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Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga reviews... GLOW (S01E09) The Liberal Chokehold Airdate: June 23, 2017 Ratings: @Netflix Original // Privatized Ratings Score: 7.5/10 // GIVEAWAY CONTEST WITHIN!!! TVTime/FB/Twitter/Tumblr/Path/Pin: @SpotlightSaga **********SPOILERS BELOW********** 'GLOW just released two of the best episodes of 2017 w/E7 'Live Studio Audience' and E8 'Maybe Its All the Disco', and by no means was 'The Liberal Chokehold' anything but a great episode, but it didn't quite achieve the greatness that the two that preceded it did. Bash (Chris Lowell) finally returns for his & Sam's big pitch to the Network Executives. Apparently he'd been on a big bender for 2-Weeks, explaining his sudden absence. Not surprising considering his sudden money issues that he's really only shared with Carmen during her freakout at their first show. Bash is a good guy, he really wants to realize this dream, not just for him but for everyone involved. At this point he's let people down and he's feeling the pressure... But his rich, trust fund life, and card carrying privilege coming to a sudden halt, led to the one thing he knows how to do best... Self destruction. Arriving at the meeting late, sweaty, and tweaked out of his mind... He sure as hell fits the part. Talk about a mess, this guy looked like me after a bender at on tweak at the age of 19... Not exactly picture ready, if you know what I mean. When Sam Sylvia (Marc Marlon) is embarrassed and shocked at your mess, you're beyond a simple jittery 2-Day, drug spree. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I hammer this quote home like a fn' Anti-Anti NA Slogan, a 'Harm Reduction' specialists mantra to live by, 'If you're going to be a mess, at least be an organized mess. And if you can't do that, then don't be a mess at all.' All out, bender babies like Bash are always the ones that almost achieve something great and then flush it down the toilet at the last second. Luckily for Bash (and Sam too), he has some of the most determined women to stand by his side. These women have worked hard to get where they are and they will be damned if 9 Grand & a comes out rich bitch is what takes it all away from them. They hold a car wash, but that's a bust. $287 is a long way from a near 10k goal. Bash's Mom, Birdie (Elizabeth Perkins) is the shining bitch of the episode. With all the love and camaraderie brewing & bubbling within the ranks of the women of GLOW, it was definitely time to introduce a villain of sorts. Then again, Birdie really isn't a villain in the truest sense of the word... She's more like a bitchy, Reagan-worshiping, LA socialite, who's stuck in the past with a stick up her ass. However, she's got money and she's got friends... And she's throwing one helluva fundraising soirée. Hell or high water, Bash and the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are going to find a way to take advantage of Birdies high end, West Coast, check book challenge! Creators Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch take over the writers room and create some excellent comedy through Birdie's hilariously transparent 'mission' to end the 'crack epidemic' amongst the 'poor, unfortunate minorities' (as if no one else was affected)... And Lynn Shelton, one of my favorite tv directors as of late (popping up heavily on shows like Netflix's 'Love', NBC's 'The Good Place', & Hulu's 'Casual') makes sure the episode flows into a cascade of crazy. Bash sneaks in all the GLOW Girls to the Gala by convincing the door man (who he clearly knows very well & vice versa), that the women are part of a fictional group called 'W.A.D.' (Wrestlers Against Drugs - specifically Crack, you know, to fit the theme). He has each of them take center stage, talking about their completely fabricated experiences with Crack-Cocaine & how the worlds greatest Sports Entertainment acronym & pro-wrestling saved their lives, before introducing his increasingly impatient mother, Birdie. All the women give it a great go, but it's Jenny aka Fortune Cookie (Ellen Wong) who delivers her entire speech in the rare language of 'Khmer', except for the word 'Crack', that's used at just the right times to ring the great vibrating gong of comedy. For a good juxtaposition, Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) goes last and delivers a speech straight from the heart. She's really talking about her recent transgressions with Debbie (Betty Gilpin) and Debbie's husband, Mark (Rich Sommer). Clearly it's something she's been needing to get off her chest. And even though she replaces key words with 'Crack', Debbie hears the message loud and clear and the speech kills at Birdie's Right-Wing, Reagan-inspired, Anti-Crack Rally. The whole thing has Liz Flahive's fingerprints all over it, and that's a good thing. It's signature feel may not take 'GLOW' to the great heights the previous episode did, but it really assists in defining the show... Cementing its core identity as a tv series. Bash's takeover is successful, but Birdie isn't having it. She takes back all the checks that the crew earned for W.A.D, but gives Bash a much better gift... A venue... 'Annnd you can't beat that!' Btw, WWE fans, I've been using that quote for several GLOW reviews and no one has caught it yet. I'm shocked really. Take out 'beat' and replace it with 'teach'... And what's that spell... S...A...W...F...T... SAAAAAAWWWWWFT! Meh, fahget about it. Though, for the first person who gives us the correct answer on TVTime in the comments section and then likes our Facebook page @SpotlightSaga, giving us the correct answer as to where that quote comes from *on both pages* (so I know you're listening), I'll send you a lil' something, something in the mail. Facebook fans, same goes for you, if you beat TVTime'rs and post the correct answer on @SpotlightSaga's FB page in the comment section on this article, then join TVTime and give us the correct answer in the comment section for this episode via @SpotlightSaga on TVTime.com ... Then you get the goods! Consider it our first Spotlight Saga giveaway, and yes it will be wrestling related! Before we get all 'giveaway happy', which I'm totally excited and eager to do, we've got one massive story arc that blindsided a whole lot of Glow Netflix fans. Spoiler Alert, though we should be far past those by now... As these are simply companion pieces. Justine (Britt Baron) is not in love or infatuated with Sam, despite what Sam's inflated ego led him, and tricked most of us, into believing! Justine walked in on Sam's 'One-Man Pity Party' and decided it was time to drop the truth bomb. Justine is Sam's daughter and now suddenly all the 'jealousy' and 'weird obsessions' with Justine attempting to get close to Sam make total sense. Not only is Sam terribly embarrassed over what just went down with Justine, but he's also under the impression that GLOW was all for nothing, and his film 'Mothers and Lovers' was already made... A PG version called 'Back to the Future', and double spoiler alert for Sam; there's 2 sequels, making three total films & a cartoon series in the same vein of what he thought was an original idea! Well, it either wasn't original or someone jacked his time traveling brainchild, and took out all the John Waters inspired smut. And really, that's totally possible considering he'd been trying to make the film for an entire decade. Gotta be careful throwing around ideas in Hollywood! But that's not the real problem is it? You got a heartbroken daughter and a deadbeat dad. Well isn't that just the story of all of our lives?

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75 Best Hip-Hop and R&B Albums of 2019, Ranked

For the final time of 2019, we’ll see you in the comments.

Before you begin scrolling through our list of the 75 best hip-hop and R&B albums of 2019, likely without reading any of the words we affixed to many of them, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page.

The eligibility period for this list is December 24, 2018, through December 9, 2019.

If an artist and/or their record label labeled a project as an “EP,” it was disqualified. We are publishing that list on Friday.

Our entire editorial team determined the selections (and the order of the albums listed). Please don’t send Donna your nasty emails.

No, we’re not on the payroll of “Insert Popular Artist Here.” But, we’d love an investment. Have them email Z.

This list is our list—not yours. We don’t expect, nor do we want, you to agree with every album selection or our ordering; we do want you to discover a few great albums you probably missed throughout the past 12 months and press play.

Great, let’s begin. Happy Holidays.

