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President Donald Trump and Canada’s newest Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met for the first time this past Tuesday (May 6), setting in motion a larger discussion around Trump’s aims for our northern neighbors and tariffs. In the meeting, many online observers kept an eye on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s demeanor and President Donald Trump’s comments, sparking reactions online.
CNN reports that despite the tensions between America and Canada, largely sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, the conversation between the leaders was not full of pyrotechnical bombast. Notably, Carney and Trump were civil with the Canadian leader telling Trump point blank that his country “won’t be for sale, ever” after Trump hammered home his desire for Canada to become America’s 51st state.
Carney also fact-checked Trump, who claimed that the United States doesn’t do much trade business with Canada despite the high number of imports that cross the border, a border Trump referred to in the meeting as an “imaginary” line. Canada is currently the largest importer of goods from the United States, with Mexico trailing just behind.
While there were moments in the chat that came across as tense in the meeting, Trump believes that the chat went swimmingly.
“No, I don’t see any tension either, we get along very well with both. They just got to pay a little more money, you know, they just, they’re getting away with things that they shouldn’t be. And they understand. We had a great meeting today, actually, with the new prime minister, who’s a terrific guy,” Trump told CNN.
Online, a different picture has been painted of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit with President Donald Trump. We’ve got reactions from X below.
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Mother’s Day is May 10, and if the Mom in your life is into cannabis, we’ve whipped up a quick and handy guide to help you shop. We just published an epic 420 gift guide last month, so this one will be a bit more streamlined as we’re only focusing on women-owned brands.
There are several women-owned cannabis brands out there who develop products for all cannabis enthusiasts, and we’ll attempt to center those brands in this roundup. You will certainly see companies we’ve covered in past roundups, and that’s just because we’re big fans of the featured brands.
Even if Mom doesn’t usually use cannabis products that employ THC, we’ve also got some CBD items below, which are purported to have vast therapeutic benefits. We’re certain to have a little bit of something for everyone in this guide.
If there is a women-owned cannabis brand with great products for Mother’s Day you’d like to see featured, email D.L. Chandler [dchandler@bhmdigital.com], and we’ll do our best to update the guide.
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1. Black Buddha Cannabis
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Black Buddha Cannabis was founded by Roz McCarthy, with women at the forefront, sparking the inspiration for the brand. Specializing in premium medical marijuana, Black Buddha Cannabis is sold in Arizona, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Learn more here.
2. ButACake
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ButACake is a Black and woman-owned edible cannabis brand founded by trained pastry chef, Matha Figaro. We haven’t tried out the product, but considering Ms. Figaro’s story and what we’re all about at Urban One, we had to feature them. Hopefully, we can get our hands on some product soon.
Learn more here.
3. Cake She Hits Different
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Cake She Hits Different is owned by Chloe Kaleiokalani, and her brand boasts California’s top-selling all-in-one vape in the brand’s Designer Distillate device. Cake She Hits Different is also available in Arizona and will be entering the Nevada market this year.
Learn more here.
4. House of Puff
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House of Puff, founded by Kristina Lopez Adduci, is a Latina and woman-owned cannabis accessories brand based in New York. The company specializes in high-end “puffware” along with other products.
Learn more here.
5. LumiBloom
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LumiBloom is a Black and woman-owned brand founded by MacKenzie McClain Hill. Focusing on beauty and overall wellness, LumiBloom makes CBD a centerpiece in some of its products, including bath salts, bath bombs, oils, and even hand sanitizer.
Learn more here.
6. Rollin Rosa
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Rollin Rosa, founded in Chicago in 2022, is the brainchild of Vanessa Cardenas and Victoria Cristina Ruiz. Their pre-rolls come equipped with rose-colored tips in their light green vegan cones. It is one of the handful of Latina-owned cannabis brands emerging in the States.
Learn more here.
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Roc Marciano burst onto the scene with his debut album, Marcberg, in 2010 and has blazed several trails since the release of what many consider to be a modern classic. Roc Marciano fans can now rejoice as Marcberg is available for the first time on streaming services in honor of the project’s 15th anniversary.
