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Alleged Stalker Ordered To Stay Away From Drake Until 2025
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steve Russell / Getty Drake can breathe a sigh of relief after a judge ordered a stalker to stay away from him for a couple of years. TMZ Hip Hop reports Drake was granted a three-year restraining order from a deranged fan who has trespassed on his property and even tried to sue the rapper ridiculously claiming he was harassing her. Per TMZ Hip Hop: Related Stories According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ Hip Hop … Drake’s attorneys, Larry Stein and Ashley Yeargan, were in court for Tuesday’s hearing, which ended with the judge approving a 3-year restraining order. The alleged stalker was not in court, but will be served the order. As we reported, Drake’s been dealing with this woman for a while now — she was arrested for tresp...
Feast Your Eyes On Pro-Ject’s $2,500 Premium Turntable The X8 Evolution
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pro-Ject / Pro-Ject X8 Evolution Pro-Ject, a premium audio company, has introduced its newest high-end turntable, and yes, it costs a lot of damn money. The Pro-Ject’s X8 Evolution, described as a “Mass-Loaded High-End Turntable” designed for “true audiophiles,” is here and improves technical features from Xtension 9 and 10. The X8 Evolution features a sleek and very expensive-looking design that “is machined out of a single piece of aluminum and damped with a TPE (Thermo Plastic Elastomer) insert,” Pro-Ject announced. The turntable’s platter rotates on an inverted bearing combined with a ceramic ball and PTFE thrust pad. To ensure the bearing’s longevity, Pro-Ject explains its”opposing neodymium magnet repels the platter from the plinth and bearing...
Archie Eversole Was Shot In The Face Sleeping, According To Cops
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty New details are currently emerging surrounding the tragic shooting death of “We Ready” rapper, Archie Eversole. According to a new report, Eversole was shot in the face while sleeping, with policing pinning the murder on his brother. TMZ obtained exclusive details about the shooting, writing that Eversole alerted police that he was shot was asleep but wasn’t aware that the shooter was his brother, later revealed to be Alexander Krause. From TMZ: Related Stories According to the police report … Archie told cops someone had kicked open his bedroom door and he was awakened by a gunshot to his face on March 25, but he couldn’t see who shot him. The docs say police then asked if the shooter was still in the home and he nodded his head yes...
HHW Gaming: Godzilla & King Kong Throw Hands In ‘Call of Duty: Operation Monarch’ Teaser
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Activision / Call of Duty: Operation Monarch Yes, this is actually happening. The King of Monsters, Godzilla, and the Great Ape, King Kong, will be coming to Call of Duty, and we are quite excited. Thursday (Apr.21), Activision Blizzard confirmed the giant rumor that two legendary kaiju would be coming to the world of Call of Duty to wreak havoc on game maps. We never thought we would see the day, but Snoop Dogg, who was just recently added as the latest operator in the popular first-person shooter franchise, will meet King Kong and Godzilla, oh fo shizzle. Related Stories Outside of the full CGI teaser revealed, the next update will be called Operation Monarch and features Kong and Godzilla once again duking it out for kaiju supremacy. We have no idea ho...
Ari Lennox, Noname Named Headliners For AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The city of Minneapolis, Minn. is set to play host to the latest edition of the Planet AFROPUNK Festival, with Ari Lennox and Noname prominently featured among the performers. The festival released the information for the two-day concert event on Tuesday (April 19), with the Dreamville songstress as a headliner alongside Noname, Mereba, and Sango. The rest of the lineup is jam-packed with some of the top-tier performers representing the Twin Cities. AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis will be held at Sheridan Memorial Park in Minneapolis on June 19, coinciding with other Juneteenth events held in the area. In a statement, organizers lauded the importance of having the event there. “The people of Minneapolis rise up in the face of oppression, ...
‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 2’ Delayed Until 2023
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Marsland / Getty Sorry Spider-Man fans, but it looks like Sony’s highly anticipated sequel to Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has been delayed until sometime next year. According to Vulture, Sony Pictures recently published their latest release calendar and unfortunately for comic book fans, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 2 has been pushed back nine months from October 7, 2022 to June 2, 2023. To make matters even worse, the film will be delivered in two installations, so while we’ll be getting part 1 in June of 2023, we won’t be getting the conclusion until March 29, 2024! Why is Sony doing us like this?! Related Stories One of the film’s writers, Phil Lord apparently took delight in the announcement that the film was being pushed back and...