75. Radamiz — Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes

“Lately been accepting my mortality, nobody ever told you that your parents goin’ to get older, too,” Radamiz raps on “Shadowboxing,” the intro to his perfectly-titled sophomore album, Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes. It’s one of many lines that will jump out upon every revisit. Radamiz is a rapper who breathes universal truths, who candidly speaks of being a passion-driven and dreaming-chasing millennial fighting against the odds and the clock. Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes is East Coast hip-hop from a student of the game, who gives an honest portrait of his life with fiery rhymes, and head-nodding production that solidifies Radamiz as one of the best new rappers coming from New York. —Yoh

74. Wale — Wow… That’s Crazy

73. Lil Peep — Everybody's Everything

72. MIKE — Tears of Joy

71. Deem Spencer — Pretty face

70. Yung Baby Tate — GIRLS

Do not forget Yung Baby Tate. On the list of newcomers who released projects in 2019 that put on display their world-conquering star power, Yung Baby Tate shines. GIRLS, Tate’s independent debut, is vividly painted with shades of luscious vocals, radio-ready songwriting, and bright-colored, post-Nicki Minaj lyricism. You’ll remember Tate as the charming, Atlanta-born songstress who rapped, sung, wrote, and self-produced all 15 tracks. Tate is every woman, but also every artist, a living compilation of styles and genres. While GIRLS may be her first full-length offering, the album successfully represents her wide-ranging talents, and why Yung Baby Tate is on the road to a takeover. —Yoh

69. Baby Keem — DFMB

68. Medhane — Own Pace

67. YG — 4REAL 4REAL

66. Kaina — Next to the Sun

65. 03 Greedo & Kenny Beats — Netflix & Deal

Ever wonder what a Netflix binging session with your favorite rapper and producer would be like? 03 Greedo and Kenny Beats’ collaborative debut is the closest you’ll get this year. There’s no underlying concept about cinema’s relationship to rap or trying to create a #cinematic experience; Greedo raps about movies he used to watch in his trap house over a sampling of Kenny’s eclectic beats. Netflix & Deal is as brisk and exciting as any John Wick movie. You know bodies will be caught, but the thrill comes from seeing how they will top themselves this time. Movie magic. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

64. Big K.R.I.T. — K.R.I.T. Iz Here

63. Roddy Ricch — Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial

62. Dreamville — Revenge of The Dreamers III

61. Wiki — OOFIE

60. Malibu Ken — Malibu Ken

Aesop Rock deserves to have a little fun. Teaming up with producer TOBACCO for , he puts his extensive vocabulary to use, describing plants dying from neglect on tour and the inner workings of Bob Ross paintings. TOBACCO’s woozy pre-tech synths whir and click at the speed of rap, matching Rock’s saturated yellows with nauseating greens. Malibu Ken is colorful, silly, and more than just a little morbid, a perfect slice of Magic Eye playtime handspun by two of alt-rap’s most endearing weirdos. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

59. Summer Walker — Over It

58. Jack Harlow — Confetti

57. Jhay Cortez — Famouz

56. Young Dolph & Key Glock — Dum and Dummer

55. Grip — Snubnose

Snubnose, the sophomore project by Atlanta rapper Grip, is a sneaky album. The kind of independent release that sounds major from a newcomer who could be confused as a young veteran. Where there should be kinks, Snubnose appears polished; where most artists fall into a mimicry of trends, Grip leans into original storytelling. He makes 13-tracks about gun violence feel like you’re watching a violent Quentin Tarantino film, with far-less n-words. Meticulous in form, riveting in execution, Snubnose is one rap album that you won’t forget. One of the best surprises of 2019. —Yoh

54. Roc Marciano — Marcielago

53. Young Nudy & Pi'erre Bourne — Sli'merre

52. SiR — Chasing Summer

51. Kano — Hoodies All Summer

50. YBN Cordae — The Lost Boy

YBN Cordae remembers what albums sounded like during the blog era. When Kendrick Lamar made Section.80; when J. Cole made Friday Night Lights; when Chance the Rapper made Acid Rap. Cordae channels that timeframe into , his debut album on Atlantic Records. The North Carolina-born, Maryland-raised rapper weaves through a coming-of-age story with thoughtful self-reflection, pointed storytelling, and soulful nostalgia. It’s a charming, major-label effort by a developing and youthful rapper with an open, old soul. Cordae still lacks a defining identity, but at the very least, The Lost Boy proves he knows how to tell a compelling story. —Yoh

49. Flying Lotus — Flamagra

48. Injury Reserve — Injury Reserve

47. Kevin Abstract — Arizona Baby

46. SAINt JHN — Ghetto Lenny’s Love Songs

45. Griselda — WWCD

Griselda’s debut album, WWCD, does not feel like a traditional debut. The record is wider in scope and sharper in presentation. Between the ferocity of Benny The Butcher, the ear of Westside Gunn, and the mighty snarl of Conway The Machine, Griselda are Buffalo, NY’s unstoppable force. As a group, Griselda have little to prove. Alone and together, the trio have gotten cosigns from some of hip-hop’s greatest writers: Black Thought, Pusha-T, and Raekwon. Respect given is respect earned and studied, in the case of Griselda. Bar for bar, WWCD is the essence of New York street rap for the modern era.—Donna-Claire Chesman

44. Maxo Kream — Brandon Banks

43. Kemba — Gilda

42. Mereba — The Jungle Is The Only Way Out

41. Baby Rose — To Myself

40. Lucky Daye — Painted

Given this was his debut record, Lucky Daye could've played it safe. As anyone who's heard "Roll Some Mo"—Painted's lead single and Lucky's breakout hit—knows, there's a wrenching tenderness to his voice that fits like a glove atop stripped-back production. The risk he took to pepper his album with funkier pop cuts, then, is not one every artist would have taken. Fortunately, Lucky rises to the challenge, proving himself a dynamic enough artist to erase this risk altogether. Plus, when he breaks out those vocals, they're all the more affecting because they've been used sparingly.—Hershal Pandya

39. KOTA The Friend — FOTO

No album warrants a tracklist of 19 songs. Yet, in crafting a worthy spiritual successor to the Rawkus Records era of music that many fondly romanticize, KOTA The Friend comes as close as humanly possible to justifying this run-time on FOTO. The album personifies the term “easy-listening,” maintaining a consistent mood throughout between KOTA’s strikingly unaffected delivery and the delicate, jazzy production on which he raps. No slouch on the mic, KOTA possesses a rare gift for situating bravado alongside vulnerability. He conjures favorable similarities to Phonte at his best, but not so much that FOTO ever suffers for these comparisons. —Hershal Pandya

38. Future — Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD

Women, wealth, and worries are the three Ws found pulsing through the veins of Future’s seventh studio album, . Lyrically, there’s nothing new under WZRD’s promethazine sun, but the magic is in his ability to resurrect old muses as revamped concepts. Future hasn’t radically changed over the years, but here the presentation is altered. WZRD is another installment of melodic confessing, hypnotic anthems, and oil-black trap production that carries the infectious torch passed down from its predecessors. Still, it stands alone as a fresh glimpse into Future’s rockstar world. —Yoh

37. Quelle Chris — Guns

Quelle Chris is self-aware enough to know that everything in this life—emotions, money, ourselves—is weaponized. His sixth studio album Guns isn’t about physical violence as much as it’s a deconstruction of the actions we take in a world slowly devouring itself. Quelle travels the roads of Trump’s America with a twisted sense of humor and animated beats as his only sidearms, jumping between characters, ideas, and planes of existence as only he can. Guns is a polemic on reality itself, a reminder that no weapon formed against a sharp mind shall prosper. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

36. Toro y Moi — Outer Peace

What good is inner peace when the outer world is falling apart? Toro y Moi’s Outer Peace combines a sleek disco sheen with contemporary rap cadences to bring pep to an increasingly passive-aggressive world. The housing market has crashed (“New House”), and sex barely sells like it used to (“Ordinary Pleasure”), but at least James Murphy is spinning records at his house tonight (“Laws of The Universe”). That cynical sense of humor alone will keep your toe tapping throughout Outer Peace, that is,if the gorgeous grooves and crushing low-end don’t. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

