Just a few years ago, Nike and Sacai made magic with the LDWaffle. This silhouette was an immediate hit amongst sneakerheads and the first few colorways proved to be extremely difficult to cop. With that in mind, it should be no surprise that Nike and Sacai continued their collaboration with a plethora of new colorways. The ensuing LDWaffle’s didn’t have the same hype as the first few, however, this is something we always tend to see with sneaker collaborations.
Now, however, Nike and Sacai are back at it, this time with the help of Undercover. Undercover has worked with Nike in the past, and now, they are lending their name to three new LDWaffle colorways that can be found below. The colorways in question are “Midnight Spruce/Pale Ivory/Dark Grey/University Red,” “Night Maroon/Pale Ivory/Ground Grey/Team Royal,” and “Black/Sail/Dark Grey/Bright Citron.” They are all unique in their own right, and Nike fans will certainly enjoy the variety.
It is believed that these will drop on October 29th for $170 USD through the Nike SNKRS app and various other retailers. Let us know if you plan on copping a pair, in the comments below, and stay tuned to HNHH for all of the latest updates from the sneaker world.
Dunks have been all the rage this year and Nike is making sure that they deliver a whole bunch of them to the market. From the Nike Dunk Low to the Nike Dunk High, fans have been eating well this year, and with the Winter on the horizon, Nike is looking to deliver some Dunks that can combat the elements. One such model is the Nike Dunk High Next Nature, which features fleece materials all the way throughout the upper. This makes the shoe perfect for fending off the snow on a winter day.
The latest colorway of the Nike Dunk High Next Nature is this “Summit White” variation which can be found below. This sneaker has a white toe box with some white material that goes up the sides and to the cuff. From there, we have some beige on the lower half, all while the front of the shoe has green overlays and the front has brown. A black Nike swoosh is found on the side to bring it all together.
As for the release date of these, you will be able to cop a pair as of November 3rd for a price of $130 USD. Let us know what you think, in the comments below, and stay tuned to HNHH for all of the latest updates from the sneaker world.
With the artist formerly known as Kanye West running around in spooky masks weeks before Halloween and pulling other attention-grabbing stunts like renting a room at the stadium in which he held the listening events for his latest album, it’s getting harder and harder to understand where the once-relatable artist is coming from. However, if anyone were to have a shot at coming close, it would be one of the two artists who most recently worked with West to secure a No. 1 hit record.
In a new interview with British GQ, Jack Harlow — who worked with Kanye West and Lil Nas X on the hit single “Industry Baby” — takes a stab at explaining Ye’s oddball behavior of late. “I think he sees himself as Mozart or Beethoven,” he guesses. “I think he’s worried, not about what it looks like now but what it will look like in 100 years. Take what happened with the Taylor Swift situation: at the time it was all pitchforks, but now people treat that as iconic. I am always fascinated to see what he does next. This Donda roll-out, people are going to remember that for years.”
People may remember the rollout, but the music itself received a lukewarm reception from both critics and fans. You can read Uproxx’s review here. Elsewhere in Jack’s interview, he addresses his often fraught relationship with race as a white hip-hop artist. “I think what has worked for me is that my music has never been about the fact that I am white,” he hypothesizes. “I don’t try to lean into the, ‘Hey, I’m the white boy.’ I try not to make it a novelty. I rap from the heart, rather than trying to do a white version of the art form.”
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Over the past year, the pandemic utterly upended any number of artists’ plans, forcing many to push back their projects, change them, or abandon them altogether. The latter almost happened to North Carolinian Dreamville artist Lute, who was in the midst of his rollout for his new album Gold Mouf when quarantines and lockdowns forced the shutdown of most of the music industry.
For Lute, it was also the beginning of a months-long depression that had him questioning his place in the game. Sure, he’s signed to Dreamville, the label project founded by fellow North Carolinian J. Cole and modern equivalent to one of the Big Three rap labels back in the day — you know, Roc-A-Fella, Murder Inc., Ruff Ryders — alongside Top Dawg Entertainment and Quality Control. Dreamville is where emerging superstars like Bas, JID, and Ari Lennox have honed their craft over the past several years.
