It’s official – the Milwaukee Bucks are the 2021 NBA Champions. Giannis Antetokounmpo has been crowned the Finals MVP and he, alongside Kris Middleton and the rest of the city is going crazy. However, two more people were turning up in honor of the big W. None other than Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane and his […]
EST Gee may be a newcomer to the game, but under the watchful eye of Yo Gotti, he’s well on the way to becoming a household name.
Today, the rapper came through with his brand new album Bigger Than Life Or Death, featuring guest appearances from Lil Baby, 42 Dugg, Future, Young Thug, Rylo Rodriguez, Pooh Shiesty, and Yo Gotti. He wasted little time in hitting the promo circuit, and this morning, Gee and Gotti hit up The Breakfast Club for a conversation with Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, and DJ Envy.
Throughout the interview, Gee covers a variety of different topics, including his harrowing experience being shot. At around the eight-minute and fifty-second mark, he reveals that he was actually on the phone with DJ Drama’s people (Gee explains that he was considering signing with Drama before Yo Gotti) moments before he was hit. “I wasn’t focused,” he reflects. “I was on the phone with them when I got shot.”
Charlamagne asks if he was hit five times. “Yeah,” says Gee. “Shot five times. I got shot once in my eye, four times in my stomach. I’m straight though. I’m [blind] a little bit. I can’t really see out my left side, but I’m straight.” It should be noted that Gee’s stomach scar can be seen quite clearly on the album cover of Bigger Than Life Or Death.
Envy proceeds to ask Gotti about how he discovered his new signee. “I [got sent his] music, it was during the pandemic,” recalls Gotti. “Everyone was in the house. We from the same life, so I knew what it is immediately. Just certain shit you say, you can’t really say that unless you’ve been close to it or really lived it.” He reveals that rather than sending Gee’s music to his A&R’s, he hand-picked a few people from his inner circle to check it out. “Because of the message and what he was talking about, it didn’t send it to our typical A&R’s,” says Gotti. “I sent it to my street homies.”
For more from Yo Gotti and EST Gee, check out their entire Breakfast Club interview right here.
EST Gee may be a newcomer to the game, but under the watchful eye of Yo Gotti, he’s well on the way to becoming a household name.
Today, the rapper came through with his brand new album Bigger Than Life Or Death, featuring guest appearances from Lil Baby, 42 Dugg, Future, Young Thug, Rylo Rodriguez, Pooh Shiesty, and Yo Gotti. He wasted little time in hitting the promo circuit, and this morning, Gee and Gotti hit up The Breakfast Club for a conversation with Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, and DJ Envy.
Throughout the interview, Gee covers a variety of different topics, including his harrowing experience being shot. At around the eight-minute and fifty-second mark, he reveals that he was actually on the phone with DJ Drama’s people (Gee explains that he was considering signing with Drama before Yo Gotti) moments before he was hit. “I wasn’t focused,” he reflects. “I was on the phone with them when I got shot.”
Charlamagne asks if he was hit five times. “Yeah,” says Gee. “Shot five times. I got shot once in my eye, four times in my stomach. I’m straight though. I’m [blind] a little bit. I can’t really see out my left side, but I’m straight.” It should be noted that Gee’s stomach scar can be seen quite clearly on the album cover of Bigger Than Life Or Death.
Envy proceeds to ask Gotti about how he discovered his new signee. “I [got sent his] music, it was during the pandemic,” recalls Gotti. “Everyone was in the house. We from the same life, so I knew what it is immediately. Just certain shit you say, you can’t really say that unless you’ve been close to it or really lived it.” He reveals that rather than sending Gee’s music to his A&R’s, he hand-picked a few people from his inner circle to check it out. “Because of the message and what he was talking about, it didn’t send it to our typical A&R’s,” says Gotti. “I sent it to my street homies.”
For more from Yo Gotti and EST Gee, check out their entire Breakfast Club interview right here.
Roc Nation executive Lenny S. captured a snap of HOV rocking his wife’s new line while on vacation, or perhaps just another day, out in the Hamptons. In the photo, appropriately captioned “East Hampton HOV. Sheeeeesh,” Jay-Z strikes a serious pose in the eye-catching fire-orange Adidas set.
Mr. Carter loosely wore a bright orange camp collar shirt and a matching pair of shorts accented with the signature Adidas stripes. Clean shades and a white bucket hat embroidered with “East Hampton, NY” topped off the look– perhaps “East Hampton” will reign as the new “Calabasas” now that Kanye has shunned his former ‘burbs?