35. James Blake — Assume Form

The most accessible of his projects to date, is a triumphant release that marks the evolution of James Blake’s artistry, as he matures past the reductive “sad boy” label he’s famously lamented. An unapologetically romantic album, Blake sheds the claustrophobic production of his previous output in favor of shimmering compositions, genuine hooks, and winning collaborations with the likes of André 3000 and Rosalia. Retaining his lyrical flair, Blake punctuates the album with quintessential lines, like “let's go home and talk shit about everyone,” that reminds you of the artist who first grabbed your attention years ago. —Hershal Pandya

34. Bad Bunny — X 100PRE

I’m in love with the way Bad Bunny says his name. I’m a sucker for a good self-reference, but I’m even more of a sucker for the way Bad Bunny bets on his longevity. With that, X 100PRE, Bunny’s debut album, is about being everlasting in a microwaved music industry. The record covers all adjacent hip-hop genres—which, at this point, means all genres—from pop-punk to trap, to lighter fare, and ballads with fine attention to getting our hips moving. You hear Bad Bunny, and you dance; you sing your heart out; you weep, and you celebrate. In one record, Bad Bunny captured every mode of human living. —Donna-Claire Chesman

33. Kyle Dion — SUGA

There are no words to explain Kyle Dion’s amazing, stunning, arresting, becoming, disarming, endearing, charming, affirming, enchanting, beguiling, mollifying, soothing, blaring, encouraging, surprising, yearning, pining, astounding, breathtaking, stupefying, thrilling, outstanding, exciting, exhilarating, electrifying, intoxicating, moving vocal tone on SUGA. Just press play. —Donna-Claire Chesman

32. Kehlani — While We Wait

While We Wait isn’t the full entrée, it’s just the appetizer. While waiting on the full-length follow-up to 2017’s SweetSexySavage, Kehlani treated fans to a taste of where she’s heading next. Kehlani bares her soul as staunchly as she always has to provide an unfiltered look into her state of mind. On While We Wait, she’s equal parts vulnerable and commanding, struggling to move on from a complicated relationship on “Too Deep” before confidently telling off an old lover on “Nunya.” With a diverse complement of beats, storylines, and moods, there’s plenty to enjoy on this small project. —Kenan Draughorne

31. 2 Chainz — Rap or Go to the League

Twenty-three years after the late, great Notorious B.I.G. rapped, “Either you’re slinging crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot,” Atlanta hip-hop veteran 2 Chainz stands as an example of a man who had the jump shot and sold the drugs but ultimately chose rap as his escape route from poverty. His fifth studio album, Rap or Go to the League, is an opulent celebration inspired by the city that raised him and the odds he’s overcome. Rap or go to the League is a grown man still progressing as an artist, finding his most introspective voice. —Yoh

30. slowthai — Nothing Great About Britain

An agile storyteller, Northampton’s slowthai expertly mixes elements of UK grime and drill while unpacking the micro and macro of his British upbringing. Carrying no pretensions and seamlessly style-shifting across genres with his frenetic cadence, the singular rapper makes you move and listen simultaneously. In a year that has seen British rap dominate—from DAVE and Little Simz to Skepta and Octavian—slowthai’s versatility and poignant messaging set him apart. He’s funny while commanding attention, hilariously painting stark portraits of British classism, racism, and abuse in an ultimately gripping and focused fashion. —Zach Miller

29. Maxo — LIL BIG MAN

Maxo makes growing up sound incisive and blaring. This album takes place in the crevices of the torment of maturing. is a dusty reclamation of voice, relying on traditional boom bap structures and methodical writing to deliver a solemnly eviscerating experience. The wisdom baked into LIL BIG MAN will at once inspire, surprise, and soothe you. Maxo is Def Jam’s best-kept secret, but not for much longer. —Donna-Claire Chesman

28. Lizzo — Cuz I Love You

Equal parts bold, sexy, and witty, is a commanding listen that features Lizzo at her best. Harnessing her confident mic presence and ear for massive hooks, Lizzo creates a genuinely urgent body of work. A showcase for her eclectic sensibilities, the album jumps effortlessly between the eponymous opener, which recalls the work of The Alabama Shakes, to the infectious pop stylings of “Juice,” without missing a beat. It’s a shame Lizzo infamously fixated on one mixed review because overwhelmingly, the universal response to Cuz I Love You was justifiably glowing. —Hershal Pandya

27. Anderson .Paak — Ventura

A throwback to the beloved soul music of the ’70s, is a return to form for Anderson .Paak after the mixed bag that was . The key takeaway here is Anderson .Paak is fine when he raps, but he is special when he sings. Whether via the glorious, Smokey Robinson-assisted cut, “Make It Better,” or the disarmingly danceable, “Twilight,” Ventura is a breathing testament to this takeaway. The album offers lush canvasses to showcase the stunningly silky tone of .Paak’s voice. Add to this a transcendent André 3000 guest verse, and the case for Ventura becomes undeniable. —Hershal Pandya

26. GoldLink — Diaspora

Subtlety isn’t a characteristic that listeners often encounter on a major label album; the machine believes in a straight line product that doesn’t require further explanation. That’s not GoldLink. The Maryland native is a master of music woven to unveil slowly. With , his RCA “debut,” Link has created his most subtle, yet replayable work of art. Thanks to production warm as spring, Diaspora is a splash of Utopian sunshine, yet in the shadows of his lyrics, the 26-year-old is adding his mysterious life to the lexicon of Black music. It’s the mystery that endures, not the explanation, and GoldLink shapes Diaspora to be an album that lasts. —Yoh

25. Solange — When I Get Home

Solange’s take on Houston hip-hop belongs in a museum. She treats her hometown’s “chopped and screwed” traditions with elevated care throughout When I Get Home, placing it on a golden pedestal to be admired and revered. Dispersing interludes at every turn in the form of fragmented conversations and poems, she creates a linear journey that eternally builds upon itself. When “Almeda” parades into the spotlight with strutting kicks and whooping vocals, it’s impossible not to stand and salute Solange. —Kenan Draughorne

24. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats — Anger Management

Kenny! Rico! Together! A match perfectly made, is a brisk concept album that captures all the stages of a temper tantrum and boasts some of Rico’s best work (“Big Titties”), and highlights the duo’s impeccable chemistry. Rico made this album from the heat of anger and the thrill of the up-and-down. She imparts boundless energy unto every cut. Kenny’s production is from another plane where music is warped and only made on acid. Their collective thump and vigor make Anger Management the pump-up album of every summer. —Donna-Claire Chesman

23. billy woods — Terror Management

You can’t eat books. You can’t rest easy at night. You can’t trust those closest to you. These are the lessons of billy woods’ second album of 2019, Terror Management. A show of strength from woods, who is writing through the apocalypse, Terror Management feels like being led down a series of jagged alleyways by a dishonest narrator. A narrator who is mistrustful in their own right. The album is knotty and internal. The album is wounded and beside itself. At times, Terror Management serenades fear. Sometimes, it merely quakes in place. Sometimes, woods cracks a joke. Most importantly, Terror Management is fucking good, man. Fucking. Good. —Donna-Claire Chesman

22. Ari Lennox — Shea Butter Baby

Ari Lennox blessed my new apartment during our interview; her soul is kind, and her music is knowing. Her musings on the failures of modern dating sound scrumptious with her silky vocal texture. The beauty of Shea Butter Baby is in the way Ari captures minutiae and makes it sound regal. She does not pull from the abstract, and it’s the rootedness of her art, the humble quality of the content, that makes the album such a triumph. Ari’s professing that this record is for Black women, too, is triumphant. The beauty and love of community permeate the work. —Donna-Claire Chesman

21. Polo G — Die A Legend

Polo G isn’t waiting to receive his flowers. At just 20 years old, the Chicago rapper’s debut album, Die A Legend,reads like a breathless statement of purpose. Life has taken too much from the rapper, born Taurus Bartlett, for him to quit now. Across the album’s 14 tracks, scars created by loved ones lost (“Deep Wounds”) and a corrupt police system (“BST”) compel his meticulous croons. Even a banger like “Pop Out” mixes the spoils of victory and pained reflection with dizzying ease. Die A Legend maintains this balance throughout, finding energy in the melancholic. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

