Diddy continues to fuel dating rumors with Yung Miami, tasking her as his video vixen for his “Diddy Freestyle” video.
While the pair has played around with the idea, there has been no official announcement about the status of their relationship. Still, it seems they have been enjoying each other’s company. In the video, Diddy and Yung Miami cruise through the streets of New York City in style, dripping with luxury as they sport custom fur jackets from none other than Daniel’s Leather.
“I tell ’em watch close, N***a jot notes / If you use my approach, you could dock votes, yeah / You could get exposed to all that, girl you know I’m hard to get a hold of, contact,” he raps. “Probably overseas with business owners and all that / Flights to Minnesota with dinner over a contract.”
Throughout the Mike Oberlies-directed video, Diddy shows off his expensive taste in cars, first riding around in a Maybach Landaulet, with Yung Miami playing passenger princess. Then later, Diddy is seen posing in front of a vintage Mercedes Benz coupe, complete with gull-wing doors.
Further in the freestyle visual, Christian and Justin Combs make cameos alongside their famous pop while “Harlem shaking” through the streets.
There’s a 23-year-old out of Charlotte, North Carolina bringing Black joy and vulnerability to rap and UPROXX Sessions. Meet MAVI, the rapper who first hit the circuit back in 2014 as part of the North Carolina music collective KILLSWITCH. His 2019 debut studio album Let The Sun Talk, propelled him into the mainstream, along with his working relationship with Earl Sweatshirt on the EP Feet of Clay. Fast forward two years, he’s taken over 2022 with the release of his 2nd studio album Laughing So Hard, It Hurts, which received rave reviews from critics.
Today, the rapper and Howard University student pulls up to the bathroom studio to perform his Jay Versace-produced single “Sorry.” The track flexes MAVI’s prolific lyricism and love for storytelling with lyrics like: “I’m sorry it had to be me / I’m sorry but you havе to be free / Push this shotgun in your back the last thing I want is to squeeze.” Decked out in a hoodie and cargo pants, MAVI keeps things casual, but the rapper’s approach to his Sessions performance is far from relaxed.
Watch MAVI perform “Sorry” for UPROXX Sessions above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Halsey began their quest to the top of pop charts and platinum-certified status with the five-track debut EP Room 93 eight years ago today, on October 27, 2014. Yesterday, Halsey hinted on Instagram that something commemorative might be on the way, and fans were rewarded this afternoon.
“I found a few videos from the Room 93 era…,” Halsey wrote on Twitter with a compilation of snippets from their early career. “I hope you’re enjoying your stay, 8 years later.” The 39-second video includes footage of formative rehearsals, meet-and-greets, and performances. There’s also a tangible celebration of “the room that started it all,” as Halsey tweeted, in the form of limited-edition merch available here.
i found a few videos from the Room 93 era… i hope you’re enjoying your stay, 8 years later pic.twitter.com/1no2mQ0l5Q
The Room 93 merchandise includes a $65 purple hoodie, two $40 T-shirts, and a customized notepad. The hoodie has “HOTEL STAFF” printed on the back alongside “‘WE ALWAYS HAVE ROOM FOR YOU!’” and “NEWLY DECORATED & REFURNISHED.” A free pink keychain will be added to orders exceeding $30.
After Room 93, Halsey became an undeniable force with 2015’s Badlands and 2017’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. The latter became their first No. 1 album. After dropping the radio-friendly Manic in early 2020, they leaned fully into alt-rock by teaming up with Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor for last year’s conceptual album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.
Letitia Wright‘s entire presence was a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman at the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Hollywood premiere. The actress, who is heavily rumored to be the new Black Panther in the film (especially after the latest trailer), showed up wearing an outfit that was a touching homage to Boseman’s look at the 2018 Oscars.
You can see Wright’s ensemble below, complete with the Wakanda salute:
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And here’s Boseman at the 2018 Oscars:
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The looks are practically identical, and it’s both an excellent tribute and a neat little callback to Wright’s onscreen brother. As for the daunting task of making Wakanda Forever without Boseman, Wright still isn’t prepared for the emotional weight of the film finally being seen by the world.
