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Gap Money?: Kanye West Sued By Company Saying He Fleeced Them For $7.1M On Canceled Coachella Gig, Other Shows
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Kanye West seems to keep his lawyers busier than his accountants. The multi-hyphenate artist now known as Ye is being sued by Phantom Labs for a little over $7 million for what it says are payments he never delivered. According to TMZ, Phantom Labs is claiming it worked on numerous projects for Yeezy between June 2021 and March 2022, including Sunday Service dates, listening sessions for his DONDA 2 project and his canceled 2022 Coachella performance, amongst others. Related Stories However, Phantom claims that although Ye was initially good about making his payments on time, by February 2022, they were still owed over a cool $6 million. The lawsuit claims Ye told them he would get them their dough with the money he was set to make—re...
Funkmaster Flex Blasts Pete Rock After Conway The Machine Beef
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Funkmaster Flex made news this week after exchanging harsh words with Conway The Machine, and it doesn’t look like that rift is going away anytime soon. The Hot 97 personality then turned his attention towards legendary producer Pete Rock, adding rise to the idea that Funk Flex isn’t backing down from any of his critics. Conway The Machine took aim recently at Funkmaster Flex, accusing the longtime DJ of ignoring rising artists in New York City in favor of commercial acts. Although the Buffalo, N.Y. star was clear he wasn’t clamoring for radio support, Funk Flex still fired a barrage of insults in the rapper’s direction. Pete Rock joined in the fracas by sharing a now-deleted comment on social media cosigning Conway and his crit...
Charlamagne Tha God Returns To Comedy Central With New Show Title ‘Hell of A Week with Charlamagne Tha God’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Comedy Central / Paramount Charlemagne Tha God‘s Tha God Honest Truth is set to return for a second season on Comedy Central, but change is coming and fans will be quick to notice. IOn Friday (July 15), MTV Entertainment Studios announced that the fan-favorite late-night talk show, will indeed be returning for another season. But this time it will be named Comedy Central’s Hell of A Week with Charlamagne Tha God and it will continue to not be for the easily offended. Related Stories Looking to take things to a whole new level of brutal honesty, Hell of A Week With Charlamagne Tha God will be pairing comedians, very opinionated celebrities and thought-provoking voices and leaders from the political spectrum of things to discuss the...
The Russo Brothers Talk ‘Secret Wars’ MCU Film Possibility
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Albert L. Ortega / Getty The Russo Brothers will forever have a place in the heart of Marvel fans thanks to the extraordinary work they did with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but will they return to direct an even bigger MCU epic in the future? According to Deadline, they just might. In a quick Q&A with Anthony and Joe Russo, Deadline was able to get some the beloved directors to open up about the possibility of their return to the MCU and though they didn’t confirm they would come back for another film, they didn’t exactly close the door either. For years there have been rumors that the Russo’s would come back if Marvel decided to make a live-action Secret Wars film and apparently, that might be the only film the brothers would agree ...
Planet Yuck: Elon Musk’s Father Confirms 2nd Child With Stepdaughter
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / Getty The estranged father of billionaire Elon Musk shares one thing in common with him, evidenced by his confirmation of having a second secret child with his own stepdaughter. Errol Musk confirmed the shocking revelation to British tabloid The Sun on Wednesday (July 13th). The 76-year-old welcomed a baby girl with Jana Bezuidenhout in 2019, he said. “She wasn’t planned. But I mean, we were living together,” he said to the paper. “She [Jana] stayed here for about 18 months after Rushi was born.” Rushi is the nickname for the couple’s first child, Elliot Rush, who was born in 2017. Errol seemed unabashed about the revelation, saying: “The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce. If I could have another child I would. I can’t see...
Peep The Trailer For ‘Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby’ Coming To Prime Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prime Video / Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby There is no denying that Lil Baby is one of the biggest Hip-Hop superstars on the planet, his new movie Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby documents his rise to stardom. Lil Baby Will Never Be Trapped Again Prime Video dropped off the first trailer for the movie/documentary that highlights Lil Baby’s life. It will follow the rapper through all of his ups, downs, wins of even the losses he encountered on his road to becoming the music phenomenon he is. Related Stories “If even one person is inspired to think their life can change, or be close to what they dream of, then this documentary was worth making,” the rapper said in a press release. “I just want to share my story in the hope that it helps others get...
