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Erik Prince — the infamous founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater and brother of ex-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — is at it again. Less than six months ago, he was charging $6,500 for a plane ride out of Afghanistan (prompting people to declare, “What an absolute POS”), and of course, he’s got thoughts about Russia’s declaration of war upon Ukraine. Following the invasion, Prince paid a visit to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson (who trashed Ukraine as “corrupt” earlier this week and won’t stop with the pro-Russia propaganda), where Prince announced that he could have stopped this attack from happening, if only Biden would have let him do it.

In the below clip, Prince declared that Biden shut down his pitch to have mercenary pilots take 140 jets to Ukraine, which would have saved it from Russian invasion.

Prince, of course, is shady at best, as evidenced by previous reports that tried to open a secret line of communication between Russia and the Trump administration. He also once bragged to USA Today that Trump really wanted to privatize the war in Afghanistan. Yet it sounds like he wanted to privatize something unorthodox in Ukraine, and he’s not pleased that it didn’t happen.

Well, Prince’s history isn’t great, and people know this. Even his most recent statements don’t look good. Earlier this week, he visited with Steve Bannon for the War Room podcast, where they talked about how great Putin is because he’s “anti-woke,” and further, they were happy that Putin’s not supportive of LGBTQ. “How many genders are there in Russia?” Bannon asked, and Prince merrily responded, “Two.”

Let’s just say that people were armed with not only reminders of this podcast episode but all of the other sketchiness that Prince has committed regarding Russia and Ukraine over the years. And they unloaded on Prince.

Nearly six months after he released his third album Hall Of Fame, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard albums charts, Polo G returned with more music for fans to enjoy with Hall Of Fame 2.0. The project is a deluxe reissue of his third album which presents 14 additional songs and features from NLE Choppa, Lil Baby, Moneybagg Yo, Lil Tjay, and YungLiv. In a continued effort to promote the project, Polo G returns with a new video for “Don’t Play.”

The visual sees Polo G paired with Lil Baby, who also has a verse on the song, as the two rappers show that they’re strictly about their business. Their militant approach to life has earned them the many things they show off in the video: jewelry, luxury cars, and a crew that’s ready to support them at any moment. “Don’t Play” joins a number of tracks from Hall Of Fame 2.0 that have received the visual treatment. They include “Fortnight,” “Young N Dumb,” “Unapologetic,” Heatin Up,” and “Start Up Again.”

You can watch the video for “Don’t Play” above.

Hall Of Fame 2.0 is out now via Columbia Records. Get it here.

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Rubi Rose has forged a path of her own in the music world after she began her career back in 2019. Prior to that, she initially gained fame for being the main model in Migos’ music video for “Bad And Boujee.” Over the years, Rose has grown her fan base and legitimized her position as a female rapper through solid releases like her debut project, 2020’s For The Streets which presented songs with PartyNextDoor, Future, and Cardi B. After a quiet 2021, Rubi is back in action with her brand new single, “I Like.”

On the new track, Rubi lists the things she enjoys in a man, whether it be their appearance, personality, or the way they treat her. The song also arrives with a matching visual. In it, Rubi is sitting at the dinner table with her family when they ask her what she likes in a man. Initially reluctant to answer the question, Rubi offers a raunchy response that also finds her twerking on the table and showing off her assets.

Rubi’s latest release comes after she appeared on “Nasty,” a raunchy collaboration between herself, Latto, Rich The Kid, and Flo Milli. Last year, she was also selected to the 2021 XXL Freshman Class list alongside names like 42 Dugg, Blxst, Pooh Shiesty, and more.

You can watch the video for “I Like” above.

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

This summer will mark two years since Flo Milli made her splash in the rap world with her debut project Ho, Why Is You Here? The 12-song effort came with no features and saw the Alabama rapper shine brightly thanks to her infectious attitude and her impressive lyricism. We’ve yet to receive a follow-up project from Flo Milli, but she has continued to impress with singles and guest features. Today marks an example of the former as she returns with her new song “PBC.”

Flo Milli’s new record, which stands as an abbreviation for “Pretty Black Cute,” finds setting the record straight on her beauty. She makes it clear that there are no asterisks or footnotes to her looks and everything should be taken as is. “Pretty for what? / Pretty for who?” she raps. “I’m really like that / Who are you?” The song was initially previewed during Tia Adeola’s fashion show during this month’s New York Fashion Week. According to OkayPlayer, Flo Milli said the song is about “Black women finding their power, wearing their natural hair, everything that makes you pretty, Black and cute.”

The new song comes after Flo Milli and Rico Nasty joined forces for “Money” last year. During 2021, she also dropped solo singles like “Roaring 20s” and “Ice Baby” during a year that also saw her get selected to the 2021 XXL Freshman Class.

