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HHW Gaming: After Being Sidelined For 23 Years ‘Fatal Fury’ Is Back
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SNK / Fatal Fury The fighting video game genre is quite active thanks to a constant flow of titles like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, King of Fighters, and other new challengers. Fatal Fury, a classic to longtime gamers, has been missing in action until now. SNK proudly announced during EVO 2022 that it is resurrecting its long-dormant fighting game franchise. This will mark the first entry into the series since 1999’s Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves. The video game studio shared no release date or what platforms the game will be on. But, they did drop a teaser trailer for the game tentatively named “New Fatal Fury/Garou,” but based on reporting, it appears to be a direct follow-up to Mark of the Wolves. The teaser ends with the reveal of Rock ...
Kendrick Lamar Thanks Jay-Z For Clearing “Izzo” Sample For Free.99
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty The respect between Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z is compelling, and people gathered at a show the rapper gave saw why as he expressed gratitude to the icon for his blessing on a sample for his latest album. The Compton, California rapper hit New York City on the latest stop for his Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers tour, performing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night (August 6th). Later on that night, he appeared at the members-only Dumbo House venue to do an impromptu private performance consisting of a few select tracks. He arrived on the scene with his manager, Dave Free, Baby Keem, and the latest signee to his pgLang label, Tanna Leone. Among those in the intimate crowd checking him out doing a bare-bones set with a ...
‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’ Beta Lands Mid-September, How To Play
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Infinity Ward / Activision Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II officially hits your gaming systems in October, but players eager to get their hands on the latest shooter from the franchise will have access to the Beta in September. Playstation players will get first dibs followed by Xbox and PC users a week later. Infinity Ward dropped the intel at the CDL Champs (Call of Duty League Championship) tournament on Sunday (August 7), with more info arriving since. How soon you’ll be able to play depends on your console and if you pre-ordered the highly-anticipated title, though. The first early access beta starts September 16 – 17 for PlayStation 4 and 5 players who pre-ordered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Then starting on September 18, the open be...
13 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend. This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Bandmanrill, Doechii, Ela Minus and DJ Python, Naked Flames, NewJeans, and more. Listen below and follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through...
Taylor Swift Files Motion in “Shake It Off” Copyright Lawsuit, Says Lyrics “Were Written Entirely by Me”
In writing the lyrics, I drew partly on experiences in my life and, in particular, unrelenting public scrutiny of my personal life, “clickbait” reporting, public manipulation, and other forms of negative personal criticism which I learned I just needed to shake off and focus on my music. With “Shake It Off,” I wanted to provide a comedic, empowering approach to helping people feel better about negative criticism through music, dance, and the personal independence enabling one to just shake off the negative criticism The lyrics to “Shake It Off” also draw from commonly used phrases and comments heard throughout my life. Prior to writing “Shake It Off,” I had heard the phrases “players gonna play” and “haters gonna hate” uttered countless times to express the idea that one can or should shru...
Twitter Agrees, ‘Prey’ Is Pretty Damn Good & Amber Midthunder Is Hollywood’s Next Big Star
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Hulu / Prey It’s official Prey, the newest film in The Predator film is not W A C K. In fact, it’s being hailed as the best film since the original movie. The critics and fans all agree Dan Trachtenberg put his foot in Prey, the latest film featuring the iconic intergalactic big game hunter. The movie is currently sitting at a ridiculously good 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the must-see films of the year. Praise for the film mostly circles around Trachtenberg recapturing the magic that made the original movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger an instant classic with Sci-Fi movie junkies. But the biggest praise is going towards Amber Midthunder, who plays Naru, our newest Predator slayer, and the fact the film used Indigenous actors to...
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Lil Wayne Announces ‘Tha Carter VI’ Is On The Way [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Lil Wayne fans will not have to wait very long for new music. The music icon has announced that his new album Tha Carter VI is on the way. As per Hip Hop N More the Holly Grove, New Orleans native seemed to have a great time performing with Drake and Nicki Minaj at the recent Young Money reunion. They brought it back with songs like “Every Girl”, “The Motto”, “Moment 4 Life” and “Up All Night” and even had Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz and Mack Maine join them. While the set provided the culture several memorable moments, including Nicki outright asking Drake if he still has COVID-19, it was the closing moments that left crowd in more excitement. Related Stories As the trio were leaving the stage Young Tune revealed “I’m working...
Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson Welcome Son Via Surrogate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hollywood To You/Star Max / Getty Reality star Khloé Kardashian and NBA player Tristan Thompson have welcomed their second child—a boy via surrogate, according to People. The couple is reportedly no longer together, but had committed to having a second child. They are already parents to a 4-year-old daughter, True. A report from People notes that the pair have not decided on a name for their son. “We can confirm True will have a sibling who was conceived in November,” a representative previously told PEOPLE. Related Stories “Khloé is incredibly grateful to the extraordinary surrogate for such a beautiful blessing. We’d like to ask for kindness and privacy so that Khloe can focus on her family.” Thompson has two other sons. Prince, 5, wit...
Bobby Shmurda “Whole Brick,” Jay Worthy, Harry Fraud & Conway The Machine ft. Big Body Bes “Helicopter Homicide” & More | Daily Visuals 8.8.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Bobby’s back on his bullsh*t and while he’s dancing a bit in his latest offering, it does have more of off the block feel to it than a booty shakin’ vibe like his previous joints. Coming through with his new visuals to “Whole Brick,” Bobby enlists the talents of some thick young women to cook up his work while half-naked in a spiffy all-white kitchen as Bobby bounces to the beat before his team joins him for the trap house festivities. Related Stories Elsewhere Jay Worthy links up with Conway The Machine at a diner to get some grub before we see Big Body Bes goes off on the beat at a liquor store for their clip to “Helicopter Homicide.” Check out the rest of today’s drops and some joints you might’ve missed over the weekend including work from That Mexican OT, Jn...
NCT 127’s Next Album Is Arriving Sooner Than You Think
Attention, NCTzens! NCT 127 announced Monday (Aug. 8) that they’ll release a new album this September. The yet-untitled studio set will be the K-pop act’s fourth album following Sticker: The Third Album, which was released in September and notched the group their third No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart before it was repackaged the following month as Favorite. In its two different forms, the LP was supported by the title track and second single “Favorite (Vampire).” Not much is known yet about the forthcoming studio effort, including its title, track list or exact release date courtesy of SM Entertainment and Capitol Records. But in a release, the idols teased that they will kick off the era with a pair of electrifying shows in Los Angeles and New York City — their first live performances ...
Olivia Newton-John’s Top 20 Biggest Billboard Hits
Pop icon Olivia Newton-John — who died at the age of 73 on Monday (Aug. 8) — logged an incredible catalog of hits on Billboard’s charts. She claimed nearly 40 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 — including five No. 1s. Newton-John’s all-time biggest hit on the Hot 100 is “Physical,” which spent a whopping 10 weeks at No. 1 on the tally in late 1981 and early 1982. It’s not only her biggest hit, but also the No. 1 hit of the entire 1980s decade — it tops Billboard‘s Greatest of All Time Songs of the ’80s chart — and scored the most weeks atop the weekly Hot 100 of any song that decade. The four-time Grammy Award winner made her Hot 100 debut with “If Not for You” in 1971 and was last on the list in 2010, when the Glee Cast took its c...
Taylor Swift Tells Judge That ‘Shake It Off’ Was ‘Written Entirely by Me’
Taylor Swift herself weighed in Monday (Aug. 8) on a lawsuit that claims she stole the lyrics to “Shake It Off” from a song about “playas” and “haters,” filing a sworn declaration in which she said the words were “written entirely by me” and that she’d “never heard the song” she’s accused of copying. Seeking to finally end a yearslong lawsuit that claims her 2014 chart-topping hit had infringed the copyright to the 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play” by the group 3LW, Swift was unequivocal: “The lyrics to Shake It Off were written entirely by me.” “In writing the lyrics, I drew partly on experiences in my life and, in particular, unrelenting public scrutiny of my personal life, ‘clickbait’ reporting, public manipulation, and other forms of negative personal criticism which I learned I just needed...
