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Lena Waithe To Produce ‘Verzuz’ Doc, Swizz And Timbaland On Board
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Triller / Triller The Hip-Hop community is about get a deeper appreciation for Verzuz. Lena Waithe is set to produce a documentary on the battle platform that provided us so much fun during quarantine. As per Complex the Chicago, Illinois native has secured the opportunity of a lifetime. According to the report her company Hillman Grad Productions has been contracted to produce a documentary project on Verzuz in conjunction with Amazon Studios. Titled Gifted & Black the feature film will explore the traditions of Black music from a wide array of angles. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic and the recent racial reckoning, Gifted & Black frames those traditions in the context of the collective resiliency fundamental to the Black ...
HHW Gaming: Dwight Howard Teams Up With Xbox To Suprise Boy & Girls Club With Gaming Space
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Xbox / Xbox News Wire Los Angeles Lakers big man Dwight Howard also has a big heart. He put it on display by teaming up with Xbox to bless well-deserving kids with a state-of-the-art gaming space. Xbox is continuing to power dreams through gaming. It plans to keep that energy by announcing the expansion of its sponsorship with the iconic NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers. To celebrate, the Microsoft-owned video game company teamed up with the Lakers plus philanthropist and NBA All-Star Dwight Howard to remodel part of the Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley. The new state-of-the-art gaming lab features new artwork, custom purple and gold Xbox Series S consoles, gaming PCs, screens, and more to allow the club members to experience the jo...
Rihanna Redefines Pregnancy Style With Sheer Lingerie Fit At Paris Fashion Week
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty Just when you think Rihanna can’t outdo herself she does; with ease. She took pregnancy style to new heights at Parish Fashion Week and we are here for it. As per Madam Noire the “We Found Love” singer made head turns once again at the recent Dior fall winter 2022 fashion show. Accompanied by her boyfriend A$AP Rocky she arrived looking like a gothic pin up girl. RiRi wore a Dior black lace baby doll dress that left very little to the imagination including her matching black under garments. She added her depth to her look by layering a black leather trench coat over her shoulders. Additionally she was adorned with matching silver jewelry on her ears, neck and hands but it was her pregnancy bump that was shining the most. Rela...
HHW Gaming: Epic Games Acquiring Online Music Marketplace Bandcamp
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Epic Games continues to acquire creator-friendly companies like Infinity Stones. The Fortnite developer announced it is acquiring Bandcamp, “an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the independent musicians they love.” Epic Games decided to drop a bag for the company claiming it “will play an important role in Epic’s vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem for content, technology, games, art, music and more.” Epic Games shared no details in the announcement about how much it paid for Bandcamp or when the two entities will finalize the deal. According to Endgadget, the company has been able to dish out $1 billion in payments to artists over the years as it grew. Related...
J. Cole Announces Dreamville Festival With Lil Wayne, Lil Baby, Jeezy & More
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dreamville / Dreamville Dreamville is putting all 2022 music festivals on notice. The house that J. Cole built announced the Dreamville Festival that will feature a star-studded lineup that includes roster favorites like Ari Lennox and EarthGang as well as acts like Lil Baby, Moneybagg Yo and Wale. Thanks to the COVID pandemic this is just the second Dream Festival (the first was way back in 2019) and it will once again go down in Raleigh, North Carolina and over two days, April 2-3. The festival’s acts were once again curated by J. Cole who locked down some of his favorites. Dreamville is well-represented with, besides the aforementioned, Bas, J.I.D, Cozz, Omen, and Lute. Related Stories A special treat for heads in attendance will be the “first-ev...
Pat Sajak Defends ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Players Who Goofed On Solving “Another Feather In Your Cap” Riddle
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Christopher Willard / Getty Wheel Of Fortune made its debut in 1975 with its current host taking on the duties dating back to 1981 and owns the distinction of being the longest-running game show host of all time. Sajak took to Twitter to defend some contestants who had trouble solving what many observers at home assumed was a solvable riddle, but the veteran hosts shared his views that it’s easy to be great at the game from the comforts of one’s couch. On Wednesday (March 2), Sajak, 75, took up arms for contestants Laura Machado, Christopher Coleman, and Thomas Lipscomb, who all had trouble figuring out the riddle, as noted in the video below from a reported former Wheel of Fortune champion and current enthusiast, WheelRob10. Sajak, who has seen his...
Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar & Future Headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christopher Polk / Getty Outdoor festival season is fast approaching, and the popular Rolling Loud Miami Festival has made a big announcement about its lineup which will boast Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, and Future as the headliners. In a press release, the organizers of the Miami edition of the multi-city music festival announced their full lineup for their 2022 concert, which is set to take place from July 22nd to July 24th at the Hard Rock Stadium. The trifecta of headliners in West, Future, and Lamar stood out in the announcement. Related Stories Ye aka Kanye West will be the main act to close out the show on Friday, Future will headline the festival on Saturday and Kendrick Lamar will close it out on Sunday. For West, this appearance will be the firs...
N-Word Meme Using Estee Lauder Exec Gets All Clear From Chingy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Chingy found himself in headlines recently after a high-earning Estee Lauder executive posted a meme that referenced him while also using a racial slur. The St. Louis rapper responded to the chatter and showed leniency towards John Demsey for using the N-word in a meme that also made mention of COVID-19. Demsey was a top-level executive at Estee Lauder reportedly earning near $10 million a year. Demsey shared out a meme featuring a pair of Sesame Street characters which was captioned, “My n***a Snuffy done got the ‘rona at a Chingy concert,” with one of the characters appearing sick in bed. Related Stories The furor over the meme spread quickly online, leading to Demsey’s ouster. Demsey did apologize for using the meme via Instagram,...
Megan Thee Stallion Teams Up With AmazeVR For First-Ever 10-City Virtual Tour
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amaze VR / Megan Thee Stallion x AmazeVR Hip-Hop superstar (regardless of what Joe Budden says) Megan Thee Stallion is bringing her signature knees and twerking to the world to a VR concert stage near you. Megan Thee Stallion is teaming up with AmazeVR for “Enter The Hottieverse,” a history-making 10-city virtual tour across the United States that kicks off in April and wraps in July. If you’re a hottie who wants to attend but are worried because you don’t have a VR headset, don’t fret, AmazeVR and Thee Stallion got you. Related Stories AmazeVR is using this opportunity to present this as a new way to experience your favorite artists in a world still on edge from the COVID-19 pandemic, so understandably there are people not comfortable heading to packed c...
Wale Drops New Visuals For “Tiffany Nikes” In Time For NTWRK Sneaker Raffle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kayla DeLaura / Getty While many rappers (if not the majority of them) are well-known sneaker collectors, not many of them have really dropped records about their love of the sneaker game or sneaker collecting, but today Wale does just that as he pays homage to the Nike SB Dunk Low in “Tiffany Nikes.” To coincide with his partnership with NTWRK and their raffling of the Tiffany Nike SB Dunks for mere $1, the visuals to “Tiffany Nikes” finds Wale visiting the Diamond Supply clothing and sneaker shop in L.A. where he kicks it Nicky Diamonds and Paul Rodriguez. Laced up in a pair of Tiffany SB Dunks himself, Wale kicks it in the shop with the aforementioned guest stars as he praises the sneakers that resell for more than $4,000 a pair saying “Tiffany, T...
Jay-Z & Ye FKA Kanye West Named Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists Of 2021
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Patrick McMullan / Getty Among the wide range of Hip-Hop superstars both past and present, few command the attention garnered by Jay-Z and Ye, also known widely as Kanye West. A new report highlights the fact that the Watch The Throne collaborators were the highest paid Hip-Hop artists last year, joining a list of other familiar names. Former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley, best known for the “Hip Hop Cash Kings” tally at the finance outlet, now works on his own substack newsletter, Zogblog. VIBE published a report regarding O’Malley’s findings, which zeroes in on a total sum of the earnings hauled in by these recording artists, including their brand partnerships and other related business holdings. The top 10 highest paid Hip-Hop artists of 2021 are listed ...
Chandra “Deelishis” Davis And Central Park Five’s Raymond Santana Are Getting Divorced And Keeping The Drama Quiet
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VALERIE MACON / Getty Love is, apparently, no longer in the air for model and former Flavor of Love contestant Chandra “Deelishis” Davis and exonerated Central Park Five victim Raymond Santana. Late in 2019, the couple announced their engagement and got married about six months later. Many of us saw it as a major glow-up for a Black man who, as a teenager, was left at the mercy of a racist justice system that treated him and four other Black youths like their lives weren’t worth the ink used to fingerprint them. But TMZ reports that, sadly, Santana has filed for divorce from the reality TV star and Davis is claiming he was unfaithful to her. Santana and Davis have reportedly been separated since November 1, of last year. Santana claimed in filing for...
