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Nas & Miss Info Team To Host ‘The Bridge’ Podcast For Spotify
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Spotify / Mass Appeal The iconic Grammy-award-winning rapper Nas and media personality and journalist Minya “Miss Info” Oh are embarking on a new podcast that will give listeners the opportunity to celebrate and deeply examine the five decades of Hip-Hop history. Announced on Tuesday (November 9), the new podcast, titled The Bridge, was created and produced as part of a collaboration with streaming giant Spotify and Mass Appeal. Related Stories The Bridge is part of the #HipHop50 Initiative that was launched earlier this year in a collaborative effort with Mass Appeal and Showtime/Viacom which will celebrate and amplify the culture of Hip-Hop through various projects including documentary films. The podcast reunites Nas and Miss Info, who’ve had a strong ...
HHW Gaming: The PS5 Jig Continues, Sony Reportedly Cutting Production Plans Due To Chip Shortage
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty If you managed to get a PS5 since its launch last year, consider yourself very fortunate. According to a report from Bloomberg citing sources familiar with Sony’s operations, the company has reportedly cut production plans for the PlayStation 5 console by around 1 million consoles. The culprit? The same chip shortages and logistics constraints. Basically, it’s going to be even harder to find a PS5 console. According to the report, Sony initially looked to produce 16 million PS5 consoles in the year ending March 2022 but cut the figure down to 15 million. Sony’s Chief Financial Officer, Hiroki Totoki, recently revealed to investors that part shortages and logistical shortages have become more “severe,” the report further detailed....
Tap Dancin’ Terry Crews Skins & Grins In New Amazon Commercial, Twitter Gets Buff Bozo Out The Paint
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Santiago Felipe / Getty Terry Crews at one time was considered one of the most beloved comedic actors in Hollywood before he put on his tap shoes and leaned into some thoughts and opinions nobody asked him for. In a new spot for Amazon, Crews pleads with folks to come work for the company but Twitter is getting the buff bozo out the paint. Via Amazon’s TikTok page, Crews essentially pretends that someone of his means actually cares about working at one of the company’s massive warehouses. Using all his teeth to express faux joy, Crews pitches the idea that Amazon has tons of jobs available, offers paid tuition, and health benefits. You know, stuff a decent company should do for employees that have reportedly worked in subpar conditions. It’s hard to...
Yikes: Ye’s YEEZY Ordered To Cough Up $950,000 In Shipping Delay Lawsuit
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Brandon Magnus / Getty Christian billionaire rapper Ye is going to have open up his checkbook. Per Complex, Kanye West, oops, we mean Ye’s YEEZY brand, has been ordered to cough up almost a million dollars. Via a release, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón proclaimed that Yeezy Apparel LLC and Yeezy LLC would have to pay $950,000 to settle the recent civil lawsuit brought against the company. The lawsuit alleges that West’s company was engaged in unlawful business practices plus made false promises by not shipping items on time. It also reveals that four district attorney offices, including Alameda, Sonoma, and Napa, were involved in the lawsuit. Related Stories “Online consumers are entitled to protection against unwarranted fees and...
No Death Penalty For The Suspects In Jam Master Jay Murder Case
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty The murder of one of Hip-Hop’s most beloved figures in Jam Master Jay is still a sore spot for the culture. And a recent development in the prosecution of those alleged to have murdered him, where lawyers will not be seeking the death penalty in the case, might be adding more salt to the wound. According to a report by ABC News, documents filed in a Brooklyn, New York federal court this past Saturday (November 6th) show lawyers for the prosecution expressing that they have been directed not to seek the death penalty by the Department of Justice if the two accused killers, Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington were to be convicted. “Please be advised that United States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has authorized and directed the U...
J Balvin Teases New Air Jordan 2 Collaboration
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan Brand / Jordan Brand It’s looking like 2022 might be the year of the Air Jordan 2 as the most ignored and overlooked Air Jordan silhouette is slated to drop some new remixes from the likes of Mr. Off-White himself, Virgil Abloh, Union and now one of reggaeton’s biggest artists is throwing some sazon and adobo on the 2nd model in the Air Jordan sneaker line. Taking to Instagram to tease a new collaboration with Jordan Brand, J Balvin posted a picture of the Air Jordan 2 with some glow-in-the-dark soles and Air Jordan logo on the tongue. Though we can’t see what kind of colorway the rest of the sneaker will feature as the picture is draped in blue, the glowing soles and tongue have already peaked our interest. This would be J Balvin’s second Air Jord...
