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Sotheby’s Auctioning 50 Pairs of The Rarest Nikes In The World
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Okay sneakerheads, now is your chance to own a gang of pairs of the rarest Air Jordan’s and Air Force 1’s to ever grace God’s green earth, but it will undoubtedly cost you an arm, a leg, and possibly a few organs… but damnit it’s worth it. Source: Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Sotheby‘s is currently holding a Scarce Air auction which consists of 50 of the most sought after and even forgotten grails that are basically “Friends & Family” releases that the general public will never be able to get their hands on. Ever. From the Nike Air Force 1 Entourage x Undefeated x Fukijama Gold to the metallic gold OVO Air Jordan 11’s that Drake can proudly call his own, the sneakers up for grabs here are the stuff of legends. Other notable and incredib...
Green Day Release 25th Anniversary Reissue of Insomniac: Stream
Green Day’s 1995 album Insomniac turned 25 years old this past fall. To celebrate, the trio have released a special reissue of the LP featuring eight previously unreleased live tracks. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. The rare audio included on the reissue was recorded during Green Day’s unforgettable 1996 concert in Prague during the Insomniac World Tour. Hyped-up and full of energy, the band barreled through the album’s first four songs live at the show and then broke out classics like “Brain Stew”, “Jaded”, and “Walking Contradiction”. At a time when tours are still on hold due to the pandemic, listening to these live tracks offers the incredible feeling of being front row at a gig again while you watch the best pop-punk band of all time do their thing. The 25th anniversary r...
Serj Tankian on His New Elasticity EP: “I Definitely Thought These Songs Would Have Worked Out for System”
Serj Tankian has just released his new solo EP, Elasticity. The title is inspired, in part, by System of a Down’s landmark 2001 album,Toxicity, and the singer has made no secret about the songs being originally intended for his acclaimed metal band. The collection features five new songs, including the recent singles “Elasticity” and “Electric Yerevan”. One listen to the EP, and it’s not difficult to see how these tracks would have fit nicely into the System of a Down canon. Tankian approached System with these songs a few years back, and as he explained to Heavy Consequence, the band members even worked on a few of them. However, ultimately creative differences led to any recording plans coming to a standstill. We asked Tankian what he felt more: regret about not recording the songs with ...
Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin Release New Collaborative EP $mokebreak: Stream
Fresh off the release of their album Fly Siifu today, rising hip-hop stars Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin have released a new collaborative EP called $mokebreak. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. $mokebreak spans 10 tracks in total, all of which will be included on the deluxe edition of Fly Siifu. Throughout the EP, Anakin and Siifu take turns rapping over previously unheard production from Black Noi$e and Chuck Strangers in addition to original beats by Ohbliv, iiye, Graymatter, Ewonee, and Budgie. Apart from three songs, every single track on $mokebreak sees Siifu and Anakin linking up with another artist, including several heavy hitters. Chuck Strangers raps alongside them on “Oatmeal” while Peso Gordon and B. Cool-Aid jump into the fold for “Remote Relocation”. Elsewhere, the dup...
Our Anniversary Music Pardons!
It’s March 19, which means SPIN turns 36! In recognition of our anniversary, and vesting in ourselves imaginary powers, we are going to issue pardons for those who have committed crimes against music. What does that mean, you ask, perhaps not unreasonably? Well it means that by this proclamation, we hereby state that we’re selecting artists and songs that have “served their time” as it were, and if not entirely paid their debt to society, then close enough. Some very, very bad songs, and performers, and moments, will receive our clemency. Sometimes it’s just best to draw a line underneath it and let people live out their days as free souls, their record, no pun intended, expunged. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537R...
Dr. Dre’s Ex-Wife Claims He Knocked Her Out Cold While Drunk
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Apega/WENN.com / WENN The ongoing divorce of Dr. Dre and his soon-to-be ex-wife is only getting pettier and uglier. According to Nicole Young, Dre once knocked her out cold during a drunken rage. Nicole Young detailed multiple instances of domestic violence in divorce documents that were recently revealed. The filings were part of a restraining she sought, but failed to receive. Reportedly, Dre allegedly laid hands on her after feeling she disrespected him at a party. Dre has denied all of Nicole Young’s claims. Reports The Blast: In the filing, Young claims in 1999 not long after the birth of the couple’s second child — “Andre felt l “disrespected” him while he was at a party.” Adding, “He pulled me away and punched me squarely in the face, knocking me o...
