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Michael Jordan & Jordan Brand Donate $1 Million To Organizations Fighting Racism
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan Brand / Jordan Brand The greatest baller of all time has made good on his promise to help eradicate racism. Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand have donated 1 million dollars to organizations putting in the work. Nike has announced that the GOAT is a man of his word when it comes to uplifting the Black community. In the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd and countless others MJ pledged to donate $100 million over the next 10 years to organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education. Their first phase is now in the books. This week he and his company have finalized community grants to 18 grassroots organizations totaling $1 million dollars. “Action over words is the foundation of our Black Comm...
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Hypebeast Alert: A Supreme x True Religion Collection Is On The Way [Photos]
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Supreme / Supreme The streets are prepping for fall weather so two brands have come together to help with the fits. A Supreme and True Religion collection is on the way. Source: Supreme / Supreme As spotted on Hype Beast today (Monday, September 27) Supreme announced a capsule with True Religion. As expected the upcoming drop meshes both of the brand’s signature aesthetics. Included are a hooded sweatshirt, a 6-panel hat and heavy cotton beanies. The pieces that are primed to be the most popular seem to be the denim though. The Denim Trucker Jacket and Denim Cargo Pant are purchased separately but is best worn as a set with the TR’s horse shoe logo on both back pockets. As expected each piece comes in four different colorways including a pink, purpl...
Team Roc Files For Clemency for Man Serving 20 Years On Weed Charge
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty Jay-Z and Team Roc have made a formal plea to a judge in North Carolina to free a man serving a 20 year sentence for marijuana-related offenses. First reported by the New York Post, the legal group that comprises the criminal reform arm of the rapper’s label sent a plea to a judge in North Carolina asking them to reconsider an initial request for the compassionate release of Valon Valles. “Mr. Vailes has exhausted his administrative remedies with the [Federal Bureau of Prisons]; extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant compassionate release in his case; the relevant factors support release; and Mr. Vailes is not a danger to the community,” Alex Spiro, attorney for Team Roc argued in the filings on Wednesday (September 29th). Va...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Ellen Pompeo Shares Karen Moment She Had With Denzel Washington, Black Twitter Gathers Her
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Ron Batzdorff / Getty Add this story to you should have kept it to yourself file. Ellen Pompeo is getting clowned on Twitter after she felt the need to share a story about snapping at the living legend Denzel Washington while filming an episode of the hit ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy he directed. Pompeo told her former Grey’s costar Patrick Dempsey on her “Tell Me” podcast that she and the two-time Oscar-winning actor butted heads while he was directing the 2016 episode, “The Sound of Silence” because she ad-libbed the line “Look at me when you apologize. Look at me,” to another actor she was on screen with irritating Washington. “Denzel went ham on my ass,” she revealed to Dempsey. “He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t you tell him what to do....
Daz Dillinger Claims Jada Pinkett Smith Was Creeping With Late Kriss Kross Rapper Chris Kelly When He Was A Teen
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN If you thought the news cycle was moving on from Jada Pinkett Smith, an explosive bombshell recently dropped ensures that her name will be ringing in these streets for a little bit longer. Daz Dillinger claims that Pinkett Smith allegedly had dealings with an underaged Chris Kelly of Kriss Kross fame. According to a report from HotNewHipHop, Daz Dillinger chopped it up in a recent interview where he discussed a so-called entanglement between Pinkett Smith and Chris Kelly with their respective ages being 22 and 15. “You think Jada Pinkett was entangling? She was entangling with Chris Kelly from motherf*cking Kriss Kross,” Daz is seen saying on the video. “Kriss Kross was in the room and [Kelly] was like, ‘Jada Pinkett is a...
Issa Rae Shares ‘Insecure’ Trailer for Final Season
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of HBO / HBO After a glorious and entertaining 4 seasons, Insecure is coming to an end. While we hate to see the beloved series go, it just can’t get here fast enough. Source: Merie Wallace / HBO This October 24th the fifth and final season of the culture’s favorite HBO series kicks off and in the latest trailer we get an idea of what to expect from Issa (Issa Rae) and company as they embark on the next chapters of their lives. With Issa still struggling to find her path in life, she and Molly (Yvonne Orji) head back to visit their alma mater at Stanford University while Lawrence (Jay Ellis) seems to be struggling with the fact that he’s now a baby daddy to a child he never intended on having. Throw in the fact that Issa will seemingly be humorin...
