Nicki Minaj has worked with so many artists over the years, but she may share the closest bond with two of them: Lil Wayne and Drake. The trio has been through a lot together, as Minaj and Drake both launched their careers and first found major commercial success while working with Wayne and his Young Money Entertainment label. The trio reunited recently on “Seeing Green,” a new song shared as part of a reissue of Minaj’s early-career mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty. Now Minaj has shared a new behind-the-scenes video for the song, which doubles as a look back on her relationships with Wayne and Drake.
Aside from recent clips of Minaj showing off various looks, the video also features images and videos, both recent and from various other points in her career, of herself with Drake and/or Wayne. The video isn’t really much of a behind-the-scenes look at how “Seeing Green” was made, but it does serve as a touching display of how much Minaj values what she has been through with Wayne and Drake.
After the song was released, Minaj admitted that both Drake and Wayne bested her on the song, writing, “All I know is that they washed me on #SeeingGreen I’m a woman enough to admit when I’ve been washed on a track by the Greats [laughing emoji]. and it’s ok #Barbz I’ve washed them b4. We’ll live through this one. I was still a lil rusty. I washed them in my head on #Fractions.”
Check out the “Seeing Green” behind-the-scenes video above.
Fousheé’s music has been turning heads ever since a sample of her song, which later became “Deep End,” blew up on TikTok. In the months following, Fousheé remained hyper-focused on her artistry, releasing more tunes and even teaming up with Lil Wayne for a track. Now, the singer has another exciting project on the horizon — a campaign video for H&M’s summer clothing line.
Fousheé’s music is the soundtrack for a video to the clothing company’s new campaign, Find The Strength In Silence. It’s a cover of Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy The Silence,” which she transformed from a synth-heavy anthem into a more sultry R&B tune. In press materials for the campaign’s accompanying film, which was shot in LA, it’s described as standing “for the women who face public opinions daily.”
The project follows an exciting accomplishment for the singer. After “Deep End” went viral on TikTok, the song began racking up streams. Thanks to its viral success, the song achieved a peak at No. 10 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart after hovering on the chart for sixteen weeks. The new spot marked the first time a Black woman occupied the chart’s top ten in 32 years. The last person to achieve the feat was Tracy Chapman for the song “Crossroads,” which hit the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart’s top ten in 1989.
Listen to Fousheé cover “Enjoy The Silence” above.
Elon Musk’s name-dropping on Saturday Night Live did little to take the joke cryptocurrency to the moon, but his tweets about the dog-based crypto apparently sparked another surge in its price on Thursday. And that attention, it seems, has gotten lawmakers interested in regulating the wild fluctuations the market has seen in 2021.
As CNBC detailed, Musk’s series of Dogecoin-related tweets coincided with another price spike for the cryptocurrency, which was once worth fractions of pennies but has found actual value in the NFT and crypto bubble:
The price of dogecoin spiked on Thursday after Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned the coin on Twitter, adding another chapter to the volatile history of a cryptocurrency that started as a joke.
The price of the digital coin was up more than 11% to about 40 cents in midday trading, hours after the first Musk tweet.
That’s still not near the high-water mark the coin had in the leadup to his appearance on SNL, but Musk tweeting to his 54 million+ followers on Twitter seems to have a huge impact on its price. Especially when those tweets indicate that he’s not selling his shares of the crypto.
But amid that wild variation for the cryptocurrency, there are rumblings that the US government wants to get involved in regulating crypto like it does other markets. Another CNBC report on Thursday detailed the Treasury Department warning traders that any transaction worth $10,000 or more would need to be reported to the IRS.
“Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the Treasury said in a release.
That’s just part of the government’s creeping interest in cryptocurrency markets. Protocol detailed that several different layers of government may want to help regulate cryptocurrency and the companies who are making big money buying, selling and mining various currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and, yes, even Dogecoin. While all of that could give people protections from the huge spikes of the boom and bust crypto market, it may also mean Musk’s tweets about the coin see increased scrutiny as things get more regulated. That’s something he is certainly familiar with at this point.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and picked her hill and she is prepared to die on it, folks.
The controversial GOP representative from Georgia continues to make headlines for her outrageously childish antics, but fortunately, this latest temper tantrum isn’t as disturbing as her ongoing obsession with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proven to be. Greene, who’s been whining about having to wear a mask on the House floor ever since she took office, refused to don a face covering in the chamber on Tuesday — a direct violation of a rule put in place by Speaker Nancy Pelosi requiring all representatives to be masked while the House was in session.