Drake Denies Wanting To Date Kim Kardashian
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PYMCA / Getty A few days ago social media was abuzz with news that the newly single Kim Kardashian was giving Drake the buffalo eye on IG and laying out thirst traps to capture the attention of the 6 Gawd. Apparently the feeling was indeed mutual but now Drizzy is saying he has no interest in being another celebrity notch on the belt of the Kardashian clan. According to HotNewHipHop, Gossip Of The City actually DM’d Drake to find out if the rumors of him pining for Kimmy’s GMO cakes were true asking “”Fake news ? I figured I’d ask this time.” The “In My Feelings” artist responded by simply saying “Obviously” with a crying emoji accompanying the DM. While that doesn’t really sway us either way we guess we’ll have to take it as face value at this point. It ...
Mystery Solved: Kanye West Is Not The Richest Black Person In America
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West was all the buzz in the news this week when reports came forth that he was potentially the richest Black person in United States history. As we shared in our reporting on the earlier story, much of the valuation of West’s deals were speculative in nature and a new analysis debunks some of the headlines. Forbes examined the report put forth by Bloomberg that valued West’s clothing deal with the Gap at $4.7 billion due to a private bank document. However, Forbes is saying that the much-ballyhooed $6.6 billion number that has been floating around for days doesn’t pass muster. The folks at Forbes believe that West, very much still a billionaire, is actually worth closer to $1.8 billion, which proves his wealth has grown vastly i...
Big BSF: Benny The Butcher & Harry Fraud Drop Of ‘ The Plugs I Met 2’ Project
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Benny The Butcher is back to cheffing up that good work after 2020 unveiled his stellar album with Hit-Boy in Burden of Proof, and a mixtape with his Black Soprano Family squad, Da Respected Sopranos. The Buffalo, N.Y. MC’s newest drop is a collaborative effort with Harry Fraud titled The Plugs I Met 2, a fitting sequel of that Tana Talk energy Benny is known for. The skill of The Butcher is intact as ever, showing no signs of slowing down his pitch-perfect output and proves that he can rap over anything put in front of him. With Fraud’s signature, big-sounding production, Benny capably handles the duties of a veteran street narrator as he details some of the darker periods of his life on the block but also celebrates the trappings of...
Alex Lahey Shreds on Cover of Faith Hill’s “This Kiss”: Stream
Australian indie rocker Alex Lahey has shared her own take on Faith Hill’s classic 1998 hit, “This Kiss”. Stream the cover below via Amazon Music. For her version of the country pop ballad, Lahey slightly speeds up the tempo and replaces the acoustic guitar with an electric. The cover transforms “This Kiss” into a straightforward rock tune and it absolutely shreds. “For years, I’ve had this big idea of doing an indie rock cover of Faith Hill’s ‘This Kiss,’ Lahey shared in a statement. “Two key changes, that iconic chorus, a million vocal harmonies — what more could you want? It was such a treat pulling this together with my mates Oscar and Jess as we navigated the depths of Melbourne’s lockdown last year and I’m so stoked that Amazon Music are putting it out perfectly timed with ...
R.I.P. Corey Steger, Founding Underoath Guitarist Dies in Car Accident
Guitarist Corey Steger, one of the original members of Florida metalcore act Underoath, has died in a car accident. The tragic news was reported by Dallas Taylor, another founding member of band. Steger joined singer Taylor, guitarist Luke Morton, bassist Rey Anasco, and drummer Aaron Gillespie in Underoath’s original lineup in 1998, remaining with the band through 2001. He appeared on their first two albums, 1999’s Act of Depression and 2000’s Cries of the Past. Taylor, who parted ways with Underoath in 2003, shared the devastating news of Steger’s death on Instagram, writing the following: “I don’t know how to type this. I’m without words. Yesterday 3/17/2021 at around 6:00 p.m. Corey Steger one of the original founding members of Underoath was rear ended in a car wreck, and went home to...
Peaches Shares New Song “Pussy Mask”, NSFW Animated Video: Watch
Last year, the Canadian electronic artist Peaches released a handful of singles that marked her first new material since her 2015 album Rub. One of them was a particularly fervent protest song called “Flip This”, and now she’s back with an even more, uh, direct song titled “Pussy Mask”. The 54-year-old has never shied away from provocative imagery and explicit lyrical topics (some of her album titles are Fatherfucker and Impeach My Bush), but “Pussy Mask” still manages to shock with its over-the-top descriptions of moist genitalia. If that brief description made you squirm in your seat, I promise that it pails in comparison to Peaches’ graphic lyrics about the song’s namesake. What’s more, its accompany music video doesn’t leave anything to the imagination. It’s an animated visual tha...
