the unbearable notice is; that you've to make up your mind to be the difference and not the other way round else people will misjudge you even though you're not that person.
In honor of 21 Savage’s 29th birthday, his good friend Young Thug marked the occasion by gifting the “Bank Account” MC a custom Dodge Hellcat TRX worth $150,000.
As TMZ points out, the Hellcat on its own already ranges between $60K and $70K, but an extensive video demonstrates that 21’s bright red pickup is completely customized to the fullest extent, hence the hefty price tag.
His name “21” is inscribed on the side of the truck along with multiple dagger logos. 21’s face has also been stitched into the truck’s headrests, along with glow-in-the-dark stars and an illuminating “21” stitched into the ceiling of the vehicle.
“better sit down somewhere.”
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The party, which 21 named “FreakNik 21,” actually later incurred legal copyright threats from the Atlanta festival company of the same name.
“Sucks we gonna have to sue them when all we asked that they acknowledged us since it was a free event and they declined,” FreakNik’s official Twitter account wrote.
The truck was bought and designed from Roadshow International, a luxury car dealership located in Atlanta where 21 had a crazy birthday party this past weekend, TMZ reports. A reaction video on Instagram shows 21 smiling as he playfully puts Thugga in a headlock once he reveals his gift.
The 20-track Punk boasts an array of guest stars, including A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Doja Cat, Drake, Future, Gunna, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, Mac Miller, Nate Ruess and Travis Scott.
Young Thug achieves his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 30) as his latest release, Punk, debuts in the top slot. The set earned 90,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 21, according to MRC Data.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units.
“My Universe, with BTS, debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, marking the second leader for Coldplay”
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Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
The new Oct. 30, 2021-dated chart (where Punk debuts to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 26.
“All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes”
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3,899%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 48,000 (up 11,570%; making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 6,000 (up 589%; equaling 8.34 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1,180%).
Let It Be was first released in 1970 as the final studio effort from the band. It spent four weeks atop the chart (June 13-July 4, 1970-dated charts).
For its special edition, the album was reintroduced in a variety of expanded formats and editions, including many with previously unreleased tracks.
For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Fresh off the release of his new album Punk and a pair of Travis Barker-backed Saturday Night Live performances, Young Thug dropped by the Breakfast Club headquarters for an hour-long discussion that opened with a reflection on his previous issues with Charlamagne.
Asked what kept him “away from the Breakfast Club all these years,” Thug initially said he didn’t know before pointing to his and Charlamagne’s “misunderstanding.”
From there, Thugger noted his previous comments against CTG—which were spurred by Birdman’s infamous appearance on the show in 2016—were “all talk” at the time.
“That was all talk,”
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Thug said. “I never understood, like, how could it go so, how could it seem so far. We all just talking shit. … I was kinda young back then.
I ain’t understand blogging back then. You know, I was so young and fresh in the game to the point that I didn’t understand this shit and how important it is.”
About three minutes into the interview, Thug—who’s 30—said he’s “pretty old now” and has since grown out of “arguing on the internet,” among other things.
The easiest pick for Metro was his frequent collaborator, Future. Metro said he has “got to be” in his top five. His Savage Mode II partner, 21 Savage, was also an easy selection for the producer.
Metro did add that Savage “don’t give a fuck about being considered, like, the top five artists from Atlanta.”
Metro Boomin listed his top five artists from Atlanta on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, Sunday. The legendary producer named 21 Savage, Future, T.I., Gucci Mane, and Young Thug as the best to do it, but admitted it was a difficult choice.
“don’t give a fuck about being considered, like, the top five artists from Atlanta.”
Earlier in the podcast, Metro spoke about his chemistry with Savage, explaining, “The way me and Savage work, it’s easy…but at the same time it’s challenging.
Not challenging in a bad way, it’s just I feel like we challenge each other so much.”
He added: “I feel like with him, it’s always easy for us as a whole, but at the same time he challenges me. But I need that, though, so that’s a blessing$.
Kanye West has earned his first ever Diamond certification, with ‘Stronger’ surpassing the 10 million sales mark earlier this week.
Released in 2007 from West’s third album ‘Graduation’, the track has reached the milestone 14 years later.
