Drew Brees officially retired from the NFL on Sunday which means the Saints have a whole new quarterback situation to deal with. Many felt like they would be going with Jameis Winston, while others feel like Taysom Hill is the logical way to go. Regardless, the Saints have some salary cap problems to deal with and on Sunday, they announced exactly how they are going to solve those issues.
Despite this, many fans don’t actually know what a voidable contract is, which ultimately led to a ton of confusion on social media. Fans were enraged that a player like Hill could get such a massive deal, and it led to a whole lot of hilarious Twitter reactions.
In the tweets below, you can see just what people felt about this new contract, and whether or not they felt like Hill deserves it. Of course, it’s important to note that these reactions were born out of confusion. We’re sure even Hill would be surprised if he actually saw $35 million per year.
At every Grammy Awards ceremony, there are winners and losers.
Here, though, “loser” is a relative term. If you’re an artist who is doing so well that you’re at the Grammys at all, it’s hard to imagine that you’re anything but a winner. That said, if you’re particularly confrontational, “loser” might be what you call somebody who was nominated for an award and did not win that award. On the flip side, you could say that some artists didn’t lose: they won the right to keep their title of nominee (at the cost of not getting promoted to winner).
Then there are cases where you don’t need to glass-half-full the truth to declare somebody was a winner, whether they went home with a trophy or two or otherwise excelled during music’s biggest night. Last night’s Grammys ceremony was full of people who had different levels of success, so let’s get into who thrived and who didn’t quite do that, as well as who offered some of the evening’s biggest surprises.
Winner: Megan Thee Stallion
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Meg had one of the best winning percentages of the night, taking home three of the four Grammys for which she was nominated — she won Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song (both for “Savage”), and Best New Artist, but didn’t claim Record Of The Year.
Outside of the awards themselves, Meg was notary-like with how she put her stamp on the evening. She and Cardi B made more modest-minded music admirers mad with a performance of “WAP” (more on that in a second). Even the Grammy Meg didn’t win, she kind of did win it. While Billie Eilish accepted the Record Of The Year trophy, she got behind the podium and mostly spoke about how Meg should have won it instead of her.
Loser: The structural integrity of “WAP”
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It’s true that “WAP” was probably the biggest song of 2020. It’s also true that it wasn’t made for TV (or for any audible medium at all, according to Ben Shapiro). So, when it was revealed that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion would be performing the hit during the Grammys broadcast, fans were ready to see a non-insignificant portion of the song left on the cutting room floor. That was true to the extreme. The lyric sheet for this version of the track looked like a brand new Madlibs book. I’m sure Cardi and Meg did all they could to bring “WAP” to the Grammys and they still delivered an entertaining few minutes of television, but the performance came across like they didn’t secure the rights to the song, so they got as close to actually performing it as they could without getting into legal trouble.
Loser: Jhené Aiko
As is tradition, the Grammys took a very long time. Even before the actual ceremony, there was the also-lengthy Grammy premiere ceremony, which the Recording Academy roped Aiko into hosting. Between that and the actual show, it was a long, grueling day for Aiko and she didn’t even end up winning any of the three Grammys for which she was nominated.
Thankfully, Aiko is an optimist. The hosting gig was a personal triumph for Aiko, as she wrote on Twitter, “i conquered a major fear of public speaking today by hosting the freaking Grammy Premiere Ceremony!!” She was even cool with not taking home a trophy, as she tweeted, “i know what its like to lose… do u? do u?! lol,” later adding, “what a crazy day! but its all good. love you all so much.”
