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adidas Sues Nike For Patent Infringement Related To The SNKRS App
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker After months of suing multiple people and corporations for various reasons, Nike has now been slapped with a lawsuit against them as Adidas is alleging that the swoosh giant committed patent infringement of their technology on the Nike SNKRS app. Complex is reporting that Adidas filed the lawsuit this past Friday (June 10) in Eastern Texas federal court claiming that Nike infringed on nine of their patents including those related to its sneaker reservation app, Confirmed and the Adidas_1 sneaker. Aside from taking issue with the way that Nike goes about their reservation method (which adidas says was their idea first), the brand also has beef with Nike’s “Adapt” tech which they feel is a blatant ripoff of their “Smart” tech. Rela...
Roddy Ricch Governors Ball Case Dropped Less Than 24 Hours Later
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Roddy Ricch found himself in hot water on the way to his set at the Governors Ball music festival but managed to get released shortly afterward. According to reports, the rapper was en route to perform at the Governors Ball being held at Citifield in Queens, New York on Saturday (June 11th). The 23-year-old was riding in a Cadillac with two other men, Michael Figueroa and Carlos Collins as they reached a checkpoint outside of the venue. NYPD officers responded as Figueroa reportedly replied to a festival security worker asking him to exit the vehicle, “I’m not ready to get out yet.” An on-scene search of the car included the front passenger seat where Figueroa sat was in. Police unearthed a 9 mm Cavik handgun with bullets. All three w...
Marvel Confirms ‘Thunderbolts’ Movie Is In The Works
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ DC’s Suicide Squad might’ve left comic book fans with a sour taste in their mouths, but fear not for Marvel is here to do with their villains that the DCEU could not, make them enjoyable. Yahoo is reporting that Marvel has confirmed that a Thunderbolts project is in the works and will potentially star Captain America: Civil War villain Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl) amongst other familiar MCU heroes and villains. In the comics, the Thunderbolts are something like Marvel’s version of the Suicide Squad consisting of a group of reformed super-criminals led by Baron Helmut Zemo. While initially formed by Zemo as a cover to steal city resources, the team later becomes a true force for good in the world. Rumors of a Thunderbolts film had been swirli...
HHW Gaming: Finally ‘Starfield’ Gameplay & More Announcements From The Xbox & Bethesda Showcase
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Xbox & Bethesda / Starfield The moment Xbox fans have been waiting for has finally arrived, the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. After receiving disappointing news about Starfield and Redfall’s delay, we have a pretty good idea of the future of the Xbox Series S|X. Xbox & Bethesda Had A Lot To Show PlayStation shut the haters up with their recent State of Play presentation, and immediately gamers looked at Xbox and said you’re next. Sunday (June.12), the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase stepped up to the plate and showed off A LOT OF GAMES, 33 to be exact. Of course, it was pretty fitting Xbox opened and closed the showcase with Redfall and Starfield. Redfall Looks Fun As Hell [embedded content] While Arkane Austin’s Redfall wasn’t high...
Jim Jones & Migos “We Set The Trends,” Pharrell Williams ft. 21 Savage & Tyler, The Creator “Cash In Cash Out” & More | Daily Visuals 6.10.22
HipHopWired Featured Video NFT’s have been all the rage for a minute now and while many Hip-Hoppers aren’t really up on the new digital art movement, Jim Jones and Migos are looking to cash in on the latest craze. In their latest visuals to “We Set The Trends,” Migos (all three of them too) get digitalized and rock in the metaverse before Jim Jones turns the White House into the trap house while taking to the podium all in the name of digital art. This is the first ever NFT music video too so it should be interesting to see how this goes. Speaking of a digital world, Pharrell too leaves reality to get into a more computer generated existence for his clip to “Cash In Cash Out” where he, 21 Savage and Tyler, The Creator get the clay animation treatment and go through all kinds of dope transf...
No Hands: Blac Chyna Catches Celebrity Boxing Fade, Match Is A Draw
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Aaron Davidson / Getty Yes, Blac Chyna is a celebrity boxer now. She had a match last night with a “celebrity fitness influencer” and despite looking like she was catching the proper fade, the fight was a draw. This really happened. Reports TMZ: Chyna’s ring showdown with fitness model Alysia Magen wasn’t the greatest display of the sweet science — but both women threw lots of punches — and while BC might argue this, Alysia got in the best single shot. Related Stories There was only one knockdown, and that was Alysia putting Blac Chyna on her ass … but she was able to get back up. When the Saturday night PPV event was over the judges called it a tie. Neither “fighter” was thrilled with that outcome … in fact, they both called it “bulls**t,” and neith...
