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How You Doin’?: Wendy Williams Return To Talk Show Delayed Until March
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Wendy Williams Show / Youtube It looks like fans of The Wendy Williams Show will have to wait a bit longer for Wendy to reclaim her chair. The production staff have confirmed she won’t be back until March. As spotted on Page Six the media personality is still on the mend; allegedly. On Thursday, January 27 the show announced that it will continue to rotate guest hosts until March. When a representative from the show was asked if the Ocean Township, New Jersey native will miss the rest of the current season they replied “don’t overreach.” While it may have been perceived as an overreach by said staffer it doesn’t seem like a reach to her fans and the overall public. Recently there have been rumors that Wendy will not be returning. However a r...
Cam’ron Drops 6 Minute Freestyle On Funk Master Flex’s Show
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kim Simms / Getty Jadakiss might’ve singlehandedly washed Dip Set at the legendary Verzuz battle last summer, but that hasn’t deterred Killa Cam’ron from putting down the pen and the pad and calling it a career. Over the weekend the Hip-Hop OG went to Hot 97 to join Funk Master Flex and dropped a lengthy 6-minute freestyle to remind everyone he got still got enough bars to build a prison for wack rappers and player hating’ fools who think Cam ain’t that dude no more. With his crew behind him alongside three thick as molasses ladies, Cam got into his Harlem mode and spit witty bars and metaphors like “Me? Y’all can’t come around / You better off just run around / forget him from the underground / In two days move a hundred pounds / F*ckin’ clowns up and do...
HHW Gaming: The First Trailer For Paramount+’s ‘Halo’ Series Has Arrived, React To Cortana Not Being Blue
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Paramount / Halo Master Chief is making the leap from your Xbox Series X console to the small screen in a new Halo TV series, and it looks damn good, except for this one particular item. It only took multiple attempts and an abandoned movie plan, but Halo has finally gotten the Hollywood treatment in the form of a television series. The first trailer for the highly anticipated show arrived during the NFL’s AFC Championship game, giving us our first best look at the legendary Spartan soldier John-117 aka Master Chief, and his fellow Spartans in live-action. The show will go back in time in the Halo mythos focusing on Master Chief’s (Pablo Schreiber) life and the Human/Covenant conflict. Fans of the video game franchise will also see a tweaked t...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 1.28.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ljubaphoto / Getty Salute to the readers and supporters of Hip-Hop Wired! We’re back with a fresh update of our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) playlist and we’re opening things up differently this week. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist (we’ll always add this sentence). The CRT FRSH playlist is a labor of love. We don’t take payments nor do we do favors. We only add joints to our playlist that fit the theme and vision we’re going for and don’t seek to waste the time of the listener. Further, we don’t stick to one lane of Hip-Hop. We believe that all aspects of the music should get some light whether it’s...
GOP Senator Says Supreme Court Justice Nominee Will Be Affirmative Action Pick
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Future Publishing / Getty The U.S. Supreme Court saw one of its justices electing to retire in Stephen Breyer, paving the way for President Joe Biden to appoint a new justice to the bench of the highest court in the land. Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican senator representing Mississippi, said in a recent interview that Biden’s selection will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action along with other quips. The Mississippi Free Press published a report highlighting that Sen. Wicker made an appearance on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio on Friday (Jan. 28). Wicker reacted to the news that Biden’s next Supreme Court justice could be a Black woman, living up to a promise the administration made on the campaign trail to promote diversity at the federal judiciar...
HHW Gaming: 2K Drops New “Booyaka” ‘WWE 2K22’ Trailer Ahead of Royal Rumble
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Visual Concepts / WWE 2K22 To get ahead of leaks, 2K decided to give us our best look at its revigorated WWE 2K franchise. Saturday (Jan.29), 2K unleashed WWE 2K22’s new booyaka gameplay trailer ahead of the Royal Rumble pay-per-view event following leaks surrounding the WWE 2K22’s campaign mode. The trailer is a mix of gameplay and some cinematics and features your favorite WWE superstars past and present doing their thing in the ring, and honestly, they never looked better. Thanks to a redesigned gameplay engine, WWE 2K22 features stunning visuals, crisp animations on top of new game modes like MyGM, and more. Related Stories It looks like 2K’s decision not to release WWE 2K21 has paid off based on what is shown in the trailer because it does look ...
