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Dr. Dre Reveals Family Told To Say “Last Goodbyes” During Health Scare
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Mega-producer Dr. Dre surprised many when he revealed just how close to death doctors thought he was last year, to the point where they let his family come to give their “last goodbyes” to him. While appearing on trainer and entrepreneur Dolvett Quince’s Workout The Doubt podcast, Dr. Dre shared more details about being stricken with a brain aneurysm in January 2021 and recalled being transported to the ICU at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. At the time, his Instagram released a statement saying that he was “doing great” and that he would be “out of the hospital and back home soon.” But the man behind “The Chronic” revealed that things were apparently more grave in a clip shared o...
Biggie’s Daughter T’yanna Wallace Posts $1M Bond for Boyfriend’s Hit-And-Run Charge
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty T’yanna Wallace, daughter of the late Notorious B.I.G has posted a $1 million bond for her long term boyfriend Tyshawn Baldwin who is accused of hurting three people in a hit-and-run incident earlier this month. According to a Fox News report, Baldwin allegedly fled from police during a routine traffic stop and hit a group of pedestrians crossing the street. Three people were injured including a mother and toddler. Police were reportedly stopping Baldwin due to the fact that his 2021 Durango SRT Hellcat was parked in a busy intersection and had loud exhaust and dark tinted windows. He initially complied with the officer’s demands for his driver’s license and registration. But, Baldwin’s driver’s license was suspended...
Nicki Minaj Earns First Solo No. 1 With “Super Freaky Girl”
Nicki Minaj is opening this week’s Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 with “Super Freaky Girl.” The artist’s latest single earned a total of 21.1 million streams, 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions and 89,000 downloads sold in its first week. This marks her first ever solo No. 1 hit and her third overall, following 2020’s “Trollz” with 6ix9ine and Doja Cat’s “Say So.” The track is also the first time in since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” in 1998 that a hip-hop song by a solo female artist debuted at No. 1. In addition, “Super Freaky Girl” sits at No. 1 on both the Streaming Songs, Digital Song Sales, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts. Minaj recently enlisted her alter ego Roman for a remix of the Rick James-sampled cut, which is a minute longer than the origina...
Capitol Music Group Drops Virtual Rapper FN Meka Following Criticisms of Perpetuating Black Stereotypes
Capitol Music Group has announced that it has “severed ties” with virtual rapper FN Meka, who recently received criticisms for using the N-word in its song and perpetuating Black stereotypes despite the creative team not having any Black members. Variety reports that the label had just signed FN Meka just under two weeks ago but has since apologized to the Black community, with the statement reading, “CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately. We offer our deepest apologies to the Black community for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behind it. We thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days — your input was invaluable as we came to the de...
Listen to the Unsettling Sounds Generated By a Black Hole, Captured By NASA
Despite appearances, there’s seemingly more to an intergalactic black hole than meets the eye. In fact, while most space objects and travelers are seen but never heard, black holes are proving to be an anomaly. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sound a black hole produces is unsettling to say the least. NASA took to Twitter to share that there’s some common misconceptions around the idea of sound’s lack of existence in space. The agency noted that generally speaking, there’s no means by which sound waves can travel as most of space exists as a vacuum. However, despite looking like an empty void, black holes are actually quite the opposite. In actuality, a black hole is composed of densely compacted space matter, so much so that there’s enough gas present for t...
Police Backpedal, Claim Suspect’s Intent Was Not “To Cause a Mass Shooting” at Bass Canyon Festival
Following the arrest of a gun-wielding man who they believed “may have had plans to commit a mass shooting” at an electronic music festival in Washington, police released a statement downplaying the suspect’s intent. Jonathan R. Moody, 30, was arraigned following the conclusion of Bass Canyon, an event that annually attracts roughly 25,000 people. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office had released a report on Saturday, August 20th which stated its deputies “believe they stopped an Ephrata man who may have had plans to commit a mass shooting at the Gorge Amphitheater” the day prior. According to the report, Moody was detained after attendees claimed to have seen him inhaling an “unknown substance or gas from a balloon” before loading and concealing two ...
