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Bebe Rexha has been a fixture in the pop world for a while now and her songs always help build her already massive following. On Friday, the pop star decided to come through with a brand new effort called “Die For A Man” and if you are an avid hip-hop fan, this is certainly a song to check out as it comes with a short yet sweet verse from Lil Uzi Vert.
The production on this one is what you would come to expect from a hip-hop-influenced pop tune. The drums are tight while the synths and flourishes all help to enhance Rexha’s voice. Lyrically, the artist sings about relationships and how she prefers to mask her feelings as a way to protect herself. Uzi’s verse matches this energy and overall, they sustain solid chemistry throughout the track.
Quotable Lyrics:
I would never die for a woman ’cause women got other men too
I only die for my gang, that’s the only way, or I would die for the money if the shit was all blue (Blue)
Uh-huh, ’cause I am on a whole another level in my thinking when it comes to this life, I can never change
DJ Pharris and G Herbo are no strangers to collaboration, having previously connected in 2019 on the Young Dolph-assisted “Boss.” Now, Herbo and Pharris have joined forces once again, this time bringing CEO Trayle into the mix for their hard-hitting new banger “Knowledge.”
Off the top, Herbo sets things off with no shortage of smug charisma, flaunting the fact that he ultimately found himself in a higher standing than many academics. “That don’t make you smarter than me cause you went to college,” he taunts. “There’s people out here PHDs and shit and they don’t have a dollar / I didn’t take my SATs but I live better than the scholar.” From there, Herbo continues his unrelenting pace, attacking the beat with a variety of different flows. C.E.O Trayle slides through to close this one out, his restrained approach a welcome contrast to Herbo’s relentless energy.
Check it out for yourself now, and sound off if you think DJ Phariss, G Herbo, and CEO Trayle have a monster on their hands.
That don’t make you smarter than me cause you went to college,
There’s people out here PHDs and shit and they don’t have a dollar
I didn’t take my SATs but I live better than the scholar
Houston rapper Travis Scott‘s long-awaited return of the Astroworld Festival is officially secured. The hip-hop star has announced the mighty comeback of his jam-packed and music-filled Texas takeover. Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival Returns Cactus Jack’s huge event is slated to go down this November. For 48 hours, attendees will get to experience a lineup of […]
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Coi Leray has done her part in making her presence felt, having proven adept at social media marketing and crafting infectious melodies. Ever since she first previewed her breakout single “BIG PURR” on Instagram, many were excited to see how the full track would sound. Upon its release, the Pooh Shiesty-assisted “BIG PURR” became an instant hit, earning praise for its back-and-forth delivery and sinister production.
Today, Coi Leray has emerged to capitalize on the track’s momentum, coming through to drop off some cinematic visuals shot by Reel Goats. Featuring Leray in full Catwoman form, the melodist dons a revealing leather ensemble while engaging on an action-packed murder spree. It’s no exaggeration to say she’s literally busting a move, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with goons and dispatching them with dexterous maneuvers.
All the while, Pooh Shiesty plays it cool, counting money and stroking his diamond with the confident demeanor of a crime boss. Unfortunately for Shiesty, his guards are no match for Leray’s martial prowess and pinpoint accuracy, and before long she’s making off with his prized possession. Expect this one to continue, as the narrative was left open-ended in its final moments.
What do you think about the action-packed video for “BIG PURR?”
Do athletes even endorse sneakers anymore?
Don’t get us wrong, Jordan is still the biggest name in footwear. And when a hot new sneaker designer bursts onto the scene, best believe they’re going to want to put their spin on a fresh pair of Jordans above all else, so we don’t imagine another name is going to surpass it anytime soon. But big names are coming (relatively) close, and none of them are known for their skills on a court.
We’re talking not about performance shoes but “performer shoes” (a term dubbed by DJ Clark Kent) — made by people like Kanye West, who has now realized his dream of making a pivot from the hottest rapper in the game to the hottest sneaker and streetwear designer with his Yeezy Brand; Pharrel Williams, who has been toiling away at Adidas for a minute now with his Hu line; J Cole who seems to be constantly pumping out Pumas and actually has the hoops skills to bring in ballers; Bad Bunny, who — despite starting it all off with a few Crocs — is now two for two with his Adidas collaborations; and Beyonce, who continues to make tremendous leaps with each drop of her Ivy Park line.
