Don’t be fooled by his age: 17-year-old rapper Luh Tyler is making a name for himself in Florida’s thriving rap scene. With two viral tracks, “Fat Racks” and “Law and Order,” to his name already, he’s off to a solid start in what could be a lengthy career. The teenage recording artist joins the likes of NLE Choppa, DDG, Yung Baby Tate, and 22Gz to drop by the Uproxx Studios for a Behind The Video breakdown.
Released late last year, the MontanaShotYa-directed video has already garnered 13 million views on YouTube. When asked by our very own Cherise Johnson if he used to watch the show in which the track is named after, he responds, “I did, but I wasn’t a big fan of it or anything,” confessing, “I just liked the beat,” used in the show’s opening credits. In the past, he did share a freestyle to the beat.
Throughout the video, several notable places in his hometown of Tallahassee, Florida, including Florida A&M University, also known as FAMU. Tyler revealed that several parts of the video were captured during the school’s homecoming, saying, “Everybody pops up in the city for homecoming,” a cultural tradition that his family has been taking him to for years.
Another cultural spot highlighted in the video is the restaurant Gutherie’s. When asked what first-time visitors should order, he recommended “a Gutherie’s box with chicken tender, fries, and Gutherie’s sauce.”
Watch Luh Tyler’s full Behind The Video breakdown for his track, “Law & Order.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Nothing hits quite like new snacks from the grocery store! Unless of course, said snacks aren’t good. Then you feel like you spent a good amount of money on something you never intend on eating. We don’t want that for you, so we’re actively trying all the new snacks we can find so that you don’t have to. Of course, that often means we have a bunch of snacks taking up valuable real estate in our pantries, refrigerator, and freezers but I’ve figured out a solution!
I simply offer the snacks I don’t like to guests and neighbors. See what a generous friend I am? Come bask in my largesse!
If you’ve been to my apartment in the last month, I’m sorry, but also, not really. Someone has to eat the bad snacks and it can’t just be me! Anyway, for our latest grocery roundup, we’ve got all sorts of desserts, snacks, and other new foods (or just new to us) that are worth the pickup the next time you go grocery shopping. Also, if you’re in the market mayo, ketchup,pasta sauce, hipster-ass flavor enhancers, or prepackaged ramen — we got you.
For this list, you’re going to find a lot of ice cream and I fully understand that we’re winding down a long and grueling winter, but hey, every day, no matter how cold, is a great day for ice cream. This time around we’ve also got a lot of plant-based snacks on the list. That’s not at all by design, I don’t have a dietary preference for snack-based foods, but even if you aren’t into plant-based foods give some of these a try — you might actually like them.
Marinara sauce, and really any Italian sauce, is so easy to make at home that it’s a wonder anyone buys the jarred stuff. Having said that, making sauce is a whole other step and takes up stove space so if you rather just bay the jarred stuff, we do (begrudgingly) get it. Our best advice for buying jarred marinara is to look for a brand that uses a few ingredients, all of them natural. Michael Angelo’s fits that bill. Nonna’s Secret Marinara is made with slow simmered vine-ripened tomatoes, onions, olive oil, salt, garlic, and basil, and that’s it.
No sugar. No laundry list of fillers, binders, stabilizers, and preservatives. Just the good stuff.
The sauce tastes bright, but not distracting, and is full of rich savory umami notes that elevate your dishes and excite the taste buds. The brand also makes a roasted garlic edition, a tomato basil edition, and a spicy variation. All four are tasty, but I’d say skip out on the roasted garlic and tomato basil jars and add those ingredients into the OG sauce if you have them.
Trader Joe’s Hearts of Palm might just be the answer. Made from the center of palm trees, this grain-free rice substitute matches the texture of rice perfectly, if I didn’t know this wasn’t rice, I would just assume it was. Very flavorless rice. Like, the most flavorless rice I’ve ever eaten.
That’s the main drawback of Riced Hearts of Palm (aside from its odd smell), is that it’s all texture, no flavor. But it’s not designed to be eaten completely plain. As I mentioned in the lede, I’m not on some sort of healthy eating path, so I cooked up a couple of eggs, and some bacon, threw some green onions and garlic into the leftover grease, removed them, tossed some broccoli, bell peppers, and carrots into my pan, and then threw the Hearts of Palm into the pan and tossed it all together with some soy sauce and fresh basil.
The results tasted just like fried rice!