Fans Get Their First Sneak Peak Of Iron Heart In ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Not much is known about Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but recently fans got some nice little tidbits about what to expect from the highly-anticipated film and when we can expect the first trailer. Aside from learning that the first trailer for Wakanda Forever is set to debut at the annual San Diego Comic Con on July 23rd, fans also got their first look at the Iron Heart’s MK1 suit that’s to be worn by the character of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne). How this plays into the plot of Black Panther is a mystery but judging by the pic of her standing alongside Shuri, Nakia and Okoye, you can bet she’ll be joining them in battle against the film’s antagonist, Namor The Submariner. This will be the perfect...
Culture: New Doc Series Based On Spotify’s RapCaviar Playlist Coming To Hulu
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: RapCaviar / Spotify One of the culture’s most exclusive outlets is going from playlist to television. Hulu has ordered a new show based on RapCaviar. As per Deadline Hulu has ordered RapCaviar Presents from Spotify and The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), a part of Sony Pictures Television, to series. The documentary series is set tackle some of today’s most provocative issues through stories of the Hip-Hop visionaries currently ruling the charts and influencing our culture. The series is an extension of Spotify’s flagship Hip-Hop playlist, RapCaviar, the leading destination for conversations and culture. The channel has featured over 13,500 artists to-date and currently has over 14 million followers. Related Stories The eight episode series ...
Far-Right, Anti-Gay Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson Allegedly Had Secret Same-Sex Relationships
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Kempin / Getty When it comes to most anti-gay, anti-LGBTQ talking heads, they always seem to have some skeletons in their closet waiting to come out. Manosphere pastor Jesse Lee Peterson might be a perfect example of that. Is Jesse Lee Peterson Living A Secret Gay Life? Jesse Lee Peterson is the token Black man white conservatives and far-right advocates love to champion. He denies the existence of white privilege, is against Black people taking advantage of government programs, and most importantly, can’t stand homosexuality. Patterson also bizarrely believes that “Any woman that is climaxing is becoming a man. Because it’s not normal for women to do that.” What? Well, the chickens are finally coming home to roost for Patterson. The Daily Beast rep...
Unpublished Memoir of Liar and Emmett Till Accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham Made Public
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bettmann / Getty A memoir written by the woman who was at the center of the murder of Emmett Till has surfaced. The discovery, coupled with news of an unserved warrant from that time has raised calls to reopen the case. According to NewsOne, an unnamed source provided a copy of a 100-page memoir from Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who made the false accusation against 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi in 1955. Her claim led to the boy’s abduction, savage beating, and lynching. Till’s grotesquely disfigured face was published in JET Magazine, spurring many to mobilize within the Black community and serving as a flashpoint for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The document, entitled “I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle”, was apparentl...
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley Gets Owned By Berkeley Professor Khiara Bridges For Transphobic Questioning
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges owned fist-pumping, insurrectionist supporting Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) during a hearing Tuesday (Juy 12) about the overturning of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. During the hearing, which veered off into conversations about trans persons and their ability for pregnancy, Bridges gave back Hawley everything he asked for and more. “You’ve referred to ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy’,” he said. “Would that be women?” Bridges replied: “Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy. Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy.” While...
Prodigy ft. Berto Rich “You Will See,” Danger Mouse & Black Thought ft. Michael Kiwanuka “Aquamarine” & More | Daily Visuals 7.13.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been five years since the tragic passing of Hip-Hop legend, Prodigy of Mobb Deep and though many thought we’d never hear anything new from him after a few years, today we get some new work from one of the most Infamous rappers from Queens. Recently his estate released some new visuals to “You Will See” which features stock footage of P while he was still with us on this earth and plan on dropping Prodigy’s posthumous album, The Hegelian Dialectic Volume 2: The Book Of Heroine sometime this summer. Rest In Power, King. Keeping with Hip-Hop legends, Black Thought keeps on dropping bars that make you think and in he and Danger Mouse’s Michael Kiwanuka assised “Aquamarine,”Thought looks into the camera as he spits his verse to make sure you know where these jewe...
