HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Another bombshell involving the ill-fated 2020 presidential run of Kanye West has dropped, this time in the form of allegations that Republican insiders on his campaign team used illegal methods to hide their financial movements & involvement. According to reports, the boast by Ye that both Democratic & Republican consultants were involved in working on his campaign to be president has been undermined as it was discovered that Democratic consulting company Millennial Strategies was being used to funnel money up to $2.7 million to the firm running the campaign, Mercury Public Affairs, which is aligned with former President Donald Trump and other far-right notables. This situation would appear to be a violation of federal...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty Things are picking up quickly between Kanye West and his alleged new girlfriend, Uncut Gems star Julia Fox. Kim Kardashian can possibly breathe a sigh of relief. It seems Julia Fox is currently keeping rain boots wearing Kanye West’s attention right now. Per TMZ, the rumored new couple were spotted together in NYC on Tuesday (Jan.4) following a weekend in Miami that saw them hanging out with N.O.R.E and his wife. On Tuesday, West and Fox hit the Omicron-filled streets to catch Slave Play, one of the few Broadway plays that did not shut down due to the highly contagious COVID-19 variant. The popular but very polarizing play is right up West’s ally because it tackles topics like sex, race, gender, traumatic experiences, and, of course, interr...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West aka Ye spent a gang of money to promote his last album, DONDA, with a numerous album listening events, pushed back release dates and a feature-heavy guestlist. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that he is working on its sequel, DONDA 2. Complex first reported that music exec Steven Victor revealed that the artist formerly known as Yeezy was working on the project. “Ye has started working on his new masterpiece DONDA 2,” Steven Victor told Complex. But worth noting, many people have already pointed out that Ye has a suspect track record when it comes to proper sequels (remember Cruel Winter, the sequel to Cruel Summer?—never happened). Will it drop? Will it make the original’s recording budget look like a pittance? Will he ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West aka Ye spent a gang of money to promote his last album, DONDA, with a numerous album listening events, pushed back release dates and a feature-heavy guestlist. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that he is working on its sequel, DONDA 2. Complex first reported that music exec Steven Victor revealed that the artist formerly known as Yeezy was working on the project. “Ye has started working on his new masterpiece DONDA 2,” Steven Victor told Complex. But worth noting, many people have already pointed out that Ye has a suspect track record when it comes to proper sequels (remember Cruel Winter, the sequel to Cruel Summer?—never happened). Will it drop? Will it make the original’s recording budget look like a pittance? Will he ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Victor Boyko / Getty As Kim Kardashian publicly moves on with new beau, Pete Davidson, Kanye West continues to try out new girlfriends, allegedly. Over the weekend, buzz grew that he and actress Julia Fox were giving it a go when the two were spotted getting familiar at a restaurant in Miami. According to TMZ, Yeezy and Fox were spotted at the Carbone restaurant in Miami this past Saturday night and though social media wasn’t impressed with Ye’s latest female associate, it seems like things aren’t as serious as many believed they might be. PageSix is now reporting that Julia Fox has doubts that she and Ye will be linking up a second time as she told a paparazzo “I don’t know” when asked if she and Kanye would be going on another date together. Given Kanye...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @jprincerespect / Instagram Kanye West, ahem, Ye is getting his international travel on for the new year. The multi-hyphenate artist, and his OG, Rap-A-Lot found J Prince, paid a visit to Belize. J Prince owns an island in the Central American nation, so, of course. Reports TMZ: Ye touched down in Central America Wednesday, and was pictured at the Philip S.W Goldson International Airport posing with Prince. Unclear if Kanye’s there for work, pleasure or both … but J Prince owns an island down there, so there should be plenty of space to relax. Related Stories It’s unclear if Ye and J arrived together, or if Kanye flew out to meet his friend, but the two have certainly collabed a lot lately. Clearly, Ye linked up with J Prince in Houston, where the “P...