Rap is back. Rapsody, that is. The North Carolina rapper’s last album came out over four years ago, but she’s been teasing her return on social media for the past few weeks. Today, she officially kicked off her return with a new song, “Asteroids,” which is produced by Hit-Boy, coming fresh off his triumphant run with Nas. Over a mellow, spacey beat, Rapsody serves up a punchline-laden reminder of why she’s been so respected in hip-hop for so long, spitting that “oh my god sh*t to rearrange your molars.”
“The hardest step she ever took was to blindly trust in who she was.”
While her last album was 2019’s Eve, Rapsody has maintained a strong presence since, appearing on multiple other rappers’ projects, as well as the soundtrack to Halle Berry’s 2021 Netflix film Bruised. In 2022, she appeared on Robert Glasper’s album Black Radio III, joining him for a live TV performance of “In Tune” and “Black Superhero.” Her 2022 song “Dust To Diamonds” honored the 50th anniversary of Title IX with ESPN, while she honored the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year with DJ Premier, appearing on the producer’s commemorative Mass Appeal EP with Remy Ma for “Remy Rap.” Also this year, she teamed up with John Legend on his new album and fellow 9th Wonder protege Reuben Vincent on his.
Rapsody hasn’t yet revealed too many details of the upcoming album, only that it’s done. Stay tuned for more, and check out her “Asteroids” lyrics video above.
In just a few days on November 10, artists like Kim Petras, Jeff Tweedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more will be uniting to unveil the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Given that fans have been waiting to see if their favorites will get a nod in any of the major categories, they also might be wondering how to livestream the announcement.
Here’s what to know.
On that day, fans will be able to watch the Grammy nominees get revealed through a stream that will run on both YouTube and their official website here. The ceremony will start by announcing the general and then select categories.
According to Billboard, this year the awards show is limiting the number of nominees in categories like Album Of The Year and more down to just 8. (It used to be up to 10.) Rounding out the general awards are Song Of The Year; Record Of The Year; Best New Artist; and now, the added Producer Of The Year; Non-Classical; and Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical.
The Grammy nominations pre-show will start at 10:45 a.m. ET. At 11, the livestream event will then kick off and will run until 11:25 a.m. ET. For those who miss the stream, the nominees will be posted online immediately after it finishes.
Then, the 2024 Grammy Awards will be held on February 4, 2024, where the winners will be revealed.
In just a few days on November 10, artists like Kim Petras, Jeff Tweedy, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more will be uniting to unveil the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Given that fans have been waiting to see if their favorites will get a nod in any of the major categories, they also might be wondering how to livestream the announcement.
Here’s what to know.
On that day, fans will be able to watch the Grammy nominees get revealed through a stream that will run on both YouTube and their official website here. The ceremony will start by announcing the general and then select categories.
According to Billboard, this year the awards show is limiting the number of nominees in categories like Album Of The Year and more down to just 8. (It used to be up to 10.) Rounding out the general awards are Song Of The Year; Record Of The Year; Best New Artist; and now, the added Producer Of The Year; Non-Classical; and Songwriter Of The Year, Non-Classical.
The Grammy nominations pre-show will start at 10:45 a.m. ET. At 11, the livestream event will then kick off and will run until 11:25 a.m. ET. For those who miss the stream, the nominees will be posted online immediately after it finishes.
Then, the 2024 Grammy Awards will be held on February 4, 2024, where the winners will be revealed.
The porter beer style was first introduced in England in the early 1700s and is still popular today. Especially in the United States, where American brewers like Deschutes, Great Lakes, and others have been crafting award-winning, sweet, fruity, chocolate, and lightly floral hopped porters for decades. And no time is better for a rich porter than the first true cold snap of fall.
First a quick note…
When it comes to stouts and porters, it’s pretty easy to mistake one for the other. They’re very similar in appearance and overall flavor. The main thing that sets the two apart is the fact that stouts are usually brewed with unmalted barley and porters are made with malted barley. This results in a porter having a lighter, sweeter body than a stout along with roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee notes, sometimes followed by light hops.
It’s a great fall beer because — while it’s still robust and rich at times — it can be lighter and have less body than its winter-ready stout counterpart. Below, you’ll find eight great examples of American porters that are particularly great for this time of year. Did we rank them? You’d better believe it!
