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SOURCE SPORTS: Fans Betting Big on Indiana Fever’s Surging Season

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Sports fans are rallying behind the Indiana Fever like never before, with BetUS.com reporting a significant surge in bets on the Fever to surpass 17.5 regular-season wins. The line, which went live today, has drawn heavy interest, with over 85% of bets placed on the ‘Over’ at -135 odds.

BetUS.com, the original online sportsbook now in its 31st year, attributes this betting frenzy to the Fever’s impressive turnaround this season. The team is enjoying its most successful run since 2016, with playoff hopes alive for the first time since the Tamika Catchings era. Fans and bettors are showing confidence in the Fever’s young core, led by standout rookie Caitlin Clark and seasoned guard Kelsey Mitchell.

“We’ve been amazed by the overwhelming support for the Fever to break through this season,” said Tim Williams, Director of Public Relations for BetUS. “Bettors are clearly buying into the Fever’s potential to make the playoffs, and the team’s recent performance has only added to that excitement. Given their favorable schedule and growing confidence on the court, it’s no surprise the public is backing them to hit the Over.”

As the Fever’s momentum builds, their path to the playoffs looks increasingly promising, bolstered by key tiebreakers and a favorable schedule. For those eager to join the Fever’s hot streak, BetUS.com offers the chance to back Indiana’s rise.

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Ice-T Torches A Fan Who Claims “Law And Order: SVU’ Has Gone ‘Woke’

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Ice-T has had a fascinating career. He was a superstar rapper in the 1980s, but for the past two decades, he’s best known for his role on Law & Order: SVU. The guy who once rapped about killing cops has made a whole second career out of playing one. That said, Ice-T still has a way with words. He got caught up in a Twitter exchange with an irate SVU fan on August 27. He didn’t hold back. Ice-T took the fan to task when they criticized Ice-T and the rest of the cast for making the show “woke.”

The whole thing started innocently enough. Ice-T tweeted that he was returning to the set of SVU to start filming new episodes. A follower then asked whether the show would go back to normal after what he considered a lackluster season. “Did they write SVU back to normal yet,” they asked. “It started to go woke.” Ice-T then wrote back with a pretty hilarious response. “What the f is woke,” he tweeted. “Lol like I give a f*ck.” Why he decided to censor the first f-bomb but not the second is beyond us, but it worked. A second user doubled down on the “woke” accusations with a bizarre and specific explanation as to what the term meant.

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Ice-T Managed To Insult John Wayne Is His Exchange

“Woke means tearing down my John Wayne statues,” the second user posited. “And forcing me to erect a Spider-Man fountain that sprays gay beer on my lawn that turns it into astroturf.” Ice-T had yet another hilarious response tucked away. “That sounds Dope,” he quote tweeted back. “F John Wayne.” Ice had fun roasting the guys in his replies, but he did drop a third tweet clarifying his political stance. His stance is that he tries not to get involved with politics in public spaces. “I stay outta Political sh*t,” he explained. “Like I said before… The Blue Vs The Red… It’s GangBangin to me.”

Ice-T has acknowledged the complications of playing a cop while being critical of law enforcement as a whole. He told Variety that he can understand why some fans view him as a hypocrite. “People have said that our television shows are police propaganda,” he noted. “I understand that argument.” After noting that he was the “furthest thing” from a cop in real life, Ice-T explained that SVU creator Dick Wolf hired him to play a cop that strikes to do right. “If I play the cop that we need,” the rapper posited. “I won’t have any problems with it.”

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Cordae And Anderson .Paak Take Us On A Ride In “Summer Drop” Music Video

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Cordae and Anderson .Paak don’t get enough credit. Every song these two make together is a heater, and their latest, “Summer Drop,” is proof. We already did a rundown on the song itself, but the duo have dropped a music video to accompany it. Unsurprisingly, it is also great. Cordae and Anderson .Paak tap into the laid back vibe of the J. Cole instrumental by riding around a neighborhood with the windows down. The duo appear to be having a blast, and honestly, the energy is infectious.

