NBA Youngboy is sporting a new look. In his latest music video for “Emo Rockstar”, the rapper is wearing makeup and feeling like a rockstar. NBA Youngboy Says Makeup Makes Him Feel Like A Rockstar NBA Youngboy is expressing another side of his personality in his new song and video for “Emo Rockstar.” The rapper-rockstar, […]
These past couple of weeks have been hell for the NBA. The league is trying to curb the spread of COVID-19, but nothing seems to be working. Numerous teams have multiple players out with the virus, and to make up for this, teams are signing numerous players to 10-day contracts. It has been a difficult time to navigate, and over the past few weeks, Adam Silver and the NBPA have been negotiating new rules for those who have been placed in quarantine.
As it stands, all players must quarantine for 10 days or give two negative COVID tests in a row. If you are unvaccinated, you have to quarantine for 10 days no matter what, which ultimately puts your team at a huge disadvantage on the floor. Now, however, that time frame might be getting a significant reduction.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the NBA wants to shorten the quarantine period to just six days, on a case by case basis. The NFL is about to hop on a similar plan so it only makes sense that the NBA would want to follow suit. After all, most of the players who are out with COVID are asymptomatic, and many of them believe they should be able to get back on the floor as quickly as humanly possible.
This is a developing situation, so stay tuned to HNHH as we will be sure to bring you all of the latest updates from around the NBA.
A congressional committee has launched an investigation into the promoter of the Astroworld music festival in Houston. During the Astroworld Festival tragedy, ten people were killed due to a massive crowd surge. Astroworld To Be Investigated By Congress The information the congressional committee requested included details about security, crowd control, and mass casualty incident planning. […]
The Nike Dunk Low silhouette has had the sneaker game in a choke hold. A low-top version to the Peter Moore designed Dunk High, the sneaker has held its own against more favorable retros like the Nike SB. With some help from highly-anticipated collabs like Travis Scott, Ben & Jerry’s, Grateful Dead, and Off-White, the Dunk Low has easily become one of the most sought after sneakers of the year. Colorways like University Red, Brazil, Champ Colors, Kentucky, Syracuse, and a few more notable pairs also helped revive the silhouette. Retailing around the $100-$120 mark, the sneaker is pushing four digit resale values for pairs.
Anticipating another round of releases, the Dunk Low is getting some paisley accents in 2022.
Instead of dipping the entire sneaker in paisley, Nike is going for a more reserved look, limiting the print to just the swoosh and the heel tab. The “Paisley Pack” also features a white leather base, nylon tongue, and laces. The pack will most likely come with additional laces for that desired lace swap. The colorway of the sneaker also goes for a more two-tone look with either deep green or sky blue on the uppers – a perfect look for the spring. The “Paisley Pack” does not have a determined release date but shoes are expected to hit select retailers and Nike SNKRS in early 2022.
The 2021 Dunk Low era released colorways that included grey fog, black/white, sail, multi-camo, and many more. Nike is expected to continue their aggressive release of the Dunk Low next year.
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Ever since capturing the Presidency back in 2020, there has been a lot of talk about whether or not President Joe Biden will actually run again in 2024. After four years of Trump, Biden considered himself to be a transition president who would lay the foundation for a younger generation to take over. Vice President Kamala Harris is suspected to be frontrunner for the Democratic Party in 2024, while others think someone like Pete Buttigieg would be cut out for the job.
Recently, however, Biden made some interesting comments about the next election. While speaking to ABC News, Biden revealed that if he’s healthy and in good spirits, he would like to run again. He feels like he still has the competitive spirit, especially if it means running against the likes of Donald Trump again.
“But look, I’m a great respecter of fate,” Biden said. “Fate has intervened in my life many many times. If I’m in the health I’m in now — from a good health. And, in fact, I would run again.”
Of course, a lot can happen between now and 2024, so Biden’s plans could be changed in an instant, especially as he gets up there in age.
Either way, 2024 is shaping up to be an interesting political year, especially with various different issues becoming more important than ever before.