Brewed with 2-row, Munich, Chocolate, Carafa, and Crystal malts as well as CTZ and Cascade hops, Death Before Disco is a sweet, lightly bitter, fruity porter that’s perfect for a fall dance party or simply sipping while you hang out around an autumnal bonfire.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, vanilla, freshly brewed coffee, and a light fruity aroma greets you before your first sip. The palate is chocolate-centered with espresso, toasted coconut, and vanilla beans. The finish is a mixture of sweetness and pleasant bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This is a great example of an American porter for chocolate fans. Semisweet chocolate fans, in particular.
There are few American porters more well-known than Deschutes Black Butte. It’s brewed with Crystal, Carapils, and 2-row malts as well as wheat and Cascade, and Tettnang hops, giving it a roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and floral-hopped centered flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of fruit esters, dark chocolate, and roasted malts. Drinking it reveals notes of coffee beans, roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and lightly piney, bitter hops. The finish is dry and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
As American porters go, Deschutes Black Butte is lower on the sweetness scale and higher in bitterness than many others. Still… it’s tasty if you like some IBUs!
With a name like Death By Coconut, you should have a decent idea about what you’re in for when you crack open one of these bad boys. This American-made Irish-style porter is a mix of chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconut that will appeal to the porter fan with a sweet tooth.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy on milk chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconuts. The palate continues this trend with a ton of roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, and a wallop of toasted coconut. You’d better like coconut if you open one of these beers.
Bottom Line:
This beer is the equivalent of a Mounds Bar in beer form. Chocolate, toasted coconut — a candy fan’s dream beer.
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is named for the ship of the same name that sank in Lake Superior during a late fall storm in November of 1975. This complex, rich porter was brewed with 2-row base malt, Crystal 77, Chocolate malt, and roasted barley. It gets its hop presence from the use of Northern Brewer, Willamette, and Cascade hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of dark chocolate, freshly brewed coffee, roasted malts, and toffee start everything off on a great foot. Drinking it brings forth notes of espresso, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, caramel candy, and lightly floral hops. The finish is dry, mellow, and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This is a very complex American porter. Coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, it has everything a fan of the beer style could want.
A Möbius strip is a mathematical object that is sometimes used to describe the bending of time and space. We’re not precisely sure what that has to do with this beer from Equilibrium, but it’s hard to mind when the result is this tasty! This 7% ABV porter is known for its roasted malt, coffee, and creamy flavor profile. It’s great, even if drinking it won’t help you time travel.
Tasting Notes:
This beer begins with a nose of vanilla beans, roasted malts, dark chocolate, treacle, licorice candy, and floral hops. The palate is all toasted vanilla beans, butterscotch, bitter chocolate, black licorice, roasted malts, and floral hops. The finish is sweet, mellow, and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This beer is a great choice for porter fans who enjoy bitter dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and spicy hops. It’s a very well-rounded beer.
This isn’t your average porter — this annual release from Alaskan Brewing was one of the first smoked porters made in the US when it was first released in 1988. It gets its unique, smoky flavor from the use of five different malts, two types of hops, water, and yeast. The malts are smoked in small batches with locally sourced alder wood.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, dried fruits, caramel, and a ton of campfire smoke greet you before your first sip. Diving in, you’ll find hints of dark chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, and a healthy dose of smoke throughout. The finish is smoky and lightly bitter from the roasted malts.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for the smoke fans. It’s a warming, sweet, lightly bitter smoke bomb of a fall beer.
This 6.5% ABV milk stout is brewed with Ecuadorian and Haitian cocoa nibs, toasted coconut, and Ethiopian coffee. The result is an indulgent, creamy, sweet, lightly bitter porter you’ll want to have in your fridge whenever you can find it.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, freshly brewed coffee, and coconut sweetness are big on the nose. The palate is loaded with a mix of dark and milk chocolate, coffee beans, brown sugar, roasted malts, and a nice kick of toasted coconut that swirls throughout. It’s creamy, sweet, and borderline dessert-like.
Bottom Line:
Coconut and chocolate are real winning flavors when it comes to porters. Creature Comforts Koko Buni makes the best use of them.
Named for a beloved Rwandan Silverback Gorilla, this annual release from Maine Beer is brewed with Centennial and Columbus hops as well as American 2-Row, Caramel 40L, Chocolate, Munich 10L, and Caramel 80L malts as well as midnight wheat and flaked oats.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of dark chocolate, caramel candy, candied nuts, and coffee. Drinking it reveals notes of roasted malts, bitter chocolate, brewed coffee, caramel, sweet treacle, fruit esters, and lightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
You’ll have a hard time finding a porter as well-rounded as Maine King Titus. This beer has everything porter fans crave.
