After months of uncertainty regarding the future of Twitter’s ownership, earlier this month, Elon Musk reportedly agreed to buy the social media company for the original $44-billion purchase price. Now he’s getting a jump on keeping the platform clean, as he’s apparently talked to Kanye West about a recent controversial tweet.
For context, on October 8, West was restricted from Instagram after making comments about Jewish people. So, he returned to Twitter later that day, and Musk tweeted at him, “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!” However, Ye’s Twitter comeback was short-lived, as he quickly got suspended from that platform after a tweet in which he said he was “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
In the wake of all that, Musk apparently reached out to West, as Musk tweeted yesterday (October 10), “Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart.”
Talked to ye today & expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which I think he took to heart
It’s been a busy past week or so for West, so much so that he decided to chronicle it himself with a 30-minute documentary, titled Last Week. Among many other things, the film features some new music and a video of West in a meeting with Adidas executives, where he seemingly shows them pornography.
Shirley Hughes, the mother of Tony Hughes, who was 31 years old when he was murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991, told the Guardian that she doesn’t understand why the show was made. “I don’t see how they can do that,” she said. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there.” Hughes then politely ended the phone call, understandably finding it difficult to discuss her son’s death.
Shirley Hughes, who was teaching a Bible class in Milwaukee when her son was murdered, hasn’t spoken much in public about Tony. She learned of his killing after investigators discovered his skull in Dahmer’s apartment and identified it through dental records. But, at the time that Dahmer was charged with his killing spree, she told United Press International that she felt relief at knowing why her son had disappeared while also being shattered by the fate he met.
Rita Isbell, the sister of Dahmer’s first victim, Errol Lindsey, previously criticizedDahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, telling Insider, “I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it. But I’m not money hungry, and that’s what this show is about, Netflix trying to get paid.”
Today is huge for Blink-182 fans, as the group just made a bunch of major announcements this morning (October 11): Tom DeLonge is back in the band, they have a new song coming out on Friday, there’s an album on the way, and they’ll embark on a world tour in 2023 and 2024. The new song is called “Edging” and a snippet of it can be heard in the video the band shared announcing all this news.
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In an announcement shared on social media today, the band wrote, “We’re coming. Tour’s coming. Album’s coming. Tom’s coming. Tickets on sale Monday. New song ‘Edging’ out Friday.” They also shared a characteristically comedic announcement video, featuring testimonials from random folks about wanting the band to “come” before a brief clip of the band is revealed and some of the new song can be heard.
As the tweet and video note, there’s a lot of new Blink info today. Aside from DeLonge reuniting with his bandmate and returning to the band, they group has a new album on the way, a title or release date of which has yet to be revealed. A new song, “Edging,” is set to release this Friday, October 14.
Furthermore, the band is also embarking on a tour, which press materials call their biggest ever, started in March 2023. It includes the group’s first performances in Latin America and will also hit North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand through to February 2024. Tickets for the tour are set to go on sale on Monday, October 17, via the band’s website.
The new album will be Blink-182’s first with DeLonge, who left the band in 2015, since 2011’s Neighborhoods. This reunion news comes after Matt Skiba, who joined Blink for their two post-DeLonge albums, noted in a July response to a fan asking about his status in the band, “your guess is as good as mine. Regardless, I am very proud of and thankful for my time w @blink182. We shall see…”
Watch the announcement video above and find the band’s upcoming tour dates below.
