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Twitter Thinks Will Smith Is In Relationship Hell After Jada Pinkett Smith Says She Wants To Learn How To Love
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Screenshot / Instagram Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have one of the most enduring celebrity marriages and have been together as husband and wife for almost 25 years, but there have been some explosive hiccups along the way. Jada’s name was trending on Twitter over the weekend when a clip from her popular talk show displayed her sharing that she wants to learn how to love, prompting some to say that the former Fresh Prince is in relationship hell. Jada Pinkett Smith hit the birthday milestone on September 18 and featured a number of her famous friends for a special episode of Red Table Talk with Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris in honor of her 50th birthday. Arsenio Hall chimed in with a pre-recorded video asking what was on her bucket ...
Controversial Broadway Production ‘Slave Play’ Didn’t Win Any Tony Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com / WENN The 74th Tony Awards were held Sunday night (September 26) in New York and a Slave Play, which broke records with 12 nominations, seemed poised to notch at least one of the coveted trophies. However, as the evening concluded, the controversial Broadway production failed to win even one award despite all the hype and chatter around it. Slave Play, from playwright Jeremey O. Harris, is a three-act play following the lives of three interracial couples entering into “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy” due to the Black partners no longer feeling physically attracted to their white partners. The original off-Broadway production launched in 2018 and then hit Broadway after its initial roaring success. The play has garner...
Twitter Once More Debates Idris Elba As James Bond After Haters Claim He’s Too Old For The Role
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Lia Toby/WENN.com / WENN Idris Elba is still one of the entertainment world’s most dashing leading men and a natural shoo-in to take up the mantle of the legendary James Bond character. With the current Bond Daniel Craig bidding farewell to the role, Elba’s name was once again tossed into the hat as some stated that he’s too old for the role despite being younger than Craig is currently. Much of this chatter could be pointed to the fact that Craig’s last appearance as 007 will take place in the film No Time To Die, which has its world premiere in London tonight (September 28). According to Variety, Facebook will livestream the red carpet entries which fans can view via the Occulus headset, along with an exclusive view of the opening sequence of the ...
Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘The Harder They Fall’ With New Jay-Z Music
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix A few months ago we got out first trailer to the new all-Black Western, The Harder They Fall, and needless to say it looked like it was going to be off the chain. Source: Netflix / Netflix Now that the Jeymes Samuel directed feature has garnered some buzz thanks to an all-star cast that includes the likes of Idris Elba, Regina King, and LaKeith Stanfield amongst many others, we get a new second trailer to showcase just how badass things will get in the Wild Wild West. Starring Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country) as Nat Love opposite Idris Elba’s Rufus Buck, The Harder They Fall finds Love looking for Buck to avenge a wrong he feels was done to him at his hands. Though Buck has a crew of badass gunslingers by his side, Nat doesn’t seem on...
Snoop Dogg Announces Upcoming Star-Studded Album and New Def Jam Kids’ Record
After joining Def Jam Recordings as an executive creative and strategic consultant in June, Snoop Dogg on Monday announced plans for his 19th studio album and the release of a Def Jam kids’ record during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Snoop confirmed that his upcoming album, titled Algorithm, will arrive in November and feature “a lot of big-name acts and some new ones.” The project comes after April’s From Tha Streets 2 Tha Suites and will mark the first time that the rapper has put out two studio albums in the same year. Snoop then delved into his executive role at Def Jam and announced that the label has “a kids’ album coming out this year, too.” “I was a fan of Def Jam Records as a kid,” he said. “And knowing the talent that they have over there and ...
Activision Blizzard and US Employment Watchdog Agree to $18M USD Lawsuit Settlement
Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have agreed to a lawsuit settlement worth $18 million USD. According to reports, the gaming company will start an $18 million USD fund to pay compensation for employees, put a stop to its discriminatory practices, contract a consultant to “ensure compliance,” improve training and the process of its performance review to avoid any future offenses and, finally, comply with future audits from the EEOC. “We will continue to be vigilant in our commitment to the elimination of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. We thank the EEOC for its constructive engagement as we work to fulfill our commitments to eradicate inappropriate conduct in the workplace,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in a statement...
