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Mt. Westmore (Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, Too $hort) Deliver Debut Performance at Triller Fight Club: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T16:00:04+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 12:00pm ET Witness the rise of Mt. Westmore. The hip-hop supergroup featuring West Coast legends Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Too $hort, and E-40 delivered their debut performance over the weekend during Triller’s Fight Club 2021. Snoop was also on hand to provide commentary for the pay-per-view boxing event, but before fists were thrown, he and his rap compatriots dropped bars. Ice Cube started the 12-minute pre-show with “It Was a Good Day” and “You Can Do It” before Snoop Dogg delivered his own solo set of “Gin & Juice”, “Drop It Like It’s Hot”, and his latest single “CEO”. Then, a quartet of thrones were brought to the stage as E-40 and Too $h...
Alfred Molina Confirms Return as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: No Way Home
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T16:30:45+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 12:30pm ET Alfred Molina has officially confirmed he will be reprising his Doctor Octopus role from 2004’s classic Spider-Man 2 in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home. In an interview with Variety that will surely bristle Marvel head Kevin Feige, Molina described his involvement as “the worst kept secret in Hollywood” and detailed how his character fits into the new Tom Holland-starring movie. The veteran actor recalled asking No Way Home director Jon Watts how the film would resurrect Dr. Otto Octavius, who presumably died while stopping his own fusion reactor from destroying New York City ba...
DMX’s Fiance Desiree Lindstrom Shares Emotional Tribute to Late Rapper: ‘Thank You for Us’
“Thank you for Exodus,” she added, referencing the couple’s 4-year-old son. “Thank you God for Earl Simmons…forever X.” In the days following his death, Lindstrom paid homage to DMX by getting a tattoo on her arm of his 2006 song “Dog Love.” The new ink sits above a large X, which is written in a similar font used on the rapper’s albums. “I feel honored to be able to do this memorial but also saddened,” Tattoo artist Krystal Kills captioned a photo of the ink on Instagram. “Your light was unmatchable.” She added, “@desi123love I pray you find your way through these dark times, and remember the love you had for each other will forever be untethered. I’m glad I got to witness it. The world lost an icon but al...
Rap Supergroup Mt. Westmore Premieres New Song at Triller Fight Club: Watch
Too Short touched on the Mt. Westmore project during a March interview with HipHop-N-More, noting that the supergroup has recorded “somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 songs” and plans to tour together in the future. “Volume one will be released in April and the rest of the volumes will follow,” the Oakland rapper said. Mt. Westmore’s first song “Step Child” appears on the soundtrack for the 2019 drama American Skin, which was released earlier this year. Other performers at Triller’s pay-per-view spectacle — where YouTuber Jake Paul knocked out ex-MMA fighter Ben Askren — included Justin Bieber, The Black Keys, Doja Cat, Saweetie and Diplo. Watch Mt. Westmore’s Triller Fight Club performance at the 16:30-minute mark below. Y...
Taylor Swift’s Re-Recorded ‘Fearless’ Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Year’s Biggest Week
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is the only No. 1 album of its kind: a re-recording of an artist’s (own or another’s) previously released album. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 24, 2021-dated chart (where Fearless [Taylor’s Version] debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @bil...
Travis Barker Shares Sweet & Racy Photos on Kourtney Kardashian’s Birthday: ‘You’re a Blessing’
After a sweet shot of the couple embracing for another kiss, and one more of her holding Barker’s hand, the series ends with video. In it, Kardashian sucks Barker’s thumb before pulling back with a giggle while she says, “Travis!” The day before her birthday, the reality TV star showed off the huge floral arrangement the rocker sent for her birthday — which included a hanging installation of flowers — on her Instagram Stories. Sister Kim Kardashian was also impressed by the massive bouquet. “I just walked into the most gorgeous flower arrangement,” Kim said in an Instagram Stories video Saturday, showing off the flowers. “You can smell the entire house. This is so beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like this.” Since making ...
