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It’s A Cameo-Filled ‘House Party’ At LeBron James’ Crib In The First Trailer For The Intriguing Remake
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures / Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures That House Party remake that fans of the original movie are up in arms about is still happening, and the first trailer gives us a glimpse of the reimagining of the hood classic. Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema hope that a fresh take and tons of cameos will help ease the fears that the upcoming House Party remake will not tarnish the legacy of the original 90s films. The film stars Jacob Latimore (Kevin) and Tosin Cole (Damon). Kevin and Damon are two friends struggling to make ends meet and work together in a dead-end job cleaning houses. Kevin needs money ASAP to help take care of his daughter, and just by luck, they end up in the mansion of LeBron James – who also happens...
Nike Officially Unveils LeBron James’ LeBron XX Signature Sneaker
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke It’s actually not that difficult to believe that LeBron James is now up to his 20th signature sneaker. On Tuesday, Sept. 20, Nike officially unveiled the LeBron XX. The 20 is significant since this also happens to be Bron’s 20th year rocking with the Swoosh. Being touted as his sneaker for “the next generation,” the shoe is King James’ lightest yet and is the first his signature kicks to arrive in a low-cut silhouette first. Related Stories Built to honor the future Hall of Famer’s career, it features all the technical bells and whistles you would expect. There is Zoom Air in the forefoot and the heel, along with a carbon fiber midfoot shank. Despite it being a low profile shoe, there is still an Air Zoom Turbo unit in the forefoot and a large...
LeBron James & Chris Paul Blast NBA For Lenient Robert Sarver Punishment
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christian Petersen / Getty LeBron James and Chris Paul have both taken to Twitter to express their disappointment with the NBA and its apparent soft-on-slurs policy that led to what many think is a far too lenient punishment for Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, whose alleged misogyny and n-word usage earned him a measly one-year ban from the league and a $10 million fine. From ESPN: Sarver was banned from the NBA for one year and fined $10 million after the NBA on Tuesday released its findings from a 10-month independent investigation into allegations of workplace abuse during Sarver’s tenure as managing partner of the Suns that has spanned nearly two decades. Related Stories Among the litany of allegations first reported by ESPN in Novemb...
Drake And LeBron James Sued For $10M Over ‘Black Ice’ Hockey Film Rights
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cole Burston / Getty Drake and LeBron James will have to do some explaining in court. They are being sued for stealing the rights to the Black Ice movie. As per The New York Post the musician and athlete are being accused of finessing some individuals out of the deal for the film. Billy Hunter, the longtime NBA Players Association and ex-federal prosecutor, says that Drizzy and Bron do not have the legal right to produce the movie that is based on the book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895 to 1925. “While the defendants LeBron James, Drake and Maverick Carter [LeBron’s business partner] are internationally known and renowned in their respective fields of basketball and music, it does not afford them ...
Drake and LeBron James Sued Over Rights to ‘Black Ice’ Hockey Documentary
Drake and LeBron James are facing a new $10 million lawsuit over the underlying rights to an upcoming documentary they’re producing called Black Ice, about the history of Black players in professional ice hockey. In a complaint filed Monday in Manhattan court, longtime NBA players union exec Billy Hunter said he owns the exclusive film rights to a 2004 book that forms the basis for the soon-to-be-released documentary – but that he wasn’t involved in the production of the film. “While the defendants … are internationally known and renowned in their respective fields of basketball and music, it does not afford them the right to steal another’s intellectual property,” Hunter wrote. “Yet that is exactly what occurred.” Directed by Canadian filmmaker Hubert Davis, Black Ice is set to premiere t...
Jay-Z Responds To LeBron James Tweet About “GOD DID” Verse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Allen Berezovsky / Getty The love affair with Jay-Z’s latest verse on DJ Khaled’s “GOD DID” continues to go strong as LeBron James becomes the latest big name to give Hova his flowers and even earned a response from the God MC himself in the process. It began when LeBron James tweeted an MSNBC segment which praised Jay-Z for referencing the failed drug war that caused much racial profiling across America with a caption that read “Listen! Then listen again to make sure you got the point. HOV DID!!!! And so did the reporter!” Seeing the tweet from the NBA legend, Jay-Z made a rare appearance on the social media site to respond to James by simply saying “My only goal is to make the real “ones” feel seen , forgive me that’s my passion talking ….. haa .” We lo...
