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Young Dolph Murder Suspect Still At Large Despite Social Media Post
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Mendez / Getty Justin Johnson, a lead suspect in the daytime murder of Young Dolph, is still at large despite claims he was turning himself in. Johnson, who also goes by the stage name Straight Drop, stated via social media that he was to turn himself in on Monday (Jan. 10) but the day has passed without the moment coming to pass. Johnson’s attorney said he was unaware of any plan by Johnson to turn himself in, according to Fox13 Memphis. Officials say Johnson’s charges are first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and theft of property between $10,000 and $60,000. This is not the first time Johnson was arrested and charged. Back in early 2017, he pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault after shooting three people at a bowling...
Jim Jones Tells Angela Yee He Has No “Issue” With Freddie Gibbs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Guillermo Proano/WENN.com / WENN A few weeks ago social media was ablaze with word that Jim Jones and his crew jumped Freddie Gibbs inside the Prime 112 restaurant in Miami. And while there was word that someone did actually record the fight which allegedly included Jim Jones body slamming Gibbs, nothing ever materialized and Gibbs denied the account. Now after weeks of keeping mum on the subject, Capo addressed the topic while doing an interview with Angela Yee on her Lip Service podcast. Yee approached the subject by asking if it was true that he was naming his next album Prime 112 to which Jones stated it was “false.” After the hosts asked if it was a joke, Jim seemed tongue-tied for a second before asking to “skip” to the next topic. After talking abo...
HHW Gaming: Court Upholds Firing of LAPD Officers Who Chose To Catch ‘Pokémon’ Instead of Crooks
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Two LAPD officers had to catch them all, and we’re not talking about crooks. Per the Los Angeles Times, a California appeals court upheld the dismissal of two Los Angeles Police Department officers who thought playing Pokémon GO on the job was more important than stopping a bank robbery going down at the Crenshaw Mall in 2017. According to court records, the California Court of Appeal rejected the claim of the two officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, that the LAPD “improperly used a digital in-car video recording of their private conversations in order to prove their misconduct, and another that they were improperly subjected to questioning about their actions by a supervisor without legal or labor representation present...
Workwear Ye: Ye AKA Kanye West Embraces Red Wing Boots For His Winter Drip
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty Kanye West is embracing another workwear brand in 2022. He was spotted sporting Red Wing Boots during his recent trip to New York City. As spotted on Post Bulletin, the Chicago native is taking his style back to his Jesus Is King era. Last week, he spent a couple of days in The Big Apple and it seems he’s putting the face masks and YEEZY GAP Round Jackets to the side. The “All Of The Lights” rapper was hitting the town with a pair of Red Wing Waterproof Safety Toe Pull-On Boots on his feet. Paired with a Balençiaga “World Food” windbreaker and washed-out Levi’s jeans he went out for dinner with his new friend Uncut Gems actress Julia Fox. Featuring a waterproof, one-piece design that is flexible, durable, and extremely tough, these pun...
GOP Goblin Madison Cawthorn Hit With Legal Challenge To Bar Him From Running Again
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Voters in North Carolina formally filed a legal challenge to have Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified from running for a second term, citing his involvement in the event leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to reports, a group consisting of 11 voters from Cawthorn’s home state of North Carolina filed a legal challenge on Monday (Jan. 10) with the State Board of Elections. The filing says that the remarks that the congressman made at a rally held before the insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election disqualify him from running for office according to the Constitution. “As set forth in our complaint, the publicly available ev...
Bob Saget, Veteran Comedian & ‘Full House’ Star Dies At 65
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JC Olivera / Getty The weekend closed with shocking and sad news over the sudden death of comedian Bob Saget, best known for his titular role as patriarch Danny Tanner on the long-running sitcom Full House. On Sunday (January 9th) evening, the news broke that Bob Saget, a veteran comedic actor best known for his role as Danny Tanner on the beloved sitcom Full House had died. He was 65 years old. According to a statement provided by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Saget was found deceased in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando in Grande Lakes earlier that day. “The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” the statement read. The sheriff’s office went on...