“I’m bracing,” Wright told Variety on the red carpet. “I’ve seen some member’s of Chad’s team. When we lock eyes, we know how this feels. We have to take a step away. I see my aunt locking my eyes with me, she’s very proud. I have to take a step away… It’s emotional. We’re trying to hold it together.”
Fortunately, early reactions to Wakanda Forever have been overwhelmingly positive. Critics are blown away by the way the sequel delicately weaves paying tribute to Boseman and moving the world of Wakanda into a new era as it faces its greatest adversary yet: Tenoch Huerta’s Namor.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters on November 11.
It’s impossible to pick the best performance on House of the Dragon. Heck, it’s hard even deciding who’s the “better” Alicent: Emily Carey or Olivia Cooke. But Emma D’Arcy, who plays Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, belongs in the top-five. At least. An Emmy nomination should be inevitable, and if/when that happens, D’Arcy would be recognized with the gender-neutral title of “Performer” on their nomination certificate and trophy.
D’Arcy, who uses they/them pronouns, told Entertainment Weekly that they have a “complicated relationship” with “having a public profile,” following the world-conquering success of House of the Dragon. But “I suppose being able to help the broad spectrum of gender identities sounds like a good reason to have one.” They added, “So I feel very lucky to just continue what for me is a very exciting plane of discussion — and nice to be able to do that both to an extent onscreen and separately offscreen.”
“I find that a perfect cocktail of surprising, bemusing, and intensely flattering. All of my body wants to give a flippant answer in terms of a great drink finally getting the recognition that it deserves. Very surreal and very lovely… I don’t have anything illuminating to say on it because it’s very hard to know how to react when you become a meme. Someone should write an essay on that, actually. I would definitely read it.”
House of the Dragon season two is expected to start filming in the first half of 2023. Hopefully they wrap in time for D’Arcy to celebrate National Prosecco Day (August 13) without having to act while hungover.
Each new month brings with it new weather, holidays, and various things to look forward to, and October is no different. Sure, the weather is growing grayer and the days are getting shorter, but it’s also a great month to carve pumpkins, throw on a warm sweater, and drink beer. Even better, because it’s a transitional season the beer choices are practically unlimited.
Is it surprisingly warm and sunny one day? Grab a fresh hop IPA to enjoy a few more hoppy, fresh sips before the warm weather is gone until spring. Feel an unseasonably cold chill in the air? Why not crack open a toasty, roasty, warming smoked porter? Is the day a bit gray and rainy, but reasonably warm? How about a yeasty, funky farmhouse ale or Saison? You see where I’m going here.
There are so many options taht we decided the best way to figure out what to drink this month was to go to the professionals for help. We asked 10 well-known craft beer experts and brewers to tell us the one beer they crave in October.
With their close proximity to the promised land of U.S.-grown hops, Fremont Brewing in Seattle works with hop farmers in the Yakima valley with generations of knowledge to further progress the field by sustainably growing organic hops on a small 2-acre plot of land then brewing a limited quantity of a wet-hopped beer each year with those hops. Citrus pith, pine needle, and a bright verdant profile shine through in this unique beer only found for a short time in October. Cheers to organic farming!
When it comes to beers well-suited for October weather, my favorite beer of all time is Alaskan Smoked Porter, a delicious beer with malts that are smoked the same way salmon is smoked in Alaska. The smokier the better, I say.
The beers from Wallonia have inspired many great breweries in America and Oxbow is one of my favorites. They are well known and respected for making farmhouse ales and lagers at their picturesque brewery in Maine. I love a smokey beer in the months leading up to winter and Life On Biére De Mars combines my love of a funky farmhouse ale with a more than nuanced smoke character that pairs well with the falling leaves.
I always look forward to Grain Belt from August Schell. I have friends that go up to the Great Lakes every fall and bring me a couple of cases. It’s just a nice, easy-drinking light lager that is balanced perfectly between malt and hops. What more could you want in an October beer?
