Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two men and severely wounded another in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, was found not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felony charges last week — and he already has multiple job offers. Matt Gaetz wants to make him a congressional intern; Paul Gosar (the same Paul Gosar who shared a video where he’s depicted as murdering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) tweeted that he would “arm wrestle” the Florida congressman “to get dibs for Kyle as an intern”; and Madison Cawthorn also offered him an internship following the not guilty verdict.
Speaking with Seb Gorka on Tuesday night, Boebert mentioned that Cawthorn has seemingly called dibs on any Rittenhouse congressional internship, however fantastical the notion may be. The congresswoman then suggested that she and Cawthorn, who is partially paralyzed and uses a wheelchair after a car accident in 2014, settle the matter by sprinting against one another.
“Now, I do have some colleagues on the Hill who have, just like me, offered Kyle Rittenhouse an internship in their office and Madison Cawthorn, he said that he would arm wrestle me for this Kyle Rittenhouse internship,” she said. “But Madison Cawthorn has some pretty big guns, and so I would like to challenge him to a sprint instead. Let’s make this fair.” Boebert thought her offer was hilarious; others disagreed.
On Newsmax, Lauren Boebert challenges Madison Cawthorn to a sprint, with the winner getting to have Kyle Rittenhouse as their intern pic.twitter.com/ZLi9mmxlN6
This is the kind of thing you do when you’re too incompetent to govern and the only way you can get anyone’s attention is by standing in front of a camera and saying things that are dumb, offensive, or both. https://t.co/yWgeVPbuCR
GOAT, grail, brick, deadstock, size run, OG, retro, aftermarket, these are all words you’ve probably heard from that sneakerhead in your family or friend circle. Phrases and terms that you’ve probably pretended to know as you politely nod while they talk your ear off about the latest “must cop drop.” As someone who spends every week writing about and looking at sneakers, I get it — keeping up with the world of hype beasts can be exhausting. But if you’ll take a look at the calendar you’ll notice we’re rapidly approaching the holiday season and I’m willing to bet now you’re wishing you paid a little more attention to the wants of the sneakerhead in your life.
Luckily, we’ve got your back! Sneakerheads are a highly picky bunch, while it may seem like shoe culture is all the same to the outside eye, the wants and needs of the average sneakerhead are full of nuance. Is your sneakerhead about checks or stripes? Did you just gift PUMAs to a staunch Jordan head? Do you even know what we’re talking about?
Using this well-curated shopping guide for sneakerheads will help to ensure that your gift doesn’t fall flat this holiday season. Let’s dive in!
Yes, buying a sneaker cleaner kit almost seems too obvious, but the simple fact is, every sneakerhead needs one of these. Even if you’re dealing with a person who likes to rock their shoes a little worn and grungy, they likely have one pair they’ve reserved for any occasions when they need to look squeaky clean. Help them make their lives easier by picking up this sneaker cleaner kit from Deadstock Los Angeles.
This kit features an eight-ounce bottle of cleaning solution, which will work on canvas, cloth, mesh, knit, and other common sneaker materials, a bristled cleaning brush, and a cloth to wipe it all down. It’s not the most exciting gift, but the sneakerhead in your life will appreciate it.
We’re in the winter months, which means temperatures are dipping, rains are coming, roads and walkways are getting wet, and that’s a bit problem for almost any pair of sneakers. A sneaker cleaning kit will definitely help to keep sneakers looking as good as new but if you want to prolong the lifespan of every pair, you’re going to need a repel spray, like this one made by Jason Markk.
Repel spray creates a liquid and stain repelling barrier that surrounds the sneaker and keeps them safe from superficial stains. Whether you’re dealing with suede, nubuck, leather, nylon, or canvas, repel spray will keep sneakers fresh without altering the look or feel of the original material.
The next time you find yourself in a mall you might think it would be a good idea to grab a gift card from Foot Locker or Finish Line while you’re out shopping for everything else. That’s a rookie move. These days with the massive popularity of sneakers and the realities of shopping during a pandemic, the best sneakers are generally sold direct to consumers, so you’re better off grabbing a gift card that can be used at the Nike or Adidas online store than you are a gift card to a generic sneaker retailer.