It’s undeniable that, save for Virgil Abloh and Aleali May, the most exciting sneakers to drop right now are coming from the world of hip-hop. And no name is more exciting than La Flame — yes, we’re talking about Mr. Cactus Jack himself, Travis Scott. Together in partnership with Helmut Lang, Nike, and Jordan Brand, Scott has been dropping some of the most hyped sneaker releases of our modern era of streetwear, offering remixed designs of the aforementioned brand’s most popular silhouettes draped in Scott’s signature dusty desert aesthetic and vibe.
Over the last three years, Scott has dropped 14 sneakers and today we’re here to rank every single one of them from worst to best. Let’s dive in.
Amongst fans of Scott’s sneaker collaborations, these are absolutely hated. It’s easy to see why. I mean… look at ’em!
Some people feel that hate is overkill, arguing that these are slept on but they still deserve their spot at the bottom of this list. It’s not simply that they’re bad — this army olive mesh upper and brown suede heel panel is a pretty solid design for the XXXIIIs and pretty emblematic of the looks to come — but it’s just so boring in comparison to everything else Scott has done with Nike.
It feels mean to place any Scott shoe dead last, but it’s hard to argue that this is better than any of the other shoes on this list.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan XXXIII Army Olive at GOAT.
Before Travis Scott started lending his aesthetic to classic Nike and Jordan silhouettes, he linked up with Italian designer Helmut Lang for a sleek all-black high-top and low-top sneaker. The Helmut Lang collaborations are soft of an anomaly in the lineage of Travis Scott sneakers, but looking at it does make us wonder what the Cactus Jack label would’ve looked like if it never linked up with Nike. Thank God it did!
Featuring a nylon upper with leather and velcro straps across the heel and upper, the Travis Scott x Helmut Lang was made in Italy and features graphic bull imagery on the tongue and Helmut Lang branding on the heel tab.
It’s… okay. Just that and nothing more. Definitely a step up from the XXXIII, though.
The Travis Scott x Helmut Lang Low Top is currently unavailable on the aftermarket.
Originally, we ranked this one last. It’s a three-way collaboration that coincided with the release of the Playstation 5, which just felt like tacky branded overkill. But the more we look at the design — which is actually kind of dope and borrows from the OG Playstation’s look for its colorway — the more it grows on us. This one is certainly a grower.
We still don’t like the Sony branding on the heel (Playstation logo can stay) but we can’t sit here and pretend that the Jordan XXXIII is somehow better than this sail and light blue upper, with its charcoal grey reverse swoosh and embroidered branding.
Find the Travis Scott x Playstation Nike Dunk Low at StockX.
You’ll notice that Scott has a definite preference for Nike’s more retro silhouettes, so the Air Max 270 Cactus Trails is unique in that this is one of the most futuristic-looking Cactus Jack sneakers released yet, thanks to the aerodynamic design of the 270. It’s ironic that it’s also the most artificially aged, with a yellowed midsole and a messy mix of textile, nubuck, and TPU Overlays over a dirty cream colorway.
It really earns its moniker “Cactus Trails,” this is a grimy, dusty mess of a design.
Find the Travis Scott Nike Air Max 270 React Cactus Trails at GOAT.
Travis Scott’s long and fruitful collaboration with Nike begins with this take on the Air Force 1. Released in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the silhouette, this white canvas take on the AF-1 dropped at ComplexCon 2017 and featured interchangeable removable swooshes that were meant to evoke Scott’s trademark grill.
The laces have a Cactus Jack logo covering them and the whole thing sits atop a contrasting gum sole. It’s perhaps most notable for looking so different than the designs that would come to define Scott’s work with Nike.
Find the Travis Scott Nike Air Force 1 Low White at StockX.
The High Top version of Scott’s Helmut Lang sneaker is a massive improvement over the low. This may be the last time this particular sneaker stays in the top 10 as Scott and Nike have a bunch of rumored releases planned for Holiday 2021. Enjoy your spot, Helmut Lang Highs!
Featuring the same nylon upper with leather paneling and straps as the low, the Helmut Lang high tops are super sleek, militaristic, and represent a Travis Scott era that feels like a distant memory. Not much to say about these that we haven’t said already with the low tops, this is just an all-around better design.
The Travis Scott x Helmut Lang High Top is currently unavailable on the aftermarket.
The Cactus Jack Air Force 1 has always had a Sean Wotherspoon vibe to us. We know what you’re thinking, “WHY BECAUSE IT HAS CORDUROY???” Yup, that’s exactly why. Do you really think this zipped corduroy lace shroud would exist without Wotherspoon’s Air Max 97, which dropped two years earlier? You’re tripping. Wotherspoon MADE corduroy.
