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Earlier today Doja Cat let her fans know on Twitter that she’d be dropping a new song called “Generous” later on, and now the song is up on Soundcloud. The downtempo song is less pop than some of the other songs that helped put Doja on the map in a big way this year, and is about being giving to a partner. Produced by tizhimself and Soraya LaPread, the song shows yet another side of the multi-faceted singer and rapper, who can do everything from pretty, uptempo pop to lowkey R&B and blitzed rap verses. She’s indulging in her sensual, R&B side on “Generous,” and no word yet on whether it’s a loosie one-off track or will be included on a forthcoming project.

Doja released her debut studio album, Amala in 2018 and followed it up last year with Hot Pink, the project that includes this year’s No. 1 hit “Say So,” but hasn’t shared much information about what is coming next for her. Instead, she’s promoting the pop-punk tinged track “Bottom Bitch,” another song off Hot Pink. With huge features like Nicki Minaj jumping on the “Say So” remix and appearances on Ariana Grande’s Positions album, it’s not like she needs to put out another full-length any time soon. But striking while the iron is hot never hurts, either. Listen to the sultry “Generous” below.

Alabama is known for having freaks of nature at every single position. Their players tend to be bigger, faster, and stronger than most everyone else — even when there are other teams that are really, really good, the Crimson Tide just have dudes whose physicality can take your breath away, regardless of which position they play.

An example of this was put on display on Saturday night in the SEC Championship Game against Florida. Alabama quarterback Mac Jones tried to force a ball in a really tight window on an early third down and got picked off by Gators defensive back Trey Dean. He had some room for a return, at which point he ran into John Metchie, a wide receiver for the Tide who apparently doubles as being Brian Dawkins every now and then.

Metchie hit Dean so hard that he lost the football and, I have to assume, got knocked into another dimension. The ball was recovered by DeVonta Smith, one of Metchie’s fellow receivers. And on the next play, this happened:

You would think by now opposing teams would learn that you should never, ever give Alabama a second chance to score, because they will, but in fairness to the Gators, they probably did not expect a receiver to hit like this.

Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, but long before that happened, he lost out on becoming the owner of the Buffalo Bills. Trump, in a past life, tried to acquire the team when they were up for sale, and while it is unclear if he actually wanted the team or was merely using their ownership search as a chance to generate some publicity, he ultimately came up short, with Terry Pegula putting in the bid that beat out Trump and a Toronto-based group led by Jon Bon Jovi.

In classic Trump fashion, he tweeted about the whole ordeal right after it happened. Most notably, he predicted that his losing out on the whole thing due to his reluctance to pay what he claimed was a “ridiculous price” would lead to the team never becoming a winner.

History ended up getting really weird in the years since that tweet. Trump, of course, went on to win the 2016 presidential election and spent a spell in office before losing to Biden in November. And on Saturday, this prediction made the rounds on Twitter once more, as the Bills thrashed the Denver Broncos, 48-19, to win the AFC East for the first time since 1995.

The win boosted the Bills to 11-3 on the season. As for Trump, he did not respond to any of this, instead using his evening to tweet that he won the 2020 election. (He did not.)

Jamal Murray may have been the biggest breakout star of the NBA’s Orlando Bubble. The former University of Kentucky standout seemed to find an extra gear in the postseason, going from one of the league’s most promising players to one of its best in a pair of series — first against the Utah Jazz, then against the Los Angeles Clippers — when the Denver Nuggets fell into a 3-1 hole.

For his efforts, Murray is adding a bit of silverware to his trophy case. On Saturday night, Murray won the Breakout of the Year presented by Emsculpt Neo at the 2020 Sports Illustrated Awards, beating out Cleveland Indians pitcher Shane Bieber, Washington Mystics standout Myisha Hines-Allen, and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, who battled against Murray in the first round of the 2020 playoffs. Following his win, Murray was interviewed by Richard Jefferson.