Greene, who’s used her platform in the past to make some truly laughable connections between mask mandates and discrimination tactics, was warned that if she didn’t put on a face covering, she’d be fined. She wasn’t the only Republican protesting the mask mandate, but while fellow representatives like Lauren Boebert decided to comply and wear their masks during a meeting Wednesday, Greene continued to flout protocols, leading Pelosi to send her a letter listing out a series of fines she’ll be hit with should she continue to break the rules. Of those, Green could be charged a $500 fine the next time she goes without a mask and a further $2,500 for her third mask violation.
Of course, this is the woman who openly harasses her fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill and bullies teenagers on the street so Greene reacted to news of the fine in an expectedly juvenile way: by shredding the damn thing.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) May 19, 2021
Honestly, if you’re that triggered by wearing a piece of cotton on your face, maybe the high-stress environment of D.C. politics just isn’t for you? Though the CDC now says people who are fully vaccinated can forego masks indoors, Republicans like Greene have been outspoken in their refusal to get the shot. According to Pelosi, some 25% of Congress has yet to be vaccinated, which puts their fellow lawmakers (and civilian Capitol workers) at an increased risk of contracting the virus.
But sure, take a “stand” by showing you know how to use a piece of office equipment, Marjorie. We’re all very impressed.
Pride Month is just a couple weeks away now and iHeartRadio has announced how they’ll kick off June: They (along with Procter & Gamble) will be hosting their second annual “Can’t Cancel Pride” virtual event on June 4.
Bebe Rexha is set to co-host alongside Elvis Duran and will also perform her single “Sacrifice.” Meanwhile, also taking part are Lil Nas X, Demi Lovato, Hayley Kiyoko, Pink Brothers Osborne, Marshmello, Busy Phillips, Gus Kenworthy, Jennifer Hudson, JoJo Siwa, MJ Rodriguez, Nina West, and more.
Gayle Troberman, Chief Marketing Officer for iHeartMedia, said in a statement, “As the country is returning back to normal and we are slowly starting to gather again, LGBTQ+ communities around the world are still feeling the devastating effects of COVID-19. “We look forward to once again celebrating the incredible voices and allies of the LGBTQ+ community with an amazing night of music that will honor Pride and the communities’ fight for equal rights, all while benefitting six remarkable nonprofits that make an everyday positive impact.”
This news comes a few days after Lil Nas X declared, “i wanna do something special for homosexual month in a few weeks.” It also quickly follows Lovato revealing she now identifies non-binary and changing their pronouns to they/them.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The craft beer industry is facing yet another reckoning for sexual misconduct. Over the past week, Brienne Allan (@ratmagnet on Instagram) has been reposting (admittedly unverified or vetted) stories that women have sent her of sexual misconduct and assault that they’ve experienced at the hands of men in the craft beer industryaround the world.
The thread started with Allan asking on her IG, “What sexist comments have you experienced?” Allan received so many replies, that there’s now an eight-part series of IG stories full of accusations of everything from customers dismissing women as brewers to verbal abuse to physical abuse to sexual assault against female co-workers, female industry professionals, and even female guests at brewery taprooms. It’s a harrowing wave of first-person accounts of an industry that has continually been unable to make real progress on sexism year after year.
The craft beer industry has been struggling to exorcise itself from rampant and blatant sexism for literal decades now — sexism that is almost always linked to the dismissal of women working in beer. Trillium, Founders, Rogue are just a few breweries that have faced down sexual and racial discrimination accusations over the past decade. Some have faced legal action and issued boilerplate apologies. But, as Allan’s posts make painfully clear, these issues remain.
There has been a shift over the past week, as male brewers who are specifically being called out are facing real-world repercussions. Breweries like BrewDog, Tired Hands, Modern Times Beer, Lord Hobo Brewing Company, Union Beer Distributors, and Hill Farmstead have all been called out by name. Vinepair reports that Søren Wagner, head brewer of Copenhagen’s Dry & Bitter Brewing Company, was put on leave due to allegations surfacing from Allan’s posts. Shaun Hill, brewmaster at Hill Farmstead, has issued a non-apology/”we’ll do better” letter to Vinepair in response to the current postings alleging several counts of sexual misconduct and bullying that have been corroborated by multiple women.
