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Ice Cube Sets The Record Straight On ‘Friday’, Chris Tucker & How He ‘Didn’t Rob No F*ckin’ Body’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Hurcomb / Getty If you’re a fan of the 1995 classic comedy Friday, you’ve probably wondered why one of the film’s most notable stars, comedian Chris Tucker, who played the character “Smokey,” wasn’t in any of the sequels. Well, on Wednesday, legendary rapper and Friday creator Ice Cube said his piece on the subject after comedian Faizon Love, who played “Big Worm” in the movie, talked about how little the actors in the film got paid—which, of course, he went about in his usual messy way. According to HypeBeast, Friday “was dubbed as a cultural phenomenon and grossed over nine times its budget of $3 million USD. At the box office, it made over $27 million USD,” which paved the way for sequels Next Friday and Friday After Next. It’s worth mentioning...
Quavo Sued For Allegedly Blessing Limo Driver With The Fade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Looks like Quavo has gotten himself into some hot water as his limo driver is accusing him of putting hands and feet on him. According to TMZ, the Migos rapper has just been slapped with a lawsuit by a Las Vegas limo driver who’s alleging that Quavo and his crew beat him senseless just because he forgot to pick up someone from their entourage while he was on the clock. The driver in question is claiming that he was hired to pick up Quavo and his crew from a local club and driving them to the Virgin Hotel, but things went left when they began screaming at him that someone from the crew was left behind at the club. Related Stories “In the docs, the limo driver tried reasoning with his passengers but was told, “shut the f*** u...
‘Airplane Karen’ Patricia Cornwall Arrested For Striking A Passenger Who Called Her Out For “Rosa Parks” Remark
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @ATLUncensored / Twitter What is it with these Karens and their Kent-le-men counterparts acting a caucasified fool on airplanes? Recently, another member of the mile-white club went viral after being caught on camera assaulting another passenger who had but one request: “Sit down, Karen.” According to the Grio, the incident occurred on December 23, on Delta Airlines Flight 2790 from Tampa, Florida, to Atlanta. The altercation reportedly began when some white woman named Patricia Cornwall, who, according to the New York Post, was an NFL cheerleader and an actress who played a small role nobody remembers on the show Baywatch, couldn’t get to her seat after using the restroom because a flight attendant was moving through the aisle with a bever...
Māori Anchor Oriini Kaipara Is First With Traditional Tattoo To Host Primetime News
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @oriinz / Instagram A New Zealand news anchor has made history by becoming the first person to ever host a television news bulletin with a traditional facial tattoo. On Monday (December 27th), Oriini Kaipara read the news bulletin on Newshub Live’s 6 P.M. broadcast. In doing so, she presented a striking figure as the first indigenous person to present primetime news with a traditional chin tattoo. Kaipara has had the moko kauae since 2019 and considered it a lifelong dream to present the primetime newscast as a Māori woman in that manner. “It’s really exciting. I’m really enjoying it. I’m not speechless, but it’s a buzz. I am proud of how far I’ve come in being able to anchor 6 pm right now,’ she told local news magazine Stuff after the landmark broadcas...
CRSSD Festival 2022 to Feature Gorgon City, Adam Beyer, SOFI TUKKER, More
San Diego’s biannual CRSSD music festival has revealed the first phase of its lineup for its upcoming spring 2022 event. Once more, the house and techno affair will take over the city’s picturesque downtown Waterfront Park on March 5th and 6th. Administered by FNGRS CRSSD, the two-day fest will be home to a bevy of big names in the genres spread across three distinct stages. Keiki-Lani Knudsen Headlining the Southern California soiree, and riding on the success of their latest album, Olympia, will be Gorgon City alongside Claude VonStroke and Green Velvet‘s collaborative project, Get Real. English Indie band Glass Animals, who were recently nominated in the Best New Artist category for the 2022 Grammys, will share the same stage as SOFI TUKKER, and Nina Kraviz is slated t...
21 Stories That Defined EDM In 2021
2021 was yet another year that tested the strength of the electronic dance music community. Event organizers and ravers had to settle into a new norm this year, adapting to mercurial COVID-19 health guidelines in the name of public safety. And even though it was marginally better than the dystopian lockdowns of 2020, it wasn’t easy. But after all was said and done, it became more clear than ever that the virus can try to take the rave out of the person, but it cannot take the person out of the rave. Even in a vexing year for the electronic music scene, it remained as captivating as ever. Here are 21 stories that defined EDM in 2021. Return of Swedish House Mafia After a nine-year hiatus and countless cryptic teases, legendary dance music trio Swedish Ho...
