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The Best Hip-Hop Projects Of 2022 So Far According To HHW
Source: Westend61 / Getty 2022 has delivered a number of stellar Hip-Hop projects thus far and trying to determine the best releases thus far has been a monumental chore for the Hip-Hop Wired team. Below is our attempt at trying to list out some of the top albums and mixtapes that dropped this year, not ranked but in alphabetical order. Hip-Hop tastes are subjective and varied, so expect to see names and projects in the list below that might not line up with your favorites. We understand that we can’t provide a one size fits all approach to making this list. Our list is compiled of mainstream acts, rising up-and-coming stars, grizzled veterans, underground champions, and all things in between. Names like Saba, Earl Sweatshirt, EarthGang, and Fly Anakin among others will be familiar to thos...
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ And More New Trailers That Debuted At San Diego Comic Con 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paramount | Hasbro / Paramount Pictures The 2022 San Diego Comic Con is officially underway and while many await announcements from Marvel on the next phase of the MCU and rumors that Warner Bros. will announce that Henry Cavill will return as Superman in future DCEU projects, we did get some new film trailers for movies set to drop this year or next. From fantasy films to some reboots of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s classics, the fanboys of the entertainment industry will surely be having a grand ol’ time with the projects slated to release in the future. Unfortunately none of these are MCU or DCEU related but still, it’s a little something for everyone. Check out some of the trailers that debuted at SDCC below and let us know which ones caught your eye in the co...
Say What?: Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracts Polio Becoming The First Known In Case In A Decade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The world just can’t seem to catch a break from these viruses. First COVID-19, then Monkeypox, and now POLIO. An Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracted Polio In A Unique Way The Associated Press reports an unvaccinated young adult from New York contracted polio, becoming the first known case in the United States in a decade, health officials said. The infected individual lives in Rockland County and developed paralysis a month ago, one of the virus’s devastating symptoms it inflicts on its host. Health officials say the person did not travel outside of the country. Health officials are currently trying to determine how the person caught polio, but it appears they had “a vaccine-derived strain of the virus,” possibly catching it f...
Lil Baby & AXE Partner To Keep You Smelling Fresh as Fr*sh
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AXE / AXE Summer is in full swing, with heat waves across the nation to confirm the time of the year. is upon us So Atlanta rapper Lil Baby partnering with AXE comes very much on time. The team-up includes limited-edition WHAXE Packs, which are a curated selection of products inspired by Lil Baby and AXE and the latter’s Fresh as Fr*sh ad campaign. The pack includes, maybe most importantly, a WHAXE Apollo x Lil Baby Deodorant Stick and Body Wash—we did mention it’s hot out there, and B.O. is forever non-cipher. Also in the kit is a WHAXE four-finger ring and a WHAXE branded toothbrush because halitosis is also not to be tolerated—or you can use it to clean the blinged out ring. Related Stories The WHAXE name is a combo of his WHAM nickname ...
Marvel Reveals First Look at Classic Animated Revival X-Men ’97
Fire up the Blackbird, because the classic X-Men: The Animated Series is back! Marvel announced a revival of the beloved Fox cartoon under the title X-Men ’97 last year, and now they’ve revealed a first look at the Disney+ series during this year’s Comic-Con. As previously confirmed, many of your favorite childhood characters will be back for X-Men ’97, as will some of the voices behind them. This includes Rogue (Lenore Zann), Beast (George Buza), Gambit (Chris Potter), Jean Grey (Catherine Disher), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Jubilee, and Cyclops. Cable and Bishop will appear alongside Forge, with Nightcrawler (Adrian Hough) and Sunspot as new additions to the team. Meanwhile, Magneto will serve as leader of the X-Men in a new costume, though it’s uncl...
Nope Ending Explained: Was That Really a UFO? And Other Questions
Opening with a Bible passage from Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 6 — “I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle” — Jordan Peele’s third film, Nope, is a lot of things: an examination of man versus nature, a story of trying to move on after the death of a parent, and, oh yeah, an exhilarating horror-infused romp, focused around a mysterious and deadly invader from (one assumes) outer space. Peele keeps things pretty close to the chest as to the origins of his central creation, instead putting the focus on how Southern California horse trainer O.J. (Daniel Kaluuya), his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer), an electronics store employee named Angel (Brandon Perea), and determined cinematographer Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott) team up to not just survive the attacks...
