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Amazon Launches Beta Version Of Amp, Focuses On Live DJ Shows & Convos
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amazon / Amazon Amazon is in the early stages of rolling out a new app that will grant users opportunities to use its vast music library to DJ live shows and also host group conversations. The service, Amp, is currently in beta testing mode, and some big names in entertainment will join the space during its initial run. Variety reports that Amp is now available for the Apple app store beginning Tuesday (March 8), and will give users immediate and legal access to millions of tracks from the catalogs of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, allowing these fledgling DJs to hold conversations with other listeners. From Variety: Related Stories “Radio has always been about music and culture,” said John Ciancutti, vice preside...
HHW Gaming: ‘God of War’ Live-Action TV Series Being Shopped To Amazon Prime
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Santa Monica Studio / God of War: Ragnarok We can expect to be hearing Kratos scream boooooooyyyy in a live-action television series soon. PlayStation Productions is hard at work turning popular video game properties into big-budget Hollywood productions. Per Deadline, a live-action television series based on Sony Santa Monica’s popular God of War video game franchise is currently being shopped to Amazon Prime. No deal has been made yet, but don’t be shocked if Amazon hits the start button on the show that will be helmed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (The Expanse) plus The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins. Based on a synopsis from PlayStation, the show will bring 2018’s fantastic God of War game to the small screen. Per PlayStation: Startin...
Apple’s Mac Studio & Studio Display Sound Like A Creative Professionals Dream Desktop Computer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Apple / Apple Mac Studio & Studio Display With its new slate flagship devices, Apple is coming for all of the hard-earned coins you earned while working from home in these past two years. The devil works hard, but Apple works harder to drop new products “more powerful and faster” than previously announced devices. Tuesday (Mar.8), the American-based tech giant had its first Apple Event of 2022 and came bearing gifts for Apple fanatics that will have them looking at the bank accounts, trying to figure out how in the hell they will pay for them. During the event, Tim Cook and co spoke about all of the Academy Award nominations, its slate of AppleTV+ that many people still haven’t seen, a new green color for the iPhone 13, an updated iPad Air, plus a ref...
Cardi B Asks Judge to Put A Permanent Gag Order On Tasha K
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz This past January Cardi B took the dub in court when a judge ruled in her favor in a defamation lawsuit against YouTuber Tasha K, but Cardi is taking things back to the court of law as Tasha just can’t seem to keep Cardi’s name out her mouth. TMZ is reporting that Cardi is asking a judge to put a permanent gag on Tasha K as she’s still apparently talking about Cardi and continuing to slander her on her YouTube channel. Related Stories “Cardi filed docs Thursday night in federal court, demanding a permanent injunction against Tasha K, who Cardi defeated in a defamation trial back in January. The jury awarded Cardi about $4 million … but in the docs she says that’s done nothing to stop Tasha from spreading the very lies that ...
Scary Hours: Drake Requests Order of Protection From Alleged Stalker
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cole Burston / Getty One unfortunate part of being famous is the very real threat of people who go out of their way to target you. And Drake is now seeking protection against one of those people who’ve allegedly made threats against him. According to reports, Drake has filed for court-ordered protection against a woman who has allegedly been stalking him for years. In the documents, the Canadian rapper has claimed that Mesha Collins has maintained a pattern of harassment against him by showing up at his home on multiple occasions. There are also claims that Collins has not only made threats on his life but the lives of his family members. As a result, Drake claims in the filing that he is dealing with emotional stress due to being concerned for his and hi...
Pill Cosby Still Free: Supreme Court Refuses To Send Bill Cosby Back To Jail
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Bill Cosby just caught another break. The Supreme Court refused to reverse the disgraced comedian’s overturned sexual assault conviction. Victims everywhere were disgusted when Cosby was released from prison early due to a technicality in 2021. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his conviction, for which he was serving a 3 to 10-year sentence, despite a jury convicting him of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, along with the dozens of women accusing him of being a sexual predator for decades. The U.S. Supreme court weighed in, and by a 4-3 decision decided not to overrule the PA’s court’s decision. According to the PA court, Cosby’s rights were violated due to a deal with a DA where he was no...