i conquered a major fear of public speaking today by hosting the freaking Grammy Premiere Ceremony!! thank you @RecordingAcad for having me!! see u at the show after i take this lil cat nap
In some ways, the Grammys are a popularity contest: If some no-name (not Noname) from the middle of nowhere made one of the year’s best songs, they’re probably not going to win a Grammy for it. The Recording Academy further proved that with their pick for Song Of The Year, as HER took home the prize over people like Beyonce, Roddy Ricch, Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Dua Lipa, and Billie Eilish. While HER is certainly a successful artist and “I Can’t Breathe” is an impactful song built on meaningful social justice themes, she’s not exactly a household name and her victory certainly left many viewers feeling like Michael Bluth:
Winners: Fans of normalcy
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Over the past year-plus, pretty much every aspect has been entirely different than it was pre-pandemic. That includes The Grammys, but the fact that the ceremony even happened at all is a grounding force. Yes, the show wasn’t really like previous broadcasts in any way, but it was also as close to normal as any sort of live music event has been since early 2020. Considering the circumstances, the Recording Academy excelled with their broadcast. Delayed ceremony aside, one thing music fans have been able to count on towards the start of the year is finding out what music and artists the Recording Academy “secret commitees” deserve to be honored, for better or worse.
Losers: Fans of normalcy
That said, the whole thing was a bit weird, right? During performances, there were probably too many cuts to Trevor Noah and other artists in the room to forcefully drive home the point that everybody was actually there IRL. Those shots just hit different when it’s just one or two people side-stage instead of a big seated audience. Then, when the performances were done, the golf-level applause didn’t make the Grammys seem as epic as they usually do. Going the NBA route and piping in artificial fan noise wouldn’t have been a bad move.
The Recording Academy faced an impossible problem, but they still managed to put on a functional and entertaining show that offered plenty of highlights and made you forget this is an atypical Grammy year. Ultimately, though, it often felt less than grand, which, again, is really nobody’s fault.
Winner: Performance aesthetics
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Sure, let’s flip this topic of Grammy normalcy around one more time. Usually, artists and their crews only have a few minutes to get an elaborate performance set-up onto the singular Grammy stage at the Staples Center. This year, though, the set-up made things different, arguably better. The multiple stages on-site allowed for performers to get their own look going in their own space, all with minimal time between performances. In an aesthetic highlight, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner were all able to take to a mini cabin in a mystical-looking forest, for example, it feels like that something that gorgeous may not have been possible in a traditional Grammy year. Lil Baby’s cinematic performance that addressed police brutality definitely wouldn’t have been an eighth as impactful on a traditional stage.
Surprise: Jojo Rabbit
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Taika Waititi himself would agree with this pick, as it seemed like he didn’t really expect the Jojo Rabbit soundtrack to win Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media over films like Frozen 2 and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga. Waititi offered a simple “Lol wtfffff” on Twitter in reaction to the news, and during his acceptance speech, he noted, “I guess they’re just giving Grammys to anyone now! I’ll take it, thank you.” He went on, “It was so long ago, I can barely remember anything about making that movie — but it seems like it’s never going to go away, and I’m happy about that.”
So, if you don’t remember the Jojo Rabbit soundtrack, it’s OK because Waititi probably doesn’t either.
Winner/Loser: Masks
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Whether this is a winner or loser is a matter of perspective. Audience shots at awards shows are usually the most fruitful vine from which to pluck plump, dank memes of celebrities who didn’t expect the camera to be on them at a share-worthy moment. In that regard, music fans and internet jokesters lose. Masks could be seen as a major victory for artists who didn’t pick up a trophy, though, considering a wearable specifically made to cover the lower half of your face makes it a heck of a lot easier to hide your disappointment when you come away from a category empty-handed. Frustrated cursing no longer has to be under your breath!
Winner: The entire Carter family
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The Beyhive would never let me hear the end of it if I declared Beyonce a loser, so thankfully, she had an amazing night. For years, she has been climbing up the all-time Grammy wins list, and she made history this year by picking up more trophies to become the woman and singer with the most Grammy victories.
That would have been enough to get her on this list, but that was just one aspect of a multi-pronged night for Bey. She and Megan Thee Stallion became the first women to win Best Rap Performance with “Savage,” and on top of that, her daughter Blue Ivy managed to become one of the youngest Grammy winners ever. Jay-Z was the only member of his immediate family to not directly win a Grammy this year, except even that’s not quite true since he has a writing credit on the “Savage” remix.