Smurkchella: Lil Durk Concert Ends After Gunfire
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Lil Durk was performing in Phoenix on Saturday night (April 17). However, the sold-out concert was reportedly cut short after gunfire, which sparked mayhem in the venue. It went down at the Celebrity Theatre and while the investigation is ongoing, it seems like there were no severe injuries. Reports TMZ: The Phoenix PD says they couldn’t locate anyone who was directly hit by bullets, and reports that one woman was grazed in the leg by a bullet are not true. Phoenix Police say It was reported to their team that the injury was not from gunfire. A few people suffered non-life-threatening injuries from attempting to fleeing the area. This is an ongoing investigation. Durk seemed upset about something when he posted, “10k people sold ou...
Watch The Black Keys Perform Live for the First Time in Over a Year
The Black Keys made their return to the stage for the first time since January 2020 last night during the Triller Fight Club event in Atlanta that saw YouTuber Jake Paul knock out MMA fighter Ben Askren in the first round. Joined by a backing band, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney dusted off some of their biggest hits during the four-song set. They kicked off the 15-minute concert with their Attack & Release hit “I Got Mine,” and followed it up with Brothers’ “Howlin’ for You,” along with “Gold on the Ceiling” and “Lonely Boy” off of 2011’s El Camino. Watch the full concert below. [embedded content] Earlier this week, the Black Keys announced a new covers album called Delta Kream and shared its first single “Crawling Kingsnake.” “Kingsnake” is a ...
Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock Talk Bikini Kill, Beastie Boys With Dan Rather
Beastie Boys’ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna are the latest subjects on Dan Rather’s special “Musical Family” themed season of The Big Interview. In a clip from the show, Ad-Rock discusses last year’s Beastie Boys documentary and Hanna reflects on the catalyst that sparked Bikini Kill’s 2019 reunion. “Part of it was because of the Kavanaugh hearings and part of it was because of Me Too,” she explained. “A lot of those songs are much angrier than my later work, or a lot of them were Feminist 101, so I didn’t feel like singing those songs and then all of a sudden I wanted to sing those songs, watching the Kavanaugh hearings. I was singing my own lyrics to myself in my head. I started singing the songs in the shower, I started singing them in the car, I sta...
Robert Fripp and a Body-Painted Toyah Tackle The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction”: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T12:44:40+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 8:44am ET If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox were going to come up with next, wonder no more. For the married couple’s latest “Sunday Lunch” performance, Toyah is covered in nothing but body paint and a completely sheer top as they perform The RollIng Stones’ classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”. Robert and Toyah have blown up on YouTube with their combination of quirky takes on rock classics and Toyah’s risqué outfits. Heck, their biggest video to date is a cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” featuring Toyah riding an exercise bike while wearing a see-through top. She has also sported a French maid getup (Motorhead’s...
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Mortality Is A Given In Hip-Hop & In Life Period [Editorial]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty In the coming weeks, perhaps months, many a music writer or journalist will have plenty to say about the deaths of DMX and Black Rob. You will read familiar tropes of setting up insurance for artists or label heads, current or former doing more for the creators but mortality is a given in Hip-Hop and in life. This isn’t stated to dissuade those writers from penning their emotions, real feelings, or keen observations. In fact, the processing of grief via the written word is a gift. The power of words leaving our minds and hitting our pages or screens gives it the momentum to move beyond us so we can begin healing from the losses or tragedies life throws at us. I would never say that I was a DMX scholar or an expert in all things Blac...
Scientists Spin Spiderwebs Into Sound Using AI
Ever wonder what a spider’s web sounds like? Well thanks to the power of artificial intelligence, we can now recreate spider signals that are otherwise inaudible to the human ear, thus bringing us closer to learning their “language.” We know this sounds like the beginning of a horror movie unfolding, and once you hear the “music” recorded from the spiders and their webs, you’ll believe it even more. What you’re hearing in this recording is a series of vibrational patterns, each of which represents some type of behavioral action the spider will take. Despite usually having eight eyes, most spiders apparently don’t have the best sight. That being the case, they often use vibrations in their web to determine what’s in their environme...
