Content Consumed: Lana Del Rey’s nepodaddy, Larsa Pippen, and Balkan basketball
Happy Thursday from Portland, where it snowed. And then snowed some more. So much, in fact, that it’s the most snow Portland has seen in one day since 1943. Woof.
In today’s Content Consumed, however, we’re not talking about snow. We’re chitchatting about…
👨🏼🦳 Lana Del Rey’s nepo daddy
🏀 Balkan basketball supremacy
💋 Larsa Pippen’s NBA shenanigans
Lana Del Rey’s dad: Official Nepo Daddy
You’ve heard of nepo babies. I’ve written about them quite a few times.
But have you heard of nepo daddies? Introducing Rob Grant, Lana Del Rey’s father.
His first album comes out on June 9. The blurb for it begins:
Rob Grant releases his debut album, Lost At Sea, via Decca Records. An accidental recording artist, Grant has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life. No kind of formal musical training at all. He can’t read sheet music.
Promising! Sounds just like the child of a famous actor getting their “big break” after no auditions and a phone call or two.
The father of international icon Lana Del Rey, he enlisted an array of talent to contribute to the making of the album. Features and writing credits include his daughter Lana Del Rey, while production credits include Jack Antonoff…
I am absolutely hooting and hollering at the way this man is riding his daughter’s success for a late career in music! And you know he’ll get the streams, because he is Lana’s dad and she is literally featured on the album in two songs.
The Balkans Boom and Larsa Pippen
Since it’s Thursday, we’re talking #sports and sharing a read of the week. But what if we combined, then doubled that?
“The Balkans Basketball Boom” by Jordan Ritter Conn at Ringer
Why are there so many talented players that come to the NBA from the Balkans? History, culture, height, politics, regional infrastructure, fundamentals, and most of all: toughness.
The Slavic men you see right now in the NBA—the Trail Blazers’ Jusuf Nurkic for example—were born into war.
Nurkic was born just two years after the Bosnian War began. One of his teammates on the Bosnian national team, Emir Sulejmanovic, was born in the forest after his parents fled the city of Srebrenica, the site of a massacre that the United Nations would ultimately declare a genocide.
“It was like the end of the world,” Nurkic says of his childhood. By the time Bosnian Muslims reached a peace agreement with Bosnian Serb forces and other actors in the region, in 1995, and by the time the country recovered from the devastation of the war, “you lose 10 years of your life.”
It’s resilience. Or, as it’s called in many former Yugoslav countries, “inat”.
The word can’t be translated, not exactly. Which means it can be translated inexactly in a million different ways. It’s kind of just a general sense of fuck you.
Read the full article here. It’s worth it.
“Imagine If Your Mom Dated Your Coworker” by Madeline Hill on Substack
Larsa Pippen is currently a mom who once dated a guy that is now her son’s coworker while she is currently dating the son of her ex-husband’s former coworker.
Really, just let writer Madeline Hill explain it to you. It’s a hilarious combo of Real Housewives-esque drama and NBA absurdity.
Read the full Impersonal Foul column here. Short, sweet, and silly.
And that’s all for today!
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Love,
Casey
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