Modern Times Beer issued an apology via Vinepair for the misconduct actions carried out by some of its 300 employees and also promised to “do better.” Modern Times’ statement starts with, “First and foremost, we want to deeply apologize to anyone who has been harassed, discriminated against, prevented from succeeding, and otherwise hurt, either as our employee or by one of our employees. We can do better and be better, both as individuals and an organization.” At the very least, that feels like the San Diego brewery is acknowledging the problem and their part in it.
Perhaps the most important aspect of this week’s revelations is the empowerment it has given women to speak out en masse and highlight the continuous bullshit they face damn-near constantly as women in a white male-dominated industry.
Brewer Megan Murzyn (@isbeeracarb) has been posting about the sexism she’s faced in the industry for years. Her most recent post on Instagram compiles quotes she’s heard while brewing beer across the country and is a small glimpse into how deeply toxic this male-dominated industry can be on a day-to-day basis.
Claud may have been the first signee of Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label, but they started their musical journey as a bedroom pop artist. Paying tribute to another musician who got their start as a bedroom pop artist, Claud gave a dreamy cover of a Toro Y Moi song.
Claud delivered the cover on a SiriusXMU segment, opting for Toro Y Moi’s hit track “Omaha.” Claud’s tender vocal delivery melts seamlessly over the track’s lush chords, sounding as though it was pulled straight from their recent album.
Ahead of their Toro Y Moi cover, Claud recently chatted with Uproxx about the stark contrast between recording their EPs at home and making their debut album Super Monster in a proper studio.
“When you’re making music in an apartment or even a garage or a living room it’s hard to imagine it in a space bigger than that. And then when you step into a space like Electric Lady that’s three times the size. Even that one studio, it was three times the size of my apartment. It’s like, wow, this is being played in a big room right now and has the potential, if I want it to, to be played in another big room.”
In other news, Claud is looking to get back on the road soon and finally begin performing shows in support of their Super Monster album. Not only were they just announced as a booked act for this fall’s Austin City Limits festival, but they’ll also be joining Bleachers on a handful of North American tour stops.
Listen to Claud cover Toro Y Moi’s “Omaha” above.
Super Monster is out now via Saddest Factory. Get it here.
Three Sisters soup is one of my absolute favorite dishes to make. It’s pretty easy to prep for lunch or dinner, creamy without any dairy, vegan, and carries a matrix of textures and flavors that give it real depth. It’s also a dish that every American should have in their repertoire — seeing as that it’s an American dish that pre-dates Columbus and colonization.
In my personal opinion, dishes based around the Three Sisters should be available on every corner in this county at every dining level. The agricultural practice of growing winter squash, common beans, and corn (maize) together goes back at least six millennia in North America. But this tradition was stamped out by European monoculture techniques, which is proving to be more and more of an ecological disaster compared to long-held Indigenous agriculture practices. Colonization also led to the loss of an entire continent’s worth of cuisine, culinary regions, and all the restaurants (from fast food to fine dining) that would have eventually come with it.
Despite that adversity, Indigenous American foods are still here and ready to return to our tables. If you haven’t made any, let this dish be your first foray. It’s the perfect balance of spicy, sweet, and savory with a texture balance of crunchy, soft, and silken. Let’s get cooking!
Three Sisters Pumpkin Soup With Sumac Corn and Black Beans
Zach Johnston
Ingredients:
4 cups butternut squash
4 cups vegetable broth
1 yellow onion
2 fresh ears of sweetcorn
8-oz. can of black beans
1 tsp. wild sumac
1 tsp. allspice
Fresh sage
Chili oil
Ancho chili flakes
Salt
Sunflower oil
Hey! Did you know Chicago is a Miami-Illinois word meaning “wild onion?” I would usually use those in this recipe. Unfortunately, my greengrocer was out of ramps (wild onion or wild garlic depending on where you are in the world) when I went shopping. So I substituted a standard yellow onion. Other than that, this recipe is fairly easy to source. You should be able to get these ingredients at any farmer’s market or decent grocery store. Or you might be growing them in your own backyard if you’re savvy like that.
Other than the yellow onion substitute (originating from Central and East Asia), these are all agricultural products you would have found being cultivated and traded across North America for thousands of years before Europeans showed up.
Zach Johnston
What You’ll Need:
Large pot
Medium saute pan
Cutting board
Kitchen knife
Large spoon
Ladle
Bowls
Spoons
Immersion hand blender (or regular blender, food processor, etc.)
Zach Johnston
Method:
Break the corn cobs in half and run the knife under the kernels to remove them from the cob. SAVE THE COBS.