You can listen to “PBC” and enjoy a skit from Flo Milli that strikes as a hilarious flip of a viral clip from America’s Next Top Model in the videos above.

It’s been nearly three years since Tyga released an album to the world with his last effort being 2019’s Legendary. The project served as a comeback for him as he earned him an entry on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Taste,” which marked his first appearance on the chart since 2015. Doja Cat, on the other hand, is less than a year removed from his third album Planet Her which peaked at No. 2 on the albums chart and earned her several Grammy nominations for the 2022 award show. With that being said, Tyga and Doja brought their magic together for a second time with their latest collaboration.

Tyga and Doja join forces for their new single, “Freaky Deaky.” The track is the duo’s second song together after Tyga joined Doja for a remix of her hit song “Juicy” in 2019. The track appeared on Doja’s second album Hot Pink which also houses her sole No. 1 song “Say So” and her viral record “Streets.”

The collaboration arrives after Doja dropped an intergalactic video for “Get Into It (Yuh)” and shared a cover of Hole’s “Celebrity Skin.” Last summer, Tyga dropped a video for “Mrs. Bubblegum,” however, he did land in legal trouble afterward as he was later arrested on felony domestic violence charges.

You can listen to “Freaky Deaky” in the video above.

Showtime’s latest anthology series Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber marks the triumphant television return of 2011 Tumblr heartthrob Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and his tumultuous reign over the controversial company. Kalanick was the CEO of the ride-sharing company until he was pressured to resign in 2017 among accusations of a toxic work culture and assault allegations at the company.

Alongside Kyle Chandler, portraying financial analyst Bill Gurley, and Uma Thurman as Arianna Huffington, the show will go in-depth on the company’s success, juxtaposed with the long list of internal conflicts that come with any tech bro startup. The show was created by Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote and produced the first season of the anthology series, based on the 2019 book of the same name.

When you watch the premiere of the series, which airs Sunday, February 27th on Showtime, you might notice a familiar voice. That voice is none other than director Quentin Tarantino, who narrates the first season. The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood director is a huge fan of Koppelman’s show Billions, which led him to getting the narration gig for Super Pumped.

Koppelman sent the director an email, hoping he would guest star on his podcast, and join Super Pumped as a narrator. To his surprise, Tarantino said yes to both. “I wrote back, ‘You know you said yes to both things?’ and he said, perfect Tarantino-ish, ‘Yeah I know what I said yes to,’” Koppelman shared in an interview with The Wrap. The rest was history!

As for the future of the show, season 2 will take on a much larger company: Facebook. Tarantino has yet to be confirmed for the show’s second season.

The gimlet is a simple masterpiece — beloved by Raymond Chandler (and his chief creation, Philip Marlowe). The shaker is a mix of gin, lime, and sugar that feels like springtime in a glass. It’s refreshing and light while still having some real depth thanks to the botanical gin that comprises its base.

The cocktail has roots back in the 1920s, when so many classic cocktails were refined into classic final forms that we still mix up today. But it goes beyond that. The gimlet — which is basically just a combo of gin and lime — actually stretches back to the British Royal Navy and their technique for fighting scurvy by adding lime and sometimes sugar to their daily rations of gin.

Over the years, the recipe has shifted and been tweaked while falling in and out of fashion, like most cocktails recipes. In the 1950s, it was customary to use Rose’s Lime Cordial instead of fresh lime and sugar (that’s Chandler’s way). While that version is not without its charm, it misses that fresh burst of brightness from real and freshly squeezed lime juice. So the latter version is what we’re going with today.

Check the full recipe below.

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Gimlet

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. London dry gin
• 0.75 oz. fresh lime juice
• 0.25 oz. simple syrup
• Ice
• Lime peel
• Lime wheel

I’m using a standard London dry gin, Gordon’s. It’s easy-going, a great mixer, and pretty damn cheap and easy to locate. As for the rest, you’ll be able to find a good simple syrup at any liquor store. The rest is just fresh limes. Try and find some nice and juicy ones.

What You’ll Need:

• Coupe or Nick and Nora glass
• Cocktail shaker
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger
• Pairing knife

Method:

• Prechill the glass in the freezer.
• Add the gin, lime juice, and simple to the cocktail shaker. Fill about 2/3 with ice. Shake vigorously for 15 to 20 seconds (until the shaker is ice-cold and frosted over).
• Strain into the prechilled glass.
• Express the oils from the lime peel over the glass and rub it around the rim and stem.
• Place a lime wheel on the rim of the cocktail. Serve.

Bottom Line:

If the dog days of winter are getting you down, this will remind you (instantly) that spring is almost here. It’s so bright and cheery it might as well be garnished with a daffodil.