Jaqueline Avant’s Killer Gets Triple-Digit Jail Sentence
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gabriel Olsen / Getty The man responsible for killing Jaqueline Avant, wife of iconic entertainment mogul Clarence Avant, has been given a hefty sentence of life in state prison according to authorities. On Tuesday (April 19), a press release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office stated that Aariel Maynor was given a sentence of 190 years in prison. Maynor pleaded guilty last month in court to first-degree murder, attempted murder, firearm possession, and residential burglary. The 30-year-old broke into the Avant family’s Beverly Hills residence on December 1, 2021, with the intent to rob the place. Related Stories Maynor e shot Mrs. Avant in the back with a rifle, then he shot the couple’s security guard, according to the given testimony...
Peep The Latest Teaser Trailer for ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS” / Marvel Marvel Studios finally released the trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder, but before we get back into the life of the God from Asgard, we still have some unfinished business to attend to in the Marvel Multiverse courtesy of Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch. In a new teaser trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we’re getting a few more bits and pieces of what we can expect when the good doctor and Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) wander into the multiple Marvel realities that Strange opened up during the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Related Stories Teaming up with Wanda and Wong to help him restore the fabric of realities back to their rightful place, Doctor Strange finds that it’s ...
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon To Write & Direct Film About Nike’s Pursuit of Michael Jordan
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Franco Origlia / Getty Have y’all sneakerheads ever wanted to see a movie about how Michael Jordan ended up signing with the Nike brand? Well, y’all are about to get your chance to find out. According to Nice Kicks, childhood buddies turned Hollywood heavyweights, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are once again teaming up to star in a film about Sonny Vaccaro, who was the main catalyst that swayed Air Jordan to sign with the Nike brand instead of his preferred brand at the time, Converse. Related Stories Damon will be taking on the role of the aforementioned Nike executive while Affleck will play another famous Nike head honcho, Phil Knight, with both men also taking on writing, directing, and producing duties on the film. The film will mainly focus on the damn...
Rapper Pooh Shiesty Catches 63 Month Prison Bid After Guilty Plea
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Pooh Sheisty is taking an extended, involuntary vacation. After pleading to guilty to gun charge in lieu of going to trial, the Memphis rapper received a 63-month prison sentence. The kicker is that Pooh was looking at more than the 5 years he agreed to. Reports TMZ: Pooh, whose real name is Lontrell Williams, was facing more than 8 years in prison, if prosecutors got their way — but his attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells TMZ … the government’s calculations were off. Cohen says they asked for no more than 63 months, which is exactly what the judge gave him. Pooh was busted for an October 2020 shootout involving himself and several other men. The incident went down in a Miami-area condo parking lot … and it left 2 men injured. Repor...
Thanks To Jerry Seinfeld, Wale’s ‘More About Nothing’ Mixtape Is Coming To Streaming Services
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Terry Wyatt / Getty Wale fans, if you have been hoping More About Nothing would find its way on streaming services, we have some good news for you. Regarded as one of Wale’s more popular mixtapes, More About Nothing will be landing on streaming services, the rapper revealed, and it’s all thanks to Wale’s buddy, Jerry Seinfeld. The rapper shared the good news in a video announcement on Twitter. It broke down his feelings about the project, which was inspired by the comedy sitcom and featured several episodes while explaining how his friendship with the comedian started. In a follow-up tweet shared on Wednesday (Apr.20), he noted that Seinfield went out of his way to clear the material featured on the mixtape, “Thank Jerry Seinfeld. That guy made all the ca...
Kid Cudi Takes To Twitter To Announce He & Kanye Still Aren’t Cool With Each Other
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Timothy Norris / Getty For the past few years Kanye West has become quite well-versed in the art of alienating fans, friends and even his rap peers, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Kid Cudi recently stated that he and Kim Kardashian’s stalker are no longer on speaking terms after he and Ye traded barbs on social media. Yesterday the Man on The Moon artist seemingly out of nowhere took to Twitter to announce that the only reason that he’s on Pusha T’s album is because he recorded his verse “a year ago when I was still cool w Kanye” but that’s is not the case these days as he is no longer “cool w that man.” Can’t say we saw that coming. Related Stories More than likely this has to do with Kanye West speaking out against Cudi for being cool with his rom...