The Bottom Line:
Smells weird but the texture is just like rice. The fact that it’s flavorless is not a weakness, but a strength — it lets you build upon it without flavoring your food in an off-putting way. Think of Riced Hearts of Palm as a canvas for flavor.
Häagen-Dazs knows ice cream, so when I found out the brand was launching a new line of pre-made ice cream cones, I knew this was going to be a significant step above what’s usually found in the freezer aisle. And I was right because the new Butter Cookie Cones are great!
The full line consists of chocolate, coffee, strawberry, and vanilla, but the best of the bunch is easily coffee. It features Häagen Dazs’ rich coffee-flavored ice cream smothered in espresso fudge with chunks of roasted almond on the top. There is a great balance between sweet and slightly bitter earthy flavors with a luxurious and creamy mouthfeel. Hands down, this is some of the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted on a frozen pre-made cone, but I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the cone.
It tastes good, don’t get me wrong, it’s sweeter than a traditional waffle cone, but the texture is a bit too soft. I’m missing the crunch of a lower-quality cone!
The Bottom Line:
A high-quality elevated frozen ice cream cone that provides the rich and luxurious ice cream you expect from Häagen-Dazs.
Trader Joe’s Meatless Ground is exactly what you imagine it to be, ground beef, without the beef. Instead of beef it’s made from pea protein and seasoned with a heavy blend of garlic and onion powder, salt, black pepper, and sugar. Flavor-wise, it tastes pretty good, it’s not quite as savory as real meat but it’s perfectly serviceable in some fried ground beef tacos (which is what I made) and the texture, although a bit harder to break down, is not so laborious to chew through that it becomes distracting.
I cooked mine with some diced potatoes in a cast iron pan (I had to start on the potatoes before putting the meat in) added a few more spices (a dash of cumin, chili powder) and the results were almost as delicious as my regular ground beef fried tacos. I had a few leftovers so the next day I tossed the rest in an omelet with some roasted bell peppers and melted cheese.
Sure neither dish was vegan, but both were delicious, and that’s coming from a carnivore!
The Bottom Line:
A good meat substitute that is serviceable in a variety of meat-based dishes.
I’ll be honest, at first the idea of vegan nut allergen-free granola bars didn’t appeal to me. I’m not vegan, I love honey, and I have no need for a nut-free granola bar. But it turns out, I don’t need any of those ingredients for a granola bar to be good!
MadeGood’s Chocolate Granola bars are amazing, instead of honey, the brand uses agave nectar and brown rice sugar, which doesn’t make the bar as sweet as something like a Quaker Chewy Bar, but still has a significant level of sweetness while tasting floral and intriguing enough to grab the palate. It also has the unbeatable combination that is chocolate and banana! The banana isn’t too strong or overpowering, instead, the flavor hovers over the aftertaste while most of the sweetness is handled by the combination of chocolate, agave syrup, and earthy oats.
The Bottom Line:
A nut-free vegan granola bar that doesn’t taste like it’s sacrificing any flavor.
Mooala Chocolate Bananamilk
Amazon
Price: $35.99 (Pack of Six)
I love chocolate milk, but I don’t drink it anymore because… I don’t drink milk. Not for any dietary or moral reason, there just isn’t any occasion in my life where I think “mmm milk sounds good right now.” I’ll use it in cooking, I’ll use it in coffee or black tea, but I’m not about to pour myself a glass with dinner like some sort of 1800s farmer or TV dad from the ‘50s (or sociopath, apparently). Chocolate milk before bed, that’s another story, and Mooala’s Chocolate Bananamilk tastes even better than the real stuff.
It’s thick and creamy, and the combination of banana and chocolate is inarguably delicious. Each serving delivers 526mg of potassium and is made with real bananas and cocoa. Be warned though, this doesn’t have nearly as much protein as milk, so if you’re thinking it’ll be a good protein source, it won’t be.
The Bottom Line:
This plant-based milk has the perfect tinge of fruit and a chocolate body that serves as a great before-bed snack.
Hershey is giving us something we never knew we needed! The Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cones give us that wonderful Reese’s flavor in a frozen ice cream snack. Each box of duos comes with two different variations. The chocolate version features chocolate ice cream drizzled with even more chocolate and infused with a peanut butter swirl in a chocolate-coated waffle cone. It’s rich and intensely chocolatey with just the right amount of peanut butter.
