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50 Cent, never shy to express his opinion, has shard his thoughts on Lil Uzi Vert’s second straight eyebrow raising Coachella outfit and performance.
The G-Unit icon took to Instagram on Saturday (April 20) and shared a screenshot of a website recap that described Uzi’s look. It read: “Lil Uzi A City Girl: Onstage w/ His NAILS, Painted & Carrying PURSE!”
50 captioned his post: “Something is in the water [anguished face emoji] what make you do that bro ?”
Check out 50’s post, plus a recap of the “Just Wanna Rock” rapper’s outfit below.
Fans were quick to comment on the puzzling fit. One user wrote: “He remind me of HIM from Power Puff Girls. Yall remember?”
Another simply said: “Shit getting too weird.” A third concluded: “This man wearing JT purse outside.”
Uzi’s sartorial decision making may be rubbing 50 Cent the wrong way, but his boo has been quick to stand up and defend his choices.
After Uzi’s performance during Week 1 of Coachella earlier last Saturday (April 13), JT cleared a fan with the quickness who thought it a good idea to come for Lil Uzi Vert‘s dance performance.
The rapper almost immediately went viral for their moves, and while most fans were appreciative of the talent, some were misguided enough to roast them for the performance.
“Wait wait wait Lil Uzi was vogueing last night,” wrote one fan. “And he did the death drop! Now @ThegirlJT we need answers ma ma.”
“You actually need edges,” replied the City Girl. “Y’all obsession with someone you don’t have to deal with is spooky asf! What is it to you? Why do you need answers skinthead?”
Back in July, a Twitter post made by a presumptive troll featured a very snarky comment about the “Just Wanna Rock” rapper, who isn’t what one might call “traditionally handsome.” Apparently, a user by the name of “Marie Hendrix” thought so, as well.
“This really JT man?” she wrote, quote-tweeting a photo of Lil Uzi Vert, who actually uses they/them pronouns.
Within minutes, JT responded. “Yes! & I’ll beat you in your mouth about him!”
While JT and Lil Uzi Vert are nothing if not a happy couple now, things weren’t always that way for the pair.
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Steve Albini‘s bands Shellac and Big Black now have their catalogues available for listening on Spotify.
Albini passed away aged 61 earlier this month due to a heart attack. He was well known for being the producer of major albums such as Nirvana’s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’, Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ and more.
Back in 2022, the late producer took his music off the streaming platform. He had previously criticised the company for platforming anti-vaxxers such as Joe Rogan, and tweeted later that they were a “terrible company”, adding: “I don’t want to be part of their business”.
He later told Attack Magazine that Spotify was “one of the few places outside of record stores where recorded music can earn anything at all, and for bands [with] more generous, honest relationships with independent labels not part of the ownership trust, then the payments from Spotify, though meager per-play, can add up to a viable income stream. Nobody’s getting rich, but it could pay for the groceries.”
Now, it appears that Albini’s work with his bands Shellac and Big Black are now available to stream on Spotify. This include’s Shellac’s final album ‘To All Trains’, which was announced shortly before Albini’s death and was released last Friday (May 17).
Tributes have poured in for the legendary producer since the announcement of his death. Our NME obituary hailed him as “a lone voice of anti-industry punk scene ethics, even as he worked with major labels on some of the biggest names in alternative rock.”
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters dedicated a rendition of ‘My Hero’ to the late producer in Charlotte, North Carolina last week.
“Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd. “He left us much too soon. He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. I’m talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. Let’s sing this one for him.”
PJ Harvey also said he “changed the course of my life” during sessions for her 1993 LP ‘Rid Of Me’., and Joanna Newsom dedicated a version of her song ‘Cosmia’ to him, who engineered her 2006 album ‘Ys’. See further tributes here.
Elsewhere, Yourcodenameis:milo spoke to NME about how the 20th anniversary of their LP ‘All Roads To Fault’ was made all the more profound by the passing of Albini, who engineered the album.
Remembering their time with the punk and production legend, Lockey said: “We paid attention, saw everything he did, asked questions that he would gladly spend ages answering”.
“He once stopped the session and proceeded to give us a lecture on how the peanut built America. He schooled us in billiards, then showed us his favourite cooking shows that he’d recorded. It was all so natural and encouraging, we could do what the fuck we wanted and he’d capture it. That’s the deal, and we fucking loved it.”
