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Mark Zuckerberg Officially Rebrands Facebook as Meta, Twitter Hilariously Reacts
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed his worst-kept secret. Thursday (Oct.28), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company’s new name going forward would be Meta during its Connect event. “We are a company that builds technology to connect,” Zuckerberg nerdily gushed. “Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.” Zuckerberg said the name Facebook doesn’t fully represent everything the company does and believes it is linked to one product stating, “But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company.” https://twitter.com/LetsOTT/status/1453794047311507456?s=20 Related Stories Thursday’s announcement cements the...
HHW Gaming Exclusive: Larry Nance Jr. Talks Being A ‘Call of Duty’ Athlete, His Favorite ‘COD’ Games & More
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rich Polk / Getty We caught up with Portland Trail Blazers forward Larry Nance Jr. to talk about his love of the Call of Duty video game franchise. Professional athletes, especially NBA hoopers, are pretty good at video games. We compiled a list of them who will easily hand you an L in your game of choice that you can check out by going here. NBA players go at each other on the court and the virtual battlefield in Call of Duty, making it the top video game for the league’s athletes. Ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard, the next installment in the franchise, Hip-Hop Wired had the opportunity to talk with Call of Duty athlete Larry Nance Jr. The seven-year vet broke down to us what it means to be a Call of Duty athlete, his favorite COD game whic...
‘Tiger King 2’ Trailer Promises More Drama, Some Answers & Backwoods Balling
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix It’s been a year and change since Netflix’s Tiger King took the world by storm and had social media ablaze with all kinds of “whodunit” theories related to Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, and eventually got to the point that some “political” figures weighed in on the matter. Source: Netflix / Netflix Now Netflix is revisiting the post-Tiger King lives of everyone involved in the dramatic docuseries and as you could’ve guessed, many just don’t know how to act with their new fame and fortune. In the trailer for Tiger King 2, we find that much has changed since we’ve last visited Joe Exotic’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park with Carole Baskin now in the crosshairs of Joe Exotic supporters, Jeff Lowe living the life of a rap star (se...
Get Well, Butcher: Benny The Butcher Hospitalized, Detroit Performance Postponed
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Benny The Butcher is without question one of the best pure spitters in Hip-Hop today and must be protected at all costs. The Black Soprano Family honcho is currently getting his health in order after having to cancel a show performance in Detroit due to an issue not related to COVID-19 according to accounts. By way of an Instagram post shared to the Butcher’s account on Wednesday (October 27), the Buffalo, N.Y. star postponed his stop at the St. Andrew’s Hall venue in the Motor City and then shared a photo of him from a hospital bed hooked up to several devices. The harrowing image aside, it appears that Benny has been battling asthma issues for quite a while and he’s obviously on top of it as there’s an inhaler in the photo wi...
Bia Feels Nicki Minaj Deserves The Same Respect JAY-Z & Other Rap Greats Get Garner
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Bia feels Nicki Minaj deserves her flowers immediately. Speaking with Billboard, Bia proudly declared her Nicki Minaj deserves to be among the “greats” when it comes to the Hip-Hop game. Touching on her rise in the genre, Bia spoke about her idol, and recent collaborator on the remix to her hit single “Whole Lotta Money.” ” I always say to people, when you speak of Nicki, you got to speak on her like how you speak on JAY-Z and the greats that laid out the foundation for the people that’s after them,” BIA told Billboard. “She broke amazing records, and she’s made it easier for people like me to come through and do what we do. I’m always going to give her that credit and that respect because she helped me hit another milestone in my ca...
HHW Gaming: Snoop Dogg Confirms Dr. Dre Is Working On New Music For ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Soundtrack
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty What’s coming first, Detox or Grand Theft Auto 6? If you’re a betting person, you should probably put your money on GTA 6 arriving before Dr. Dre’s mythical next album based on this news. Dre’s long-time collaborator and protege Snoop Dogg revealed that the iconic Hip-Hop producer is working on new music for an upcoming Grand Theft Auto game. During an interview with the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast set to air on Oct.29, Uncle Snoop confirmed The Chronic crafter is working on new music, but not for a solo album. Related Stories “I do know he’s in the studio,” Snoop revealed in the interview. “I do know he’s making great f—ing music. And some of his music is connected to the GTA game that’s coming out. So I think that that will be t...