The porter beer style was first introduced in England in the early 1700s and is still popular today. Especially in the United States, where American brewers like Deschutes, Great Lakes, and others have been crafting award-winning, sweet, fruity, chocolate, and lightly floral hopped porters for decades. And no time is better for a rich porter than the first true cold snap of fall.
First a quick note…
When it comes to stouts and porters, it’s pretty easy to mistake one for the other. They’re very similar in appearance and overall flavor. The main thing that sets the two apart is the fact that stouts are usually brewed with unmalted barley and porters are made with malted barley. This results in a porter having a lighter, sweeter body than a stout along with roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee notes, sometimes followed by light hops.
It’s a great fall beer because — while it’s still robust and rich at times — it can be lighter and have less body than its winter-ready stout counterpart. Below, you’ll find eight great examples of American porters that are particularly great for this time of year. Did we rank them? You’d better believe it!
Brewed with 2-row, Munich, Chocolate, Carafa, and Crystal malts as well as CTZ and Cascade hops, Death Before Disco is a sweet, lightly bitter, fruity porter that’s perfect for a fall dance party or simply sipping while you hang out around an autumnal bonfire.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, vanilla, freshly brewed coffee, and a light fruity aroma greets you before your first sip. The palate is chocolate-centered with espresso, toasted coconut, and vanilla beans. The finish is a mixture of sweetness and pleasant bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This is a great example of an American porter for chocolate fans. Semisweet chocolate fans, in particular.
There are few American porters more well-known than Deschutes Black Butte. It’s brewed with Crystal, Carapils, and 2-row malts as well as wheat and Cascade, and Tettnang hops, giving it a roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and floral-hopped centered flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of fruit esters, dark chocolate, and roasted malts. Drinking it reveals notes of coffee beans, roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and lightly piney, bitter hops. The finish is dry and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
As American porters go, Deschutes Black Butte is lower on the sweetness scale and higher in bitterness than many others. Still… it’s tasty if you like some IBUs!
With a name like Death By Coconut, you should have a decent idea about what you’re in for when you crack open one of these bad boys. This American-made Irish-style porter is a mix of chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconut that will appeal to the porter fan with a sweet tooth.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy on milk chocolate, roasted malts, and toasted coconuts. The palate continues this trend with a ton of roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, and a wallop of toasted coconut. You’d better like coconut if you open one of these beers.
Bottom Line:
This beer is the equivalent of a Mounds Bar in beer form. Chocolate, toasted coconut — a candy fan’s dream beer.
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is named for the ship of the same name that sank in Lake Superior during a late fall storm in November of 1975. This complex, rich porter was brewed with 2-row base malt, Crystal 77, Chocolate malt, and roasted barley. It gets its hop presence from the use of Northern Brewer, Willamette, and Cascade hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of dark chocolate, freshly brewed coffee, roasted malts, and toffee start everything off on a great foot. Drinking it brings forth notes of espresso, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, caramel candy, and lightly floral hops. The finish is dry, mellow, and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This is a very complex American porter. Coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, it has everything a fan of the beer style could want.
A Möbius strip is a mathematical object that is sometimes used to describe the bending of time and space. We’re not precisely sure what that has to do with this beer from Equilibrium, but it’s hard to mind when the result is this tasty! This 7% ABV porter is known for its roasted malt, coffee, and creamy flavor profile. It’s great, even if drinking it won’t help you time travel.
Tasting Notes:
This beer begins with a nose of vanilla beans, roasted malts, dark chocolate, treacle, licorice candy, and floral hops. The palate is all toasted vanilla beans, butterscotch, bitter chocolate, black licorice, roasted malts, and floral hops. The finish is sweet, mellow, and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This beer is a great choice for porter fans who enjoy bitter dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and spicy hops. It’s a very well-rounded beer.
This isn’t your average porter — this annual release from Alaskan Brewing was one of the first smoked porters made in the US when it was first released in 1988. It gets its unique, smoky flavor from the use of five different malts, two types of hops, water, and yeast. The malts are smoked in small batches with locally sourced alder wood.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of roasted malts, dried fruits, caramel, and a ton of campfire smoke greet you before your first sip. Diving in, you’ll find hints of dark chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, and a healthy dose of smoke throughout. The finish is smoky and lightly bitter from the roasted malts.