While I’m not usually a huge fan of pumpkin beers, which have always seemed gimmicky to me, I have to say that Elysian’s Pumpkin Ale does a pretty amazing balancing act. This beer pours a golden copper with all the signature autumn aromas you’d expect: cinnamon, clove, vanilla, and pumpkin, all wrapped up nicely with light malty notes. This beer was smooth and rich with notes of molasses and gingerbread — like the holidays in a glass. This one might just have changed my mind about the pumpkin thing.
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
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Parker Penley, lead innovation brewer at Widmer Brothers in Portland, Oregon
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde is a great beer for October. It has enough body flavor for the season change but is not as heavy as the imperial stouts and winter warmers people tend to move toward during the coldest months. It is a lovely beer to sit with in Autumn evenings watching the brightly colored leaves blowing around on the ground. Enjoy this well-crafted and delicious Belgian Tripel in a tulip glass and bask in the glory of the harvest season.
Monkless Meet Your Maker
Monkless
Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
ABV: 9%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Being in Wisconsin, the weather has no mercy on us in October. The fierceness of the seasonal transition has me reaching for Meet Your Maker, every year. It’s a Belgian strong dark ale by Monkless Belgian Ales. It has rich but wispy flavors of dark fruit, caramel, raisin, and a touch of toffee to it. This is a beer that I’d say has some serious soul to it and really forces you to slow down and smell the roses dates.
Firestone Walker Oaktoberfest
Firestone Walker
Max Shafer, brewmaster at Roadhouse Brewing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
If there is one seasonal trend in beer I will always get on board with, it is Oktoberfest-style lagers. Every October I look forward to finding Oaktoberfest from Firestone Walker. I love this take on a hyper-traditional style of beer. The oak comes through and rounds out the flavor making it the perfect beer to sip as the days grow shorter and the temperatures fall.
I don’t know that it’s necessarily considered a Fall beer, but in Texas where the line blurs between summer heat and cooler fall temperatures, I always enjoy Saison Dupont. It’s effervescent and light-bodied enough for the warmer days, but the amazingly spicy aroma is perfect when we get a bit of cooler air.
TRVE Brewing October Rust
TRVE Brewing
Nico Cervantes, brewer at Resolute Brewing in Centennial, Colorado
ABV: 6%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
October Rust from TRVE Brewing. The malt flavors and crispy body of TRVE’s seasonal Märzen-style lager are perfect for some of the last remaining warm days and the first initial chilly evenings of fall. It’s a beer I always look forward to drinking each and every year. Plus, it’s named after one of the greatest albums of all time, so what’s not to like?
This morning, an email that was sent from Kanye West‘s Donda Academy school to its students was leaked. “First, we would like to express our gratitude for the community of families and scholars that Donda Academy brought together,” it read. “However, at the discretion of our Founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately, Thursday, October 27. THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW.”
Considering the event of West being dropped by a plethora of companies due to recent antisemitic comments on Twitter, this made sense. However, a newer email, sent about four hours after the first, has been obtained and shared by TMZ. It reads: “Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy. With the help of our parents and community, we are back and returning with a vengeance! The children of Donda are going to change the world. Apologies for the late email! See you bright and early!”
Along with this, it was recently reported by Forbes that he is estimated to no longer be a billionaire. West already shared his thoughts on that this morning, posting: “ARI EMMANUEL, I LOST 2 BILLION DOLLARS IN ONE DAY AND I’M STILL ALIVE. THIS IS LOVE SPEECH. I STILL LOVE YOU. GOD STILL LOVES YOU. THE MONEY IS NOT WHO I AM, THE PEOPLE IS WHO I AM.”
For a while there, I completely forgot about the existence of actor and director John Krasinski. But he’s back in my brain this week thanks to a disturbing puppet and the new trailer for season three of his Amazon Prime series, Tom Clancy’sJack Ryan, in which he plays, you guessed it, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. The series, based on Clancy’s political thriller novels, premiered its first season in 2018 and its second season in 2019.
Here’s the series synopsis, from Prime:
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
The second season took Jack to Venezuela, where he discovered an elaborate conspiracy. In the third season, he’ll be in Rome, working as a CIA case officer. There, he discovers a plan to restore the Soviet Empire. Juicy!