20. Snoh Aalegra — -ugh, those feels again

Often, you'll listen to a modern R&B record, and sandwiched between trap concessions and crossover attempts, will be a bare and emotive track that'll make you wonder, “why isn’t this the album?” On , Snoh Aalegra took this approach and ran with it, constructing an album composed entirely of these deep-cuts. The effect is 14 organic songs, across which Aalegra shows remarkable restraint. Though her vocals are as lush as the production, she's careful never to over-sing or push for the emotion. As she acknowledges via the album's title, the "feels" are more of an inevitability than anything else. —Hershal Pandya

19. DaBaby — Baby On Baby

DaBaby’s Baby On Baby is 32 minutes of exhilarating trap sermons. He builds the church of Baby On Baby upon confidence pure as cocaine, a charisma so contagious it could charm the Halliwell sisters. The lively, dynamic production perfectly fits his distinctive, Southern rap voice. There are few holes to be found in DaBaby’s artistic armor; it’s refreshing to hear a new artist sound so developed. Baby On Baby is one of the most replayable albums of the year, and at this rate, we will remember 2019 as the year that DaBaby broke out and began his hip-hop takeover. —Yoh

18. Burna Boy — African Giant

With African Giant, international Nigerian superstar Burna Boy created more than a masterpiece. He created a social statement and global experience. Burna paints a spiritual picture, one that is uniquely his own, yet still feels like it belongs to all of us. African Giant is undeniably Naija, dipped in history and Yoruba dialect, leaping over language and cultural barriers. Burna’s lyrics are poignant, coasting over production charged with Afrofusion anthems, dancehall riddims, and hymns. The 19-track album is not just a vibe; it’s a victory. —Ronnia Cherry

17. Boogie — Everythings For Sale

On , Boogie accomplishes the rare feat of making an intensely personal album that is simultaneously self-aware and suitably mature enough to avoid veering into the trap of solipsism. A distinctly West Coast album that borrows influences from the Midwest, Boogie brings the specificity of his lyricism to life with pretty production, alliteration-heavy flows, and an effortless knack for melody. All of these come together to create a surprisingly pleasant listening experience, despite the album’s undeniably dense subject matter. —Hershal Pandya

16. Little Brother — May The Lord Watch

That North Carolina duo Little Brother’s exists is a blessing. It was unclear if we’d ever see Little Brother—currently comprised of rappers Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh—on a record together again, but they pulled it off. On their fifth album, they sound like they’re happy to be together again. Phonte and Pooh appear rejuvenated, modernizing The Minstrel Show’saestheticwhile still dropping jewels that rap fans of any age will find relatable. The beats shimmer, and the rhymes are funny and poignant. Let’s be thankful that UBN’s hiatus was only temporary. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

15. EarthGang — Mirrorland

EarthGang’s Dreamville debut, , doesn’t stop moving. The motion of each song is exuberant and dynamic, a result of multi-flavored carnival production paired with WowGr8 and Olu’s animated storytelling. How the creative West Atlanta duo stretch and morph their voices to match a variety of styles and sounds make for an exhilarating debut album. It’s a Crayola box wrapped in dynamite. Mirrorland explodes from start to finish. —Yoh

14. Rapsody — Eve

Rapsody’s life music has evolved. Where 2017’s saw Rap focusing inward and weaving a gorgeous tapestry of the Black woman’s experience, features Rap looking outward in all directions. With her most enlivened performances to date, Rapsody honors the Black women who came before her, all to the point of creating opportunities for the Black women who will come after her to take up space. As an album, Eve is lively and emboldened. As a mission statement, Eve is admirable. Rapsody’s deep love of history and Blackness make this the most excitable album in her deep catalog. —Donna-Claire Chesman

13. Beyoncé — HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM

I remember falling in love when I first saw the HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM during a live screening of Coachella. Beyoncé has always been a great performer, but this album is more than just a performance. HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM pays homage to the Black artists that came before Beyoncé, it acknowledges how her Blackness has shaped her, and how she has shaped her Blackness. When she decided to share this moment of brilliance with the world, there was one word that came to mind: thankful. HOMECOMING is a replica of Beyoncé’s Coachella performance. It doesn’t just take us back to the moment; it fully placed us in it, as if we were there with her witnessing her at her peak. —Simi Moonlight

12. Danny Brown — uknowhatimsayin¿

Even at its darkest, Danny Brown’s music is bunches of fun. He gets immense joy from rhyming words together over the weirdest beats he can find. His traditionalist methods and gonzo music preferences meet halfway like never before on his fifth studio album The conceptual bombast of previous projects is thrown out the studio windows for thoughtful raps over zany beats. Executive produced by Q-Tip, the project is loose and punchy, chock full of vignettes as suitable for an open-mic standup set as they are for a rap album. At 38 years old, Danny has little left to prove. uknowhatimsayin¿ makes every word count. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

11. Megan Thee Stallion — Fever

The rise of Megan Thee Stallion is a blessing to witness. With her formal 300 Entertainment debut, the “1501 Queen” establishes herself as one of the most charismatic forthright rappers working. Her energy is explosive. Her writing is bombastic. Her deliveries are bursting with conviction and swagger. Megan Thee Mack is unchained and unstoppable on , a celebration of her Houston roots and flair for spending another man’s coin. Megan is a dominant force in hip-hop, and considering the sheer strength of Fever, she does not seem to be slowing down. —Donna-Claire Chesman

10. Young Thug — So Much Fun

is a safer work than some of Young Thug’s more elastic, head-spinning offerings. Across 18 songs, the long-awaited debut uses shoulder-shaking trap rhythms and ear-candy melodies to deliver his most accessible work since Rich Gang’s 2014 mixtape, Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. 1. It’s still Thug, though. He provides humor and hits, thrilling bravado, and infectious style, all while being the original nucleus that inspires many of his contemporaries today. So Much Fun is the commercial oeuvre for an artist who was always a star but never shined in the mainstream. —Yoh

9. FKA twigs — MAGDALENE

Heartbreak can be oddly beautiful. Rarely do people experience the depths of human emotion as fiercely as when they’re cocooned in its all-consuming agony. If this sounds at all like bad teenage poetry, trust me when I say FKA twigs mines this territory much more gracefully on her transcendent sophomore album, MAGDALENE. Listening to her sing tortured lyrics like, “Were you ever sure? No, no, no, not with me” in her painfully pretty falsetto, it’s hard not to luxuriate in her—and, by extension, your—palpable anguish. Musically, the album conveys the same message more viscerally. It envelops you in asphyxiating production, delivering pockets of euphoric catharsis in the form of cinematic instrumental flourishes and twigs’ gorgeous, boundless vocals. —Hershal Pandya

8. MAVI — Let the Sun Talk

MAVI wants us to understand him on his terms. At just 20 years old, the Charlotte, North Carolina native is capable of bending words to his will, a Sorcerer Supreme in the making coming to grips with his Infinity Stone. On his debut album, , MAVI’s words exist on the borders of Black thought, spirituality, and raw honesty; they are puzzles revealing different configurations with every listen. If you know, you know, and if you don’t, MAVI’s technical skill and ear for beats are enough to pull in weary travelers. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

7. billy woods & Kenny Segal — Hiding Places

billy woods and Kenny Segal are not scared; they are not in hiding. Instead, they are affecting wordsmith and mad scientist banding together to traverse the depths of retread emotions. A record concerned with the past and what it means for an emotional space to become hollow, will challenge and reward you in the same turn. Kenny Segal’s production is quietly cacophonous and cloudy, while woods presents his most direct and open writing to date. The pair belongs together. —Donna-Claire Chesman