MAGA Twitter Upset Chuckle Hustler Tim Allen Out As Buzz Lightyear As Chris Evans Steps In For ‘Lightyear’ Film
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: WENN.com / WENN Tim Allen first entered mainstream fame in the early 1990s by way of his hit sitcom, Home Improvement, and voiced one of the most visible characters of all time in Buzz Lightyear. Now out as the voice of the heroic Space Ranger, Chris Evans has been announced as the replacement for an upcoming film slated for release in 2022. A trailer for Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear film is the origin story of the real Buzz Lightyear that inspired the toy and effectively a prequel of the sprawling Toy Story empire. Evans, who played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will step in as Buzz. Related Stories Disney says of the film that, “[t]he sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear — the hero who ...
HHW Gaming: Apple Music Launches On The PS5 Ahead of State of Play Showcase
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PlayStation / Apple Music on PS5 Ahead of its upcoming PlayStation State of Play, Sony announced Apple Music has landed on the PS5. Wednesday (Oct.27), PlayStation announced via its blog that Apple Music is now available on PS5 consoles. This is a very big deal for those gamers who enjoy listening to some Meek Mill or JAY-Z while handing out Ls in NBA 2K22 or Call of Duty. It’s also a huge deal because it marks the first time Apple Music is featured on a video game console, an integrated experience bringing the music streaming platform’s expansive music library to the PS5 console. Beginning today, players with Apple Music subscriptions, of course, will be able to enjoy more than 90 million songs on the streaming service, tens of thousands of curated ...
Free Will: Jada Pinkett Smith Told Gwyneth Paltrow That Will Smith Allegedly Is Trash In Bed
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Albert L. Ortega / Getty Jada Pinkett Smith and her Red Table Talk program became one of the most popular shows in the modern talk show era due to its hosts and their unflinching honestly and openness. In the latest episode, Pinkett Smith essentially said to her guest Gwyneth Paltrow that Will Smith wasn’t good in bed and Twitter is reacting as you can expect. Pinkett Smith invited Paltrow to the program on Wednesday (October 27) to discuss Paltrow’s upcoming Sex, Love & goop program coming to Netflix. The subject of sex arose during their talk, and it was Pinkett Smith seemingly throwing her husband of 23 years in Smith under the proverbial bus once more. Related Stories “The thing Will and I talk about a lot is the journey. We started in this ...
HHW Gaming: Gamers Feel PlayStation’s Latest State of Play Showcase Could Have Been An Email
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: T3 Magazine / Getty When PlayStation announces it has a State of Play showcase on the way, it’s usually a big deal, but this latest showcase left gamers saying meh collectively. Wednesday (Oct.27), gamers all eagerly awaited to see PlayStation “share new looks at previously-announced games, plus a few reveals from our partners around the world.” PlayStation didn’t lie with that statement, but the selection of games was nothing that had the timeline going crazy. Related Stories Going into the showcase, we already knew we would get an even more in-depth look at Little Devil Inside thanks to a heads up from the game’s developer, and what they showed added to the hype for the game. [embedded content] BUT, when it came to the rest of the 20-minute show, ...
Twitter Discusses How They First Learned Of The Tulsa Massacre Of 1921
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Universal History Archive / Getty HBO’s excellent Watchmen series opened with the Black Wall Street massacre, largely known as the Tulsa Massacre and alternatively, the Tulsa Race Massacre. The term Tulsa Massacre began trending on Twitter on Wednesday (October 27) with users sharing when was the first time they learned of the tragic event that took place a century ago in Oklahoma. Here is what we wrote of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 2019: In 1916, Tulsa passed a city ordinance that enforced a rule that Black and white people could not live within one block of each other. As a result, the Greenwood neighborhood was formed and became a haven for Black business owners and thriving Black families. Tensions flared in 1921 after an unconfirmed report of a...
HHW Gaming: The Best Video Games of 2021…So Far
Source: Nintendo / Metroid Dread Sponsored by Verizon 2021 is the first full year for next-gen consoles, but was it a good year for video games? So far, yeah, it’s been pretty solid. While 2021 still has a couple of months to go, it is quickly wrapping up, and so far, it’s been a strong year for gaming. Gamers who have been fortunate enough to get their hands on either a PS5, Xbox Series S|X, or a Nintendo Switch OLED are currently enjoying some great video games. Related Stories With titles like Call of Duty: Vanguard, Battlefield 2042, Guardians of the Galaxy, and, of course, the highly-anticipated Halo: Infinite still in the pipeline, we decided to focus on the games that are currently getting gamers to pick up the sticks daily. Featured are some beloved video games franchises that alwa...