Hailing from Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Roc Marciano made his first splash as a member of Busta Rhymes’ sprawling Flipmode Squad before breaking away from the collective to form The U.N. He embarked on a solo career, delivering Marcberg on May 4, 2010. The sound of the album was a shift in sound as dusty, sample-heavy Hip-Hop was pushed to the side as something only so-called “backpackers” were into.
What Marciano did, however, was take New York City slick talk and place it atop soulful production that highlighted the relentless and highly visual lyrical ability of the producer and rapper. Handling all the production on Marcberg, Marciano, alongside other innovators like Hus Kingpin and Westside Gunn, helped usher in the current wave of sparsely produced tracks that emphasized the lyrics instead of the drums.
The album only has one feature, with the late, great Sean Price appearing on the remix for “Snow,” who sounded at home over Marciano’s powerful production. Roc Marciano is still delivering music at a high clip, dropping the stellar Marciology and The Skeleton Key, the latter of which features The Alchemist handling all production.
On X, fans are celebrating 15 years of Marcberg. Check out the reactions below.
Find Marcberg at your preferred DSP here.
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New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson proved why he was named this year’s Kia Clutch Player of the Year after delivering a huge three-point make against the Detroit Pistons in their first-round series. Despite a spirited performance from the upstart Pistons, Jalen Brunson, who seemingly lives for these moments, dropped the dagger from beyond the arc and sank the hopes of Detroit.
The Knicks visited the Pistons with a 3-2 advantage in their best-of-seven series, which got testy in game 4 with the Pistons showing plenty of fight in the contest and coming away with the win. It appeared that the Pistons were on their way to capturing the win on their home court, but the tight defense of the Knicks and their hot shooting tied things up towards the end of regulation.
Brunson faced yet another round of boos and insults from fans and a relentless onslaught of speed, offense, and defense from Detroit’s young core of Cade Cunningham, Ausar Thompson, and Jalen Duren. However, with the game tied 113-all and just 20 seconds on the clock, Brunson tied the cape around his neck and went to work.
With the much taller Thompson guarding him, Brunson shrugged off the coverage, hit a crossover dribble, and drained one of the biggest three-pointers of the 2025 NBA Playoffs. After hitting the shot, Brunson blew kisses to the crowd, and the Pistons made an effort to score, but the Knicks’ defensive scheme headed off their plans.
Brunson and the New York Knicks will now face the defending champion Boston Celtics in what’s expected to be a must-see series.
On X, Jalen Brunson’s clutch heroics were the top-trending topic. We’ve got reactions below.
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Westside Gunn recently dropped his Heels Have Eyes EP, and the closing track “EGYPT” was one of the standout cuts from the quick project. After sampling Doechii‘s 2024 interview with Ebro Darden for the opening portion of the track, Westside Gunn tapped the TDE lyricist for the remix, and the verse is a show-stopper.
Heels Have Eyes was a surprise drop from Westside Gunn and released in conjunction with the Buffalo rapper’s Heels Have Eyes 6: 4 The Culture pro wrestling event from his rising promotion. The EP was Gunn’s second release for 2025 after dropping the 12 mixtape earlier this year in February.
Produced by Cee Gee, “EGYPT’s hard-as-nails beat set the perfect platter for Gunn to feast and dropped one of the strongest verses we’ve heard from Hip-Hop’s self-proclaimed top curator. And to highlight how much Gunn is tapped into the culture, Doechii, who counts herself a fan of the Griselda mastermind, delivered a face-melting set of bars that we hope leads to more collaborations with the rest of the camp like Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, and Armani Caesar.
