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Chlöe introduced herself as a solo artist with “Have Mercy” in September 2021, but she’s merciless on Twitter. She tweeted a cheeky photo of herself alongside “you can have this for the night or for your life,” lyrics from hers and Latto’s October single “For The Night.” One user decided to try and insult her by tweeting, “You got the sex appeal of a PlayStation 2,” whatever that means, and Chlöe sat him right back down.

“Like you would have a chance,” the actress and musical powerhouse fired back, complete with an laugh-cry emoji.

As Uproxx’s August cover star, Chlöe explained how difficult it can be to lead a public life at such a young age and undeservingly become a target for increased scrutiny. “It’s a weird place to be in because as a human being it does hurt sometimes hearing certain things,” she said. “But at the same time, this is my job. So, it’s really up to me to create those boundaries in my mental state and be like, ‘Okay, this is what’s important to me,’ prioritizing that, and tuning out the rest of the noise.”

In the same vein, Chlöe recently told Variety that she wants to portray Storm in an X-Men adaptation because “she doesn’t take any sh*t.” It would appear she’s already in character.

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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. The last two months are traditionally quiet times in the world of sneakers, but this week is bucking that trend with a series of fire drops — mostly out of Nike. Save for Salehe Bembury’s latest Crocs collaboration, this entire list could’ve gone to Nike as the Swoosh brand doesn’t seem to be letting up and resting on its laurels. That’s great news for sneakerheads, bad news for our bank accounts. There are just too many great sneakers out there right now, and they’re all sure to put a dent in your savings, which is problematic as we slip into the holiday season.

So what should you do? Add these pairs to your Christmas wish list or bite the bullet and pick ’em up yourself? Considering they’re all guaranteed to sell out, our money is on the self-pickup. Looks like the family and friends are getting budget gifts this year!

Here are the eight best sneakers dropping this week and where to buy ’em.

Air Jordan 7 x Trophy Room True Red and Obsidian

Trophy Room’s Jordan collaborations always have an opulent quality to them and this week’s True Red and Obsidian Jordan 7 continues that trend. Featuring metallic gold accents, embroidered details, gold emblems at the heel, and a multi-colored heel-tab with a red leather upper and off-white panels, this Jordan 7 is meant to celebrate the ’92 Summer Olympics basketball team, specifically what is known as “the greatest game never seen.”

The game in question isn’t an Olympic match, but a practice scrimmage between Team USA that saw Jordan leading one half and Magic Johnson leading the other.

The Air Jordan 7 x Trophy Room True Red and Obsidian is set to drop on November 9th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT or Flight Club.

Women’s Air More Uptempo Dark Russet

The Uptempo has been getting a lot of love this year and we love to see it. While this sneaker is known for its loud and busy designs, there is something understated about the Dark Russet. It keeps things simple, just a white leather upper with big brown ‘Air’ lettering. It’s about as understated as this silhouette can be!

The sneaker is dropping as a women’s size exclusive but just for reference, if you’re looking to cop a pair but are cursed with big feet, subtract 1.5 from the size number to get the Men’s size (Women’s 12 is a men’s 10.5).

The Women’s Air More Uptempo Dark Russet is set to drop On November 9th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Penny 2 x Social Status Cobalt Pulse and White

2022 brought back a lot of retired silhouettes from almost all the big brands, but the best of that lot is definitely the Air Penny 2, which was returned to the public thanks to Charlotte retailer Social Status.

The Air Penny 2 features a premium leather upper in a mix of sail, white, and university blue with 3M reflective detailing across the sneaker’s signature wavy design.

The Nike Air Penny 2 x Social Status Cobalt Pulse and White is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Force 1 Gorge Green

What if the Nike Air Force 1 was an Adidas Stan Smith? That’s what you get with this week’s Gorge Green AF-1. The sneaker’s mix of green over crisp white leather recalls one of Adidas’ best and simplest silhouettes, but Nike elevates it a bit with an aged midsole, faded graphics, and off-white laces, giving the sneaker a sort of aged vintage look.

The Nike Air Force 1 Gorge Green is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

ACG Zoom Gaiadome GORE-TEX

As we slowly slip into winter you’re going to be seeing a lot of functional weather-appropriate sneakers and first up is the GORE-TEX equipped ACG Zoom Gaiadome. Featuring a full water-proof upper with Zoom Air cushioning, the Zoom Gaiadome sports a Trailframe underfoot and large lugs for added stability on tough terrain.