Whatever the case, this post comes just in time for the drop of Beyonce’s new IVY PARK swimwear capsule line “FLEX PARK” set to drop on Thursday, July 22 online and in-store.
Chloe Bailey wowed when she showed off some of the womenswear pieces from the line earlier this month on her Instagram. The Beyonce-co-signed singer showed off her curves in one-piece and two-piece swimsuits from the collection in the same bold hue.
The new collection features bucket hats, slides, tees, water bottles, towels, and coverups, in addition to the clothes modeled by Beyonce’s closest crew. The collection is affordable with the apparel and footwear priced between $45 to $75, and accessories ranging from $40 to $120 according to WWD.
Beyonce drove by the early release Soho pop-up location on Tuesday, sharing a quick pic on the official brand Instagram. The pop-up only drove up more hype around the drop, which is expected to sell out upon release tomorrow morning.
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Roc Nation executive Lenny S. captured a snap of HOV rocking his wife’s new line while on vacation, or perhaps just another day, out in the Hamptons. In the photo, appropriately captioned “East Hampton HOV. Sheeeeesh,” Jay-Z strikes a serious pose in the eye-catching fire-orange Adidas set.
Mr. Carter loosely wore a bright orange camp collar shirt and a matching pair of shorts accented with the signature Adidas stripes. Clean shades and a white bucket hat embroidered with “East Hampton, NY” topped off the look– perhaps “East Hampton” will reign as the new “Calabasas” now that Kanye has shunned his former ‘burbs?
Whatever the case, this post comes just in time for the drop of Beyonce’s new IVY PARK swimwear capsule line “FLEX PARK” set to drop on Thursday, July 22 online and in-store.
Chloe Bailey wowed when she showed off some of the womenswear pieces from the line earlier this month on her Instagram. The Beyonce-co-signed singer showed off her curves in one-piece and two-piece swimsuits from the collection in the same bold hue.
The new collection features bucket hats, slides, tees, water bottles, towels, and coverups, in addition to the clothes modeled by Beyonce’s closest crew. The collection is affordable with the apparel and footwear priced between $45 to $75, and accessories ranging from $40 to $120 according to WWD.
Beyonce drove by the early release Soho pop-up location on Tuesday, sharing a quick pic on the official brand Instagram. The pop-up only drove up more hype around the drop, which is expected to sell out upon release tomorrow morning.
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Joe Pytka, director of the iconic 1996 film, was less than impressed with the 2021 rendition starring LeBron James. According to TMZ, it took Pytka “5 separate sessions to complete its 2-hour runtime.”
Like many of us, Pytka was hoping Space Jam: A New Legacy would come close to the film that was a landmark in so many of our childhoods. Aligned with the general consensus from those who have seen the film, Pytka had some harsh criticism for the new direction.
The director felt some of the weight of the difference fell in the fact that “when Space Jam was made in 1996, MJ wasn’t just the best basketball player … he was the biggest celebrity in the world.” He did praise LeBron as an amazing athlete and actor but stated, “the truth is that LeBron ain’t Michael.”
Pytka also intentionally connected the plot of the film to Michael Jordan’s real life at the time, and felt Space Jam: A New Legacy was missing that vital connection. Additional flaws included the supporting cast; in Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard. The director believed that MJ’s legendary cast of Charles Barkley, Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley, and Bill Murray was far better.
Despite his opinion, Pytka objectively acknowledged that the original Space Jam faced criticism just as brutal, and still went on to become a classic. Only time will tell.
Check out our rundown of the film here.
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Joe Pytka, director of the iconic 1996 film, was less than impressed with the 2021 rendition starring LeBron James. According to TMZ, it took Pytka “5 separate sessions to complete its 2-hour runtime.”
Like many of us, Pytka was hoping Space Jam: A New Legacy would come close to the film that was a landmark in so many of our childhoods. Aligned with the general consensus from those who have seen the film, Pytka had some harsh criticism for the new direction.
The director felt some of the weight of the difference fell in the fact that “when Space Jam was made in 1996, MJ wasn’t just the best basketball player … he was the biggest celebrity in the world.” He did praise LeBron as an amazing athlete and actor but stated, “the truth is that LeBron ain’t Michael.”
Pytka also intentionally connected the plot of the film to Michael Jordan’s real life at the time, and felt Space Jam: A New Legacy was missing that vital connection. Additional flaws included the supporting cast; in Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard. The director believed that MJ’s legendary cast of Charles Barkley, Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley, and Bill Murray was far better.
Despite his opinion, Pytka objectively acknowledged that the original Space Jam faced criticism just as brutal, and still went on to become a classic. Only time will tell.
