There are a lot of elements about the record for fans to be excited about, but a major one is the number of features. Out of the 15 tracks, four have features. Guests include Future and Chris Brown on “Superhero (Heroes & Villians),” 21 Savage and Young Nudy on “Umbrella,” Travis Scott and 21 Savage again on “Niagara Falls (Foot Or 2),” and Mustafa and 21 Savage (a third time) on “Walk Em Down (Don’t Kill Civilians).”
Check out the full tracklist for Heroes & Villains below. You can also view it here.
1. “On Time”
2. “Superhero (Heroes & Villians)” Feat. Future & Chris Brown
3. “Too Many Nights”
4. “Raindrops (Insane)”
5. “Umbrella” Feat. 21 Savage & Young Nudy
6. “Trance”
7. “Around Me”
8. “Metro Spider”
9. “I Can Save You (Interlude)”
10. “Creepin”
11. “Niagara Falls (Foot Or 2)” Feat. Travis Scott & 21 Savage
12. “Walk Em Down (Don’t Kill Civilians)” Feat. 21 Savage & Mustafa
13. “Lock On Me”
14. “Feel The Fiyaaaah”
15. “All The Money”
Heroes & Villains is out 12/2 via Boominati Worldwide and Republic. Pre-order it here.
Have you seen Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery? Then you probably saw it in a movie theater. Netflix, which shelled out a fortune for the much-anticipated sequel (plus a threequel), granted it a brief traditional release, letting it play multiplexes for a mere week. It did well! It probably would have made a pretty penny had it been allowed to sit in theaters for months! Netflix top brass know this — and they seem to be fine with that.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings took part in a wide-ranging conversation, where he said, among other things, that new, chaotic Twitter honcho Elon Musk is “the bravest, most creative person on the planet” whom he’s “100 percent convinced that he is trying to help the world in all his endeavors.” After picking up your jaw from the floor, you may proceed to another whopper: that he’s okay not making money off of theatrical.
Hastings admitted that by not giving Glass Onion a proper theatrical release, they were leaving “lots” of money on the table. Cool with him, he said. “It’s a promotional tactic like film festivals, and if it works well we will do more of it,” he said. “We are not trying to build a theatrical business, we are trying to break through the noise.”
It’s not clear what Netflix’s game plan is here. They’ve been hemorrhaging subscribers this year, which means they could use some scratch. Theatrical runs have long been a great way to pay the bills. But perhaps they’re hoping to lure more people back to the service they abandoned, just so they can watch Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc solve murders while sounding like Foghorn Leghorn. Who can tell with disruptors like Reed Hastings?
In the meantime, Netflix may cry uncle, sort of: They’re toying with dropping Glass Onion back in theaters…after it hits their coffers…in a month. In any case, at least it will make its streaming debut on Dec. 23.
It’s been almost a month since the GOP’s promised “red wave” failed, when one MAGA candidate after another either underperformed or crapped out. One of them was Kari Lake, Arizona’s anti-Trump anchor-turned-Trump-loving governor-hopeful. She lost. It was a tight race but she didn’t win. Alas, like the former president she used to hate, she’s cried voter fraud without offering any substantial evidence. Now it appears she’s following the Trump playbook all the way to the end.
As per Raw Story, Lake went on jailbound Steve Bannon’s podcast, where she said some things that could get her jail time, too, or at least sued.
“This is a time for Americans, for Arizonans to stand up,” she told Bannon. “I saw in Mohave County with [Ron Gould] on the Board of Supervisors. He said, ‘I’m doing this — I’m certifying this under duress. They’re telling me if I don’t, I’ll be locked up. They’re telling me, I’ll be arrested. They’re telling me is a Class 6 felony and I’m doing this under duress.’”
She then went one dangerous step further. “But I wish that somebody would say, ‘You know what? Arrest me then. I don’t care,’” she said. “We need people with courage to say, ‘Class what felony? Go ahead, go for it, arrest me because this is a botched election and you’re disenfranchising the folks in Mohave County when you allow this kind of election in Maricopa County to stand.’”
To recap: A candidate who lost an election is asking her supporters to commit crimes. Even Trump knew to keep this kind of language relatively vague so he could claim plausible deniability. Lake isn’t doing that. It’s yet another unhinged statement from a sore loser who’s been making wild claims, such as that everyone will become “slaves” if she’s not declared a winner of a race she didn’t win.
On the plus side, Lake doesn’t have anywhere near the same following as Trump — not even close. If we’re lucky, in a few months the only thing people will remember her for are her weird blurry Zoom filters.
We’re one step closer to getting another cinematic Bruce Lee. According to The Wrap, Sony’s 3000 Pictures imprint has closed the deal for Ang Lee to direct his own son, Mason Lee, in a biopic of the iconic, peerless martial artist/movie star.
“Accepted as neither fully American nor Fully Chinese, Bruce Lee was a bridge between East and West who introduced Chinese Gung Fu to the world, a scientist of combat and an iconic performing artist who revolutionized both the martial arts and action cinema,” Ang Lee said in a statement. “I feel compelled to tell the story of this brilliant, unique human being who yearned for belonging, possessed tremendous power in a 135-pound-frame, and who, through tireless hard work, made impossible dreams into reality.”