The ACG Zoom Gaiadome GORE-TEX is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $230. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Max 97 Silver Bullet

Despite this week’s roundup being jam-packed with dope sneakers, November and December are generally pretty quiet months for sneaker drops. At this time of the year most big brands don’t take any chances, choosing instead to release sneakers that are guaranteed to sell, like this week’s Silver Bullet Air Max 97.

This is probably the most beloved colorway of the ’97, it’s the BRED of the Air Max world. The sneaker features an airy mesh upper in metallic silver with crimson red accents. The ’97 was inspired by Japanese Bullet Trains and no colorway realizes that concept quite like the Silver Bullet.

The Nike Air Max 97 is set to drop on Men’s and Women’s sizes on November 11th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Women’s Air Jordan 11 Midnight Navy

The Midnight Navy Air Jordan 11 is hands down the best-looking sneaker to drop this week. Featuring a monochromatic navy blue upper, this sneaker sports velvet detailing, metallic silver accents, and an emblem Jumpman logo.

The sneaker is dropping in women’s exclusive sizing, so if you have big feet, looks like you’ve got another L.

The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 11 Midnight Navy is set to drop on November 11th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like Flight Club.

Salehe Bembury x Crocs Pollex Clog Sasquatch

Salehe Bembury’s Crocs collaboration is probably the strangest sneaker collaboration of the last two years, but it’s clearly proving to be incredibly popular as well considering Bembury keeps dropping brand-new colorways every few months. This week brings the stealthy all-black makeup, dubbed ‘Sasquatch,’ which gives the swirling finger-print inspired design a sort of militaristic edge.

It’ll be interesting to see whether or not the Pollex Clog gets even more popular now that most sneakerheads wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of Yeezy Foam RNNRS.

The Salehe Bembury x Crocs Pollex Clog Sasquatch is set to drop on November 10th for a retail price of $85. Pick up a pair via Spunge.

When last we saw the Curb Your Enthusiasm version of Larry David, he had somehow gotten into some farcical mess involving Trump-Ukraine scandal hero Alexander Vindman, as himself. It won’t be the last time we see him, nor will it take as long as it sometimes does for David to bang out another season. But when is Curb coming back?

The answer is not yet known. What is known is that Season 12 of the show, which began with the special all the way back in 1999, just kicked off filming, as per longtime supporting player J.B. Smoove, who plays Larry’s roommate Leon. Smoove shared a minute-long video on his Instagram feed featuring David, Jeff Garlin (now freed of The Goldbergs), Susie Essman, and others chilling on set.

“We’re all back on the set doing our f*cking thing,” Smoove said. After he tries to shill for his stand-up tour, he then gets heckled by David, prompted the two to hurl insults back and forth, all while Smoove continues to promote his non-Curb activities instead of the show.

There was actually reason to worry that there would be no more Curb after its eleventh season. Over the summer, showrunner Jeff Schaffer revealed that they came awfully close to killing off David’s alter ego. They even shot that ending.

“So Larry kept falling into that pool without the fence and banging his head [for the scene],” Schaffer said. “We actually have a shot after he’d fallen in, of the still pool with just the envelope floating in the middle, and maybe adding one bubble. . . We shot as if it was going to be the last one ever. I had to at least prepare for it.”

Whenever Curb returns, it will have to be as entertaining as the real-life Larry David, who’s not above screaming in public at Trump defender Alan Dershowitz.

Sega Bodega likes November. The genre-blurring UK artist released his well-received album Romeo last November, leading to a run of European and US tour dates earlier this year. And today (November 9), the producer dropped his first solo release since that album with “Kepko,” a high-octane electronic single arriving via his NUXXE label.

Directed by Sega Bodega and Lydia Ourahmane, the trippy video boasts cameos from the likes of Caroline Polachek, Uffie, and Virgen Maria. (Sega co-produced Polachek’s new single “Sunset.”) The tone is set immediately by a warning that the visual “may potentially trigger seizures” because of its glitchy and strobing nature. “Lydia’s camera is haunted,” Sega explained in a statement. “Everything we filmed went back into the laptop all destroyed and glitching like this — a gift.”

