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Kanye West and Irina Shayk Still Going Strong, Source Denies Break-Up Rumors
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Kanye West is still booed up and his alleged new significant other is reportedly not happy with the “lies” that they’re heading toward a split. According to TMZ, despite previous reports, Yeezy and model Irina Shayk are still together. Sources close to the couple tell the gossip site that the two are in fact still dating and have been for months. The source stated the pair recently spent the Fourth of July weekend together in San Francisco openly showing affection for one another while dining out together at the upscale restaurant, Mourad. Of the rumors that “they’re cooling off and she turned down his invitation to Paris,” the source explains to PEOPLE: “That’s just not true. Revealing Kanye went to Paris for the Balenciaga sh...
Childish Gambino Remixes Brittany Howard’s “Stay High”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Danny Clinch / press handout If there’s one thing that Childish Gambino can do, it is put his own unique spin on a hit. This time, he takes on a song by powerhouse singer and guitarist Brittany Howard. ATO Records just released the latest single featuring actor Donald Glover in his Gambino element, “Stay High,” from Jaime Reworked. This is a new album boasting reimagined versions of the eleven songs from the debut solo venture by the Alabama Shakes lead vocalist in honor of her late sister that was released in 2019. The remix is airy and fresh, with his vocals complementing a lively backdrop of strings and electronic instrumentation and right on time for the height of summer. Howard’s original version spent three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Altern...
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Security Team Charged For Robbery
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital Tekashi 6ix9ine may not have Trey Way backing him out in these streets anymore, but the rap pariah’s hired help doesn’t seem to have a problem acting like his goons, too. They’re also out here getting locked up on his behalf as well. PIX11 is reporting that five members of Snitch9ine’s security squad were just indicted on robbery charges for accosting a man in Harlem last August after he took a video of Tekashi and made a break for it. After chasing the man and his girlfriend for 20 blocks, the security team opened the man’s car, pulled his arm, and knocked his phone to the ground. Another member of the security team stomped on the phone to show the victim they meant business. NYPD Detective Daniel Laperuta, 44, was one of the m...
HHW Gaming: ‘NBA 2K22’s First Courtside Report Reveals New Gameplay Features
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 2K Sports / NBA 2K22 We already know who is on the cover of NBA 2K22. Now it’s time to find out what new features fans of the basketball video game franchise can look forward to. Despite not showing any actual gameplay, which is slated to be revealed sometime in August, Tuesday (Jul.20), 2K dropped its first courtside report for NBA 2K22 detailing the all-new features coming to this year’s installment game franchise and showed off some stunning screenshots of this year’s cover athletes Candace Parker, Luka Dončić and Dirk Nowitzki. Source: 2K Sports / NBA 2K22 As far as what players can expect when they load up NBA 2K22, 2K boasts improvements are coming to on-court gameplay on both sides of the ball, The City and Neighborhood, Seasons, MyPlayer, MyC...
Faster Horses Festival Ends In Tragedy After 3 Attendees Found Dead From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Faster Horses Festival in Lenawee County, Michigan ended in tragedy for four attendees over the weekend. First responders were called to the scene of the three-day music and camping festival by a concerned friend of one man in his early twenties. After arriving, the emergency responders entered the man’s camping trailer, which was being shared amongst a group of five attendees, all of whom were unconscious. Three of the attendees were pronounced dead at the scene and the remaining two were transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition. The cause is believed to be acute carbon monoxide poisoning. The suspected catalyst is a generator that may have been in close proximity to the camper. Richie Mays II, 20 (left) and Kole Sova, 19 (right), were pronounced dead at af...
UK Nightlife Sector Faces New COVID-19 Restrictions Amid “Freedom Day” Celebrations
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that COVID-19 vaccine passports will be mandatory for nightclubs and other public venues that draw large crowds. The regulation is set to take effect in September, amid a strong push to get the 35% of currently unvaccinated UK residents aged 18 to 30 to begin scheduling appointments. Vaccine passports are becoming increasingly common throughout Europe. The UK is following France in implementing similar policy as the nation led by Emmanuel Macron is now requiring vaccine validation in order for citizens to enter restaurants and other indoor establishments. The announcement drew pushback from a number of nightlife industry professionals, notably Michael Kill, CEO of the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA). He points out that while the ...