Murray had a spectacular season in 2019-20, putting up a career-best 18.5 points per game along with 4.8 assists and four rebounds a night. He took a gigantic leap in the postseason, though, dominating on the offensive end of the floor by averaging 26.5 points and 6.6 assists in 39.6 minutes per game, connecting on 50.5 percent of his shots from the field and 45.3 percent of his triples. He’ll look to build on this during the 2020-21 campaign, which starts for the Nuggets this week — the team tips its season off on Wednesday against the Sacramento Kings before a Christmas Day showdown with the Clippers.

As the former president has done for the last few years, Barack Obama returned with his annual favorite songs of 2020 list on Saturday. The past history of the list finds Barack accounting for his favorite records that were released throughout the year with the collection of songs coming from various genres and this year, things are pretty much the same. Obama shared the list with his followers and let them know that he got some help from his youngest daughter, Sasha, in putting it together.

“As usual, I had some valuable consultation from our family music guru, Sasha, to put this together,” he said.

Across the 30 songs, Barack made sure to include some of this year’s most popular tracks including Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage (Remix),” Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.’s “Franchise,” and “Levitating” by Dua Lipa and DaBaby. The former president picked Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture,” J. Cole’s “The Climb Back,” Internet Money, Gunna, Don Toliver, and NAV’s “Lemonade” and more as his selections from the hip-hop world. The R&B world saw HER’s “Damage” and Jhene Aiko’s “Summer 2020,” while names like J Hus and Wizkid from outside the country made the list.

Other additions to the playlist include Mac Miller, Waxahatchee, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Anderson .Paak, Spillage Village, Bad Bunny, and more.

Prior to this, Barack unveiled his list of favorite movies and TV shows from 2020.

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

There are some things in things in life that are just better together. You know, ice cream and cake. Netflix and chill. Bonnie and Clyde. Sports and beer. But then there are those splendors of the world that are mighty forces all on their own. Then — when paired with another individually great thing — they create a cataclysm of awesomeness.

We’re talking about pizza and wine, obviously.

Since its 19th-century introduction to the U.S., we’ve loved pizza as a standalone dish, whether it’s topped with pepperoni or sausage, veggies or herbs. But a cheesy, gluten heavy pie is going to leave you thirsty. And while a sudsy pint of brew will wash down your meal just fine, we’d argue that a glass of red or white wine, paired with the toppings of your choosing, creates and equally-delicious-while-slightly-more-refined tandem.

Pizza and wine isn’t a particularly complicated pairing to enjoy, either. With so many types of grapes grown across the globe, it’s easy enough to find a bottle of wine to highlight even the most outrageous pizza creations. Vegan cauliflower crusted ‘za and Nero D’Avola? Hell yeah, sign us up!

To help you save some time, we’ve compiled a list of nine wines under $35 that will elevate even the most basic of mid-week pizza nights. These wines are all accessible in retail shops across the country and available for online delivery in the linked prices below. So go ahead and order from your favorite chain or mom and pop — we’ve got the bottles to turn that meal into a full-on sensory experience.

Nicchia Lambrusco di Modena N/V DOC

ABV: 8.5%
Average Price: $12

The Wine:

First of all, there isn’t a pizza pie out that Lambrusco can’t make better. The sparking ruby red wine just has the right type of light fruity bubbles to make even the blandest slices of cardboard crust, sauce, and processed cheese taste like a delicacy. This blend of native Italian grapes including Salamino, Marani, and Grasparossa has a crispy texture and acidity to counter the fats of the cheesiest, meatiest pizzas down to the simplest slices.

Tasting Notes:

This is an effervescent medium-sweet wine that displays a ton of fruit on the palate like a basket of ripe strawberries, raspberries, and a splash of black currant. For all its fruitiness though, it cleans up nice with a slightly mineral and dry, quick finish.

Bottom Line:

Drink this wine slightly chilled with any type of pizza. It’s guaranteed to tingle your tastebuds whether you’re sipping it with a Papa John’s cheese slice or the fanciest pie from your favorite upscale pizzeria.

Lini 910 Labrusca Bianco N/V

ABV: 11%
Average Price: $16

The Wine:

Hailing from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, this is a white wine that’s drier than the napkin you’ll need to dab your grease-covered lips with after biting into a white pie. And yet, somehow, it displays a level of freshness that balances the decadent ricotta and olive oil topping on that classic pizza iteration.

