Editorial
Donald Trump Says He “Didn’t Know Silk At All” At Diamond’s Memorial, Tomfoolery Is Elite
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Donald Trump was a guest speaker at the memorial service for Diamond aka Lynette Hardaway of Diamond & Silk infamy. The appearance had all the signs of a grift, with Cheeto perplexing sentient humans when he said he didn’t know Silk all that well, despite like…reality It was Trump who revealed that Diamond had passed away a couple of weeks ago. Although a cause of death was not revealed, it was widely reported that she had been recently hospitalized with COVID-19. At the memorial service, her sister Silk aka Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway insinuated that she passed away due to complications from the vaccine. [record scratch] This is where we point out that the Diamond & Silk buffoons were fierce anti-vaxxers. So Silk’s ...
Stephen A. Smith Apologizes To Rihanna For “She Ain’t Beyoncé” Remark
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Eric Espada / Getty Now, we all know that famed sports commentator Stephen A. Smith has a big mouth—big enough for him to occasionally stick his entire foot in it while using his other foot to walk things back a bit. Also, Smith is pretty old. So old, possibly, that he’s a little too detached from the popular music scene to understand that Rihanna arguably has as big of a “hive” as the Queen Bee herself, Beyoncé. (Can the “Rih-hive” be a thing, or is that a little too on the nose?) From TMZ Sports: Stephen A. Smith had a BOLD take this week, but it wasn’t about whether Dak Prescott is elite … it was his reaction to Rihanna performing the Super Bowl halftime show — simply saying, “she ain’t Beyoncé.” Related Stories The ESPN personality made the comment du...
Black Twitter Has A Field Day After Alleged Homophobe Boosie’s Daughter Goes IG Official With Girlfriend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Baton Rouge rapper Boosie Badazz has generally become the poster child for homophobia due mostly to his abject inability to keep Lil Nas X’s and Zaya Wade’s names out of his mouth. Seriously, I need an iron that can press my shirt the way Boosie is pressed about LGBTQ folks proudly existing out in the open. So, now, Black Twitter is forced to ask questions now that the “Wipe Me Down” rapper’s own 20-year-old daughter, Iviona Hatch, is flexing on the Gram with her current boo—who happens to also be a woman. From MadameNoir: Related Stories Hatch, who goes by Poison Ivi, was seen in a pic posted by her lady with the caption, “Endlessly in love with you.” During an Instagram Live in 2021, Hatch revealed that she dates girls s...
Truth Hurtz: Tory Lanez Found Guilty Of Shooting Meg Thee Stallion, Misogynoir Twitter Holds L
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz On Friday (Dec. 23), a Los Angeles jury found rapper and singer Tory Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, guilty of shooting Meg Thee Stallion. The Canadian rapper and singer is facing up to 20 years, and deportation, when he is sentenced. The now infamous incident occurred after Lanez and Meg attended a party held by Kylie Jenner. During an argument over their respective careers, which also included Meg Thee Stallion’s former friend Kelsey Harris, it was the former who ended up shot in both feet. A trial that was closely watched by the social media peanut gallery, and elicited plenty of sexist commentary and gossip aimed at Meg, has culminated in Lanez being found guilty of assault with a semiautomatic handgun, carryi...
Philly Judge Meek Mill Called Out Has Criminal Cases Reassigned, Legal Battle Unfolding
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Meek Mill wasn’t capping when he said his judge was doing him dirty, allegedly. . The same Philadelphia judge who jailed the rapper, and who he essentially accused of having a vendetta against him, has had her criminal cases reassigned, and now she’s suing. The Philadephia Inquirer reports that Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley has been transferred to civil court and all of the pending criminal cases she was initially tasked with have been reassigned. Brinkley is the same judge who jailed Meek Mill for a parole violation in 2017. Related Stories The judge’s behavior while she was overseeing Meek’s case had most anyone taking a look at the details saying she was holding a grudge. For example, in 2018, the Philadelphia District Attor...