Check out some lines from Doechii’s feature:
Roberto Cavalli, see the nipples through my shirt/
My Daisy Dukes prolly drag a n*gga through the dirt/
Snuck up on his mama, hit the n*gga where it hurts/
Smith Wess’s on the Glock, double C’s on the purse/
Embroidered bed sheets, 500-hundred thread count/
Almost choked on my grills tryna eat the lamb chop/
Swallowed two pills, hid the Grammy in my t*tties/
Took a PJ to see Westside’s city/
Why did Doechii do that to us? We aren’t worthy.
Check out the remix for “EGYPT” below and keep scrolling to see the reactions from fans on X.
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LeBron James is a future Hall of Fame inductee, and his historic feats could very well stand the test of time. However, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers lost their first-round series in the NBA playoffs against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and fans online are piling on the slander.
LeBron James, who turned 40 in December, is still very much an elite NBA player, but his days of putting an entire team on his back appear to be all but over. Even with the offensive talents of Luka Doncic, King James couldn’t will the Lakers past the hungry Timberwolves, led by the explosive Anthony Edwards.
Because the Lakers are one of the NBA’s marquee teams, anything they do will be examined under a bright light. After trading their talented big man, Anthony Davis, to the Dallas Mavericks for Doncic, some believed that the team was poised to make a deep run. Adding to this, the Lakers were a higher seed than the Timberwolves, and Game 5 was thought to be a bounce-back game for the Lake Show.
What the Lakers didn’t expect to face was a rejuvenated Rudy Gobert, not exactly known as an offensive threat, but he led the Timberwolves in scoring with 27 points and hauled in 24 boards. Julius Randle poured in 23, and Edwards had 15 but also hauled in 11 rebounds and eight assists. Doncic led all scorers with 28, while James dialed in 22.
Because NBA fans live to pile on LeBron James whenever he loses, the jokes about his age and more have been relentless on X. We’ve got the responses listed below.
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May Day (May 1) is also known as International Workers’ Day and Labour Day in certain parts of the world, and it has particular resonance today, considering the current political climate. In America, protests are cropping up in an affront to President Donald Trump’s policies, and other protests around the world are in support of worker solidarity.
May Day’s roots were established in the late 1880s as the labor movement and unions advocating for better working conditions for laborers began to establish their presence. In America, protests in support of worker rights took place, and on May 4, 1886, in Chicago, a deadly bombing set off by anarchists left several people dead and dozens more injured. Union leaders decided from that point on that May 1 would be a day to honor those workers, and a sculpture sits today at Chicago’s Haymarket Square where the Haymarket Affair took place.
The wider focus of May Day is largely global, but there is a unifying message this year as the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term just concluded. Within America, Trump’s policies have come under fire as some find his current path destructive and wanton. Outside of the States, organizers are protesting the Israel-Gaza conflict, working conditions, and more.
On X, May Day has been trending for much of the day, and we’ve got a series of posts to share below. To learn more about the day, click here.
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Baes & Baddies, Hip-Hop Wired’s curated space for some of the most beautiful women making moves online, is back with a new update with someone we’re sure readers will want to follow. Meet curvy IT tech, gamer, and all-around baddie @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, who delivers head-turning looks with ease.
We don’t know much about @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, but her bio says she works in IT and likes to stream her gaming sessions, as evidenced by her shared Twitch links. She also runs her own Discord server, posts heavily on Facebook and X, and has a YouTube page in development where she shares some of her gaming activities.
Below in the gallery section, we’ll share a variety of images across all of the spaces you can find @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, and be sure to hit that follow when you do.
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Baes & Baddies, Hip-Hop Wired’s curated space for some of the most beautiful women making moves online, is back with a new update with someone we’re sure readers will want to follow. Meet curvy IT tech, gamer, and all-around baddie @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, who delivers head-turning looks with ease.
We don’t know much about @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, but her bio says she works in IT and likes to stream her gaming sessions, as evidenced by her shared Twitch links. She also runs her own Discord server, posts heavily on Facebook and X, and has a YouTube page in development where she shares some of her gaming activities.
Below in the gallery section, we’ll share a variety of images across all of the spaces you can find @badgirl_tami AKA Tami LaReina, and be sure to hit that follow when you do.
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