Don’t know if the sneakerhead in your life is a Nike or Adidas person? Buy a generic cash-loaded gift card that they can use anywhere they want. Buying sneakers can be expensive, so help fatten wallets by taking care of some of the cost for them.
For every other person aside from sneakerheads, socks are a joke gift. It’s what you get from the in-law who doesn’t know you, a gift for a person whose shopping list consists of only names, no actual gifts. But sneakerheads can never have too many socks.
Buying socks for the sneakerhead in your life will take a bit of easy investigation. Take notice of what they wear, if you never see their socks, buy no-shoe ankle socks, if they wear their socks high and coordinate the colors with their outfit, get them colorful high socks. It’s simple!
As for where you should get your socks, you’ll be happy to know there isn’t a single place sneakerheads flock to. Socks are socks, so just make sure they are soft and 100% cotton and you’re golden. Personally, I like UNIQLO since it’s a store that already caters to the streetwear-wearing crowd.
This won’t appeal to every single sneakerhead, but the sneaker customization scene is growing day by day. It’s never been cooler to add your own personal touch to your footwear but that’s easier said than done. You can’t just pick up any marker and expect it to stand up to everyday wear and the elements. So buy a proper painting kit to help lengthen the life span of the creative sneakerhead in your life’s greatest creations.
The Shoe Surgeon Academy Creators’ Paint Kit features a set of 15 oil-based markers, a custom creator’s stencil, collectible pins, and a t-shirt that reads “never stop creating.” The stencil can be used with markers, spray paint, and airbrushes, and can be used on a variety of different materials.
This is an even more advanced version of our previous entry and is more geared toward the aspiring sneaker designer in your life. Everyone needs to get their start somewhere, and if you have a sneakerhead in your life who has big dreams of being the next Kanye West or Virgil Abloh, they’ll massively appreciate this tool kit which covers everything they’ll need to deconstruct and reconstruct sneakers.
The full it includes a hammer, safety beveler, scratch awl, bone folder, thread snipper, seam ripper, marking compass, hook awl, leather scissors, lasting pincers, measuring tape, silver marking pen, and two heat erasable fabric pens.
A lot of those terms probably read like gibberish to you, but if you’re working on the bones of a sneaker, they make sense. We promise.
I can’t think of a single sneaker more universally loved than the Nike Air Force 1, which you can generally find for just under $100 dollars. Given the popularity of this sneaker that price is an absolute steal.
Universally loved by both men and women, every sneakerhead has owned a pair of Air Force 1s in their life. If they don’t currently have one in rotation, it’s probably because they don’t want to drop the money on yet another pair. It’s not the kind of gift that’s going to make the sneakerhead in your life break down into tears of happiness, but it’s definitely a sneaker they’re going to love and get a lot of use out of.
Sneaker culture is no longer completely dominated by men. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not saying women aren’t into sneakers, they’ve always been, but now brands are finally listening and curtailing releases that better represent and speak to the woman who loves and lives for sneakers.
There isn’t a single better women’s exclusive sneaker that dropped this year than the A Ma Maniére Jordan 3. It’s a beautiful sneaker with a crisp white leather upper with grey suede paneling and accents and was such a sought-after release this year that men are still crying that it was a women’s only release.
Blow her mind by picking up a pair of Jordan 3 A Ma Maniére from the aftermarket where prices are hovering between $300 and $500 depending on size.
Maybe the sneakerhead in your life isn’t about Nike or Adidas, and that’s perfectly fine and it probably means they rock New Balances. Maybe they’re into PUMAs, but I know one person who likes PUMAs, and it’s my boss. No one else. There is no designer currently designing New Balance sneakers that is more respected than Salehe Bembury, who dropped this hiking-inspired sneaker a couple of months back.
The 574 Yurt is made with trails in mind so if you have a sneakerhead that also spends a lot of time in nature, this is an easy way to merge their two favorite interests into one.
