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The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards Winners &; Best Performances
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty The 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards aired last night (Oct. 5) after being held in Atlanta late last week. “In Hip Hop We Stand” was the theme of this year’s awards show as the producers wanted to stress one culture that spans different generations, styles, and regions. The show stayed true to that mandate with performances Lil Jon & Bia, Baby Keem, Big Daddy Kane Tobe Nwigwe, Young Thug and more. St. Louis rap legend Nelly was honored as this year’s “I Am Hip Hop” recipient and he reminded everybody why with a medley of his greatest hits. Related Stories As far as the night’s winners, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, Tyler, The Creator, Drake and Lil Durk led the field with the most nominations but Lil Baby and Tyler, The Creator went home...
Porter Robinson, REZZ, GRiZ to Headline Okeechobee 2022
Okeechobee is celebrating its 5th birthday with more than 125 artists across a staggering number of genres. To the delight of music fans in Florida and beyond, Insomniac announced the lineup for the next chapter in the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival saga. Pulling no punches, headlining the event are Tame Impala, Porter Robinson, Megan Thee Stallion, REZZ, and GRiZ. Joining the all-star headliners are performers representing a substantial number of genres both in and out of the electronic sphere. Festival-goers are gearing up for sets from TroyBoi, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, The Glitch Mob, Eprom, Of The Trees, Chee, Elderbrook, CloZee, Caribou, and many more. It’s also been revealed that the event will showcase a “superstar mashup featuring special guests,” b...
The Hot Girl Coach Is Here: Megan Thee Stallion & Her Knees Star In Nike’s Latest “Play New” Campaign
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Megan The Stallion, aka the bag securer, is now one of Nike’s newest ambassadors. Thursday (Sept. 23) revealed she teamed with the Swoosh to release a new campaign spot that highlights the Houston native’s fitness journey while making the point that what she does on the stage and in the booth doesn’t make her any less of an athlete. In the 1 minute spot, she makes one hell of a case responding to those who doubt her, saying, “let’s see you run through 12-hour dance rehearsals. Train five days a week. Then perform in front of 50,000 people squatting 50% of the time.” We can’t argue with that. In an Instagram post sharing the new spot, she further hammered home her point, stating, “Dance is my sport. Rapping is my sport. Perf...
Ozuna Reveals Stacked Collab With DJ Snake, Megan Thee Stallion, and BLACKPINK On the Way
Prior to taking the stage for his solo performance at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, Ozuna let slip that he has another major collab with DJ Snake in the works. Given the meteoric success of 2019’s “Taki Taki,” a bilingual reggaeton-dance crossover track by Snake featuring Ozuna, Selena Gomez and Cardi B, perhaps it’s no surprise Ozuna and Snake have plans to recreate the magic. Today “Taki Taki” sits at a staggering 1.2 billion streams on Spotify alone. Their forthcoming collaboration, dubbed “La Funka,” isn’t short on star power. Chart-topping rapper Megan Thee Stallion and K-pop supergroup BLACKPINK are joining the effort, Ozuna said. The track will mark the second appearance on a dance music record for bo...
2021 ‘BET HIP HOP AWARDS’ Nominees Announced; Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B & Lil Durk Lead Nods
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty It’s that time of the year again, and the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards are on deck. Today (Sept. 9), the official nominees were announced, with Cardi B, Lil Durk and Megan Thee Stallion leading the pack with 9 nominations each. The 16th annual 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards will be taped on Friday, October 1 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA, on Friday, October 1, but it will premiere on the network on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, at 9 PM ET/PT. And if you’re in Africa, it will be simulcast internationally on BET Africa on Wednesday, October 6 AT 3 AM CAT. The ‘Hip Hop Album of the Year’ category will be highly contested with Moneybagg Yo, Tyler, The Creator, Migos, Megan Thee Stallion, DJ Khaled, J. Cole and team up of 2...
Megan Thee Stallion Addresses The Haters While Twerking In Her “Tuned In Freestyle” Visual
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Barry Brecheisen / Getty Megan Thee Stallion is sending out reminders to the haters that she got bars. The Houston rapper decided to address her haters who feel all she can do is shake some ass with her new freestyle aptly titled “Tuned In,” clearly because they love watching her every single move. In the roughly two-minute video, Thee Stallion spoke to the Hotties, “Secret Hotties,” and most specifically those who always have some negative to say about her from her home recording studio. “Talk about something y’all like, stop talking bout me,” she raps. “Since y’all hate a b**** so much/ The way broke b****** coming for me know it gotta be free.” Megan wasn’t done there, “Damn, you hoes hate me/ Riding d*** so hard having babies,” she confidently rapped ...