03/11/2023 — Tijuana, MX @ Imperial GNP (Festival)
03/14/2023 — Lima, Peru @ Estadio San Marcos+
03/17-19/2023 — Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Lollapalooza Argentina (Festival)
03/17-19/2023 — Santiago, Chile @ Lollapalooza Chile (Festival)
03/21-22/2023 — Asuncion, Paraguay @ Venue TBA
03/23-26/2023 — Bogotá, Colombia @ Estereo Picnic (Festival)
03/24-26/2023 — São Paulo, Brazil @ Lollapalooza Brasil (Festival)
03/28/2023 — Mexico City, MX @ Palacio de los Deportes+
04/01/2023 — Monterrey, MX @ Venue TBA
04/02/2023 — Monterrey, MX @ Venue TBA
05/04/2023 — St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center*
05/06/2023 — Chicago, IL @ United Center*
05/09/2023 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena*
05/11/2023 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena*
05/12/2023 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre*
05/16/2023 — Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse*
05/17/2023 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena*
05/19/2023 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden*
05/20/2023 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena*
05/21/2023 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden*
05/23/2023 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena*
05/24/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center*
05/26/2023 — Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Arena*
05/27/2023 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium*
06/14/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center*
06/16/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ Banc of California Stadium*
06/20/2023 — San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena*
06/22/2023 — San Jose, CA @ SAP Center*
06/23/2023 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center*
06/25/2023 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena*
06/27/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena*
06/29/2023 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place*
06/30/2023 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome*
07/03/2023 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena*
07/05/2023 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center*
07/07/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center*
07/08/2023 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center*
07/10/2023 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena*
07/11/2023 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ FLA Live Arena*
07/13/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena*
07/14/2023 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center*
07/16/2023 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena*
09/02/2023 — Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro^
09/04/2023 — Belfast, UK @ SSE Arena^
09/05/2023 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena^
09/08/2023 — Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis^
09/09/2023 — Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena^
09/12/2023 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena^
09/13/2023 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena^
09/14/2023 — Oslo, Norway @ Spektrum^
09/16/2023 — Berlin, Germany @ Mercedes-Benz Arena^
09/17/2023 — Hamburg, Germany @ Barclays Arena^
09/19/2023 — Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena^
09/20/2023 — Vienna, Austria @ Stadthalle^
10/02– Lisbon, Portugal @ Altice Arena^
10/03/2023 — Madrid, Spain @ Wizink Centre^
10/04/2023 — Barcelona, Spain @ Palau Sant Jordi^
10/06/2023 — Bologna, Italy @ Unipol Arena^
10/08/2023 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome^
10/09/2023 — Paris, France @ Accor Arena^
10/11/2023 — London, UK @ The O2^
10/14/2023 — Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena^
10/15/2023 — Manchester, UK @ AO Arena^
10/21/2023 — Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young Festival
02/09/2024 — Perth, Western Australia @ RAC Arena!
02/11/2024 — Adelaide, South Australia @ Entertainment Centre!
02/13/2024 — Melbourne, Victoria @ Rod Laver Arena!
02/16/2024 — Sydney, New South Wales @ Qudos Bank Arena!
02/19/2024 — Brisbane, Queensland @ Entertainment Centre!
02/23/2024 — Auckland, NZ @ Spark Arena!
02/26/2024 — Christchurch, NZ @ Christchurch Arena!
+ with Wallows
* with Turnstile
^ with The Story So Far
! with Rise Against
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While it’s easy to see violence on TV, in movies, or online, it’s not something that everybody partakes in. A lot of people out there don’t know what it feels like to slap somebody, or to be slapped by somebody. Well, Britney Spears has experienced the latter and would love to partake in the former.
In an Instagram post shared last night, Spears reflected on the first time she was slapped, years ago by her mother after a night out with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. She wrote:
“I swear I’ve never slapped anyone my whole life !!! I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO SEE WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE … JUST SAYING !!! The first time I ever got slapped was the one night Paris and Lindsay dropped me off at my beach house with my babies !!! Kevin left me at that point, so I had a small beach house and my mother was watching Jayden and Preston … yes I partied till like 4am and my mother was PISSED !!!! I walked in she looked at me and slapped me so hard that I will never forget it !!! Psss since then I’ve always wondered what it must feel like to slap someone … GUESS I WILL NEVER KNOW !!!! Stay classy folks !!! This was all 15 years ago … I mean we’ve all grown up since then !!!”
Spears could be referring to a night in 2016, when a famous photo of Spears, Hilton, and Lohan was taken.
(House of the Dragon spoilers will be found below.)
The Game of Thrones prequel amped up the soap-operatic vibes in Episode 8. Part of these developments were said, of course, when the long-suffering King Viserys I finally bit the dust. The series also dealt out some carnage (when Daemon mostly beheaded Vaemond) and some delicious saltiness (between Drama Kings Aemond and Daemon), but then there were some truly despicable developments having to do with the worst character on the show thus far.
We’re talking about Aegon Targaryen, the foolish tool who jerked off in a significant window while portrayed by Ty Tennant, who has been replaced in a slightly older incarnation by Tom Glynn-Carney. Both actors showed off their bums as a means to show us how (literally) assy Aegon is, and this week, the character committed sexual assault on a serving girl. Will this come back to bite Aegon in the butt, thereby making him face actual consequences?