Larry Hoover Jr. Urges Drake To Squash Beef With Ye FKA Kanye West
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Larry Hoover Jr. / @larryhooverjr_ Ye, the artist (in the truest sense of the word) formerly known as Kanye West, has been all the buzz across news publications and social media after his freewheeling appearance on Drink Champs. Shortly after making an appeal to squash beef with Drake alongside J Prince, Larry Hoover Jr. is asking the same of the Canadian superstar. In an exclusive chat presented by TMZ, Larry Hoover Jr., the son of the founder of the Chicago Gangster Disciples gang, made an open plea to Drake to join together with Ye for a benefit concert in order to aid efforts to free the elder Hoover from prison. Hoover Sr. is serving six life sentences in connection to a variety of crimes during his heyday as a leading member of the Gangster Disciple...
Big Sean & Hit-Boy “The One,” Young Moose ft. Boosie Badazz “Role Models” & More | Daily Visuals 11.10.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Thanks to Kanye West, Big Sean was one of the topics of discussion last week and while he’d rather people have talked about his latest project with Hit-Boy, What You Expect, he’ll take the publicity. Coming through with some new black-and-white visuals for WYE album cut, “The One,” we find Big Sean and Hit-Boy crafting the track in the studio somewhere up in hills where the view from the lab is amazing and inspirational for any artist looking to make good music. Related Stories Elsewhere, habitually canceled rapper, Boosie Badass feels his moral compass is what the game needs and links up Young Moose on his block to express as much for the clip to “Role Models.” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Jvck James, Fat Trel, and more. BIG SEAN &...
“I Should Be Runnin’ That Sh*t”: Snoop Dogg Has Aspirations Of Running Death Row Records
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Snoop Dogg both dropped his eighteenth studio album and hit the milestone of his 50th G-Day in 2021, and he’s still got another one on the way. En route to the Doggfather’s Algorithm dropping this coming Friday (November 20), the Long Beach. Calif. Triple OG shared in an interview that he should be the one running his former home in Death Row Records. Snoop was a guest on Wallo267 and Gillie da King’s Million Dollarz Worth of Game podcast and made the bold declaration while clarifying in full that he is the person for the job. “I think all of Death Row should be in my hands. I should be running that sh*t,” Snoop Dogg said. “Death Row means more to me because I helped create that. I think they should give me that and let me run that sh...
Nikola Jokic’s Brothers & The Morris Twins Exchange Barbs On Twitter Following On-Court Dust-Up
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty The on-court kerfuffle between Nikola Jokic and Markieff Morris took an interesting turn of events on Twitter. #NBATwitter was on one after Denver Nuggets all-star big man and reigning league MVP Nikola Jokic shoved the soul out of Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris. Jokic uncharacteristically and violently pushed Morris from behind after Morris intentionally fouled Jokic late in a Monday night matchup between the two teams. The chippiness that saw Miami Heat superstar Jimmy Butler yelling at Jokic, “bring your a** to the back,” spilled onto social media after the game. Markieff’s twin brother, Marcus, hopped on Twitter, writing in a tweet, “Waited till bro turned his back smh. NOTE,...
9 Things We Learned from Ed Sheeran on The Breakfast Club
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Power 105 / Power 105 It feels like the last time we heard from Ed Sheeran he was playing a guitar in the forest and was lucky enough to avoid the vengeance of one Arya Starks in the final season of Game of Thrones. Since then he’s still been making good music back in modern times and now the UK artist is back on the charts with his latest album, = (Equals), and has come to the States to promote his fifth successful studio project. Sitting down with Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God, Ed gets into many different aspects of his life thus far including dealing with COVID-19, quitting some destructive habits, and getting hate in his hometown due to his success. Here are the 9 things we learned from Ed Sheeran on The Breakfast Club. Like millions of ...
Taxxed: The NFL Fines KAaron Rodgers & the Green Bay Packers For COVID Jig
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christian Petersen / Getty The National Football League is clamping down on how their teams are moving during the pandemic. They have fined Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for violating Covid-19 guidelines. As spotted on The New York Times the all-star quarterback fumbled a big play earlier this summer and now is paying for it. During a question and answer session with local media the Chico, California native was asked if he was vaccinated and he responded “I’m immunized”. His answer was largely received by the public that he was vaccinated but he was not. Where he got in trouble with the league was by attending a Halloween party with fellow teammate Allen Lazard as the NFL prohibits unvaccinated players from gathering outside of team facilit...
