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DMX’s Ex-Wife Tashera Simmons Pays Tribute To Rapper On Her 50th Birthday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty DMX’s ex-wife shared a heartfelt tribute to the late rapper on social media one day after news of his passing. On Saturday (April 10), Tashera Simmons celebrated her 50th birthday with followers on Instagram, sharing a montage of personal photographs chronicling her life with family and friends in the first half of the one-minute clip. “Happy, happy birthday to me. April 10, 1971. Wow, what a ride. What a journey,” she reflected in a voiceover accompanying the video. “As I close up the last 50 years of my life, I rejoice and I thank God for everything it has taught me. The journey that it took me through. The hurt, the pain, the triumph, the resistance, the resilience, the learning lessons, the relationships, the power,” ...
Understand-ment: Quando Rondo Talks King Von Shooting With Angela Yee
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Youtube / Youtube We’re not sure what Quando Rondo’s endgame is here, but he’s talking, sort of. The Savannah, GA rapper recently sat down with Angela Yee to discuss the King Von shooting that cut the up-and-coming rapper’s life short and more details behind the tragedy. The Breakfast Club host asked Quando Rondo about that fateful night in Atlanta that left King Von dead. Despite this interview being posted on his own social media account, he immediately started saying that he was not clout-chasing, instead of just answering the question, “That night when you was in the parking lot, what lead up to you even being in the parking lot?” Rondo was cool with Von and Lil Durk, the latter of which has directed much ire at the rapper since the death of his frien...
Someone Paid $2,380 for a Rare 2002 Japanese Vinyl Pressing of Daft Punk’s “Discovery”
Let’s be honest—we’re all still licking the wound of Daft Punk’s shocking breakup. In the wake of the robots’ split, one fan made a splash with the purchase of a rare 2002 Japanese vinyl pressing of Discovery, the iconic electronic music duo’s sophomore album. The 2xLP limited edition record sold for $2,380 on Discogs, who recently shared a list of the most expensive items sold on the marketplace in February 2021. The most expensive item was New Horizons, a 1972 album by jazz collective The Sounds Of Liberation that sold for $7,777. Following that LP came Liza Jane by Davie Jones With The King Bees, which sold for $6,944, and a 7″ Single of Magnetics’ Count The Days / When I’m With My Baby that fet...
2022 Lexus ES Sedan Getting a Refresh, Will Debut in Shanghai
Lexus is teasing the upcoming 2022 Lexus ES, one of the company’s dwindling luxury sedan offerings with the recent death of the GS. And it’s right on the heels of the introduction of the 2021 Lexus ES250 AWD, which introduced all-wheel-drive to the heretofore front-drive model range—part of a glut of AWD sedans trying to stay relevant in an SUV-frenzied market. The good news is that the 2022 ES will largely resemble its highly attractive 2021 variant—the teaser shows that the rear end is essentially unchanged, while the front will get lightly restyled headlights—but that’s also the bad news. This isn’t going to be a heavy refresh. If you like the 2021 ES, that’s perfectly fine. It’s a bargain compared to its flashier competitors, such as the Genesis G80 ...
Hold the Tip: Meet Domino’s Autonomous Pizza Delivery Robot
Ever feel like the pizza delivery person is judging your life choices? “Two large pies—is anyone else home?” Or, “Really? A $2 tip?” Maybe you just don’t like interacting with other people, hence the pizza delivery order in the first place. Rather than dealing with a restaurant’s worth of potential interactions, you’ll work up the courage for a single meeting with a delivery driver. Has Domino’s Pizza got the solution for you: A pizza delivery robot. Yes, the robots have come for your pizza delivery jobs, but before you rise up with pitchforks raised, put down that lighter and the molotov cocktail and, instead, relax. The R2, the self-driving pizza bot made by Nuro, is only being pressed into service in Houston, Texas. For now, at least. Keep...
Watch Never-Before-Seen Demo of John Lennon, Yoko Ono Performing ‘Give Peace A Chance’
Nearly 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Give Peace A Chance” at their Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on May 31, 1969, a new demo has arrived showing a glimpse of how that legendary moment came to be. Released and restored by the John Lennon Estate, the unearthed video shows the artists side-by-side in another bed, at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel in the Bahamas, just days before the real thing, on May 25th 1969. It’s a playfully unvarnished version of the Lennons test-driving the anti-war anthem. Here, they genuinely seem at peace. Lennon mumbles unintelligibly (“Everybody’s talking about revolution, masturbation, hasturbation, constipation … uh … rasturbation, cake, chocolate cake … uh… fake, cake, glasses, passes”) while Ono shoots him looks as if...
