Ranking the best and worst of 2024: Moo Deng, Drake & Crashing Out

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

To close out 2024, Brittany and friends are running through the best and worst pop culture moments of the past 365 days. Along with NPR's Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe and Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker, the three declare winners and losers in the following categories:

WORD OF THE YEAR
"Crash Out"
"Cutesy"
"Hawk Tuah"

THE LOUDEST GASP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
Katt Williams on Club Shay Shay
Kendrick Lamar & Drake's Rap Beef
The response to the Trump assassination attempt

VILLAIN OF THE YEAR
Life
Willful Ignorance
Dr. Rachel Gunn (AKA Raygun)

BIGGEST FLOP OF THE YEAR
Tesla's Cybertrucks
Drake
Megalopolis

THE "WHO'S THIS DIVA?" AWARD
The extra special award for the diva you did not know before 2024 but whose name lives rent free in your head now.

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1:21.2	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
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1:39.0	Hello, hello. Welcome to the second annual IBMs, the It's Been a Minute 2024 Culture Award Show.
1:47.6	I'm your host, Brittany Luce, here with my very special guests, Aisha Roscoe from NPR's Weekend Edition, and B.A. Parker, co-host of NPR's Code Switch.
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