The alternate cone features peanut butter ice cream with the same chocolate drizzle in a chocolate-coated waffle cone. The result is a much more pronounced peanut butter flavor with a hint of chocolate.
Think of the difference between the two like a classic Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup and a Reese’s Ultimate Peanut Butter Lovers.
The Bottom Line:
It delivers what you’d expect! A Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup if a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was ice cream. The real draw is that you get two different alterations on a medley of peanut butter and chocolate flavors.
I’ve tried a lot of different mail-order steaks. It’s actually a very good way to buy steak, generally speaking, because the steaks are frozen after butchering and then not unfrozen until you are ready to eat them (they’re shipped on dry ice and come hard as hockey pucks). That means that the chain of being frozen is unbroken until the final user. Versus at the grocery store where they do the defrosting and the steaks might sit for a few days, etc.
With that said, I’ve seen some pretty bad mail-order steak brands. Brands with huge fat caps and little marbleization. For those who don’t know, a fat cap is created when a cow is binge-fed shortly before slaughter. It adds nothing to flavor and is typically discarded. Marbleization, on the other hand, is when a cow is fed evenly throughout its lifetime, thereby creating fat that is integrated and interspersed in the meat. These smaller fat ribbons and globules melt in the pan and add flavor and moistness.
Make sense? Good, now hear this: Of all the mail-order steaks I’ve eaten, Herd & Grace are the most well-marbleized. Not surprisingly, they also result in the tastiest end product.
The Bottom Line:
The best mail-order steak on my radar right now. With this product, you can compete with any steakhouse in America.
EDITOR’s PICK: Keep It Savory Salt Co — Shiitake Cremini Sea Salt/Vanilla Bean Sea Salt
I have avoided “infused salt” because, well… It’s just salt + an ingredient. I know how to do that. Salt + vanilla? Easy. Salt + rosemary or thyme? I can do those too. Still, I have heard good things about this brand and decided to try them. In my opinion, these flavors both live up to the hype. The vanilla salt has real vanilla beans (not just husks) and adds a wonderful sweet-savory note to pancakes and PB&J sandwiches (my preferred late-night snack). I sprinkle some on vanilla ice cream to make “salted vanilla” and also added a few pinches to a recent cake batter.
The mushroom salt feels like a full-on flavor enhancer and I’ve been adding it on top of steaks and into meat dishes to much acclaim. I add it to my bone broth as well.
The Bottom Line:
I get the idea of being pessimistic about flavor-infused salts because it seems like a DIY hack that anyone can do at home, but I’ve had tremendous success with both these and plan to buy them again.
Essence Fest will return to New Orleans this June, with a line-up honoring hip-hop on its 50th anniversary. Today (March 29), Billboard has reported that Megan Thee Stallion and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline the festival. This year’s Essence Festival will take place from June 29 to July 3.
According to the report, Hill will perform her debut album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, in full to commemorate the album on its 25th anniversary. Also set to perform are Wizkid, Monica, Coco Jones, and Kizz Daniel. Doug E. Fresh will curate a special performance, and DJ Spinderella, DJ Kid Capri, and DJ Clark Kent will perform DJ sets. More performers will be announced soon.
The festival will also coincide with the 30th anniversary of So So Def, which will be celebrated with a performance from the label’s founder Jermaine Dupri, as well as past signees.
“For nearly three decades, the ESSENCE Festival of Culture has been an international and joyful gathering that empowers community throughout the global Black diaspora,” said newly-appointed Vice President of ESSENCE Festival of Culture, Hakeem Holmes, to the magazine. “As the nation’s largest festival by per day attendance, it continues to be a crown jewel of Black culture and plays a pivotal role in the amplification and celebration of the contributions of the Black community through business, music, and more. As we gear up to celebrate the ’50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop’, we couldn’t think of a better way to honor the contributions that genre has made on global culture and the impressions that these artists and their deep musical catalogs, which we all know so well, have been ingrained into the fibers of our day to day lives. This year, we are excited to have everyone join us in celebrating 50 years of musical excellence, experiencing our diverse daytime and nighttime offerings, and in highlighting the importance of Black economic inclusion.”
The Republican representative from Georgia managed to trigger the already-lax community standards of Elon Musk’s billion-dollar garbage heap by repeatedly sharing a “Trans Day of Vengeance” graphic that’s as offensive as it sounds. Greene’s tweets came as a response to the mass shooting at a private elementary school in Nashville that ended with the deaths of three adults and three children. Police later identified the assailant as a transgender man whose preferred pronouns were he/him, something right-wing conservatives like Greene quickly latched onto.
