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Brooklyn Barista: Angela Yee Opens Coffee Shop In Pandemic
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty Angela Yee continues to find ways to boss up. She has launched her own coffee shop in her hometown. As spotted on Page Six the media personality has added yet another brand to her emerging portfolio of businesses. This fall her Coffee Uplifts People (CUP) shop enjoyed a soft opening. She detailed how she came about the idea to the celebrity gossip site. Yee revealed she had started the brand at home during the height of quarantine and found instant success. She thought that opening up a brick and mortar location would make better sense for the business model but her inner circle had their doubts. “A lot of my friends told me it wasn’t a good idea to open up a coffee shop because there were so many businesses shutting down” she a...
Nia Long Signs On To ABC’s Mamie Till-Mobley Docuseries
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Greg Campbell / Getty Actress and producer Nia Long has just signed onto a new documentary series by ABC that details the journey of the woman behind the moment the Civil Rights movement was born, Mamie Till-Mobley. As announced by ABC News, Long will be part of Let The World See, a companion documentary series to the limited series Women of the Movement that will air on the network. Let The World See will chronicle the life of Mamie Till-Mobley and her determination to see the men that brutally lynched her son, Emmett Till, be brought to justice and in the process be the spark to the Civil Rights movement. The Love Jones actress will read excerpts from Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America, Till-Mobley’s memoir. The first e...
Diddy Buys Back Sean John: Velour Suit Twitter Is Pleased
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Diddy has his baby back. He has just won a bidding war for the rights to his Sean John clothing brand. As spotted on Women’s Wear Daily the mega mogul has bought back the line that he made global back in the 1990’s. According to sources he shelled out a whopping $7.551 million dollars to win control of the brand. He detailed his enthusiasm in a formal press release. “I launched Sean John in 1998 with the goal of building a premium brand that shattered tradition and introduced Hip-Hop to high-fashion on a global scale,” Combs said. “Seeing how streetwear has evolved to rewrite the rules of fashion and impact culture across categories, I’m ready to reclaim ownership of the brand, build a team of visionary designers and g...
Infamous Suge Knight Inks Deal to Have Biopic Produced
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Winston Burris/WENN.com / WENN The infamous former head of Death Row Records, Suge Knight, has taken the first step to having his life story on the big screen. According to reports, the music executive who co-founded the iconic label that entrenched gangster rap further into the cultural landscape by signing Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg among others has struck a deal with producer Steve Whitney and his TSW Films company to produce a film on his life. The terms of the arrangement ha Knight signing over his life rights to the producer to begin the process, and actor/writer Nick Cassavetes has been tapped to pen the script for the film. Suge Knight has factored in as a major subject in movies and documentaries within the past decade, with Straight Outta Compton an...
Jimmy Jazz Gave Away Over 1000 Sneakers To Families In Need Across NYC
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @slingshotmenace / Jimmy Jazz Last week we reported that Jimmy Jazz would be giving away a gang of sneakers as a way to show appreciation to the community and help families in need this 2021 Holiday season, and all signs point to the giveaway being a huge success! Source: @slingshotmenace / Jimmy Jazz Jimmy Jazz hit up spots in Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx to bless those in need and its residents couldn’t have been more grateful for their free Christmas presents. From the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in the BX where Jimmy Jazz gave away 200 pairs of Nikes to John B. Russwurm Elementary School where 300 children were gifted Adidas kicks and toys, the giveaway left a thousand New Yorkers feeling the Christmas spirit at a time when it was sorely needed....
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The New Kids On ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Block Talk About Morpheus’ Drip, Neo & Trinity & More [Exclusive]
Source: Warner Bros. / The Matrix Resurrections The Matrix has been rebooted, and Hip-Hop Wired/Cassius Life is plugged in. It’s been 18 years since 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions, which left many fans believing that was the last time we will ever see Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, Agent Smith, Niobe, and others. But as we learned, stories never truly end, and Lana Wachowski decided to bring back the popular franchise with a fourth film, The Matrix Resurrections. Source: Warner Bros. / The Matrix Resurrections Yes, Keanu Reeves’ Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss’ Trinity are back, but there is something different about this version of The Matrix. While they are the same, other characters in the legendary story of Neo of Trinity have been changed, and that’s where the new kids on The Matrix block come in. M...