Britney Spears Reacts to New Documentary: ‘I Scratched My Head a Couple of Times’
“Number one … that’s the past !!! Number two … can the dialogue get any classier ???” she asked with shrugging, nerd face and bawling emojis. “Number three … wow they used the most beautiful footage of me in the world [embarrassed fae emoji]!!! What can I say .. the EFFORT on their part [clapping and eye roll emojis]!!!” Though she didn’t specify which film she viewed, it is likely Controlling Britney Spears — the follow-up to February’s popular The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears — which premiered on FX and Hulu on Friday (Sept. 24), or CNN’s Toxic: Britney Spears’ Battle for Freedom, which premiered Sunday night. (Netflix’s Britney vs Spears arrived in the early morning hours of...
Chart Rewind: In 1991, Garth Brooks Lassoed History With ‘Ropin’ the Wind’
After moving 300,000 in its first week, Ropin’ the Wind has sold 9.6 million to date. Remarkably, Brooks, then 29, achieved these feats without the benefit of pop crossover airplay. Rather, it was his electric live concerts and a string of modern country classics from his first two albums, Garth Brooks and No Fences, that helped rocket his third album to a No. 1 launch and propel country radio to new ratings highs in the early ’90s. Ropin’ the Wind, which yielded five Hot Country Songs top 10 singles, including the No. 1s “Shameless” (written by Billy Joel), “What She’s Doing Now” and “The River,” became the first of nine No. 1 albums that Brooks has landed on the Billboard 200. With 73.2 million albums sold in the U.S. since 1991...
Citizen Cope Announces 2022 Winter Tour
Alice Smith will perform with Citizen Cope on select dates. The full list of tour stops can be found below. Tickets go on sale starting Friday (Oct 1) at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets and packages can be purchased at CitizenCope.com. Below are the tour dates for Citizen Cope’s 2022 Winter Tour Jan 7 – Savannah, GA @ Victory NorthJan 8 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music HallJan 9 – Columbia, SC @ The SenateJan 11 – Asheville,NC @ Grey EagleJan 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead TheatreJan 13 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn BowlJan 14 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou TheatreJan 15 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood TheatreJan 16 – Durham, NC @ Carolina Theatre / Fletcher HallJan 18 – Richmond, VA @ The BroadberryJan 19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ By...
R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Bia, 22Gz, Lucky Daye & More
Shordie Shordie feat. Blxst, “Specific” On “Specific,” East meets West. Baltimore rapper Shordie Shordie tapped LA’s finest Blxst for the first ballad off of his upcoming album Captain Hook 2. The video finds the two back in high school crushing on the same girl. Nashir, “Just Try” “It can’t hurt to try,” and Nashir asserts that beautifully on his mellow new single, “Just Try.” The New Jersey artist is one of a handful of promising young artists under Crxssroads Music/Management. For the video, he keeps it simple with a classic picnic and carnival date. Reggie feat. Smino, “Avalanche” Houston artist Reggie and Smino complement each other exceptionally well on the former’s new single, “Avalanche.” With a delivery and tone sim...
Brandi Carlile Joins Pearl Jam to Perform “Better Man” at Ohana Festival: Watch
Pearl Jam closed out Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival on Sunday with some help from Brandi Carlile, who joined the band for a performance of “Better Man.” Before the singer-songwriter took the stage, Vedder joked to the crowd, “Don’t cancel me for saying ‘bitches’ in the nicest way possible,” giving a shout-out to Carlile and all the other female artists who had performed over the last three days. “And Brandi would know about power bitches because it takes one to know one,” he declared to the crowd’s cheers as she strode to the mic. Launching into the track from 1994’s Vitalogy, Carlile sang, “Waitin’, watchin’ the clock/ It’s four o’clock, it’s got to stop/ Tell him, ‘Take no more”‘/ She practices her speech/ As he opens the door, she rolls over/ Pretends to sleep as he looks her over” ...
Saturday Night Live Season 47 Cast: Beck Bennett Leaving, Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman Join Ensemble
Plenty of familiar faces will greet viewers when Season 47 of Saturday Night Live bows on October 2nd. Nearly the full ensemble is returning, and two featured players have been upgraded to series regulars: Bowen Yang, who has been on the writing staff since 2018; and Chloe Fineman, who joined last year. At the same time, two actors will be ending their runs on the venerable sketch program: Lauren Holt, who is leaving the show after one season; and Beck Bennett, whose eight-season run in New York comes to an end as his career in Los Angeles continues to tick upwards. Bennett is currently a series regular on the stop-motion Marvel series M.O.D.O.K., and he said goodbye in an emotional Instagram post. “Love you, SNL,” he wrote. “Gonna miss you so much. Thank you for 8 years&nbs...