As the hyper beat mounts, we follow Sega on an adventurous night out — from a pulsating club to an abandoned playground.

“My new song is out everywhereeeeeee,” Sega wrote on Instagram. “This was sort of my only focus this summer and it really feels like how my summer felt. No idea how I’m gonna perform this one either but we’ll see how soon at these last romeo [sic] shows.”

Sega is scheduled to wrap up his Romeo era with three Romeo: The Final Act dates: November 22 in London, November 28 in Berlin, and December 4 in New York City. Learn more here.

Watch the “Kepko” video above.

Earlier this year, Hatchie unleashed a stunning album called Giving The World Away. She’s currently on a tour with Alex G, and now she’s back with an energetic new earworm called “Nosedive.”

“I wrote ‘Nosedive’ with Joe [Agius] and Jorge [Elbrecht] last year after we hit up an amazing goth megaclub in Denver on a weeknight,” Hatchie said of the song. “We were inspired to recreate the energy we felt there and experiment with a lyric-free chorus. There aren’t any other songs in our live show that are this punchy, so we wanted to write something angry and powerful. It’s about realizing you don’t have control over your life despite your best efforts; I wanted the lyrics to sound like the devil on your shoulder convincing you to self sabotage.”

The trippy track is packed with sputtering, hallucinogenic sounds and her voice comes in like a guiding force for the listener. To go along with the music is a colorful, chaotic music video to heighten the sensory overload. The lyrics fit perfectly in the mayhem: “Wasted youth is a tragedy when you’re in the driver’s seat / Pray for someone to take control while you ignore your basic needs,” she sings.

Listen to “Nosedive” above.

Every so often there’s a beer and bourbon collaboration that cuts through all the static of the endless cycle of beer releases. Sierra Nevada’s brand-new Bourbon Barrel-Aged Bigfoot Barleywine-Style Ale is a partnership with the bourbon world’s most beloved distillery, Buffalo Trace, and made a sizeable impact when it dropped last month.

The bottle of ale masterfully blends the world of Northern California craft brewing with the biggest name in Kentucky bourbon. And — spoiler — it’s really goddamn good.

The thrust of beers like these is in aging. Sierra Nevada’s already very popular Bigfoot Barleywine-Style Ale is renowned and collected because you can cellar it for years. It’s a great aging beer — I always like getting a six-pack and drinking one per year to get a sense of how the brew changes over time. For this drop, Sierra Nevada and Buffalo Trace basically teamed up to dial in that aging process for you. They landed on “up to” seven years of rest inside used Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. bourbon barrels.

Let’s see how well they did aging this year’s limited edition Bigfoot Ale. I’m also going to pair this beer with the whiskey from the barrels it was aged with to give a deeper understanding of what’s going on flavor-wise with these products.

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Sierra Nevada Bourbon Barrel-Aged Bigfoot Barleywine-Style Ale Aged 7 Years

ABV: 15%

Average Price: $29

The Beer:

Bigfoot Ale is made with Caramelized and Two-row Pale malts. That base mash is hopped with Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops. The result is a dark and dank beer with a massive IBU (90!) and enough complexity to age for years someplace dark. In this case, that dark and hoppy brew was filled into old Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch bourbon barrels and left to rest in California for up to seven years. Finally, those barrels were batched and bottled at a hearty 15% ABV.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a rush of burnt espresso beans and dark and waxy cacao powder on the nose with a hint of singed bitterness next to dark fudge brownies that feel like their dripping with more melty dark chocolate, brown butter, and tart red berries with a slight sense of blackstrap molasses and the darkest caramel you’ve ever seen. The palate leans more toward that brownie vibe with a sweet sense of vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and rum-raisin. The body of the beer is lightly effervescent next to sweet oakiness and a supple sense of marzipan with a whisper of orange oils lurking deep in the background. The end is more akin to a chocolate cream pie with a dusting of dried tart cherries, vanilla, and nutmeg.

The Whiskey:

Buffalo Trace’s Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Small Batch is an entry point to the other 12 expressions released under the E.H. Taylor, Jr. label. The whiskey is a blend of barrels that meet the exact right flavor profiles Buffalo Trace’s blenders are looking for in a classic bottled-in-bond bourbon for Taylor.