Roddy Ricch Arrested For Gun In NYC Before Governors Ball, Performance Is A Wash
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Frazer Harrison / Getty Roddy Ricch was supposed to perform at Governors Ball in New York City this weekend. However, the Compton rapper was popped on weapons charges as he was entering the venue in Queens, and his plans went kaput. The “The Box” rapper was supposed to perform on Saturday (June 11), but that was a no-go thanks to a gun in the whip. Related Stories According to TMZ Hip Hop, Roddy and his team were stopped at a security checkpoint to the Queens festival and law enforcement said they found a loaded in the vehicle. According to the cops, they also found “about 9 rounds of ammo as well as a large capacity magazine.” Roddy and two other people in the vehicle were arrested and the rapper was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, pos...
Yung Miami Leaves Diddy Speechless in Teaser for New ‘Caresha Please’ Podcast
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Yung Miami is turning the heat up this summer with her new podcast Caresha Please and the teaser that features a speechless Diddy confirms that she didn’t come to play. In the trailer that’s making its rounds across social media, she casually asked the music mogul about his new R&B label Love Records, and how life has been for him since the passing of Kim Porter. Related Stories The sexy City Girl turned up the heat later in the episode when she asked Diddy if he was ready for the smoke in which nothing was off-limits. The “Rap Freaks” star then fired off questions about his sex life, relationship status, if he’s faithful or not, and why he never married. She even turned things up a notch by inquiring about th...
Ed Reed Has MAGA Stans Big Mad After Checking Coach Jack Del Rio Over Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Comments
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Ed Reed is no longer swiping footballs out of the air as an All-Pro safety, but he’s still making an impact on the game in other ways. The Hall of Famer called out Washington Commanders Jack Del Rio over comments the defensive coach made about the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, stating that Del Rio’s $100,000 fine was “not enough.” Ed Reed Calls Out Jack Del Rio Reed to took to Twitter to air his frustrations over Del Rio getting an essential slap on the wrist for calling the Capitol attacks a “dust up” and equating the event to protests that cropped up nationwide after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officers.“Today, im sick and tired! A dust up! 100,000 is not enough, money ain’t nothing to a person who i...
Saucy Santana Catches Beyhive’s Wrath After Coming For Beyoncé’s Daughter, Blue Ivy
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Saucy Santana is enjoying his rapid rise to fame and reaping the benefits of his burgeoning music career. However, the popular social media star is currently enduring a vicious Beyhive dragging on Twitter after old tweets about Blue Ivy resurfaced with Santana essentially doubling down. Earlier this week, Twitter caught wind of Saucy Santana’s tweets from 2014 where he’s seen comparing Blue Ivy to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s daughter, North West. It isn’t known who resurfaced the tweets but Twitter user @TodayIGotTime1 gathered a collection of now-deleted tweets from Santana, which can be viewed below. Instead of issuing an apology, Santana went on a bit of a tirade, blaming everything else on his comments other than the f...
Blxst “Be Forreal,” Real Boston Richey ft. Lil Durk “Keep Dissing 2” & More | Daily Visuals 6.9.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steve Jennings / Getty For a minute not Blxst has been doing his thing and with some high profile features on some of your favorite rappers albums (Nas, Kendrick Lamar, etc.), the California crooner is ready to shine on his own and he’s doing a damn good job of it. In his latest visuals to “Be Forreal,” Blxst continues to showcase how his relationships be going sideways as he showers his exotic looking wifey with all kinds of luxurious gifts only to eventually walk out her life and into a private jet. Could’ve saved himself a lot of money had he done that from the get-go. Just sayin.’ Elsewhere Real Boston Richey recruits Lil Durk out to Bean Town to get things poppin’ on the streets and show some thug love in their clip to “Keep Dissing 2.” Check out the...
Brooklyn To Host Puerto Rican Day Parade This Sunday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Carlos. E. Serrano / Getty Wepa! It’s that time of year as this Sunday New York City will be hosting their annual Puerto Rican Day parade in Manhattan as is tradition, but the festivities will continue in Brooklyn as Bushwick is set to host their own mini-parade for the boricuas who call the big apple home. Bushwick Daily is reporting that at 3pm this Sunday, Knickerbocker Avenue will be the place to be as the festivities will continue in a neighborhood that was once prominently Puerto Rican before gentrification hit and turned a once Hip-Hop neighborhood into an extension of the Greenwich Village in Manhattan. That being said, this year’s theme for the parade in Bushwick will be an interesting one as it hits close to home. The theme this year is “La Hist...