I’m skeptical about that last part because Queen Alicent mistakenly believes that Viserys spoke of the prophecy and meant that Aegon should be king. Alicent obviously knows about the rape, and she will likely continue sweeping the offense under the rug after sending Dyana off with a bag full of money “for your troubles.” Director Geeta Patel clarified that Dyana appears to be alive and only drank tea meant to prevent pregnancy, not to actually poison her. She may have disappeared or simply elsewhere in the Red Keep, but does anyone else know the truth?
Alicent, while lecturing the young woman, did chide her because two other people knew what happened in this “incident” that took place in Aegon’s quarters. And a member of the Kingsguard is aware of the situation, given that he informed Alicent about what had happened. This knight, Ser Arryk Cargyll, happens to also have a twin named Erryk (their parents must have cursed themselves after coming up with those names). As Inverse reminds us, those twins were part of the tournament during the show’s pilot that actually feels like it aired several months ago. A lot has gone down since then!
Whether anything will happen to Arryk as a result of his knowledge, well, that’s something we’ll have to guess about. But we won’t have to wait long to find out what (if anything) happens as a result of the sexual assault, since only two episodes remain in this season. With any luck, we’ll find out that Dyana’s recovering from her trauma, and hopefully, Aegon (who also happens to married) can stop being the worst at some point.
HBO’s House of the Dragon airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.
Taco Bell is one of America’s most beloved fast food joints. While lovers of Mexican food will always look at the Bell skeptically, if you appreciate Taco Bell for what it is — Mexican-inspired stoner-friendly Frankenstein food — it’s pretty damn good. Some days, nothing hits the spot like rolling up through a Taco Bell drive-thru and picking up an absolute feast for under $10.
But recently I’ve been wondering why exactly Taco Bell is so addicting — which menu items keep us coming back again and again? I’ve concluded that it’s the restaurant’s namesake, the tacos.
If you ride hard for the Mexican Pizza or the Crunchwrap Supreme, we get it, but I think most of the popularity of those items are due to their limited nature and novelty. The Mexican Pizza tastes better in the memory than in actuality (we know, we just had it) and the Crunchwrap may be distinctly Taco Bell, but at the end of the day it’s really just all the same ingredients as what you’ll find in a taco, just wrapped in a giant flour tortilla. The discontinued Double Decker did that better!
So for this ranking, we’ll be focusing on what Taco Bell does best by reviewing and ranking every single taco on the menu (chalupas included) in search of the single best. Let’s dive in!
13. Black Bean Chalupa Supreme
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.49
Tasting Notes:
It’s actually harder to pick the bottom spot on a ranking than it is the top and no matter what is chosen, it always feels a bit mean because even at its worst, most fast food menu items are at least okay, if not kind of good. With the Black Bean Chalupa Supreme, it’s not hard at all.
This thing blows. Taco Bell’s black beans are nearly flavorless and taste like under-seasoned bean broth. This Chalupa also has no texture whatsoever, it’s just a sludge of bland flavors in your mouth that no amount of sour cream, lettuce, cheese or tomatoes can fix. The thick masa wrap does this thing no flavors.
The Bottom Line:
Not only is it Taco Bell’s worst chalupa/taco, but it might also just be the worst item on the menu next to the Cheesy Roll Up.
12. Cheesy Gordita Crunch
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.59
Tasting Notes:
The Cheesy Gordita Crunch seems like a good idea, but the lack of quality control at most Taco Bells just make this taco a missed opportunity. The Gordita features a thick flour tortilla wrapped around a crunchy taco and welded together with a three-cheese blend, but it doesn’t really improve your taco in any way — it just makes it more of a mouthful.
Inside the taco, you have ground beef, a layer of spicy ranch, lettuce, and shredded cheddar cheese, which tastes fine, but that wrapped tortilla isn’t doing a whole lot, it mostly just muddles the flavor of the tasty hot ranch. Maybe if this thing truly looked like its press photos, with cheese pouring out of the sides like a quesadilla, it would be good. Instead, the cheese lives mostly at the bottom of the tortilla and isn’t distributed enough for you to ever actually notice it.
The Bottom Line:
A good idea, but the discontinued Double Decker taco, which features beans instead of cheese, did this layered approach to the taco much better.