Tasting Notes:

The nose opens with a lush and creamy grit vibe with spicy cinnamon and clove next to pecans, maple syrup, singed cherry bark, and old lawn furniture with dead leaves strewn about. The taste hits on a buttery toffee vibe with a dark and old leatheriness next to dark chocolate tobacco, dried ancho chili peppers, and more of that sharp woody cinnamon with a whisper of salted black licorice lurking in the background. The end has a sense of salted caramel and cinnamon candy next to malted vanilla ice cream, huckleberry pie, and dark cherry tobacco rolled into an old leather pouch.

The Beer and Bourbon Together:

The beer has a deep sweetness tied to dark and slightly bitter espresso and dark chocolate that’s greatly tempered by the sip of bourbon, creating an almost mocha latte cut with orange oils and a tart cherry vibe on the initial taste. The nose of the beer changes slightly toward tart cherry and pecan waffles with maple syrup and chocolate chips with a hint of eggnog popping up. Back on the taste, a sour sense of cherries vibe with deep and dark winter spices — clove, star anise, cardamom, and nutmeg — with a sense of dark chocolate cake with a light vanilla frosting bespeckled with crushed almonds or walnuts.

Overall, there’s a bit more fruitiness to the beer when paired directly with the whiskey. There’s also a lighter sense of the bitter chocolate that drives the whole taste away from a gooey brownie toward a Black Forest cake.

Bottom Line:

Yeah, this is an excellent beer that truly takes you on a journey. Pairing the beer with the whiskey only lengthens that journey and takes the whole sip to new heights.

I would recommend priming your palate with the whiskey first and then sipping the beer to get the full Black Forest cake vibe. Or not, drink your beer however you want to drink it. Still, this is a great pairing and a great example of how smells and flavors can build and accentuate each other to create a greater whole.

The Houston Astros held their championship parade on Monday after taking down the Philadelphia Phillies in 6 games in the World Series to win their second title in the last six years.

Among the participants in the parade was Ted Cruz, noted Houston native, despicable human being, and U.S. Senator, who got booed resoundingly by Astros fans (weeks after getting booed and heckled by Yankees fans in New York while watching the Astros in the ALCS). Not only was he booed, but at one point a fan chucked a beer at him, which led to charges being brought against the man for assault with a deadly weapon (which is a not normally something I’d classify a beer can as).

On Wednesday, the attorneys for the fan who threw the beer, whose name is Joey Arcidiacono, released a statement (confirmed to be the real thing by the Houston Chronicle) insisting that this was not an act of political violence but instead just a man giving out beers for folks in the parade to chug.

The statement even cites a text sent prior to the parade in which he details his plans to hopefully get a player to chug one of his beers, as that has become a regular element of championship parades in recent years, with players Stone Colding beers tossed to their buses by fans. Unfortunately for Arcidiacono, if you take him at his word, his act of kindness and goodwill was taken as an attack on a sitting U.S. Senator and he now faces some legal trouble for simply being a nice guy who wants everyone to partake in the fun.

I will say if the goal was to get Cruz to chug the beer, it certainly came in a little hot for that, which hurts his case here. You’d normally see a beer can lobbed in rather than giving him a heater, but maybe in all the excitement he was just trying to put a beer on target and Ted just couldn’t see the generous nature because, well, he’s never been generous in his life.

There’s a decent chance that when you hear the phrase “barrel-aged beer” your mind tends to immediately conjure images of bourbon or other whiskey barrels and dark beers like stouts and porters. And while you’re not wrong to think that, there’s a lot more to barrel-aged beer than simply bourbon-flavored bangers. While the fall is definitely a time for the aforementioned whisky barrel-aged beers, brewers are also experimenting with tequila, wine, and other barrels as well.

There are so many barrel-aged beers on the market, it’s tough to pick just one.

“Now, that’s tricky,” says Enrique Vittorino, brand manager at Wynwood Brewing Co. in Miami. “It’s like asking ‘what’s your favorite band?’ which is an impossible question to respond to, at least for me. Sometimes you want Rush, other times High On Fire. Don’t forget about Casiopea. What about early Genesis?”

The same goes for barrel-aged beers. Picking just one is a tough ask. Still, we decided to try. We got twelve brewers and craft beer experts (including Vittorino) to tell us their favorite barrel-aged beers to drink this fall. Keep scrolling to see them all.

