AJ Dybantsa on going 1-on-1 with Davion Mitchell:
“I had to play him once when he came to LA. We played three spots. I won a spot. But it's real straps, bro. The first time he guarded me, I took a dribble back. He's right up under me…and he don't foul.”
(via Baseline Banter YT)
New York Knick player and NBA champion Mikal bridges was listening to Kendrick Lamar’s Mr morale & The Big Steppers on his ig live
Mikal also talked about how he was depressed in 2022 and how Kendrick’s music helped him get out of that depression.
“I was depressed and this fucking album got me through it, I will never forget it” ❤️
Same old story, rinse & repeat.
Somebody that wasn’t there claim something happened between JAY-Z & someone else, & more niggas online that wasn’t there believe it.
Then
Somebody that WAS there says it DIDN’T happen, & niggas online search for another lie to believe 😭
King Green of Rap Latte speaks on the Vince Staples ‘Cry Baby’ reactions:
“We’re still uncomfortable seeing Black people in spaces we culturally coded as white. And the craziest part is that most of those spaces were created or influenced by Black artists and Black culture.”
@kinggreen
This is the only scene in The Dark Knight where you can see Heath Ledger's actual face.
Every other Joker shot is buried under white paint. The funeral required disguise. Joker hiding in plain sight as an honor guard, scars half-smudged, still visible if you looked. Nobody in the frame recognizes him. Nobody in the audience does either, until the rifles come up.
Ledger was 28. Looks 22 here. He shot this in Chicago in summer 2007. He had six months left.
He locked himself in a hotel room for a month before filming, kept a Joker diary that nobody saw until after his death, built a voice and a laugh that existed in no previous version of the character. By the time he walked onto a Chicago set in a Gotham PD uniform, every choice had been made.
The film made $1.005 billion. He won the Oscar posthumously, the second actor in history to do that after Peter Finch in 1976. He died six months before opening night.
This scene is the thesis of the whole movie. The Joker walks into Gotham's police department wearing the police department's uniform. The mayor stands six feet away. Every officer has been trained to trust the uniform. Gotham fails because Gotham trusts the uniform.
That's the face Gotham trained to trust.