HHW Gaming: Head of Xbox Says Xbox Series X Jig Will Last Well Into 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 We hate to break this news to you gamers, but the struggle to get your hands on Xbox Series X isn’t coming to an end any time soon. In an interview with The Wrap, Xbox chief Phil Spencer shared the bad news that Xbox Series X shortages will continue throughout 2021 and well into 2022 because of current supply chain issues that are not only due to the ongoing chip shortage. “I think it’s probably too isolated to talk about it as just a chip problem,” Spencer said. “When I think about, what does it mean to get the parts necessary to build a console today, and then get it to the markets where the demand is, there are multiple kind of pinch points in that process. And I think regretfully it’s going to be with us for months an...
DJ Mustard Revises Studio Rules After Backlash: “For All You Haters on the Internet”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty DJ Mustard has revised his studio rules after facing backlash over what many deemed was doing too much, especially rule number one, in which he boldly proclaimed that visitors may not be granted entry if they are “F–KING UGLY.” On Monday (Sept 27), Mustard dropped the updated list, revealing that while he still kept the requirement for looks, he removed the harsh f-bomb for rule No. 1. The 10 Summers Record founder shared the 2.0 edition of his studio policies in response to a number of comments he received regarding the harshness of the list’s delivery over something so subjective and petty, the “ugly” rule, as well as the stated gym-hitting requirement. “Do not come in here if you’re f–king ugly,” DJ Mustard wrote, “If you...
J. Cole Announces The Return of ‘Dreamville’ Music Festival
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jonathan Mannion / Jonathan Manion With concert series like Made In America and Rolling Loud triumphantly returning much to the delight of concert-goers, J. Cole has announced that Dreamville is next in line to make its comeback in 2022. In a press release the North Carolina MC revealed that the annual festival would be making its comeback on April 2, 2022 for a two-day event at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh. Being a native of North Carolina it makes sense that Cole would hold the festivities in his home state as he grew up in nearby Fayetteville. Having already hit the road to promote his latest album, The Off-Season, J. Cole seems to be ready to stay on his grind just a tad bit longer as April 2022 is just a stone’s throw away. “It’s exciting to finally ...
Kanye West Rocks Shirt With Creepy White Guy Marilyn Manson’s Face On It While Partying With Diddy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty No surprise, Kanye West is still doing headass things. Taking a break from tinkering with his already released album DONDA, Kanye West decided to link up with Diddy and attend the Bad Boy general’s exclusive Club Love soiree. In many videos shared on No Jumper’s Instagram page, the rapper performs tracks off his album while wearing a Vetements shirt featuring Marilyn Manson’s face on the front and back of it along with a balaclava mask, shades, gloves, and jeans. Diddy also shared photos of himself with West at the party on his Instagram post, and the shirt in question is visible. His actions are causing quite a stir because Manson has been accused of sexual misconduct and abuse by several women, including former partner Westworld star Evan R...
‘The Source’ Founder Dave Mays Launches Breakbeat Podcast Network
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dave Mays / press handout It seems like just yesterday The Source was the go-to Hip-Hop magazine in the game. But while the brand isn’t enjoying the same kind of success they did in the 90’s, founder Dave Mays is still very much involved in the Hip-Hop culture and taking his views from the pages to the airwaves. On September 29, Mays announced that he and business and finance heavyweight Kendrick Ashton have partnered to launch Breakbeat, a multi-media podcast network that will be dedicated to serving the interests and perspectives of the Hip-Hop community across the globe. The podcast network launched on September 28 with hopes of becoming a mainstay network as it works to create scripted, non-fiction narrative, news and discussion content going forward....
Queen Of Lightskin Tears Sage Steele Complains About ‘Sick’ & ‘Scary’ ESPN Vaccine Mandate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Juan David Granda / Getty When ESPN commentator Sage Steele isn’t joining fellow coontrarian Jason Whitlock in being the best sunken place correspondents the sports journalism world has ever seen, she’s joining the ever-growing list of anti-vaxx Black celebrities who insist that spreading loud and wrong medical misinformation during an ongoing pandemic is the best use of their platforms. (Also, see Jason Whitlock.) Steele recently sat down with ex-NFL quarterback Jay Cutler on his podcast so she could express her outrage at ESPN, which is now owned by Disney, for requiring that all its employees get vaccinated as a COVID-19 protection measure. During the episode dated for Wednesday, Steele cried butterscotch tears about how she had to get the shot to...
