GoneTrending

Juice WRLD was a star before he passed away — 2019’s Death Race For Love was a No. 1 album — and he has remained one since then, as Legends Never Die, his first posthumous release, was also a chart-topper. There have been rumblings that another posthumous album from the late rapper is coming, and Lil Bibby has added more fuel to that fire.

Bibby — an executive at Grade A Productions, the label Juice was signed to — was stopped by The Hollywood Fix for a TMZ-style video interview. When asked what he’s working on, one of the things he mentioned was “Juice WRLD’s next album.” The interviewer then asked, “There’s another album coming?” Realizing he may have let the cat out of the bag, Bibby replied, “[I’m] talking too much.

This isn’t the first time Bibby has indicated that more Juice music is forthcoming. In an interview from this past summer, he said, “I don’t think the albums are gonna stop. It’s plenty of music. So, yeah.” Bibby also let slip in April that another Juice WRLD album will be arriving, as he wrote in the comments of one of his Instagram posts about Juice, “Album coming soon.”

For half a year now, Bibby has been saying a Juice WRLD album is coming, so if he is to be believed, now it’s just a matter of when.

It’s finally pumpkin pie season. That time of the year when the weather has turned and everything you eat is rich, filling, and spice-laden. When a crackling fire and a glass of bourbon are the best companions a person could hope for. When we’d all feel the impulse for a little cozy quarantining, had we not already been doing exactly that for half a year.

It should come as no surprise that, as 2020 winds down, the desire to plant my face in a pumpkin pie is amped up to the Nth degree. Aside from craving comfort food, I legitimately feel peaceful when baking. I long for that tranquility right now.

As far as homemade baked desserts go, pumpkin pie is like a starter course. Cheats abound. Want to use a frozen crust? Go for it. Need to crack open a can of Libby’s? That’ll work, too. For me, making pumpkin pies from scratch was born out of necessity. I’ve lived abroad pretty much exclusively since 2003. Back in the day, if you wanted to make a pumpkin pie in Moscow or Jakarta, you needed to do that shit yourself from top to bottom. There were no pie shells in the freezer sections or cans of puree on the shelves.

The recipe I’m lining out below isn’t particularly difficult, but it’s not the easiest thing in the world either. If you have a little time (I’d bet you do) and a little patience, you can master this recipe and add your own tweaks. The margin for error is pretty big here — when you combine eggs, pumpkin, milk, sugar, and spice it’s hard to make anything un-tasty.

What you’ll need in the kitchen:

• 9-inch pie tin
• Baking dish
• Mixing bowls
• Whisk
• Spatula
• Kitchen knife
• Wooden spoon or fork
• Scale
• Baking sheet
• Sieve
• Box grater
• Rolling pin
• Fork
• Cooling rack

Step 1: Pumpkin Puree

Ingredients:

• 1 Hokkaido Pumpkin
• Sea Salt

This is really simple. Preheat your oven to 400F/175C.

Cut the pumpkin in half. Remove the seeds and all the sinew from the cavity. Place the pumpkin on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. Stab with a fork. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt over each half. Bake for 60 mins.

I check in on my pumpkin after 45 minutes to see if it’s baked. If a fork goes into the flesh without resistance it’s ready. Mine actually took the full 60 minutes this time around.

Let cool for another hour. Use a spoon to scoop the flesh from the skin. Then mash the pumpkin flesh into a puree. It’s really that straightforward and you don’t need to open a can of mystery pumpkin.

When I’m done, I turn the oven up to 425F/220C to preheat it for baking the pie.

Step 2: The Pie Dough

Ingredients:

• 10-oz./285g all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp./5g seal salt
• 4-oz./110g frozen unsalted butter
• 4-oz./110g frozen lard
• Ice water

Method:

There are a million crust recipes out there. I prefer a crust that has a serious flake to it that also gets a bit of a buttery crustiness. To achieve this, I use a half butter and half lard recipe. If you don’t want to use the lard, by all means just use butter.

The first real step here is to weigh out your butter and lard and put it in the freezer for a few hours. You want to be able to grate it while also keeping it as cold as possible.

While the butter and lard are still in the freezer, I weigh out my flour and salt in a mixing bowl. I also prep my small cup of ice water.

Once that’s ready, I fish out the butter and lard and grate it quickly. It should still be frozen when you add it to the flour.

I use a big sort of salad fork thing for smooshing the butter and lard into the flour. You can use a food processor with a blade if you want to. But I find that makes too small of fat pouches in the flour and lowers the flaky/crusty factor down the line. As with southern biscuits, you want ice-cold butter layers that’ll release their water as steam while in the oven and create those flaky layers, leaving behind the fat to render into crisp edges.