Bottle Logic Fundamental Observation

Ryan Joy, lead brewer at Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego

ABV: 13%

Average Price: $26.99 for a 500ml bottle

Why This Beer?

Fundamental Observation BA Imperial Vanilla Stout from Bottle Logic. While I tend to enjoy non-adjunct BA stouts more, this one expertly blends the traditional barrel character (oak, char, bourbon sweetness) I love and the florally, perceived sweetness that comes from the vanilla beans.

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout

Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing in Rochester, New York

ABV: 14.4%

Average Price: $13.99 for a 16.9-ounce bottle

Why This Beer?

I do enjoy Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. I particularly enjoy the different variants each year. It has a great chocolate and oak flavor from the beer and the barrel. It was the first and it’s still one of (if not the) best.

Weldwerks Starry Noche

Zach Fowle, advanced Cicerone and head of marketing for Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. in Phoenix

ABV: 15.6%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Starry Noche, the annual pastrified version of Weldwerks Medianoche barrel-aged stout. I first tried it a year ago, and the flavor was so rich and intense that I think it might still be stuck somewhere in my soft palate. Composed of multiple vintages of Medianoche that are then conditioned with toasted coconut and hazelnut, it’s a beer so thick you almost have to drink it with a spoon. The flavor’s akin to a bourbon hazelnut chocolate graham cracker mocha milkshake.

It’s decadent AF, but worth every tasty calorie.

Cucapá Tequila Barrel Aged Ale

Arantxa Garcia Barroso, brewing manager at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Chicago

ABV: 10%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Cucapá Tequila Barrel Aged Ale. You get the best of both worlds: beer and tequila. This beer gives you agave notes, along with the characteristic vanilla and oak aroma present in an aged tequila with a fantastic finish of malt profile and great mouthfeel on the aftertaste.

3 Sheeps The Wolf

Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin

ABV: 13.5%

Average Price: $16.99 for a four-pack

Why This Beer?

The Wolf by 3 Sheeps Brewing is my barrel-aged beer of choice. It balances the warm wood tannins of the bourbon barrel with notes of sweet caramel and dark chocolate. The drinkability is dangerous with this one, too. This is one of those BA stouts you want in a larger format, but not quite because you want to share it.

Real Ale El Guapo

Amy Cartwright, co-founder of Independence Brewing in Austin, Texas

ABV: 6.3%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

While I do not drink barrel-aged beers all that often, I liked Real Ale’s El Guapo, a Gose aged in tequila barrels. I love margaritas and this beer had great hints of smoky tequila with hints of salt. It’s the kind of beer that reminds you there’s more than just bourbon barrel-aged beers out there.

Hill Farmstead Art

Daniel Gadala-Maria, brewer at Finback Brewing in Glendale, New York

ABV: 6%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Art by Hill Farmstead, hands down. This is the wine barrel fermented and aged version of Arthur. Consistently available, reasonably priced, and genre-defining quality. It nails the balance of present but not aggressive acidity, and approachable complexity, and does not lose the malt flavor amongst everything else.

The Bruery Roble Blanco

Aaron Halecky, brewmaster at Great Basin Taps & Tanks in Reno, Nevada

ABV: 15%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Roble Blanco from The Bruery. Modeled after a margarita, which is one of my favorite beverages outside of beer, and I really do appreciate tequila. The complexity of the sour base beer coupled with the use of lime zest gives a different dimension of tartness for the salt to balance out in comparison to just the standard lime juice used in a margarita.

Similar, yet very different.

Oskar Blues BA22 Vol. 8

Enrique Vittorino, brand manager at Wynwood Brewing Co. in Miami

ABV: 12.5%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Back to the task at hand, I recently had Oskar Blues BA22 volume eight, and it was just perfect. A rich, roasty, and balanced beer. This imperial stout gets its bold flavor from being barrel-aged in two different barrels before being blended together. It gets sweetness from port barrels and peppery spice from rye whiskey barrels.

Allagash Interlude

Rob Day, vice president of marketing at Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts

ABV: 10.6%

Average Price: $21.99 for 750ml bottle

Why This Beer?