Post Malone Has His Own Drinking Game: Here’s Where You Can Buy It Online
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. Post Malone is dipping into the world of drinking games. After two years of development, the rapper released his beer pong game and it shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s drinking games tally as of Tuesday (Aug. 23). The Grammy-nominated rapper and pong champion took his time in developing World Pong League to make sure that it was “Posty perfect” for fans. A fun twist on the classic drinking game, World Pong League retails for $29.99 at Amazon and $25 at Walmart. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Designed for 2-4 pl...
Will BLACKPINK Bring Girl Groups Back to the Hot 100 Top 10 With ‘Pink Venom’?
BLACKPINK have been in our area since way back in 2016, but there are two areas they’ve yet to conquer: the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the very top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. On the new episode of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are wondering: Could “Pink Venom” be the quartet’s first Hot 100 top 10 hit? Previously, they’ve reached as high as No. 13, thanks to “Ice Cream,” their 2020 collab with Selena Gomez. Meanwhile, on the Billboard 200, their 2020 project The Album debuted and peaked at No. 2, but when Born Pink is released on Sept. 16, could it go all the way to the top? Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Listen to the full episode below, where we break down BLACKPINK’s chart chances ...
Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Crashes Older Laptops, Microsoft Engineer Reveals
One unforeseen part of the “Rhythm Nation”? The classic Janet Jackson music video has been proven to crash certain older laptops, says Microsoft’s chief software engineer Raymond Chen in a company blog post. It’s all because of a specific frequency featured in “Rhythm Nation” that interferes with laptop hard drives that spin at 5400 rpm. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Released in 1989, the computer-offending song was the titular anthem of Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. The album was one of the most commercially successful of its day, producing seven top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 — which continues to be a record for the pop sensation. But don’t throw Jackson’s classic hit off your playlists just yet: Manufacturers who made th...
George Lopez Sues Pandora Over ‘Brazen’ Failure to Pay Comedy Royalties
Comedian George Lopez has joined the chorus of comedians suing Pandora over its failure to pay royalties on spoken-word compositions, according to documents filed in California federal court on Tuesday (Aug. 23). In the copyright infringement suit, filed by attorney Richard Busch of King & Ballow, Lopez accuses Pandora of failing to obtain either public performance or mechanical reproduction licenses for – or pay royalties on – the spoken-word compositions for 37 works contained on his albums Right Now Right Now and Team Leader. “The end result is Pandora took the Works, gained listeners, subscribers and market share with full knowledge it did not have licenses and made no royalty payments for the Works,” the complaint reads. Lopez further alleges that Pandora exploited the works witho...
Bizarre Quirk of Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” Video Crashed Certain Laptops, Says Microsoft
In a bizarre quirk of computer technology, Janet Jackson’s classic “Rhythm Nation” video was once found to crash certain laptops, even if the sound was playing from another source. The video derives its lethal force from a frequency (that is, roughly speaking, the speed of an audio vibration) that aligns perilously closely with the natural resonant frequency of certain laptop hard drives. The mind-boggling phenomenon, known as vibration resonance, has long wrought technological havoc with structures great and small, notably in the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940. Technicians solved the mystery (apparently some time ago) during an investigation reported last week in a blogged anecdote by Microsoft’s chief software engineer, Raymond Chen, picked up by The Next Web. The fix for the aff...
Florentino Enlists Bambii and KD One for New Song
Florentino has debuted on XL with a new song, “Constrictor.” The Manchester-based producer and DJ, who is also part of Sangre Nueva with DJ Python and Kelman Duran, enlisted dancehall artist Bambii and Dominican vocalist KD One for the track. Check it out below. In a press release, Florentino said, “This single represents me ever so slightly opening up the floodgates on a new sound, a sound that I’ve been refining over the past few years and been waiting patiently to unleash. It’s Florentino phase 2. It’s sharper, darker & more confident. Primed to rattle your speakers, ‘Constrictor’ is the first page in the next chapter.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
