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Kendrick Lamar Floats Through “N95” Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / pgLang Kendrick Lamar certainly got the Hip-Hop world praising, discussing and debating after his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers dropped. On cue for the highly-anticipated album’s rollout, the Compton rapper drops a stunning visual for “N95” off the project. The song’s content is about stripping away everything and getting to the core, with plenty of one-liners that will be showing up on Instagram captions for a while, too. “Take off the weird-ass jewelry, I’m a take ten steps, then I’m taking off top five, take off them fabricated streams and them microwave memes, it’s a real world outside,” spits Kendrick. Related Stories From floating over the ocean, to kicking rhymes in a crucifix-filled room to running for his life from a ...
DaBaby ft. MoneyBagg Yo “WIG,” T.O. Green ft. Rick Ross “Only Fans” & More | Daily Visuals 5.12.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Though DaBaby’s been making more noise for the drama and violence that’s been going on in his personal life, the North Carolina rapper isn’t letting those things sidetrack his professional life and continues to drop off new work for his hardcore fans. Linking up with MoneyBagg Yo for his new visuals to “WIG,” DaBaby finds himself opening up a Wig shop and gets turnt up with a gang of thick and twerking clientele who run through his store looking for some new hair pieces to throw on for the weekend. Back in the strip club, T.O. Green links up with Rick Ross to count money, pop bottles and enjoy some of the thickest talent you’ll ever see in his clip to “Only Fans.” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Young Jonn and Davido, NoCap, and more. DABA...
Pump Fake: Elon Musk Puts Twitter Acquisition On Temporary Hold, Snoop Dogg Wants In
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Elon Musk made waves in the tech world with the chatter surrounding his apparent takeover of the sprawling Twitter universe. Now, the billionaire businessman is putting the acquisition of the company on hold via a cryptic tweet that leaves room for various interpretations but a certain legendary rapper may prove to be a foil. On Friday (May 13), Musk wrote, “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” in a quote tweet featuring a story from Reuters regarding spam and fake accounts. Later in the thread of tweets, Musk added, “still committed to acquisition.” Related Stories As part of his pledge to get rid of the bots on Twitter, Musk then wro...
YSL Rapper Lil Keed Dead At 24
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Up and coming YSL rapper Lil Keed has reportedly passed away. He was just 24. Keed’s brother and fellow rapper Lil Gotit confirmed his passing. “Can’t believe I seened u die today bro I did all my cries,” wrote Gotit on Instagram. “I know what u want me to do and that’s go hard for Mama Daddy Our Brothers Naychur and Whiteboy.” Signed to YSL, the label has been steeped in controversy. A grand jury indicted 28 people including various YSL members like Slim Thug and Gunna on RICO charges. However, Keed was not under arrest. At this time, a cause of death has not been revealed. Condolences have been pouring in since news of his passing. “I love you sooooo much baby what I’m post to do with out you I can’t breathe right sleep rig...
Kim Kardashian Says Kanye West Told Her That Her “Career’s Over” Due To Suspect Fits
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty Kim Kardashian is continuing to use her family’s new reality show, The Kardashians, as a stage to air out all of the toxic details regarding her former relationship with Kanye West as well as their post-divorce interactions. In fact, in the latest episode, Kim recalled how Ye told her that her “career’s over” now that she’s no longer taking his fashion advice and confining her wardrobe to whatever he has approved. From BuzzFeed News: Within months of them getting together in 2012, Kanye literally reworked Kim’s entire closet after apparently telling her that she had “the worst style.” Related Stories And for the next nine years, Kanye would go out of his way to ensure that Kim’s out...
L’s On Deck: The Union Air Jordan 2’s Will Be Up For Grabs On SNKRS
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Union / Union The online release of the Union Air Jordan 2 a few weeks back was all kinds of struggle. With the CAPCHAT not working to payments not being processed to people getting charged multiple times with no order confirmations to show for it, sneaker heads went through the motions for hours that fateful Friday morning last month. Now sneakerheads will be getting a second chance to get their hands on a pair as the the highly coveted Air Jordan 2’s (when was the last time you heard anyone say that about the 2’s?) will be up for grabs once again later this month. Taking to Instagram to let their follows in on the good news, Union LA announced that their collaboration with Jordan will be coming to SNKRS writing “Just wanted to give everyone an early hea...