11. Black Bean Chipotle Cheddar Chalupa
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.49
Tasting Notes:
I promise that I don’t hate Taco Bell’s chalupas, it’s the black beans I have a problem with. This has all the same problems as the Black bean Chipotle Supreme, only it’s marginally better thanks to the inclusion of Taco Bell’s chipotle sauce. The sauce is creamy and savory with smokey notes and the slightest hint of spice which is enough to make these black beans a lot more palatable.
Unfortunately in the pantheon of Taco Bell tacos, it’s not enough to get this ranked any higher.
The Bottom Line:
Taco Bell’s best black bean chalupa, though that’s not saying much.
10. Crunchy Taco Supreme
Dane Rivera
Price: $2.89
Tasting Notes:
You’ll see when we get to the top of this ranking that the Classic Taco Bell taco is one of the chain’s best, but the Crunchy Taco Supreme feels like a real slap in the face. All this taco adds to the classic recipe are bland flavorless light pink tomatoes and strangely watery sour cream, and then they have the audacity to charge you over a dollar more than what the classic costs! You could add guacamole for just 75¢ and it would taste a lot better than this thing.
Essentially, you’re paying more money for a taco that has more ingredients but tastes a lot worse. It’s also hard to keep those tomatoes in the taco, once you crunch through it once, tiny diced tomatoes go flying into the air and land outside of the taco. It’s a flawed design.
The Bottom Line:
Skip this one. It’s not worth the higher price.
9. Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos
Dane Rivera
Price: $2.59
Tasting Notes:
It’s not that the Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos is bad, it’s clearly been a crowd favorite since its launch, but my main issue with it is that it’s totally redundant. Doritos has over 14 different flavors, so why the hell did Taco Bell choose Nacho Cheese over Cool Ranch and Salsa Verde?!
By choosing Nacho Cheese Taco Bell is adding a cheesy salty quality to a taco that already has salty cheese in it. To be fair to Taco Bell, they have experimented with a Cool Ranch shell before, but for whatever reason, this one enjoys permanent menu status, and I don’t think it deserves it.
The Bottom Line:
A sharp and salty cheddar-esque flavor in a taco that already has real cheddar cheese in it. The flavors are too redundant to be truly great.
8. Soft Taco Supreme
Dane Rivera
Price: $2.89
Tasting Notes:
It has all of the same problems of the Classic Taco Supreme, only the tomatoes and sour cream are a lot easier to taste wrapped in a soft flour tortilla and the tomatoes don’t fall out of the taco as you eat it. Still, you’re paying extra for ingredients that don’t do a lot to improve the flavor.
The Bottom Line:
Marginally better than the crunchy version, but you should still avoid this one.
7. Doritos Locos Supreme
Dane Rivera
Price: $2.99
Tasting Notes:
By now it must be obvious that I’m not a fan of Taco Bell’s more expensive ‘”Supreme” option, but the Doritos Locos is the only taco where I feel it truly works. The sour cream and tomato, as bland and watery as they are, serve as a perfect counterbalance to this overly artificial cheesy taco. The sour cream muddles the sharp intensity of the Doritos shell to something more palatable, while the tomatoes add a bright burst of natural flavor.
If you really want it to taste delicious, sub that sour cream for spicy ranch or chipotle sauce.
The Bottom Line:
The only Supreme taco from Taco Bell worth your money.
6. Chalupa Supreme
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.49
Tasting Notes:
The Chalupa Supreme takes what’s good about the Doritos Locos taco and adds a sweet component to the whole thing, which works better than that stale Dorito shell. What you lose in crunch, you gain in sweetness with the chalupa wrap — which pairs a lot more harmoniously with the tomato and sour cream.
This thing is big and substantial enough to satisfy with just a single order, which can’t be said of the Doritos Locos Supreme. This is missing a spicy component here, so again, sub that sour cream for some spicy ranch or chipotle sauce.
The Bottom Line:
Slightly better tasting and a lot more satisfying than the Doritos Locos Supreme.
5. Doritos Cheesy Gordita Crunch Nacho Cheese
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.19
Tasting Notes:
The Doritos Cheesy Gordita Crunch gives you a quintuple dose of cheese, but thanks to the three-cheese blend and thick tortilla wrap, it offers a much better experience than the plain Doritos Locos Taco.
