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Quavo Selling Bentley He Took Back From Saweetie Following Breakup For $279K
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 The Bentley saga between Quavo and Saweetie has reached its conclusion. Quavo’s breakup with longtime girlfriend Saweetie sparked many rumors and speculations. One rumor that had people calling The Migos member petty was rumblings that he took back the Bentley Continental he bought her for her 27th birthday. At the time, it was just pure speculation until the Atlanta rapper decided the Drake-assisted track, “Having Our Way” off the rap group’s latest album Culture III was the best way to confirm the repossession of the luxury vehicle. On the song, he rapped, “Havin’ my way, now this shit like a business. Load up the bases. Now I feel like Cal Ripken/She had it her way, now she out of a Bentley.” Now, TMZ reports tha...
Tyler, the Creator Shares New Album CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: Stream
Tyler, the Creator released his new album, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, today. Stream it via Apple Music and Spotify below. The 16-track project follows his 2019 Grammy-winning album, IGOR, and features an impressive list of guests. Featured artists include Lil Wayne, Lil Uzi Vert, and Pharrell, as well as 42 Dugg, Ty Dolla $ign, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again. Odd Future member Domo Genesis also makes an appearance. In the lead-up to CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, Tyler shared “LUMBERJACK” and “WUSYANAME”. Word of new music from Tyler first surfaced earlier this month via mysterious billboards and an accompanying website. Both provided a phone number which initially played a conversation between the rapper and his mother. Related Video Tyler has lined up a number of festival appearances t...
Modest Mouse Share New Album The Golden Casket: Stream
Modest Mouse released their new album, The Golden Casket, today. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below. Spanning 12 tracks, the new LP is the Isaac Brock-led band’s first new album since 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves. It was recorded in Los Angeles and Modest Mouse’s basecamp of Portland with producers Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee. During the lead-up to The Golden Casket, Modest Mouse shared a string of singles including “We Are Between”, “Leave a Light On”, and “The Sun Hasn’t Left”. Related Video They’ll also be headed on tour later this year, including festival appearances at Lollapalooza and Just Like Heaven. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster or on the secondary market here. Brock recently sat down with Kyle Meredith for an episode of Kyle Mer...
Lucy Dacus Unveils New Album Home Video: Stream
Lucy Dacus has just released Home Video, her highly anticipated new album and the third full-length LP of her career. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The 11-track album was inspired by Dacus’ coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia and is described as evoking the “specific moment in time growing up where emotions and relationships start becoming more complex.” Listening through the songs, two of which feature Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, it’s clear that Dacus captured those feelings in an intimate and genuine way. Fans got a preview of such when she rolled out the singles “Thumbs”, “Hot & Heavy”, and “VBS”. Dacus also got to preview Home Video with a handful of live performances on TV. She stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for a gripping rendition o...
Lady Gaga Unveils 10th Anniversary Edition of Born This Way: Stream
Lady Gaga has released Born This Way: The Tenth Anniversary. Stream it below on Apple Music and Spotify. Available via Interscope Records, the special edition of the landmark 2011 LP includes all 14 tracks from the original version. The second disc, subtitled Born This Way Reimagined, contains reworked renditions of the album’s most popular songs by queer artists whom, as Gaga shared on Instagram, “both represent and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community.” This includes Big Freedia (“Judas”), Years & Years (“The Edge of Glory”), Kylie Minogue (“Marry the Night”), Ben Platt (“Yoü and I”), Orville Peck (“Born This Way [The Country Road Version]”), and The Highwomen with Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards (“Highway Unicorn [Road To Love]”). Originally released on May 23rd, 2011, Born Thi...
Ana de la Reguera on ‘Forever Purge,’ Artists Who Soundtracked Her Childhood & More
Mexican actress, producer and writer Ana de la Reguera grew up in a music-filled home with artists such as Lupita D’Alessio, Camilo Sesto, Emmanuel and Los Bukis soundtracking her childhood. In fact, her older sister, Ali Gua Gua, went on to become a singer-songwriter playing for rock-punk bands in Argentina and Mexico. De la Reguera took a different path, which led her to Hollywood, but she’s still entrenched in music thanks to her sister and her love for all types of Latin genres, from reggaeton to rock en Español. Following de la Reguera’s semi-autobiographical show Ana, where music is key to telling the story of her journey as an actress, the upcoming horror film The Forever Purge finds de la Reguera in a more serious and action-filled setting, where sh...
