Why Rappers Will Forever Borrow Flows​, Patrick Ewing Should Be Coaching in the NBA​, 7 of Troy Ave’s Most Questionable Moments​, and More

Because There's A Lot of Internet Out There No Images? [Click here]( [Complex]( [Why Kendrick Lamar's Good Intentions Led to a Bad Dragging]( [Why Kendrick Lamar's Good Intentions Led to a Bad Dragging ]( ["We shouldn’t conflate being able to rap masterfully about other complex issues with being able to deftly muse on beauty standards rooted in patriarchy and racism." ]( [A split screen shows a woman done up like the traditional video vixen on the right, fresh-faced with curly hair flowing on the left. We also see a booty in all its stretch-marked natural glory. To critique said images is to infer Lamar’s intent: Was he trying to empower women? Was he making a statement on heteronormative beauty standards?]( [READ FULL STORY]( [How TF Did Billy Hoyle Dunk in 'White Men Can't Jump'?]( [Patrick Ewing Should Be Coaching in the NBA ]( ["There are currently zero ex-centers serving as NBA head coaches, and ironically the last two were Ewing’s teammates in New York." ]( [Patrick Ewing’s long wait is finally over. He got his head coaching shot on Monday, as he was hired by Georgetown to replace John Thompson III. Ewing, an all-time Georgetown great and Hall of Famer, left his assistant coaching position with the Charlotte Hornets immediately to begin assembling a staff. Make no mistake, the Georgetown job is a great job. But Ewing should have gotten a head job years ago.]( [READ FULL STORY]( [Tiger Woods’ Former Coach Critiques Kendrick Lamar’s "Humble" Golf Swing]( [Tiger Woods’ Former Coach Critiques Kendrick Lamar’s "Humble" Golf Swing ]( ["Kendrick Lamar’s rap skills are unquestioned. His golf swing, on the other hand, is trash."]( [In a video chock-full of indelible images that were immediately made into memes and GIFs, Lamar teeing it up was by far the most striking (pun intended) from a sports perspective. But after speaking with a bunch of professional athletes—three golfers, a golf-obsessed NFL wide receiver, and Tiger Woods’ former swing coach—they’d like Lamar to know he shouldn’t quit his day job.]( [READ FULL STORY]( [Jeff Van Gundy Doesn't Think It's a Guarantee the Cavs Make It to the Finals]( [Jeff Van Gundy Doesn't Think It's a Guarantee the Cavs Make It to the Finals ]( ["LeBron James has an added burden when healthy because that’s why people buy tickets. That’s why people turn on the TV."]( [You might think that, as a former coach, he would have sympathy for the players. You would be wrong. So on a night where the Cavaliers take on the Celtics on ESPN with playoff seeding on the line, we talked to Van Gundy about resting players, the inevitability of a Warriors championship, and a former assistant of his getting a high-profile coaching gig of his own.]( [Read Full Story]( [7 of Troy Ave’s Most Questionable Moments]( [7 of Troy Ave’s Most Questionable Moments ]( ["You're probably better off not including 2Pac's name near yours unless you've reached a certain level of success and critical acclaim.](" [Troy Ave has experienced moments of success in his career, but controversy has followed the Brooklyn rapper at each step of the way, too. He's made some questionable moves that have led to negative outcomes, with the most recent being an interview on the Breakfast Club where he called his career "the second coming of 2Pac." Below is a list of more questionable moves from Troy's career.]( [Read Full Story]( [Meet Moshow, The Man Who Went Viral For Rapping About His Cat khal]( [Meet Moshow, The Man Who Went Viral For Rapping About His Cat]( ["I'm not trying to be anybody but myself. I love my cats. I love my lady. I love cat ladies. I love cat people. Peace, love, prosperity." ]( [With the way 2016 f*cked everyone up, it made sense that before the year ended, the entire internet rejoiced in unison when this video of a guy rapping while giving his cat a bath went viral to the tune of 1.8 million views; a second cat-bathing freestyle clip is sitting at damn near five million views. There was so much genuine love for the cat, as well as a pretty dope freestyle about cat love, that you couldn't be angry at the clip.]( [Read Full Story]( [On Drake, XXXTentacion, And Why Rappers Will Forever Borrow Flows]( [On Drake, XXXTentacion, And Why Rappers Will Forever Borrow Flows ]( ["Before the internet age, it’d be unfathomable for a Brooklyn dude like Desiigner to so obviously be influenced by an ATLien like Future."]( [Artists conspicuously jacking each other’s flows isn’t a new topic—writer Al Shipley thoroughly covered the subject three years ago on this very website—yet the surrounding politics have become increasingly equivocal. Why does Drake get shit for (maybe) mimicking an XXXTentacion flow, while Desiigner’s “Panda” nabbed a No. 1 pop hit by sounding indistinguishable from a Future song? Can any of these artists truly claim ownership over their flows? Should they?]( [Read Full Story]( Only want to receive Rare Reads moving forward (and remove yourself from Complex Daily)? [Click here](. [Michaela Coel, The Prodigy Behind Netflix's 'Chewing Gum,' Is The Future of Comedy]( [Michaela Coel, The Prodigy Behind Netflix's 'Chewing Gum,' Is The Future of Comedy]( ["Yesterday I was outside a bar and this guy jumped out of a car. He's like, ‘I loved Chewing Gum!'"]( [It’s this weird, over-the-top, yet deeply relatable enthusiasm that has made audiences fall in love with Coel, now 29, repeatedly since she entered the public eye. She can turn almost anything she says into a good joke with a slight tweak of her facial expression, whether it’s raising her eyebrows and bugging out her eyes or turning her big grin into a pasted-on, please-kill-me grimace. This, coupled with her brand of gangly, often-taboo slapstick—which seems to come as naturally to her as walking or talking—makes it hard not to think of her as a comedy legend-in-the-making.]( © 2016 Complex Media Inc. All rights reserved. 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Fl. New York, NY 10020 [Unsubscribe](