The three cheese brings together salty mozzarella, nutty Monterey Jack, and sharp cheddar, offering a lot of cheesy complexity while the tortilla wrap tamps down some of the sharper notes of the Nacho Cheese shell. Instead of being overwhelming, this helps the palate focus in on the spicier notes of the shell and spicy ranch sauce, providing a little kick of heat at the end of each bite.
The Bottom Line:
The best form of the Doritos Locos taco.
4. Spicy Potato Taco
Dane Rivera
Price: $1.29
Tasting Notes:
I like the Spicy Potato Taco a lot, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why there isn’t a crunch version. Potato tacos are a true Mexican food delight, but they’re almost always fried — so this one puzzles me. Aside from what feels like a missed opportunity, this is still very good. Taco Bell does potatoes much better than they do ground beef, offering a fluffy texture with a well-seasoned exterior that manages to pack more flavor than the greasy beef itself.
The taco always features Taco Bell’s chipotle sauce, adding smokey and subtle spicy notes to each bite that absorbs perfectly into the potatoes. The only thing holding this thing back is the texture, it’s just too damn soft.
The Bottom Line:
Almost Taco Bell’s best taco, it’s that good. If they ever decide to make a crunchy version it’ll be a toss-up between this one and our number one choice.
3. Soft Taco
Dane Rivera
Price: $1.79
Tasting Notes:
At first glance, this seems way like it’s being ranked too high for something this simple but Taco Bell is at its best when it’s simple. The soft taco features ground beef, lettuce, and shredded cheddar cheese, and that’s all you really need. Crushing three of these is easy, and with the right Taco Bell sauce, this thing just tastes perfect.
Without any distracting ingredients, it’s easier to focus in here on the savory meaty flavors of the ground beef, and the soft flour tortilla is a lot more filling than the crunchy version. It’s a near-perfect fast food taco.
The Bottom Line:
Simple but meaty, savory, and satisfying.
2. Chipotle Cheddar Chalupa
Dane Rivera
Price: $4.49
Tasting Notes:
The flavor combination here is perfect! The Chipotle Cheddar Chalupa features ground beef, a layer of spicy chipotle sauce, lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese all mixed together in a thick sweet chalupa wrap. Each bite offers a balance of spicy, smokey, and sweet flavors, with rich meaty tones dominating.
Thanks to the thick chalupa wrap, this thing fills you up nicely, like a Taco Bell burrito, but puts a greater emphasis on the fillings, allowing you to enjoy some of Taco Bell’s best ingredients all in one singular dish.
The Bottom Line:
Easily a top-five item on the entire Taco Bell menu. The Chipotle Cheddar Chalupa makes the case for the chalupa category’s existence on the menu.
1. Crunchy Taco
Dane Rivera
Price: $1.79
Tasting Notes:
You had to see this coming. The Crunchy Taco simply is Taco Bell. This is the flavor that comes to mind when you’re debating on if you should hit up Taco Bell in the first place, whether this is your go-to order or not. The combination of peppery fried corn tortilla and savory greasy ground beef is the Taco Bell brand, and as such it tastes great with each of Taco Bell’s sauce packets, as well as the hot green and red sauce that you can and should order on the side.
The texture is just on point with this taco, you get crunch from both the lettuce and shell, and the way the salty cheese wraps everything together is as good as Taco Bell ever gets. Everything is perfectly proportioned here, which can’t be said of most of Taco Bell’s other tacos.
Anytime I write about Taco Bell I mention how it’s stoner food, and I do think smoking a couple of bowls of herb or rocking up a few drinks deep is the best way to enjoy most of the menu, but the Crunchy Taco is different. You can eat this thing stone-cold sober and still find a lot to love here. Plus, it delivers on any nostalgia you have for Taco Bell and actually manages to match your memories.
The Crunchy Taco is to Taco Bell what fries are to McDonald’s — the best encapsulation of the brand.
The Bottom Line:
Anytime you order anything from Taco Bell, at least one classic Crunchy Taco is a must to add to your order. For that reason, it gets the top spot.
The Raiders jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the first half against the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead on Monday night and it seemed like they might finally be emerging from their early season woes, thanks in large part to Derek Carr and Davante Adams hooking up twice for TDs.
Their first came in the first quarter on a 4th-and-1 where they caught the Chiefs by surprise with a bomb down the field, with Adams roasting his defender in one-on-one with no safety on the back end.