Welp: Tory Lanez Barred From Attending The Same Events As Megan Thee Stallion By L.A. Judge
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Tory Lanez’s Rolling Loud Miami appearance has come back to bite the miniature rapper in the a**. TMZ has learned that after being used as a prop by DaBaby to troll Megan Thee Stallion, a judge has barred Tory Lanez from attending any events that Megan Thee Stallion is at. The varmint will also have to fork over more bail money after prosecutors successfully argued that the Canadian musician violated a court order to stay away from Thee Stallion. Per TMZ: Lanez was in an L.A. court Monday to learn his fate, and he’s gonna have to post a higher bail amount to stay out of jail while his criminal case is pending. The reason — he violated a protective order requiring him to stay clear of Megan. The judge also modified his bai...
#SummerJamIsBack: Go Inside & Enter To Win Tickets To This Year’s Hot 97 Summer Jam
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Hot 97’s Summer Jam 2021 is all set to take place later this month with some of Hip-Hop music’s biggest acts. Not only will the Festival Stage see up-and-coming favorites like Yung Bleu, Coi Leray, and Dreamdoll do their thing, the Stadium Stage boasts nothing but heavy hitters. Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel will hit the stage, as well as Saweetie, Meek Mill, A Boogie, Migos, and Swizz Beats, who will perform a tribute in honor of late legend DMX. One of his only remaining festival appearances after the homophobic comments he made at Rolling Loud, DaBaby is also slated to perform. It’ll be interesting to see how he uses this time in front of frustrated fans. See the full lineup below. For those who haven’t be...
Megan Thee Stallion Sounds Off Against Homophobia In Hip-Hop Says ‘Representation Is Important’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Despite being more accepting, Hip-Hop still has a homophobia problem. That has been clear thanks to DaBaby’s homophobic Rolling Loud Miami moment and the knee-jerk reactions to Lil Nas X’s brilliant visual for his latest single, “Industry Baby.” The Houston rapper spoke with People Magazine about what she feels is Hip-Hop’s reckoning with homophobia and feels it was a long time coming. “It is about time,” Thee Stallion said. “Representation is important, and it is really crucial for us all to have compassion and acceptance of every human.” The “Big Ole Freak” crafter herself was the subject of some criticism when someone decided to dig up an old tweet from 2019 where she used a gay slur to address a hater. “This lil f****...
Megan Thee Stallion Teams Up With Cash App To Break Down Cryptocurrency In Her “Bitcoin For Hotties” Financial Education Video Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cash App / Megan Thee Stallion Are you still confused about Bitcoin and the whole cryptocurrency wave? Don’t worry, Megan Thee Stallion is here to break it all down for you. Back in June, the Houston Rapper teamed up with Cash App for her “Investment For Hotties” series, where she first announced she would help her loyal fans get in the stock market game by giving away $1 million worth of stock. Thee Stallion is back, but this time she is talking cryptocurrency and is breaking it all down in the next installment of her Cash App series, “Bitcoin For Hotties.” In the roughly 2-minute video, Megan Thee Stallion uses her signature hot girl swag to explain the in some ways simple but still at times very complicated world of cryptocurrency, how it works, why it...
Tory Lanez’s Rolling Loud Miami Cameo Possibly Violated Restraining Order To Stay Away From Megan Thee Stallion
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Tory Lanez unwelcomed cameo at Rona Loud, oops, we mean Rolling Loud, might come back to haunt him. TMZ exclusively reports that DaBaby’s bringing out Canadian varmint Tory Lanez might have been a direct violation of the restraining order a judge issued against him after allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot. Rolling Loud sources told the celebrity gossip site Thee Stallion, and her team was not happy about DaBaby bringing Lanez out right after her performance. Per TMZ: Tory’s accused of shooting Megan in the foot last summer, and Rolling Loud sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … she and her team at the festival were very upset about him appearing on stage with DaBaby less than an hour after she finished her se...
Megan Thee Stallion Reveals To Tyra Banks She Hid Her Dreams of Becoming A Rapper From Her Mom
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Denise Truscello / Getty Megan Thee Stallion oozes confidence, but there was one point in her life she wasn’t so sure about becoming a rapper. The leader of the hot girls should still be on a tremendous high after confirming she landed the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, making her the first rapper to do so. In the feature interview accompanying the amazing cover and some tantalizing photos of the Houston Hip-Hop star, she broke bread with legendary supermodel Tyra Banks. She shared that she hid her desire to rap from her mom. “My mom was a rapper,” Meg opens up. “She didn’t know I wanted to be a rapper, but I would literally watch her in the studio all day. I’m like, ‘This lady is everything.’ I didn’t want to tell her that I could rap until ...