The AF1 Cactus Jack features a graphic canvas upper, a brown swoosh on the outer, a black swoosh on the inner, and sits atop a gum outsole. It’s a dope design, but it’s just a little too busy. A comfortable mid-tier release by Scott.
Find the Travis Scott Nike Air Force 1 Low Cactus Jack at GOAT.
This low-top version of the Jordan I borrows the design of the more iconic high-top version with a mocha and black nubuck leather upper and that polarizing backward swoosh on the lateral side. The backward swoosh actually looks bigger here (it’s not) making the sneaker look unlike a Jordan I, that’s kind of cool. The medial side panel features Cactus Jack lining in university red, making another appearance on the tongue, with the Air Jordan Wings on the heel tab.
This is pleasant and middling. Perfectly functional but not going to make a huge scene.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan 1 Retro Low Mocha at GOAT.
This Sail colorway of the Air Force 1 was Scott’s second release with Nike and built upon the all-white colorway that preceded it. The canvas upper and removable shiny swoosh is still here, but this Sail colorway just works so much better with the gum outsole and canvas construction. It feels like a true transitional sneaker between Scott’s first Nike drop to the more earthy and worn designs that would come to define the Cactus Jack aesthetic.
Find the Travis Scott Nike Air Force 1 Low Sail at GOAT.
We considered not even including this sneaker, as it’s a close friend and family-only release and never had a retail release, but it’s just too clean to ignore. It’s also currently available at StockX, which means someone isn’t being a good friend (we wouldn’t have done you like that, Travis!). This moody Jordan IV features a suede upper in a deep purple with black accents and a grey lace cage.
It’s easily one of the best colorways we’ve ever seen of the Jordan IV period, it’s almost cruel this wasn’t released to the public. Scott has a few more friends and family colorways, but none reach this level of perfection, which makes the StockX sale sting even more.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan 4 Retro Purple Suede at StockX.
This is a totally personal take, but this pair brings up a lot of nostalgia for me. The bandana-inspired paisley overlays capture so much of the imagery of growing up in and around East LA. This sneaker looks like my childhood, filtered down into a shoe.
The SB Dunk Low Cactus Jack is significant because it’s Scott’s first skate sneaker, utilizing Nike’s ridiculously popular silhouette, dressing it in a tan leather base with plaid quarter panels, paisley overlays, and canvas that tears away to reveal an earthy camo pattern that kind of resembles Nike’s elephant print (but isn’t quite that).
The design is rounded out by thick rope laces, the whole thing really captures Scott’s Cactus Jack aesthetic — muted, yet psychedelic. Scott and Nike have a whole slate of Dunks that are supposed to drop in late 2021, we’ll see if they can match this take.
Find the Travis Scott Nike SB Dunk Low Premium QS at GOAT.
Released at the end of 2019, the Jordan VI features an almost militaristic olive green nubuck and suede upper with a little stash snap pocket on the outer collar. At the time of release, it felt like this was the perfect music festival sneaker to hide your stash in. The idea of going to a concert still seems novel, and this is the second time we’re ranking Scott’s whole sneaker output. Another handful of Travis Scott sneakers will likely drop before we are able to see the rapper perform live again. That’s just sad.
Scott rocked this colorway at the Super Bowl 53 halftime show, leading to its coveted status amongst sneakerheads and Travis Scott fans alike. The design is rounded out by a glow-in-the-dark translucent outsole with sail and university red accent work. Scott has yet to drop something that tops this design since its debut release.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan 6 Retro at GOAT.
Are the little pockets and zippers stupid and gimmicky? Yes. But forced utility aside, the British Khaki Jordan 6, Scott’s first sneaker of 2021, is in every way an improvement over 2019’s Olive colorway, which it clearly builds off of. Featuring a suede and canvas upper dusted in a mix of British Khaki and Sail, it’s the Bright Crimson accents on the heel, tongue, and branding that really pull this design together.
On top of this earthy colorway, a glow-in-the-dark sole and heel tab adds a nice psychedelic edge to the look, while seamlessly blending in with the rest of the design, never dipping into gimmicky territory, despite you know, being glow in the dark.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan 6 Retro British Khaki at GOAT.
There were several times I came close to ranking this as the number one pick, and while ultimately I contend that it’s probably (probably!) not the best Travis Scott sneaker out there, it is my personal favorite. This use of Nike’s university red and blue here is just beautiful, with its blue Durabuck leather upper and a red collar and insole. Inspired by the Houston Oilers, Scott’s hometown team, the Cactus Jack Jordan IV’s are rounded out by a core black lace cage and heel panel with university blue speckles, and feature Cactus Jack and Jumpman branding on the left and right heel respectively.