Mariah Carey Celebrates 16th Anniversary of ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ in Style
Mariah Carey celebrated the sweet 16 anniversary of 2005’s The Emancipation of Mimi album with a minute-long video for her Lambily set to her hit “Shake It Off.” The throwback homage cued to images from the album’s third single opens with a white tank top and bedazzled baseball hat-wearing Mariah scrawling her nickname on the bleachers before the words burst into giant glittery letters she dances in front of. “Thank you for my Emancipation,” Carey wrote alongside the video clip, along with a butterfly and heart emoji and the #HappyAnniversaryTEOM hashtag for the album, which dropped on April 12, 2005. 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 t...
Boxscore Flashback: 10 Years Ago, U2 Set The All-Time Boxscore Record With The 360 Tour
Bad Bunny Announces 2022 El Último Tour del Mundo Tour Following WrestleMania Debut | Billboard News After two years of relative silence, U2 returned with their 12th studio album, 2009’s No Line on the Horizon. The band hit the ground running (in their sexy boots), with the album debuting atop the Billboard 200, their seventh set to crown the chart. The U2 360° Tour was routed in-the-round in stadiums across three years and five continents. It kicked off with two shows at Camp Nou in Barcelona (June 30 and July 2, 2009), throwing down the gauntlet for the years to come with a $19.8 million gross and attendance of 182,000. The initial European leg kept up the pace with $20 million grosses in Paris and London, and a crowning haul of $28.8 million and 243,000 attendance over three nights at D...
Chris Stapleton Scores Second No. 1 on Hot Country Songs Chart With ‘Starting Over’
“Over,” which Stapleton wrote with Dave Cobb, is the lead single from his same-titled album, which the pair produced. The set arrived at No. 1 on Top Country Albums in November, becoming his fourth leader. Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” opened at No. 46 on Hot Country Songs in May 2015 and re-entered at No. 1 that November, becoming the first song to return to the chart at the summit. The coronation followed Stapleton’s three wins at the 49th Country Music Association Awards. Stapleton boasts two additional Hot Country Songs top 10s: “Broken Halos” (No. 5, March 2018) and “Millionaire” (No. 4, March 2019). WORK OF ARTS Tenille Arts’ “Somebody Like That” becomes her first Hot Country Songs top 10, pushing 11-9. I...
Gabby Barrett’s ‘The Good Ones’ Tops Country Airplay: ‘I’m So Grateful For My Husband, Who Truly Is a Good One’
“I did not think the past week could have been any more amazing, but to have the No. 1 song feels like the cherry on top,” says Barrett, who last Thursday (April 8) was named new female artist of the year by the Academy of Country Music. “I’m so grateful for my husband, who truly is a good one and inspired this song. Thank you to my family and fans for supporting me, my label and team for helping take my second single to the top and country radio for playing it. Most importantly, I’m thankful for Our gracious Lord Jesus and how kind He is to me always. It’s more than I deserve.” Barrett becomes the first woman to notch two career-starting No. 1s on Country Airplay since Kelsea Ballerini, who earned the honor with “Love Me Like You Mean I...
Grimes Shows Off New Tattoo of “Beautiful Alien Scars”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T15:03:17+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 11:03am ET Grimes has burnished her otherworldly reputation with a large back tattoo of what she calls “beautiful alien scars.” The alt-pop artist unveiled her new ink in an Instagram post Sunday evening. Her latest body augmentation was done in white by the artist Tweakt, who was aided by the digital designer Nusi Quero. Via the Independent, Quero is an expert at intricate computer renderings. So far, the design is a bit too fresh to fully appreciate, with red scarring pulling attention from the white ink. Grimes acknowledged as much in the comment, writing, “Don’t have a good pic cuz it hurts too much and I need to sl...
Danny Elfman Announces First Solo Album in 37 Years, Big Mess, Shares “True”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T15:28:42+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 11:28am ET Danny Elfman has reignited his solo career over the last few month with a monthly singles series. Now, the composer and former Oingo Boingo member has announced his first album in 37 years, Big Mess. Due out June 11th via ANTI-/Epitaph, Big Mess is an 18-track double-album that sees Elfman reckoning with “four years of creeping fascism and civil rot” via his uniquely dystopian blend of industrial and orchestral sounds. Helping him create this politically charged stricture in the studio were drummer Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo), bassist Stu Brooks (Lauryn Hill, Lady Gaga), guitarist Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails, Guns N’ R...