Check out our rundown of the film here.
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Unless you’ve been avoiding all things NFT-related, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the millions of dollars that people have been making from these non-fungible tokens. From a video of Jake Paul knocking out Nate Robinson to SZA’s recent NFT collection, people have been pushing this newfound market to its limits, and now Steve Jobs will posthumously innovate the NFT market even more.
According to Complex, a 1973 job application from the late Apple visionary is being sold off as an NFT and a physical item in one joint auction that aims to set an industry-shifting precedent for the NFT market. Interested parties can decide whether they want to submit bids in USD and crypto for the physical copy of Jobs’ 70s job application or put up some Ethereum (ETH) for the digitized NFT version. It’s an admittedly intriguing concept that definitely sets itself apart from the recent flood of NFT auctions.
On the official auction page, the following is written in regard to the unique nature of the sale: “Will this open a whole new market for decentralized collectibles? Will this cement the status-quo? Or could we see a stalemate with a fresh understanding that both can coexist and even complement one another as we traverse the next 50 years of innovation? Whatever the outcome, the worlds of finance and art will be watching with anticipation.”
According to Complex, a percentage of the profits from this uniquely formatted auction will be given to Cancer Research Institute and One Laptop Per Child, and considering that the previous auction of the physical application was sold for a reported $224,750 earlier this year in London, there should be plenty of profits available when its all said and done.
At the time of publishing, the current bid for the physical version of Steve Jobs’ application is at $100.00 (or 0.05 ETH) while the NFT is far ahead of its competitor at 0.13 ETH (or $259.94). Check “the world’s first physical vs NFT auction” out for yourself and participate in its free polls here.
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Unless you’ve been avoiding all things NFT-related, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the millions of dollars that people have been making from these non-fungible tokens. From a video of Jake Paul knocking out Nate Robinson to SZA’s recent NFT collection, people have been pushing this newfound market to its limits, and now Steve Jobs will posthumously innovate the NFT market even more.
According to Complex, a 1973 job application from the late Apple visionary is being sold off as an NFT and a physical item in one joint auction that aims to set an industry-shifting precedent for the NFT market. Interested parties can decide whether they want to submit bids in USD and crypto for the physical copy of Jobs’ 70s job application or put up some Ethereum (ETH) for the digitized NFT version. It’s an admittedly intriguing concept that definitely sets itself apart from the recent flood of NFT auctions.
On the official auction page, the following is written in regard to the unique nature of the sale: “Will this open a whole new market for decentralized collectibles? Will this cement the status-quo? Or could we see a stalemate with a fresh understanding that both can coexist and even complement one another as we traverse the next 50 years of innovation? Whatever the outcome, the worlds of finance and art will be watching with anticipation.”
According to Complex, a percentage of the profits from this uniquely formatted auction will be given to Cancer Research Institute and One Laptop Per Child, and considering that the previous auction of the physical application was sold for a reported $224,750 earlier this year in London, there should be plenty of profits available when its all said and done.
At the time of publishing, the current bid for the physical version of Steve Jobs’ application is at $100.00 (or 0.05 ETH) while the NFT is far ahead of its competitor at 0.13 ETH (or $259.94). Check “the world’s first physical vs NFT auction” out for yourself and participate in its free polls here.
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Louisville rapper EST Gee released his new mixtape Bigger Than Life Or Death today after teasing its release with the singles “Capitol 1” and “Bigger Than Life Or Death.” To celebrate the anticipated project coming out, EST Gee shared a new video for the mixtape’s standout track “Price Tag” which finds him enjoying the fruits of his labor and shrugging off the light cost of keeping his female companions happy.
With a hook that brags that “good box come with a price tag on it,” it’s probably no surprise to see the Kentucky native surrounded by women twerking in the skimpiest swimsuits they can find. CGI price tags adorn the women as they bend over and shake for Gee’s amusement (and the viewer’s, presumably), highlighting a devilish sense of sophomoric humor on the CMG rapper’s part.
In addition to the previously released singles, the new mixtape also boasts appearances from some big-name co-signers. Future and Young Thug both appear on “Lick Back Remix,” while Lil Durk assists on “In Town,” and Memphis upstart Pooh Shiesty claims a verse on “All I Know.” Fellow CMG-ers 42 Dugg and Yo Gotti make two appearances apiece, while Lil Baby, one of Gee’s first big benefactors shows up with his Quality Control Music compadre Rylo Rodriguez on “5500 Degrees.”
Watch EST Gee’s “Price Tag” video above.
Bigger Than Life Or Death is out now CMG/Interscope Records. Get it here.