The gin barely breaks through, with hints of juniper and anise as the lime and sugar really drive the taste. The sweetness is definitely there but not overpowering — as it can become with Rose’s Lime Cordial or when an amateur adds too much simple syrup.

Overall, this is a great shaker that’s super easy and fast to make. I made this one in about 30 seconds once I had my bar set up. Even if it takes you a whole minute to shake, it’s still worth it for the scurvy-fighting properties alone!

The Boston Celtics had their first game after the All-Star break on Thursday night and picked up where they left off, beating the brakes off of the shorthanded Nets in a 129-106 win to move to 10-1 in their last 11 games.

It was never a game that felt very much in doubt, as Boston jumped on Brooklyn early and maintained a comfortable double-digit lead for the entirety, meaning there was some opportunity to try some things out down the stretch if they wanted to. Early in the fourth quarter, holding a 23-point lead, the Celtics got a steal and Payton Pritchard launched the ball ahead to Jayson Tatum to start a fastbreak with Grant Williams running ahead of him with just one defender between them.

Williams called for the lob but Tatum looked him off, stepping around the defender for a dunk of his own to the dismay of his big man.

It was a funny moment, with Williams offering an audible “WOW” as Tatum went for his own dunk instead of tossing the lob, and after the game Tatum gave an even funnier answer as to why he looked Williams off on the play, saying that while he “loves Grant to death” that in a game he just “doesn’t feel comfortable throwing Grant Williams an alley-oop.”

It’s made even funnier by the fact that there really wasn’t any downside to throwing Williams the lob in this spot, given the Celtics were up 23 against a Nets team that very clearly had no chance at creating an offensive run to catch them, but Tatum still couldn’t bring himself to throw it up for his typically floorbound teammate. One day Grant will get his chance to shine on the break, but Tatum needs to see it in practice before he gives him that chance on a nationally televised game.

Snoop Dogg has three decades worth of experience in the music industry. It goes back to the 1990s with his time on the legendary Death Row record label and more recently to earlier this month where he, along with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Anderson .Paak, performed at the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. Snoop also has plenty of great memories that took place outside of the music world, and during an interview with DJ Whoo Kid tha was released today, he shared one that involved Queen Elizabeth II coming to his rescue.

“You got to embrace this sh*t because you used to be a young n****,” Snoop Dogg began. “N****s didn’t understand us when I was 17. Look at all of the footage of me when I was a young n****. They was trying to — they kicked me out the U.K.!” Snoop is referring to his first tour in the United Kingdom back in 1994. Press coverage from a number of tabloids in the country, including The Daily Star, called for his exile from the UK.

“‘Kick this evil bastard out’,” Snoop said one of the headlines read. “Look at me, it’s a headline n****. That sh*t is documented. They had a picture of me on the front, I had a handcuff on one of my hands — this a picture I took. I got a handcuff on one of my hands — and the other one was off. “He continued, “They was like, ‘Kick this evil bastard out.’” Snoop then explained how Queen Elizabeth II, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, came to his rescue and how Prince Harry and Prince William may have helped.

“But guess who came to my defense?” he said. “The Queen n****. The Queen said ‘This man has done nothing in our country he can come.’ The Queen n****, bow down. When The Queen speaks bow down.” He continued, “That’s Harry and William’s grandmother you dig. You think you think they weren’t there saying ‘Grandma please let him in grandma he’s OK, we love his music.’ ‘You know Harry, I’ll let him in for you he’s not so bad after all and he’s quite cute.’”

You can check out Snoop’s interview with DJ Whoo Kid in the video above.

The 2021-22 men’s college basketball season has been a nightmare for Patrick Ewing and the Georgetown Hoyas. After opening the campaign with a 6-4 record that was misleading in retrospect, the Hoyas lost 16 consecutive contests, including the first 15 games in Big East play. On Thursday, Georgetown had a prime opportunity to snap that losing skid with a winnable home game against DePaul and, late in the first half, the Hoyas were in a solid position. From a national standpoint, however, the attention quickly shifted from Georgetown’s status on the scoreboard to the free throw approach of big man Malcom Wilson.

Wilson was fouled with under a minute to go in the first half and Georgetown trailing by two. The seven-footer made both attempts, but that wasn’t the interesting part because Wilson attempted both shots in one-handed fashion.

This wasn’t the first time Wilson used this motion in game play, even if he came into the evening having attempted only 11 shots at the charity stripe this season. Still, this was a nationally televised contest and, as the announcers noted, this isn’t something you see every day in modern college basketball.

Exploring the backstory here could be quite interesting, as it seems as if Wilson may have been assigned a one-handed shooting drill to help with his form before electing to just keep using that motion. Regardless, this was a small reprieve for the struggling Hoyas and some positive press for a young player.