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @jprincerespect / Instagram Kanye West, ahem, Ye is getting his international travel on for the new year. The multi-hyphenate artist, and his OG, Rap-A-Lot found J Prince, paid a visit to Belize. J Prince owns an island in the Central American nation, so, of course. Reports TMZ: Ye touched down in Central America Wednesday, and was pictured at the Philip S.W Goldson International Airport posing with Prince. Unclear if Kanye’s there for work, pleasure or both … but J Prince owns an island down there, so there should be plenty of space to relax. Related Stories It’s unclear if Ye and J arrived together, or if Kanye flew out to meet his friend, but the two have certainly collabed a lot lately. Clearly, Ye linked up with J Prince in Houston, where the “P...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: David Livingston / Getty Kanye West has been making an embarrassment of himself with the way he’s been begging Kim Kardashian to come back into his life. Still, the man decided to go from embarrassing to straight-up disturbing with his latest stunt to get closer (literally) to his former wife. Fresh off of breaking up with his model girlfriend, Vinetria, TMZ is reporting that Kanye West not only bought a new home across the street from Kim Kardashian’s residence, but the man even overpaid to own the property! Dropping a cool $4.5 million for the 3,650 square foot property, Yeezy reportedly paid $421,000 over the asking price just to live a stone’s throw away from Pete Davidson’s current girlfriend. Related Stories While one would think that Kanye made a m...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vivien Killilea / Getty Now that Big Sean has finally responded to the shots that Kanye West took at him on Drink Champs, Hit-Boy is opening up about his feelings on the situation and is just as confused as Big Sean was at the initial slander. Chopping it up with DJ Akademiks on his Off The Record podcast, Hit-Boy said he was taken aback by Ye calling his Big Sean signing the “worst” thing he’s ever done as the three of them were kicking it together just days before the interview aired and Ye was acting like things were on the up and up. Related Stories “That was confusing for me, because me and Sean was with him for two days straight and he had already recorded the Drink Champs so it was weird for him to not say nothing. That sh*t threw me off.” He was c...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: David Livingston / Getty Kanye West and his model girlfriend Vinetria are officially done. Page Six exclusively reports the couple has decided to call it a quits after “dating” for a couple of months. The gossip column pointed out that Yeezy no longer follows Vinetria on Instagram, but she still follows him. Page Six first broke the news of West and Vinetria dealing with each other for “a while” after she was spotted with him at his Donda Academy’s debut basketball game in Minneapolis together. Even though they have been dealing with each other, that didn’t stop Yeezy from showing his a** and begging for his now ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, to come back home. It would appear Vinetria grew tired of seeing the man she was allegedly hooking up with pleading for ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Kanye West tells anyone who asks that he’s a proud independent or free thinker. However, when it comes to his failed Presidential bid, the receipts say the campaign was actually being run by GOP elites despite its claim of being “independent.” Ye was potentially being exploited by a political party known for lusting after power no matter how nefarious the means? You shouldn’t be shocked if you’ve been paying attention. Related Stories The Daily Beast reports that new documents confirm that although Kanye West’s campaign was promoted as an “independent” effort, it actually received millions of dollars in services and support from the “GOP Elite,” some of which were on Donald Trump’s payroll. Ye’s actions, even if he was blissful...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Kim Kardashian got candid about her ex-husband, Kanye West’s exploits while rocking his red cape, aka his MAGA hat. The reality star and now aspiring lawyer is now expressing regret for asking Coonye West not to wear that stupid MAGA hat during his SNL appearance to express his absurd support for the worst president we have ever had, Donald Trump. Kardashian spoke on her handling of that situation in a recent interview with journalist athlete Bari Weiss, where she also shared her two cents on “cancel culture.” “Why should he take that [MAGA hat] off if that’s what he believes in? Why can’t he wear that on TV?” Kardashian asked. “Half of the country voted for him, so clearly other people like him.” Related Stories “If I worried about ever...