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‘Last Man Standing: Suge Knight & The Murders of Biggie and Tupac’ Trailer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty The first trailer for Last Man Standing: Suge Knight And The Murders Of Biggie & Tupac is now available to the public. The new film is from acclaimed documentarian Nick Broomfield, the man behind the Biggie & Tupac documentary released in 2002. This new doc follows up by digging further into new evidence that was unearthed in relation to the murders of these two influential Hip-Hop figures that were at the center of a furious beef between the East and West Coasts. Broomfield also gets to further explore the life and career of Marion “Suge” Knight, the infamous former CEO of Death Row Records who’s now serving a 28-year sentence in prison for manslaughter in addition to other offenses. Last Man Standing also features new intervie...
Russell Simmons Sues Kimora Lee For Allegedly Finessing Him Out Of Stocks
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Russell Simmons is finding out that doing business with family isn’t always a good idea. He is now suing his Kimora Lee for reportedly fleecing him out of millions of shares. As spotted on Page Six the Rap mogul is taking his ex-wife to court over what he alleges is fraud. The story, as expected, is somewhat complicated. Kimora’s now husband Tim Leissner is currently facing some heavy time stemming from some very serious money laundering charges from 2018. The former chairman of Goldman Sachs in Southeast Asia pleaded guilty to charges in connection to his supposed plan to rip off 1MDB, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB. Russell is alleging that Lee and Leissner conspired to transfer his four million Celsius ...
9th Wonder Continues His Academic Career With Roc Nation and LIU Brooklyn
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Morigi / Getty The renowned Hip-Hop producer 9th Wonder has become the latest musician to become a part of the new Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment which is part of Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. The news was announced earlier today in a press release from the school. The former Little Brother member was announced as a teacher along with jazz saxophonist Sam Newsome and baritone vocalist Colin Levin, both who are longtime faculty members – Newsome with LIU Brooklyn and Levin arriving from Rowan University. 9th, who’s worked with countless artists from Drake to Kendrick Lamar, will join the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment as a visiting professor and artist-in-residence who will be teaching classe...
HHW Gaming: ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’ Reportedly Will Be Free-To-Play Ahead of Memorial Day Weeke
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Treyarch / Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War If you’re one of the few who has not played Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s multiplayer, Activision is reportedly giving folks a chance to take it for a test run for FREE99. As spotted on GameSpot, reputable Call of Duty News source @charlieINTEL announced on Twitter that gamers could look forward to a Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War free-to-play weekend ahead of Memorial Day weekend sharing an advertisement announcing the upcoming event. While the news has not been confirmed by Activision or co-developers Raven Software and Treyarch yet, according to the tweet, it will kick off May 27 and will last until June 1. According to GameSpot, players will be able to enjoy Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s multipla...
Olivia Rodrigo Is ‘So Happy’ After ‘Good 4 U’ Becomes Her Second Hot 100 No. 1
“Good 4 U” music video director Petra Collins, who’s helmed many visuals for Selena Gomez, commented, “!!! Duh,” while Conan Gray cleverly quoted her latest chart topper, “as the legendary olivia rodrigo once said, good 4 u bestie.” Dan Nigro, who co-wrote “Good 4 U” and produced all of Sour, also shared the Hot 100 graphic and a screenshot of a three-way celebratory FaceTime call with Rodrigo and singer-producer Alexander 23. “Holy Sh–!!! Good 4 U just debuted at #1. So thankful to be able to make music with such close friends…. and thankful to the amazing team surrounding us that kept pushing us to make this song better!” he captioned the images on his IG. Alexander 23 shared the same FaceTime sc...
Billboard and NYU ‘Music Industry Essentials’ Educational Program Hosts Free Info Session
Wondering if the Music Industry Essentials course from NYU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and Billboard, powered by Yellowbrick, is right for you? If so, you can join a live Zoom call this afternoon to hear from a student currently enrolled in the course and see all that the course has to offer, as well as what her personal experience has been like. Listeners will have an opportunity to ask questions in real time and will be better equipped with the information to decide if the program is something they’re interested in pursuing. The six-course, 20-hour plus program strives to give prospective students the tools to build the foundation of a successful career in the industry. In addition to learning extensively about several different aspects inside the world of music — ...
