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‘House of the Dragon’ Showrunner Explains Why There Is Melanin In His Version of Westeros
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ollie Upton / HBO Unlike Game of Thrones, there is a lot more melanin on screen in House of the Dragon, and there is a perfectly good reason for that. During a recent segment on TheGrill and interview series from TheWrap, House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan Condal revealed the decision to make a traditionally white character in the book Black was not done for progressive reasoning. “I think it was not that simple,” Condal said. “I think the reason that it’s been a successful choice … is because it was thought out. It wasn’t just done perfunctorily or wasn’t just done to tick a box or … to be seen as progressive.” But, in the same breath, Condal, who also serves as the showrunner for the GOT prequel series, seemingly contradicted his initial statement. “It...
Wack 100 Doubled Down On 21 Savage Snitch Claims
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Wack 100 is known for speaking his mind in a very blunt fashion whether on social media or in his preferred medium of Clubhouse. The manager for The Game and Ray J doubled down on earlier claims he’s made that Atlanta rapper 21 Savage is an informant. Wack 100 took to Instagram and shared a series of posts that, in his view, connects 21 Savage to a program he called the U Visa program. According to Wack 100, the program is how 21 Savage, who was not born in the United States, was able to avoid deportation after catching criminal charges. From Wack 100’s Instagram: Here’s the informant that informed on @21savage individual name “3838” Let’s eliminate the fanship Eliminate the popularity vote ::: This is how they got to him …..This ...
Azealia Banks Entered The Nicki Minaj vs. Latto Chat With High Key Slander
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Azealia Banks has entered the chat. The enigmatic rapper with a superior talent of reading her foes, real and imagined, for filth has chimed in on the current and ongoing war of tweets between Latto and Nicki Minaj. You can catch up on why Nicki and Latto are airing each other out social media right here. As soon as the bickering went full title, you knew it was only a matter of time before Banks added her couple of cents, and then some. Banks took to her Instagram stories to share her acerbic take, which includes alluding that Nicki Minaj has a drug problem, needs to worry about her baby son more and is only fattening up the pockets of men in the music industry. “When is she going to realize that everytime she fight [sic] wi...
Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Surface From Jan. 6 Attack, Twitter Reacts
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 3 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
Megan Thee Stallion Gives Us A Taste of Her Comedic Skills In New ‘SNL’ Promo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty While the girls (Nicki Minaj and Latto) are throwing shots at each other on Twitter, Megan Thee Stallion is prepping to show off her comedic chops and hit a twerk or two on SNL. Ahead of her hosting debut and performance on SNL, a funny promo featuring Megan Thee Stallion and SNL alum Heidi Gardner arrived on Thursday, Oct. 13. In the clip, the Houston rapper reacts to Gardner revealing that show will be awesome, but it hasn’t been written yet. “Wait… the show ain’t written yet?” The “Her” rapper asks Gardner with the comic, adding, “nope.” “But it’s already Thursday,” Thee Stallion points out, asking, “we got people working on that, right?” and Garnder confirms, “nope.” In another take, Gardner adds Thee to her name, which leads to Megan hila...
50 Cent Trolls 25-Year-Old Son, Marquise, After Being Offered $6700 For A Sit-Down
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Recently 50 Cent’s son, Marquise Jackson, has made it known that he’s looking to repair his relationship with his father, but unfortunately for him, his father is in fact 50 Cent. According to TMZ, the son that 50 Cent once proudly presented to countless crowds at his G-Unit shows back in the early 2000’s has been trying to convince his father to talk things out and even offered one month’s worth of child support ($6,700) to get things rolling. Marquise tells TMZ Hip Hop he meant what he said, in a now-viral post, about putting up $6,700 — Fiddy’s monthly child support payment — for the one-on-one, and says he’ll actually pay more than that if necessary. Unfazed and uninterested in any kind of reconciliation with the son he...
PnB Rock’s Girlfriend Breaks Her Silence, Reveals The Rapper Saved Her Life
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty Immediately following the tragic murder of rapper PnB Rock, his girlfriend was falsely blamed for his death, and now she is finally breaking her silence. Following the development that PnB Rock’s killer was already at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles on September 12, Stephanie Sibounheuang took to Instagram to update her followers on how she is doing after that fateful day. In the lengthy caption for the post featuring a video montage of moments of the couple together, Sibounheuang writes, “I am 100% not ok. If I wasn’t spiritual I could kill my self (but then I’ll go to hell and my man not there).” Sibounheuang revealed that before he was gunned down, PnB Rock pushed her underneath the table as gunshots were rin...
