HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Another rapper has been wrapped up by the long arm of the law. Yella Beezy has been booked on sexual assault and weapons charges. As spotted on The Dallas News the man born Markies Deandre Conway was apprehended on Thursday, November 4 in Collin County, Texas. According to the periodical the performer has been hit with some very serious charges. The Plano police department say he is accused of abandoning and or endangering a child and unlawfully carrying a weapon. Additionally he apparently had an outstanding warrant for sexual assault. This is not the first time the “Going Through Some Thangs” rapper has been pinched by the law. Back in February he was arrested for weapons when local badges found five guns in the vehicle he and his ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Whenever French Montana drops a new video it seems like it’s always a big budget production joint as opposed to him simply driving around and hitting the block with his peoples. His latest offering is no different as he links up with Fivio Foreign for the visuals to “Panicking” where the two go from breaking into a plane to blow up all the paper before skydiving into a den of half-naked women who pamper them like kings forreal forreal. The King of The North, Drake meanwhile finally drops a new visual from his Certified Lover Boy album in the 21 Savage and Project Pat assisted “Knife Talk” where old school horror film footage is used to give us that Halloween vibe… four days after the fact. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Lil Durk, Planet A...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jeff Bottari / Getty Kamaru Usman defended his welterweight championship title against the MAGA Mouth of the MMA Colby Covington by unanimous decision on Saturday (November 6) in a clash that some thought was closer than the results. The Nigerian Nightmare dropped Covington twice early in the fight but Chaos fought back and push the champion to the limits but it was not enough. Usman, 34, entered the fight with an impressive 18-fight win streak and previously fought Covington, one year his junior, back in 2019 in another five-round battle that Usman ended with his fists. For UFC 268 in New York City, Usman showed his massive punching power by flooring Covington, who managed to bring some of that same power back to Usman and fought a smarter fight than the...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JOHNNY NUNEZ / Johnny Nunez Fans of the Wu-Tang Clan will undoubtedly have some mixed feelings as it was announced that Wu-Tang: An American Saga will return for a third – and final season – on Hulu. Wu-Tang: An American Saga is the story of the rise of the group from their hardscrabble beginnings on the borough of Staten Island in New York City in the early 1990’s as the crack cocaine epidemic was in full effect. Bobby Diggs, aka The RZA, is someone who has a unique vision to create a new path involving music and the involvement of other young Black men he knows from the streets. Their path would lead them to become one of the most innovative and unconventional groups ever in Hip-Hop culture and music overall. The second season, which ended in October, s...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / Youtube Even in his afterlife, Alpo’s name continues to ring bells. A new article details his low profile life in Maine under an alias. Recently The Sun Journal dug deeper into the Harlem, New York native’s second life in The Pine Tree State as a member of the witness protection program. Not only does the feature confirm that he was released from prison in 2015, but it also goes into depth about his day to day as Abraham Rodriguez. The news outlet reports that he held various jobs including as a Pepsi fulfillment center employee and most recently as a construction worker. The accounts from his neighbors show that while he didn’t share much he still had a love for the fast life. “He kept to himself a lot,” said Harold Hanlon, but “he’d do an...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Erika Goldring / Getty Astroworld Festival, the annual music event put on by Travis Scott, has been postponed due to a reported crowd surge that left eight people dead and several others injured. Details are still developing but the Saturday (November 6) date for the show will not be moving forward as an investigation into what took place on the ground at the event is ongoing. ABC 13 reports that along with the eight people killed at the sold-out event, hundreds more suffered varying injuries as first responders and police continued to arrive at NRG Park in Houston, Texas on Friday (November 5). This was the first of a two-night event for the Astroworld Festival, which has gone off without a hitch in the past. Related Stories While names of the vict...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Miller / Getty We have just witnessed another grand opening, grand closing in the National Football League. The Cleveland Browns have released Odell Beckham Jr. According to 9 News NBC the AFC North organization has severed ties with the all-star wide receiver. “After careful consideration, internal discussions and conversations with Odell and his representation, we’ve determined that it is in the best interest of all parties involved that Odell no longer play for the Cleveland Browns,” Browns general manager Andrew Berry said in a statement. “We appreciate all his efforts and contributions while in Cleveland, but we’ve just reached a point where it is best that we move forward as a team without Odell. We are finalizing the process of gra...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Revolt / Revolt After plenty of anticipation, last night (Nov. 4) the artist formerly known as Kanye West made his long awaited Drink Champs interview and just as expected he made some eyebrow raising comments that had social media buzzing and some of his Hip-Hop peers shaking their heads. Before the entire interview aired, clips of Kanye West talking crazy ish about Big Sean, Drake, Just Blaze, and Soulja Boy amongst many other interesting topics. Having sparked a blunt during the interview to go with his bipolar personality, y’all already knew Ye was about to go down the rabbit hole of personal feelings, wild thoughts, and grievances to air during the two hour long interview. In other words, Ye lived up to the hype and didn’t disappoint (but might...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jim Bennett / Getty The leader of the Hot Girls has accomplished many goals, but this one is something she is most proud of accomplishing. Thursday (Nov.4), Megan Thee Stallion took to social media to celebrate her upcoming graduation from Texas Southern University, a historically Black college. The Grammy Award-winning had her fans virtually clapping and thirsting after sharing some senses-tantalizing photos of herself rocking a fuschia metallic one-piece bathing suit with matching graduation stole to commemorate her graduating. She also kept it real H-Town by featuring candy-painted slabs behind her, with one of them proudly displaying a neon sign stating, “Ima standout wit no handouts.” Related Stories In the post, the “Body” crafter not only showed he...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Damon Dash / Damon Dash Dame Dash is now ready to give fans what they have been asking for. He says he can now finish the script to Paid In Full 2 after Alpo’s recent murder. As spotted on Page Six the business mogul now sees a thoughtful way to bring a sequel to life to one of the culture’s most beloved crime dramas. In an exclusive interview with the celebrity gossip site he details that he has wanted to do a part 2 for some now. “Paid In Full is a reflection of everything I’ve learned and I am really going to see it through now that there’s an ending,” he explained. “So this is going to dramatically change based on what happened Sunday. I was stuck on how to really approach it and this is actually giving me more clarity.” Related ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Warner Bros. / Youtube A minute ago Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars announced that they had been working on a duo project and dubbed themselves Silk Sonic (catchy!), and after dropping a two singles to get things going, they’ve returned with a new clip in “Smokin Out The Window.” The throwback visuals perfectly matches the groove that the two seem to be aiming for as they take the stage draped in 70’s attire as they sing with 2021-ish lyrics saying “This b*tch got me payin’ her rent, payin’ for trips/diamonds on her neck, diamonds on her wrist/and here I am all alone (all alone)…” Not gonna lie, it’s hella dope, crazy smooth, and actually relatable to an extent. We ain’t balling like that, but replace “diamonds” with “Jordans” or “Nike,” and we with Silk So...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christian Petersen / Getty The Phoenix Suns are facing an internal crisis as allegations of racism and misogyny swirl about the team’s majority owner. Robert Sarver is now the target of an NBA investigation after a report from ESPN blew the lid off of happenings within the Suns organization. ESPN issued a report on Thursday (November 5) from Baxter Holmes that zeroed in on the allegations made against Sarver, who has been the majority owner of the Suns for the past 17 years. The outlet highlighted comments made by former NBA player and former Suns head coach Earl Watson regarding Sarver’s use of the “n-word” and how he felt a right to use it because Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors did so. Related Stories Watson retold the story and said that h...