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50 Cent’s Legal Team Disputes Young Buck’s Bankruptcy Claims, Says Buck Fraudulently Ducking Creditors
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty The legal and financial dispute between 50 Cent and former G-Unit rapper Young Buck is still going on. If you’re unfamiliar with the dispute, Buck has claimed that he had to file bankruptcy multiple times due to Fif’s business practices and, for the most part, 50 has responded by being petty and ridiculing Buck and implying that he’s homosexual. “Once he stopped me from being able to make money, I filed another bankruptcy,” Buck said of 50, as we previously reported. “They stopped him from being able to cease-and-desist in regards to me being able to, you know… I included what he claimed that I owed him in the bankruptcy to be able to say, ‘Well hey, if you’re owed this and present whatever receipts or whatever… You will be paid ...
Atlanta Rapper Trouble aka Skoob Shot & Killed
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Atlanta rapper Trouble, aka Skoob, has reportedly passed away. He was only 34. Trouble’s ex-girlfriend, Alexis Skyy, took to Twitter to confirm his death. “I’m so sorry this happen to you Skoob you didn’t deserve this I’m praying for your kids and family,” Skyy tweeted. The “Bring It Back” rapper was signed to Duct Tape Entertainment and has a lengthy list of star collaborations with artists like Drake, Migos, The Weeknd, 2 Chainz, City Girls and more. In 2017, he signed to Mike Will Made It’s Ear Drummer Records label via Interscope Records. Early reports say Trouble, born Mariel Semonte Orr, was shot and killed while sitting in his car in Atlanta. After news of his untimely death surfaced, fans and peers took to ...
Kate Bush Reacts to Stranger Things Reviving ‘Running Up That Hill’
Kate Bush issued a rare statement to address Stranger Things including her song “Running Up That Hill” in its fourth season. “You might’ve heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of Stranger Things has recently been released on Netflix. It features the song, ‘Running Up That Hill’ which is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show – I love it too!” Bush wrote in a message posted to her website. “Because of this, ‘Running Up That Hill’ is charting around the world and has entered the UK chart at No. 8. It’s all really exciting! Thanks very much to everyone who has supported the song. I wait with bated breath for the rest of the series in July.” Bush is not one to license her music for film and television; however, her persona...
Watch Guns N’ Roses Play ‘Reckless Life,’ Original Version of ‘You’re Crazy’ Live for First Time in 30 Years
Guns N’ Roses played their first show of 2022 last night after their Welcome to Rockville set was thwarted by inclimate weather, and Axl Rose and company had a few surprises up their sleeves. The rockers kicked off their European tour at Passeio Marítimo de Algés in, Oeiras, Portugal, where they dusted off two songs they hadn’t played live in 30 years and debuted a new cover. Halfway through their set, they dove into “Reckless Life” — a Hollywood Rose track from the live half of their Lies EP — for the first time since 1993. [embedded content][embedded content] A few songs later, GNR debuted a cover of AC/DC‘s “Walk All Over You.” The band frequently covers songs like “Whole Lotta Rosie” and “Riff Raff,” but this was the first time they put their spin on the Highway to Hell track live. [em...
Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil 4’ Remake Receives Release Date
Capcom has officially unveiled the trailer and release date of its highly-anticipated Resident Evil 4 remake. Announced during the PlayStation State of Play livestream, fans can expect the game to hit the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam for PC on March 24, 2023. The PlayStation blog confirmed that its aim for the title is to deliver an updated version while retaining the essence of the beloved 2005 game. “This is being done by reimagining the storyline of the game while keeping the essence of its direction, modernizing the graphics and updating the controls to a modern standard,” the blog post reads. “Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors of the incident, has been recruited as an agent reporting directly to the president. With the experience of multiple missions on his back, Leon ...
Quentin Tarantino Hosting ‘The Video Archives Podcast’ With ‘Pulp Fiction’ Co-Writer Roger Avery
Quentin Tarantino and his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avery are set to co-host a new Sirius Stitcher podcast entitled The Video Archives Podcast. According to reports, The Video Archives Podcast will hear the pair explore the significant moments of their 1983 employment at the celebrated video rental store, Video Archives, and the films that have served as influences in their careers. Tarantino’s collection of over 8,000 tapes and DVDs, which he acquired from Video Archives when it went out of business, will be utilized. “We never imagined that 30 years after we worked together behind the counter at Video Archives, we would be together again doing the exact same thing we did back then: talking passionately about movies on VHS,” Tarantino and Avary said in a joint statement. “Watching movi...
‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Season Two Reportedly in Development
Disney+ has reportedly greenlighted a second season of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi. According to MakingStarWars, sources inside Disney stated that the show recorded such outstanding “preliminary numbers” and that “there will be more stories for Kenobi in the future.” It remains unclear, however, if it will premiere as a season two or possibly under another title, “[b]ut changes have been made to Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi to explore some of the remaining story potential.” Neither Disney nor Lucasflim have confirmed a season two as of writing. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, franchise star Ewan McGregor — who reprises his role from the prequel trilogy — admitted that he is open to doing another project as Obi-Wan. “It was made as a one-off limited series,” he said. “And in a w...
Paramount+ Unveils First Trailer, Release Date of ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe’
The first official trailer and release date of Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe have been released. The newest film in Mike Judge‘s adult animated series follows the pair after 1996’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. They are sent to a space camp and end up travelling through a black hole after messing around with buttons on a space shuttle: “In perhaps the dumbest space movie ever made, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge in 1998. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they reemerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.” In addition to Beavis and Butt-Hea...
Woman Testifies Bill Cosby Forcibly Kissed Her When She Was 14
A woman testified Friday (June 3) that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn’t move her arms, and kissed her. “I was struggling to get away,” she said. “It was very shocking.” The woman, now 61, told her story in a public venue for the first time during a Los Angeles County civil trial over the lawsuit of Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 at around the same time, in the spring of 1975. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The woman testified that she, her mother, and other family and friends were on the Los Angeles set of the film Let’s Do It Again, starring Cosby and Sidney Poitier, where Cosby had invited them to act as e...
Box Office: ‘Top Gun 2’ Heads for Record $85M 2nd Weekend, Becomes Tom Cruise’s Biggest Film
Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick is showing no signs of slowing down. The Paramount and Skydance tentpole, starring Tom Cruise, is doing massive business in its second weekend. If estimates hold, the sequel will earn $85 million or more in its sophomore outing to boast the smallest decline ever — 33% — for a movie opening domestically to $100 million more. In North America, the summer tentpole earned $25 million on Friday (June 3) to finish the day with a jet-fueled cume of $230 million. That number should rise to $290 million by the end of Sunday and as much as $540 globally. Top Gun 2 also continues to fly high overseas, where it crossed the $200 million mark on Friday and is likewise holding strong. On Saturday, Top Gun: Maverick became Cruise’s top-grossing film domestically when pa...
New ‘Money Heist Korea — Joint Economic Area’ Trailer Readies Top-Class Thieves for the Ultimate Robbery
Netflix has dropped off the official trailer for Money Heist Korea — Joint Economic Area, the upcoming spinoff of its popular Spanish crime drama series La Casa De Papel (Money Heist). The 12-episode series will follow a stealthy heist on the Korean Unified Mint in a fictional Joint Economic Area, where “the Korean Peninsula faces reunification,” according to the streamer. The show will feature an entirely new cast with updated takes on familiar characters, including Professor (Yoo Ji-tae), Berlin (Park Hae-soo), Tokyo (Jun Jong-seo), Moscow (Lee Won-jong), Denver (Kim Ji-hun), Nairobi (Jang Yoon-ju), Rio (Lee Hyun-woo), Helsinki (Kim Ji-hoon) and Oslo (Lee Kyu-ho). The original Money Heist, which was created by Álex Pina, ran for five seasons and followed two different heists — ...
Logic Delivers New ‘Vinyl Days’ Single “Bleed It”
Logic has shared a new single from his upcoming Vinyl Days album, “Bleed It.” Clocking in at approximately two-and-a-half minutes, the cut is co-produced by 6ix and Logic himself and is an emotional account of the rapper’s childhood. “Bleed It” hears Logic open up about his mother’s alcoholism and the circumstances he was born into, rapping, “Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind / I’ve seen a lot of shit in my lifetime / Playin’ the field, man, I need anothеr lifeline / Fifty-fifty, I was born to be a f*ck-up.” Vinyl Days will mark Logic’s first full-length release since 2020’s No Pressure — his supposed final album before his retirement that turned out to be short-lived. In late May, the rapper revealed that his 2019 record Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was actually a “satyrica...