Austrian Neo-Nazi Rapper Mr. Bond Faces Time In Prison
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: DIETER NAGL / Getty Cultural appropriation has been taken to new heights of entitlement. An Austrian rapper remade Hip-Hop songs to promote Neo Nazism and incite violence. As spotted on Vice, a far-right musician who had long been on the police’s radar is now is facing prison time. According to court documentation, Mr. Bond covered very popular Rap songs to promote his far-right extremist stance which openly promoted anti-Semitism and hate towards Blacks and Gays. Some examples include flipping Young Jeezy’s “I Luv It” to “White And I Luv It”. He also remade “Day ‘N’ Nite” by Kid Cudi to “Shady K*kes”. In 2016, he released his first covers album which apparently was well-received throughout the underground far-right message boards and dark web. ...
Google Accuses Apple of Using iMessage To “Bully” People Into Buying iPhones
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty Yes, “blue bubble envy” is real, and Google feels Apple is capitalizing on it. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is accusing the company that Steve Jobs built of “bullying” and using it as a deliberate strategy to make Android users look and feel like the bottom of smartphone users on its iMessage platform. It’s no secret that iPhone users rub it in the faces of Android smartphone users that iMessage has a bunch of cool features while constantly clowning “green bubbles” they receive from text from an Android phone. The report states that Apple is well aware of this and is using the fact that its phone and messaging platform has become some sort of status symbol among smartphone users and is using it to its ...
Timbaland Compares The Weeknd’s New Album To Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ & He’s Dead Serious
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Music production master Timbaland is really feeling The Weeknd’s new album Dawn FM a little bit too much after dropping this scorching hot take. Timbaland was out here in these innanet streets proclaiming The Weeknd’s new album is comparable to arguably the best pop album of all time and indeed the best-selling album of any genre—Michael Jackson’s Thriller. (OK, technically, the Eagles’ greatest hits album surpassed Thriller in sales in 2018, but since that album was released in1976, which is six years before MJ’s 1982 classic dropped, I’m still giving the King of Pop his crown.) “This album different, yo. This shi** right here, this on some Thriller sh**,” the Verzus co-creator said in a video originally poste...
Reason Says Fabolous Is A Better Rapper Than André 3000, Hopes For VERZUZ Between Them
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Monica Morgan / Getty André 3000 is arguably one of the greatest MC’s/singers of all time, but is Fabolous a better rapper than the ATLien? TDE artist Reason certainly seems to think so. In a recent interview with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay, the “Flick It Up” rapper bluntly stated that Fabolous was a “better rapper” than the OutKast legend and would love to see both men go head-to-head in a future VERZUZ battle at some point. Reason said “I feel like if you lined up Fabolous and André 3000, I got my money on Fab. That’s how I feel.” Yeah, we don’t know about all that. Yes, Fabolous is a beast on the mic, but André 3 Stacks has a catalog of classics in both rapping and singing. Fab can’t say the same. Though Lathan tried to reason with Reason that Andre...
Trippie Redd “Uh Uh,” DJ Kay Slay ft. Papoose, AZ, Mysonne & Tre Williams “In My Soul” & More | Daily Visuals 1.10.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty A few days before Christmas last year, Trippie Redd surprised his fans when he gifted them a brand new mixtape Hate Is Dead. And while it only had nine tracks total, there were enough cuts that had his fans’ heads bopping into the New Year. Coming through with some visuals to one of the project’s standout cuts, “Uh Uh” Trippie Redd blows some trees into the air while using CGI to give him the eyes of a demonic madman throughout the video to help get those satanic rumors kicking off for 2022. Back in New York, DJ Kay Slay keeps on doing his thing for the streets and in his latest clip to “In My Soul” calls on Papoose, AZ, Mysonne, and Tre Williams to drop knowledge and give the youth some jewels that they won’t learn in school....
Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy To Attain Double Platinum Status
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amy Sussman / Getty Drake has another accomplishment to add to his packed recording resume, as his latest album is now poised to reach double platinum in sales since its release. According to a recent report, Drake’s highly anticipated sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy is now in the position to be eligible for the status of being double platinum in accordance with the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) requirements based on its sales. This was backed up by details provided by Chart Data, a group tracking the statistics of album releases in real-time along with other news in the recording industry. The tweet issued through their account on January 6th (Thursday) claimed that Certified Lover Boy had reached 2 million in sales. It also s...
