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‘Love & Hip-Hop’ Star Apple Watts Hospitalized After Severe Car Accident
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VH1 / VH1 Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Apple Watts was in a crash on early Wednesday morning (March 23) in Baker, California. She has been hospitalized and unfortunately, she is reportedly “unresponsive.” According to reports, the vehicle Watts was traveling in, a black Mercedes, flipped multiples after crashing with a Ford F250 pickup truck on the I-15 while travelling between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Watts, who appeared on Season 5 and 6 of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood is said to have suffered “major injuries,” per the California Highway Patrol. TMZ adds that a passenger who was inside the F250 assisted Watts in getting out her car, which was lit on fire. She was then air-lifted to a nearby hospital in Nevada. According to the Shade Room, which...
Feet Flasher Doja Cat Quits Music After Paraguay Twitter Battle Goes Full Racist
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: JAVIER TORRES / Getty Doja Cat has quit music, allegedly. The rapper who has been doing more crooning more than spittin’ lately has allegedly called it a career after getting into a Twitter battle with what seems like all of Paraguay that quickly went racist. Apparently, a Doja Cat performance was canceled in Paraguay. Despite it being due to flooding, it seems that people had a problem with her not interacting with fans outside her hotel room as if it was disrespect. She did perform in Brazil, but after tweeting that the show wasn’t up to snuff and she would do better, which caused Paraguay Twitter to go nuclear in her mentions. Know what, we’ll let TMZ recap the struggle: Doja copped to not putting on “a good enough show,” but promised she’d...
Ginni Thomas Texts To Mark Meadows On Stealing 2020 Election Revealed
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Consolidated News Pictures / Getty The intricate web of corruption behind events to overturn the 2020 presidential election became clearer as text messages from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas demanding a congressman throw out the results were made public. A joint effort between Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and CBS’ Robert Costa helped break the bombshell story on Thursday (March 24th) that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas sent numerous and frantic text messages to Mark Meadows, who was serving as the Chief of Staff in the White House under President Donald J. Trump. “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden...
Kobe Bryant’s Estate To Continue Business Relationship With Nike
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke Looks like the fears that the Kobe Bryant brand would be leaving Nike has been put to rest as Vanessa Bryant has announced that the Bryant estate will continue their business venture with the swoosh brand for the coming future. Taking to Instagram to announce the news, Vanessa Bryant expressed her excitement at the new agreement with Nike and not only because that they’ll continue to honor her late-great husband’s legacy, but also because where the future proceeds will be going once everything comes to fruition. “We’re excited to announce our partnership with Nike is going to continue! I am so proud that my husband’s shoes are still the most worn by players on NBA courts and that the demand for his shoes remain so desired by his fans around th...
Male Birth Control Pill Highly Effective In Early Tests
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Peter Dazeley / Getty News from the scientific world has revealed that tests on a male contraceptive pill have proven to be highly successful in initial trials, paving the way to be tested on humans. In a recent report expected to be presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers have found that their tests of a non-hormonal contraceptive pill for men produced a high rate of effectiveness. The study, which was conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota led by Gunda Georg, Ph.D., found that when the pills were given to male mice there was a 99 percent effacacy rate of pregancy prevention in female mice. The research was conducted over a four-week period and showed highly reduced sperm counts after targeting a cert...
Louis De Guzman & New Balance Collaborate To Remix The 574
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New Balance / New Balance To the surprise of many a sneaker head, New Balance is quickly becoming one of the hottest brands on the streets and dropping some pretty dope exclusive collaborations and colorways that sellout in minutes. Now Louis De Guzman has become the latest artist to collaborate with the sports brand and together they’ve remixed the New Balance 574 into a thing of beauty dubbed “Ma Divina” which pays homage to Guzman’s mother and her love of flowers. According to Hyp Related Stories ebeast Louis’s mother would arrange and sell floral bouquets to sell at craft shows in the early 90’s in Chicago and because of this, Guzman used a gang of dusty pastels on suede overlays to resemble the look of bouquet of Spring flowers. “As a child, my ...
