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Lil Nas X Partners With Ultimate Ears For New UE Fits Ad Campaign
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ultimate Ears / UE Lil Nas X has emerged as something of a style icon for a generation of millions and he’s showing off his flair for fashion and visuals in a new ad spot for a revolutionary pair of in-ear headphones. Partnering with Ultimate Ears, the “That’s What I Want” star is shown in the advertisement donning a pair of UE Fits headphones, matching quite well with his innovative style. As seen on the landing page for the Lil Nas X and UE Fits partnership: UE FITS are the world’s first true wireless earbuds that shape to your unique earprint regardless of size or shape—all in just 60 seconds. Experience earbuds you can wear all day with no pain and that won’t fall out. Love them or your money back, guaranteed. Related Stories The UE Fits are now selli...
Lil Nas X – Sun Goes Down
Don’t miss this amazing song from Lil Nas X – “Sun Goes Down”. Montero is the debut studio album by American rapper and singer Lil Nas X, released on September 17, 2021, by Columbia Records. The album, titled after his given name, was first announced in 2019. Its title, cover artwork, and tracklist were unveiled in 2021. Four singles supported Montero: the lead single “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”, “Sun Goes Down”, “Industry Baby”, and “Thats What I Want”. “Montero” and “Industry Baby” each topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, while “Thats What I Want” peaked within the top ten. The album features guest appearances from Jack Harlow, Doja Cat, Elton John, Megan Thee Stallion, and Miley Cyrus. Musically, Montero is a pop-rap record with influence from various other genres. It received criti...
Uncle Murda Drops “Rap Up 2021” Song, Features Disgusting Lil Nas X Jab
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Uncle Murda is known for his unflinching tales of street violence and for annually airing out the culture via his “Rap Up” series. In the “Rap Up 2021” drop, the Brooklyn veteran takes an ugly swipe at Lil Nas X, stating that the rapper would catch AIDS and die. For 14 minutes, the artist born Leonard Grant tackles all the happenings in Hip-Hop culture over the past year in his typical brash fashion. While he’s delivered shocking lyrics over the years, the bars directed at Lil Nas X were especially harsh. “Lil Nas X gon’ catch AIDS and die like Eazy-E/Hope the LGBTQ don’t cancel me,” Murda raps. Suffice it to say, several other artists took shots but the fact Murda opened up the track with those bars was absolutely shocking. If ...
The 30 Best Songs of 2021
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning Jacket) — SPIN‘s 30 Best Songs of 2021 offer something for everyone. For our latest year-end track recap, we kept our overall sorting process the same as 2020: For a cut to be eligible, it needed to be one of two things: 1) a stand-alone single released in 2021 or 2) part of an album issued in 2021. 30. Beatrice Deer – “The Storm” The sound is so simple that, at first, it feels almost formless: a primal drum groove, shards of metallic elect...
Boosie Badazz Ridiculously Accuses Lil Nas X of Online Bullying
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Nas X lives rent-free in the mind of the Boosie Badazz. The one-sided beef between Boosie and Lil Nas X continues. Speaking with his favorite op, VLADTV, Boosie claimed that the “Old Town Road” rapper is bullying him and ridiculously claimed that Lil Nas X is able to say things like “f*ck yo kids” without having to worry about repercussions because he is gay. Boosie was asked if he would care if Lil Nas X took his own life? Boosie responded by saying he wouldn’t really care. “I probably would, but I probably wouldn’t give too much f*cks about him,” Boosie said. “He said f*ck my kids. He said f*ck all y’all kids. So, everybody that’s really chestin’ up for Nas, he said f*ck yo kids. That’ why I be like—he said f*ck yo kids, so, ...
Troll God Lil Nas X Heads To The Maury Show In Hopes of Getting What He Wants
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stefanie Keenan / Getty Lil Nas X is putting on a master class when it comes to album promotion. Lil Nas X teased that he would appear on The Maury Show, the long-running mess of a daytime television talk show. Many people believed his appearance on the talk show was going to be another innovative music video. Instead, it was an actual episode of The Maury Show full of all the shenanigans we have come to expect from the talk show. Before the airing of the episode o Wednesday (Nov.17), we know Montero (Lil Nas X) falls in love with Yai, who he meets at football practice. The love quickly dies when Montero shows up at Yai’s house with a bouquet of red roses only to learn the object of his affection is married to a woman named Ashley and has a child. A heart...
