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J.R. Smith Heading Back To College To Get A Degree, and Join Golf Team
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Diamond Images / Getty After more than a decade and a half of creating both amazing and boneheaded highlights in the NBA, J.R. Smith is looking to make a career change as no team has shown interest in signing him this off-season. According to WFMYNEWS2, the 2013 NBA Sixth Man of The Year award winner has decided to head back to college (seriously) and enrolled at North Carolina AT&T in hopes of getting both a degree and a spot on the men’s golf team. Two decades ago Smith had committed to attending the University of North Carolina after coming out of high school, but decided to make the leap straight to the NBA. Naturally Smith talked up the school’s educational program when speaking on his return to pursuing some higher learning. “One of the best lib...
Samsung Unfolds Its Newest Smartphones, The Galaxy Z Fold3 & Galaxy Z Flip3
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 We previously reported that Samsung is comfortably ahead of the curve thanks to the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G and Galaxy Z Flip. The Korean tech giant is now looking to lap the competition with its newest foldable devices. Wednesday (Aug.11), Samsung literally unfolded its new foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G, during its latest virtual Unpacked event. These new flagship models take what made the previous models stand out and add enhancements like IPX84 water resistance, new Armor Aluminum—the strongest aluminum ever used on a Galaxy smartphone— and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus that Samsung promises will protect against scratches and accidental drops. Both devices include a new protective fil...
Instagram Cracks Down On Companies Selling Fake Likes And Engagement
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Instagram wants to put an end to the cap. They have started to crack down on companies who offer fake engagement. As spotted on Vice Magazine the insanely popular social media app is getting serious on third party brands cooking the books when it comes to taps to the heart icon. According to the article Facebook, who owns IG, served LikeUp.Me with a cease and desist last week. In response the company shut down their site with a message saying “Sorry, LikeUp isn’t working :(. This service will no longer work. Sorry. Refunds for the last month are being processed. If you didn’t get a refund after July 1, 2021, please send your order number & the email you used to sign up here: hello@likeup.me”. The story is further validated by ...
Nick Cannon Defends DaBaby, Decries Cancel Culture On ‘The Breakfast Club’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhtoosByBeanz DaBaby has had a terrible couple of weeks since his infamous homophobic rant at Rolling Loud Miami, but he’s now got support from someone who’s been in his shoes – Nick Cannon. During his appearance on The Breakfast Club, Cannon spoke his mind about the rapper’s comments and how the backlash from entertainers and the public has led to several festivals including Lollapalooza and the Governor’s Ball Music Festival dropping him left and right. He feels that DaBaby was wrong in his commenst but is against the way “cancel culture” is involved. “I challenge all these people who actually want to cancel somebody, and even specifically in DaBaby’s situation, let’s use this as an opportunity for education.”, he said. The Wild’N Out ...
10 Things We Learned from The LOX on The Breakfast Club
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Power 105 / Revolt The LOX’s recent landslide win during their Verzuz with Dip Set have made them the darlings of Hip-Hop once again and there here for every second of it. Taking victory laps around New York City, The Lox checked into The Breakfast Club to continue their award tour and chopped it up with your favorite morning trio, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, and DJ Envy. Revisiting the events of last week’s Verzuz battle, Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch talked about things we didn’t notice on stage, refutes some rumors that begun after the Verzuz battle, and spoke about other experiences they’ve had over their decades in the rap game. Here are the 10 things we learned from The Lox on The Breakfast Club. Styles P said he accidentally broke the bea...
Jay-Z And Roc Nation Invest Into Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Company
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steven Ryan / Getty Jay-Z continues to boss up in big fashion. His most recent move slots him as a major investor in Michael Rubin’s Fanatics brand. As spotted on Revolt TV the Brooklyn, New York native just pulled yet another power pley. The owner of the Philadelphia 76ers is aiming to scale his sports merchandise business even further with a huge influx of cash. Jay-Z, Roc Nation and other entities are contributing a total of $325 million dollars. In return all parties involved will receive equity. Existing investors include Major League Baseball, SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, and private-equity giant Silver Lake. Rubin detailed that Fanatics wants to show up in different sales channels in the near future thus the recent fund raising. “W...