Nick Cave Pens Letter About Grief and His Favorite Contestant on Love Island
Nick Cave has opened up on his personal website about his surprise connection to a contestant on Love Island and how the young man’s parents helped him and his family grieve the 2015 death of his son, Arthur. The story was the result of two fairly innocuous inquires from a pair of fans named Maisie and Sharon, who wrote in to The Red Hand Files to ask A) who he wanted to win the current season of the British dating show and B) what the main difference is between him and his wife, Susie Bick. “At the moment, the defining difference between Susie and me is that she watches Love Island, and I don’t,” Cave began. “Susie watches Love Island because we know one of the contestants, Luca. Luca was a school friend of our twins, Arthur and Earl. As a consequence, Susie and I became friends with...
Bill Murray Won’t Be in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City After All
Earlier this week, Focus Features revealed highly-anticipated details about Asteroid City, the latest from Wes Anderson — and Bill Murray, a top Anderson regular, was noticeably absent from the cast list. Per Variety, the actor contracted COVID-19 shortly before production was scheduled to begin, leading his role to being recast. Reportedly, Steve Carell replaced Murray in the film. Anderson wrote Asteroid City — which is billed as a “poetic meditation on the meaning of life” — with his frequent collaborator Roman Coppola. Its galactic story takes place in a fictional American desert town in the 1950s, with the town’s Junior Stargazer convention serving as a backdrop “for scholarly competition, rest and recreation, comedy, drama, romance, and more.” It would’ve been Murray ...
Watch the Weeknd’s New “How Do I Make You Love Me?” Video
The Weeknd has shared a new music video to accompany his Dawn FM cut “How Do I Make You Love Me?” The animated clip was directed by Jocelyn Charles and creative directed and conceptualized with frequent Weeknd collaborators Cliqua. Watch it below. The singer has also released Sebastian Ingrosso and Salvatore Gannaci’s new remix of “How Do Make You Love Me?” Check that out below, too. The Weeknd issued Dawn FM—his follow-up to 2020’s After Hours—earlier this year. The Weeknd has shared visuals for the album’s “Sacrifice,” “Gasoline,” and “Out of Time,” the latter of which starred Jim Carrey as a doctor in an operating room. In April, the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia (who remixed “Sacrifice”) co-headlined Coachella 2022, filling in for Kanye West after he canceled his slot. Later that mont...
Watch a New Teaser Video for Atlanta Season 4
FX has announced that the fourth and final season of Donald Glover’s Atlanta will premiere in September. The network also shared a new teaser video featuring Glover with his co-stars Brian Tyree Henry (Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles), Zazie Beetz (Vanessa “Van” Keefer), and Lakeith Stanfield (Darius). Watch below. Atlanta returned with its third season in March, four years after the conclusion of Season 2. Discussing the end of the show, Glover said earlier this year, “Death is natural. When the conditions are right for something, they happen, and when the conditions aren’t right they don’t happen. Things start to get weird… you can’t do too much. The story was always supposed to be what it was and the story, it really was us.” Read Alphonse Pierre’s “Atlanta’s Season 3 Premiere Uses Hip-Hop and...
Miya Folick Announces Tour and 2007 EP, Shares New Song “Nothing to See”
2007 EP: 01 Oh God02 Bad Thing03 Nothing to See04 200705 Cartoon Clouds06 Ordinary Miya Folick: 09-15 New York, NY – Market Hotel09-27 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom09-28 San Francisco, CA – Café du Nord09-30 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge10-01 Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s10-29 Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia Theater *11-01 Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3 Galvanizers *11-02 Manchester, England – Academy *11-03 Birmingham, England – O2 Institute *11-05 London, England – The Roundhouse *11-08 Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine *11-09 Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall *11-10 Paris, France – Bataclan*11-12 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Den Atelier *11-13 Amsterdam, Netherla...
Purity Ring Announce 10th Anniversary Reissue of Debut Album Shrines
Purity Ring have announced Shrines X, a reissue of their debut album to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Shrines X arrives July 29 and will include the original album plus three previously unreleased B-sides from the Canadian duo Check out the reissue’s cover art below. Purity Ring released the Graves EP earlier this year, the follow-up to their 2020 album Womb. The band is also currently on tour through North America.