So, in what was perhaps the least surprising takeaway from the evening (or from any day, really), the Carter family is doing quite well.
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DaBaby had one of the most exciting performances at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, but it had the chance to be even more entertaining. According to the rapper, who was interviewed by Entertainment Tonight before the ceremony, he actually tried to get JoJo Siwa, whom he dissed in a new song this year, to perform with him and publicly squash their beef.
Out of nowhere, DaBaby angered fans when he randomly came for JoJo Siwa, the popular child star. The in-your-face teenage sensation didn’t entertain DaBaby’s issues with her, which led to him calling her a “b*tch” in his “Beatbox Freestyle” but he later told the world that he had no issues with the 17-year-old. “@itsjojosiwa my 3-year-old princess is your number 1 fan,” he said on Twitter a few weeks ago. “I bought her every product you have out. She think she you. Don’t let em trick you into thinking id ever have a problem with you. My word play just went over their heads. All love on my end shawty, Keep shinning!”
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During his interview with Entertainment Tonight, DaBaby addressed the issue another time, clarifying that there’s no problems between himself and Siwa and telling fans that he actually tried to get her to perform with him at the show.
“I actually reached out to see if she wanted to perform with me at the Grammys,” said the North Carolina-bred rapper on the red carpet. “But I heard she’s somewhere working on a project of her own. I won’t say too much. I don’t want to put her business out there. She’s somewhere filming something, though, but I definitely reached out.”
DaBaby performed his hit record “ROCKSTAR” with Roddy Ricch early on, setting the tone for the performances of the night.
Do you think Twitter would have blown up if JoJo Siwa made an appearance during DaBaby’s performance?
Atlanta’s own Slimelife Shawty, who recently inked a deal with Lil Durk’s Only The Family records, has recently dropped off his brand new single “No Brakes.” Opting to hold it down on the solo front, Slimelife takes to a melancholic piano trap banger and fires off two verses worth of wrath and retribution. “I’ma let this cutta ride, I’ma shoot up how ’em killed my man and how my brothers died,” he raps. “Turn me up, don’t turn me down, fuck the other side, they just other guys.”
There’s something deeply honest about his approach, which gives Slimelife Shawty’s “No Brakes” a welcome authenticity. Stylistically, Shawty’s brutal depictions of street life are given deeper subtext by the pain evident in his voice. Yet as he tells it, the pain only served to turn his heart cold. “Them n**as forget me in, I know they lesson learned,” he raps, turning his back without flinching. “I know they feelings hurt, I know they heart burned.”
Check out “No Brakes” now, and sound off if you’re eager for more from Slimelife Shawty.
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Taking these drugs, I hope I don’t die, I been thinking about suicide I don’t wanna wake up tryna shoot nobody, this lifestyle do or die Might go cop that brand-new Benz, tryna put my mom inside it
Air Jordan 1 colorways are plentiful every single year. Sneakerheads can’t seem to get enough of the shoe and it’s easy to see why when you consider how the silhouette can be matched with virtually any outfit you may think of. In 2021, there are a plethora of Air Jordan 1s on the horizon and it seems like the Summer is going to be an especially great time for the model.
One of the colorways that will be dropping is the “Electro Orange” offering. In the post below courtesy of @zsneakerheadz, we have our best look yet at the colorway. As you can see, the shoe has a mostly white base to it, all while the overlays are black and the upper heel area is orange. This subtle pop of color is going to be turning a lot of heads and if you need more orange in your life, then these are an obvious cop.
So far, the release date has been set for July 17th of this year although Jordan Brand has yet to confirm these details. With this in mind, keep it locked to HNHH as we will be sure to bring you all of the latest sneaker updates.
Also, let us know what you think, in the comments below.
The new beverage is a partnership with Anheuser-Busch and it marks a priority for both Travis and his partners for the long-term. It is launching with three different flavors: Pineapple, Strawbetter, and Lime. The 7% ABV seltzer made with 100% premium blue agave from Mexico.
