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T-Pain has a sizzling collaboration on the way that promises to spice up your favorite dishes. On Friday (Nov. 15), North Carolina-based spice brand, Spicewalla, announced a new hot sauce in partnership with the rapper releasing in December.
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Perfect for dipping, dabbing and dousing, The Sauce ($29.99) is described as a “sweet, tangy, aromatic, rich, smokey, satisfying slow burn of spice” that you can use on eggs, tacos, collard greens, pizza and other foods, per the company website. The Sauce can also be used as a marinade, or to add flavor to other sauces and dressings.
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T-Pain teamed back up with Meherwan Irani, James Beard Award-winning chef and Spicewalla’s resident “spice daddy,” to create the brand’s first hot sauce, which is made with North Carolina-grown red jalapeño peppers sourced from a family-owned farm near Spicewalla’s factory in Asheville, N.C.
The limited-edition hot sauce is available for pre-order now and ships on Dec. 18 (right on time for the holidays). Additionally, half of all hot sauce proceeds will be donated to support those affected by Hurricanes Helena and Milton, the company revealed on Friday.
“Y’all love the T-Pain Wing Collection and have begged for some drip since that first fateful taste,” reads a message on Spicewalla’s Instagram account. “We all heard ya loud and clear, spice babes. Now our brand new ‘The Sauce’ collab is ready for preorder. Just in time for you to finally become everyone’s favorite gift giver! Plus, 50% of proceeds are benefitting folks impacted by Hurricanes Helene & Milton.”
The hot sauce marks T-Pain’s second partnership with Spicewalla, after releasing the T-Pain Wing Collection.
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Not much of a baker? Patti LaBelle has dessert covered.
The holidays are right around the corner, and if you’re not into baking but want something sweet, LaBelle’s bestselling sweet potato pies are currently on sale at Walmart. The retailer kicked off the first of three Black Friday sales earlier this week offering up to 70% off select items.
The 8-inch sweet potato pie is on sale for less than $5 at Walmart. The pie serves up to five people, but if you’d like a smaller dessert option, try the sweet potato cookies, also available at Walmart ($7.47).
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Patti LaBelle 8-inch Sweet Potato Pie
$4.57
$5.87
22% off
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Patti Labelle Sweet Potato Pie Cookies
And it’s not just sweet potato pies and cookies: Patti’s Good Life makes buttermilk pies, lemon and lemon blueberry pies, peach cobbler, peach apple cobbler, blueberry cobbler and banana pudding, plus mini pies in sweet potato, buttermilk and lemon blueberry; macaroni and cheese; and buttermilk pancakes and waffles.
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LaBelle — who recently partnered with American Express for an ad about managing money as a small business owner — celebrated her 80th birthday in May. “You can’t always take for granted that you’re going to be here at the age of 80, still performing and still in your right mind, so every day I say, ‘Thank you God for another day,’ LaBelle told Billboard over the summer.
The Philadelphia native launched Patti’s Good Life in 2008 and it’s still going strong. The food brand, available at major grocery retailers such as Walmart, Target, Kroger and Ralph’s, has made over $200 million, according to Bloomberg.
For more product recommendations, see our list of musician-owned wines and other celebrity brands to shop.
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SOS — Benny Blanco‘s banana pudding is so good, SZA couldn’t Ctrl herself around it. During an appearance on the Monday (April 29) episode of SiriusXM’s The Sporkful podcast, the producer told host Dan Pashman about the time the “Kill Bill” singer ate an entire tray of his banana pudding while they were supposed to be working on music together.
“We were at my house, and she went down to get a drink and she saw something in the fridge,” Blanco recalled. “She had one bite. It was in a big like sheet tray. And then by the end of the day, there was no more banana pudding left.”
“She would just, like, sneak down for bites,” he continued. “And then every time she came to the studio, she needed a banana pudding. Then it was like, ‘Oh, wait, what else do you make?’ Then it was like, lasagna … We wound up cooking more than making music, you know?”
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The “Eastside” musician — who worked on “Nobody Gets Me” and “Special” on SZA’s 2022 Billboard 200-topping album SOS — also revealed that he and the R&B-pop star now have a “bartering system” when it comes to food and music. “There was a time when SZA said, ‘I’m not coming over unless you have spicy rigatoni cooked for me,’” Blanco said. “And she was, like, halfway joking, but halfway serious. ‘Cause I’ll bark demands at her. I’ll be like, ‘We need to get this vocal done.’ And she’s like, ‘We need to eat the spicy rigatoni!’”
The new interview comes ahead of Blanco’s new cookbook Open Wide, which hits shelves Tuesday (April 30). While promoting the project in a Wall Street Journal interview last week, the hitmaker gushed about how he and his girlfriend, singer-actress Selena Gomez, like to bond over their passion for food and enjoy making dinners for their families.
Blanco also told the publication that he was the “last one to know” he was in love with the Rare Beauty founder. “It’s crazy how your partner could just be sitting there the whole time, right in front of your eyes, and you don’t even notice,” he recalled. “Then you have that Clueless moment where you’re like, ‘Wait, I’m in love.’”