Tracks need to surpass 10 million sales to be certified Diamond according to the RIAA
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Sharing the news via Twitter, Def Jam Records said: “Kanye West’s ‘Stronger’ is now @RIAA certified DIAMOND! Congratulations to Yeezy and the entire team.”
Earlier this year, it was revealed just 58 songs have been certified Diamond, which is the Recording Industry Association of America highest honour and is worth the equivalent of ten Platinum plaques.
“West also recently announced he is looking at expanding his empire of fashion and music”
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Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ was the fastest song to ever earn the classification while tracks by Justin Bieber (‘Baby’, ‘Sorry’), Eminem (‘Not Afraid’, ‘Lose Yourself’), Lady Gaga (‘Poker Face’, ‘Bad Romance’) and Drake (‘God’s Plan’) have also achieved the milestone.
Meanwhile, it’s been announced that an “intimate” new documentary about West, titled jeen-yuhs, is coming to Netflix next year.
The desire to avenge this loss triggered the Third Crusade, an expedition launched by the greatest rulers of western Europe, including Richard I (aka Richard the Lionheart) of England.
After years of relentless campaigning, though, the crusaders left for home without accomplishing their primary aim. Despite suffering a number of serious defeats, Saladin held onto Jerusalem.
He died on 4 March 1193, exhausted by the struggle.
“Saladin captures the ‘true cross’ at the battle of Hattin on 4 July 1187, depicted in a medieval illustration.”
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Over 800 years later, the sultan commands an extraordinarily enduring reputation across the Muslim world.
His story is woven into the political, religious and cultural landscape as the man who defeated invading westerners and fought for his faith and his people.
Though the victory at Jerusalem is at the heart of his renown, Saladin’s character – or the image formed around his character – is also immensely important. Over the course of his lifetime, Saladin became famous for his generosity, piety, justice and mercy.
“On 2 October 1187, the sultan Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub – known commonly today as Saladin – captured Jerusalem for the people of Islam.”
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Though the victory at Jerusalem is at the heart of his renown, Saladin’s character – or the image formed around his character – is also immensely important.
Over the course of his lifetime, Saladin became famous for his generosity, piety, justice and mercy.
And though he undoubtedly benefitted from a cadre of eloquent and persuasive literary admirers, the evidence from those beyond his inner circle – even the writings of his enemies – indicates the prominence of these personality traits, and demonstrates that they were central to his success as the leader of the jihad against the Franks, and as a dynastic empire-builder.
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“A bad boy with magnetism” and “open minded”, are some of the words Ebuka uses to describe himself.
This 28-year-old musician and aspiring filmmaker was born in Lagos, then moved to the United States of America as a teenager – but is currently based in Abuja.
Calling himself a “curious participant of life”, Ebuka likes to explore interests and people with an open mind and maintains he is dedicated to growing into the best version of himself.
He believes being the product of two different societies; America and Nigeria, has created an interesting perspective on life that many viewers will be able to relate to.
In his free time, you will find Ebuka writing, creating music or pursuing his interests in cinematography.
Fans spotted that the 2020 song is no longer available on streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. Only an instrumental mix remains.
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light up.”
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No explanation has been given about the track’s withdrawal. It’s not known at this stage if it’s linked to DaBaby’s insensitive comments about HIV/Aids at last month’s Rolling Loud Miami festival.
Was there a way to have our cake and eat it too? Could RDJ’s Iron Man return to the MCU without ruining Endgame’s legacy? It turns out that we already have an answer.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) was one of many candidates for “Heroic Death in Avengers: Endgame” in the months that preceded the film’s release.
We knew going into theaters that some of our beloved Avengers would do whatever it takes to beat Thanos.
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Some of them might die after bringing everyone back in this Infinity Saga finale.
It turned out that predictions about Iron Man sacrificing his life to beat Thanos (Josh Brolin) were accurate.
And as a result, the Endgame finale was heartbreakingly beautiful.
Izuku Midoriya has always wanted to be a superhero since he was a kid. Thanks to All Might, these dreams of becoming a pro hero were set on the right path, but things have taken a turn as of late.
With society upturned, Izuku has been fighting solo, and it turns out the My Hero Academia manga has a name for his dark form.
Clearly, Izuku is in a dark place right now, so the name of his current form fits.
“The boy learned that not only did Shigaraki escape the massive raid on the Paranormal Liberation Army, but his allies did too.”