Elliot Page Proudly Shares First Shirtless Photo & Gets Love From Miley Cyrus
Elliot Page is ready for the summer and broke out “trans bb’s first swim trunks” on Monday (May 24) to cool off before the warmer weather starts rolling in. The 34-year-old actor took to Instagram to show off his new six-pack and swim trunks in a poolside picture that he tagged “#transjoy” and “#transisbeautiful.” Miley Cyrus commented, “Hot,” along with a heart emoji, while Page’s Flatliners co-star Nina Dobrev wrote, “You look amazing,” before adding a second comment: “And most of all happy.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make mon...
Inside The Weeknd’s Billboard Music Awards Car Choreography: ‘There Was a Lot of Trust’
Directors Alex Lill and Charlie Morse recall coming up with the idea for “car choreography,” says Morse, before anything else. Morse soon after storyboarded their ideas (seen below) to show the larger team their vision. “From those drawings came a lot of realizations about all the different shapes you could do with cars, and I was doing a lot of them from the top down just to showcase the arrangements, and that’s when we realized that a lot of these play well from an aerial shot, which you see in the final big pullout” that they filmed using a drone. “One of the things we were always inspired by was those old 1950s synchronized swimmers,” says Lill. “So it was kind of recontextualizing that. We weren’t trying to do a Fast & Furious type th...
Alter Bridge Partner with Z2 Comics for Tour of Horrors Graphic Novel
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T18:34:58+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 2:34pm ET Alter Bridge are joining forces with Z2 Comics for their first-ever graphic novel, Alter Bridge: Tour of Horrors. The book, penned by Marvel Comics writer Emily Ryan Lerner, promises a story “in the grand tradition of comic horror anthologies,” according to a press release. Along with the graphic novel debut, the band will release their 2004 album, One Day Remains, on vinyl for the first time, available exclusively with the deluxe graphic novel package via the Z2 website. “After 17 years making music and touring the world, there aren’t many opportunities for a rock band to do something they’ve never done before,” Alter Bridge said in a ...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Reschedule North American Tour Dates for 2022
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T19:06:39+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 3:06pm ET King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have updated their post-pandemic return to North America, rescheduling that 2020 tour — including those three marathon shows — for 2022. The Aussie outfit had promised a trio of three-hour shows that would span their entire 15-album discography. Since then they’ve dropped L.W. and K.G., and with their new LP Butterfly 3000 due out next month, that catalogue is about to run 18 (!) albums deep. Fans will be treated to a career-spanning set the first night of the 2022 tour, when the psychedelic rockers take over the Greek Theatre in Berkely, CA, on October 2nd. They’ve also got two marathon...
Mdou Moctar Performs Three-Song NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T20:01:46+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 4:01pm ET Tuareg psych-rock artist Mdou Moctar is one of the best guitarists of this current era, and now music fans around the world can experience what it’s like to watch him play from the comfort of a front-row seat. NPR just shared Moctar’s contribution to their Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series, and it’s available to watch in full below. For his performance, Moctar broke out three songs from his brand new album, Afrique Victime, while sitting in front of a rose cloth backdrop outside. He opened with the rhythmic track “Ya Habibti” and then moved on to the hypnotic lead single “Tala Tannam”, during which he and his bandmates can be seen sharing...
Lindsay Lohan Returning to Acting for Holiday Rom-Com at Netflix
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T20:51:23+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 4:51pm ET Lindsay Lohan, the beloved child actor turned troubled adult, will make her triumphant return to cinema. As Consequence has confirmed, she’ll be starring in an untitled holiday rom-com at Netflix. According to the logline, Lohan will be portraying, “A newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress [who] gets into a skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia, and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” And remember, Netflix is the same distributor who brought us such fluffy fantasies as The Christmas Prince and The Princess Swi...