The most popular Yeezy silhouette (think of a sneaker silhouette like you would the model of a car) is still the Yeezy BOOST 350 V2, but unlike previous years, they’re now easier to find than ever. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be able to cruise into an Adidas store and pick them up off the shelf, but it does mean when you hit the aftermarket (where you buy authenticated resold shoes from individual sellers) you won’t have to pay too high above the shoe’s list price.
This year’s Light Bone colorway of the Yeezy 350 V2 is a dope sneaker and right now it’s selling for just over list price on aftermarket sites like StockX. That’s not exactly a steal, but it’s not going to break the bank either.
With prices hovering between $350 and $400 on the aftermarket, this is a big purchase, but if you’re buying it for the right person it’s the kind of gift that is going to make their holiday. The one that is going to illicit the biggest freakout. Not only is the Jordan 4 one of the best and most popular sneaker silhouettes of all time, this year’s University Blue color is one of the best released all year.
There is a high chance if you’re buying this for a sneakerhead that doesn’t already own it, they probably tried in vain to score a pair only to have their heart’s broken. Mend a heart, buy the University Blue AJ-4.
There’s not a lot of love lost between Luka Doncic and the Los Angeles Clippers after back-to-back postseason matchups. The Clippers have beaten the Dallas Mavericks in both series, but each time, Doncic has given them all that they can handle. The two teams squared off again on Tuesday evening at the Staples Center, and it didn’t take long for Doncic to run into some trouble with the officials.
Doncic backed down Clippers guard Terance Mann, got into the paint, and made a little baby hook for a pretty easy bucket. Right after he scored, Doncic let Mann know he was “too f*cking small” to check him, which led to the Mavericks’ All-Star getting hit with a technical foul.
The pair got face-to-face and exchanged some pleasantries after the call. While few NBA players will ever straight up say they deserved to get hit with a tech, Doncic did look to be a little confused about why he got hit with a T on this one. Anyway, this happened in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game, and we have a hunch that it won’t be the last time this season that a game between the Mavs and the Clippers features Doncic getting into it with someone on L.A.
Recently I discovered a film, by way of my friend Dan Ozzi, called Homie Spumoni. It seemed to exist mostly as a comically janky poster on IMDB, picturing Scrubs star Donald Faison holding a salami alongside his costars in front of a blank background underneath the title. It was that combination of image plus title, Homie Spumoni, that seemed to convey, Soul Man-like, everything we’d need to know, both about the concept of this movie and the reasons it wasn’t a hit.
Homie Spumoni, allegedly released in 2006, is, as you might expect, about a black child raised as an Italian-American — “completely unaware that he is black,” according to the official synopsis. Still, this discovery raised a number of questions. Probably the main one being, why hadn’t I heard of Homie Spumoni before?
I’ve heard of The Room, I’ve heard of Tiptoes, and even Birdemic. How did Homie Spumoni manage to avoid not just fame, but comedic infamy too?
It starred, after all, Donald Faison from Scrubs, at the time a popular show smack in the middle of its 10-year run. Jamie-Lynn Sigler from the Sopranos played his love interest, hot off a show that was in the middle of its final, highly-rated and much-discussed season in turn. Playing Faison’s real parents were the legendary Paul Mooney (still appearing regularly on the then-hot Chappelle Show) and Whoopi Goldberg, back when she was still ostensibly known for comedy instead of reacting to current events on daytime TV. Joey Fatone from N-Sync played Faison’s Italian brother, and playing Faison’s black brother was Chris Rock’s brother, Tony. (To be fair, I only found out that Chris Rock had an actor brother because of this, so it seemed worth mentioning).
The film was directed by Mike Cerrone, apparently a pal of the Farrelly Brothers from Rhode Island who even co-wrote a few of their movies, including the Three Stooges and Me, Myself, And Irene. Yet beyond these easily Wikipedia-able facts, not much has been written about Homie Spumoni. If the stars have addressed it all, it’s been only in the form of a single line in an AMA (Donald Faison) or as a throwaway line in the introduction of profiles from the time that briefly list Homie Spumoni as an acting credit before moving onto other things.
