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HHW Gaming: PlayStation Is Helping The Push For Diversity In Gaming With Its Latest Efforts
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: valentinrussanov / Getty PlayStation is putting its money where its mouth is to ensure video game development gets some melanin injected into it. On Tuesday (Sep.6), PlayStation announced via its blog about recent efforts the company has made to improve diversity in the gaming world. In 2020 with the $100 million Global Social Justice Fund to “support social justice and anti-racist initiatives around the world.” Keeping the momentum going, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has committed more than $11 million in total to “advance race equity within the gaming industry and beyond.” PlayStation also announced new partners would join SIE’s global Social Justice Fund. [embedded content] Per PlayStation: “Through SIE’s Social Justice Initiative and our PlayS...
Sotheby’s Taps Skepta To Curate Contemporary Art Auction
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Joseph Okpako / Getty After years of making a name for himself on the UK Hip-Hop scene, Skepta is expanding his repertoire and adding “visual artist” to his portfolio. Highsnobiety is reporting that the man who was once rumored to be dating Adele (wasn’t true), will be taking his talents to the halls of Sotheby’s as he will be co-curating a Contemporary Curated auction that will be taking place in September at Sotheby’s London. Taking to IG to talk about his latest project, the rapper/Nike collaborator expressed his love for art and how having African art in his home “shaped me” and how it’s influenced his appreciation for art in general. “For me it’s about that beautiful thing of being able to look at a picture and feeling an emotion. If I look at an art...
DJ Khaled ft. Jadakiss “JADAKISS INTERLUDE” & More | Daily Visuals 9.6.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a few months since Kendrick Lamar blessed us with his latest project, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, but that isn’t keeping the man from dropping a new visual for one the album’s standout cuts. Coming through with a short film for “We Cry Together,” K. Dot ditches the audio from the album and goes live and direct with it as he argues up a storm with the talented Taylour Paige and reminds us that he truly is a once in a generation artist that we need to appreciate while he’s here. It was like watching a play and we loved every second of it. Related Stories Back in Yonkers, DJ Khaled continues to push his GOD DID album and for his clip to “JADAKISS INTERLUDE” links up with Jay-To-The-Muah on his home turf where it was kinda weird to see Khaled hang ou...
NAV Reveals Full ‘Demons Protected By Angels’ Tracklist
Ahead of the release of his new studio album, Demons Protected By Angels, NAV has shared the project’s tracklist and features. The LP marks the XO Records artist’s first full-length endeavor since 2020’s Good Intentions. Spanning 19 songs in total, the LP is led by an intro track, followed by a solo single called “Baby” and a Lil Uzi Vert collaboration, “Dead Shot.” The previously released “Never Sleep” featuring Travis Scott and Lil Baby serves as the album’s lead single. Other guest features scattered throughout Demons Protected By Angels include Future and Don Toliver on “One Time,” Gunna on “Playa” and Lil Durk “On My Dawg.”Gunna Lil Uzi will appear for a second time on a single entitled “Interstellar.” Additional features come from Realest K, Babyface Ray and Bryson Tiller. Frida...
NBA YoungBoy Delivers New Mixtape ‘Realer 2’
YoungBoy Never Broke Again surprised fans with the release of his latest mixtape, Realer 2. The 15-track project features one guest feature from Jaz on the track “Poppin Shit” and is currently available to stream on YouTube only. Realer 2 marks his fourth release of 2022, following his August studio album The Last Slimeto — which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 — the collaborative Better Than You project with DaBaby from March and Colors from January. In mid-August, YB hinted at the idea of The Last Slimeto being his last album. “To be honest I really don’t care about this being my last album. I finally can say I completed something. I ain’t finish school. I never finish nothing but my smoke… but nah gangster I then shedded tears from the way y’all been doing me but it’s all for the ...
Gorō Taniguchi’s ‘One Piece Film: Red’ Will Debut in the U.S. This October
Gorō Taniguchi’s One Piece Film: Red will be making its way to screens in the United States and elsewhere this fall. The animated fantasy flick originally debuted in Japan earlier this month, and is now slated for release in North America, Australia and New Zealand in October. The news was announced in a rather unique format: by the school marching band at a University of Southern California football game as the USC Trojans raced off against Rice University on Saturday. A special video promoting One Piece Film: Red was streamed during halftime and the marching band performed songs from the film’s soundtrack. “We Are”, “New Genesis”, and “Over the Top” Halftime performance by the #USC Spirit of Troy marching band at the @USC_FB season opener! ?? Tell us below if you saw the show! #onepiece ...