Tasting Notes:

Because this is made completely of Salamino grapes, the smells of crisp pear and hard lemon candies from your grandmother’s purse spill out the bottle. On the palate, this wine is intense with stony acidity—probably a nod to the cement vats it’s aged in. It displays crisp expressions of citrus that last throughout its generous lingering finish.

Bottom Line:

You know those pizzas that are so amazingly decadent that it’s hard to breathe after wolfing down a slice? Well, this wine is the dry, frothy air to revive your lungs. Wash out your palate with this, and get ready for the next bite.

Trimbach Gewürztraminer 2016

ABV: 14%
Average Price: $25

The Wine:

The Alsace region of France is the largest producer of Gewürztraminer. The region grows a grape that tends to lead with a dry and sometimes floral freshness that can bring out the best of those sauceless flatbread pizzas smothered in soft tangy cheeses like Taleggio and Camembert.

Tasting Notes:

Get a whiff of the pear, white peach and lightly floral notes radiating from the bottle as soon as it’s uncorked. On the sip, the medium-bodied wine is dry and concentrated with notes of apple peels and lemon meringue. The texture lasts throughout the finish, which is crunchy with acidity and citrusy hints of clementine.

Bottom Line:

Do you like a pizza covered in prosciutto or speck, porcini mushrooms, and brie? This is a wine that will give all that salty goodness a refreshingly zesty uplift.

Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2019

ABV: 13%
Average Price: $13

The Wine:

Gamay—the grape this wine is made with—is typically light in body and high in acidity. That makes it the perfect partner for a wide range of foods like, say, a pepperoni pizza drizzled in hot honey oil and sprinkled with red pepper flakes. This one produced by Georges Duboeuf, who is heralded as the King of Beaujolais, is ripe and full of easy-drinking freshness.

Tasting Notes:

Aromas of strawberry are accentuated on the palate with notes of currant, raspberry and blueberry—literally alllll the berries. The quick finish gets a pleasant surprise from hints of smoke, but overall this wine is bursting with juicy berry fruit from start to finish.

Bottom Line:

This is the simple sipper you grab when you’re feeling too lazy to think too much about what to drink or eat. It’ll compliment any kind of pizza. And if you never actually get around to ordering that pie, well, this wine is good for crushing all on its own, too.

Opolo 2018 Mountain Zinfandel

ABV: 15.7%
Average Price: $25

The Wine:

Here’s a hearty wine from California’s Paso Robles to pair with your heartier pizzas. The body and structure of this weighted-wine can stand up to all your meat-loving, sausage and bacon-loaded pies.

Tasting Notes:

As if the aroma of chocolate-covered raisins wasn’t alluring enough, this deep red wine serenades the senses with rich and ripe dark fruit flavors like blackberries and purple plums spiced with white pepper, clove and nutmeg. Although it has a silky smooth texture on the first sip, the weight of its tannins — the natural polyphenol found in fruit skins and seeds —backload the long and lingering finish.

Bottom Line:

This is the dry and heavy wine to soak up all the fatty toppings on a traditional “American” pizza.

Field Recordings 2019 Freddo

ABV: 11.9%
Average Price: $25

The Wine:

If you need a wine to counter all the intense flavors of a classic pepperoni pie or a veggie pizza, this is the one. Another from Paso Robles, this Sangiovese has the bones to hold up to meats and the flexibility to support not-so meaty pizzas. It’s delightfully light but has some complexity that makes it a nice companion for food.

Tasting Notes:

This garnet crystal red wine smells of sweet cherry pie, but—surprise!—it’s drenched with sour cherries on the palate and splashes of cranberry. A little strawberry balances out the tart in the refreshing, barely noticeable finish.

Bottom Line:

This is a brainless pizza pairing that can support almost anything you throw at it. Sangiovese, at its core, is like that for many edible things. So pile on all the toppings you can imagine. This wine won’t back down.