An article in the Boston Globe from September 2006 mentioned the film briefly, as part of a curtain raiser for that year’s Boston Film Festival, which was debuting the film. “We wrote it as us, what would we do as Providence Italian kids, and then stuck a black guy in front of the camera,” Homie Spumoni director Mike Cerrone says in the article.
There isn’t much in the article about the movie beyond that, though it does note that the original working title was “Meatballs and Watermelon.” I suspect that was less a “working title” than an even worse title designed to make “Homie Spumoni” seem more reasonable by comparison.
Homie Spumoni was eventually released on DVD later that same year, and that seems to be the last anyone heard of it before Dan Ozzi’s semi-viral tweet from last year. In 2006, a producer of the film, Julio Caro, pled guilty to embezzling $1.5 million from his producing partner, billionaire Ron Burkle and his fund, Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives. “Los Angeles-based Yucaipa financed much of the film and was supposed to receive the proceeds of $1.5 million, but Caro allegedly diverted the funds to pay personal expenses, including his mortgage and car lease payments, according to the plea agreement,” wrote the LA Times.
Was an embezzling producer responsible for Homie Spumoni falling into obscurity? Or is that just how it goes in Hollywood, where producers are frequently shady and scores of promising projects end up in the bargain bin every year?
While perhaps not worth the price of a DVD purchase (depending how much you appreciate the fact that they made the disc look like a pizza), you can currently watch Homie Spumoni in its entirety on YouTube. Something I decided to do myself in honor of the film’s 15th anniversary.
It was apparent almost immediately why Homie Spumoni never became The Room. It just isn’t as embarrassing or as accidentally revealing. It’s not even as straightforwardly wrongheaded, like Soul Man (which had a guy in blackface on the poster) or Loqueesha (an indie about a white radio host taking on the persona of a black woman).
Again, just about every clue as to what Homie Spumoni is is right there in the title. This is a movie that is clearly intended to promote racial understanding, but also one that assumes “homie” is an understood shorthand for any black guy. Which is to say, it’s a movie about race written by a middle-aged Italian guy from Rhode Island. Some clumsiness is assumed. It’s probably funnier to consider that some of the Homie Spumoni directors’ peers ended up writing Green Book. (Two roads, diverged in front of the pork store…)
Accepting all of that, Donald Faison’s performance is, weirdly, kind of good. He does a solid impression of a dopily affable Jersey Shore guido, with just a wisp of pathos here and there. And surprisingly, there are moments of Homie Spumoni that are legitimately funny. Like in the first scene, after we watch a bassinet carrying a black baby float gently down a river in Verona, Italy, and we meet a group of bathing Italian women. The girls are asking their recently wedded friend what it’s like to be married. “Sometimes he likes to do it in the ass,” the married one tells her friends. One of whom responds “…I think I’m going to like marriage.”
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It’s not that funny, but it’s surprising enough for an easy laugh, in a whoopie cushion kind of way — something the Farrelly Brothers were always pretty good at. A lot of their movies don’t really hold up for me, but I do sort of miss the days when we could accept that things could be funny because they were kind of stupid. “Stupid and funny” should be able to coexist at least as often as “smart and funny,” if not more. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
The baby in the bassinet, of course, is Donald Faison’s character as an infant. He’s eventually found by the bathing lady and adopted by her and her husband, the anal sex enjoyer. Maria and Enzo are their names, and they name their new son Renato. Yet quickly they worry that he’ll never be accepted in Italy by the provincial Italians. “He’s charbroiled like this steak!” Enzo says, while grilling up a steak.
That’s when they make a plan to immigrate to America, “where no one is ever judged based on the color of their skin.” This scene’s mix of problematic and genuinely kinda funny/clever continues throughout the rest of the film.
We jump forward in time to Renato as a grown adult working in his father’s deli, Enzo’s, where, Renato says, he has named his “best sandwich” after his best friend. The “Guinea Pig” is the name of the sandwich, and its namesake is played by N-Sync’s Joey Fatone, your standard knuckleheaded guido with a chinstrap beard who likes to park on the sidewalk. He looks a little like Smash Mouth’s Steve Harwell.