Later, he told SiriusXM that he and Gomez have not yet gone on a double date with Taylor Swift, the Only Murders in the Building star’s longtime best friend, and Travis Kelce — but he has bumped into the “Anti-Hero” singer recently. “I just saw [Swift] at [Los Angeles restaurant] Sushi Park a week ago,” he said. “I ran into her right before Coachella a week ago.”
Listen to Blanco talk about SZA enjoying his banana pudding below.
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The 2024 Olympics will see the best of the best athletes complete to win the gold and to celebrate, Reese’s has teamed up with Team USA again. Whether or not you’ve scored travel deals to watch the games in person in Paris, the candy brand wants to make you feel like a winner with the release of new chocolate-shaped Reese medals.
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This is the first summer shape that Reese’s has ever released, but it will only be around for a limited-time. You can buy Reese’s Medals in stores or you can order the chocolate and peanut butter snack through online retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target.
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The chocolate medals are available in single packs, king size bars and bags, with prices starting as low as $2. Just like all of Reese’s limited-edition seasonal shapes though, you’ll only be able to enjoy this chocolate medal for a short period of time. To help you stock up on your own Team USA-approved sweet treats, we put the snacks below for you to buy now.
Reeses Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Medals
$34.59
$26.85
$29.99
10% off
Rather than indulge in just one piece of Reese’s Medals, you can pick up a two-pound bag of the chocolates. Each one contains the snack-sized candy individually wrapped in a special-edition foil.
If you don’t want an entire bag of Reese’s Medals, there are also smaller options you can buy online.
Reese’s Milk Chocolate & Peanut Butter Medals Bar King
Treat yourself to the king-sized Reese’s Medals, which come with multiple pieces of the candy so you can have one now and another later — or, if you’re feeling generous you can share it with a friend.
The official campaign for the summer-themed candy is titled “Legend vs. Newcomer” and aims to spotlight U.S. Olympic and Paralympic gold medalists and hopefuls, including U.S. Olympic soccer gold medalist Alex Morgan, U.S. Paralympic para swimming gold medalist Jessica Long, U.S. Olympic soccer hopeful Sophia Smith and U.S. Paralympic para swimming hopeful Haven Shepherd.
How to Watch the 2024 Olympics
This year, the 2024 Olympics will commence on Friday (July 26) and you have the option to livestream the games and events through NBC’s official streaming platform, Peacock. If you’d prefer to watch through live TV streamers, there are some affordable streaming options that’ll provide you access to channels including NBC, USA Network, E! and the Golf Channel, which are all covering the 2024 Olympics.
Check below to see the official Reese’s Medals campaign video.
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Addison Rae is entering her Nerds era as she takes on the role of dance coach in a new teaser leading up to the candy brand’s debut Super Bowl commercial.
The NFL Playoffs kicked off Jan. 20, and as the teams battle it out to see who heads to the Super Bowl 2024, Nerds is prepping for their first commercial appearance at the Big Game. To help them put on a memorable performance, the “2 Die 4” singer was tapped to teach a mystery guest some choreography to Irene Cara‘s iconic “What a Feeling,” which was a dream for Rae, whose musical influences include pop legends Prince, Katy Perry, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Madonna.
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“I am such a big fan of the song, and growing up a dancer, it’s just a song you always hear and love and reference,” Rae says in an interview with Billboard. “I got to have the honor of coaching the lead star to do something to this amazing song. [It’s a] huge dream.”
Addison Rae x Nerds Collab
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Both Rae and her friend and choreographer Marissa Heart teamed up to create an exciting piece of choreography that also allowed her to tap into a bit of childhood nostalgia.
“We worked together on creating something fun and true to dance at its core, and it just made it super fun to be with someone that I know and love on set, and also be doing something that I love,” she says. “I literally ate so many Nerds on set. I feel like my childhood self is coming to life and has unlimited access to sweets.”
Within the teaser, you can see the TikTok star show off her dancing skills while providing motivation and critique to the unknown star of the upcoming commercial. Her training snack of choice? Nerds Gummy Clusters, which also is how she would describe her 2024 era.
“Honestly, I’m in my Nerds Gummy Cluster era: I’m soft on the inside, but got to be a little bit guarded sometimes going into the year, protecting my soft center,” Rae says in an interview with Billboard.
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Nerds Gummy Clusters Candy
Within each bag of Nerds Gummy Clusters are sweet and chewy candy pieces that feature a gummy center coated with beloved hard Nerds candies. You can choose from a variety of flavors, including Rainbow, Very Berry and more.
The official commercial is set to air Feb. 11 before the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show for 30 seconds during the second quarter of the game. Until then, the Nerds teaser can keep you guessing as to who the unseen star of the video will be and whether Rae will make an appearance in the official commercial.
Check below to see Rae in the Nerds Super Bowl commercial teaser.
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All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. No matter what time of the year it is, surprising that special someone with a box of chocolates — even if […]