LeBron James & Dwyane Wade Executive-Produce ‘The Redeem Team’ Netflix Doc
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: IOC / IOC/Courtesy of Netflix LeBron James and Dwayne Wade may no longer play together but that isn’t keeping them from working together. Once again the former Miami Heat teammates will be linking up to put in that work and with the help of Netflix will be dropping a new documentary dubbed The Redeem Team which will center around 2008’s USA basketball team that played at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Comprised of the legendary players such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony amongst many other legends, the 2008 “Redeem Team” was on a quest to right the wrong of the previous 2004 Olympic team which shockingly took home the Bronze after taking three L’s in Athens. No one saw that coming at all. Directed by Jon Weinbach and ex...
Rare Air: LeBron James Joins Michael Jordan As The NBA’s Only Billionaires
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Lebron James will now be called Billionaire Bron from now on. The financial bible Forbes reports that LeBron James is now a billionaire. The achievement makes James the first active NBA player to accomplish the milestone while still actively playing. He also joins his idol Michael Jordan as one of the NBA’s billionaires. Rare air indeed. LeBron James has the GOAT beat in this department because he accomplished it quicker. Michael Jordan didn’t achieve billionaire status until 2014, over a decade after he decided to hang up his Air Jordans. According to Forbes, the Los Angeles Lakers All-Star and future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer reached billionaire status after he “maximized his business” by generating more than $1.2 billion in ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Clarifies Recent LeBron James Criticism
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sean M. Haffey / Getty NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is taking the opportunity to further clarify his recent criticism of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, spelling his points out in an email. The Hall-Of-Fame center and former Laker wrote an email to the Los Angeles Times after making comments critiquing James after a ceremony held at Crypto.com Arena on Sunday (April 3rd) to present Carmelo Anthony with the newly created Social Justice Champion Award that bears his name and honors his legacy of activism. Abdul-Jabbar spoke to reporters for 10 minutes afterward, who pointedly asked him about his criticism of James in the past. Related Stories “Some of the things he’s done and said are really beneath him, as far as I can see,” he began. “Some of...
Drake & LeBron James Give Huge Gift To High School Athlete and His Mom
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cole Burston / Getty A Toronto-area high school athlete and his mother recently got the surprise of their life thanks to a generous gesture by Drake with an assist from LeBron James. Drake recently added to his entrepreneurial portfolio by becoming a partner in an online cryptocurrency betting platform known as Stake, and celebrated by hosting a dinner that NBA superstar and friend LeBron James attended. The dinner was held at the Harbour 60 restaurant, a favorite of the rapper and the backdrop for his video for the hit single “Headlines”. The event was also sponsored by tequila brand Lobos 1707. In a video he shared to his fans through his Instagram account, Drake reminisced about the times he’s had in the restaurant. Related Stories “Lot of me...
Hate on This Skip: LeBron James Museum Opening In His Hometown Akron In 2023
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Owens / Getty The Los Angeles Lakers season looks like a complete wash, but King James still has plenty to celebrate. In fitting tribute for a king, LeBron James will be getting his own museum in his hometown Akron, Ohio. Per USA Today, The museum is on track to open in 2023 and will honor the still very much active future first-ballot basketball Hall-of-Famer’s still growing list of accomplishments on and off the court. The LeBron James museum will be a part of the Tangier entertainment complex located in Akron. The latter is being reimagined into the House Three Thirty. King James museum will live and take up most of House Three Thirty’s basement space, joining restaurants, bars, and retail space when it opens its doors next year. No word on how...
Razzie Nominations 2022: LeBron James, Diana, the Musical, and a Whole Bruce Willis Category
Stick out your tongue and blow a salute to the best of 2021’s worst. The Golden Raspberry Awards have announced their nominations for the 2022 Razzies, and the field is led by Diana the Musical, a pair of nods each for LeBron James and Amy Adams, and a whole category devoted to Bruce Willis’ execrable year. The stage is set in the Worst Picture category, which has honored (?) the Netflix version of the ill-fated Broadway show Diana, the Musical, as well as the confusing Mark Wahlberg vehicle Infinite, the BET Original horror story Karen, WarnerMedia’s branding exercise in search of a plot, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and Amy Adams’ Hitchcock retread The Woman in the Window. Adams herself was nominated for Worst Actress for The Woman in th...