One day in the deli, Renato meets his love interest, in the form of Ali Butterman, played by Jamie Lynn Sigler. He discovers she’s Jewish when she has to turn down his gift of a prosciutto sandwich. “You ever dated a pork-dodger before?” Joey Fatone asks Renato.
Renato somehow successfully convinces Ali that he’s Italian, but they still have to hide their relationship from Ali’s closed-minded family, on account of the Buttermans could never accept their daughter dating a Catholic. There’s also a racist Irish cop with a thick Irish accent who calls Renato “a stovepipe” and whose arrival is always accompanied by Irish flute music — a development that would be welcomed as an eerily accurate race satire in 1872. At one point, Renato says to his father, about a customer, “I dunno, pop, he had that far away Polack look on his face.”
Against all odds and yet somehow predictably, the movie ends up being probably the most racist towards Asian people. Ali’s best friend is described as Japanese, despite the character being named “Nipp Su” and played by Kira Clavell, a Canadian actress of mixed, non-Japanese heritage (previously seen in a 2002 movie called Rub & Tug). At one point, Joey Fatone takes her to a drive in, where he cuts a hole in the bottom of a popcorn tub so that she can give him a surreptitious handjob. Traditionally that trick involved sexual assault, so Homie Spumoni turning it into a method for consensual handjobs is kind of a nice twist. Homie Spumoni is sex positive!
Eventually, thanks to a newspaper article about Enzo and Renato’s deli, Renato’s birth parents show up to claim him, played by Paul Mooney and Whoopi Goldberg. They tell a ridiculous story about how they lost Renato, who was actually named Leroy, during a gondola accident on a trip to Italy that Mooney’s character had won in a contest to name a chicken sandwich. A knack for sandwich naming apparently runs in the family, you see. That’s how you do a callback.
Mooney and Goldberg, it must be said, are legitimately great together, and lots of these jokes actually work. Like when Goldberg’s character says she’d be able to recognize her son based on the webbed toes on his right foot.
“Aha! But I don’t have webbed toes on my right foot!” Renato says.
“Ah, but you did,” Enzo sighs. “We had them removed when you were a child. You were just swimming around in circles, it was so sad.”
A medium racist interlude ensues, in which Renato goes to live with his birth parents, where he tries to learn how to play basketball, how to appreciate rap music, how to enjoy soul food, etc. It’s all apparently based on the questionable notion that an Italian guy raised in New York wouldn’t know how to act black.
In the finale, Renato has to reconcile his conflicting identities and prove his love to Ali, by stealing her back from a Jewish doctor and performing a song with her at the hospital talent show (she’s a nurse). Joey Fatone and his girlfriend show up to watch the performance, and when Nipp Su stops to collect his wheelchair from the trunk, it’s at this point we learn that Joey Fatone’s character has actually been disabled this whole time. What a twist! How many other comedies have you seen that include a surprise third act wheelchair reveal?
Yes, I spent 90 minutes of my day watching a low-res version of Homie Spumoni on YouTube, and while most of the movie is pretty dumb and kind of racist, I can safely say that those 90 minutes were not wasted. I hope Warner Brothers realizes that they still own the rights to this title and decide to remake it. Roberto Begnini could direct.
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YG is once again providing key resources to those who live in the Los Angeles area. This time, the rapper’s target audience is low-income residents who are in need of better health care services. YG, his TeleHealth program with Todd Gurly and Dion Rambo, as well as the City of Hawthorne program teamed up for an expansion of the TeleHealth Vans. According to Revolt, vehicles “physically transport internet-connected telecommunications, teleconferencing, and video-conferencing devices and services/computer applications” to areas, allowing for virtual meetups between physicians and residents of the city. They also work with health departments, clinics, adult centers, and foster care providers to provide low-income residents with these services.
Additional services from TeleHealth include mental health screenings and assistance with completing medical insurance submission forms. “TeleHealth Van is a service that we created for the people in the inner-cities,” YG said to TMZ about the program last summer. “It works like—you basically don’t leave your house if you got a mental health situation or got doctors you need to talk to. The van comes to your location and you get in the van—it’s basically like doing a Zoom call. You get in the van and you see your mental health worker or [doctor] over the screen, and y’all have y’all session.”