Bottom Line:
This is a beer for the smoke fans. It’s a warming, sweet, lightly bitter smoke bomb of a fall beer.
This 6.5% ABV milk stout is brewed with Ecuadorian and Haitian cocoa nibs, toasted coconut, and Ethiopian coffee. The result is an indulgent, creamy, sweet, lightly bitter porter you’ll want to have in your fridge whenever you can find it.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, freshly brewed coffee, and coconut sweetness are big on the nose. The palate is loaded with a mix of dark and milk chocolate, coffee beans, brown sugar, roasted malts, and a nice kick of toasted coconut that swirls throughout. It’s creamy, sweet, and borderline dessert-like.
Bottom Line:
Coconut and chocolate are real winning flavors when it comes to porters. Creature Comforts Koko Buni makes the best use of them.
Named for a beloved Rwandan Silverback Gorilla, this annual release from Maine Beer is brewed with Centennial and Columbus hops as well as American 2-Row, Caramel 40L, Chocolate, Munich 10L, and Caramel 80L malts as well as midnight wheat and flaked oats.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of dark chocolate, caramel candy, candied nuts, and coffee. Drinking it reveals notes of roasted malts, bitter chocolate, brewed coffee, caramel, sweet treacle, fruit esters, and lightly bitter, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
You’ll have a hard time finding a porter as well-rounded as Maine King Titus. This beer has everything porter fans crave.
Diddy recently returned to his first love, music, with a new album titled, fittingly, The Love Album: Off The Grid. Unlike many of his past projects, though, it was less of a rap album than a survey of modern R&B, from throwback neo-soul sounds to the murky “PBR&B” style pioneered by The Weeknd a little over a decade ago.
But Diddy being Diddy, he couldn’t just put out an album or even go on a tour. He’s always got his hands in a lot of pies, and this time, it looks like he wants to extend his empire into movies. Today, the music mogul shared a trailer for Off The Grid: The Movie, a film inspired by his new album. The trailer, which features songs from the album, finds Diddy and go-star Eva Apio circling each other emotionally while struggling to keep each other at arms’ length.
From shooting flamethrowers in the desert to apparently running from and eventually kidnapping a police officer, Off The Grid appears to depict a Sid & Nancy-style relationship and all its self-destructive consequences. In a press release, Diddy said of his co-star: “This movie is an extension of the album’s soul. It’s not just about the music but about the stories, emotions, and experiences behind each song. Working with Eva Apio was an incredible experience; her talent and energy brought my vision to life.”
The trailer alleges the short film is coming soon to theaters. For now, though, you can check out the trailer above and listen to The Love Albumhere.
Diddy recently returned to his first love, music, with a new album titled, fittingly, The Love Album: Off The Grid. Unlike many of his past projects, though, it was less of a rap album than a survey of modern R&B, from throwback neo-soul sounds to the murky “PBR&B” style pioneered by The Weeknd a little over a decade ago.
But Diddy being Diddy, he couldn’t just put out an album or even go on a tour. He’s always got his hands in a lot of pies, and this time, it looks like he wants to extend his empire into movies. Today, the music mogul shared a trailer for Off The Grid: The Movie, a film inspired by his new album. The trailer, which features songs from the album, finds Diddy and go-star Eva Apio circling each other emotionally while struggling to keep each other at arms’ length.
From shooting flamethrowers in the desert to apparently running from and eventually kidnapping a police officer, Off The Grid appears to depict a Sid & Nancy-style relationship and all its self-destructive consequences. In a press release, Diddy said of his co-star: “This movie is an extension of the album’s soul. It’s not just about the music but about the stories, emotions, and experiences behind each song. Working with Eva Apio was an incredible experience; her talent and energy brought my vision to life.”
The trailer alleges the short film is coming soon to theaters. For now, though, you can check out the trailer above and listen to The Love Albumhere.
One thing Boygenius have proved (aside from the fact that Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker making music together is a good idea) is that they’re not scared to dress up: They did some Nirvana cosplay about a year ago and they went full Victorian for a Los Angeles Times feature earlier this year. Now, they (Dacus and Baker, anyway) have taken it to a new level.
Ahead of Halloween tomorrow, Dacus just shared a photo of her and Baker dressed, respectively, as Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, specifically imitating a recognizable photo of the two in which Grande licks a lollipop and looks admiringly at her then-flame. The primary takeaway, as seen both in the comments of Baker’s Instagram post and from fans on X (formerly Twitter), is that Baker looks so different from how she usually does that it took a lot of people a minute to figure out who the heck that person next to Dacus was.
