HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Orlando Sentinel / Getty If you are traveling the seven seas please make sure you play by the rules. A woman evading security jumped overboard to her presumed death. As per South Carolina Live News a woman risked it all during a recent vacation on the water. Apparently an unidentified passenger was traveling aboard the Carnival Valor this week with her husband. The vessel was scheduled for a five-day cruise to Mexico that departed from New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday, February 12. Reports say that on Wednesday afternoon security responded to an incident involving the 32-year-old woman and another passenger in a hot tub on the pool deck. While the badges tried their best to diffuse the situation they resorted to restraining her by holding her arms...
HipHopWired Featured Video For the past few weeks Maino and Jim Jones have been sharing some hilarious posts on Instagram in which they get on each other for the outfits they were to the gym (Fab got some slander too), but today the two get together to put it down for the streets. Linking up with Lyrivelli in the visuals to “Lobby Boyz Anthem,” Jim Jones and Maino lay it down for the hardcore and get things lit with some pyrotechnic effects in the backdrop as they get down and gritty with their style and icey pieces on their chests. Speaking of hardcore, Conway The Machine reunites with his Griselda brethren in his clip for “John Woo Flick” where he kicks it with Benny The Butcher and Westside Gunn in an empty warehouse where he holds a baby in one hand and brandishes the toast in the othe...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Victor Boyko / Getty Kanye West, also known as Ye, isn’t having the best of years as he’s embroiled in a battle to win his family back while feuding with old friends and rumored beaus. Adding to this, the Chicago superstar might face battery charges after West allegedly punched a fan in downtown Los Angeles. TMZ, which initially broke the news of an incident between West and the fan back in January, adds to its reporting stating that the Los Angeles Police Department may have enough evidence to move forward with a charge of battery. For those unaware, West was near the Soho Warehouse in DTLA when a fan seeking an autograph approached him. Video and photos of the moment show West yelling at the fan, and another image shows the fan laying on the ground as i...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Stranger Things After seven years of entertainment, horror and mystery, Netflix’s Stranger Things has officially started down the road to its long-awaited (or dreaded) finale. But fret not Stranger Things fans for it won’t happen until next year as this upcoming season promisesto serve as the huge precursor to the final season. Source: Netflix / Stranger Things In a press release from Netflix, the show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer have announced that the final season(s) will be coming this Spring, but will be so long of a story that it will be split into two volumes with the first premiering on May 27 and the second hitting us in Summer ’22, July 1st. In an open letter to fans, the Duffer brothers explained that given the “unprecedented leng...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty As the COVID-19 pandemic is in its third year in the United States, an unfortunate reason it has stuck around so long has been due to those engaging in partisan politics debating its existence and refusing to take the vaccines and other measures. Now that divide is represented in a new phenomenon – “red Covid”. In a detailed report from the New York Times, there is a noticeable disparity between those who identify as Republican voters and those who identify as Democrat voters who opted to get the COVID-19 vaccination shots. This gap, which at one point in a poll last October showed that 86 percent of Democratic voters got at least one shot as opposed to 60 percent of Republican voters, seems to be narrowing but only slightly. A...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: FX Network / Atlanta FX This is not the news we expected to hear as we gear up to reunite with Ern, Paper Boi, Darius, and Van in season 3 of FX’s hit show Atlanta. Donald Glover’s Atlanta superb run will end with the show’s fourth and final season. FX Chairman John Landgraf confirmed the sad news. “The fourth and final season is slated to debut in the same manner this fall.” He further added, “The new season is everything you’ve come to expect from ‘Atlanta,’ which is to say, expect the unexpected. Sit back and enjoy the trip.” Bruh. The reclusive multihyphenate and his co-stars Zazie Beetz and Brian Tyree Henry also chimed in on the news about the show’s final season. Glover also revealed that he wanted to bow out after season 2. Death is natural. ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty With the word that Kanye West is about to drop a sequel to his fan favorite album, Donda, it seems like it won’t be available for streaming like his aforementioned album but instead for sale on Stem Player because, well, It’s Kanye. Taking to Instagram to announce the surprise move, Kanye informed his millions of followers that Donda 2 will only be available on his platform as he’s not trying to get a small percentage of the album sales that artists tend to get in 2022. Sharing a snippet of a track off the album, the post features the device lighting up along with the beat and vocals in an attempt to entice fans to go out and purchase a Stem Player. “Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amaz...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Former Miami head coach Brian Flores brought a lawsuit against the National Football League alleging racial discrimination and the freezing out of Black coaches and executives across a number of teams. To defend against Flores’ explosive accusation, the NFL hired former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in connection to the legal matter. As reported by The Washington Post, Lynch, the first Black woman to hold the position of Attorney General, currently is a partner in the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP law firm. Lynch and firm chairman Brad S. Karp were retained by the league to represent their side in the case. This isn’t the first case for Lynch connected to the NFL, coming after she lead the investigatio...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Rick Ross toiled for years to become the multi-millionaire “bawse” that he is today and has the 235-acre residence to prove it. On the property exists a farm with several animals, and Rozay recently purchased a bull to add to his growing empire. In a video from his Instagram Stories feed that was picked up by a Twitter user, Ross is heard off-camera awaiting the big reveal of his new bull which apparently is his first one as evidenced by the video below. As it stands, Ross is clearly overjoyed by obtaining his newest animal and welcomed the bull to its new home while also admiring his flock of horses off in the distance. What makes the video especially hilarious is Ross cheering the bull on and expressing sincerely that someone from ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amy Sussman / Getty Megan Thee Stallion’s winning streak continues. The Houston rapper can now cross another accomplishment off her list when she graces a big screen near you. Spotted on The Hollywood Reporter, Megan Thee Stallion will join musical veteran Nathan Lane in A24’s first musical comedy, F*cking Identical Twins, also starring Bowen Yang and Megan Mullally. No details were shared on her role in the R-rated musical comedy that is currently in production, but we do have some idea what the plot will be. Per THR The film stars and is written by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, both comedians and former cast members on The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. The project, based on the 2014 two-man stage show from the trio that premiered at the Upright C...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction Spillover Event Ubisoft’s surprise hit Rainbow Six Extraction is already getting its first post-launch Crisis Event. Friday (Feb.18), Ubisoft announced Rainbow Six Extraction’s first post-launch Crisis Event, Spillover is now available. Per Ubisoft, the limited-time Crisis Events are described as “unique large-scale threats in the Containment Zone.” In Spillover, players will use the new Dissolution Agent canisters to help draw out waves of Archaens to wipe out colonies of alien sprawl. Source: Ubisoft / Rainbow Six Extraction Spillover Event Players who log in during Spillover will have the opportunity to earn new REACT tech like the Auto-Turret, a deployable turret that automatically targets and attacks Archaeans. ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New Balance / New Balance NBA All-Star Weekend is upon us and with that comes the drop of new and exciting sneakers and while many await a Nike or Adidas surprise drop, New Balance is linking up with Jack Harlow to get in on the All-Star action. Source: New Balance / New Balance Recently the “Nail Tech” artist signed a deal with NB to be the brand’s ambassador for North America and took to Instagram to showcase his upcoming New Balance drip. Harlow will be making the rounds taking part in future appearances and marketing campaigns. He’ll also be playing an “integral role in the brand’s connection to basketball culture.” New Balance also revealed that Jack Harlow will be debuting a new performance basketball shoe at the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game ton...