Twitter and Fab 5 Freddy Launch Hip-Hop Anniversary Twitter Emojis
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jemal Countess / Getty Today (August 11), is the official birthday of Hip-Hop. So of course, in the year 2021, Hip-Hop is getting official anniversary Twitter emojis to mark the occasion and ongoing celebration. On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc, born Clive Campbell, held a Back To School Jam and birthday party for his sister, Cindy Campbell, at the rec center of 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in The Bronx, and Hip-Hop was born. Forty-eight years later, Twitter has partnered with Fab 5 Freddy, born Fred Brathwaite and a pioneering artist and tastemaker in Hip-Hop culture, to create the emojis. The five emojis designed by Fab 5 Freddy are now live and each theme represents a different element of Hip-Hop culture. Said themes (#HipHop #Emcee, #Graffiti, #Breakdance and #...
Young Rapper YNT Juan Shot & Killed In Hartford, CT
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @yntjuan / Instagram Yet another young and up and coming rapper had his life taken as rapper YNT Juan was shot and killed this past Sunday (August 8) in Hartford, Connecticut. The Courant is reporting that the 17-year-old rapper was found shot dead in a parked car by police officers this past weekend. Born Juan Bautista Garcia, YNT Juan was slowly garnering himself a growing fan base as he had 25,700 IG followers along with 4,000 YouTube followers at the time of his death. “He was only 17-years-old,” a childhood friend of Garcia, who only gave her first name as Janine, said. “He never went live on his Instagram to talk about drama, he only went on there to support his friends or promote his music. [He] didn’t even get to graduate school yet.” Th...
Fat Joe Linking Up With DJ Drama For ‘Gangsta Grillz’ Project ‘What Would Big Do 2021’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Joseph Okpako / Getty How is Fat Joe following up his epic VERZUZ recap? With a new Gangsta Grillz project. The legendary Hip-Hop storyteller announced on Instagram that he is linking up with DJ Drama for his own Gangsta Grillz project titled What Would Big Do 2021 coming this Friday (Aug.13). In the post, the Bronx rapper shared the project’s artwork writing in the caption, “Yesterday’s title is not today’s title!!! WHAT WOULD BIG DO 2021?! Friday the 13th #GangstaGrillz @djdrama.” It’s an obvious play on his “yesterday’s price, is not today’s price,” quip from his recap of The LOX’s complete and utter decimation of the Harlem Hip-Hop collective Dipset during their epic VERZUZ matchup. Along with DJ Drama, who is fresh off his epic Ga...
Actress Tichina Arnold Files For Divorce From Husband After 5 Year Separation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John Sciulli / Getty Tichina Arnold is finally pressing the eject button on her marriage. After several years of separation she has filed for divorce. As spotted on TMZ, the actress is moving forward with legally dissolving her union with Rico Hines. According to the celebrity gossip website the Martin star had caught her man allegedly having relations with another woman in 2016. In an infamous text message she blasted the basketball coach for running through various females with no condom. “I can’t for the life of me understand why Rico would video himself f***ing ‘raw dog’ ONE of his MANY extraneous whores that ‘trick’ on him for his money.” At the time she also said that the women in question were “extraneous Kim Kardashian wanna be’s.” In an...
R. Kelly Wants Federal Herpes Charges Bumped
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: E. JASON WAMBSGANS / Getty The R. Kelly trial in Brooklyn just started, and it’s already been the gift of gossip that keeps on giving—no pun intended. The disgraced R&B crooner’s lawyers are requesting that the charges related to R. Kelly passing on STD’s to his victims be dropped. Good luck with that. TMZ reports that R’s counsel is citing a technicality to get the charges tossed. Reportedly, the legal docs file the Eastern District of NY, R. Kelly’s team is asking that the charge that he knowingly exposed sexual partners to herpes get tossed because the law being cited doest include herpes because it’s “Not An Acute, Bacterial Venereal Disease.” So Team Pied Piper is basically saying herpes shouldn’t count. Again, good luck with that. The prosecutio...
Shots, Shots, Shots: Miami’s Club LIV Nightclub Offering Party Goers The COVID-19 Vaccine
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Florida’s bonehead Governor Ron DeSantis is slacking when it comes to encouraging Floridians to get vaccinated. Miami hotspot Club LIV is stepping up big time with an unexpected promotion. Casamigos Tequila is not the only thing you can get a shot off when you party at LIV Nightclub. You can also get the COVID-19 vaccine. To help encourage younger Americans to get vaccinated against the highly contagious virus, the popular Miami destination has offered free COVID-19 vaccines to attendees outside the club. LIV, which is always frequented by Hip-Hop stars like Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled, Diddy, Nicki Minaj, and many more, has begun running a pop-up vaccination site over the weekend as cases of more virulent and dangerous Delta Variant co...