Boosie Badazz Stages Confrontation By Alleged Lil Nas X Fan, Twitter Asks What Was The Reason
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage) / (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage) Boosie once again has social media and the streets talking after a viral video shows him being confronted by an alleged member of the LBGTQ community over his continuous comments about Lil Nas X. The video, which was shared by a fan, features Boosie being confronted by an alleged Lil Nas X fan over his recent comments regarding the Atlanta pop star’s trolling of Boosie. Related Stories “I know you! You the rapper Lil Boosie that’s talking about my friends and my niece, my niece Lil Nas X? That’s my niece,” the fan begins telling Boosie. “B–ch, I’ll beat you up, talk sh-t now.” The quick verbal jabs prompted Boosie to fire back with a homophobic slur after the alleged fan ins...
Big Freedia Shows Lil Boosie Support Amidst Lil Nas X Controversy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Boosie’s recent rant against Lil Nas X may have the internet looking at him sideways, but fellow Lousiana star Big Freedia is stepping out coming to his defense. During a brief interview with TMZ, Big Freedia gave her take on the viral incident revealing that she doesn’t feel that Boosie’s continued viral rants—including his most recent calling Lil Nas X the f-word, isn’t a form of homophobia but more so him expressing his beef with Lil Nas X directly. Related Stories “You gon’ have those. You gon’ have homophobic people and you know, us as the gay community we have to just keep pushing,” said Freedia. “We can’t let everything and everybody bother us with they words. We have been fighting forever and we gotta continue to be tough...
Lil Nas X’s Dad Puts On Cape To Defend His Son Following Boosie Badazz’s Latest Homophobic Rant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Boosie Badazz’s homophobic obsession with Lil Nas X has gotten a response from the Montero’s rapper’s father. Following Boosie’s latest homophobic rant that was so bad, Twitter deleted the tweets, Lil Nas X’s dad, Robert Stafford, took to Instagram to slam him for his problematic comments directed towards his son. Stafford called the Lousiana rapper ignorant and hypocritical in an IG Story post that The Shaderoom, of course, captured. “How the hell you’re a gangsta rapper promoting drugs, gun violence, degrading women and getting high every video talking about you’re for the kids man sit your old man looking ass down,” Stafford stated on his Instagram Story. “The game has past you. We real Bankhead over here. Not like the guy who cla...
Lil Nas X Expertly Trolls Super Saiyan Homophobic Rapper Boosie, Again
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Nas X is a master when it comes to his own social media marketing, and is straight-up elite when it comes to trolling his faux-nemesis Boosie. The Baton Rouge rapper responded with a homophobic rant after Nas X said they had collaborated on song, which anyone with sense knew was totally make believe. But nevertheless, since the “Old Town Road” rapper lives rent-free in Boosie’s head, the homophobic rapper reacted maybe worse than most people would expect. Boosie took to Twitter, and it was all bad. Related Stories “STOP TROLLING ME F*GGOT LOL” tweeted Boosie in all caps, so you know he was big mad. “A WHOLE BITCH PLAYING WITH A GANGSTA SMH U CAN KEEP SUCKING D*CK N GETTIN F*CKED N YOUR ASS N PEACE N #uhateyourself I WOULD...
Lil Nas X Honored With His Very Own Day In The City of Atlanta For His “Artistic influence & Transformative Influence”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Lil Nas X keeps on winning and giving his haters a reason to be mad. The city of Atlanta awarded the “Industry Baby” rapper his very own day. TMZ reports the honor was bestowed upon Lil Nas X for his “artistic influence and transformative influence”… mostly through his super-popular songs.” The special ceremony went down at The Gathering spot in Northwest Atlanta. He was presented with a plaque with a proclamation from city councilman and mayoral candidate Antonio Brown, Atlanta’s first openly Black LQBTQ+ council member. Billboard reports that Brown praised Nas X for his “considerable impact” on the LGBTQ community through his music in a passionate speech. Related Stories “He has made a considerable impact on the LGBTQ communi...
TikTok Enters NFT Arena With Creator-Led Collections From Grimes, Lil Nas X, More
Your favorite TikTok creators’ videos might soon have a price tag attached. TikTok is opening its arms to the NFT movement with its new TikTok Top Moments initiative, which will see popular creators minting NFTs for auction featuring some of the most recognizable and sharable moments to happen on the platform thus far. According to a press release issued by TikTok, the company sees NFTs as an untapped growth vector in its ongoing efforts to help drive content monetization for creators. The first drop, consisting of six unique one-of-one NFTs, will allow users the potential to buy a historical TikTok moment. One example is Rudy Willingham’s stop-motion cutout video featuring a dancing Lil Nas X. Willingham was tasked with creating 81 unique cutouts—one per frame—in o...