Once the butter and lard are roughly mixed in, I start adding the ice water. The amount to use is going to vary wildly depending on where you are. I ended up using 150ml (about five ounces).

Once the flour is hydrated enough to form a rough ball of dough, I use my hands to bring it all together. I then wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap fairly tightly and place that in the fridge to rest and cool back down for anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours.

Step 3: The Filling

Ingredients:

• 2 large eggs plus 1 yolk
• 3.2-oz./90g packed brown sugar
• 1 10-oz./300ml can condensed milk
• 26-oz./.75l pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp./5g ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp./2.5g ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp./2.5g ground allspice
• 1/2 tsp./2.5g ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch of ground clove
• 1 tsp./5g sea salt

EDITOR’S TIP: Vanilla bean at Whole Foods is $8 per bean. Don’t buy it. On eBay, it’s more like $1 per bean. Buy that — add it. Liberally. Use the husk to season your sugar.

Technique:

While your dough is resting in the fridge, you have plenty of time to make the filling. I get my ingredients ready. I weigh out the sugar, separate an egg yolk, open the condensed milk can, weigh out the spices and salt, and make sure my pumpkin puree is room temp or cold. You don’t want to use hot puree from the oven. It’ll scramble the eggs.

First, I add the eggs and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and whisk until fully combined and the whites of the eggs are starting to bubble a bit (maybe three minutes tops).

Next, I add in the can of syrupy condensed milk, spices, salt, and pumpkin puree. I then whisk that until it’s completely emulsified and smells like pumpkin pie. There’ll be a moment when it takes on that iconic pumpkin pie smell and you’ll know you’re on the right path.

Step 4: Roll Out Pie Crust

Snag your pie crust from the fridge. Generously flour your work surface and your rolling pin or wine bottle or whatever you can use to roll out some pie dough.

I place the dough in the middle of the floured counter and start working the dough away from me while turning a quarter-turn after every roll. I make sure to keep plenty of flour on the roller and surface.

I roll my pie dough out to about one-quarter inch thickness with a little extra heft.

I then use the rolling pin to roll the dough up to transfer it to the pie tin (you can use a bottle of wine for this too). I make sure not to press down on the dough while it’s on the rolling pin. I then roll the pin back and unfurl the pie dough over the tin.

I lift the edges of the dough up, which allows the dough to fall into the bottom edges of the tin. I gingerly use the back of my index finger to adhere the dough into the edges, making sure never to stretch the dough.

Finally, I use this weird old three-tined fork that was left at some apartment I moved into somewhere to flute the edges. I basically just push down on the edge of the pie tin with the fork tines and let it slide off the tin, creating the pattern you see below. The tines also cut the excess dough off at the same time.

I place the pie crust back into the fridge for a final ten minute cool down before putting everything together.

Step 5: Bake The Pie

The last step is a crucial one which way too many home cooks skip. You need to run your pie filling through a fine sieve. This is how those French cremes get their airy nature before they’re brulee’d. Running pumpkin pie filling through the sieve takes an extra minute or two but will give your pie a real velvety body. You just have to be patient and work the filling through the sieve with a rubber spatula.

Once that’s done, I fetch my pie crust from the and fill it with the filling. It should come to within a quarter-inch of the top. That’s plenty, as the filling will expand as it bakes.

I place the pie tin on a baking sheet (this is more for ease of transport in and out of the oven than anything else). I place the pie into a 425F/220C oven for 15 minutes. This high temp bake will set the crust (in essence blind baking the crust without having to blind bake it separately).

After 15 minutes, I turn the oven temp down to 350F/175C and set a timer for 40 minutes. After 20 minutes, I turn the pie around and close the oven.

When my timer goes off, I check the pie. It’s still not quite set in the middle. You can tell if you give it a very gentle giggle and there’s still a soupiness to it. You want to avoid that. On this pie, I ended up setting my timer for another ten minutes.

After another ten minutes (65 minutes in total), my pie was done. The giggle in the middle of the pie is more like a firm Jell-O. That’s good. The warmth of the pie will radiate and finish baking the pie as it sits on the counter. It’ll continue to set up from there.

You’ll need to let this pie rest for a minimum of four hours. The puffiness will settle back into the body of the pie as seen below. You’ll know you can cut into it when you can pick up the pie tin and the bottom is room temp to touch.

After four excruciating hours of waiting (and a trip to the grocery store to pick up some vanilla ice cream), my pie was ready to dig into. I slice it into eight portions and start lifting out slices.

This was an exceptional pumpkin pie. The filling was mildly spicy, subtly sweet, creamy, airy, and full of fruity pumpkin earthiness. The crust was spot on. It was flaky, with buttery crisp edges and a nice savoriness thanks to that lard.

