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Tekashi 6ix9ine, Wack 100 & Akademiks Post Photo of Miami Meeting Online
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty 6ix9ine is back to his usual trolling antics with a continued back-and-forth against Blueface. But things are a little different this time now that Wack 100 is involved, with a face-to-face meeting between him and DJ Akademiks apparently taking place in Miami. This past Sunday (July 25th), a photo emerged online of Akademiks, 6ix9ine and Wack 100, who is Blueface’s manager in a heated exchange. The photo is confirmation that Wack did get his wish to sit across the table from the rainbow-haired rapper and ask him what his motivation is for the taunting during a taping of Akademiks’ podcast. Wack 100, who is an adamant defendant of street code in Hip-Hop, had demanded a meeting between himself and the controversial rapper through a p...
Tekashi 6ix9ine, Wack 100 & Akademiks Post Photo of Miami Meeting Online
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty 6ix9ine is back to his usual trolling antics with a continued back-and-forth against Blueface. But things are a little different this time now that Wack 100 is involved, with a face-to-face meeting between him and DJ Akademiks apparently taking place in Miami. This past Sunday (July 25th), a photo emerged online of Akademiks, 6ix9ine and Wack 100, who is Blueface’s manager in a heated exchange. The photo is confirmation that Wack did get his wish to sit across the table from the rainbow-haired rapper and ask him what his motivation is for the taunting during a taping of Akademiks’ podcast. Wack 100, who is an adamant defendant of street code in Hip-Hop, had demanded a meeting between himself and the controversial rapper through a p...
Watch Vince Staples’ Tiny Desk (Home) Concert Set Online
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NPR / NPR Fresh off of the release of his latest album, Vince Staples continues his hot streak with a new appearance – from home- as part of NPR’s venerated Tiny Desk concert series. Released this past Friday (July 23rd) by NPR Music, Vince Staples’s set took place in a palatial house out in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. The entire set exclusively features songs from his new self-titled album, launched via Blacksmith Recordings/Motown Records. Vince Staples entered the Billboard charts at No.1 for Current Rap Album upon its release, and the acclaim it received placed it at No.21 on the Billboard 200 at the time. For Staples, this release is just the beginning for what he has planned for 2021. The rapper has several projects that he’s currently ...
Digital Hov: Roc Nation & Jay-Z Launch New Multimedia Platform
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: James Devaney / Getty Another move in the world of multimedia is further solidifying Jay-Z as one of the more powerful global moguls in entertainment. On Thursday, July 22, Roc Nation announced its new partnership with the largest luxury media company in America, Modern Luxury Media. This new venture is to launch a new brand and multimedia platform, Edition, which is primed to be a “fully multi-platform portal into a world of luxury that celebrates talent from diverse communities.” The platform will be a mix of print and digital journalism along with a variety of audio and video content featuring different artists. Isoul H. Harris, the former head of UPTOWN Magazine will serve as editor-in-chief of Edition. In a press statement, Roc Nation co-founder...
REVOLT Launching New Video Countdown Series ‘Off Top’ This Friday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Revolt / Revolt If your love for Hip-Hop culture was born out of a love for the iconic videos it generated and the personalities hosting, REVOLT is aiming to rekindle those flames with a new series. Source: Revolt / Revolt The network announced the premiere of a new series, Off Top which will air this Friday (July 23rd). Off Top is styled as a modern video countdown show that draws on the nostalgia for the times when those shows dominated the airwaves and popular culture. Renowned rapper and award-winner Rapsody will be hosting the program along with the iconic personality of Hip-Hop television and radio, Big Tigger. Media personality and DJ Nyla Simone will be joining them to complete the hosting team. Each episode of the show will highlight the hottest ...
Bhad Bhabie Loud & Wrongly Beefs With Lil Yachty About Cultural Appropriation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty A social media chat between rappers Lil Yachty and the controversial Bhad Bhabie got very heated as they discussed the concept of cultural appropriation. The 18-year old personality and recent addition on OnlyFans got on Instagram Live with Yachty on Wednesday (July 21) to vehemently dismiss claims that she’s a racist. “The one thing I’m really, really sick of is the whole ‘Bhad Bhabie is a cultural appropriator,’” she told Yachty. “No. Y’all make these words have different terms to what they even mean. Cultural appropriation is if I was to sit up and say, ‘Oh, a certain race looks ugly with that.’ And then I go do that on myself.” Lil Yachty seemed highly confused, asking her, “Bro, what the f**k is you talking about?” That made hi...
