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Quavo Shares Video for New Song “Shooters Inside My Crib”: Watch
Migos rapper Quavo has shared his latest solo single. “Shooters Inside My Crib” is out now. Listen to it below. Quavo’s last solo album was 2018’s Quavo Huncho. Last year, Migos returned with Culture III. Quavo has appeared as a featured artist on multiple songs over the past couple years, including Bobby Shmurda’s “Shmoney,” a remix of City Girls’ “Pussy Talk” alongside Lil Wayne and Jack Harlow, and the late Pop Smoke’s “Aim for the Moon.” Check out Pitchfork’s “The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s,” featuring Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” and No. 181. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Twitter Kicks Ray J Off Scoot-E-Bike After Kicking It With Donald Trump
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Dr. Darrell Scott / Twitter Ray J has earned plenty of goodwill over the years despite antics here and there that would render most careers to fade if not flat out because obsolete. The singer and entrepreneur might need to retool his image with many after he made a visit with former President Donald Trump in Florida. Page Six exclusively reports that Ray J, 41, traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Tuesday (Jan. 25). According to the outlet, it was revealed by Ray J’s manager that the singer was there to talk about his plans to promote other business owners like himself in the business world and launch a series of initiatives that would assist with that effort. “I’ve always admired and respected his business acumen,” Ray J told the outlet. “Our co...
Kanye West Says ‘DONDA 2’ Drops In February, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @kanyewest / Instagram Kanye West has been a busy man of late. Along with the media attention-grabbing behavior including his takes on co-parenting and styling his rebound, Ye has been working on DONDA 2, and says it will be out in February. The “Power” rapper took to Instagram to make the announcement. Per Ye, the album will be out on February 2, 2022, and is also being executive produced by star Atlanta rapper Future. This is where we point out that Ye’s career is marked with a bunch of sequel albums that never actually came to fruition including Yeezus 2, Turbo Grafx 16 and Watch the Throne 2. This rather tight timeline also makes you wonder if Ye is going to throw any elaborate listening parties like he did for DONDA. Nevertheless, it wasn’t stopped h...
Jaz-O Says He Gave Jay-Z The Gun He Used To Shoot His Own Brother
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty One of Jay-Z‘s most underrated and overlooked songs is 1997’s “You Must Love Me” in which he revealed that he actually shot his own brother over some jewelry and while we never got a full story behind that scenario, Jaz-O recently shed some light on that ordeal. In an interview with DJ Vlad for VLAD TV, Jay-Z’s former partner-in-rhyme actually revealed that he was the man who gave Jay the gun that he used to clap his own brother. Confirming that Jay actually did shoot his own brother, Jaz does say “to be honest I don’t even think that he was aiming to like really hit him. In his defense, in all honesty, he just wanted give this ni**a a scare,” before revealing, “and it was my gun.” Related Stories In the song Jay-Z rapped “Runnin’ aroun...
Texas Bar Manager Says “No Saggin, Durags or Wave Caps” Sign Isn’t Racist. But Isn’t It?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Twitter / Twitter It’s well known in the Black community that certain styles of dress, particularly styles created by us, are stigmatized as “thuggish,” “ghetto” or otherwise unbecoming. For example: Around the time Trayvon Martin‘s killing was heavily in the news, there was a national side-discussion around whether or not young Black men were doing themselves any favors by continuing to wear hoodies considering how the article of clothing is often associated with gangsters and thugs. Often absent from that discussion was an acknowledgment of the fact that hoodies were never exclusively worn by gangsters and thugs as they have also always commonly been worn by regular-degular Negros. The negative associations and perceptions of Black styles of dress are r...
New Florida Music Festival Announces Lineup With deadmau5, Marshmello, RL Grime, More
Thunder Beats Music Festival have announced a booming phase one lineup of their inaugural 2022 event, with the second wave set to be announced soon. Taking place at the Pensacola Interstate Fair Grounds in Florida, Thunder Beats Music Festival features a massive lineup of artists including deadmau5, Marshmello, Baauer, Zomboy and Kaskade as well as a host of regional talent. Over 100 artists will perform across three stages during the fest, presented by Thunder Ranch Entertainment Holdings. Thunder Beats Music Festival Phase 1 lineup announcement. c/o Press Organizers also announced that deadmau5 is bringing his fan-favorite “cube” production, which was recently confirmed to appear in Las Vegas as part of a high-profile residency at Zouk Nightclub. Rec...