Greene reportedly shared the graphic along with the message that read, “The people need to know about the threats they face from Antifa & trans-terrorism!!!” But, she wasn’t the sole target of the sensitivity sweep.
According to a post from Twitter’s Vice President of Product Ella Irwin, the company decided to “automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets /retweets of this poster. We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”
This isn’t the first time Greene has been banned from the platform but it does mark her first censure under Musk’s leadership.
Things have been slightly quiet on the Lauren Boebert front lately. Let me rephrase: Lauren Boebert has been typically vocal on Twitter (and she let the world know that she will soon be a grandma while praising teen pregnancy), but it’s run-of-the-mill stuff for her to talk about gun rights amid the ongoing rash of school shootings. Both fortunately and unfortunately, Boebert is now discussing something else: public urination. Naturally, this also brings to mind how Boebert’s husband was once arrested for exposing himself in a bowling alley, but here we are.
Boebert was very eager to cut into a discussion led by Rep. Becca Balint, who questioned why public urination should be of importance right now with so many other vital subjects at the forefront. Why this is of interest now (other than lingering discussions about D.C. criminal code retooling from last fall) remains a mystery, and Balint clearly wanted to cut the subject short, so she asked a witness for a final sentiment on the subject.
However, Boebert muscled in to assert that she had something to say instead: “I do!” Balint was not thrilled.
Balint: Rather than addressing a number of serious concerns our constituents have, they are choosing to waste our time talking about public urination. Do you have anything additional you want to say about public urination? Boebert: I do pic.twitter.com/c00sz7xSjY
As Raw Story further notes, Boebert also came in hard for a witness, who she appeared to accuse of decriminalizing public urination. She continued to ask the same question of “Mr. Allen,” who maintained that he had not done so, and in fact, “The revised criminal code that was passed by the council kept it as a criminal offense.”
It’s a bizarre interlude for sure, and one that will likely be remembered as ultra-absurd in a time when the nation is once again reeling from a mass-shooting at an elementary school. And Congress is up on Capitol Hill, spending valuable time discussing pee.
Rina Sawayama has announced her new Hold The Girl Tour: Reloaded. The new shows kick off in Massachusetts starting in June and include a number of festival appearances at Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Osheaga, and Life Is Beautiful.
For the standard concert shows, Sawayama will be joined by Magdalena Bay, Empress Of, and Tom Rasmussen at select shows across North America.
This serves as just another step in a busy past year for the pop star. Sawayama made her big screen movie debut with an acting role in John Wick 4, which is currently in theaters. She also dropped her sophomore album, Hold The Girl, last fall.
Pre-sale tickets opened up earlier this morning, and general tickets go on sale this Friday (March 31) at 10 a.m. local time. More information is available here.
Continue scrolling for a complete list of Rina Sawayama’s Hold The Girl Tour: Reloaded dates.
06/09 — North Adams, MA @ MASS MoCA
06/10 — Queens, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/16 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
08/04 — Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
08/06 — Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza Festival
08/09 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
09/22 — Salt Lake City, UT @ SLC Twilight
09/24 — Las Vegas, NV @ Life Is Beautiful Festival
09/26 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
09/28 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
10/06 — Bentonville, AR @ The Momentary
10/09 — New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
Before finding success with a string of TV hits that includes Spin City, Scrubs, Ted Lasso, and his latest creation, Shrinking, Bill Lawrence struggled like most Hollywood writers. Although, unlike most Hollywood writers, his learning process involved getting fired from three pretty huge sitcoms. In a new interview, Lawrence opened up about the early days of his career, and the valuable experience he gained from getting canned from Boy Meets World.
“I’m a big believer in mentorship, and one of the main things I tell young people now is, ‘If you get paid to write — even if it’s not your thing — if it generates an audience, it has massive worth,’” Lawrence explained. “If you can embrace doing what you have to do to then get what you want to do, things go very well out here — if you’re good enough.”
Unfortunately, Lawrence learned that lesson the hard way when he got a crack at the ABC sitcom.
But, man, if you live in this cynical, judgmental, snarky, “I’m working on this thing, but it’s a piece of shit” — that stuff will come back to haunt you. I was embarrassed about Boy Meets World and should not have been. A lot of people loved it.