As the Chiefs often do, they charged back behind four touchdown passes from Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelce and took a 30-23 lead early in the fourth quarter. It was then that Adams got over the top again, this time splitting a double team for a touchdown on a gorgeous ball from Carr for what appeared to be the tying score.
However, the Raiders went for two and Josh Jacobs got stuffed at the goal line on a dive, leaving Vegas trailing by one. Their defense did succeed in getting a stop and the Raiders were able to go from inside their 10 out near midfield with relative quickness, before their drive stalled in part because a rare Adams bobble on a third down pass caused a catch to get overturned and force the Raiders into another fourth down.
Once again, they tried to uncork a deep ball to Adams, who had a step on his defender and might’ve had a shot at the ball (or at least a DPI) if not for his teammate Hunter Renfrow running through him on his route.
Adams was heated on the sideline after, slamming his helmet and sitting off to the side, stewing about what should’ve been another big play to set up a win.
As he left the field, a camera man walked in front of him and got the full brunt of Adams’ frustration, as the star receiver shoved him to the ground before walking off into the tunnel.
It was a fairly out of character moment for Adams, who apologized in his postgame comments but will still likely getting hit with a fine from the Raiders and/or the NFL.
Next year, Lauryn Hill‘s debut and only solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill turns 25. This past weekend, Hill performed several of the album’s tracks during a performance at ONE Musicfest in Atlanta, GA.
During her set, Hill teased an anniversary tour next year, where fans might be able to expect her to perform the album in its entirety.
“25 years on, so we gonna be back with those songs the way you can recognize them, aye?,” she said to the crowd.
To this day, Miseducation is one of the most revered hip-hop records of all time. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Hill revealed that while she does occasionally hear things on the album that she would’ve done differently, she feels the love and passion she put into Miseducation is undeniable.
I think my intention was simply to make something that made my foremothers and forefathers in music and social and political struggle know that someone received what they’d sacrificed to give us, and to let my peers know that we could walk in that truth, proudly and confidently. At that time, I felt like it was a duty or responsibility to do so. I saw the economic and educational gaps in black communities and although I was super young myself, I used that platform to help bridge those gaps and introduce concepts and information that “we” needed even if “we” didn’t know “we” wanted it yet. Of course I’m referring to the proverbial “we.” These things had an enormous value to me and I cherished them from a very young age.
There are handful of major races this midterm election season, but there haven’t been a ton of debates. John Fetterman is recovering from the stroke he had last spring, but he’s hoping to square off against his frequent trolling target Dr. Oz. Herschel Walker keeps backing out of debating Raphael Warnock (and is a little busy these days anyway). But on Monday, J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan duked it out in person for the Ohio Senate seat they both want, and neither held back. But Ryan might have gotten the sickest burn — by quoting Trump.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 11, 2022
Last month, Trump held a rally for Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author-turned-MAGA candidate. Vance used to be a fierce Trump critic before he decided to rebrand as a hoped-for politician, which is probably why he dragged him in front of the crowd, joking that Vance was “kissing my ass, he wants my support so much.” All Ryan had to do is dig it up and throw it back in his face.
“A couple weeks ago, in Youngstown, on the stage, Donald Trump said to J.D. Vance, ‘All you do is kiss my ass to get my support,’” Ryan reminded the crowd. He then pointed out he’s in the pocket of lots of far right influencers, including Mitch McConnell and Peter Thiel, who will make him do what they want. But he wasn’t done.
“And here’s the thing that’s most troubling about this lack of courage, is that after Trump took J.D. Vance’s dignity from him on the stage in Youngstown, J.D. Vance got back on stage and started shaking his hand and taking pictures, saying, ‘Hey, aren’t we having a great time here tonight? I don’t know anybody I grew up with, I don’t know anybody I went to high school with that would allow somebody to take their dignity like that, and then get back up on stage.
“We need leaders with the courage to take on their own party,” he said. “And I’ve proven that, and he was called an asskisser by the former president.”
Ryan concluded, “I’m for Ohio. I don’t kiss anyone’s ass like him. Ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser.”
Ryan: I’m for Ohio. I don’t kiss anyone’s ass like him. Ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser pic.twitter.com/j2D2VKoQWf
It was a powerful roundhouse, and Vance spent most of Ryan’s segment squirming. Someone even went and spliced together the two events, and it’s even more devastating that way.
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