6. Denzel Curry — ZUU

Denzel Curry is proof you can always go home. His latest album, ZUU, is a testament to home as the ultimate battery charger. Curry sheds the conceptual bombast of his last album, TA13OO, in favor of a non-stop thrill ride through the streets of his native Carol City, Florida. The sun-drenched comforts and drawbacks of home, along with clanging production from longtime collaborators FnZ, help him paint some of the most vivid images of his career. These are top-down bangers baked in the 98-degree sun. With ZUU, Denzel Curry found freedom in his backyard. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

5. Little Simz — GREY Area

Little Simz wants you to stop fucking with her heart. She says as much two tracks into , her boldly cathartic third studio album. At 25, Simz is approaching the threshold of adulthood with more questions than answers, armed with bars that cut to the bone. She’s been one of the UK’s best rappers for years, but her songs have never been so focused, the beats—cooked up by longtime producer Inflo—never so varied and explosive. GREY Area is her masterwork, a panoramic view of a future star fighting back a quarter-life crisis. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

4. Dave — Psychodrama

Plenty of reviews have regarded Dave’s as an album of a generation, a landmark of UK hip-hop, and we have to agree. Dave burrows into the depths of his psyche, and bravely reports his findings in an accessible and banging format. He makes the intimate aggressive and touching all at once. Psychodrama reveals Dave to be a master writer and rapper, an artist’s artist, and an artist to watch for years to come. —Donna-Claire Chesman

3. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Bandana

Good rap sequels are hard to come by. Thankfully, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib aren’t your average rapper-producer duo. Their debut album, 2014’s , recontextualized their respective sounds while cross-pollinating with each other’s audiences. This year’s is more holistic in form, its creators in sync for the first time. Their camaraderie strengthens Gibbs’ elastic flows (“Situations”) and storytelling (“Fake Names”) as much as it pushes Madlib to embellish his trademark samples with trap hi-hats (“Half Manne Half Cocaine”) and crisp kick drums (“Gat Damn”). Trust and freedom embolden this latest chapter in the MadGibbs Cinematic Universe. —Dylan "CineMasai" Green

2. Jamila Woods — Legacy! Legacy!

Jamila Woods makes eternal music. Her runs, her inflections, and her writing are all meant to stand the test of time. On Legacy! Legacy!,Jamila performs a time-bending act, bringing her literary heroes back to life and keeping them squarely in our thoughts as she carries their poetics into her classic album. Legacy!’s success is rooted in a fullness of life and self-love. There is so much agony in the world, but there is still so much love to share. Jamila Woods is in the business of spreading love. Plus, the record also doubles as a great reading list. —Donna-Claire Chesman

1. Tyler, the Creator — IGOR

was a new dawn for Tyler, The Creator. A heartbroken and deluxe dawn. A funky and riveting one. IGOR covered the whole spectrum of heartache. From urgency and helplessness to naming, to pining, to grieving, to coming into yourself. Every step of nursing our lost souls was found on IGOR. The operative question of this epic album is: Who do we become when the rug is pulled out from under us, and our hearts break? The answer is multiple, and each thread of reply makes up the fabric of IGOR. We became angry. We become obsessive. We become deranged. We become desperate, at first for the past, and finally, for peace.

We’ve lived with IGOR for seven months. In those seven months, new meanings have continued to reveal themselves as the album gets uninterrupted play. I heard IGOR at a taco spot in Philly. I hear IGOR in my sleep. The ubiquity of its themes makes it an easy record to latch onto, sure. But the sparkle of its static, the grandiosity of its arrangement, and the needling melodies and vocal performances make IGOR a sonic marvel, too. Let’s also not forget this album is a queer triumph.

IGOR is the album of the year because it was the most ambitious and wrenching record of 2019. IGOR is an album you hold tight and play deep into the night and then play again when the sun comes up, and your eyes are crusted. It’s the album you remember during your last fight, and the album you play when you’ve achieved apathy in the face of pain. It’s the album for when you care too much, and for when you sincerely hope they’re happy. IGOR is as spectacular as the heartbreak itself.

In a world committed to making us all feel like tiny performers on tiny stages, dancing for imaginary currency, IGOR expands our universes. Suddenly, our every move feels precious, purposeful. Our feelings become valid; our hopes and dreams become imperative. Who we are is imperative. Tyler may be wearing a pressed suit and wig, but he is unmasked. Thanks to IGOR, we follow suit.—Donna-Claire Chesman

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Wholesome consuming is all about balance. The HCG weight loss program is an excessive weight loss plan meant to cause very fast weight lack of as much as 1-2 pounds (zero.45-1 kg) per day. Here is what you need to stick with when following this food plan plan usually before we get into extra particulars about restrictions for each week. Horse muscle supplements are ideal to help the intense equine athlete carry out at his best during competition or work while sustaining muscle mass and strength. The Mayo Clinic Weight-reduction plan is an extended-time period weight management program created by a staff of weight-loss experts at Mayo Clinic. A: Sure, for those who are serious about gaining weight and consuming extra calories, milk is an excellent selection. Subsequent on the listing of dietary supplements is creatine. Should you eat 5-6 instances a day, it may hold hunger at bay. It is tough to calculate lean physique mass, let alone muscle mass. Wanting on the obtainable evidence, it appears doubtless that a mass gaining supplement would help improve train performance when compared to a carbohydrate-solely complement, or nothing. Yes, VPA Muscle Gainer is technically protected for anybody who does not have an allergy to any of the elements, however it's endorsed that if you're eager to shed extra pounds then attempt using one other protein powder reminiscent of our WPI. They acknowledge the glycemic stress following an unhealthy meal that forces blood insulin ranges beyond the limits. Moreover, muscle mass positive factors are associated with improved neurodevelopment in the first years of life. Although certain exercises do not make it possible to construct greater than, at most, a couple pounds of muscle at a time, there are some that will help you construct muscle quicker in the long run. As a result of dietary recommendations are heavily weighted toward lowering saturated fats intakes, really helpful intakes of protein sources, resembling meat, have decreased due to the association between protein and saturated fats intakes ( 71 ). Thus, recommendations to cut back protein intakes have been made apparently with out consideration of the consequences on muscle mass and function. As a result of fats tissue expansion can further enhance insulin resistance and pro-inflammatory states 3 , resulting in more muscle wasting 2 , eleven , 12 , thirteen , 14 , the differential or possibly even synergetic results of PM2.5 on muscle and fat tissue established on this study could improve the pathologic process toward sarcopenia. Add 1 heaping scoop (75g) of this Mass Gainer XXL to 180ml (6 oz) skimmed milk or chilly water. Although the exact cause of sarcopenia and sarcopenic weight problems is just not recognized, there are a number of patho-physiologic mechanisms that affect muscle loss and visceral fat achieve. Remedy negative effects: Some medicines might cause lack of muscle mass. This weight achieve gel contains fewer energy than essentially the most calorie-dense offerings on the list, http://tabletkinaodchudzanie.com.pl/eco-slim-opinie-dzialanie-sklad-i-gdzie-kupic-tabletki-na-odchudzanie/ however it additionally comprise different vital vitamins, nutritional vitamins, and minerals. Because of this, increased consumption of L-Arginine will support you in developing lean muscle mass. In addition, skeletal muscle is a significant contributor to basal metabolic charge, acting as a preferred storage depot for dietary sugars and fats, which positions it as a significant tissue for the upkeep of metabolic health. 1.) Protein - Scientifically, muscles need food to develop. Much less cooking, extra eating on day 3. Breakfast and lunch are already ready for you as leftovers within the fridge. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthy people of normal weight need at the least 150 minutes of moderate bodily exercise or seventy five minutes of vigorous exercise (or some combination of the 2) each week to keep up weight and keep away from extra acquire. When the researchers treated the germ-free mice with microbial metabolites referred to as quick-chain fatty acids, the skeletal muscle impairments have been partially reversed. Specifically, studies demonstrated inverse associations of muscle mass and strength to single and clustered metabolic threat elements. Making sure our physique has sufficient vitamin D can be essential for healthy muscle tissue. As far as age, after 30 you begin to lose as much as three to 5 percent of your muscle mass per decade. 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So I know that any time I choose to, I can return to consuming sugar. This tablet is just not suitable with eating fats. DETERMINE 6-2 Muscle strength will not be solely decided by muscle mass. BIGFLEX MUSCLE MASS GAINER has whey protein focus and calcium caseinate as its protein supply. Usually, the weight gainer should be consumed in portions. In the event you're severe about working for weight reduction, it's essential to put money into a dependable pair of shoes that may take you where it is advisable go and assist you to obtain the results you're after—with out burning out on stress or discomfort earlier than you will get there. Mass gaining dietary supplements or powders is sometimes called mass gainers or weight gainers. Except for the obvious perform of permitting us to maneuver freely and carry out on a regular basis tasks, muscles play a pivotal role in boosting our metabolism and immune methods, in addition to growing bone power and aiding weight reduction. Protein supplements will usually be lower in kilojoules, so if an athlete is on a kilojoule-restricted weight loss plan they'll get extra bang for their buck from a protein complement. Whether or not you employ VPA Muscle Gainer after sporting occasions or coaching for recovery, or earlier than training, VPA Muscle Gainer is a superb shake for athletes who're desirous to get the most out of their physical performance. In her cooking demos Karen teaches those on the plan to cook the likes of Thai curries, nachos, chicken pie and http://bestesupplementenvoorspiermassa.eu/armostrax.html pancakes to suit a nutritious diet.