YG also spoke about how supportive the City of Hawthorne has been with his initiative. “The city is, for sure, getting involved, getting behind it,” he said. “Everybody loves the idea. They love the fact that it’s Black people doing something real for the Black community.”
Days after he released his second album Punk, Young Thugsued the owners of a luxury apartment complex after an unknown employee that worked there gave away a Louis Vuitton bag he had misplaced while he lived in the building. The bag, which is valued at $2,500, contained $94,000 worth of jewelry, $40,000 in cash, and a hard drive that contained about 200 unreleased songs, which he claimed was “worth at least an estimated $1,000,000.” The bag was allegedly returned to the building’s 24-hour concierge by a neighbor who discovered it. Afterwards Thug was contacted about its discovery. Despite a note clearly stating to not release the bag to anyone without contacting Thug, the bag was given to an unknown third party, which sparked the lawsuit.
In response to the filing, JLB Peachtree Management, which is the management firm behind the complex, said the missing hard drive is Thug’s fault. In a new court filing, they said his own “negligence and failure to exercise ordinary care” are the only things to blame for the events that led to the hard drive being given away. In response, Young Thug’s lawyer Charles Hoffecker slammed the complex’s “blanket denial” in the matter.
“The suggestion my client’s negligence — if any — outweighs the defendants’ ignores the simple facts the defendants’ employees acted to secure the property, knew whose property it was, committed to keep the property safe in a secure location, communicated to my client they would keep the property secure, and then released the property to an unknown person,” Hoffecker told Rolling Stone. “Now that the defendants have filed their answer, we look forward to pursuing Young Thug’s rights through the litigation process.”
Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s become fashionable, even profitable, to come out against what is known as “cancel culture.” Opponents to this practice, whose very existence is debatable, claim people, usually young progressives, destroy the lives of those who say or do things they problematic. Others argue it’s a fiction, invented by culture warlords to protect those who don’t want their controversial views called into question. So when Dave Chappelle, under fire for anti-trans comments, and Louis C.K., who confessed to multiple cases of sexual misconduct in 2017, wound up with Grammy nominations on Tuesday, some wondered if “cancel culture” was perhaps not as powerful, or as real, as some have claimed.
C.K., who’s been playing big shows again, wound up fêted with a Best Comedy Album nom for Sincerely Louis C.K. Meanwhile, fellow comic Chappelle received a nom not for comedy but for Best Spoken Word Album, for 8:46, which he released mid-pandemic, and which addressed the murder of George Floyd. That means he’ll be competing against no less than Barack Obama, for A Promised Land.
The two weren’t the only “cancelled” artists who wound up with Grammy nominations. Marilyn Manson, who’s facing sexual assault lawsuits from several women, wound up recognized for his work on Kanye West’s Donda. Kevin Hart, whose homophobic comments led to him withdrawing as host of the 2019 Oscars, will compete with C.K. for the comedy album Zero F***s Given.
Chappelle has not apologized for his anti-trans comments, which he’s made across numerous specials for Netflix. After his most recent controversial special, The Closer, dropped, he even told a roaring crowd, “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it.” Perhaps it was a joke on how “cancel culture” isn’t real, that it doesn’t destroy lives but make them stronger. Or perhaps he was just reveling in his infamy.
But when word broke out that C.K., Chappelle and other “cancelled” artists were being celebrated by a major awards body, some people on social media wondered if “cancel culture” was just a bunch of BS.
only one grammy nom each for dave chappelle, kevin hart, and louis CK!! cancel culture strikes again!!
Feast Week features wall-to-wall college basketball coverage with intriguing matchups across the United States and beyond. It is common for diehards to be able to watch games morning, noon and night, and the best game of the week, at least on paper, arrived on Tuesday with a battle between No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 UCLA in Las Vegas. While that headline-grabbing matchup was intriguing enough from a basketball standpoint, as it pit two teams fresh off of playing one of the best games in Final Four history against one another, ESPN announced last week that legendary broadcaster Dick Vitale would make his return to the booth on Tuesday alongside Dave O’Brien.
