistent defense of the embattled actor.
“The jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled,” Depp wrote in his statement before pontificating on the notion of innocent until proven guilty and the court of public opinion. Via Variety:
I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation, and that those supporting them never give up. I also hope that the position will now return to innocent until proven guilty, both within the courts and in the media.
Naturally, Depp’s statement is in stark contrast to Heard’s reaction to the verdict. In a social media post, the actress wrote that she’s “heartbroken” and the verdict “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”
As for Depp reviving his career now that his name has been theoretically “cleared,” that might not be so cut and dry. According to testimony during the trial, Depp’s career was already in trouble even before the messiness of his divorce entered the picture. The actor reportedly held up productions due to his alleged drinking and drug use, which also reportedly soured his relationship with Disney. Despite the defamation verdict going his way, the family friendly House of Mouse might not be so keen to work with Depp again. As for other studios taking a gamble on the actor, that remains to be seen.
The Miami Heat had a tremendous regular season, earning the top seed in the East, and looked dominant through the first two rounds before getting bounced from the playoffs in a hard fought seven-game series against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Health played a role in their pre-Finals exit, as some of their top players were banged up, but there are also real questions about whether this roster has enough offensive firepower to beat the best teams in the league. Finding ways to get more out of their offense without sacrificing too much on the defensive end where they were incredible is among the biggest tasks for Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra this offseason. One of their best offensive players, Sixth Man of the Year winner Tyler Herro — who was limited with a groin injury in the Boston series — has one idea for how to inject some more life into the offense: start him.
At his exit interview, Herro was asked if it was a priority this offseason to become a starter (3:36 of the above video) and offered this response.
“Yeah, for sure. In some way, I would like to start. I think it’s my fourth year, so I think I’ve earned it, and we’ll see what happens.”
It’s an interesting situation for the Heat, and one Spoelstra and his staff will have to work out. The Heat preferred Herro coming off the bench this season to ensure both units had some kind of creation when Jimmy Butler rested, and when Kyle Lowry’s at full strength it makes sense to have the shooting of Max Strus (or Duncan Robinson, before he got benched) between them. However, Herro clearly sees his fourth year as an opportunity to make the leap into being a starter and that role matters, particularly in terms of how much he’ll get paid next offseason when he becomes a restricted free agent.
The Heat can mitigate that by working out an extension that pays him like a starter and possibly keep him in a bench role where it wouldn’t matter as much to him if it benefits the team, but if an extension can’t be reached before the season, Herro likely won’t be quite as willing to hop back into that sixth man role. On Herro’s end, he’ll need to prove he can hold up defensively, as he is always the opposition’s target on that end — albeit the Celtics took the same approach against Strus — and also to be a consistent three-point threat in spot-up situations as that is clearly the thing Spoelstra wants out of that role when Butler and Lowry are out there together.
Less than two years after releasing his chart-topping album El Último Tour Del Mundo, Bad Bunny returned with his fourth album Un Verano Sin Ti last month. The full-length album checks in with 23 songs and guest appearances from Chencho Corleone, Jhay Cortez, Tony Dize, Rauw Alejandro, Bomba Estéreo, The Marías, and Buscabulla. Less than a month after Un Verano Sin Ti arrived, Bad Bunny looks to keep the album’s spirit alive with a video for “Titi Me Pregunto.”
The visual kicks off with Bad Bunny stopping by a bodega in New York to purchase a few items. When he walks out, the song’s spirited Dembow beat drops, and a few moments later, Bad Bunny is partying with New York residents in the middle of the city’s streets. A short time later, Bad Bunny is kidnapped and brought to his own wedding where his girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri eventually meets him.
Susan Sarandon is a brilliant actress who arguably won her Oscar for the wrong movie. No offense to Dead Man Walking, in which she’s great, but what’s better than her forward, funny, fiercely independent yet thirsty turn in Bull Durham? Her politics are another matter. Sarandon is a longtime progressive, and she isn’t afraid to hold Democratic politicians’ feet to the fire — one could say to a fault. She’s been especially hard on them in the Trump era, which we’re debatably still in, infamously throwing her support behind Jill Stein in 2016. That’s made her something of a pariah in the party, who attacks those on her side. Now, comments she made last month earned the ire of another Trump.
As per Insider, Mary Trump took a break from trashing her uncle, the former president, to trash one of the stars of Stepmom. Trump specifically took umbrage with a tweet Sarandon posted after it was revealed the Supreme Court were almost certainly overturning Roe v. Wade. With an emoji, she rolled her eyes at congressman Eric Swalwell saying the only way to protect abortion rights is to vote for Democrats — again.
“Dems are going to use this to fundraise and get you to vote for them again despite sitting on their hands for the last two years,” Sarandon tweeted. “Instead of actually standing for anything, their only strategy is scaring you into voting blue.”
Trump didn’t like that. “She’s a complete idiot,” the psychologist-turned-bestselling-author railed while on the MeidasTouch Podcast. “She doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and if anybody can say with a straight face that the Democrats are the problem, I don’t know what to tell them.” She added, “She was pretty decent in a couple of movies a couple of decades ago, but politically she’s a moron.”
Trump continued, saying that “she thinks she’s some wise shaman or something” but was actually a victim of the “Dunning-Kruger effect” — a cognitive bias where people with a low ability at doing something overestimate their worth. She then threw down her cards. “If we can just make it as simple as possible — a vote for Republicans is a vote for fascism.”
Sarandon is often blamed, sometimes unfairly, for how America has fared after electing Mary Trump’s uncle, as if the mom from the 1994 Little Women movie had enough power to sway an election (or to overturn Roe v. Wade). You could also say she has a point: Democrats haven’t accomplished much since assuming the three main bodies of government almost a year-and-a-half ago, and they probably should do more than simply asking people to vote for them again. At the same time, implying that both parties are the same isn’t helping matters either — thus Mary Trump going after her bigly.
The BET Award nominations for 2022 were revealed today and fans had plenty of thoughts about who was selected for the upcoming show. Noticeably missing from the nominees was Lil Nas X, who had two Billboard chart-topping hits last year with “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and “Industry Baby,” which featured Jack Harlow. He also had another top-10 hit with “That’s What I Want.”
Jack Harlow got a BET award nom and Lil Nas X didn’t? During pride month? During Black Music History month? Is that what I’m seeing?
Fans noticed that Harlow, who received his first No. 1 single with “Industry Baby,” received a nomination for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist, and they immediately called out BET. “Jack Harlow got a BET award nom and Lil Nas X didn’t? During pride month? During Black Music History month? Is that what I’m seeing?,” said Twitter user @Tendurag.
Lil Nas X responded to the nominations in the most Lil Nas X way possible. “Thank you bet awards,” he said in a now-deleted tweet. “An outstanding zero nominations again. black excellence!”
via twitter
He later clarified that it wasn’t the lack of nominations that peeved him, but rather the lack of representation of Black and queer artists.
“I just feel like black gay ppl have to fight to be seen in this world,” he said in another deleted tweet, “and even when we make it to the top mfs try to pretend we are invisible.”
via Twitter
The 2022 BET Awards will air Sunday, June 26 at 8 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. CST on BET.
Jack Harlow is a Warner Music Artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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