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It was a tough bonk throughout a 16-mile race up New Zealand’s 6,000-foot Avalanche Peak in 2013 that made Felicity Thomas, an undergraduate engineering scholar on the close by University of Canterbury, start occupied with her blood sugar ranges. She’d tried to observe the same old sports activities diet recommendation, sucking down sugary gels to replenish the carbohydrates that her muscle mass had been burning and to maintain her blood sugar ranges steady, however she struggled to get the stability proper and ended up crawling to the end earlier than throwing up in an ice-cream bucket. Surely, thought Thomas, there should be a greater approach of managing in-race gas.

As it occurred, Thomas was an intern that summer time on the college’s Center for Bioengineering, which was researching the medical potential of steady glucose screens, or tiny sensors inserted underneath the pores and skin of the stomach that observe blood sugar ranges in actual time. She took one of many expired screens mendacity across the lab. If I may spot impending blood sugar lows earlier than they occurred, she puzzled, would I have the ability to ward them off with a well-timed gel? Could I make myself bonk-proof?

Per week of self-experimentation satisfied Thomas that the method may be helpful, and he or she quickly launched into a PhD finding out the potential makes use of of glucose monitoring in athletes. But the end result of her preliminary pilot research on ten runners and cyclists, which was published last year within the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, wasn’t what she anticipated. Instead of bonk-inducing blood sugar lows, the extra widespread downside in her topics, who sometimes averaged at the least six hours of coaching per week, was excessive blood sugar—an final result that pointed to an elevated threat of Type 2 diabetes in these seemingly super-fit athletes. “I was incredibly surprised to see the results,” Thomas says. “It seemed contrary to almost everything else in the field.”

More than a 3rd of Americans have prediabetes, a situation marked by the physique’s incapability to maintain blood sugar ranges in a secure vary, which regularly progresses to full-fledged diabetes. While Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune situation that often develops at a younger age, Type 2 diabetes is about ten instances extra widespread and might develop at any level in an individual’s life. Both forms of diabetes ravage organs, blood vessels, and nerves and, if left unchecked, can result in blindness and limb amputation. Annual prices for the 29 million folks within the United States with diabetes at the moment are $245 billion and rising, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In reality, the variety of Americans with diabetes has quadrupled since 1980. This dramatic rise in Type 2 diabetes is often attributed to weight problems and lack of train, so the concept that severe endurance athletes may be significantly vulnerable flies within the face of medical dogma. But it’s on the market—on Reddit threads, in bestselling diet books, and now in scientific literature. The pondering is that “the average endurance athlete consumes way too much sports drink,” explains Patrick Davitt, an assistant professor of train science at Mercy College, in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Large doses of sugar, unbiased of its energy, result in blood sugar spikes that, it’s assumed, finally uninteresting your insulin sensitivity and lift your threat of Type 2 diabetes.

One of the primary to make this connection in a sports activities context was a former surgeon named Peter Attia, who gave an impassioned TEDMED Talk in 2013 that has since been seen greater than 2 million instances. A protracted-distance swimmer and bicycle owner, Attia recounted his shock when, in 2009, he found that he had insulin resistance regardless of exercising for 3 or 4 hours a day. Attia, who went on to discovered the nonprofit analysis group Nutrition Science Initiative with outstanding low-carb advocate Gary Taubes, advised that the underlying explanation for his issues may be an extra of carbohydrate—specifically, refined grains, sugars, and starches. In an identical vein, Tim Noakes, the South African researcher whose e-book The Lore of Running stays maybe the best-known information to the science of working, introduced in 2009 that he too had developed prediabetes and blamed it on the carb-loading diet that he promoted for years.

For endurance athletes, the suggestion that their seemingly wholesome obsession may carry a hidden well being price is hardly new. Such claims—that running will ruin your knees, say, or cycling will make men infertile—don’t all the time stand as much as scrutiny. And the scientific consensus on this level nonetheless leans strongly in the wrong way. Numerous studies have recognized weight problems, inactivity, and genetics because the 3 key threat components for creating Type 2 diabetes, says Edward Horton, a professor of drugs at Harvard Medical School and a senior investigator on the Joslin Diabetes Center, in Boston, who has spent a half-century working with each non-diabetic and diabetic endurance athletes whereas finding out glucose metabolism. Serious endurance athletes are neither overweight nor inactive, and so they can’t change their genes.

The calls for of coaching imply that your muscle mass burn via a lot glucose that top blood sugar needs to be a near-impossibility, says Horton, a long-distance skier and runner himself. “I’m a strong believer in a well-balanced diet,” he says. “But if you’re a high-level endurance athlete, you can eat what you want.” In reality, in line with a 1989 study, Tour de France riders devour a pound of sugar per day, and a study of Kenyan runners discovered that they get 20 % of their energy from the sugar they heap into their tea and porridge.

Researchers have discovered that elite endurance athletes have insulin sensitivity that’s roughly 3 times greater than wholesome nonathletes, which means they’ll quickly get the sugar they devour out of their bloodstream and into their muscle mass with out having to provide extreme quantities of insulin. According to a 1992 study from the University of Copenhagen, the 2 components appear to stability out completely: Athletes enhance their insulin sensitivity in precise proportion to their elevated carbohydrate consumption, in order that they find yourself producing about the identical general quantity of insulin, on common, as wholesome nonathletes. “At worst, it’s a wash,” says Michael Joyner, a physiologist on the Mayo Clinic, in Minnesota.

What little epidemiological proof exists for elite athletes appears to bear this out as properly. In 2014, a staff led by Merja Laine, a medical researcher on the University of Helsinki, published data on practically 400 former elite athletes who represented Finland in main worldwide competitions between 1920 and 1965. The athletes had been divided into 3 classes: endurance sports activities, equivalent to working and cross-country snowboarding; energy sports activities, like boxing and weight lifting; and combined sports activities, together with hockey and basketball. Overall, in contrast with nonathlete controls, the previous athletes had been 42 % much less more likely to have impaired glucose tolerance and 31 % much less more likely to have diabetes. More particularly, the previous endurance athletes had the bottom threat, with a whopping 47 % discount in diabetes prevalence, in comparison with 34 % in energy sports activities and 25 % in combined sports activities. And a follow-up study printed earlier this 12 months checked out how a lot cash every group spent yearly on diabetes treatment. Researchers discovered that the controls spent a mean of 376 euros per 12 months, the previous energy athletes averaged 393 euros, the previous mixed-sport athletes averaged 272 euros, and the previous endurance athletes averaged simply 81 euros per 12 months.