Papoose ft. 2 Chainz, Remy Ma, Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne “Thought I Was Gonna Stop Remix,” Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J ft. Project Pat “Backseat” & More | Daily Visuals 1.27.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Papoose and Remy Ma in the same music video, but today the happily married rappers finally get together in the same visual and bring some of their famous peers along for the ride. Linking up with 2 Chainz, Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne for the remix clip to “Thought I Was Gonna Stop,” Pap and Remy drop all the bars in the visually entertaining video filled with CGI effects and colorful backdrops. We lowkey surprised they haven’t dropped more cuts together. Speaking of CGI, Wiz Khalifa uses quite a bit of it in his Project Pat assisted visuals to “Backseat” which uses animation to delight the eye while Wiz and Project pleases the ears. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Berner featuring Cozmo, Rubi Rose, and mo...
The Cool Kids Announce New ‘Before Sh*t Got Weird’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anthony Pidgeon / Getty The Cool Kids began their journey in music in the early part of the 21st Century and became part of a select group of Hip-Hop acts that went on to influence others within the genre to great effect. The duo of Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish will return to the masses this year with the first of a three-album release rollout titled Before Sh*t Got Weird dropping early next month. After initially meeting on pioneering social media network Myspace in 2005, Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish released a number of acclaimed works starting in 2007. The duo also enjoyed successful solo careers respectively and blazed trails for other so-called “Blog Era” rappers that they’re largely associated with. Amid Sir Michael Rocks’ prolific per...
HHW Gaming: We Can’t Wait To Pick Up The Sticks For These Video Games In 2022
Source: Guerrilla Games / Horizon Forbidden West 2021 was a solid year for gaming, 2022 could possibly go down as one of the biggest years ever thanks to these video games dropping. Last year was our first full one with Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X. We didn’t get a lot of games, BUT we got enough to carry us through 2021. But the ball has dropped, and we are in 2022, and this year could shape up to be fantastic for gamers. Just in February alone were getting FOUR big games, and with a sprinkle of potential greatness throughout the year, that could make this year a significant one in the next-gen era. Hip-Hop Wired decided to comprise a list of the games WE (keyword WE) are excited to play on our PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. So if you have an...
College Student Busted For Smuggling Guns Into NYC
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Andy Kiss / Getty A 23-year-old college student went from the Dean’s List to the judge’s bench after facing more than 300 felony counts related to trafficking dozens of guns into New York City. Bronx native Shakor Rodriquez is accused of allegedly selling more than 70 guns, mostly loaded, to an undercover NYPD officer over the course of a year and a half, the New York Post reports. He is charged with criminal sale and criminal possession of a weapon, according to release from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. Rodriguez, a student at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, reportedly maintained a 3.5 GPA and made the school’s Dean’s List while he was reportedly smuggling guns into the Bronx and Manhattan’s Lower East Side via duffle bags ...
Nike’s NBA All-Star 2022 Uniforms Celebrate NBA’s 75th Anniversary & City of Cleveland
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NIKE / NIke The NBA All-Star starters have been announced, so of course, the uniforms to be donned by your favorite pros have as well. Nike NBA All-Star 2022 uniforms will be performing double duty as they pay homage to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary along with the host city of Cleveland. Source: NIKE / NIke While NIKE, Inc. is holding down the uniforms overall, each of its brands—Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse— will deliver for specific games. Jordan Brand will handle the kits for the NBA All Star Game proper, and its typography is a nod to Cleveland’s bridges and its aesthetics are a tribute to uniforms from the 80’s and 90’s. The silver, blue and red colors are a call out to the NBA logo’s 75th anniversary design. Nike handles the Clorox Rising Stars unif...
‘Ant-Man & The Wasp’ Star Evangeline Lilly Opposes Vaccine Mandates
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jun Sato / Getty Looks like another actress from the Marvel Cinematic Universe has decided to side with antivaxxers as Ant-Man & The Wasp star, Evangeline Lilly (The Wasp) has come out against vaccine mandates and confirmed that she was in attendance at the protest against vaccine mandates in Washington D.C. last weekend. Taking to Instagram to once again announce her stance against vaccine mandates, the Lost actress posted pictures of the protest while penning a lengthy caption in which she shared her views on vaccine mandates and why people shouldn’t be forced to take the vaccine. “I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of: -violent attack -arrest or detention without trial -loss o...