Kanye West Says He Sees Good Things In Hitler During Alex Jones Interview, Twitter Attacks
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: YouTube / Youtube We have arrived at the Ye co-signs Adolf Hitler with his whole chest portion of the simulation. On Thursday (Dec, 1), the artist formerly known as Kanye West made an appearance on Alex Jones’ web show, and proceeded to say that even a homicidal maniac has something of value to contribute. Ye appearing on Alex Jones was already wild for the night. This is the same conspiracy wingnut who is on the hook for millions of damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims after he falsely claimed the murders of their children were all made up. Such heinous behaviors was apparently not enough to stop Ye from having a live stream interview with the infamous Infowars host. They surely didn’t disappoint when it comes to tomfoolery and lies, that ...
DJ Vlad Says He’ll “Choose Violence” After Saweetie’s Publicist Curves Interview
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WWD / Getty It isn’t always very clear what DJ Vlad’s talent is outside of being messy. Vlad decided to spend his Thanksgiving weighing in on the subject of recording artist Saweetie and the disappointing sales produced by her new EP, The Single Life. Essentially, Vlad claimed her new project would have done better if Saweetie hadn’t declined to do an interview with him. “If Saweetie did a VladTV interview she would have easily done 10x her first week sales, which was 2000 copies,” Vlad tweeted. “We actually reached out through one of our people and were told ‘she won’t do Vlad’. Her loss.” Obviously, the tweet got Vlad the attention he was clearly looking for because Saweetie responded saying that she has “been a big fan & have screen recorded m...
Kelly Rowland Shuts Down Peter Rosenberg Over Goofy Beyoncé Question
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 17 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
Late?: Balenciaga Cuts Ties With Ye
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty That took longer than expected. Renowned luxury fashion house Balenciaga has cut ties with Ye fka Kanye West. In an exclusive statement to WWD, Balenciaga says it has severed its ties with the “Power” rapper and alleged billionaire. “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” said French company Kering, the owner of Balenciaga, in a statement to the publication. This news comes after about a week of Ye spewing antisemitic rhetoric on a variety of platforms including the Drink Champs podcast and in an interview with Piers Morgan. And that’s not including antisemitic statements that were edited out of his interview with Tucker Carlson and a The Shop episode that got completel...
Still The Opps Tho: Mike Pence Distances Himself From Donald Trump
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Tom Williams / Getty Mike Pence, the former Vice President of the United States, will forever be aligned with former president Donald Trump due to their time at the top of elected office. Despite this connection, Pence is seemingly distancing himself from the former business mogul after a recent appearance in Washington, D.C. Mike Pence was a guest at Georgetown University for an event hosted by the conservative group, Young America’s Foundation. Pence, a staunch conservative, faced mild protests from students and used the dog whistle term of “woke” to issue a charge that political discourse has gone off the rails, of course not lambasting his side but only those that don’t agree with his side’s views. “It seems like every day a new story breaks tha...
Jeezy’s BET Hip Hop Awards Performance Reminds Us Of His Longevity & Impact
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Terence Rushin / Getty Seventeen years ago, Jeezy made one of the boldest claims in rap, uttering to anyone listening that he was the realest in the game. His street fame and ability to make hustler music led to universal praise and admiration from gangsters and moguls alike. Universally revered for his impact and music, Jeezy’s ability to invoke passionate praise in a time of instant success, reminds us of what authenticity and influence are about. Standing alongside EST Gee earlier this week at the BET Hip Hop Awards to perform the song, “The Realest”, Jeezy once again provided more evidence for his opening statement. [embedded content] Names like Jeezy, T.I., Gucci Mane and Yo Gotti are synonymous with the trap music era that started ...
Footage From Uvalde Shooting Tragedy Displays Incompetence Of Police On Scene
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Brandon Bell / Getty The Uvalde tragedy is still one of the most shocking school shooting events in recent history, and new details are coming forth from that horrible day. Footage shows local police officers toiling about on their phones instead of doing their jobs and protecting the innocent lives inside. As we understand the sensitive nature of the Uvalde shooting, we won’t show the footage of the police officers casually checking their phones as children were screaming in horror, according to reports saying that the audio of the footage was scrubbed. But what is especially angering is that several accounts from the ground stated that parents practically begged the officers to move into action, with some parents taking on the role of protectors t...