The film will be shot from a script by Dan Futterman, who wrote Capote and Foxcatcher and, perhaps more importantly, played Val in The Birdcage — a rare perfect movie.
Bruce Lee has been played by several actors in multiple projects, including Jason Scott Lee in the hero-worshipping Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and, more recently, by Mike Moh in a cringe-worthy scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It would be impossible to get Bruce Lee right by any metric. He simply means too many things to too many people. Still, Mason Lee has his work cut out for him in taking on the highest profile starring role of a career marked by supporting performances and a handful of leading man turns in popular Chinese films.
On the other hand, he’s been working in movies with his dad since he played “Baby” in 1993’s The Wedding Banquet, so this seems like a role he was literally born to play.
If Herschel Walker’s brain-breaking dialogue about werewolves and vampires (both of which he clearly believes are real, by the way) had you convinced the former football player might have delivered the most nonsensical political speech of the 2022 “erection” season — if not the history of the world — hold on to your get-well cards, people. Because the senatorial hopeful just gifted us with another inane word salad.
On Tuesday, PatriotTakes posted a video of a hyped-up Walker either advocating for a border wall, explaining why walls don’t work, or offering up his dog — who may or may not be a good boy — as border security while relaying a story about someone asking him about border security. Yes, it’s all as muddled and confusing as that sentence makes it sound.
Clear your head, pop a Xanax, and listen for yourself below.
Herschel Walker destroyed his argument for a border wall:
“A wall do work. …when you got a wall around your house people don’t— yeah, but they can get in. But, you know what, if they get in, it would be hard to get out because I got a dog that— well, my dog really won’t bite.” pic.twitter.com/Mfr4Cpe39O
Of course, it didn’t take long for others to wonder what in the f**k Walker was talking about (and for at least one person to pay tribute to Walker with a poem):
He’s so profoundly stupid (or CTE-damaged), I kinda want him to keep campaigning even after he loses to Warnock. But that’s a mean thought. https://t.co/KBudmrREqV
My wall don’t work My dog don’t bite My werewolf left me The other night I can’t beat a vampire In a fight Guess I just might Catch the goooood air to China Tonight
Speaking of Herschel Walker and dogs, never forget that he lied when he said his opponent was lying about having a dog. Raphael Warnock does, in fact, have a dog.
In a landmark, bipartisan 61 to 36 vote, the Senate approved the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday setting the stage for same-sex and interracial marriage to remain legal, even if they are struck down by the Supreme Court. It’s believed that the bill will be quickly passed by the House and signed into law by President Biden.
Even though same-sex and interracial marriages are legal in the U.S., after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last summer, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas noted that the decision that legalized gay marriage rests on the same principles that underscored Roe.
This signal by the conservative justice pushed Democrats to quickly work to codify same-sex and interracial marriage into law.
If the Respect for Marriage Act becomes law it would require all states and the federal government to recognize legally-conducted marriages. Therefore, if the decisions that legalized same-sex and interracial marriages were overturned, states still would have to recognize all marriages conducted in the U.S.
So, if Kentucky made same-sex marriage illegal and a same-sex couple got married in another state where it was legal, say California, Kentucky would still have to recognize the marriage. The only barrier a couple would face to getting married would be traveling to another state to have their wedding performed.
Republicans added a religious consideration to the Respect for Marriage Act that protects nonprofit and religious organizations from having to provide support for same-sex marriages.
u201c61-36: The U.S. Senate passes the Respect for Marriage Act, repealing the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and codifying federal recognition of statesu2019 same-sex and interracial marriages.nn12 Republicans joined Democrats in voting u201cyes.u201d All the u201cnou201d votes were Republican senators.u201d
After this historic vote, Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, shared a Twitter thread where he showed what the Senate moved to protect. “This morning, after dropping the kids off, I came home and stopped to take in the aftermath of a chaotic morning. And it got me thinking. This is what marriage is to me,” Chasten wrote.
Last year, Pete and Chasten became the parents of a son and a daughter.
u201cThe Senate is poised to vote on the #RespectForMarriageAct today. nnThis morning, after dropping the kids off, I came home and stopped to take in the aftermath of a chaotic morning. And it got me thinking. nnThis is what marriage is to me. ud83euddf5u201d
Bibs I should have tossed in the sink that were leaking milk onto the counter. Little toothbrushes they used to scrub the teeth that have been keeping them up at night. Tiny hairbands from Penelope’s quick updo in which she kept repeating the word “bosh” while I brushed her hair.
The stacked plates, empty and crusty after a hurried but hilarious breakfast full of giggles ad music. The twins bounced along to the Christmas music as they ate their bananas and eggs while I prayed for the coffee maker to go faster.
My husband danced around me and fed the dogs while singing along to the music, which made the kids smile, doing his best not to get anything on his suit before rushing out the door and off to the to the airport. I didn’t remember where he was headed, but I knew it was important.
