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The Alchemist Unveils New Song “Miracle Baby” Featuring Mavi: Stream
On Tuesday, The Alchemist announced This Thing of Ours Vol. 2, the sequel to the April EP This Thing of Ours. Now, he’s shared the first single from the October 8th release, “Miracle Baby,” featuring the 21-year-old North Carolinian Mavi. Alchemist beats tend to go easy on the percussion and hard on atmospherics, and “Miracle Baby” is no exception. The track opens with samples with such a tinny tone that they just sound black and white, as voices say, “Look in my eyes and tell me what you see,” and, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” The beat drops with choral “oohs,” and persistent bass, and while it’s possible to pick out kick drums and high hats, they’re low enough in the mix that Mavi has the space to do whatever he wants. Here, the rising rapper unleashes a stream o...
Rob Zombie Unveils “Entire Neighborhood” Built for His Upcoming Munsters Movie: Photos
After sharing in-progress pictures of the new 1313 Mockingbird Lane a few weeks ago, Rob Zombie has now unveiled an entire neighborhood that’s been constructed for his upcoming Munsters movie. Zombie, who is writing and directing the movie based on the popular 1960s TV sitcom, has been keeping fans updated on the movie set’s progress via his Instagram page. On Thursday (September 30th), he shared photos of the now-completed 1313 Mockingbird Lane (also known as the Munsters’ mansion), as well as a number of surrounding suburban homes. They’ve all been erected by a crew in Budapest, Hungary, where the movie is being filmed. “What a difference 7 days can make!,” wrote Zombie. “1313 is looking good! Lots of work left to do, but it is getting there! Takes a lot of work to build an entire neighb...
NYFF Review: Benedict Cumberbatch is a Macho, Petulant Cowboy in The Power of the Dog
This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Acclaimed writer-director Jane Campion adapts the semi-obscure 1967 novel The Power of the Dog into a feature of the same name. It’s a Western of sorts about Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch), a self-consciously macho cowboy who hassles his more reserved brother George (Jesse Plemons) on the ranch they own and operate together. When George marries the widow Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst), Phil turns his cruelty toward her, as well as her teenage son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), in spite of — or is it because of? — some unexpected common ground they share. Not So Old West: The Power of the Dog takes place in rural Montana in 1925, which amounts to a sort of netherworld between Old West imagery and the well-past-d...
Quentin Tarantino on Filming Women’s Feet: “That’s Just Good Direction”
Quentin Tarantino puts his interests on screen — a man of heart and sole, you might say. His predilection for feet is so famous that Brad Pitt joked about it at the SAG Awards, saying the filmmaker “has separated more women from their shoes than the TSA.” When he was asked about it in a new interview with GQ, the filmmaker reportedly sighed and said, “That’s just good direction.” As Tarantino explained, he shrugs off the criticism. “I don’t take it seriously. There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies.” Ever the historian, he also gave a brief discourse on directors going toe-to-toe with their interests. “Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accuse...
Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton & Nadine Velazquez Are Regal & Raunchy in ‘Nasty Girl’ Music Video From ‘Queens’
Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez are rooting for every “Nasty Girl” in their first single and music video from the upcoming ABC series Queens. They will all star in the upcoming hip-hop drama series about a former ’90s girl group called the Nasty Bitches trying to shine once more in the spotlight. Ahead of the series’ premiere, Brandy, Eve, Naughton and Velazquez released their first joint single “Nasty Girl” on Friday (Oct. 1) via Def Jam Recordings. The accompanying visual, which was directed by Tim Story (*NSYNC, Monica, The LOX), features Eve, aka Professor Sex, preparing the party at a quite literally lit mansion, filled with a legion of shirtless men, before the girls’ arrival. The foursome later take the festivitie...
Electronic Livestream Mainstay Boiler Room Acquired by Ticketing Platform Dice
The company plans to work with Boiler Room on enhancing its programming and creating additional revenue for artists, rights holders, collectives, festivals and clubs. U.K.-based ticketing platform Dice has acquired the long-running electronic livestream series Boiler Room. According to a statement from Dice, the company plans to work with Boiler Room on enhancing its programming and creating additional revenue for artists, rights holders, collectives, festivals and clubs. The news comes just a week after Dice announced that it would use its newly-acquired $122 million in Series C funding to grow its team, reach new artists and venues and expand its livestream offerings. Founded in 2014, Dice is a discovery and events app that works with over 3,600 venues, festivals and promoters ...
