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Bobby Shmurda Drops New Visuals For “No Time For Sleep”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty After months of enjoying his newfound freedom and making up for lost time, OG BK representative, Bobby Shmurda has finally dropped some new material for his starving fans to consume… kinda. In his new freestyle visuals to “No Time For Sleep,” Bobby gets military-minded with it and is strapped down to the teeth with the kind of artillery you’d expect to find on soldiers overseas with a team of half-naked thick young women. If looks could kill that’s all those women would need. All in all this visual gives off a real Tupac-ish vibe a la “Made Niggaz” as he’s donning all kinds of bulletproof vests and in a warehouse with an armed militia behind him. Check out the visuals to “No Time For Sleep” below and let us know if you’re looking for...
Leave The Horse Paste Alone: A Quick Ivermectin Explainer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bloomberg / Getty Ivermectin is dominating the headlines these days, with contorversial podcast host Joe Rogan claiming that he used it in a cocktail of drugs when he found out he had COVID-19 among others who’ve been buying up boxes of the stuff. This mass of people spurred on by right-wing figures and conspiracy theorists have chosen to take it as opposed to the free, tested and vetted vaccines that have been available. For those who don’t fully know what Ivermectin is, here’s a quick explainer for clarity. What Is Ivermectin and What Does It Do? Ivermectin is a drug that’s part of the class of anthelmintic medications, which are substances that help the body purge itself of worms and other internal parasites. It commonly can be found in paste or tablet...
Cardi B Checks Haters Who Are Justifying Instagram Model’s Death
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 It’s a cold world and but the internet truly has no heart. Cardi B checked folks who showed no sympathy for an Instagram model’s passing. As spotted on Madam Noire the Bronx bombshell made it clear that all lives matters, including social media vixens. On Sunday, August 19 Jenae Gagnier, aka Miss Mercedes Morr, was found dead at her Richmond, Texas home. Along with her body was another fatality which was Kevin Alexander Accorto. Her father was the one who found the two. He described what he uncovered in a formal statement. “I walk in and Janae’s on the floor, and her clothes are all torn up and stuff,” Mark Gagneir explained. “I go upstairs, guy upstairs with a knife in him, still alive… I just couldn’t do nothing but sta...
Kanye West Drops Visuals To “Come To Life”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty With Donda officially out and rocking eardrums across the Hip-Hop community it was only a matter of time before Kanye West dropped some visuals to accompany his latest project. That day is today. Releasing some “new” visuals for his album cut “Come To Life,” Kanye West uses footage from one of his Donda listening concerts while incorporating scenes of himself on fire and even includes Kim Kardashian when she showed up wearing a wedding dress. Well, at least these shows that the two still kinda get along. While this isn’t so much a new video as it is just footage of a concert turned into one, it’s still something for Kanye West fans to take in and decipher as everything the man does has some sort of meaning (for better or worse). Can we get a ...
HHW Tech Review: Turtle Beach’s First Attempt At A Video Game Controller, The Recon, Is A Success
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / Turtle Beach Recon Controller For Xbox Turtle Beach, a company, best known for its very reliable headsets, decided to try its hand at gaming controllers but is the company overstepping its boundaries, surprisingly not. Back in July, we first reported on the announcement of Turtle Beach’s Recon Controller for Xbox, and at the same time, we said it could potentially be a gamechanger based on the features it was boasting. Now, we had our chance to get our hands on the Recon Controller, and after spending some time playing some of our favorite games on Xbox Series X, we walked away very impressed. Where The Recon Controller Wins Source: Bernard Smalls / Turtle Beach Recon Controller For Xbox Unlike PS5’s DualSense controller that honestly tak...
Drake Peppering The Globe With ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Billboards Announcing Guest Features
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cole Burston / Getty Hey Kanye West, this is how you roll out an album. After weeks of being tortured by Yeezy and his annoying rollout for his album DONDA, Drake is here to save us all with his very late album Certified Lover Boy, and ahead of its release, the Canadian-born Hip-Hop star is taking a unique approach to building hype for his project. Drizzy has been spending bread and taking out billboards across the globe to reveal the features that are going to be on his upcoming album. Drake had the internet talking when a photo of one billboard located in New York City popped up, telling New Yorkers, “Hey New York, The Goat Is On CLB,” leaving many to assume at the time he revealed JAY-Z would be on his album. That was seemingly was confirmed by Tidal, ...