Roughly dice the onion.
Roughly cube/dice the butternut squash (alternatively use frozen pumpkin).
Drain the beans and thoroughly rinse.
Thinly slice ten fresh sage leaves and prepare a few small leaves for garnish.
Put the large pot on medium-high heat and add a thin layer of sunflower oil.
Add the corn cobs, onion, and a pinch of salt.
Add about a 1/2 cup of water and cook while softening the onion and drawing the starchy “corn milk” from the cobs.
Add the squash and vegetable broth then season with allspice and a sprig of fresh sage.
Bring to a low simmer and cook until the squash is completely falling apart (about 20 minutes).
Remove the cobs and sage from the soup.
Use an immersion hand blender to puree the soup into a creamy base.
Remove from heat and place a lid on the pot.
In a medium saute pan on medium heat, add a thin layer of sunflower oil to the pan.
Add the corn kernels and toss with a pinch of salt and wild sumac.
Once the corn kernels deepen in color, add in the beans and thinly sliced sage and toss again until well mixed.
As soon as the corn starts to just brown, turn off the heat.
Ladle the soup into a waiting bowl.
Scoop about 1/2 cup of the corn/bean mix into the center of the bowl.
Drizzle the chili oil around the corn/bean mix and sprinkle with plenty of Ancho chili flakes.
Place a small sage leaf atop of the corn/bean mix and serve.
Zach Johnston
Bottom Line:
It’s sort of amazing how creamy and velvety the pumpkin soup base comes out when you boil out those corn cobs in the soup. The “corn milk” emulsifies with the broth and pumpkin to create this velvet texture that’s soul-nourishing. The addition of allspice brings a familiar spicy edge with a mild woodiness.
The real x-factor is the sumac-flavored corn and beans though. The corn is still crunchy while carrying a sweetness, tart, and savory edge. The beans add in a soft counterpoint. The sage helps deepen the savory herbal notes.
The chili oil and flakes tie it all together with a mild warm spice with an almost bitter yet dry and smoky Ancho chili vibe that becomes just the right accent to the silky soup. It’s hard not to go back for seconds with this gem.
All told, this took about 45 minutes from start to finish with maybe 15 minutes of actively cooking. Plus there were plenty of leftovers for lunches throughout the week. Those are wins all around.
As sports betting is becoming legalized in more and more states — and, thereby, becoming easier to do on the internet or via your phone — leagues are finding ways to embrace gambling. One way the NBA is doing this is through its NBA Bet initiative, and on Thursday, it was revealed that a half-hour long television show on the league’s television network that will “dedicated to betting-focused information and analysis” will play a role in this.
The NBA announced that NBABet presented by BetMGM will make its debut on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. EST and run through the first two rounds of the postseason. Once the second round kicks off, the league will add a new element to how it covers the intersection of gambling and basketball.
In the second round of the playoffs, NBA.com and the NBA App will feature a new NBABet section, which will include editorial content for fans from content partners such as Action Network, Bleacher Report, and Yahoo Sports, among others. The weekly show will also be available to NBA TV subscribers.
It’s unclear who will host the show, or if it will exist in some capacity once the conference semifinals reach their conclusion. But it’s evident that the NBA — which has dipped its toe into the wagering waters in recent years — is making it a point to position itself to benefit as gambling becomes more widespread.
“Miura-sensei was a master artist and storyteller and we had the great privilege of publishing several of his finest works, including his masterpiece, Berserk. He will be greatly missed.”
IMDb
Of all of Miura’s works, he is most famously known for Berserk, a serialized comic first published back in 1989. While the series is known for its intense brutality, equally as important to note are its messages of hope and ceaseless resilience, which are conveyed across all 40 of its volumes. In addition to being noteworthy in-and-of itself, Berserk also helped popularize Japanese dark fantasy, and inspired countless works such as Black Clover, Dark Souls, Dragon’s Dogma, Final Fantasy, Demon Slayer, and Castlevania.
As of May 2021, Berserk has over 50 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Due to this intense popularity, it has been adapted for animation multiple times. In 1997, a Berserk anime was produced, which was then followed by a film series in 2012 and another in 2016. In addition, multiple video games based on Berserk have also been released.
Unfortunately, Berserk, which is widely considered Miura’s magnum opus, was an ongoing series, and with news of his passing it is suspected the story will go unfinished. However, fans can perhaps rest a bit easier knowing Miura believed he would inevitably end the series on a hopeful note.
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