Jack Ryan stars, of course, Krasinski as Jack Ryan along with Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly. Joining the cast in season three include Betty Gabriel and theMichael Peña, who will also appear as Ding Chavez in the fourth and final season. A spin-off starring Peña is currently in the development phase.
The third season of Jack Ryan arrives on Amazon on December 21, which either means you’ll have something to talk about over the holidays, or you will be prepared for what your Tom Clancy-obsessed uncle will be talking about over the holidays. If you are the Tom Clancy-obsessed uncle who has been waiting three years for this, congratulations and happy holidays!
The Perfect Manhattan is one of those drinks that (good) bartenders know about and like to tinker with but hasn’t quite hit the mainstream yet (or again, really). Like a lot of classic cocktails, this one has been around for centuries. The mix is a tad lighter than the heavy winter vibes of a classic Manhattan thanks to the “perfect” balance of both dry and sweet vermouth.
That addition of dry vermouth really helps this cocktail pop while still holding onto the deeper and darker flavors from the rye whiskey and botanical/floral sweet vermouth. The addition of a little orange oil and dark cherry bring that extra layer of late-fall feels. All together, you’ll have a great, deep but light, and fresh cocktail in your hand for easy sipping.
This is also a very easily batch-able cocktail (like all Manhattan variations). Simply change the ounces to cups and times the dashes of bitter by four. That’ll give you a four-pour batch of Perfect Manhattans for your next party. You can calculate up from there so let’s get stirring!
Also Read: The Top Five Cocktail Recipes of the Last Six Months
Always use quality ingredients to make quality cocktails at home. I’m using Michter’s US *1 Barrel Strength Rye, which is admittedly expensive. But goddamn does this whiskey make a killer Manhattan.
I also like to pair the vermouths within a single brand just to add a layer of continuity. It’s not that you can’t use Italian sweet vermouth and Spanish dry vermouth but they never quite cohere as well in my professional opinion. In this case, I’m going with Noilly Prat for both.
Zach Johnston
What You’ll Need:
Cocktail glass, Nick and Nora, coupe, or lowball
Cocktail jar/mixing jug
Cocktail strainer
Barspoon
Spear
Jigger
Zach Johnston
Method:
Prechill the glass in the freezer.
Add the rye, vermouths, and bitters to a mixing glass. Add a large handful of ice and use the barspoon to stir the cocktail until the glass is ice-cold to touch (about 20 to 30 seconds).
Retrieve the glass from the freezer and strain the cocktail into the glass. Express the oils from the orange peel over the cocktail and rub the peel around the rim and bowl of the glass, discard.
Spear a cherry and drop it into the glass. Serve.
Bottom Line:
Zach Johnston
Yup, it’s refreshing, deeply flavored, and light enough to beg for just one more. The rye truly shines through with a hint of dark rye bread crust with a hint of fennel and spearmint next to woody spices, fresh citrus notes, and a hint of toffee sweetness. The vermouth adds a teeter-totter between dry-and-light and deep-and-florally sweet.
Overall, this is a great cocktail to have in your arsenal as Halloween parties start popping off this weekend. It’s devilishly easy to make, has a nice nuance to an already-know classic, and it tastes really f*cking good.
On this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, Jack Harlow is the guest of honor, serving as both host and musical guest. Now, we know how next weekend’s episode (on November 5) is going to look: SNL announced today that Amy Schumer will host while Steve Lacy will be the musical guest.
It remains to be seen just how Lacy will fit the show into his busy schedule, as he’s in the middle of his Give You The World tour right now. Lacy’s website currently indicates that during the week leading up to the show, he’ll be in Tucson on October 30, Las Vegas on the 31st, San Diego on November 2, Oakland on November 4, and Vancouver on November 6. So, either Lacy plans to give himself little time to actually prepare in-person in New York for the performance, or some of those tour dates could be canceled or postponed.
When it comes time for the show, perhaps Lacy will follow in Phoebe Bridgers’ footsteps but smash a camera instead of a guitar.
Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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