Diane Warren Saves Escaped Cow
“Cows are very smart, empathetic animals. I mean, they knew there was a door open,” said Warren, who has been a vegetarian for 23 years. “This morning, I woke up and I saw there was one cow that hadn’t been caught yet — and they’re trying to catch her and getting close to her. I saw her crying out and I couldn’t unsee that.” Warren, who wrote the LeAnn Rimes hit “How Do I Live” and won a Grammy for “Because You Loved Me” from the 1996 film “Up Close and Personal,” said she has a farm animal rescue in Malibu and felt compelled to act. “This isn’t my first cow I’ve saved. But this feels like a special cow. Because this was that one. So it’s almost like she represents all cows wanting to be free,” she said. The cow became a celebrity as it vanished in the nation’s most populous county until i...
Ed Sheeran Releases ‘Bad Habits’ Single: Stream It Now
Ed Sheeran regrets the decisions he makes due to his “Bad Habits,” the pop superstar’s new single that he released on Friday (June 25). Sheeran has been promoting the first single of his yet-untitled fifth studio album, which features the English singer-turned-glampire wearing a hot-pink suit, razor-sharp fangs, glittery bruise eyeshadow and spiky hair on the cover artwork. The song is the Grammy-winning artist’s first official release since his 2019 album No. 6 Collaborations Project, which topped the Billboard 200. “Bad Habits” appears to chronicle his regrets about poor choices made late at night, singing over a bass-heavy beat, “My bad habits lead to late nights, endin’ alone/ Conversations with a stranger I barely know/ Sw...
Netflix Black Western ‘The Harder They Fall’ Is Lit, Peep Trailer & Photos
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix It’s been almost a decade since Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino showed everyone how badass a Black cowboy could be when Django Unchained hit theaters in 2012. Now Netflix is revisiting the notion with an all-star cast that’s sure to turn the wild wild west on its head. Written and directed by Jeymes Samuel (They Die By Dawn, Jay-Z: Legacy), Netflix’s upcoming The Harder They Fall stars the likes of Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country), Regina King, and LaKeith Stanfield amongst many others. The “spaghetti western” centers around everything you’d expect from shoot-em-up epic such as revenge, love, and of course, action. The synopsis for the film basically promises to deliver a helluva good time. “When outlaw N...
Nikole Hannah-Jones Will Not Join UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Without Tenure
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Monica Schipper / Getty Nikole Hannah-Jones, an award-winning journalist best known for her work on The 1619 Project, was thought to be joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill this July. However, Hannah-Jones has elected not to start her position there until the university makes good with its promise to offer her tenure, a point that has met resistance from the school’s Board of Trustees. NC Policy Watch‘s The Progressive Pulse blog exclusively reports that Hannah-Jones’ legal team sent UNC-Chapel Hill officials a letter stating that her appointment as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media will not begin as planned on July 1 until an agreement for tenure is put in...
Reebok To Drop All-White Question Low “White Ice”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Reebok / Reebok It’s that time of year when it’s all-white kicks to keep your fresh cool during the hot summer months. While crispy white on white Air Force 1’s are usually the go-to attire for this time of year, Reebok is about to drop some competition as they’re giving the classic Question Low a new squeaky clean all-white makeover just in time for the dog days of 2021. The upcoming “White Ice” version of the Reebok Question Low silhouette will sport an all-white colorway with an icy blue bottom sole to keep things extra cold wherever you walk. These. Are. Clean! The Reebok Question Low “White Ice” is set to hit Foot Locker, Champs and other exclusive Foot Locker Inc. banners on Wednesday (June 30) and will retail for a cool $120. Check out pics of the ...
Tristan Kardashian Wins $50K Settlement Against Kimberly Alexander, Khloe Hints Break Up
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hollywood To You/Star Max / Getty Even though Tristan Thompson has no chance at a championship he took a win this week. A judge ruled in his favor with regards to a woman claiming he fathered her child and more. As spotted on Page Six the NBA player got one of his most high profile critics to pay like they weigh. This week a court granted him a victory in his libel lawsuit against Kimberly Alexander. On Tuesday, June 22 she was ordered to pay him $50,000 dollars in general damages and $2,901.95 in costs. He filed the charges against her back in May 2020 after she claimed he fathered her five-year old son. He then took a paternity test and it proved he was not the father. “Alexander has persisted in publicly proclaiming that Thompson is her child...
