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Big Flex: Cardi B Shows Off Her Large Collection of Hermès Birkin Bags
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Cardi B is getting to the bag; figuratively and literally. She recently stunted on the world with enough Hermès Birkin purses to stock a couple of shelves. As spotted on Complex the Bronx bombshell proved that her love for the luxury bag brand is far from cap. Earlier this week she posted a carousel of photos of her Birkin inventory. Her first photo and last photo shows her walking while carrying a tan version of the Birkin Cargo model. The second was the real flex as the visual was a picture of her living room and on the floor were over 25 Birkin bags. They ranged from your general market releases from some very rare prints including a pink bandana and green camouflage colorways. The caption read “Every other day ne...
Damon Dash Launches Auction For His Share Of Roc-A-Fella, Bids Starts At $10M
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Damon Dash / Damon Dash The Damon Dash NFT saga continues. The serial entrepreneur has moved forward with the selling of his share of Roc-A-Fella Records. As spotted at Vibe, the self proclaimed Cake-A-Holic is not letting any legal concerns stop him from letting go of what he feels is rightfully his. An NFT for his 1/3 of Roc-A-Fella is currently on auction. According to the host site Open Sea, the “It’s The Roc” offer will the winning bidder to “Own a moment in time when Reasonable Doubt changed Hip Hop Culture. This commemorative NFT will be gifted to the highest bidder on Damon Dash’s 1/3 interest in Rock-A-Fella Inc. It’s The Roc (2021) is a collaboration between Raquel M. Horn and Billy Pablo III & The Black Guns.” To prom...
Homecoming: Kanye West Premieres New Momma-Dedicated Album DONDA In His Birthplace, Can The Sinner Be Saved?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Last night (July 23), it seemed as if the entire city of Atlanta gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to hear what Hip-Hop’s most polarizing character, Kanye West, has cooked up for his tenth solo studio album, DONDA. It goes without saying that general public sentiment toward Yeezy has been soured significantly after several years of incoherent rambling, his entrance into Kardashianville, his stating that “slavery is a choice” and his full-throated support of MAGA miscreant Donald Trump. None of that even takes into account the fact that the music Kanye has released during this tumultuous time period has been lackluster, to say the least. We’ve certainly seen more than one musician maintain their status as an elite artist despite the...
Yasiin Bey Will Not Portray Jazz Great Thelonious Monk In Biopic Despite Reports
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dominique Charriau / Getty Yasiin Bey was the subject of several reports stating that he would be portraying Jazz legend Thelonius Monk in an upcoming biopic but now, the Brooklyn rapper and actor isn’t attached to the project any longer. According to Bey, he was given the impression that the production company was on board with the film but apparently, he was given improper information. A press release went out earlier this week from Jupiter Rising Film, a production company headed by Peter Lord Moreland and Alberto Marzan, which would begin filming Thelonious in the summer of 2022. In the release, Bey was noted as the main star of the film as Monday. However, a report from Pitchfork notes that T.S. Monk, Thelonious Monk’s son and the chairman and co-fou...
The Spice Must Flow: New ‘Dune’ Trailer Features Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet & More
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Warner Bros. / WB Dune is perhaps the great science fiction novel of all time but has yet to get a proper live-action adaptation despite two major attempts. A new trailer for the upcoming film reveals more details and looks to be one of the most highly anticipated films of the year. The latest trailer for Dune features Timothée Chalamet, who plays the reluctant messiah to the Fremen, Paul Atreides aka Paul Muad’Dib. The clip also features Zendaya, who plays Chani, and her voice opens up the trailer as she explains how the proud desert-dwelling Fremen people of Arrakis, also known as Dune, have been invaded by ruling powers across the Imperium who wish to control melange or space, a powerful substance only found on the barren planet. The trailer also featu...
REVOLT Launching New Video Countdown Series ‘Off Top’ This Friday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Revolt / Revolt If your love for Hip-Hop culture was born out of a love for the iconic videos it generated and the personalities hosting, REVOLT is aiming to rekindle those flames with a new series. Source: Revolt / Revolt The network announced the premiere of a new series, Off Top which will air this Friday (July 23rd). Off Top is styled as a modern video countdown show that draws on the nostalgia for the times when those shows dominated the airwaves and popular culture. Renowned rapper and award-winner Rapsody will be hosting the program along with the iconic personality of Hip-Hop television and radio, Big Tigger. Media personality and DJ Nyla Simone will be joining them to complete the hosting team. Each episode of the show will highlight the hottest ...