J. Prince Calls Out Wack 100 For Undermining Free Larry Hoover Efforts, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @jprincerespect / Instagram Wack 100 continues to get under Hip-Hop’s skin. His newest critic is J. Prince who claims he is thwarting his attempts to free Larry Hoover. As per Complex the Rap-A-Lot Records mogul is taking issues with one of Rap’s most polarizing figures. On Monday, May 9 he called out the record executive turned social media star for taking action that he perceives to be harmful to the ongoing efforts to get Larry Hoover out of jail. “It’s no secret that I, along with the Hoover family, lawyers, and friends are fighting hard for Larry Hoover freedom,” J. Prince said in an audio clip that accompanied the Instagram post. “Meanwhile, this dude Wack and Karen Chapman, have taken the position to work against the Hoover family by trying t...
Kendrick Lamar Drops ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ LP As Twitter Dives Into The Themes
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Wally Skalij / Getty Kendrick Lamar shook up the world last week with the surprise release of the single “The Heart Part 5” and its soul-stirring accompanying video. Now that his fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is finally out in the world, folks on Twitter are chiming in with a number of varied thoughts on the project. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a double album and will be the last Kendrick Lamar album released under the Top Dawg Entertainment label. Like other previous works from K-Dot, the album leans into a concept of duality, trauma, addiction, relationship woes, and the like all through the lens of Black America. The album doesn’t have the benefit of a big single to propel it to casual listeners; this is an album for true...
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It’s Up: Cardi B Clarifies Tense Encounter With DJ At NYC Nightclub [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @BeanzGotGamez When will the world accept that Cardi B is really not for play. She addressed a situation where a DJ tried to play with her name at a New York City nightclub. On Wednesday, May 11 Bardi, her husband Offset and her entourage attended Richie Romero’s Wonderland nightclub. While she seemed to be enjoying herself things went left for what seems to be no reason at all. As per Complex the “Press” rapper took issue with a DJ that announced that her former rival was also in attendance. “Shout out to Nicki Minaj in the muthaf***in’ building, let’s go!” After the incorrect shoutout he proceeded to play “Do We Have a Problem?” and added “Nicki, let’s f*** it up. Let’s go!” Naturally the inaccuracy immediately caught Cardi’s ...
NBA Twitter Declares The Ben Simmons & James Harden Trade An Absolute Bust
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Tim Nwachukwu / Getty The Ben Simmons and James Harden trade is looking like it didn’t benefit either the Brooklyn Nets or Philadelphia 76ers. After the Philadelphia 76ers got bounced out of the playoffs by Jimmy Butler, and the Miami Heat Thursday night (May.12), NBA Twitter ultimately decided that the trade between the Nets and Sixers didn’t benefit either franchise. Harden, who has been a shell of his former self since he was dealt from the Houston Rockets to the Nets, kept his playoff legacy of disappearing during the postseason going. With a hobbled Joel Embiid trying his best to help Philly force a Game 7, Harden decided to check out in the second half of the game, only taking TWO shots. Yes, you read that correctly, just TWO shots. Stephen A....
Kendrick Lamar Announces The Big Steppers Tour
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: pgLang / pgLang While Twitter debates the merits, and greatness, of Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, business is moving along. The Compton rapper announced The Big Steppers Tour to support the new project. Source: Renell Medrano (@renellaice) / Renell Medrano (@renellaice) The tour has both national and international legs and will run through the summer, fall and winter with Baby Keem as the supporting act on all dates along with Tanna Leone on select dates. Sponsored by Amazon Music, Rotation and Cash App, the national tour kicks off July 19 in Oklahoma City, OK at Paycom Center and will hit cities like New York, New Orleans, Nashville, Oakland and Las Vegas before wrapping up with two nights in Los Angeles at the Crypto.com...
‘Atlanta’ “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” Episode Brilliantly Tackles How Blackness Is Judged
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Guy D’Alema / Atlanta FX Atlanta sticks with its theme of airing episodes that don’t feature the show’s four main characters. Season three’s ninth episode, “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga,” brilliantly tackles what it means to be Black and how Blackness is judged. SPOILERS AHEAD The episode, which immediately gives off Twilight Zone due to its black and white vibes, follows Aaron (Tyriq Wethers), a biracial teenager who, at first, you wouldn’t think it has an ounce of melanin in him based on his reaction to Black kids he is playing video games with online. It also hits you like a punch to the gut when we meet Aaron’s Black father, who is trying to raise a young teen, clearly influenced by his white friends with Black parental skills. Aaron’s struggle ...