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If fans are lucky, the hero will not be stuck in this place for much longer, and we have his classmates to thank.
The creator explains in his notes for My Hero Academia volume 31 that Dark Deku describes his physical and mental state. The hero is stuck in a rut when he dons this look, and its sharp designs mirror the splintered state of his psyche.
As the city goes dark coming from a blue town, people breaking laws and creating obstacles for others, who are willing to pay the ultimate price. Talk is a novelist.
I had a choice between two movies about jungle cruises this weekend. First, there’s Disney’s Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt in a big-budget adventure based on the classic Disneyland amusement park ride.
“Jungle Cruise isn’t the first Disney film to be based on a theme park ride, and I daresay it won’t be the last.”
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Seeing the throwback characteristics of Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise, folks are quickly applying the “swashbuckler” label, calling upon the good juju of Michael Curtiz, George Lucas, Stephen Sommers, and Gore Verbinski that came before him.
That understandable descriptor fits a bit like a slightly oversized hat. The chapeau in question is…
Whenever I have to refill my car with gas, pick up shampoo and conditioner, or purchase new cleaning supplies, doing so always feels like a chore.
However, there is one weekly errand that I actually look forward to doing, and it is none other than grocery shopping. I still try…
One of my absolute favorite things about owning a group fitness gym is the camaraderie. When you work out together, you get to know each other, and in a way, end up on a fitness journey together.
“Watch carefully, and you can also see the ups and downs someone may be going through.”
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After all, everyone is in there giving 100% to become the best version of themselves. The energy that creates is powerful.
One thing that used to baffle me is watching someone giving major effort and being super consistent in their workout routine, but that physical transformation seemed elusive for them.
There are a million reasons why this could be happening and far be it from me to speculate. Over the years, however, the same recurring theme came up: food choices.
You have to ignore the temptations, or you will continue to sabotage yourself.
1. Plan Ahead: First, plan your entire week to know what you’re going to eat.
2. Shop The Perimeter: This has been a common trick for a while now, but most stores line the outer perimeter with generally healthier food.
3. Keep The Basics: Get a good stock of grocery staples at your house and make sure you never run out.
“If you feel like there is no hope and are convinced the grocery store will always win, I’ve got promising news for you.”
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The stores gave you an out with online ordering! This means you can build an order with only the items on your list, know exactly what your spending, and voilà! Your groceries will be ready for you to pick up curbside.
So see what you gonna do ok, If you walk into the store hungry, you will want all the things. Caution is thrown to the wind, and you’re borderline hangry, so everything sounds fabulous.
Since your bookworm is signaling that you need a meal right now, you’ll be drawn to quick and easy meals which shouldn’t be what’s on your plan.
Now, if even entering the parking lot is too much temptation, some areas will deliver your groceries straight to your door!
That’s right – you place an order online, but instead of a pizza delivery showing up or your Amazon Prime order, it’s healthy and smart food choices all from your list! That’s using technology for good.
From the time you enter high school, college (and a four-year university in particular) is often presented as the end goal.
Once your junior year rolls around teachers, peers, and family members start throwing out a barrage of questions your way: are you looking at colleges yet? which ones have you visited? what’s your personal statement going to be about? what do you want to major in? when do you start applications? what about sororities? how about roommates? My head is spinning thinking about it.
“In 1636, European colonists (as the story usually goes) founded “New College,” now known as Harvard University.”
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High school is a microclimate, making for a confusing experience, at the end of which you’re supposed to be “grown.” It acts as a small town, where everyone knows everything, news spreads like wildfire, and everyone is talking behind each other’s backs.
It’s a place where good influences and bad influences collide to form the person you will enter the “real world” as.
Back then, colleges were attended by wealthy Puritans who would inherit family business and go on to be leaders of the new world as proper, well educated Christians. So from the beginning, college was associated with greater success and wealth.
“I’m not here to deny that anyone with a college education will likely earn a significantly higher salary than those who don’t.”
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But don’t worry it gets worse.
If you’re like me and genuinely interested in learning more about the world or god forbid making it a better place, be prepared to drown in debt, working a minimum wage job until you die (just kidding…sort of).
After I received my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara (not because it was “easy” but because I was passionate about the subject), it was not lost on me that my 40 thousand dollar degree would get me nowhere.