Pro tip: Pop it in the fridge to give it a slight chill. When the label turns blue, it’s ready.

Ferreira Casa Ferreirinha Vinha Grande

ABV: 13 %
Average Price: $22

The Wine:

This blend of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, and Tinto Cão is produced by a family who’s made wine for as long as pizza has existed. The family behind the Portuguese label Casa Ferreirinha has been in the wine business since the 1700s and continues to succeed at creating quality, complex wines that can provide an elegant experience for whatever meal it’s paired with.

Tasting Notes:

This is an intense, dark crimson-colored wine with a lot of character. Floral notes like violet and lilacs lead the aroma while the palate is rich with red and black fruit like strawberry, raspberry and blackberries that are underscored by flavors of cocoa and spiced oak. It’s a voluminous wine with velvety tannins that intertwine with touches of slate and minerals that last throughout the finish.

Bottom Line:

Are you a pizza snob who believes it’s all about the sauce? Then this is the wine for you. Its rich and soft tannin profile is a nice balance for those red-sauce pizza pies, whether the sauce leaning on the acidic or sweet side. Extra bonus points for taking down a Chicago deep-dish pie with a bottle of this.

Feudo Montoni Nero D’Avola Lagnusa Sicilia DOC 2018

ABV: 13.5%
Average Price: $20

The Wine:

“Lagnusa” is a Sicilian term that means “lazy” and “produces small quantities,” but don’t let that definition fool you. In many instances, a vineyard that produces less equates to more quality wine. This organic ruby red sucker is exactly that: quality.

Tasting Notes:

Cinnamon and clove dominate the fragrance of this wine, but the juice is delectable with tastes of red plum, blackberry and all the sticks, seeds, leaves and dirt they grow with. Seriously, you get a sense of soil in every sip, but in an enjoyable, clean kind of way thanks to the slightest hint of menthol that gives the wine’s earthy underbite a spray of freshness. As for the finish, it’s refined and lingers with structure, compliments of it’s delicate tannins.

Bottom Line:

The earthy components of this Italian wine will bring out the best in every bite of your vegan or vegetarian pizza.

Masciarell Marina Cvetic ISKRA 2015

ABV: 14.5 %
Average Price: $33

The Wine:

There’s a reason why you’re likely to see bottles upon bottles of Montepulciano on the wine lists at fancy pizza joints: the wine has a relatively mild tannin profile and medium acidity, which pairs well with the most basic and bizarre pizza toppings. The tannins on this particular bottle lean on the firm side, which creates a more robust drinking experience.

Tasting Notes:

This wine features fragrances of cherry cola, spices, and herbs, but it’s pretty jammy on the palate—blackberry jam to be more specific—and it displays a subtle note of oak as well. Sturdy tannins give it an almost chewy mouthfeel that lasts throughout the long finish.

Bottom Line:

This is a good food pairing wine that will go with almost anything, but it’s definitely excellent with a plain old Margherita.

Some new Jordan merch is coming on the horizon, but you won’t be able to pick them up on the SNKRS app any time soon. That’s because the company is teaming up with Titan, a retailer from Manila, for a special line that will primarily be available for consumers outside of the United States.

According to a release, a pair of Jordans — the Air Jordan XXXV and the Air Jordan XXIII — will be designed in conjunction with Titan and will feature the company’s signature lightning bolt on them. Per the release:

The Air Jordan XXIII, a landmark silhouette for the Philippines after the 2008 Titanium release, features lightning-bolt-esque stitching on the upper. The Titan lightning bolt logo appears on the tongue and the sockliner. The Air Jordan XXXV brings a similar color scheme, rooted in a black heel counter and crossing into red webbing above the Eclipse Plate 2.0. The lighting bolt logo is subtly printed throughout the silhouette.

An image of the XXIIIs are at the top of the post, while the XXXVs are below:

For a full list of where you can find the kicks — which will most widely be available in China but will be released worldwide, including a pair of spots in Los Angeles — click here. The non-U.S. outposts will drop the kicks on Dec. 29, with the American locations making them available on Jan. 23.