DaBaby “No Condom,” Benny The Butcher “Thowy’s Revenge” & More | Daily Visuals 10.13.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SMG John Paul Jones Arena / SMG John Paul Jones Arena We don’t know why he’s been doing it, but DaBaby’s really been going the comedic route in his recent music videos and this time around he’s doing the most as he basically lives up to his moniker. In his latest visuals to “No Condom,” DaBaby finds himself, well, being birthed into his grown self (Benjamin Button style) before turning up in a hospital waiting room that’s filled with beautiful women who also happen to be pregnant. Whether or not they all actually have a bun in the oven is anyone’s guess, but this is the first time we’ve seen a music video remotely close to this. Back in Buffalo, Benny The Butcher keeps his latest LP Tana Talk 4 buzzing and in his clip to “Thowy’s Revenge” heads over to Pa...
So Salty: Balenciaga Unveils Purse That Looks Like Lay’s Potato Chip Bag
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @lays / Instagram Balenciaga continues to troll the fashion world. Their newest piece is a purse that looks like a bag of Lay’s potato chips. As per Metro Newspaper the luxury design house is back to their old tricks again. At their recent fashion show some of their models strutted the walkway with a clutch in hand that resembled the popular snack. So much so that industry professionals in attendance were not aware that it was an actual carry from the forthcoming collection, but rather a symbolistic play. But style insider account @dietprada confirms the pieces were indeed purses on an Instagram post. “How do you follow up a viral fashion accessory like @balenciaga’s trash bag bag? How about another that looks like actual trash?” the caption read. The bag...
Latto Slams Nicki Minaj, Twitter Beef Is On: “Ur Older Than My Mom Tryna Be A Bully”
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Scott Legato / Getty Seems like Big Latto has had enough. The Atlanta rapper took to Twitter to slam Nicki Minaj for what she described as months of subtweets. And she didn’t pull any punches. “I’ve ignored countless subtweets since March and instead addressed u in the dm,” tweeted Latto, @’ing Minaj, so you know it’s real. “You’re asking why I didn’t speak up in ur defense… it’s the same answer I gave u when u asked why I didn’t congratulate you. Ur literally older than my mom tryna be a bully.” What started the fireworks (because of course Nicki clapped back) was the Grammys moving the Queens rapper’s hit “Super Freaky Girl” from the Rap to the Pop category. Apparently, while sharing her frustration, she suggested Latto’s own hit, “Big Energy,” be...
Prize Fight: DJ Akademiks Seen Barking On Girlfriend, Breaks Up Fade
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty is once again trending for all the wrong reasons. Footage hit social media that showed Livingston in a heated argument with a woman reported to be his girlfriend, and he can be heard yelling “I’m the prize.” Details are slowly but surely coming in about what is happening in the clip, and it’s all struggle. Apparently it went down after a Ak appeared on the Fresh & Fit podcast. [embedded content] We got so many questions. Like, are these women really scrapping over Akademiks? Did he retrieve his hat that was hurled to the side? Why was he hanging on to the purse (or duffle bag) as if for dear life? Who are these women, with no hands, poorly attempting to fade his girl? Twitter also has plenty of jokes, mostly about the aud...
HHW Gaming: ‘PGA Tour 2K23’ Is Video Game Golfing For Dummies & That’s A Great Thing
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 2K / PGA Tour 2K23 Golf, immediately a few terms come to mind when thinking about the sport, boring, complicated, and insanely difficult. But your favorite hoopers and politicians love to play it for whatever reason. This leads to gamers asking the burning question, can the folks at 2K turn it into a successful sports video game franchise that F U N? The answer is yes, yes; they can. It turns out 2K deciding to skip PGA Tour 2K22 and build off the momentum of PGA Tour 2K21 was wise. Outside of fans of the sport, nobody is running to their local video game retailer or their console of choice to download PGA Tour 2K23, but let’s say they did out of curiosity. There is a good chance they will become a fan of the sport. Steep Learning Curve But Re...