Daptone Co-Founder Talks Capturing Sharon Jones & Charles Bradley’s Legacies for 20th-Anniversary Live LP
“I spent many months trying to mix it and put it together and it was pretty painful, because some of my close friends Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley had passed away,” Roth tells Billboard. “Then while I was mixing it, Naomi Shelton and Cliff Driver passed away. It was painful, but it felt important to document that time for the label and those performers.” The live album is a boisterous collection of one of the rare times the entire Daptone crew took the stage together. Over three LPs, fans get to hear Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Bradley, Saun & Starr, Antibalas, The Budos Band, Menahan Street Band and the Como Mamas. Roth says there was always an intention to capture the three nights at the Apollo and release the material, but as time went on and the ...
Bob Dylan’s ‘World Wide Tour’ Set to Run Through 2024
He plans to return to live performing Nov. 2 in Milwaukee, Wis. Dylan has 21 concerts scheduled through Dec. 2, hitting cities like Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, as well as Moon Township, Pa., and Knoxville, Tenn. Dylan turned 80 on May 24. The No. 2 debut of Rough and Rowdy Ways on the Billboard 200 albums chart in June 2020 made Dylan the first act to have achieved at least one new top 40-charting album in every decade from the 1960s through the 2020s. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet rev...
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YM Forever: Drake Gives Lil Wayne His Birthday Roses At Private Dinner [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Supplied by WENN.com / WENN Lil Wayne celebrated his birthday this week with friends and family. During the festivities, Drake makes sure to put respect and even more love on Weezy’s name. As spotted on Rap-Up Magazine Lil Tunechi made it to see another year. In honor of his special day his circle hosted a private dinner for him in Miami. In video captured by Young Money Records president Mack Maine, Drizzy made a heartfelt toast to his mentor and friend. “I still to this day get nervous speaking about this man because at the end of the day, as much of a brother and a mentor as he is to me, he’s still like my idol and still somebody who puts me in a place where when I start thinking about him, I start thinking about my family and all the things that ...
Florida Man Captures Alligator With Plastic Trash Bin
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Todd Ryburn Photography / Getty Florida is known for all kinds of weird moments and foolery, but yesterday a video of a man capturing an alligator with a trash bin might’ve been the wildest thing we’ve seen from the Sunshine State so far. In a video that’s been making the rounds on the internet, Abdul Gene Malik became America’s version of Crocodile Dunn-D when he used a plastic trash bin to corner an alligator in front of his house and was somehow able to trap it and remove the threat from the neighborhood. Slowly approaching the very alert alligator with the open trash bin, Dunn-D told onlookers to let him know when the head of the alligator was in the bin so he could close the bin on the wild animal. Interestingly enough the idea worked! Not only did M...
BET Bringing Back ‘Rap City’ For One Night Only As Part of ‘2021 BET Hip Hop Awards’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Get those bars up rappers. BET’s iconic Hip-Hop show, Rap City, is coming back for one night only. Thursday (Sept. 30), BET announced Rap City 21, a special edition of the network’s longest-running rap series, will air ahead of the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday (Oct.5) and is being billed “as a celebration of the network’s commitment to the culture’s past, present, and future.” As expected, Big Tigger will be handling hosting duties and executive producing the special edition of Rap City. BET says the show will try to recapture the energy that made it a hit among Hip-Hop fans while offering viewers “never before seen booth appearances,” exclusive interviews, and, of course, your favorite Rap City memories. “I’m excited at the opp...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 10.1.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: chabybucko / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. Welcome to October! As the fall season is going along, we’re still turning up the temps when it comes to delivering to the masses fresh heat bi-weekly. This week’s crop of songs includes the usual mix of artists you know, artists you don’t know, and artists you might’ve heard before but needed a reminder of how dope they are. We open up the CRT FRSH playlist with the intro from Meek Mill’s latest album Expensive Pain, and the Maybach M...