Hundreds of Ravers Threw an Illegal Party Inside a 12th Century-Era Irish Castle
A centuries-old castle outside Dublin was overrun by teenagers on Sunday night, thanks to an illegal rave featuring a so-called “famous DJ,” Sunday World reported. “In fact, he was that famous he had the audacity to ask me to book him a taxi to take him home!,” said Skyrne Castle owner Derek Iceton, who arrived on the scene after neighbors alerted him to a stream of taxis driving onto the grounds. According to Iceton, crowds were spread out over the building’s three stories until he was able to cut the property’s power, when began dispersing the crowd. “I fully expect to have Covid after this,” he told the Meath Chronicle. “The walls were dripping with condensation when we finally got the place cleared.” Skyrne Castle w...
Music for the Mind: Researchers Develop Brain-Computer Interface That Matches Music to Your Mood
Happy playlists, sad playlists, party playlists—any music fan knows that when it comes to setting the mood, there’s no better way than with a killer soundtrack. Now, a pair of researchers from Germany and Singapore are taking this tenet to the next level with a brain-computer interface (BCI) that matches music to a user’s mood in real time. Ultimately, their goal is to teach listeners experiencing mental illness how to regulate and control their own emotions, they described in a recent interview. Stefan Ehrlich from the Technische Universität München and Kat Agres from the National University of Singapore have developed a brain-computer interface for music-based emotion mediation. PLOS ONE According to Dr. Stefan Ehrlich, the technology uses neurofeedback to set...
Watch WARRANT’s JOEY ALLEN Taste ‘Sweet Cherry Pie’ At SWEETWATER Headquarters
A short video of WARRANT guitarist Joey Allen trying sweet cherry pie at the Sweetwater headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana can be seen below. Back in 2018, WARRANT guitarist Erik Turner told Green Bay, Wisconsin radio station 94.3 Jack FM that he never gets tired of performing some of the band’s biggest hits, like “Cherry Pie” and “Heaven”. “We always play it in a different place, [in front of] different people,” he said. “If there’s a lot of people there having a good time and you’re having a couple of beers, it never, ever gets old watching people sing your songs and lyrics and scream and shout when you’re done playing that song [‘Cherry Pie’]. Now, that said, if we rehearsed a lot, it would not be fun to play...
STEPHEN PEARCY Doubts RATT Will Ever Get Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Stephen Pearcy says that he doubts RATT will ever be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Despite the fact that artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single, iconic hard rock and metal bands like IRON MAIDEN and JUDAS PRIEST have yet to be recognized by the institution, which inducted GUNS N’ ROSES in that group’s first year of eligibility. Asked by The Rock Shop With Ralph if he thinks RATT should be inducted into the Rock Hall, Pearcy said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I doubt that’ll ever happen. Unfortunately, everything is politics. “I watched the last Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. It’s such a piece of shit,” he continued. “Some people deserve to be ther...
POISON’s BRET MICHAELS Shares Video Of Flooding In Los Angeles: ‘Everyone, Stay Safe’
POISON frontman Bret Michaels, who resides in Southern California, has shared video of the flooding in and around Los Angeles this morning. In one of the clips, which can be seen below, Bret can be heard saying: “Yesterday we had a little rain and barely a dry creek bed with a trickle. Now it is a mass flood. Half these people can’t even get across or through their driveways. I’m gonna go see if I can help ’em out. Everyone, if you’re in L.A. county, stay safe.” Heavy rain in the Los Angeles area has prompted mudslides, debris flows and flooding, with downpours expected to taper off in the afternoon. Conditions will dry out for the weekend. A winter storm warning took effect at 1 a.m. Wednesday and will remain in place until 4 a.m. Friday in the Los Ange...
DIRTY HONEY To Kick Off NHL’s Winter Classic With PRINCE Cover
DIRTY HONEY, one of rock’s hottest new bands, will help kick off the 2022 National Hockey League (NHL) Winter Classic on New Year’s Day as part of TNT‘s event coverage. Filmed on one of Minnesota’s iconic frozen lakes and directed by Turner Sports‘ Tyler Lassiter and Craig Murray, the band — Marc LaBelle (vocals), John Notto (guitar), Justin Smolian (bass) and Corey Coverstone (drums) — will wrap up the pre-game coverage with its interpretation of hometown hero and rock icon Prince‘s “Let’s Go Crazy”. “I found out about DIRTY HONEY through former NHL player Scottie Upshall and have been a fan of the band ever since,” said Lassiter. “I had read that Marc LaBelle was a big hockey guy, and as soon as we landed the NHL dea...
