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Kendrick Lamar s verse on Big Sean s 2013 single Control is widely considered a game changing moment in modern hip-hop. It s a verse in which Lamar ignited a generation of hip-hop feuds, while staking his claim as an all-time great. It s a verse so important that even now, eight years later, we re feeling the reverberations of his words in J. Cole s new track “Let Go My Hand,” from his latest album
The Off-Season. The track references a long-rumored altercation between him and Diddy at a 2013 MTV Video Music Awards after-party in New York City. But to really understand the weight of this hip-hop thread we have to go all the way back to the beginning.
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On an April 23 episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan suggested to his millions of listeners that they don t need to get the COVID-19 vaccine. People say, do you think it s safe to get vaccinated? I ve said, yeah, I think for the most part it s safe to get vaccinated. I do. I do, Rogan said on the podcast. But if you re like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I ll go no. Are you healthy? Are you a healthy person? . If you re a healthy person, and you re exercising all the time, and you re young, and you re eating well . like, I don t think you need to worry about this.
Jurassic Park or
Saving Private Ryan,
Catch Me if You Can has always quietly been one of Steven Spielberg s greatest films. In fact, Catch Me if You Can is actually ranked as Spielberg s fourth-best directorial effort on Rotten Tomatoes, above any of his other movies I ve mentioned here.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as real life con man Frank Abagnale Jr., who throughout the 60s and 70s cashed more than $2 million in fake checks and successfully posed as a doctor, a lawyer, a college professor, and a pilot for Pan American airlines. According to Abagnale s own story, he began conning at the age of 15 and was hunted throughout his teenage years by the FBI (Tom Hanks plays the fictional agent Carl Hanratty, loosely based on Joseph Shea who was a friend of Abagnale). The film also shows Abagnale escape twice from the FBI once from a plane as it was on the runway at JFK and again from a detention center in Atlanta.