Vince Staples Will Star In and Executive Produce a Semi-Autobiographical Comedy Series for Netflix
Vince Staples will be getting his own scripted comedy series at Netflix. The streamer has ordered The Vince Staples Show, which will be loosely based on the 29-year-old rapper’s life. The show will take place in Staples’ home city of Long Beach, California. In addition to starring in the eponymous series, Staples will also executive produce. Kenya Barris, the creator of ABC’s black-ish, will also executive produce through his company Khalabo Ink Society, alongside Ian Edelman, Maurice Williams, Corey Smyth and Calmatic. Calmatic, a well-known music video director based in Los Angeles, will additionally direct the first two episodes of The Vince Staples Show. Staples, meanwhile, has built up a growing roster of acting credits within the past few years. After making his film debut in the com...
How to Get Tickets to Dave Matthews Band’s 2022 Tour
Dave Matthews Band have unveiled dates to their Fall 2022 tour. Their new North American run will keep the collective booked into November following a lengthy, 46-stop summer trek. Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Dave Matthews Band’s Next Tour? DMB still have a number of shows from their summer series to wrap before heading into the fall. They’ll play two nights at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Colorado on September 9th and 10th, followed by a stop in Phoenix and four performances across California including Mountain View on September 17th and a two-night finale in Los Angeles on September 19th and 20th. Advertisement Related Video The fall 2022 tour opens in Vancouver on November 2nd. Over the first week, Dave Matthews Band will hang in t...
Courtney Marie Andrews Reminds Us “These Are the Good Old Days” with New Single: Stream
Courtney Marie Andrews returns today with the new single “These Are the Good Old Days,” the latest single off her upcoming album Loose Future. It arrives with an accompanying music video, as well as newly-added tour dates in the UK and EU through 2023. Andrews said she wanted to release a “feel-good song,” and “These Are the Good Old Days” is just what the doctor ordered. Backed by a simple instrumental arrangement, the song is a placid ode to living in the moment, and a gentle reminder that dwelling on the past or catastrophizing the future are rarely beneficial: “People like me think feelings are facts/ Falling in love gives us a heart attack/ One foot in the future, one in the past/ Wanna know for sure if it’s gonna last,” Andrews sings. “‘These are the good old days’ is a saying m...
Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka: A Lot of “Popular Music … Almost Insults People’s Intelligence”
Greta Van Fleet shot out of a cannon when they debuted about five years ago. With a throwback sound, the band immediately topped the rock charts and are now headlining large-scale venues worldwide. While Greta Van Fleet have certainly experienced their own share of popularity, bassist Sam Kiszka questions the integrity of a lot of “popular music” he hears on the radio today. When discussing the band’s most recent album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, on the latest episode of Consequence’s Kyle Meredith With … podcast, Kiszka commented, “It’s kind of the story of mankind … we frame it in a different way, just so you can see it in a different way. The best thing we can hope for is [being] thought-provoking.” Advertisement Related Video He continued, “We listen to a lot of stuff, not by choice,...
How to Get Tickets to Modest Mouse’s “The Lonesome Crowded West Tour”
Modest Mouse will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their second album The Lonesome Crowded West with tickets to a 20-date tour starting in November. The band plans to perform the entire, all-time indiehead classic from start to finish for the first time, making good on a tease from a benefit show in late December 2021, where they nearly completed a run-through of the tracklist, save for “Lounge.” Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Modest Mouse’s Next Tour? Modest Mouse will first wrap up a previously announced North American circuit in early September before embarking on “The Lonesome Crowded West Tour.” They’ll play Wichita, Kansas on September 6th, Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 7th, Louisville, Kentucky on September 9th, and Nashville, T...
Oliver Heldens and Warner Case Evoke the Supernatural On “Believe In Ghosts”
While the existence of supernatural entities remains up for debate, there’s nothing that’s smoke and mirrors about Oliver Heldens and warner case’s collaborative single, “Believe In Ghosts.” Setting a unique atmosphere with the combination of a hushed vocal delivery, sweeping white noise, and bursting ambient textures, “Believe In Ghosts” remains thoroughly committed to curating an environment enshrouded in an enticing aura of mystery that invites listeners to lean in. When the track’s spirited bassline really kicks in, however, there’s little ambiguity left to betray your senses. Oliver Heldens and warner case share an affinity for spellbinding basslines and their synergistic approach to dominating the dancefloor with simple and ...