I made it fairly clear that it was like, “Oh man, this is not my type of comedy,” and that was a monster mistake. And they were right to let me go.
Lawrence would also get fired from The Nanny and Friends for not being a good writing fit, but he put his best foot forward on both shows, which helped him get in the good graces of iconic TV creator Gary Goldberg. That relationship resulted in the creation of Spin City, and from there, Lawrence was off to the races. Now, he’s working with Harrison Ford on Shrinking, and it turns out Indiana Jones is a funny guy. Han Solo has chops, folks.
In typical Tyler The Creator fashion, the musician has a lot to get off of his chest, and his latest single, “Sorry Not Sorry,” is the perfect outlet. Although the “Dogtooth” rapper doesn’t have any children of his own (just yet), the creative liberties he’s taken in his music as birthed a movement currently inspiring others.
That limitless ideal shines bright in the self-directed visual for “Sorry Not Sorry,” the second track released off his forthcoming Call Me If You Get Lost deluxe album. In the retrospective video, Tyler lets his apologies fly, rapping, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I don’t see you more / I’m sorry that the four minutes where you see your son could feel like a chore / Sis’, I’m sorry I’m your kin / Sorry we ain’t close as we should’ve been / Sorry to my old friends / The stories we could’a wrote if our egos didn’t take the pen.”
However, the one thing he isn’t sorry for is allowing his music to change with him as he’s navigated through these emotional landmines. In the video, Tyler steps back into each of his old personas respective to each project he’s released, to paint just how much internal conflict he’s dealt with.
By the end of the visual, the musician makes it clear that although the track will be featured on the deluxe version of his Grammy Award-winning album, fans shouldn’t get comfortable with this sound. Tyler is planning to transition to another era of his art very soon as he is now yet another version of himself.
When discussing the deluxe album on Twitter, the recording artist wrote, “Call Me If You Get Lost was the first album I made with a lot of songs that didn’t make the final cut. Some of those songs I really love, and knew they would never see the light of day, so Ive decided to put a few of them out.”
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST WAS THE FIRST ALBUM I MADE WITH ALOT OF SONGS THAT DIDNT MAKE THE FINAL CUT. SOME OF THOSE SONGS I REALLY LOVE, AND KNEW THEY WOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY, SO IVE DECIDED TO PUT A FEW OF THEM OUT.
Ahead of their upcoming eighth studio album dropping this summer, Weathervanes, Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit have shared their new song, “Middle Of The Morning.” On the track, Isbell laments a feeling of being cooped up, over breezy guitar loops that musically encapsulate the hopes of letting light in.
“Well I’ve tried to open up my window and let the light come in / I step outside in the middle of the morning and in the evening again / Yes, I’ve tried to be grateful for my devils and call them by their names / but I’m tired and by the middle of the morning I need someone to blame,” Isbell sings on the song’s opening verse.
In a statement accompanying the release of “Middle Of The Morning,” Isbell revealed that he wrote the song during the height of the pandemic. On the song, Isbell plays the role of both the narrator and the character, describing the feeling of an essential part of oneself being out of reach.
“It was about trying to keep my mind from unraveling over the couple of years there,” Isbell said.
Listen to “Middle Of The Morning” above.
Weathervanes is out 6/9 via Southeastern Records. Find more information here.
Doja Cat — who recently had some surgical procedures done, including a breast reduction and liposuction — is now pushing back in her typical fashion against what any haters have to say.
“Stop encouraging your young and impressionable fans to change their bodies,” someone tweeted at Doja earlier this week. A mere minute later, Doja, not having any of it, responded with, “eat my long quiet and warm farts.”
Despite the internet discourse, Doja posted last week that she feels happy with the work she’s gotten. “wish i could suck my own titties thats how good they look rn god damn,” she shared on Twitter. She also answered fans with genuine questions, noting that she still has about three months to heal and that her thighs hurt from the liposuction.
wish i could suck my own titties thats how good they look rn god damn
Last year, she also faced some online hate about some of her makeup looks and her decision to shave her head. It was her Paris Fashion Week that made some headlines in October, after she covered herself in gold paint. If we know anything now, though, it’s that Doja loves to experiment with her creative looks.
“I wasn’t trying to look sexy or attractive,” she tweeted. “All of my makeup has a story and there are absolutely 0 rules and if there were you wouldn’t be the one making them.”
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