Possible Clues:

• Dramatic word for the Yankees?
• ___ with faint praise
• Jack Blades band ___ Yankees
• 'Hot ___!'
• Pulitzer-winning Kendrick Lamar album
• Mild expletive
• The Rent Is Too ___ High Party
• Kendrick Lamar's 2017 Pulitzer-winning album
• Consign to hell
• 'Aw, hell!'