It’s also where Lute released his own debut album, West1996, back in 2017. But in today’s modern rap landscape, four years is a long time for a new artist to have to wait for a follow-up — even with a standout performance on the Revenge Of The Dreamers III compilation alongside label head J. Cole and another then-burgeoning NC standout, DaBaby. In the meantime, many of his labelmates have released projects and generated buzz for themselves, threatening to turn him into an afterthought of the roster, lost in the wash.
Fortunately, for Lute, Gold Mouf is more than worth it and proves equal to any project from his compatriots, including last year’s Spilligion, which featured Dreamville standouts JID and Earthgang. A vulnerable, confessional, relatable jaunt through the past four years, the project is not just a paean to his personal growth, it’s a beautifully produced, well-sequenced call for us all to check in on our mental health. Songs like “Birdsong” with JID and Chicago rapper Saba unearth lyrical gems from the muck of the past year, while “Changes” featuring BJ The Chicago Kid diagrams survival through myriad struggles.
The secret sauce is sequencing from yet another North Carolina native: Phonte Coleman of Little Brother and Foreign Exchange, who stepped in and offered to help sequence the album and make it the heartstring-pulling affair that it became in preparation of its delayed release. On a Zoom call with Lute, the rapper details the origins of his Gold Mouf< character; discusses the importance of self-care; and reveals his most wild remembrance of the legendary Revenge sessions.
So I guess, what’s been going on with you in those four years? Because you started out in one place, and now you’re in a different place. How have things changed since West1996?
I mean, honestly, it’s just life. Life changed, and life had been the… Just dealing with shit and anxiety and depression, and just everyday life stuff, bro. But at some point, I had to realize that in order for me to move forward with my life, in order for me to move forward with myself just as a man and as a human being, I got to get control of the things that keep me from blocking my blessings, like my anxiety and depression and stuff.
So just trying to figure out what’s the next step. Once I figured out what it was that I was going through and what I was dealing with, it’s like, “What’s the next step to kind of conquer those things?” And I went through all the steps, to be real with you, every last, even the bad steps. So just living and learning, man. That’s all. That’s all this album is really about is living and learning and holding yourself accountable.
Yes, sir. No, I certainly do hear that all over the album, especially on the joint with BJ and the joint with JID and Saba. Those were very beautiful songs. I want to talk about where this Gold Mouf character comes from because I don’t think that I’ve really been able to find a lot about the origin of it, why this was your-
Well, for me, I’ll put it to you like this. How can I explain it? Have you ever seen Nutty Professor?
Yes, sir.
So Gold Mouf is, to me, what Buddy Love is to Professor Klump. I deal with anxiety and depression and shit like that. So for me, Gold Mouf is like my highest level of confidence. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a mask, but another persona of myself that’s like top tier. And then on Instagram, I’ll be messing around sometimes. I call myself “Big Ugly.” So Big Ugly is like my low self-esteem type sh*t, and Gold Mouf is like me at my highest. So when I feel like my best, I feel like I take on the role of Gold Mouf, kind of like how Clark goes in the booth, and he turns into Superman.
Absolutely. One of the things that, I guess, struck me was this album had a very interesting release, right? Because you started the rollout in March last year (with “Getting Every Dollar“), and I was gearing up. I was like, “Yo.” I was talking to the people like, “Yo, let me get on the phone with Lute.” And then just, nothing happened, because everything shut down.
And that was also the beginning of me going through my depression, so that kind of slowed everything down. The pandemic hit, then I went through my depression. So everything really slowed down for me. And I realized that I was so used to moving that by the time the pandemic hit and it slowed everything down, all my traumas and everything that I was running from, or everything that I didn’t heal from, caught up to me.
It was easy to go through something and be like, “Well, I ain’t got to worry about it right now, because I got to go on tour.” Or, “I ain’t got to worry about that, because I got this show.” Or, “I ain’t going to worry about that, because I got to be at the studio.” But when all that shit shut down and you ain’t got nothing to do, now, you got to figure all that out. And then I lost my cousin during the pandemic, not to COVID though, due to gun violence. And I lost a childhood friend of mine. I almost lost my dad as well.