Such findings depart questions open, in fact. For 1 factor, Laine factors out, “the training system of that time differs from nowadays.” Gatorade was solely invented in 1965, the final 12 months the athletes within the research competed internationally; at present’s athletes could face a special set of dangers. (The first energy gels didn’t present up till the late 1980s—co-developed, because it occurs, by Tim Noakes.) It’s additionally potential the low fee of Type 2 diabetes in endurance athletes is just correlation, not causation—a results of the genetic traits of excellent endurance athletes quite than a protecting impact of coaching. “Maybe the successful elite and Olympic endurance athletes are the ones who survive the gauntlet of sports nutrition and still perform well, so we’ve selected for their ability to not get sick while on those diets,” suggests Ben Greenfield, a bestselling health creator and Ironman triathlete.

Overall, although, the metabolic traits of endurance athletes don’t counsel a gaggle at elevated threat of diabetes, says Javier Gonzalez, an assistant professor of human physiology on the University of Bath in England who research train metabolism. “I’m open to the idea,” he says, “although I currently see very little, if any, good evidence to support it.”

So, the place does this concept that endurance athletes are a diabetes epidemic ready to occur come from?

The hyperlink between carbohydrate consumption in endurance athletes and elevated blood sugar is most generally accepted amongst low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) converts, who usually take it as each an article of religion and a supply of motivation. “Athletes with prediabetes are surprisingly common,” claims a poster on one of many Reddit threads dedicated to the subject, who famous that he had been on a high-fat ketogenic weight-reduction plan for greater than 4 years. I contacted him to ask whether or not he’d had excessive blood sugar previous to switching his weight-reduction plan or if he knew anybody who’d had that have. “This has not happened to me,” he replied. “My observation was from a few podcasts and articles I came across.”

Still, there are really elite endurance athletes who’ve developed Type 2 diabetes, notes Paul Laursen, an adjunct professor of efficiency physiology at Auckland University of Technology. Laursen factors to Steve Redgrave, the five-time Olympic champion rower from Britain who was recognized with Type 2 diabetes earlier than the Sydney Games in 2000. Redgrave isn’t certain what, if something, triggered it: “I haven’t asked too many questions about my condition,” he says. His prediagnosis training diet concerned a large 6,000 energy a day, together with loads of pasta and sugary treats. But, Redgrave provides, he additionally has a household historical past of the illness via his grandfather.

Last 12 months, Laursen co-wrote an article within the journal Sports Medicine Open titled “Athletes: Fit But Unhealthy?,” during which he argued that the superficial cardio health of endurance athletes can disguise metabolic issues like systemic irritation and insulin resistance. That doesn’t, nevertheless, imply he thinks all endurance athletes are in danger. “The correct answer is: It depends,” says Laursen. The related threat components embrace genetic variations, coaching patterns, and dietary habits. In different phrases, an athlete’s threat of creating prediabetes is totally particular person.

Laursen’s level is 1 that just about everybody acknowledges—together with Peter Attia, whose skilled focus today is on tailoring particular person approaches to maximizing longevity in his sufferers. “If you don’t take care of real people,” Attia says, “you don’t appreciate the heterogeneity in the population.”

For that motive, common statements about whether or not endurance athletes are liable to diabetes are doomed to inaccuracy. At 1 excessive, “I think the probability that a Tour de France cyclist is going to get diabetes is as close to zero as possible,” Attia says. “There are absolutely athletes who can completely overwhelm the glucose disposal side such that it doesn’t matter at all what they eat. And furthermore, there are people genetically who can do that, whether they’re athletes or not.”

To that time, Israeli researchers lately used steady glucose screens to match pattern blood sugar information from 2 topics. In 1 topic, consuming a banana triggered an instantaneous spike, whereas consuming a cookie had no impact; within the different topic, the opposite was true. Though this paper has attracted criticism for methodological flaws, it raises an vital level: How are you able to eat proper if “right” is completely different for everybody?

For each Attia and Laursen, the reply is to put on steady glucose screens (CGM), that are having fun with a mini-surge in popularity amongst tech-savvy self-trackers regardless of being invasive and exhausting to acquire and not using a physician’s help. “It’s one of the most informative inputs I’ve had in my life,” says Attia. Using a CGM has helped him perceive how his blood sugar responds to meals, train, sleep, and stress.

Thomas, the New Zealand–primarily based bioengineering researcher, has come to an identical conclusion. Her research of endurance athletes carrying CGMs confirmed that top blood sugar is certainly potential in runners and cyclists, with 3 of the ten topics producing fasting ranges within the prediabetic vary. But the hyperlinks between weight-reduction plan, coaching degree, and blood sugar had been removed from clear: The athletes with the very best blood sugar weren’t essentially consuming probably the most carbs or exercising the least.

While Thomas sees a way forward for personalised diet, with CGMs changing into as ubiquitous as coronary heart fee screens, the information suggests some extra rapid takeaways that don’t require any subcutaneous sensors: No matter what kind of athlete you might be, your meals consumption ought to match your coaching output, and also you don’t want a sports activities drink and a gel to gas throughout a one-hour jog or to get well afterward. “For years,” says Davitt, the Mercy College researcher, “the sports drink industry has been brainwashing us into thinking that we need to drink as much as possible and that glucose sports drinks are almost always superior for performance and recovery.”

Modern pointers have advanced as properly. The present American College of Sports Medicine position statement on diet and athletic efficiency means that carbohydrate consumption needs to be larger on exhausting coaching days and fewer on straightforward days—a observe that two-thirds of elite distance runners in a recent study reported following.

If you may get this stability proper, then the overwhelming consensus of epidemiological and metabolic proof means that rumors of a prediabetes epidemic amongst endurance athletes have been significantly exaggerated. Hitting the roads and trails will, if something, dramatically cut back your dangers of changing into insulin resistant—but it surely received’t make you immune.

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(In)visibility in New Black Portraiture: Aria Dean and Hamishi Farah in Dialogue

20170317153341-wptir-25 In March 2016, Los Angeles-based artist and writer Aria Dean penned an essay entitled “Closing the Loop” for The New Inquiry about the white monopolization of feminist selfie art. I remember reading the essay and feeling its urgency and necessity at a time when the spotlight on selfie art and culture was (and still is) dominated by white cis-hetero young women. When I think of the canon of feminist art and the “trailblazers” that paved the way for subsequent generations of women artists, I see a very similar process of erasure repeating itself.

Women artists of color from the 1970s were sidelined by white feminism, or what is now known as the Feminist Avant-garde in art history, which is gently nestled under the more general but equally white-dominant umbrella of the women’s liberation movement. Ana Mendieta’s dissatisfaction with the movement, with groups like New York’s white-centric A.I.R. collective, is well documented. As is the exclusion of black artists such as Dindga McCannon, Pat Davis, and Carol Blank from the “official” canon of Feminist Art in America from the 70s. These artists made independent efforts to be visible with the formation of the Where We At (WWA) organization following their 1971 exhibition “Where We At” Black Women Artists: 1971.

What fundamentally separates these groups today remains the same: artists of color have a shared activist focus on intersectional issues while white artists largely continue to prioritize their own privileged ones. There is no room for the “other” in history books and the heavy baggage that the “other” carries makes it difficult for marginalized artists to find the right language to speak it in. In the history of art and otherwise all the words belong to White Supremacy: all the pages of history have been written for and in favor of it. Finding one’s non-white place within this history becomes a dexterous task that often entails feelings of complicity or guilt. When the extant systems for visibility are moderated, co-opted, and monetized by White Supremacy, it’s no surprise that the terrain is difficult to navigate.