PJ Tucker’s Diamond Encrusted Off-White Air Jordan 1’s Cost A Staggering $250K
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jonathan Daniel / Getty PJ Tucker is already considered the sneaker king of the kicks game, but the latest addition to his collection might take the custom cake as it shines brighter than anything you currently have in your closet, guaranteed. According to Hypebeast, PJ’s latest pair of custom rare Air Jordan 1’s came courtesy of the Shoe Surgeon and jeweler, Jason of Beverly Hills, who worked together to remix a pair of Off-White 1’s into a diamond-encrusted piece that you won’t see any rapper in anytime soon. Valued at $250,000, the sneaker consists of 32.74 ct’s (2,020 D color white diamonds) along with 150 grams of 14k white gold. The customization took 100 hours in total to complete and man, was it worth it. The black alligator-looking leather with t...
Apple Music Scores Exclusive Rights To Stream Kanye West’s ‘DONDA’ LP
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Kanye West has been actively readying the masses for the release of his latest studio album with exclusive listening parties and the like, and now Apple Music users will get an exclusive listen to boot. The streaming service will share a livestream of West’s DONDA LP ahead of its release on Friday (July 23). Eagle-eyed fans noticed the news of the livestream in a new Beats spot featuring track and field superstar Sha’Carri Richardson, and West’s “No Child Left Behind” track from DONDA. West is premiering his tenth studio album at the sold-out event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta later today (July 22) at 8:00PM ET. Earlier in the week, Def Jam Recordings confirmed the release of DONDA via Twitter. A tracklist for the project has b...
Herstory: Young M.A Denies Being Pregnant Because Duh
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty For all those wondering Young M.A has not been taken off the market. She has denied the pregnancy rumors that started circulating recently. As spotted on Bossip the Brooklyn native’s name was red hot this week on the internet. A rumor alleging that she was expecting her first child hit the blogs. While she has made it abundantly clear she is a Gay woman, reports linked her to being preggers. Naturally the fake news landed on her radar prompting her to jump into The Shade Room’s comment section to shut down the cap. “Of course, my girl is the one that’s gone be pregnant,” she wrote on Instagram. “That’s why I looked at her and mentioned her smh. Y’all bored lol, but I get it… Sell ya stories, and we workin’ on one now.”...
Charlamagne Tha God To Host Late Night Talk Show On Comedy Central
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nick Fancher / Comedy Central Charlamagne Tha God is returning to your late-night television screen. The media personality and host of The Breakfast Club is getting late night talk show on Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey is set to premiere on September 17 at 10PM ET on Comedy Central. The series is being executive produced by Stephen Colbert, who besides hosting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, happens to share South Carolina roots with Charlamagne. Colbert also came to fame on Comedy Central hosting The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014. Source: Scott Kowalchyk for CBS / Comedy Central The weekly late-night series is being billed as a “culturally fluent take on social issues” as Charlamagne offer his tak...
HHW Gaming: Atlantic Records Teams Up With Xbox To Launch The Green Room Gaming Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Atlantic Records / Xbox Music and video games go hand-in-hand, so this union between Xbox and Atlantic Records makes all the sense in the world. Thursday (Jul.22), Atlantic Records announced it was teaming up with Xbox in Partnership with Vaynersports and Efuse for The Green Room, a new competitive gaming series that will see music artists, streamers, and athletes pair up to play some video games. The live event series, which officially kicks off on July 27TH, 6 PM EST on Atlantic Records YouTube page, will see the label’s big artists like A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Against The Current’s Chrissy Costanza, Childish Major, Bankrol Hayden, Jucee Froot, Surf Curse, Sueco, Bizzy Banks, and MILES, as well as strea...
Bhad Bhabie Loud & Wrongly Beefs With Lil Yachty About Cultural Appropriation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty A social media chat between rappers Lil Yachty and the controversial Bhad Bhabie got very heated as they discussed the concept of cultural appropriation. The 18-year old personality and recent addition on OnlyFans got on Instagram Live with Yachty on Wednesday (July 21) to vehemently dismiss claims that she’s a racist. “The one thing I’m really, really sick of is the whole ‘Bhad Bhabie is a cultural appropriator,’” she told Yachty. “No. Y’all make these words have different terms to what they even mean. Cultural appropriation is if I was to sit up and say, ‘Oh, a certain race looks ugly with that.’ And then I go do that on myself.” Lil Yachty seemed highly confused, asking her, “Bro, what the f**k is you talking about?” That made hi...