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Announce 2021 Fall Tour
Elvis Costello & The Imposters are headed back on the road for a 2021 fall US tour. Entitled “Hello Again,” the trek takes place in October and November. The 20-date tour kicks off in Memphis, Tennessee at Graceland on October 10th. It will make stops in cities like New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles before wrapping up at Fox Theater in Oakland, California on November 14th. Tickets will go on sale at Ticketmaster on Friday, July 23rd at 10:00 a.m. local time, and look on the secondary market here for deals once they sell out. Check out the full tour schedule below. Advertisement Related Video Costello released his most recent album, the excellent Hey Clockface, in November before closing out last year with “Farewell, OK 2020.” On September 10th, Costello will release Spanish Mo...
The Jackass Forever Trailer Is Here in All Its Absolute Glory: Watch
Don’t try this at home, but Paramount Pictures has shared the first trailer for Jackass Forever, the upcoming fourth and final (?) installment in the Jackass franchise. In theaters on October 22nd, Jackass Forever does perhaps irreparable damage to stars Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, and Preston Lacy alongside Jasper, Rachel Wolfson, Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Zach Holmes, and Eric Manaka. Some of the moments shown here have already been reported for their ambulance-calling glory. In one bit, the crew dress up as a marching band and hop on a treadmill, in a stunt that landed Knoxville and Steve-O in the hospital. Elsewhere, testicles meet softball and only one sphere wins, and people go flying into the water from all sorts of positi...
R.I.P. Martin Kahan, Music Video Director (KISS, Rush, Mötley Crüe) Dead at 74
Martin Kahan, a prolific music video director, has died at age 74. He passed away this past Sunday (July 18th) in Lakewood, New Jersey, following a battle with cancer. Kahan directed numerous videos for hard rock acts in the 1980s. If you watched MTV during that era, you surely caught Kahan’s work. Some of his best known clips include KISS sans-makeup (“Lick It Up”, “All Hell’s Breakin Loose”), Mötley Crüe (“Too Young to Fall in Love”), Scorpions (“I’m Leaving You”), and Bon Jovi (“In and Out of Love,” “She Don’t Know Me”). Videos for Ian Hunter (the VMA-nomiated “All of the Good Ones Are Taken”), Loverboy (“Queen of the Broken Hearts”), and Michael Bolton (“Fool’s Game”) also garnered rotation on MTV. Advertisement Related Video Kahan got a break early in his career when he shot three vid...
The Avalanches Reveal 2022 North American Tour Dates
The Avalanches have announced a North American tour for 2022. The trek will mark just the second time the Australian electronic samplers have toured the US, and their first since 2017. The duo’s latest American jaunt will stretch 13 dates between February 17th (Washington, DC) and March 6th (San Francisco). Along the way, they’ll stop in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Seattle. The full schedule is ahead. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 23rd at The Avalanches’ website. You can also check the usual sources like Ticketmaster and the secondary market. Advertisement Related Video The last — and first — time The Avalanches toured the States and Canada was in 2017 around the release of their comeback record, Wildflower. That in turn was their first LP since ...
Jason Aldean Places ‘Blame’ Atop Country Airplay Chart, Earning His 23rd No. 1
Aldean, who first topped Country Airplay with “Why” in May 2006, boasts the seventh-most No. 1s since the chart began in January 1990. Kenny Chesney leads with 31, followed by Tim McGraw (29), Blake Shelton (28), Alan Jackson, George Strait (26 each) and Luke Bryan (24). NEW TOP 10s Kane Brown and blackbear’s “Memory” launches at No. 9 on the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart. The team-up drew 8.5 million streams and sold 7,800 downloads in its first week, ending July 15, following its July 9 release. It enters Country Digital Song Sales at No. 4. “Memory” marks Brown’s ninth Hot Country Songs top 10. Songwriter-producer blackbear (real name Matthew Tyler Musto) makes his first visit, following two top 10s, among seven top 10s, on Billboar...
Watch Jennifer Lopez Expertly Dance Around a Question About Her Ben Affleck Romance
“The song is out, five years since we’ve done it. And I believe that that message of loving one another and coming together and love, is never more relevant than it is right now,” Lopez said with a knowing smile. Lopez, 51, and Affleck, 48, broke up in 2004, but they have been spotted together multiple times in the past few months in the wake of J. Lo’s April split from one-time fiancé former MLB star Alex Rodriguez. Today co-host Carson Daly also rolled tape of Lopez speaking with Apple Music 1’s EBro about the renewed interest in her 2002 album This Is Me… Then album, which, not for nothing, was released when she was dating Affleck the first time. “The name of the album was This is Me… Then, right? That was a moment,” Lopez told EBro....