MAGA Ye Gives Back: Kanye West Donating DONDA Listening Party Tickets to HBCUs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Ahead of the release of his highly anticipated new album, Kanye West is making sure that his fans at HBCUs will be able to tune in. The rapper/producer has been hard at work on Donda, his latest album which is now slated to be released this coming Friday (July 23rd). In his usual grandiose fashion, West is throwing a listening party at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia this Thursday (July 22nd) at 8 P.M. and he’s donated 5,000 of those tickets to faculty members, staff and students of area HBCUs Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, Morris Brown College and ITC. This event is the latest listening party for Donda, which was to have been released last year but was shelve...
Wiz Khalifa Reveals He Tested Positive For COVID-19
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 In a bit of a surprise, Wiz Khalifa told his fans and the world that he’s the latest public figure to test positive for COVID-19. The “Black and Yellow” rapper took to Twitter early Thursday morning (July 15) to share the news of his positive status and asked his family and friends to “stay away from me a little while” out of caution. He also said that he learned he was asymptomatic. Wiz shared that he intends to remain busy as he undergoes quarantine. “While im in the house I’ll be givin y’all new content, planning raves, and readying this new project.”, he expressed in a follow-up tweet. Of course, the Internet never forgets and news of his positive results reminded quite a few people of something Wiz tweeted out last s...
Politics As Usual: Damon Dash Claims Jay-Z Stole ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Streaming Rights
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Damon Dash and Jay-Z’s feud enters the legal arena once again, with the classic album Reasonable Doubt as the focus. Late on Tuesday (July 13), the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records filed a summons in the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York City alleging that Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z for transferring the streaming rights of the Reasonable Doubt album to a company called S. Carter Enterprises LLC without proper authorization. Jay-Z is listed as the sole owner of the company. According to the filing, Dash is seeking at least $1 million in damages. Alex Spiro, the lawyer representing Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records, declined to comment when contacted about the new summons. The summons is only one page, and more details to the al...
Soulja Boy Airs Out DJ Vlad For Interviewing His Would Be Robbers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John McCoy / Getty Soulja Boy has a serious beef with DJ Vlad and how he goes about things, and he decided to let the world know why on social media. This past Monday (July 12), the “Crank That” rapper went on Instagram Live to call out the media personality specifically for breaking his trust and going behind his back to interview the group of people who broke into his home back in 2008. “DJ Vlad, you a b–h,” he said. “Why the f— you gon’ go interview the n—-s I shot? You gon’ go interview the n—s that ran in my crib, you pussy ass n—a. After I let you come into my house and I sat down and I gave you an interview, DJ Vlad. I welcomed you to my crib with open arms.” Soulja Boy told viewers how he and DJ Vlad connected and hung out, leading him to open up ...
A Tribe Called Quest Deny Involvement In NFT Auction Of Group’s Royalties
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty All the news about A Tribe Called Quest becoming the newest Hip-Hop entity to enter the world of NFT’s is flat-out false, says Ali Shaheed Muhammad in a fiery social media post that reveals another controversy concerning Hip-Hop and cryptocurrency. The DJ and producer was compelled to speak out at length after a Billboard article last week claimed that the iconic Hip-Hop group entered into a partnership with online music royalties marketplace Royalty Exchange to auction off a 1.5% share of the group’s sound recording royalties from their first five albums. This would be sold off as a non-fungible token (NFT). Dubbing the article as “Not Friggin True,” Muhammad decided to detail exactly why this move wasn’t approved by the group. “At the...
Tekashi 6ix9ine Turns Back On Estranged Homeless Father
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital Tekashi 6ix9ine’s homeless father has been going through a hard time in life. 60-year-old Danny Hernandez Sr. is hoping for a little financial help from his famous son but the “Gooba” rapper says look elsewhere, Page Six is reporting. Hernandez Sr. is reportedly battling homelessness and drug addiction but the controversial struggle rapper turned government snitch says that his estranged father abandoned him when he was young and that they have no relationship, 6ix9ine revealed to DJ Akademiks. “Everybody knows I was abandoned at birth,” he shared. “Everybody knows that my biological father abandoned me at birth.” Page Six reports that 6ix9ine’s father, who shares the rapper’s government name, has been living in a shelter for la...