Just look at that crispy flaky crust in the photo below. That’s what you want in a pie crust. It’s the building block of the perfect dessert to power you through the end of the year.

Paul George was one of the players to see their NBA 2K rating fall off from the start of the season to the end of it, in large part because of his underwhelming playoff performance in the Bubble.

Speaking with Ronnie 2K ahead of the release of the updated NBA 2K21 player ratings, George not only correctly guessed that he had fallen from a 93 to an 88 in the game, but pledged to improve for next season, not only so that his rating would tick back up but for the Clippers to avenge their second-round loss.

“This is going to be an amazing training going into this next season,” George said. “I’m going to predict I’m around a 95. (For) 2K22, I’ll be like a 96.”

George’s comments here are the first we’ve heard from him since the Clippers fell to Denver in seven games in the second round and George’s “Playoff P” nickname was memed endlessly online. It sounds like George, a top-3 MVP finisher during the 2018-19 campaign, is dedicated to a return to form in 2021.

As an avid gamer himself and someone who is typically pretty involved with NBA 2K, it probably does sting for George to see himself fall off from an MVP candidate in 2019 with a deserved low-90s rating all the way to an 88, which puts him in line with younger players like Devin Booker or Donovan Mitchell.

Thanks to his infamous habit for using social media platforms to make official presidential statements (and almost daily rants), you’d assume that the password to Donald Trump‘s Twitter account would be extremely secure and impossible to crack. Not so much, apparently.

Last week, Dutch security expert Victor Gevers reportedly gained access to the president’s Twitter account by simply guessing Trump’s password, which was not difficult to do. After only four failed attempts, Gevers hit the jackpot by typing “maga2020!” and soon found himself able to view Trump’s direct messages, post tweets, and change his profile. In fact, the whole thing was so terrifyingly easy to do that Gevers actually panicked and began alerting government officials. Via The Guardian:

So, he tries to warn others. Trump’s campaign team, his family. He sends messages via Twitter asking if someone will call Trump’s attention to the fact that his Twitter account is not safe. He tags the CIA, the White House, the FBI, Twitter themselves. No response.

According to Gever, Trump’s Twitter account eventually activated two-step verification the next day, and it is, of course, mind-boggling that the feature wasn’t already being used to protect the President of the United States’ preferred method of communication. Even more concerning is the fact that this wasn’t the first time that Gever accessed Trump’s account. Along with two other accomplices, Gever correctly deduced Trump’s password back in 2016, and once again, it was jarringly easy to guess: “yourefired.” We’re not security experts, but maybe the president should hire one to pick his passwords from now on. Preferably before someone figures out his new one is “hotivanka19.”

(Via The Guardian)

Last weekend, Run The Jewels teamed up with Adult Swim to perform the entirety of their recently-released RTJ4 record for their Holy Calamavote concert special. Once again working with Adult Swim, Run The Jewels return with a cleverly animated visual accompanying their RTJ4 album opener “Yankee And The Brave (Ep. 4).”

The visual is directed by Sean Soloman and animated by Titmouse, who has created shows such as Big Mouth and The Midnight Gospel. It opens with El-P and Killer Mike on a high-speed car chase with some evil robot cops. The duo manage to keep their distance, swerving away from an old lady crossing the street who the robot cops end up fatally hitting. Eventually, Killer Mike is held up in a convenience store but manages to perform a quick get-away thanks to El-P’s help.

In a statement about the video’s creation, Titmouse founder and president Chris Prynoski said, “Killer Mike and El-P would f*ck up some robot cops in real life, so I consider this animated music video for ‘Yankee And The Brave’ a documentary — that documents the future. The prophecy of Run The Jewels has flowed through the Titmouse animators’ hearts and into their pencils. You can watch it before it happens as magical, moving drawings.”

Watch the “Yankee And The Brave (Ep. 4)” video above.

RTJ4 is out now via BMG. Get it here.

It may be only in video game form, but for the first time since 2014, Brock Lesnar is making his long-awaited return to the Octagon as a DLC character in UFC 4.

Joining the former UFC heavyweight champion are fellow fighters Jennifer Maia and Askar Askarov, in addition to all-new vanity items available just in time for Halloween.

Lesnar will be available for download until Friday, October 30. Players who haven’t purchased UFC 4 just yet can jump into the Octagon as well with Free Play Days until October 22 until Sunday, October 25.

The new Halloween vanity items will drop on October 22 and October 29, including more than 40 new cosmetic items, including a skeleton set and skulls and roses shorts.

Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champion, hasn’t fought since 2016 but is currently a free agent after his WWE contract expired earlier this year and the two sides were unable to agree on terms of a new deal. Lesnar’s last bout was ruled a no-contest after failing a pair of drug tests in the lead up to UFC 200. He had verbally sparred with former two-division champion Daniel Cormier on a potential return bout, even jumping into the Octagon to confront him after his win over Stipe Miocic, but nothing ever materialized.