One Insta commenter wrote, “it took me so long to realize that was julien.” Another said, “this has completely obliterated an entire dimension of my mind . why does juliana slay so hard.” Even Finneas couldn’t help but comment, “Holy sh*t.”
One thing Boygenius have proved (aside from the fact that Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker making music together is a good idea) is that they’re not scared to dress up: They did some Nirvana cosplay about a year ago and they went full Victorian for a Los Angeles Times feature earlier this year. Now, they (Dacus and Baker, anyway) have taken it to a new level.
Ahead of Halloween tomorrow, Dacus just shared a photo of her and Baker dressed, respectively, as Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, specifically imitating a recognizable photo of the two in which Grande licks a lollipop and looks admiringly at her then-flame. The primary takeaway, as seen both in the comments of Baker’s Instagram post and from fans on X (formerly Twitter), is that Baker looks so different from how she usually does that it took a lot of people a minute to figure out who the heck that person next to Dacus was.
One Insta commenter wrote, “it took me so long to realize that was julien.” Another said, “this has completely obliterated an entire dimension of my mind . why does juliana slay so hard.” Even Finneas couldn’t help but comment, “Holy sh*t.”
Following the tragic passing of beloved actor Matthew Perry, tributes have been pouring in for the iconic star who most famously played Chandler on the hit NBC sitcom Friends. However, the actor hoped to be known for more than his role as the sarcastic quipster who would defy odds by finding love and happiness with Courteney Cox’s Monica by the time the series reached the end of its 10 season run.
While the entirety of Friends is readily available for streaming on Max, and with a tribute to Perry now included with each episode, here’s where you can find more of the actor’s work beyond his time as a constant denizen of Central Perk.
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
In this 1998 movie, Perry stars alongside River Phoenix as two high school pals trying to figure out what to do with themselves after graduating. In his memoir, Perry spoke fondly of filming his first movie and becoming friends with the rising Phoenix.
“It was in Chicago, and on this movie, and with River Phoenix, that I fell deeply in love with acting — and the cherry on top of this deeply magical time was that River and I became firm friends,” Perry wrote via USA Today. “He and I drank beer and shot pool on North Rush Street.”
In this 1997 romantic comedy, Perry stars as a stuffy businessman who somehow scores a one night stand with Isabel, a lively Latina woman played by Salma Hayek. However, when Isabel discovers she’s pregnant, the two decide to throw caution to the wind and get married even though they barely know each other. Isabel’s extremely protective family doesn’t make things any easier.
In this oddball comedy, Perry plays Nicholas “Oz” Oseransky, a mild-mannered Chicago dentist who gets tangled up with the mob after hitman Jimmy “The Tulip” Tudeski (Bruce Willis) moves next door. Jimmy has a price on his head, and Oz needs money to save his debt-strapped practice after his business partner commits suicide. Realizing he can solve his money problems by revealing Jimmy’s location, Oz finds himself neck-deep in the murder-for-hire business and all of the double-crossing that entails.
Returning to the romantic genre, Perry plays Joe Tyler, a process server who finds himself on the run with Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley), the soon-to-be divorced wife of a wealthy Texas businessman (Bruce Campbell). Desperate to hold onto the money she’s amassed from her marriage, Sara ropes Joe into her plot as the two take off across the country and maybe find a little love along the way.
In this sequel to The Whole Nine Yards, Oz (Perry) and Jimmy (Bruce Wills) are now best buds who find themselves on the wrong side of the Hungarian gangster Gogolak (Kevin Pollak). With Oz’s wife held captive, he and Jimmy once again navigate the world of Mafia hitmen in this darkly comedic romp that shows a surprisingly softer, more sensitive side to Willis.
Perry returned to his old NBC stomping grounds with this Aaron Sorkin comedy/drama that also re-teamed the actor with his The Whole Nine Yards co-star Amanda Peet. The show centers on the production of Studio 60, a Saturday Night Live-esque sketch comedy show, that’s on the precipice of being canceled unless writer Matt Albie (Perry) and returning showrunner Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford) can turn things around. Think 30 Rock, but more drama than sitcom.
Perry makes his return to the sitcom world with this update of the classic TV series where he stars alongside Thomas Lennon as modern-day versions of Felix and Oscar. Like the original, the two have extremely different personalities that isn’t exactly conducive to being roommates.
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