Coming into this season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers knew it was going to be difficult to repeat as Super Bowl champions. After all, quarterback Tom Brady is getting older and fans are still waiting for his fall off to enter its final form. For now, however, the Buccaneers are still very good, and they are approaching the playoffs as favorites to win the NFC. Unfortunately, with a few injuries to key players, their hopes at defending their title are starting to dwindle.
For instance, the team will be without Leonard Fournette for the foreseeable future, all while wide receiver Chris Godwin is gone for the season with an ACL tear. Godwin is one of the best receivers on the team, and he is a weapon that Brady needs in order to be successful.
Having said that, it should come as no surprise that Brady is going to miss Godwin moving forward. According to reporter Carmen Vitali, Brady spoke on Godwin’s absence today and admitted that it is a very unfortunate loss for the team. In true Brady fashion, however, he wants the Buccaneers to have a no excuses attitude. After all, this roster is still packed with talented individuals who know how to overcome adversity and win a title.
Brady has been the underdog in the playoffs before, and every single time we think he’s done, he proves us wrong. So far, he has given no indication that he plans on slowing down, anytime soon.
Upon posing on the daring album cover for Heaux Tales -– with a statuesque Jazmine Sullivan in her translucent biker shorts glory -– the Philly-bred singer-songwriter put longtime fans on notice that they were in for a new era. On Heaux Tales, Sullivan’s first effort in six years that comes in 5th in the 2021 Uproxx Music Critics Poll, she unlocks personal terrain through unflinching narratives of insecurities, sexual conquests, and materialism. Leading a fellowship of close friends who share spoken vignettes of their most esteemed and regrettable experiences as women, Heaux Tales finds Sullivan becoming a new vanguard of feminism in music, giving voice to Black women who are still in search of themselves.
On previous albums Fearless, Love Me Back, and Reality Show, Sullivan had all the makings of a rising soul icon, with ambitious songwriting, genre-bending production, and belty vocals. In comparison to Heaux Tales, her content was bereft of intimate portraits that she sought for Black women listeners, an intention that she aimed to reach during her post-Reality Show hiatus. Taking a breather from music to shake the aftereffects of leaving an abusive relationship, Sullivan returned with profound strength, seeking to interview her friends about their own trials in love and loss. With her sister circle willing to record their innermost thoughts and conversations as interludes on Heaux Tales, their words give an intrinsic, meditative texture to the EP.
In an Essence interview with Issa Rae, Sullivan spoke about the collaborative purpose behind Heaux Tales:
“For this project, it was important for me to share the stories of the women I love and hold dear to my heart. I feel like they are just as banging and dynamic as me. And I want to give space and opportunity to women, period. I feel like we get caught up in thinking there’s “only one” of us.”
Rapt with harrowing interludes that center one woman at a time — with gospel-tinged “Donna’s Tale” practically being a sermon on ‘tricking’ in relationships –- Heaux Tales is an R&B canon of solidarity. Mirroring spoken interludes in piercing, soul-baring song form, Sullivan honors the resilience of Black women, with respect for their most vulnerable musings. On album opener “Bodies,” she acts as a guilt-ridden conscience following a drunken night out and sobering morning where Sullivan doesn’t recognize who she’s woken up beside. While triggering, “Bodies” resonates with Black women who endure their own personal misogynoir about “pilin’ up bodies on bodies on bodies.”
Sullivan’s vocals act as a sinew for the expressive, conversational therapy of Heaux Tales, where listeners are invited to relate to honest monologues without shame. Raised by a playwright mother and poet grandmother, Sullivan closely followed her matriarch’s teachings, scripting emblematic ballads that trace each tale. Instead of Sullivan titling her friends’ ruminations as interludes, she lauds them as ‘tales,’ preserving their messages and putting them center stage.