I’ve been a victim of racism for most of my life. This has given me the intuition and hindsight to infallibly detect the type of racist one is dealing with.
First, there are the Empathetic racists. They call you up whenever there’s a racist incident reported on in the media. They demonstrate alongside you at Black Lives Matter protests, they talk about how shocked they are at open displays of racism.
“They work to ensure that everyone is treated fairly. They work toward a better world for humanity.”
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The Supremacist racists are those that believe that white people are superior to black and brown people. They categorize all nonwhites as sub-human. In fact, they dehumanize black people to better abuse them.
They feel threatened by what they say is “the big replacement”: a white extremist theory that says that black and brown people are willfully trying to out-populate white people.
“Without the iPhone cameras filming, these people will kill black people whenever they have a chance.”
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So the reality is that racists can belong to one or several of the above categories. Some can be Supremacist racists and Sadist racists at the same time.
Others can be Empathetic racists and Fetishist racists. Cross-pollination occurs across these categories all the time, but whatever the racist, they are harmful and sometimes life-threatening to black and brown people.
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PayPal has begun recruiting employees for its offices in Ireland for several cryptocurrency-related positions, signaling the company’s plans to further expand its presence in the fast-growing digital asset market.
This was reported by the Irish Independent newspaper. According to its data, vacancies for offices in Dublin and Dundalk are focused on work in the field of compliance with regulatory requirements for the circulation of cryptocurrency and combating money laundering, as well as on the further development of business in this segment.
Earlier this year, PayPal launched a dedicated cryptocurrency and blockchain business unit to operate in a new market for itself; which it began developing in October 2020, allowing customers in the United States to buy Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash ( BCH) and Litecoin (LTC).
PayPal company’s cryptocurrency business exceeded expectations in its first six months of operation.
Last week, during the PayPal quarterly report, Schulman announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency service in the United Kingdom in the very near future. He added that the company is also in the process of developing updates that will speed up payment processing.
At the time of publication, Bitcoin’s value is at 39.8 thousand dollars, and yesterday the rate was 42.4 thousand dollars .
Recently, Bitcoin got support from the head of Twitter Jack Dorsey; who said that Bitcoin is the best candidate for the role of the natural currency of the Internet. And Elon Musk said that Tesla will once again start accepting bitcoins; as a method of payment for its electric vehicles, while maintaining the current trend.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said that convicted fraudster currently in a US jail, Abass Ramon, aka Hushpuppi, paid $20,600 or equivalent of N8m to the head of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to arrest and detain his fellow fraudster, Chibuzo Kelly Vincent.
According to a document issued by the US District Court for the Central District Court, California and dated February 12, 2021, it stated that Hushpuppi contracted the services of Abba Kyari after Chibuzo allegedly threatened to expose an alleged $1.1m fraud committed against a Qatari businessman.
“Kyari provided the account information for a bank account at a Nigerian bank, Zenith Bank, in the name of a person other than Kyari himself”.
FBI Special Agent, Andrew John Innocenti, made the allegation in the ‘Criminal Complaint By Telephone Or Other Reliable Electronic Means’ filed before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
WhatsApp for iPhone now lets you send photos and videos that can only be viewed once by recipients. The new change is currently rolling out to the iPhone users through a new WhatsApp version that is available for download through the App Store.
The update also changes the style of in-app message notifications. WhatsApp has been testing the ‘view once’ feature for some time to essentially enable photos and videos to disappear from the chat after they are viewed by the recipient.
The new change is currently rolling out to the iPhone users through a new WhatsApp version that is available for download through the App Store.
The update also changes the style of in-app message notifications.
WhatsApp has been testing the ‘view once’ feature for some time to essentially enable photos and videos to disappear from the chat after they are viewed by the recipient. However, it doesn’t restrict people from keeping a record of the media content by simply taking their screenshots.
Photos and videos that are being shared using the ‘view once’ feature will no longer be visible in the chat where they were sent once the recipient exits the media viewer. The media content will also not be saved to the recipient’s Photos or Gallery, and they can’t forward them through the app. However, recipients can still take a screenshot of the ‘view once’ photos or capture these videos by using the default screen recording feature.