This is what marriage is to me. Mornings spent negotiating diaper bags, getting sweaters on wiggling toddlers, and feeding the dogs. It’s scattered building blocks on the floor and scrambled eggs on the wall. It’s goodbye kisses at the door and thermoses of coffee in the minivan.
It’s having the right to juggle it all with the person who makes you feel loved and supported amidst the chaos. It’s the right to have a shoulder to lean on at end of the day in the first place. It’s the promise of hard work for your partner, your kids, and for us, our country.
My marriage has filled this house with so much love it makes me want to be a better husband, father, and citizen every day. It’s called me to something bigger than myself while recognizing that my kids are now the most important thing in life, and I’d do anything to protect them.
Our family and our union push me to make sure we leave our kids a country and a world they can thrive in so that they, too, can enjoy all of the love and light and happiness that Pete and I have known simply by falling in love with one another.
I know how precious this union is and how sacred and fragile our unions can be in the eyes of our ever-changing democracy. We are not yet afforded the pleasure of letting our shoulders down, of taking a breath. We are fully aware that some desperately want to take this away.
I hope that we can move on from these votes, these arguments, and these debates soon. I hope that our friends on the other side of the aisle will listen to over 70% of Americans and vote to protect families like mine and the unions that make us all better Americans.
And if a member of congress is confused, or has questions and wants to turn down the noise from the online rhetoric – our playroom is always open, should you want to meet a family who is just trying their best to make their kids happy and their country better, just like you.
Chasten’s post is poignant because it shows how all marriages, regardless of the sex of those involved, look the same. Especially after having kids. It’s constant domestic chaos, punctuated by quick outbursts of fun all tied together by love.
For those who oppose same-sex marriage, all they have to do is spend a morning in the Buttigieg household and they can see that it’s not much different than any straight marriage.
Chasten even invited members of Congress to come and visit his home to see for themselves.
“And if a member of congress is confused, or has questions and wants to turn down the noise from the online rhetoric—our playroom is always open, should you want to meet a family who is just trying their best to make their kids happy and their country better, just like you,” Chasten wrote on Twitter.
By colifying same-sex marriage into law, Congress won’t be doing anything revolutionary. It’d simply be solidifying rights that 71% of Americans think same-sex couples should have. Signing the act into law would also go a long way toward settling an issue that has been a point of contention for a generation.
“I hope that we can move on from these votes, these arguments, and these debates soon,” Chasten wrote on Twitter. “I hope that our friends on the other side of the aisle will listen to over 70% of Americans and vote to protect families like mine and the unions that make us all better Americans.”
Everyone poops, but very few think about where their drain ends.
When you flush in most U.S. cities, your poop is carried by valuable water into a vast network of aging pipes – many of which were installed around World War II – to a centralized treatment plant that wasn’t designed to handle extreme weather events or sea level rise, occurrences we’re experiencing more frequently as a result of climate change.
While the future of sanitation may look bleak, it doesn’t need to be.
Here’s some context on how climate change is affecting our waste systems. Seas are rising faster than ever (1-2 meters by 2100), and hurricanes are getting more intense and frequent. By 2050, “moderate” (typically damaging) flooding is expected to occur, on average, more than 10 times as often as it does today.
When this flooding occurs, our wastewater treatment plants – often placed on coastlines for ease of effluent discharge – are vulnerable to inundation leading to service disruption.
And when these facilities get flooded and services are disrupted, people don’t stop pooping.
Untreated waste leaks into the surrounding environment, causing environmental contamination, aquatic dead zones, biodiversity loss, and public health crises.
We can view this looming disruption as an opportunity to redesign our world in a way that is regenerative, intentional, and informed by nature’s wisdom – where humanity is not only surviving, but thriving along with all life on our planet.
In the case of sanitation, some companies are looking to nature’s design for inspiration.
One of these companies is wasted* – founded to transform the least inspiring product in the world: the porta-potty.
wasted* rents their re-imagined portable toilets to construction sites and events, and transforms the collected waste into fertilizer to support local agriculture.
While their immediate focus is on the traditional porta-potty market, the wasted* vision is to provide climate-resilient, circular sanitation infrastructure in the places that it’s most needed – from large metros to developing countries, disaster relief zones, and refugee camps.
By transforming the portable toilet, wasted* aims to shift the way we relate to what we leave behind – seeing it not as waste, but as a valuable resource. In doing so, their aspiration is to change the way we as humans view ourselves in relation to the rest of life – not as separate from nature, but deeply interconnected.
Other major organizations pushing forward the circular sanitation economy are the Rich Earth Institute, VunaNexus, and Sanitation360 – who are focused on developing processing technologies that transform human waste into fertilizer.
Sanitation is just one piece of a very large puzzle to mend our relationship to the rest of the living world. But as is said by peecycling pioneers at the Rich Earth Institute, we can pee the change we wish to see in the world.
Brophy Tyree is a guest contributor to Upworthy and the CEO/Co-Founder of wasted*
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