In the introductory interlude, “Antoinette’s Tale,” Sullivan’s friend and podcaster Antoinette Henry tackles the patriarchy by revering women’s ownership over their sexuality. The interlude shifts into lead-single “Pick Up Your Feelings” a searing call to men to let go of control and broken relationship ties. Like the beatnik production on “Pick Up Your Feelings,” during the Heaux Tales performance round-up earlier this year, Sullivan was occasionally seen donning ’60s-esque mod attire and hairstyles, which can be interpreted as an homage to the legacy of Black women in R&B and soul.
Segueing into “Ari’s Tale,” narrated by Shea Butter Baby delight Ari Lennox, the singer recalls being mesmerized under the sexual dominance of a former partner, praising various deities and hypnotically repeating “this is just my truth.” Before joining Lennox on the salacious, sex-amped anthem “On It,” Sullivan grapples with sexual infatuation over haunting a Key Wane production on “Put It Down.” While controversial for its message of sponsoring undeserving men, “Put It Down” rings true with women who’ve been disoriented in the throes of lust.
Following “Donna’s Tale,” where Sullivan’s godmother Donna Anderson reveals lessons in ‘tricking,’ Heaux Tales lands into its sole collaboration with a male artist. Featuring Anderson .Paak, one-half of Silk Sonic, “Price Tags” is a raspy, harmonic ode to women getting their money up by taking advantage of naïve men.
“Price Tags” is trailed by “Rashida’s Tale” where Sullivan’s friend Rashida Northington describes a moment of infidelity where she cheated on her former fiancée with a friend of the couple. Sullivan’s vocals softly cascade in the background of Northington’s account, arriving at “Lost Ones” where the singer reveals that “sometimes it’s too late to make amends.” On Heaux Tales, there’s no room for judgment, just women coming face-to-face with deep-rooted taboos. There’s power in acceptance.
In an interview with Pitchfork, Sullivan spoke about women taking accountability for their mistakes in order to give themselves grace:
“In order to move on and heal and enjoy the life that you’re still living, you have to forgive yourself. I was going through that process while making the project, and I want other women who I know are feeling the same way to know that it’s okay. Learn from your mistakes and move the eff on.”
Heaux Tales takes those mistakes and turns them into passages of healing. With Sullivan’s robust vocals being an anomaly in the current age of R&B. the album is an embodiment of #ProtectBlackWomen, venturing through unguarded stories that transform into empowering wisdom.
As Sullivan’s strongest effort yet, Heaux Tales instantly garnered widespread critical acclaim for its truth, the singer nabbing two 2021 Soul Train Awards for Album of the Year and Best R&B/Soul Female Artist. At the 2021 BET Awards, Sullivan won Album of the Year, and in the 63rd Grammy Awards in 2022, the vocalist will be up for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Performance, and Best R&B Song, the latter two nominations for “Pick Up Your Feelings.”
With minimalist soundscapes, Jazmine Sullivan’s evocative impact shines through. Leading a crusade of Black women through their plights, Heaux Tales is a stirring gaze into the unapologetic future of feminism.
This season has already been one to forget for the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, they could very easily turn things around right now, however, it’s not going to be that easy. The team is playing with no chemistry at this point, and fans are sick and tired of the subpar product. Russell Westbrook’s addition to the team brought forth optimism, but now, there are is a certain pessimism regarding whether or not he’s even going to be with the team past the trade deadline.
After another bad loss to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night, Westbrook actually spoke about the team and what they have to do moving forward. As you can imagine, there was a lot of frustration in his voice, and at this point, the team is simply fed up of being asked the exact same questions all the time.
“I mean that’s obvious. Everybody knows that, but nobody cares. They don’t want to hear that. That’s just reality. Because every game we get asked the same question of ‘Hey, can you guys figure it out.’ But everybody obviously knows that we haven’t been able to see what our team can actually be like thus far,” Westbrook said. “But we understand that, and like I just said, our job is to be able to keep our head down, stay locked in on one common goal and that’s at the end of the year just winning a championship and to do that is not going to be easy. It’s not going to be an easy road. And we understand that and have to stay with it and continue to move forward.”
With Christmas coming soon, the Lakers are going to need some sort of miracle to become contenders again. If you’re a Lakers fan, all you can do is pray at this point.
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