Cardi B Defends Lil Kim & Givers Her Flowers, Calls Her A “Real F***** Legend”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Cardi B is not here for the blatant Lil Kim disrespect she is witnessing on social media. The Bronx native had time on Tuesday (Dec.22) and addressed the hate Lil Kim has been receiving lately. Following the release of “Big Santa Papi,” a track she worked on for Nick Cannon’s holiday film Miracles Across 125th Street, Bardi hopped on Twitter to give the Queen Bee her flowers, calling her a “real f***** legend.” Playboy’s first-ever Creative Director in Residence responded to a tweet highlighting the “weird hate bandwagon” toward’s the Brooklyn rapper telling her followers she was “tired” of it. In her tweet, she wrote, “I’m tired of it, and it’s heartbreaking… She’s is so sweet ,supportive and a REAL FUCKIN LEGEND ..I...
Cardi B Defends Lil Kim & Givers Her Flowers, Calls Her A “Real F***** Legend”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Cardi B is not here for the blatant Lil Kim disrespect she is witnessing on social media. The Bronx native had time on Tuesday (Dec.22) and addressed the hate Lil Kim has been receiving lately. Following the release of “Big Santa Papi,” a track she worked on for Nick Cannon’s holiday film Miracles Across 125th Street, Bardi hopped on Twitter to give the Queen Bee her flowers, calling her a “real f***** legend.” Playboy’s first-ever Creative Director in Residence responded to a tweet highlighting the “weird hate bandwagon” toward’s the Brooklyn rapper telling her followers she was “tired” of it. In her tweet, she wrote, “I’m tired of it, and it’s heartbreaking… She’s is so sweet ,supportive and a REAL FUCKIN LEGEND ..I...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Says He’s Not Shutting Down Season Despite The Omarion
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Goodlett / Getty It was announced earlier this week that the NHL would be suspending their season due to the spike in COVID-19 infections in the U.S., but don’t expect the NBA to follow suit even though a slew of games have already been postponed due to players catching the Rona. According to Deadline, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has made it clear that the season will continue to push forward even as the Omicron virus runs rampant across the world and has been shown to infect even the fully vaccinated. “No plans right now to pause the season,” Silver told host Malika Andrews on ESPN’s NBA Today. “We’ve, of course, looked at all the options, but frankly we’re having trouble coming up with what the logic would be behind pausing right now.” Though the ...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Says He’s Not Shutting Down Season Despite The Omarion
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Goodlett / Getty It was announced earlier this week that the NHL would be suspending their season due to the spike in COVID-19 infections in the U.S., but don’t expect the NBA to follow suit even though a slew of games have already been postponed due to players catching the Rona. According to Deadline, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has made it clear that the season will continue to push forward even as the Omicron virus runs rampant across the world and has been shown to infect even the fully vaccinated. “No plans right now to pause the season,” Silver told host Malika Andrews on ESPN’s NBA Today. “We’ve, of course, looked at all the options, but frankly we’re having trouble coming up with what the logic would be behind pausing right now.” Though the ...
Blac Youngsta Responds To Criticism of Young Dolph Diss Track Performance
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Sometimes beef lasts beyond the grave. At least according to Blac Youngsta after a clip of him performing his diss track directed at the late Young Dolph appeared online. On Friday (December 17), the rapper held a show at the Aces of Dallas nightclub in Dallas, Texas. During the show, he wound up doing “Shake Sumn,” a song from back in 2016 which levies a diss at Young Dolph: “Young Dolph Thornton wanna play ho/I’m on tour with the K ho/Mac 11, Smith & Wesson, extended clip, 100 rounds though/How the fuck you the king of Memphis, you ain’t from the city, you from Chicago/F*ck boy, you better lay low/Killers move when I say so.” He paused to light up a blunt and then finished doing the song. Related Stories Video of the performance...
50 Cent Hints 6th Studio LP Could Be His Last, Says He’s Top 10 Dead Or Alive
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: MEGA / Getty It might be hard to recall 50 Cent and his mastery of music considering his current career ascension as one of the film and TV industry’s top executives, but that’s where he began. Hinting towards retirement from music, the Queens rapper suggests that his upcoming sixth studio album might very well be his last. 50, given name Curtis Jackson, got his start officially in the music business in the early 2000s with a series of acclaimed mixtapes that showed his gift for songwriting, chorus construction, and gritty tales from the block. These days, Fif’s mastery within the world of storytelling has extended to his visionary projects such as Power, For Life, and other ventures like Branson Cognac. While he could easily rest on his legacy, 50 ...