Moviegoers Paid A Tad Bit Extra To See ‘The Batman’ In Theaters
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jonathan Olley™ & © DC Comics / The Batman The Dark Knight isn’t just responsible for saving Gotham City, but the movie industry as well. Over the weekend, moviegoers dished an additional $1 to $2 to see Robert Pattinson beat up goons and solve crimes in Warner Bros.’s latest flick starring the caped crusader, The Batman. The United States’ biggest movie theater chain, AMC Entertainment, announced charging those heading to theaters to watch the latest superhero film. Based on the box office returns, no one cared, despite AMC not sharing any breakdowns of ticket sales versus attendance metrics. AMC took a giant gamble on The Batman, and it paid off with the film raking $128 million during its opening weekend, making it the second-biggest opening...
Vince Staples “Magic,” Gucci Mane “Publicity Stunt” & More | Daily Visuals 3.7.22
HipHopWired Featured Video With his next album Ramona Park Broke My Heart slated to drop next month, Vince Staples is looking to get some buzz building up for his fifth studio album and comes through with a new entertaining visual to get people a-talking. In his latest visuals to “Magic,” Vince Staples finds himself at a convenience store to pick up a bag of ice before telling the story of how he got jumped at a house party by some dudes who obviously had it out for him. Least they didn’t use any deadly weapons. Related Stories From the West to the South, Gucci Mane shows us what a morning in his household is like and in his clip to “Publicity Stunt” it seemingly involves being ridiculously iced out even when doing everyday chores. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work you mig...
Snoop Dogg Does Not Own ‘The Chronic’ Masters In New Death Row Records: Report
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty Hip-Hop fans the world over rejoiced over the news that Snoop Dogg would assume ownership of the label that launched his career in Death Row Records, bringing his still-ongoing career full circle. The Doggfather claimed ownership of Dr. Dre‘s classic debut The Chronic would land under this deal, but an attorney for the legendary producer debunked the chatter. Uncle Snoop shared in a recent interview with TIDAL that while some of the label’s big albums such as his debut LP Doggystyle and the “Deep Cover” single featuring Dr. Dre are under his control, the Long Beach superstar shared hopes that Death Row and the estate of the late Tupac “2Pac” Shakur will work out a deal to bring the masters back into the fold. In that same chat, Sno...
MAGA Actor Ricky Schroder Has Another Meltdown Over Mask Mandate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VALERIE MACON / Getty Former child star, actor, and MAGA affiliate Ricky Schroder has yet another public meltdown captured on video after being asked to follow masking rules intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The incident, which was shared on social media by Schroder through his Instagram account, shows the former NYPD Blues actor becoming irate with security guards at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. Schroder stopped there while en route to Washington D.C. to join the purported “freedom convoy” of truck drivers protesting against vaccine and mask mandates throughout the United States. The video, which was shared by the Patriot Takes account on Twitter on Sunday (March 6th), shows the guards at t...
Snoop Dogg Says JAY-Z Threatened To End NFL Partnership If Super Bowl Halftime Show Didn’t Happen
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vivien Killilea / Getty According to Snoop Dogg, JAY-Z tested Roger Goodell’s gangster to make sure Super Bowl LVI’s Hip-Hop inspired Pepsi Halftime show did happen. Speaking with Tidal’s Elliott Wilson, the new owner of Death Row Records, revealed that God MC threatened to end the partnership between Roc Nation and NFL if Dr. Dre, Snoop, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige did not perform. During their conversation, Snoop Dogg shared JAY-Z was the first one to greet them in the dressing room, sharing a moment with them as if they had taken home the chip. So then [JAY-Z] came down, and soon as he came in, he hugged me. We hug each other tight. It was as if we won a championship. Like, you know when you’re genuinely happy for each other? People don’t...
Podcast Bozos Say High-Earning Women Are Less Attractive, Twitter Throws Tomatoes
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Peter Cade / Getty The podcast business is a booming one and almost anyone with a microphone, tripod, and Internet connection can begin the building blocks of their talk space empire. However, the game has its fair share of bozos with awful opinions, especially as it pertains to Black women, and one such show blasted high-earning women by calling them “less attractive” for pursuing financial and professional ascension. Without dignifying the moment too much, the hosts of the Hardly Initiated podcast, Tysean Jackson and Ryan Catchings, invited to their Atlanta, Ga. studios finance guru Phillip Karaya to initially discuss business and finance for their audience. In the one sequence that has everyone talking, Catchings states without flinching that wom...
