HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @BeanzGotGamez Nicki Minaj is tired of other rappers mentioning her. Minaj is in full album mode and has been highly active on social media. The Queens rapper had something to say to people who keep bringing her up in conversations calling them out in several tweets. “Would it have bothered u dumb fkng hoes to simply STFD & STFU?!?!!!! BUT NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Minaj tweeted. Minaj was not done. She warned the unnamed individuals that she is done playing nice with them, warning they would only be getting one version of her from now on. Related Stories “Many of y’all never experienced a “Nicki got her foot on btchs necks” era & it shows So from this day forth y’all will not get papa bear mommy cuz y’all don’t deserve her. Yall won’t get...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty It seems we are very close to getting a new Bobby Shmurda project. The rapper claims he had to go independent because record labels are blackballing him. As per HypeBeast the Brooklyn, N.Y, native is prepping his comeback album. On Tuesday (April 19), Shmurda took to social media to announce They Don’t Know, his first project since his 2014 EP Shmurda She Wrote. Related Stories “4/29 it’s littttttttttt F*** all y’all n***** independent 🦍 on the loose🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏿💯😂😂😂😂😂 nah I been dying for y’all to get this work, let’s talk facts no 🧢🎓🎩🙏🏿😂😂😂” he w...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lake Havasu Police Department / Lake Havasu PD It has been almost four years since the world lost the talents of Mac Miller way too soon. One of the reported drug dealers of the beloved Pittsburgh rapper has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to TMZ, the plug who provided the fentanyl-laced Oxycodone that eventually made it into Mac Miller’s possession got hit with a 10 years and 11 months sentence. Related Stories Ryan Reavis will be behind bars for 10 years and 11 months after pleading guilty in November to one count of distributing fentanyl. The sentence is longer than what Reavis himself had asked for — 5 years — but shorter than the 12.5 years prosecutors were gunning for. Remember … the feds say Reavis supplied the deadly oxycodone pill...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Daniele Venturelli / Getty After setting social media ablaze with an unsubstantiated rumor that A$AP Rocky was cheating on a very pregnant Rihanna with close friend and designer Amina Muaddi, the writer who started it all is now apologizing. Taking to Twitter, Fashion influencer, Louis Pisano, issued a statement on social media apologizing for their actions and for stirring up gossip. Related Stories “Hi all, so I’d like to address the situation,” the tweet read. “Last night I made a dumb decision to tweet some information I had received. I’m not going to talk about sources, blame others for a discussion that was started, etc because at the end of the day I made the decision to draft that tweet, press send and put that out with my name on it. So I’d like ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Eric Adams tenure as the Mayor of New York City is only a few months old but already the man’s ways and actions has his him looking very funny in the light. After making some controversial decisions including participating in nepotism and rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, now Eric Adams is going the Trumpian route and is seemingly hiding his taxes from the public. According to Politico, Adams says he won’t commit to releasing his tax returns, bucking decades of customs but danced around the possibility of one day maybe making his returns public if need be. Related Stories “I will comply with whatever rules are in place, you know we do our disclosure also. I think that’s sometime in May,” Adams said at a press briefing, likely ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty This is another clear-cut case of why elections will always matter. A Donald Trump-appointed Florida judge has done away with the Biden Administrations’ federal mask mandate. As COVID-19 cases are back on the rise due to the BA.2 Omicron variant, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle decided the one rule-keeping travelers safe as they traveled during an ongoing pandemic was unlawful. Her reasoning, as to be expected, is completely head a**. According to Kimball, the mask mandate “exceeded the statutory authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and because its implementation violated administrative law,” CNN reports. In her 59-page ruling, she compared the mask mandate to “detention and quarantin...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Snoop Dogg made quite the big score after buying back Death Row Records and relaunching the legendary label, but some fans noticed some of the classic records from that time were missing from streaming services. The Doggfather explained in a recent interview that he intends to launch an app where those classics will live exclusively. Uncle Snoop was a recent guest on the Drink Champs podcast with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, naturally running through the Long Beach, Calif. native’s lengthy and still-ongoing career. As has been noted in earlier reports, Snoop elected to remove Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, his debut album Doggystyle, and Tha Dogg Pound’s Dog Food from Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music for streaming. Snoop explained, “First thing I did...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: press handout / Live Nation Hip-Hop fans just got blessed with some great news as legendary rappers Nas and the Wu-Tang Clan have announced that they’re going on tour together. The iconic artists announced Tuesday morning (April 19th) that they will be co-headliners on the “NY State of Mind” Tour. The tour, which will hit 25 cities across North America, will be sponsored by Live Nation. The “NY State of Mind” Tour will kick off in the late summer at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO on Tuesday, August 30th. The news comes as Nas is on a hot streak with his recent albums and The Bridge podcast on Spotify with Miss Info, and with the Wu-Tang Clan having their debut album recently added to the National Recording Registry. Related Storie...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: LizardCube/Guard Crush Games / Dotemu Due to the success of the first two Sonic The Hedgehog movies, another SEGA property is reportedly getting the film treatment and will find itself on the big screen. According to reports, the classic beat ’em up video game Streets of Rage will be the next video game from SEGA that to be tuned into a film. The deal has not been finalized, but word on the video game and movie streets is that John Wick creator Derek Kolstad has penned the script, and if you have seen any of the John Wick movies that feature Keanu Reeves, as the titular character, the action is always on point. Sonic The Hedgehog producers dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists are set to produce. Based on these developments, this film version of the ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Activision / Call of Duty Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone got some west coast flavor and it comes right on time for 4/20. The previously announced Snoop Dogg operator bundle is now live in both Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone Activision happily announced. The new president and owner of Death Row Records and avid gamer’s operator can be leveled up by players and comes with four challenges that will allow you to earn Operator XP. While playing, performing Kills, Headshot Kills, Hipfire Kills, and, of course, getting wins will help to unlock Sizable Operator XP rewards. Snoop’s progression path will allow players to unlock l XP and PPSH-41 Weapon XP rewards, two Sprays, two Operator Quips, a Calling Card, a Sticker, an Emblem, a Weapon Charm, a Vanguar...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty DJ Envy and his wife Gia Casey have been candid about their relationship woes along with their success and did so again in a recent interview. Folks on Twitter are reacting to a portion of the talk when Casey shared that she faked orgasms with Envy revealing the devasting way he learned of his former weak pipe delivery. Sitting down with The Shade Room, Envy and Casey dished on The Breakfast Club host infamously stepping outside of their union, getting things back on track as a couple, and more. However, the clip that has people talking featured Casey saying that in order to protect her partner’s ego, she would get into a little bit of bedroom theatrics. Envy, who thought he was holding things down, learned that his skills we...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Panera struck gold with its monthly Coffee Club subscription services with over 600,000 subscribers using the hot and iced beverage service. On Tuesday (April 19), the company expanded its monthly program by launching the Unlimited Sip Club and partnered with T-Pain to offer a chance at winning a lavish gold chalice to boot. Panera billed the Unlimited Sip Club last the first and only monthly subscription service in the restaurant industry aimed toward unlimited self-serve beverages. For $10.99 a month, subscribers can enjoy an unlimited run of all 27 of Panera’s drink offerings, including hot and iced coffee, lemonade, fountain beverages, and Panera’s new Charged Lemonades. If you want in on the Unlimited Sip Club, Panera is offer...