So a couple of other things happened that kind of set me down in a little spiral, and I just had to pick myself back up. I had to find a way to get back in the game. But for a minute, I was kind of tapped out. I didn’t think I was even going to finish the project. I thought that was just about to be the end for me. “I think I’m done. I think I did what I could. I did the best I could. And now, I think I’m just going to gracefully bow out.” But I felt like that was like me being defeated talking, and I kind of had to get that out of my head and just get my ass back up. I had to get back up. I had to get back in the game.
Well, I’m glad you’re still here, man. I’m glad you stood up because it was worth the wait. One of my parts of the early rollout was when you were doing the “Gold Mouf Chronicles” videos, which I thought were hilarious and very on point with the Wish Sandwich and the Lute Ross ones. What was the origin of this funny thing? In the process of doing it, did it reveal anything about your creative process to you?
I’m a very introverted person. But when you get to know me, I can be a super funny guy. I’m easy to talk to when I’m comfortable and I’m around people that I’m comfortable being around. So the “Gold Mouf Chronicles” was a way just to show my personality outside of my anxiety and me being or seeming very introverted. We felt like that was a good way to showcase my personality.
As far as the actual album is concerned, I know that as a North Carolina native, it meant a lot to you that it was executive produced and sequenced by members of Little Brother.
Oh no, for sure. Well, see Pooh is my manager.
I didn’t know that.
Yeah. Pooh’s my manager, and it was just a blessing for them to put a verse on. Because I chopped it up with Phonte a few times but when it came to album time, it was a blessing that they were able to put a verse on there for me. And the fact that Phonte wanted to sequence it, … If Phonte asks to sequence some shit, hell yeah. I’m not going to say no to that.
It definitely passed the car test.
You know, when Phonte passed it to Pooh, and Pooh gave it to me to listen to, to see what I liked or didn’t like about it, man, I almost shed a tear, because I worked on most of the project out here in LA. But I finished the rest of the half of it back home in Carolina. So when I was out here in LA, we were working in a studio almost every day. I had no idea what I had. I was just going into the studio, venting about the sh*t that I was going through and what I was dealing with. But when Phonte sequenced it, I had no idea. I didn’t even realize that I was building a story the whole time.
And the way he sequenced it, it’s like, “Man, this sh*t is beautiful as hell.” Because the way it’s sequenced is the way my life went. It’s like, I started off very optimistic about shit. Then you go through life, and you start dealing with shit. And then towards the end and coming out of my depression and shit, I realized that I love who I am. I love the person that I am. I love what I’m doing, and I love the direction that I’m going.
People don’t really realize how important sequencing is to how good albums are.
But that’s why I was very, very appreciative that Phonte wanted to sequence the album, because me, I’m the type of person when I drop bodies of work or projects, they tell a story, and that’s on purpose. I don’t want to have an album where you go through, and you’re just shuffling through this sh*t. I want you to listen to it from top to bottom. And sometimes, granted, you just still do, but at least you get the storyline. I want you to feel some sh*t after you listen to my album. I want you to experience something. I want you to have an experience. That’s why I love Kendrick’s albums, because they gave you a little story, and it just makes you experience sh*t.
What’s crazy to me is you have Cozz, you have Saba, you have JID, you have Boogie. On Dreamville you rapped alongside J. Cole and DaBaby. You’re surrounded by massive, massive lyricists. Do you find yourself challenging yourself to push harder when you are around these guys?
I don’t feel pressured at all. Only because I write from experience and being myself. I’m not an artist that writes every day or goes to the studio every day. And I sharpen my pen, but I sharpen my pen by living and experiencing and being present in my life. My inspiration comes from my day-to-day life. I was telling somebody the other day, even when I’m having a bad day, that sh*t sucks, but at the same time, when I really look at it, it’s going to make for a good song later.
I feel like at the end of the day, the only person I’m trying to be better than is myself. I’m trying to grow, I’m trying to learn and figure out all my quirks and stuff like that. So, as far as pressure… It’s definitely a friendly competition.