“Finally getting CACTI out into the world and into the hands of fans is a surreal moment for me and the team,” said La Flame about the launch. “This has been something I had a strong vision for and have wanted to do for a while. It was important to me to be heavily involved in the entire creative process; from the flavor obviously, to the can design, packaging and the entirety of the brand world we’ve built. I sought to create a beverage brand that was unlike others in the market. Our Agave Spiked Seltzer is super refreshing and smooth, and the brand in general is something that I’m super proud of. We built this project from the ground up together and this is just the beginning.”
Watch the new commercial above and check out CACTI wherever you normally buy beverages.
Drew Brees is one of the most legendary quarterbacks in the entire NFL. On Sunday, he decided to announce his retirement from the sport and since that time, a plethora of tributes and kind words have been pouring in. After bringing a Super Bowl to New Orleans, Brees has earned his status as one of the best to ever do it, even if he faltered a bit in his final few years.
Throughout his time in the NFL, Brees has had numerous great battles against Tom Brady, and the two have mutual respect for one another. In fact, after Brees’ announcement yesterday, Brady decided to take to Twitter where he congratulated Brees on a great career, all while explaining how the QB inspired him.
“Congrats my friend on an incredible career. Thank you for the inspiration and dedication on and off the field! Look forward to seeing what’s next @drewbrees,” Brady wrote.
Brady is getting up there in age as well although unlike Brees, he doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of decline. It remains to be seen when Brady will hang up his cleats, but coming off of a Super Bowl, it’s unlikely he’ll make that decision anytime soon.
The world-famous singer stepped into last night’s event as the most-nominated person on the show. She had earned nine nominations in total and, at the end of the night, she won enough awards to put her in the lead as the woman with the most Grammy wins in the history of the ceremony, also tying the record for the living person with the most Grammys.
Beyoncé won four prizes on Sunday night, including Best R&B Performance for “Black Parade”, Best Music Video for “Brown Skin Girl”, and Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for her feature on Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage”. With those wins, Beyoncé broke the record for the most Grammy wins by a woman, passing Alison Krauss, who previously held the record. She also ties Quincy Jones as the living person with the most Grammys with 28.
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While Beyoncé’s big wins marked huge moments for her, she was likely more excited about her daughter Blue Ivy Carter’s first Grammy win, which also took place last night. Blue Ivy won her first Grammy award, becoming the second-youngest winner ever.
Congratulations to Beyoncé and The Carters on such an outstanding achievement.
Conway The Machine has already put in work this year, having recently released his second collaboration album with Big Ghost LTD If If Bleeds It Can Be Killed. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as Machine is still sitting on the release of his anticipated Shady Records debut God Don’t Make Mistakes, set to arrive at some point later this year. While that’s already a prolific output, Conway has been known to push his pace even further, so don’t be surprised if the Griselda lyricist lines his calendar with even more surprises.
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Case in point, Conway recently took to Twitter to stoke hype with the reveal that a collaborative album with Benny The Butcher may or may not be in the works. After a fan requested that it manifest, Machine himself slid through with a promising update, indicating that it would be coming “soon, real soon.” Of course, that’s far from a concrete confirmation of its existence, though it does seem as if it’s something that both rappers have been considering. Given their Griselda connection — not to mention an actual blood relation — it does feel like it’s only a matter of time.
At this point in time, however, consider this to be purely speculative. It wouldn’t be the first time Conway has teased a mysterious album, having recently stoked the narrative that he, Eminem, and Alchemist were collaborating on a secret project. As per usual, patience is advised — though the time for Griselda dominance is certainly looming. Look for Benny The Butcher’s Plugs I Met 2 to drop this coming Friday, and stay tuned for further updates on what Conway has been readying.
New York rapper Pardison Fontaine is really, really, really thankful to have Megan Thee Stallion in his life. The hip-hop star has lit up social media with a major nod to the man in the sky for connecting him with everyone’s favorite Hottie. Pardison Fontaine Thanks God For Meg Fontaine hit up his Instagram page […]
love you all so much 