HHW Gaming: Sony Announces September 9 PlayStation Showcase, Let The Speculation Begin
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Is Sony about to blow our minds next week? Outside of the announcement of Horizon: Forbidden West’s new release date, Sony has been relatively quiet. At the same time, Xbox and other gaming studios showed gamers what’s in the pipeline during last week’s virtual Gamescom event. That’s all going to change with Sony announcing it will be holding a virtual event on September 9. Ever since the company decided to pull itself out of E3, it has worked on its own schedule, relishing that any news regarding PlayStation 5 and its first-party games from PlayStation Studios are events in itself, and we won’t argue that based on the reception this announcement is getting. While not giving anything away, PlayStation announced on its official Tw...
“Would You Release New Music If You Were Me?”: Chrisette Michele Responds To Kanye Comparisons And Cancel Culture
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marcus Ingram / Getty Every time Kanye West finds (or puts) himself in the news and trending on social media—usually behind some controversial comment he made or tweeted and, of course, when he drops a new album—anti-hypocrisy and misogynoir Twitter comes through with a fresh discussion about the curious career demise of singer Chrisette Michele. There are a lot of different arguments here. Some say if Kanye was never “canceled” after all the MAGA-fied Trump-humping and disrespecting of the ancestors he’s done, then Michele should never have been “canceled” for performing Donald Trump’s inauguration. (I put “canceled” in quotes because I don’t believe “cancel culture” is an actual thing for various reasons, but that’s a post for another day.) Some argue t...
Elijah McClain’s Alleged Killers Indicted By Colorado Grand Jury
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Boston Globe / Getty The senseless death of 23-year old Elijah McClain on August 2h, 2019 sent shockwaves throughout the country after it happened because it was another Black man dying at the hands of law enforcement. But a ruling yesterday may bring about much-needed justice in the case. On Wednesday (September 1st), Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that a grand jury indicted Aurora Police officers Randy Roedema and Nathan Woodyard, former officer Jason Rosenblatt and Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec for criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter. Cooper and Cichuniec received additional indictments on three counts of assault along with six counts of crime of violence, while Roedema and Rosenblatt receiv...
Nah B*tch: Dog The Bounty Hunter Says Prison Mates Gave Him N-Word Pass
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty Need more proof that Dog The Bounty Hunter is forever tweaking? The reality star says his use of the dreaded N-word was granted to him. As spotted on Page Six the reality television star is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Recently his daughter called her dad out for being a bigot and a raging homophobe. Bonnie Chapman wrote a very extension post on her personal Facebook account detailing his vile tongue. A friend revealed to her that they were not invited to their wedding because of their “choice to participate in social justice and BLM protests with ‘The System’, and not condemn the streaming platform when they fired my father for using epithets.” “I have expressed time and time again my ever-growing disappointment in m...
Class Is In Session: TIDAL Rolls Out Educational Back To School: 101 Playlist Hub
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty TIDAL has one of the most extensive collections of curated playlists among the major players in the streaming era, and they’re rolling out a new feature this week in honor of folks heading back to school. The Back To School: 101 hub introduces a number of popular musical genres along with celebrity commentary from some of the top names in the game. TIDAL first launched its innovative 101 playlist formats back in 2019 and since then, the curated playlists have introduced fans to music and sounds that are most likely outside their usual wheelhouses while also bringing folks up to speed on the genre they’re hoping to learn more about. For the first week of September, Paul Wall guides the Chopped & Screwed 101 and gives honor to the la...
So We’re Not Bugging?: FTC To Investigate Why McDonald’s McFlurry Machines Are Always Broken
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bloomberg / Getty In life, three things are guaranteed: death, taxes, and McDonald’s McFlurry machine always being “broken.” The FTC is reportedly looking into the latter. It never fails. We head to McDonald’s craving a cold, delicious Oreo McFlurry on a hot summer day only to be told by a Mickey D’s employee that the McFlurry machine is down. TMZ reports that the FTC is quite curious why that always seems to be the case and is investigating the matter. The FTC is on the case and has sent letters to franchisees inquiring over the summer inquiring “McDonald’s reviews suppliers and equipment, including the ice cream machines.” So what exactly is the issue? According to the Wall Street Journal, the machines are overly complicated to operate and are painfully...
