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Kim Kardashian Says To Allegedly Avoid Kanye West & Others, Phones Were Tossed In The Ocean
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christopher Polk/E! Entertainment / Getty Kim Kardashian has remained graceful as possible amid an impending divorce from her husband Ye aka Kanye West, but the same hasn’t necessarily been extended to her if reports are accurate. In a new interview, the businesswoman and mother of four revealed that while on vacation, she allegedly had to avoid Ye and others by tossing her phone into the ocean. For Vogue‘s March issue, Kim Kardashian graced the cover and her wide-ranging feature isn’t solely about her husband or their woes, nor does she delve much into her alleged relationship with comedian and actor Pete Davidson. However, she does remark on a recent trip to the Bahamas around New Year’s that she reportedly scheduled to avoid Ye from showing up. From Vo...
Funk Trailblazer Betty Davis Dead At 77
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anthony Barboza / Getty Betty Davis exploded onto the music scene in the 1970s, sporting a brash and sultry image that made her an icon to many. The pioneering funk singer and songwriter passed away this week, and we look back at her life. Fans of funk will most likely be familiar with Davis via her stylish album covers that served as precursors for the likes of other sex-positive artists such as Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat, and even Madonna before them. She was born Betty Mabry in Durham, N.C., and was raised partially in the Pittsburgh suburb of Homestead. At 16, she left home to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and found her footing in the fashion-forward scene of Greenwich Village and New York overall....
The Louis Vuitton x Air Force 1 Auction Raised A Whopping $25.3 Million
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s As expected Sotheby’s auction of the Louis Vuitton x Air Force 1 collection raised a ridiculous amount of cash but to be honest, we didn’t expect the final number to be in eight figures. Source: Courtesy of Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Originally valued at an estimated $3 million dollars, the 200 pairs of Louis Vuitton x Air Force 1’s went up for auction on January 16 and ended on February 8 with the finally tally settling at a whopping $25.3 million. That is more than eight times what was expected. According to their press release more than 10,000 bids from 1,200 bidders were made on the 200 sneakers with 40% of buyers residing in Asia. Who knew? Proceeds from the $23 million will benefit The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” ...
Gutter Ball: DaBaby & Crew Jumped DaniLeigh’s Brother At Bowling Alley, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Denise Truscello / Getty DaBaby and DaniLeigh‘s brother, Brandon Bills, were destined to lock horns eventually after the pair exchanged words late last year. The Charlotte, N.C. rapper apparently caught up with Bills and his crew, and allegedly jumped the man inside a bowling alley, but it doesn’t look like the fade was properly delivered despite the lopsided numbers. DaBaby, who shares a young child with DaniLeigh, received the threat of a fade from Bills last year after the rapper allegedly kicked her and their child out of his home due to having some manner of argument. After DaniLeigh left the residence and returned to the West Coast, Bills took to Instagram to offer a one-on-one fade to DaBaby for the treatment of his sister in a since-deleted ...
NewsMax Digs Up Agreeable Blacks Claiming To Be OK With Joe Rogan Using N-Word
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Peter Cade / Getty Joe Rogan has caused something of a seismic shift in broadcasting culture after several artists bolted from Spotify out of fear of being affiliated with his views. NewsMax, certainly no friend to the “woke,” aired a segment featuring agreeable Blacks who don’t mind that Rogan went on a happy little n-word spree. The conservative news network managed to find a hub of these new types of Blacks in and around Los Angeles, making a weird video collage of the folks basically saying that Rogan can use the insensitive slur at will. The report is supposedly an attempt by NewsMax to soften the racist and derogatory blows delivered by Rogan but it in fact does the complete opposite. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek seems to recognize that the troubles at his...
DOJ Seizes Nearly $4B In Stolen Bitcoin, Awful White Rapper Who Calls Herself “Crocodile of Wall Street” Arrested
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Youtube / Youtube In 2016, about $4 billion worth of Bitcoin was stolen after Bitfinex’s cryptocurrency exchange was hacked. Now, the Department of Justice has recovered most of what was stolen. And one of the suspected thieves? Well, she’s uh…she’s something else. As reported by The Verge, DOJ says it seized about $3.6 billion worth of the cryptocurrency, and that the ill-gotten gains were being held by Heather Morgan and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein. Who are Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein? Well, Lichtenstein doesn’t matter. I mean, he does because he’s been arrested too, but he’s not the weird AF white woman who’s a rapper, a Forbes contributor and a self-described CEO. But before we get to all that, here’s this from The Verge: The DOJ doesn’t e...
Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Widow Sues Wu-Tang Clan Productions For Unpaid Royalties
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bob Berg / Getty It’s been almost 18 years since the untimely death of Hip-Hop icon, Russell Tyrone Jones a.k.a Ol Dirty Bastard, and while his music still bumps in all corners of the Hip-Hop world his widow, Icelene Jones, is claiming that she isn’t getting any royalties from his music catalogue. According to Variety, Jones has filed a lawsuit against Wu-Tang Clan Productions on Tuesday (February 8) alleging that the production company hadn’t paid any royalties to the estate from 2011 to 2021, when it had sent a check for $130,000. Though the estate did receive some payments from Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp in 2019 and 2020, they allege that it was only a fraction of what they’re owed. In the suit the Jones estate state that over the last 10 ye...
Soulja Boy Drops His Own Sneaker Line, Soulja Stars
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @souljaboy / Instagram Soulja Boy may not be moving units like he used to, but that was yesterday’s hustle as Big Draco is now looking to get into the sneaker game and we ain’t talking about becoming a reseller. HypeBeast is reporting that the “Crank That” rapper is releasing his own sneaker line dubbed Soulja Stars that will be retailing for a whopping $279! Even the hottest Nikes and Jordans don’t go for that much, but hey, might as well shoot for the stars, right? Releasing in three colorways, the Soulja Stars Fashion Stars Hi Top silhouette boasts leather uppers, two metallic star-studded velcro straps in place of laces, and a transparent “$OULJA” label printed on the elongated tongue. A second colorway features a black overlay with the star studded s...
Nelly Apologizes For Mouf Love Leak, Twitter Says He Came Up Short Twice
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Jason Kempin / Getty Nelly has been the talk of the Internet for the past 36 hours after a sex tape went wide through social media circles and made the famed rapper a trending topic. In a new statement, the St. Louis star apologized for the video being inadvertently leaked, but fans on Twitter think that the apology came up a little short. TMZ reports that Nelly confirmed that the video was an accidental leak not meant to go wide to the public and extended his words towards the unnamed woman in the video with him performing the act. “I sincerely apologize to the young lady and her family, this is unwanted publicity for her/them. This was an old video that was private and never meant to go public,” Nelly said to TMZ exclusively. The outlet inquired a...
GOP & Right-Wing News Outlets Falsely Claim President Biden Is Spending $30m For Free Crack Pipe Distribution
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Aisha Thomas / EyeEm / Getty Another case of misinformation spreading faster than the facts. If you have been on social media the past few days and avoided Nelly and Lil Fizz’s manhood, you definitely saw people talking about the Biden Administration “spending 30 million to give out free crack pipes to Black people,” calling it “racial equality.” That, of course, is not the case, and NewsOne broke that down exceptionally, but, as expected, right-wing news outlets have seized the narrative and painted the story in a manner that even has some Black folks sharing it without proper context. Per NewsOne, the $30 Million Harm Reduction Grant “supports community-based programs geared toward overdose prevention, syringe services programs and other harm redu...
You Care: Kanye West, Julia Fox Reportedly In An “Open Relationship”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jeremy Moeller / Getty The Kanye West and Julia Fox whirlwind romance has just got even weirder. Page Six exclusively reports that Ye and his bootleg barbie doll, actress Julia Fox are in an open relationship. Sources close to the “couple” claim West and Fox still see other people while they rock struggle matching denim fits together. “Their bond transcends typical norms because they’re evolved beings who just want each other to be happy,” a source close to Fox told the publication. “There is no jealousy or bad vibes.” But, wait, it gets even weirder. Another source told Page Six that West is “openly seeing” Instagram model Chaney Jones and get this, she is basically a Kim Kardashian clone. We can’t make this up even if we want to. Jones was recently spot...
Dr. Dre Enlists The Talents Of Two Deaf Rappers For Super Bowl Halftime Show
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz This year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was already getting much hype due to the impressive lineup of OG Hip-Hop legends taking part in the festivities, but Dr. Dre is taking things up a notch by adding a bit of a surprise to the highly-anticipated event. According to The Huffpost, the good doctor has just added two more rappers to a lineup that includes himself, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and Eminem, and they’re both deaf. Sean Forbes and Warren “WaWa” Snipe have just been penciled into the star-studded lineup of performers at this Sunday’s big game and will be the first deaf rappers to perform in the show’s 55 year history. Speaking to the Detroit Free Press, Forbes said “The doors to accessibility are busted wide open with...