Sunset Music Festival Announces Massive Lineup for 2022
Following an incredibly successful 2021 event in which Sunset Music Festival reignited the live event flame as one of the first festivals to return, it is returning in 2022 with another massive lineup. Organizer Disco Donnie Presents have announced the first phase of artists for the 2022 festival, which is scheduled for May 27-29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Sunset has always been known for putting together huge lineups, with surprise headliners, fan-favorites, and more. The 2022 lineup is no exception, with Dillon Francis, Duke Dumont, Jason Ross, Liquid Stranger, Gorgon City, MiTiS, and Blanke, among others. Organizers will announce more artists on March 28th. Disco Donnie Presents have also launched a giveaway for the chance to win four tickets to SMF 2022. You can enter the conte...
Dom Dolla’s New Music Video Was Created “To Defy the Public Condition of Acceptable Love”
“When I read the script for the video clip, I knew [director] Emilie Badenhorst was onto something really special,” Dom Dolla said of his new music video. This “special” project, the audiovisual for his 2021 single, “Strangers” (with Mansionair), is now live. And Dolla wasn’t lying. Shot in Cape Town, South Africa, “Strangers” tells a free-spirited love story marked by golden hour meadows, stolen kisses and intimate moments in club bathrooms. Bookending the adventure are crashing waves and chirping seagulls as our two protagonists come together and find each other on the coast. It’s fleeting, profound and—yes—horny, playing into a nostalgic recollection of youth and adolescence. Meanwhile, the thumping four-on-the-floor ...
Best New Tracks: Denzel Curry, Na-Kel Smith, Machine Gun Kelly and More
HYPEBEAST has returned with another installment of Best New Tracks to round out the week. Denzel Curry leads this week’s lineup with “Walkin,” the first single off his forthcoming album Melt My Eyez See Your Future, followed by an tape by L.A. skater Na-Kel Smith titled SKULLFACE BONEHEAD. Joining the mix is a Frank Ocean cover by Machine Gun Kelly, a cut from the Euphoria soundtrack from Tove Lo and a tribute to late rapper Young Dolph. Denzel Curry – “Walkin” [embedded content] Two weeks after announcing his new album, Melt My Eyez See Your Future, with a trailer reminiscent of a Hollywood Western, Denzel Curry has delivered the project’s first track and music video. Directed by Adrian Villagomez, the “Walkin” visual sees Curry traverse a barren landscape and culminates in an old-fashion...
Peep The Trailer To Netflix’s Doc ‘RACE: Bubba Wallace’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Bubba Wallace made a name for himself as one of the best Nascar drivers in a sport that’s not only dominated by white men, but also Confederate Flag-loving white men. Dealing with all kinds of backlash and racism because of the color of his skin and his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Bubba has been through a lot in his young career already and in an upcoming Netflix docuseries, RACE: Bubba Wallace, we get an inside look at the struggles that the Jordan Brand athlete has had to deal with. In the trailer to the upcoming docuseries, we see just how real things got for Bubba at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was powering through America and the backlash he got from not only Nascar fans, but his own racing peers. It ...
Yolanda Vega The Voice of The New York Lottery Calls it A Career
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN / WENN The preeminent and highly popular voice that New Yorkers and many nationwide loved, Yolanda Vega, has officially retired from her decades-long position as an announcer with the state’s lottery commission. As reported on Wednesday by the New York Times(January 26th), the Twitter account for New York Lottery announced that Vega, the star announcer with the distinctive introduction “I’m Yo-LAHNNN-da Vega!” that fans across the state symbolized with hitting the jackpot retired. The tweet read, “Yolanda Vega, our iconic Draw Team member, has retired after an incredible 32 years. We truly hit the jackpot by having her as a part of the New York Lottery family. Let’s send her off in the comments below by posting our favorite Yolanda Vega memories. #pl...
‘NY Times’ Examines Alpo Martinez’s Double Life In Witness Protection
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hugh Brown / Getty Alpo Martinez has been dead for months and his story continues to get more interesting. A new article explores his double life as a member of the witness protection program. This week The New York Times printed an in depth piece that examined Albert “Alpo” Martinez’s life after being released from prison in 2015 after serving 35-year sentence for 14 counts of murder. He would be then relocated to Lewiston, Maine under the alias Abraham Rodriguez and worked as a construction worker. Writer Ali Watkins spoke to several individuals who knew him as an easy going fellow. “He was the nicest neighbor,” said Marissa Ritchey. “He was always polite, nice with the dog. You never would have thought anything. He was one of the decent ones. He’d...