Vitale, who underwent surgeries to remove melanoma in August before being diagnosed with lymphoma in October, expressed extensive gratitude within the announcement, indicating that he and his family were “jumping for joy” about the opportunity to return. As the broadcast began, Vitale displayed that enthusiasm through emotion, as he was moved to tears on live air.
Vitale said plainly “I can’t believe I’m sitting here” before revealing that, dating back to October, he didn’t believe he would be able to be courtside again. He also made note of the Oct. 12 diagnosis and shared similar sentiment on Twitter.
So excited sitting with Dave O’Brien @ courtside / join us / can’t believe I am here after Doctors told me I had cancer on Oct 12. pic.twitter.com/WQqlLvQaAm
He also thanked ESPN and so many that encouraged him in recent weeks and, even through tears, Vitale displayed the trademark energy that led O’Brien to refer to him as “the voice of college basketball.” For more than four decades, that has been an appropriate descriptor of Vitale, and this was a stirring moment to say the least.
Who could’ve predicted that the man who famously rapped “Tell the Grammy’s f*ck that 0 for 8 sh*t” — referring to his complete snub in 2018 — is now the all-time record holder for the most Grammy nominations? With three more nominations under his belt for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, Jay-Z is now jus that.
The rapper previously tied the record with Quincy Jones at 80 nominations, but he’s now is alone at the top. For the 2022 Grammys, he’s nominated twice in the Best Rap Song category, for his appearances on DMX’s “Bath Salts” and on Kanye West’s “Jail.” He’s also included as part of Kanye West’s Donda, which was nominated for Album of The Year.
While Jay-Z called out the Recording Academy in 2018, he still has 23 total award wins across his previous 80 nominations and could very well be in line for more to come when the show airs on January 31st. His 23 wins are fairly spread-out, as the most he’s ever won in a single year is three awards, in 2009, 2010, and 2012.
Now with Jay-Z sitting at the top, the leaderboard has seen a bit of a shake-up. Jones has actually dropped to third place as Paul McCartney’s two nominations today put him at 81 all-time nominations, with Jones at 80. Beyoncé didn’t gain any ground this year and is sitting in fourth with 79, but is still both the female artist with the most wins, at 28.
Nearly six months after Polo G dropped his third album, Hall Of Fame, he’s gearing up to share its deluxe reissue. The record, which houses “Rapstar,” Polo G’s first No. 1 song, also became his first chart-topping album, having spent two weeks on the Billboard 200. The rapper announced the deluxe version, which is titled Hall Of Fame 2.0, earlier this month and later shared the first single for it: “Bad Man (Smooth Criminal).” Now, with a little over a week left until it arrives, he unveils the tracklist.
Hall Of Fame 2.0 adds 14 songs to the album’s original 20, while bringing on Lil Baby, Moneybagg Yo, Yungliv, NLE Choppa, and Lil Tjay as additional guests. At the time of its announcement, Polo G shared a trailer where he spoke about the inspiration behind it. “Hall Of Fame 2.0…That was me beating my chest, really coming into my own as an artist and showing I’m gonna stay,” he says. “But before I just close out this chapter, I feel like we should turn up this one more time.”
You can view the deluxe tracklist for Hall Of Fame 2.0 below.
1. “Bad Man (Smooth Criminal)”
2. “Don’t Play” Feat. Lil Baby
3. “Start Up Again” Feat. Moneybagg Yo
4. “Heating Up” Feat. Yungliv
5. “Black Man In America”
6. “Young N Dumb”
7. “Unapologetic” Feat. NLE Choppa
8. “Fortnight”
9. “Decisions”
10. “With You”
11. “Partin Ways”
12. “Suicide” Feat. Lil Tjay
13. “Piano G”
14. “Alright”
Hall Of Fame 2.0 is out 12/3 via Columbia Records. Pre-order it here.
NLE Choppa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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