Aria Dean and Hamishi Farah, White ppl think I'm radical, Installation View at Arcadia Missa, London Courtesy the Artists & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch

It is in this vein that Aria Dean and Melbourne-based artist Hamishi Farah have worked somewhat allusively in a prefatory effort that seems to propose a definition for New Black Portraiture in art following Dean’s 2016 posture. Their two-person exhibition, White ppl think I’m radical at London’s Arcadia Missa (through April 29) presents an inclusive, more collective idea of self-portraiture. One where the black artist is simultaneously present and absent from the picture, where the self is at once he, she, and they—an outlook that contradicts western philosophy’s emphasis on the ideologically capitalist individual.

I spoke with Dean and Farah on the occasion of the exhibition regarding the complicated nature of black portraiture today. In both the show and conversation, the two artists pass on proposing any explicit manifestos, instead choosing to work within a cogitative grey area that isn’t as totalizing or burdensome. They give themselves the necessary space to move boundlessly between the intersections and problematics of image and representation.

In the exhibition Dean presents two self-produced photographs: one of herself and the other of a woman named Aallyah Wright with whom she collaborated to make Wata, a video of the Yazoo River in Mississippi, where Dean’s grandfather was from and where Wright currently resides. Dean found, contacted, and commissioned Wright via Facebook to create the video, saying of Wright, “She and I are interchangeable, you can’t see our faces.” She describes them as “blurred out in a way that is a shout out to police footage or CCTV-type surveillance, which perhaps [also] makes us interchangeable with the larger ecosystem of images of black femmes.”

Aria Dean & Aallyah Wright, Wata (Yazoo, MS). Courtesy the Artists & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch

Dean has a specific interest in “the problems and violences” of portraiture. It is the first time she has ever shown an image of a human body. She is largely against representation in her work, preferring abstraction if she senses her art will be evaluated by placing her identity on a binary or spectrum. “I wanted to do violence to portraiture here, in a rather timid way,” she says, “I guess I’m often trying to find that sweet spot between refusal of the figurative image and an artistic program of representation à la Kerry James Marshall or Mickalene Thomas.” Dean views the video “as a portrait of Aallyah,” but playfully asks: “Can seeing through someone’s eyes become a portrait of them...or myself?”

Situated next to Farah’s self-portraits in the exhibition, a coded visual language begins to emerge with both artists presenting themselves by proxy. None of Farah’s paintings include physical or literal representations of him. In terms of portraiture Farah likes to think about “double consciousness, the white gaze and [Frantz] Fanon’s ontology of blackness.” He doesn’t consider the theories themselves, but “the lived experiences of them.”

He explains:

I approach it this way because my experience of myself in art is very much through how I am seen [by white people]. Even an understanding of my own blackness very much came about through its forced opposition to whiteness. In terms of the portraits, you could think of it as a reclamation [of] my inner ontological life through a black gaze—that is, one that is aware of how it is viewed by whiteness. I think this is very reductive and annoys white people—as it should. I believe white ontological life is entirely rooted in or based on anti-blackness so perhaps I am also contesting Fanon’s own euro-centrism.

Hamishi Farah, Photographer. Courtesy the Artists & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch

Farah describes a painting he made of a widely circulated photo of Kanye West’s first public appearance after being hospitalized, where he is walking out of Trump Tower after meeting with the then President-elect. The artist differentiates it from his other works:

I am always hesitant to represent black people...I identify a lot with Kanye, especially in his problem-ness and the way he wields it, but also in his misery in white spaces and obsessiveness. I think a lot of black men do. I can’t think of many black men whose audience has such an ubiquitous and violent understanding of the intricacies and contradictions of public black masculinity. His representation might be able to stand in for that alone, and perhaps contextualize some of the other self-portraits.

Both artists expressed difficulty in choosing how to represent themselves while maintaining a certain secrecy about the work in an effort to protect it and themselves. There is an inherent relationship between representation and secrecy when there are so many contradictions and violence in black portraiture. When presenting yourself from a marginalized position, there can be a lot of power in remaining invisible in public. If you make yourself visible, you risk giving yourself away to more violence, exploitation, and nonconsensual erasure, the Arcadia Missa collaboration seems to say. Finding a healthy balance is hard. Marginalized groups have been violated on so many levels and yet often still need to pander to a white market in order to speak to other marginalized groups and survive.

Hamishi Farah, George. Courtesy the Artist & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch

“The remaining invisible thing is such a conundrum,” says Farah. He continues:

Western art is like a history of blowing off black art as white genius. This makes it interesting to think about why so many black artists gravitate towards performance and music. Sometimes all we have is to use that hypervisibility. A lot of the black artists I know are so much more visible than they get paid for. Same goes with viral blackness. Last year I made a painting of this person, Aallyah, who punched this white girl [who had called her the n-word], hoping that when it sells I can send her a stack or two—kind of as a “blacceleration” or “reparative blackitalism,” trying to use the violent gaze to make sure niggas get paid.

Dean also grapples with the tensions between the power of invisibility and the simultaneous importance of proliferation. She paraphrases New York-based artist and critic Lorraine O’Grady from a conversation she organized between O’Grady and New York-based artist and writer Juliana Huxtable last year:

When your subject matter is so big and cumbersome as blackness then you may feel compelled to attack it from all sides. Black artists have to have the tightest fucking program of attack: writing, performing, making objects, music, etc. I think this is part of why David Hammons is so fucking cool, because somehow he sort of doesn’t give into the compulsion to arrive with a thesis, you know? Like he keeps the mystery.

Lorraine and Juliana both felt like the body was really important because we can’t do away with aberrant bodies before they’ve been come to terms with. They talked about the funny timeline where various western philosophical and theoretical trends arrive to conveniently do away with “the body” or “the author” at moments when marginalized people are making themselves heard more loudly. Which I agree with but I think I’m really preoccupied with the ontology of blackness when it comes to representation—it’s so messy. Blackness doesn’t precede the image really and that seems like a really difficult thing to grapple with when you’re working with images, or yourself as image in performance.

Aria Dean and Hamishi Farah, White ppl think I'm radical, Installation View at Arcadia Missa, London Courtesy the Artists & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch

Dean laughs and continues:

I think it is important to represent yourself, but my big thing is that politics of representation and theories of representation that were devised, let's say circa 1970, just don’t work when your image can be ripped and bounced across the internet. It stresses me out so much. Because like—and this is what I was whining about in that selfie article—I really don't care very much about selfie artists. A lot of the theories of the body and the image that artists reference just don’t fit; it’s all wonky. And my whole thing is that critically looking at the (non) ontology of blackness, black theory, black art, black everything can teach us so much about confronting a body and a life that is so so entangled with images.

Farah adds:

I think it is important to note something about the politicization of aesthetics and that aesthetics in “the commons” are traditionally an anti-black battleground or colonial frontier. What happens when pro-blackness is subsumed into an aesthetic turnstile? I think the black NFL players who won the Superbowl understand this and I support their boycott [of visiting the White House]. I think black critics of Obama also understand this. This is part of the difficulty of even participating in an art dialogue, whether it be institutional spaces or not. I just got the news that I’m now represented by two amazing galleries, I love the people who run them and this is definitely about my survival. But it’s hard to be happy about it until I actually do something with that survival and those resources. I see contributing to “art” (in opposition to using art and its culture, agency, and resources as a tool) as being a snitch.

White ppl think I’m radical continues at Arcadia Missa, London, through April 29.

—Audrey L. Phillips

Audrey Phillips is a Toronto-based writer. She is a regular contributor to AQNB.

(Image at top: Aria Dean & Aallyah Wright, Wata Proxy (Yazoo, MS). Courtesy the Artists & Arcadia Missa. Photo: Tim Bowditch)

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Are Endurance Athletes More Susceptible to Getting Diabetes?

So, the place does this concept that endurance athletes are a diabetes epidemic ready to occur come from?

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