The hip-hop mogul’s Cactus Jack Films has signed a production deal with content studio A24 to partner on film projects ahead of his upcoming album Utopia. According to Variety, the first “special project” is already in the works and will align with the album’s release.
Travis made the announcement while sharing a photo of the first draft script for his Utopia film, which he wrote. “Life is a movie. So is this album,” he captioned the post. “@cactusjack and @a24 set out to bring amazing content for the future . Thru film and media. Starting with this.”
A24 is behind films and TV shows such as Uncut Gems, Euphoria, Midsommar, and the Oscar-winning Moonlight.
This is the latest deal for Travis, who has inked partnerships with Nike, McDonald’s, and Fortnite. Earlier this year, he became the first artist to co-design a full collection with Dior
Director Jon M. Chu brings the vibrant world of “Crazy Rich Asians” to life with all the style and glamour of a big-budget Hollywood movie — but early on in the project he had a big choice to make, joining author Kevin Kwan in turning down a massive Netflix payday to ensure the groundbreaking project would make its impact on the big screen.
The Palo Alto-born USC graduate had spent the last decade becoming one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising studio directors with credits including “Step Up 2 the Streets,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and the “Now You See Me” films.
But Chu, who will direct an adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” in 2019 and is developing a film based on the Thai cave rescue, realized the time had come to focus his message — and put his money where his mouth was.ADVERTISEMENTnullnull
In your own words: What’s your Hollywood story?
My mom’s from Taiwan. My dad’s from mainland China. They came over when they were 19, 20 years old. I’m the youngest of five kids from the Silicon Valley — Los Altos Hills, California, to be specific.
They started a restaurant called Chef Chu’s. Fifty years, next year. My dad works every day, and they always taught us that America’s the greatest place in the world: If you work hard and focus on what you do, you can be the best and you can do anything you want.
I went to USC film school, made a bunch of shorts there. Luckily, I got discovered off of my musical short “When the Kids Are Away,” and I started making movies. It’s kind of an insane Cinderella story.
I got a call from Steven Spielberg on a Friday night and got my catapult into the business. I’ve done a bunch of movies, but it wasn’t until a couple years ago where I really questioned what kind of movies I wanted to make. I found “Crazy Rich Asians” and I feel like this is the beginning of my Chapter Two.
What made you feel that you had to be a part of bringing “Crazy Rich Asians” to the big screen?
I wanted to find something that was more personal, and the most personal thing was tackling my own cultural identity — something I was too scared to deal with before… Hopefully through this movie you realize everyone’s trying to find their place. Everyone’s trying to find their role in this life, and you’re not alone in your struggle.
Jon M. Chu, director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” says that what’s both personal and universal about the story is: “Everyone’s trying to find their place.”
I want to bring back that old Hollywood charm.
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“Crazy Rich Asians” is the first movie of its kind in 25 years. What does it mean to you to be part of this moment?
I remember growing up as a kid and not seeing a lot of people on the big screen, or even behind the screen, that looked like me. So the fact that we get to show romantic leads in a contemporary movie, showing this experience of an Asian American going out into the world and discovering Asia, that we’re not just one blob of Asian people, means so much.
I think about my young self. I think about my daughter who was just born a year ago, and the world I want her to live in. I want her to live in a world where she’s seeing Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh and Lisa Lu be these strong independent people that don’t need a man in their life to be fulfilled, and that love themselves and know that they’re worth every inch of their existence, and can be anything and do whatever they want.
When you were young, who inspired you?
I remember making my first project. I was making videos with my family and I got this Sharper Image mixer. I used all the VHS tapes to cut it together and I showed my parents in the living room and they cried when they watched it, and I felt heard for the first time. Being one of five kids, to be heard is a big deal! I knew I was going to do this for the rest of my life whether I was going to be paid for it or not.
Growing up I remember seeing people like Rufio [played by Dante Basco] in “Hook” and being like, “That guy’s so cool.” I got to play him every time I was playing with my friends. Even though it was just a little small thing, I know how much that can mean to a kid. So as we make this, I hope it gives inspiration to others — not just that they can be these characters, but that other writers and directors with other stories … don’t have to depend on one story with one set of characters.
These other stories we can hear that we don’t even know exist right now — that’s why I’m really excited for the future. Where there are cracks is where the light can come in. ADVERTISEMENT
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