Drake and Pusha T’s beef from the summer of 2018 was one of the biggest moments of that year. While most fans were all for the back and forth that ensued between the two rappers, others were disappointed to see things unfold the way that they did. One of those people was Pharrell. The celebrated producer recently stopped by N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s Drink Champs podcast and during their three-hour conversation, the Virginia producer revealed that he was not a fan.

“I hate to see what [Pusha] and Drake are going through, or what they went through,” Pharrell said around the 1:11:29 mark of the podcast. “I hated all of it. Every bit of it. It wasn’t good.” He then revealed that he was unaware of Pusha’s strategy for “The Story Of Adidon.” “He knows I would’ve stood in front of him as much as I could, but he’s a different kind of person, he’s a Taurus,” he said. “When you feel like a line is crossed and you take off the gloves, that’s where your brain is at.”

Pharrell added, “It still breaks my heart to this day, because I would’ve loved to have heard those guys on a song together or heard a joint project together. I would’ve loved to twist that,” he said. “By the way, Pusha says Drake’s got bars. When Drake makes something that’s amazing, we talk about it all the time.”

Pharrell was also asked if his relationship with Drake was affected by his close friendship with Pusha. He declined that anything has changed between him and the Toronto rapper, and he revealed that Drake has always had nothing but good things to say about the Virginia native, both in public and in private. “Neither one of them are into problems,” he answered. “They don’t like it and it’s unnecessary but they’re both people when they feel like they’re being pushed to the limit they gotta do what they gotta do.”

You can watch the full interview in the video above.

Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly have spent the last two years in a classic beef, and they haven’t exactly buried the hatchet. The latest jab comes from the Detroit legend, who fired off a pair of subliminal attacks on his new album Music To Be Murdered By — Side B (Deluxe Edition). The first can be heard on “Gnat,” inw hich Eminem raps, “They come at me with machine guns / Like trying to fight off a gnat.” The second one is on “Zeus,” with Eminem rapping, “Fair weather, wishy-washy / She thinks Machine washed me / Swear to God, man, her favorite rapper wish he’d crossed me.”

Machine Gun Kelly caught wind of the disses, and it’s safe to say he was far from impressed. In a tweet, he wrote, simply, “those subliminals,” followed by laughing and trash can emojis. Whether we receive a fuller response from MGK remains to be seen, but surely he’s aware of the consequences of engaging in another public battle with Eminem. He recently revealed that their beef hurt sales for his 2019 album, Hotel Diablo.

“It was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day,” he said. “What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed.”

You can hear “Zeus” and “Gnat” in the videos above.

Music To Be Murdered By — Side B (Deluxe Edition) is out now Shady/Interscope. Get it here.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the superstar of the nation’s pandemic response team. He’s the voice of reason, the one who knows how to stand up to Trump without inspiring his wrath (well, not always), the adult in the room. Speaking of which, he had a message for kids who are about to experience the weirdest and possibly worst Christmas since the pandemic of 1918: Don’t worry, Santa Claus is among the lucky few who’ve been vaccinated.

Dr.Fauci was on CNN fielding questions from the nation’s young children, who are worried about things like seeing relatives during the holidays and how much getting vaccinated will hurt. He was his usual laidback, charming, smiling, reassuring self, able to explain scary and complicated data in ways that were both clear and lacking in condescension. But he also knew the value of preserving their childhood, which is to say he wasn’t about to tell them that You Know Who isn’t, you know, real.

“I took care of that for you, because I was worried you’d all be upset,” he said to one kid’s question about St. Nick. “So a little while ago I took a trip up there to the North Pole. I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself. I measured his level of immunity, and he is good to go. He can come down the chimney, he can leave the presents, he can leave and you have nothing to worry about. Santa Claus is good to go.”

You can watch more of Dr. Fauci’s CNN appearance in the video below, and it’s worth noting that more kids will likely take his advice some actual adults — the ones who’ve thrown temper tantrums about putting a piece of cloth over the mouth and nose, leading to the nightmarish spike we’re living through each and every day. But hey, at least Santa’s doing fine!

(Via CNN)