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Ice Cube Confirms Losing $9M Payday For Not Taking COVID-19 Vaccine
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 4 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 ...
Ice Cube Confirms Losing $9M Payday For Not Taking COVID-19 Vaccine
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 4 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 ...
HHW Gaming: PlayStation 5 Restock Coming To Walmart On Black Friday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Trying to get yourself, or that special someone in your life that is a gamer, a PlayStation 5 before Christmas? Well, this Black Friday might be your best chance. Walmart is restocking its shelves with PlayStation 5 consoles, HYPEBEAST reports. Walmart+ members were first to get their hands on Sony’s still hard-to-find next-gen console on November 21. Now, Walmart is opening up whatever PS5 stock it has left to the general public for two days, beginning November 23 at noon EST for online customers and those brave enough to go to a Walmart store on November 25. Don’t worry; the alleged price hike won’t be in effect. The consoles will still cost $499 for the disc version and $399 for the all-digital console. A God of War Ragnarök disc bu...
HHW Gaming: PlayStation 5 Restock Coming To Walmart On Black Friday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Trying to get yourself, or that special someone in your life that is a gamer, a PlayStation 5 before Christmas? Well, this Black Friday might be your best chance. Walmart is restocking its shelves with PlayStation 5 consoles, HYPEBEAST reports. Walmart+ members were first to get their hands on Sony’s still hard-to-find next-gen console on November 21. Now, Walmart is opening up whatever PS5 stock it has left to the general public for two days, beginning November 23 at noon EST for online customers and those brave enough to go to a Walmart store on November 25. Don’t worry; the alleged price hike won’t be in effect. The consoles will still cost $499 for the disc version and $399 for the all-digital console. A God of War Ragnarök disc bu...
“Rapper” Iggy Azalea Sells Masters & Publishing Catalog For 8 Figures
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steve Jennings / Getty Apparently, Iggy Azalea’s music catalog is worth a lot of money. Billboard reports that Domain Capital dropped a substantial bag to purchase “rapper” Iggy Azalea’s master recording and publishing catalog. According to the report, the acquisition includes Azalea’s hit records “Fancy,” “Black Widow,” and “Problem,” as well as her discography, The New Classic, Surviving the Summer (EP), and In My Defense and The End of an Era released under Virgin EMI, Island Records, and her label Bad Dreams. Sony Music Publishing is in charge of the “Hip-Hop” star’s publishing. Beginning Q1 2023 will fully own her masters, and publishing plus “an additional trigger” will see her rake in more revenue from her other masters. “We are...
“Saved” Rapper Kanye West Allegedly Played Porn & His Own Sex Tapes For Employees Open Letter To adidas Alleges
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin / Getty No surprise, Kanye West was a horrible boss, a new Rolling Stone report details, and was pretty sick too. Following a previous scathing report detailing the extremely toxic workplace Ye was running at his company, YEEZY, another damning article from Rolling Stone has surfaced. It sheds more light on the mistreatment of employees. It alleges West repeatedly showed them “hardcore” porn during work hours in an open letter sent to the rapper’s former business partner, adidas. Per Complex: A variety of West’s actions are detailed in an open letter issued Tuesday by former high-ranking Yeezy staff members to the executive board members and CEO of Adidas. Titled “The Truth About Yeezy: A Call to Action for Adidas Leadership,” the l...
Hulu Black Friday Deal! Get a Year Subscription for Just $1.99 a Month
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. You can now join Hulu at a major discount! New and eligible returning subscribers can join Hulu for just $1 a month for a year as part of the streaming giant’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal. The promo, which launched on Wednesday (Nov. 23), gets you instant access to Hulu’s ad-supported plan for just $1.99 a month (regular $7.99 a month) for an entire year. But you only have a matter of days before the sale ends, so if you’ve been meaning to sign up for Hulu, you’ll have to act fast to get the discount. The Black Friday deal will end at 11:59pm PT on Cy...
12 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Performances You Probably Forgot
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been an iconic holiday event for more than 90 years, and in recent memory, it has brought some of music’s shining stars and up-and-coming acts along for the float- and balloon-filled ride. Ahead of the 2022 parade, which features Gloria Estefan, Fitz & the Tantrums, Ziggy Marley, Joss Stone, Jordin Sparks and Betty Who, take a trip down memory lane with some big-name artists who (you may have forgotten) once graced a Thanksgiving float. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”...
Joe Jonas Says His New Movie ‘Devotion‘ Put the ‘Pressure’ on Him as an Actor
Joe Jonas opened up in a new interview on Tuesday (Nov. 22) about what it was like tackling his big screen acting debut in the new war drama Devotion. “Yeah, there were nerves that would come into play here and there, but it’s good to feel something like that again,” the Jonas Brothers singer told Entertainment Weekly of his experience on the set of the Korean War epic. “It’s been a while since I was putting myself in rooms where you’re like, ‘Oh, okay, I’ve got to show up, I’ve got to show my worth in this, and the pressure is on now,’ and how do you bottle that up and utilize it and use it to your advantage, instead of letting it just eat you and take over.” For the film, which hit theaters nationwide Wednesday (Nov. 23), Jonas also recorded “Not Alone,” his new collab with Khalid. Co-wr...
Hear Exclusive Seismic Dance Event 2022 Sets From Fatboy Slim, LP Giobbi, Chloé Caillet & Sama’ Abdulhadi
Earlier this month 5,000 dance fans gathered at Austin’s Seismic Dance Event to do what dance fans to best — dance. Held at The Concourse Project, a 7-acre venue holding three stages, 2022 marked the third year for the boutique festival, which launched in Austin in 2018 and has since become a destination for global house and techno acts. “We want to deliver the big festival experience with an intimate vibe,” Seismic co-founder Andrew Parsons, who produces the event alongside his wife Kelly Gray, told Billboard in 2019. “We aren’t trying to sell 20,000 tickets, because that’s not the goal. We always want to keep it boutique.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Parsons and Gray are the creative minds behind RealMusic Events, the Austin-...
Metro Boomin Reveals Pink Floyd-Inspired ‘Heroes & Villains’ Album Cover
Metro Boomin is readying for the debut of his long-awaited sophomore LP Heroes & Villains. After delaying the project’s release last month due to sample clearance roadblocks, the hip-hop producer returned to tease a collaboration with Travis Scott and is showing off the cover art for the record, which will drop on December 2. The album cover features Metro wearing a suit and shaking the hand of his twin, who is engulfed in flames. The cover seemingly references Pink Floyd’s 1975 LP Wish You Were Here, which similarly showcases a man shaking the hand of his blazing twin. Alongside revealing the Heroes & Villains cover, Metro also teased that the project would be a double-disc album on social media, writing that it “must be 2 sides.” Typically that means that there are too many son...
Lil Baby Drops Music Video for “Pop Out” With Nardo Wick
Lil Baby has dropped the music video for his track “Pop Out” featuring Nardo Wick. The hip-hop/rap cut made its debut on Lil Baby’s third studio album, It’s Only Me, which was released on October 14, 2022. Marking the second time Lil Baby and Nardo Wick have collaborated, the newly released music video brings the success-laden track to life. As Lil Baby raps about his accomplishments in life, he’s seen in a range of shots including riding around in a Maybach, sitting with his two sons, hanging with his crew and more. “I’m the type of guy ready to die for this sh*t if it gon’ prevail us/I can’t slip, look at this sh*t I’ve built, I know they tryna nail us,” raps Lil Baby. The “Pop Out” music video comes on the heels of the “From Now On” music video featuring Future, which was released at th...