I think I’ve actually asked everybody, whoever was at the Dreamville Sessions if they have one good story to tell about the Dreamville sessions.
So much sh*t happened in that span. It’s not a blur, but everything is all jumbled in one. But I will say that the most shocking thing that I’ve seen… coming around the corner, looking over, and Chris Bosh is in the corner making beats and they were f*cking fire. The beats were hard.
So, I like to ask everybody, what’s the ideal outcome of your album rollout because I know everybody’s got different expectations and everybody has different gauges for success.
Just everybody being more self-aware about their mental health and taking more self-care and taking more time for themselves to grow and learn and hold themselves accountable so that we can progress and we can move forward. That’s literally all I wanted out of this album.
I was actually nervous to put this album out because I felt so vulnerable and exposed. But I realized when I was making these songs if I could be more vulnerable and more transparent or myself, then if that could help somebody else and also help me, then everything else out of it is just a blessing. That’s my goal, is just to help people be more aware of mental health.
I’ve made mistakes and I’ve held myself accountable on those things too. I’ve done things the wrong way and I also done things the right way. So, just holding myself accountable and just trying to move forward and grow. That’s really the whole synopsis of everything, man, just trying to f*cking grow and progress.
Gold Mouf is out now via Dreamville and Interscope Records. Get it here.
Inglewood-bred Dreamville rapper Cozz returns with a moody video for his new single, “Fortunate,” after having a relatively quiet couple of years since his last album. The video finds Cozz sitting in a wrecked car, having apparently survived a harrowing front-end collision. Throughout the video, Cozz expresses his gratitude and grapples with his vices, a struggle represented by haunting religious imagery and his pained crooning on the song’s confessional chorus.
More recently, Cozz could be heard assisting his Dreamville compatriot Lute on his new album Gold Mouf and Uproxx regulars may recognize him making a few appearances in our music video show React Like You Know, joining our panel of 20-somethings to give his impressions on videos like Fabolous’ “So Into You.”
Watch Cozz’s “Fortunate” video above and stay tuned.
On Wednesday evening, Doja Cat celebrated her 26th birthday surrounded by some of her closest friends, and our favourite celebrities, including Billie Eilish. Page Six reports that the 19-year-old attended the underwater themed bash along with her boyfriend, Matthew Tyler Vorce.
The party took place in Hollywood at Delilah, and sources told the site that the couple “kept close to each other the whole night and never left each other’s side.” Rumour has it that the 29-year-old actor and his girlfriend were packing on the PDA, sharing plenty of kisses as the evening went on.
Vorce and Eilish reportedly began dating earlier this year, although their relationship wasn’t made public until Page Six published photos of them out and about in Santa Barbara. If Doja’s party is any indication, it’s safe to say that the young starlet is “Happier Than Ever.”
Justin and Hailey Bieber, Tyga, Bella Hadid, Winnie Harlow, Teyana Taylor, Malia and Sasha Obama, and French Montana were all in the house to help with the celebration. Apparently, the “Boom” singer and several of her pals (Eilish included) had a sing-off while standing around Doja’s giant Ariel cake.
“[Doja Cat] was in the best spirits celebrating with her friends and family. The DJ played a couple of her songs, and everyone was dancing and singing along,” a source revealed.
For her party, the 26-year-old channeled Princess Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, rocking a blue bandeau and a matching loincloth style skirt that‘s earned her plenty of thirsty comments across social media.
And with the NBA celebrating its 75th anniversary, the league has taken it upon itself (as it did in 1996, its 50th anniversary) to decide who have been the very best players in its history. Releasing a list of the top 75 (76, as there was a tie in voting between Anthony Davis, Carmelo Anthony and Russll Westbrook) players in league history over the course of this season’s first three nights (25 names on Tuesday, 25 on Wednesday, 25 on Thursday) the NBA has made some obvious choices, and some surprising ones as well.
Where Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were all shoe-ins to make the list, other players, like Reggie Miller, Russell Westbrook and Damian Lillard were not sure things. Some players, like Dwight Howard, were surprising left off the unranked list.
