One of the best sneakers in the Jumpman library is the Air Jordan 4. This is one of those shoes that will always be timeless, and Jordan Brand is constantly looking for interesting new things to do to it. As it turns out, Jordan Brand knows exactly what to do next as sources have told Complex that they are planning a Nike SB x Air Jordan 4 collaboration that will come out in the Spring of 2023.
The sneaker pictured below is the Air Jordan 4 “Zen Master” which is not affiliated with this aforementioned collab. As it stands, no one knows what the colorway of this shoe will be, however, it is known that the shoe will be made with skateboarding in mind. Nike SB will also replay the Nike Air branding on the back heel. Having said that, there is no doubt that this is going to be one of the biggest collaborations of 2023.
For now, there is no release date for this sneaker, so stay tuned to HNHH as we will continue to bring you updates throughout the run-up towards March of next year. Let us know what you’re hoping for from this collaboration, in the comments section down below.
Time flies by and we don’t even notice it. One day, we’re covering North West’s birth, the child of Kim Kardashian and Ye, f.k.a. Kanye West, and the next, we’re seeing how much she’s grown. Kim Kardashian posted a pic with her oldest daughter on Instagram that has rather shocked fans to see her growth.
North was born in 2013, and Kim and Ye went on to have three more children together: Saint (born in 2015), Chicago (born in 2018), and Psalm (born in 2019). Even despite Kim and Ye’s messy divorce, the two have continually shown love to their children at every chance they get. Kim recently posted a cute video of North singing along to “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto. In a new episode of The Kardashians, it was also revealed that Ye takes his kids to school in a fire truck to show he’s a “super-dad.” He consistently talks about his family struggles in his music, whether it’s on his recent track with XXXTENTACION or his feature on Pusha T’s It’s Almost Dry with the song “Dreamin’ of the Past.”
Beyonce, Kim Kardashian with daughter North and Anna Wintour attend the adidas Originals x Kanye West YEEZY SEASON 1 fashion show during New York Fashion Week Fall 2015 – Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Fans on Instagram were quick to marvel at North’s growth. Some users drew comparisons between the two (“North slowly becoming Kim,” wrote one user), while others compared North to Kim’s other sisters like Kourtney and were in general shock and awe (“WHEN DID SHE GET SO GROWN”, exclaimed another user).
We hope Kim and North had a great night together and that the family is doing well. You can see more reactions to their picture together below.
There’s at least one more album from Brockhampton that we’ll receive before they formally disband but it appears that members of the group are already positioning themselves for prosperous solo careers. Merlyn Wood has been working heavily in the past few months, delivering a slew of serious bangers. This week, he shared his latest offering, “Green Light.” The rowdy banger has tinges of old school Three 6 Mafia production, down to the chants and hook’s repetition, but Merlyn Wood’s energy carries the record with braggadocious bars.
In April, Brockhampton performed their final shows together as part of Coachella. They also announced that the final album from Brockhampton will be dropping later this year. We’ll keep you posted on that. Check out Merlyn Wood’s new single below.
Quotable Lyrics I woke up feeling like a Gucci ad lib I am a real n***a that is not in Paris You a fatherless bitch and that is apparent You ain’t got no style, boy, you apparent Make your girl run a mile, it’s a Merlyn marathon
The existence of the Hulu documentary Look At Me: XXXTentacion is sort of perplexing. XXXTentacion was an artist who was almost excessively documented. Blogs, magazines, and newspapers covered what seemed to be his every move — starting with the move that kickstarted his infamy. Oddly enough, with all that documentation, it seems the enormity and repugnance of that initial move were never truly reckoned with, despite the Florida-born artist emerging at the height of an era in which nearly everyone can obsessively and thoroughly document their own lives, in real-time for audiences of thousands (the film seems pretty disinterested in doing so, as well).
Against those circumstances, the new documentary raises more questions than it answers, and the one hovering over all of them is: Who is this for? Produced by XXXTentacion’s manager, his mother, and the co-founder of The Fader magazine, the two-hour production functions at first as a biography. There are interviews with pivotal figures in X’s early career such as his former manager and friends like Ski Mask The Slump God. However, early problematic behavior like beating up another young man for a live stream on Periscope is characterized as simply marketing tactics or the reckless behavior of an exuberant personality. That’s the first sign of which way this documentary seems to be heading.
The tension increases upon the introduction of Geneva Ayala, the young woman who dated X shortly after some of his initial success — and who he nearly beat to death in horrific instances of alleged domestic abuse that were again recounted in lurid detail in court documents that surfaced in the years-long case that was never resolved. Ayala describes herself as “lost” as she continued her troubling, controlling relationship with XXXTentacion. It takes nearly an hour for the film to finally address the elephant in the room, and then strategically placed title cards seem to cast doubt on Ayala’s assertion that she was pregnant when X attacked her. She also admits to infidelity, which you can’t tell me isn’t another strategic move to undermine Ayala as a victim.
