This Week in Dulture…

Approx 5 minute read:

🎸 Teenage angst

🤳 All these damn AI videos

👟 “Scary” shoes

🏮 Drake lost

Dulture weekly mix

Man, it’s not even confusing cold in the morning, warm in the afternoon anymore. It’s just chilly, and you know what that means, we be INSIDE.

And what better way to spend your time inside but with a little music.

DJ Shtoops had never heard these songs before this mix, have you??

The Slop Is Upon Us

Soooo, who else has seen -

• Tupac fight Biggie in the UFC

• Michael Jackson steal chicken from people in KFC

• Stephen Hawking hit a halfpipe

• Martin Luther King challenge Malcolm X on RAW

• Queen Elizabeth jump off the top rope through a table

• Kobe stream himself playing NBA2K

And the list goes on and on and on. THANK YOU SORA 2 🙃 

Folks, we’re officially in the AI slop era.

And who TF knows what’s going to happen from here.

All I know is I’m finding myself scrolling faster through the AI videos to get to human made ones. Which I think is a sign - if you thought you were getting instant gratification from doom-scrolling reels, I think it’s coming even faster with these AI videos given how outrageous they are.

@movie.clips.998

These look so real 😳😳 #jakepaul #jake #paulbrothers #ai #loganpaul

The thing is, they’re going to hit a peak of outrageousness and then that will be it. I can’t see us wanting more AI videos in our feeds.

Just like when OpenAI upgraded their image generator and all of the sudden everything was spelled correctly and Ghibli images were all the rage, this is what we’re going through right now.

But I do look forward to the tasteful ones where people actually try to create art - the filmmakers who have a great vision but don’t have the budget to make a feature but could make something feel real with the right AI scenes.

I’m so curious how the internet tops itself going into week three of Sora 2 existing. Oooooh, I want to see MJ vs Lebron FR FR - someone go make that!

Spooky Sneaker Season

These days we’re getting a million colour-ways for basketball shoes. They must match with any jersey possible. At this point I gotta look at shoes and squint just to figure out which shoe they are because of all the colours every shoe comes in now.

I’ll admit it though, (most of) these Nike basketball Halloween shoes are fire and should be worn all year round.

Lemme start with the shoes you’ll never catch me in:

Top/Left - Giannis Freak 7 “Shapeshift”

Bottom/Right - G.T. Hustle 3 “Halloween” (Wemby’s shoe)

Firstly - I don’t think I’ve ever been a fan of Giannis’ shoes. It almost feels like Nike wants his shoes to look freakish on purpose, but in a bad way.

Secondly, these GT Hustle’s look like a cross between Chinese New Year and a forest fire. They’re just too…orange. Also, I’m a much bigger fan of GT Hustle 2’s.

Now for what should be worn all year:

I’m not a big fan of Devin Booker’s first silhouette, they just look like cheap boring shoes, like Nike said here you go, there’s a Swoosh on them, be happy.

BUT these Book 1 “Scorpion”s look great, definitely an elevated look to his regular shoe.

All I see is Ja Morant’s shoes on the court - I’ve never worn them myself but I keep hearing good things about his shoe. This one has got the Kobe Grinch vibes - maybe this doubles as an Xmas day shoe too?

Nike Ja 3 “Spooky Season”

And last but certainly not least, these look cool. Not my favourite KD silhouette either BUT I like these a lot for Halloween - KD 18 “Slim Reaper”.

Nike should incorporate KD’s Slim Reaper persona into this shoes more often. I don’t want to see hands on the side on more shoes but I think there’s a lot more they could be doing - maybe like a right foot Slim Reaper and left foot Ea$y Money.

I dunno, I’m just a guy who writes a newsletter about this stuff, what do I know?

Drake Lost The War

We had been in the clear for so long on Threads - no banter between Drake fans and Kendrick fans, no wild takes, and no rage baiting.

BUT all of that just got thrown out the window.

A judge has dismissed Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group. Bring on the rage baiters!

The original suit argued that UMG participated in defamation of Drake by promoting Kendrick Lamar’s “Not like us” song.

This is what the judge had to say…which yo, this judge must be up to date with their rap battles to see it from this perspective:

Drake’s legal team is appealing the decision, because why not.

But what I really wanna know is are there any bars on his next album, Iceman, that allude to any of this because those bars might not make as much sense now.