Cordae is going for a very particular aesthetic on his upcoming album. “Saturday Mornings,” his last song with Lil Wayne, and “Summer Drop,” both evoke a 90s nostalgia. The way each set up is shot to evoke an old school music video, the switches to grainy black-and-white. Cordae is bringing back the rap music of his youth, but putting his own spin on it. There’s nothing kitschy or annoyingly retro about the “Summer Drop” video. It tips its cap to the summer anthems of the past while still having enough of a modern feel to connect with fans in 2024.

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Cordae Evokes His 90s Childhood In New Video

A big part of why the balance works is the on screen chemistry between Cordae and Anderson .Paak. In their body language and their reference points, the duo evoke groups like De La Soul and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Even the title of Cordae’s upcoming album, The Crossroads, evokes Bone Thugs. The rapper is clearly feeling wistful, and it manifests in his lyrics. “I saved up the whole summer, that’s how I got school clothes,” he raps. “I bought some Puma’s and some fake chains, that was fools gold.
“My n**ga, what you know about those hot summers? No air condition.”

Anderson .Paak, as always, balances out Cordae’s reserved delivery. The instantly recognizable singer drops a memorable opening verse about his success, and how his life has changed so much since he was a kid. “I’m in my other drop, from beanies to buckets. A hundred bucks in my Polo socks,” he spits. “Remember when summer dropped, we was at Unclе’s spot. Three n**gas with nothin’ to do but wrestle or slap box.” Honestly, we can’t wait to hear the rest of Cordae’s album.

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Drake Playfully Cites Joe Budden And Duke Dennis As His Selfie “Influences”

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Drake’s selfie face has become a renewable source of comedy for fans and haters alike. Everybody has seen a Drake photo and thought, “he’s doing too much.” The rapper knows this, and he decided to have some fun with his selfie reputation on Wednesday night. Drizzy hopped on his main Instagram profile for the first time in over a week to post some new selfies. What looked like a typical photo drop, though, was actually a means of poking fun at the men who “influenced” his style.

The first photo sees Drake doing another dramatic selfie face in a mirror. The second, though, is of Duke Dennis. Yes, the gaming YouTuber. The third photo is of Joe Budden. Yes, the rapper-turned-podcaster who has been beefing with Drake for the better part of a decade and a half. Drizzy made sure to choose photos in which Dennis and Budden are giving the camera their most “seductive” face. The photos are made all the more hilarious by the fact that Drake follows them up with two photos of himself looking, well, ridiculous with similar facial expression.

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Drake Made Fun Of His Own Mirror Selfies

The caption that the 6 God attaches to these photos says it all. “I’m not aware of my picture or mirror face,” he writes. “It’s a curse from birth and I’m influenced by what I see.” It’s safe to say that nobody was expecting Drake to post photos of Duke Dennis and Joe Budden of all people. Not really the guys who come to mind when thinking of the rapper’s influences (Budden musically, but still). Duke Dennis has reacted to a lot of Drake songs, like most YouTubers, but the two have never publicly interacted. It just goes to show that the 6 God really likes to spend time online when he’s not recording or dropping 100 Gigs on our headtops.

Drake’s decision to post Joe Budden is intriguing, given the podcaster’s recent comments. The two men have never seen eye to eye, but Budden praised Drake during a recent pod. He felt like Drake was doing a good job of recovering after losing the Kendrick Lamar battle. He went as far as to say that he liked the last batch of songs Drizzy dropped on his 100 Gigs site. Drake has been charitable with another former enemy, Kanye West, by giving him a recent Instagram follow. Maybe the same thing is happening with Budden. It’s probably just a troll, though.