This is where XXXTentacion’s story highlights the grotesque of the entertainment industry. As X languishes in jail but receives heightened attention as a result of the gruesome charges against him, labels come calling, looking to capitalize on the publicity — no matter what it implies about their prospective partner. And while scenes recounting his record deal negotiations rightly reflect X’s business acumen at such a young age, they also — perhaps unintentionally — indict those who looked at him as a cash cow rather than a troubled young man who needed a different kind of help.
The movie reverts back to an examination of his album recording process for 17 and the album’s resulting success. Throughout the course of this act of the documentary, recordings are dredged up to reflect XXXTentacion’s fractured mind state — his paranoia, depression, and anxiety. It’s almost like the film is begging for sympathy for him, as if his talent and his mental illness could justify or excuse his behavior. While the filmmakers never shy away from the things he did or deny them, it’s hard to shake the sense that the producers — the people closest to him, who benefitted from his career the most, even as they likely had the most responsibility to get him into counseling or encourage him to restore his victims — are bargaining for absolution for themselves.
That sense comes through strongest in a round table scene toward the tail end of the film in which X’s aunt laments that X’s abuse hung over his head and defined him as much as his music. “How do you fully redeem yourself if every time, on every corner, it just keeps popping up?” his mom wonders. An off-screen interviewer counters, “How do you redeem yourself without ever admitting that you did something wrong?” The answers are as vague as X’s own responses on the issue; a focus on judgment, on his sense of personal accountability, the potential of his lost life. X’s mom offers her belief that he would have changed if he’d only gotten the chance — but would he? And what does it say about his fame that so many were so willing to excuse him if he didn’t?
That’s the true tragedy of a life cut as short as XXXTentacion’s was: We’ll never know. Yes, with more time, he could have turned his life around, perhaps in prison, perhaps on probation, perhaps years or even decades later after much therapy and self-reflection. But the flip side of that, the one this movie and X’s fans and the whole entertainment apparatus that benefitted from covering his blowups, his meltdowns, his triumphs, his failures, and yes, even his untimely demise can’t seem to acknowledge is that he could have stayed the same. He could have gotten worse. That’s the “complex” part of having a “complex legacy.” Look At Me, which seems to be as much for Jahseh’s closest associates to salve their guilty consciences as anything else, never really wants to look at that.
October’s Very Own just became October’s Very Wealthy. Last Saturday, Drake posted a screenshot of the Canadian gambling site Stake showing he won $1 million after betting on the Golden State Warriors to win the NBA Western Conference finals against the Dallas Mavericks. Drake has made historic bets before, both on and off the court. […]
Kyle Lowry was a huge get for the Miami Heat this season. After playing numerous seasons with the Toronto Raptors, Lowry decided it was time for a change and the Heat were right there to snatch him up. Lowry brought championship pedigree to this Heat team and unfortunately, it didn’t pay off all the way as the Heat lost to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Lowry experienced some injuries throughout the postseason and in the ECF, Lowry was disappointing at times. In one game, Lowry scored zero points and it was clear that he was struggling with his shooting. These struggles never really went away, and it hurt the Heat badly by the end of it all.
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Following the game, Lowry was clearly frustrated with how things played out and he even had some striking remarks about the team’s season. Essentially, Lowry felt as though it was all for nothing, which is precisely how he didn’t want his first season with the team to go.
“It was a wasted year. If you’re not playing for a championship, it’s a waste of a year,” Lowry said.
The Heat have a chance of doing big things next season, although it remains to be seen whether or not the East will offer them a path to such success.
Let us know what you think of the Heat season, in the comments below.
Now, it seems as though the two were able to resolve things fairly amicably. We say this because Tory and Madonna were spotted sitting with each other at Gervonta Davis’ fight over the weekend. In fact, the two seemed pretty close to one another and they were definitely having a great time, especially with Davis taking the fight via sixth round knockout.
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Prior to the fight, Madonna and Tory were spotted backstage and it led to a quick question about the nature of the fight itself. As you can see down below, Tory was adamant that Davis would end up winning in just five rounds although he definitely gave a wishy-washy answer. Madonna acted in a chummy manner following this answer as she nudged at Tory with her big fan. Needless to say, it is clear that they were each other’s date.
It remains to be seen what the nature of their relationship is, however, it is good to see them on good terms following such a public callout that could have ended very badly.