I’m already regretting not giving it the number one slot, but not enough to bump it up… yet.
Find the Travis Scott Jordan 4 Retro Cactus Jack at GOAT.
It feels almost cliche to rank the Mocha Jordan I Retro High as Scott’s best, but this sneaker release has managed to become emblematic of Cactus Jack as a fashion entity now three years after its original release. The large over-sized backward swoosh looks very gimmicky by today’s standards (though we don’t know that it didn’t always) but that mix of mocha suede paneling again a sail leather upper with university red accents is still one of the silhouette’s best colorways.
Since this insanely popular drop, Nike has since borrowed this same exact color scheme for a stock Air Jordan I, which we actually prefer, since it doesn’t have the backward swoosh. But hey, that’s just us.
Find the at Travis Scott Jordan 1 Retro High at GOAT.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is currently one of the best players in the NBA and when it comes to endorsements, he is treated like it. Giannis is currently in the midst of a deal with Nike and just a couple of years ago, he unveiled the Nike Zoom Freak 1 which was a solid entry into the signature sneaker space. In 2020, Giannis came through with the Nike Zoom Freak 2, and later this year, the Zoom Freak 3 is expected to hit the market.
Now, Giannis is looking to get into a similar market as LeBron, by showing off a sub-model that will be part of a new line that is separate from his Zoom Freak offerings. This new shoe is called the Nike Giannis Immortality and as you can see, it is a cross between a lifestyle shoe and a basketball sneaker. From the chunky midsole to the mesh upper, this sneaker has a few tricks up its sleeve, and we’re sure it’s going to attract some eyes, especially when you look at this stealthy black colorway.
For now, a release date has yet to be announced so keep it locked to HNHH as we will bring you all of the latest updates.
If there’s one thing Azealia Banks is going to do, it’s sharing her opinion. The 29-year-old musician has been around for nearly an entire decade, somehow managing to remain culturally relevant despite a lack of chart-making releases. While not everyone has heard her new music, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve seen at least one of Banks’ infamous rants on social media, calling out artists left and right and complaining about how she’s perceived by the public.
The rapper recently called out DaBaby, Chief Keef, XXXTentacion, and other artists for being “literal abusers” and she didn’t slow down when the week was coming to a close. Azealia continued her musings after noticing that a fan called her “problematic.” She had something to say about that term, arguing that she’s definitely not the most problematic person in hip-hop.
“I REALLY LOVE YOU GUYS DEFINITION OF PROBLEMATIC,” she started on Instagram Stories. “Having an opinion is problematic but but being recorded on camera beating women up (da baby/chief keef) driving around with dead bodies in cars (ynw melly), and committing murders then rapping about it (bobby shmurda) is not problematic.”
It’s pretty easy to disagree with most of the things that Azealia Banks says but many find that she has a point with this. While she is pretty problematic in the fact that she has boiled and cooked her deceased cat on Instagram, bought a little girl’s skull on the dark web, and more, she hasn’t ever been accused of any horrific crimes, which instantly makes her less problematic than some of the artists being championed today.
Do you agree with what Azealia is saying this time?
Moneybagg Yo is at that stage where he’s on the verge of another level-up, having recently reached a new tier of stardom. Signs of such elevation include an album hitting the triple-digit sales marker, as he recently achieved with the release of A Gangsta’s Pain. Other such signs include a boosted booking rate, as evidenced by Moneybagg Yo’s staggering fee of two-hundred-thousand per show.
Clearly, the Memphis rhymer is on an upward climb, and as such, has set his sights on collaborations that reflect his newfound scope. Taking to Twitter, Bagg extended the invitation to Ariana Grande, making it known that he not only wants her on a song, but needs her on one. “I Need Ariana Grande On A Song,” he writes, his mind-blown emoji suggesting the desired effect such a collaboration would elicit.
While some were skeptical as to how the two artists would fare on a duet, many were quick to note Moneybagg’s versatility on A Gangsta’s Pain, with certain melodic cuts highlighting his potential for crossover appeal. Not to mention that it wouldn’t be the first time Ariana Grande linked up with a rapper, having previously worked with Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Future, 2 Chainz, and the late Mac Miller. It would certainly be interesting to see her and Moneybagg connect on wax, a collaboration that would potentially bring no shortage of new fans to the rapper’s cause.
Check out his open invite to Ariana Grande below, and sound off if you’ve been keeping A Gangsta’s Pain on steady rotation. For more from Moneybagg Yo, check out our Digital Cover Story with the rapper right here.
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