One Surreal Night With the Rap Veterans of Mount Westmore
Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too Short the old school titans in this new supergroup made their live debut at an event featuring pop stars and TikTok influencers.
From left: Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Ice Cube and E-40 have started a supergroup and recorded 50-plus songs, which they plan to spread across multiple releases.Credit.Wulf Bradley for The New York Times
By David Peisner
Published May 10, 2021Updated May 11, 2021
ATLANTA Many people have reconnected with old friends and undertaken new projects during the pandemic. On a Friday night in April, in a large, brightly lit room deep in the bowels of Mercedes-Benz stadium in downtown Atlanta, four of them gathered to introduce their new venture to the world.
E-40 inks new deal to take his Earl Stevens Wine Selections nationwide
E-40 performing (Photo credit: Shutterstock / Sterling Munksgard)
E-40 has been in the spirits business for a few years now with his Earl Stevens Wine Selections that have been sold throughout stores in California, and now he’s about to go nationwide. The line now includes tequila, cognac, bourbon, and other assorted adult beverages. In addition, the rap tycoon just signed a multistate distribution agreement with Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. The new deal will make his spirits brands a national, in-store product for the first time, with availability in 41 of 50 states in the US.
During an appearance on Mike Tyson’s podcast last month, Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), told Tyson he’d bet “a million dollars” that.
Los Angeles, CA – Actor Jaleel White understands most people won’t disassociate his life away from his former dorky character “Steve Urkel” he played on the 1990s primetime TV series
Family Matters. White is capitalizing on fictitious surname to sell his own cannabis brand, according to CNN, and Snoop Dogg is endorsing his new business.
The Doggfather appeared in multiple posts serving as a pitchman for White’s “Purple Urkel” weed jar and strain in a video posted on White’s Instagram account on Sunday (April 18).
“It’s big Snoop Dogg. I just got my hands on some of this purple, man. And it is the one, not the two. And let me tell you, you better hurry up and you get some because they gonna be leaving real fast,” Snoop said in the video post with White’s caption that reads “Blessed by the Boss Dogg.”
MMA Fighting
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Peace was never going to be an option this weekend.
With Jake Paul and his legion of social media sycophants bearing down on our precious MMA bubble, much of the hardcore fanbase was up in arms over the possibility that Paul’s freakshow fight with Ben Askren would overshadow a compelling UFC Vegas 24 main event featuring top middleweight contenders Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum, and a strong Bellator card headlined by a pair of light heavyweight grand prix bouts.
The Triller Fight Club event undoubtedly drew broad interest from a variety of demographics, but for fight fans who were judicious with their time and chose not to indulge in all three events, here’s a quick rundown of the storylines that played out on Friday and Saturday.