Hands down Allagash Interlude. The flavors dance between great wine and great beer which is why I like the liquid, but the reason it’s my favorite is because it was the first real beer that got my now wife interested in beer.

Brooklyn Black Ops

Ian Brown, head brewer at Biggerstaff Brewing in Atlanta

ABV: 12.4%

Average Price: $24 for a 740ml bottle

Why This Beer?

I don’t drink a ton of barrel-aged stuff, but I remember always loving Brooklyn’s Black Ops. Just an amazing imperial stout that wasn’t cloyingly sweet and overbearing. Boozy but drinkable. This 12.4% ABV imperial stout is barrel-aged in Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon casks.

Side Project Rye Beer: Barrel: Time

Ryan Pachmayer, head brewer at Yak & Yeti Brewpub and Restaurant in Arvada, Colorado

ABV: 15%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Whatever Cory King is blending over at Side Project, particularly the Beer, Barrel, and Time beers when they are released. Collectors/traders sit on those, but in my experience, they’re best within a year, maybe two tops of release. The amount of flavor and the huge mouthfeel in these are impressive, without coming across as a syrupy mess, which can definitely happen when you’re talking about finishing gravities that would be considered fairly high starting gravities on a normal tap list.

A great pick is the recently released Side Project Rye Beer: Barrel: Time 2022 Blend. This rye whiskey barrel-aged imperial stout is known for its sweet chocolate, vanilla, and spicy rye flavors.

This year, Alex G unveiled a mesmerizing score for We’re All Going To The World’s Greatest Fair and then put out possibly the best album of his entire career, God Save The Animals. He brought a track to late-night television and has been on a tour full of sold-out dates. He’s back today with a new cover of Michelle Branch’s “All You Wanted.”

His rendition, which was done live in a SiriusXMU Session, is haunting and beautiful. It sounds like his own song as his voice quivers against deep, eerie chords. It ends with him repeating the fragile line, “All you wanted was somebody who cares.”

Branch made headlines in September when news broke that she was arrested for hitting her husband and Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney after he allegedly cheating on her. This was followed by a series of even more chaotic events: Branch filed for divorce, the domestic assault case against Branch was dismissed, and then she revealed in an interview that they were putting their divorce on hold in an attempt to save their marriage. Though this was stressful, many took it as an excuse to return to her music, which reckons with the complexity of love; maybe Alex Giannascoli can say the same.

Listen to the cover above.

In October, Drake announced he would make his Apollo Theater debut in Harlem on November 11. The intimate concert is in partnership with SiriusXM, home to Drake’s Table For One show and Sound 42 station. SiriusXM hinted that tickets could only be won by listening to Sound 42 and entering a contest. Those 1,500 lucky fans will now have to wait a little longer to witness history because Drake needs time to grieve an unimaginable loss.

“The Apollo show has been moved to allow us to pay respect to our dear friend this weekend. We have added a second date for the fans,” Drake shared yesterday (November 8) on his Instagram story, as captured by Rolling Stone. He was referencing Takeoff, the 28-year-old Migos rapper who tragically passed on November 1 after being fatally shot in Houston. Takeoff’s funeral is scheduled for Friday, November 11, at State Farm Arena in his native Atlanta. A suspect has yet to be identified in the shooting that killed Takeoff and injured two others.

Drake’s new Apollo dates are December 6 and 7.

Around the release of his and 21 Savage’s collaborative album Her Loss last week, Drake took a moment to honor Takeoff on Table For One.

“Before I get into the pleasantries, I’d just like to send our deepest condolences from the family to the entire QC, to our brother Quavo, to our brother Offset, to the friends and loved ones of the legendary, unprecedented Takeoff, a guy that I knew for a long, long time,” Drake said. “I’m sure people know how we started, of course, with ‘Versace,’ and from there, you know, we formed a brotherhood. I always talk about the fact that this was one family. My friends in the music industry are not friends; they’re family. So, our deepest condolences. Tragic loss for all of us and, you know, a dark cloud over this business that we love so much. I just encourage everybody to lock into that mindset, no matter where you are, you know? It’s just really… you know, it’s a life that’s worth living, and everybody deserves that chance, so it’s unfortunate that one of our dear, dear brothers had to leave us this week. And it’s tough to even talk about.”

Drake first publicly addressed Takeoff’s death on Instagram. See that tribute below.