Drake & LeBron James Give Huge Gift To High School Athlete and His Mom
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cole Burston / Getty A Toronto-area high school athlete and his mother recently got the surprise of their life thanks to a generous gesture by Drake with an assist from LeBron James. Drake recently added to his entrepreneurial portfolio by becoming a partner in an online cryptocurrency betting platform known as Stake, and celebrated by hosting a dinner that NBA superstar and friend LeBron James attended. The dinner was held at the Harbour 60 restaurant, a favorite of the rapper and the backdrop for his video for the hit single “Headlines”. The event was also sponsored by tequila brand Lobos 1707. In a video he shared to his fans through his Instagram account, Drake reminisced about the times he’s had in the restaurant. Related Stories “Lot of me...
Rihanna’s Diamond Ring Have Many Thinking She Is Engaged To A$AP Rocky
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Coppola / Getty A$AP Rocky already put a bun in Rihanna’s oven. Did he also put in a ring on that finger? Rihanna has been proudly baring her gorgeous baby bump, but many have also noticed the stunning ring on her finger that has folks believing the mogul and Hip-Hop star are possibly engaged. Per Madame Noire, Rihanna was spotted on Monday (Mar.21) while shopping at Kitson in Los Angeles sporting the bling that has made previous appearances on different fingers. In this particular Rihanna moment, the bling was seen on the finger, which usually signifies being engaged. Related Stories The “Rude Girl” crafter has had the ring for some time. Madame Noire expertly points out that the hand jewelry had made other appearances when she and Rocky filmed...
Former Chateau Marmont Employees Plan Picket Line During JAY-Z’s Oscar Bash This Weekend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty JAY-Z’s upcoming Oscars soiree will have to compete with the sound with protest chants. Per Page Six, guests attending JAY-Z’s big Oscars bash will be met by former employees of the Chateau Marmont on a picket line protesting the establishment. The iconic Los Angeles hotel has been the subject of boycotts after the hotel’s 250 employees were let go at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic without any insurance or severance pay. That’s not all. There were also allegations of racial discrimination and harassment, claims the hotel denies happened. Regardless, Jigga is not letting that stop him or his wife, Beyoncé. She will be in attendance because she is a confirmed performer at the award’s show from partying the night away and po...
Kyrie Irving To Be Cleared To Play In Brooklyn After NYC Mayor Lifts Vaccine Mandate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Justin Ford / Getty After missing most of the season due to his reluctance to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Kyrie Irving will finally be able to play in home games for the Brooklyn Nets as New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expected to lift the vaccine mandate for performers and athletes in the work place. CBS Sports is reporting that the newly minted Mayor of the Big Apple is expected to make the announcement today (March 24) on “his decision to reverse the private-sector vaccine mandate specifically for performers and athletes in local venues, including Barclays Center — home to the Brooklyn Nets — and both Citi Field in Queens and Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.” Related Stories Right in time for the playoffs too. Coincidence? We’ll never know but we’re not ma...
Cory Booker Moves Ketanji Brown Jackson To Tears While Adjusting Her Crown
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In the midst of contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the supportive words of Senator Cory Booker created an riveting moment that brought the nominee to tears. As the hearings to confirm federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court continued on Wednesday (March 23rd), the tone of the Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee became more accusatory and confrontational towards the nominee. Pointed attacks by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) who claimed that Jackson supported “critical race theory” and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggesting that Jackson’s nomination was the result of “dark money” from far-left groups led the judge to stoically defend herself throughout t...
Denzel Curry ft. T-Pain “Troubles,” Leikeli47 “LL Cool J” & More | Daily Visuals 3.22.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty As T-Pain continues to get back into the limelight he once basked in at the height of the Auto-Tune craze which he Godfathered back in the early 00’s, Teddy keeps poppin’ up in features when you least expect him and today is no exception. Lending his talents to Denzel Curry for the visuals to “Troubles,” T-Pain and DC go back-and-forth from black-and-white cinematography in a night club to colorful settings in various situations that find the men pondering life and their situations. Pretty cool video. Speaking of black-and-white visuals, Leikeli47 goes that very route for her clip to “LL Cool J” in which a few different women pose up a storm and bust all kinds of moves to the beat. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work ...