Unlike long-time Warriors’ teammate Stephen Curry, who easily made the top 75, Thompson was left off.
Taking to Instagram, the Golden State sharpshooter let it be known he disagreed with his absence.
“Maybe I’m just naive in my ability to play basketball,” Thompson wrote. “But in my head I’m TOP 75 all time.”
Thompson does have a case. Since coming into the league in 2011, he has racked up five All-Star appearances, two All-NBA appearances, one All-Defensive appearance and, most importantly, Thompson played a pivotal role in the Warriors winning three NBA titles from 2015-2018. But where Curry and fellow Golden State teammate, Kevin Durant, made the list, Thompson did not.
Obviously Thompson is not on the same level as Curry and Durant, and missing the last two seasons with injuries has not helped his case, but in the grand scheme of things, there is an argument to be made that Thompson is one of the 75 best players to ever step foot on an NBA court. However, if a resumé like Howard’s didn’t secure him on the list, it’s not surprising that Thompson was left off.
What do you think of Thompson’s claim he was snubbed? Do you agree? Disagree? Let us know in the comments.
Although the NBA Season recently tipped-off this past week, Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant is currently being challenged on and off the court. This time, by former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl Champion, Eli Manning.
In a short Twitter video posted by The Ringer, a sports and pop culture media outlet, the former Giants’ great called out Durant, challenging him to a game of ’10 Questions’. Hosted by The Ringer’s Kyle Brandt, ’10 Questions’ is a hybrid trivia-and-interview show on Spotify, that allows athletes and celebrities to compete against one another, answering various questions relating to their personal lives and careers.
In hopes of Durant coming on the show and directly competing against Manning’s personal score, the former 2x Super Bowl Champion officially challenged the basketball superstar yesterday, during the show.
“Kevin Durant, Eli Manning here,” Manning said while on the trivia show. “I got a 9 out of 10. I’m calling you out! Come on the show, got to try to beat it.”
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Brandt asked Manning what went into his thought process of challenging KD specifically, and Manning responded, “Uh, you know, I’ve got to interview him here in a few weeks, so he’s just kind of on my mind– for a little show I’m doing with the Giants.”
He continued, “He’s on the show, so he’s– he’s just a great talent obviously on the basketball court, does great things off the field, just I think a very interesting person so I think he’d be pretty good… I think he has a chance to beat the record and get a perfect 10 out of 10.”
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KD has not yet responded to the quarterback’s proposition, and although he is currently in the beginning of his new NBA season, it wouldn’t be smart to rule him out. After all, Kevin Durant is someone who shows up and thrives when he’s challenged.
Check out Manning’s entire message to Durant, below:
Wednesday night was massive for the New York Knicks as they won their season opener against the Boston Celtics by a score of 138-134 in double overtime. It was one of those games that had fans on their feet, and beating a division rival was certainly bittersweet for the rowdy Knicks fanbase. Madison Square Garden was electric all throughout the evening, and you couldn’t escape the hype outside of the building.
In fact, the video even contains a “Fuck Trae Young” chant which is a reference to the Knicks’ hatred of the Atlanta Hawks superstar. Young is the reason why the Knicks were eliminated from the playoffs last year, and there is still hatred for him throughout the city. As for the Celtics, many Knicks fans said they were smoking on the Boston pack, while others wanted to voice their displeasure with Tom Brady.
Knicks star Evan Fournier saw this clip on Twitter and immediately commented “What did I get myself into?” Needless to say, Knicks fans know exactly how to make an impression.
Ye’s label Universal Records sent out a memo on Friday informing people of which categories Kanye is hoping to land in at next year’s GRAMMY ceremony, showing that he’s submitted songs/albums for the Album of the Year category (DONDA) and Record of the Year category (“Hurricane” with Lil Baby and The Weeknd).
The press release also includes a quote from the New York Times about Ye, naming him “among the most influential pop stars of the 21st century.”
Do you think Kanye West will win any GRAMMY Awards for DONDA or “Hurricane?” Let us know what you think is Album of the Year so far.