It’s been a while since Beyonce last released a new collection from her Ivy Park athleisure line with Adidas, but it looks like the Beyhive will soon have new gear to work out in — even if we’re all really just working from home. Beyonce first teased the upcoming drop a few days ago on Instagram with a cryptic photo of a poppy field captioned “Drip 2 October 30.” Of course, that was all it took to send her fans hunting for their credit cards but it still took a few days to see what she had in store — pun intended.

Today, Beyonce and Adidas Originals finally shared the first glimpses of the new collection via a tongue-in-cheek, infomercial-style video combining VHS workout tape references with some interview audio and fashion-commercial-esque quick cuts for an ad that is equal parts informative, funny, and enticing. Who wouldn’t love to see Beyonce doing her own Abs Of Steel-style workout tapes (my ’90s kids feel me on this one)?

The teaser arrives just a day after Beyonce interrupted her own promo campaign on social media to share a statement on the current police brutality protests in Nigeria. She was also recently celebrated by DC Comics as a “Wonder Woman Of History” in a graphic novel anthology for Wonder Woman Day.

With Pennsylvania continuing to be a tense battleground state in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Michael Keaton felt compelled to film a special endorsement directed at his home state, and he brought out the big guns to do it.

In the ad endorsing Democratic candidate Joe Biden, Keaton introduces himself by his full name of Michael Keaton Douglas and reveals that he grew up in a small Western PA mill town just outside of Pittsburgh. However, the actor is keenly aware that average folks aren’t exactly itching to listen to Hollywood celebrities, and he certainly doesn’t blame them for that, but he makes a very compelling argument: “Let’s be honest, I’m frickin’ Batman.” From there, Keaton highlights Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus response as he goes on to prop up Biden, who’s also a PA native, as a decent, honest man who can “right the ship.”

As for his decision to make a rare political endorsement, Keaton told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that, “All bets are off. This is too important, this election.” In an interview with the the local station, he again stressed a need to listen to the experts, which has been sorely missing during the pandemic. “Really listen to scientists, really listen to teachers. Really listen to people who know more than I know,” Keaton said. “But if I can do anything, I feel it’s my responsibility to do a little something.”

The Biden endorsement also popped up on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live where Keaton was asked who is the best Batman ever, and the Mr. Mom actor didn’t even hesitate when it came time to answer. “Me,” he said without a shred of doubt.

(Via Pittsburgh’s Action News 4)

Gus Dapperton has shown that videos are more than an afterthought for him with visuals like “Post Humorous.” Now he’s back with another clip, a cerebral “First Aid” visual.

The clip starts with Dapperton getting into a disagreement with somebody before the clip zooms into the inner reaches of Dapperton’s brain. There, he is chained and beaten up before reconciling IRL. Dapperton says of the video, “This video was definitely a passion project. From the inception of this idea it’s taken us about a year to finally finish it. I’m so thankful for the team that worked with us on this and so thankful we were able to accomplish this idea during covid.”

In a recent interview with Uproxx, Dapperton also said of “First Aid,” “It’s about these deeper and darker thoughts I’d neglected to be a strong person — but in reality, being a strong person is about confronting those feelings. When I’m feeling depressed and lost in the world, there’s not many things that help me. Therapy doesn’t help me very much. But putting it into the music is very therapeutic for me.”

Dapperton also hosted a livestream leading up to the video’s premiere, during which he chatted with fans and played a couple songs.

Watch the “First Aid” video above and read our interview with Dapperton here.

Orca is out now via AWAL. Get it here.

Ever since Miley Cyrus revealed her upcoming album She Is Miley Cyrus sounds “super rock and roll,” the singer has been purposefully pivoting more toward the genre. Just before the singer announced she was making an entire album of Metallica covers, Cyrus transformed her backyard into a stage to share a cover of Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” for her MTV Unplugged session.

Taking the backyard stage in a shimmering dress, Cyrus delivered an animated rendition of the song backed by two acoustic guitars. The singer managed to stay true to her own style as she leaned on her textured voice to infuse some soaring melodies to her lyrical delivery.

Along with the “Just Breathe” cover, Cyrus transformed a handful of her favorite songs from across genres. Throughout her Unplugged session, the singer gave renditions of Cardigans’ “Communication,” Britney Spears’ “Gimme More,” Nico’s “These Days,” and the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.”

Ahead of her MTV performance, Cyrus said Metallica has been her inspiration behind her upcoming album. “In my sets, I cover Britney Spears to Metallica, so my record will be reflective of who I am, which is just kind of all different pieces of inspiration and influence,” she said.

Watch Cyrus cover “Just Breathe” above.