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MGK Blames White Fans For Stigmatizing White Artists In Hip Hop

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MGK had a lot to say during his appearance on the Impaulsive podcast. He popped off on UFC star Sean Strickland, which we covered in detail here. The rapper also had a bone to pick with a specific subsect of his fans. MGK feels that white rappers are unfairly stigmatized, and the group of people who are to blame are, well, white. He cited various instances throughout his career in which he was made to feel unworthy or less lyrical than his African American peers. He claimed that the people who made him feel that way were the same color as him.

“I won’t deny that there is a subconscious stigma around that, being white in hip hop,” MGK noted. His answer did catch the Impaulsive hosts off guard, however. “To me, it’s so funny because the streets f*ck with me so tough. It’s honestly from other white people that give me the most sh*t.” MGK then said that his goal was to be able to overcome this stigma. He claims he did, but it did, admittedly, take moving to another genre for a couple of albums before coming back with new bars. “That’s the goal,” he stated. “And to me, I crossed that.”

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MGK Cites Eminem As An Exception To The Rule

It’s not an MGK interview if there’s not some mention of Eminem, though. The rapper has a complex relationship with Slim Shady, and it’s safe to say the complexities are reciprocated. Eminem did, after all, reference MGK on his new album. He also joked about the rapper sleeping with his mom. But we digress. MGK pointed to Em as a rare instance of a white emcee being embraced by white and Black fans alike. “The crazy thing is, there’s only been one who’s done it,” MGK asserted. “There’s only been one who’s done it and crossed that line of ‘we accept.’”

This is not the first time MGK has waxed poetic about whiteness in hip hop. During a 2022 interview with DJ Semtex, he pointed to his appearance as a hindrance. “[I] feel like right now, my biggest hindrance in why you don’t hear things like, ‘MGK is lyrically hot’…[is] the white thing,” he claimed. “Mixed with the fact that I don’t dress like the normal Hip Hop person.” The rapper’s recent discussion of the topic on Impaulsive definitely had a bit more tact. Not much, but a bit more.

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Big Sean Drops Two New Songs On Soundcloud Ahead Of Album Release

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Big Sean is ready to share his new album with fans. The rapper has been through a lot to get Better Me Than You made. He had to struggle through album leaks, personal setbacks, and health scares. He even considered delaying the album and reworking what he already had. In a recent Instagram Live, however, Big Sean confirmed that he would be giving the album to the fans in its original form. It turns out, Sean is giving us two new songs in advance as well. The rapper shocked Soundcloud users on Wednesday night by dropping a pair of Better Me Than You standouts.

The first song, “Fighting Fires” was teased as a Kanye West collab. Big Sean previewed the song way back in July, but West is no longer on it. The new version gives fans an update on where the rapper is at in his life. Big Sean raps hard over a soulful, drumless beat, reflecting on his career and how he stacks up against peers. It has a mature feel, which aligns with the way that Big Sean has been moving during the Better Me Than You rollout. It really seems like he’s moving differently than he was when he was younger. A song like “Fighting Fires” is sonic proof.

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“Fighting Fires” Sees Big Sean Repurpose A Ye Beat

“Dirty Work” has a similar feel to “Fighting Fires.” There are drums, but both songs are built around a chill soul sample that lends levity to Big Sean’s words. Once again, there’s a lyrical focus on legacy, and what has really become important to the rapper the older he’s gotten. The title refers to the difficult things one needs to do to progress as a person. Sean repeatedly notes that he’s willing to do the “dirty work.” Both “Fighting Fires” and “Dirty Work” are missing from the leaked Better Me Than You tracklist. That said, it could be a case of Big Sean simply reworking the titles.

Big Sean’s rollout has been unorthodox, but his excitement to share music with fans shines through. It’s something he talked about during the aforementioned live stream. “I’m excited, and that’s one thing that my mom said,” he relayed. “She said, ‘Get excited.’ Like, ‘Drop your album; it’s fire.’ I appreciate my mom for being that guardian angel always giving me that advice. She really talked me through it for real.” We can’t wait to hear the full album when it officially drops on August 30.

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