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Kanye West Throws Ridiculous Tantrum During Court-Ordered Deposition, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Kanye West and his billion-dollar ego have reached new heights of disrespect after losing it during a court-ordered deposition for a lawsuit with MyChannel last week. Allegedly, of course. According to HipHopDX, the rapper called Michael Popok, MyChannel’s lawyer, “boy” at least 12 times during the brief deposition. He’s white, y’all. While the deposition lasted only 10 minutes, Kanye utilized the time to play with his phone, refer to his creative talent as “mental genius-ness” and hurl insults at Popok by asking if he was “f*cking stupid.” He even told him that he’s lucky to be deposing the “richest Black man in America and a Black Trump supporter and that he couldn’t be bothered with the deposition because he had ...
The Senate Unanimously Votes To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: filo / Getty In a surprise move on Capitol Hill, the United States Senate passed a bill on Tuesday (June 15) to establish Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a national holiday. Juneteenth began on June 19th, 1865 in Galveston, Texas when an order by Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced that all enslaved people in Galveston and the state were to be freed under the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued in 1863. From that point it became the official date for Black people across the nation to celebrate the end of slavery. It became a holiday in Texas in 1980 with other states following suit. “Making Juneteenth a federal holiday is a major step forward to recognize the wrongs of the past,” Se...
A$AP Rocky’s Details His Arrest In Docu-Film ‘Stockholm Syndrome’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jim Spellman / Getty Rihanna’s boo, A$AP Rocky’s new documentary has officially arrived. The Harlem rapper hit the relaunched Tribeca Festival to premiere his docu-film, Stockholm Syndrome, which details his side of the story during his month-long incarceration in Sweden. Per The Grio, the film also sees the 32-year old Hip-Hop star born Rakim Mayers speaking on his early upbringing in Harlem and the Bronx, his rough childhood as well as his rise to stardom as a young MC attaining chart-topping success following the release of his platinum-selling vibes “F—– Problems,” and “Wild For the Night.” Of course, it wouldn’t be an A$AP Rocky project if it didn’t touch on his influence in the fashion game like his propensity to push the norms in the hoo...
Greenroom, Spotify’s Answer To Clubhouse Has Officially Launched
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Spotify / Spotify Greenroom Watch out Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. There is a new live audio app on the block. Spotify’s acquisition of Locker Room has bear fruit in the form of a new live audio app called Greenroom that has officially launched on iOS and Android devices Wednesday (Jun.16). Greenroom is also the music streaming giant’s first attempt at a social media platform. It is basically like the Clubhouse allowing users to host and engage in live conversations about music, sports, and culture. Unlike most things Spotify launches, Greenroom didn’t come with any fanfare, with the company opting to roll out the new app to customers and letting it do all the talking and strongly encouraging them to sign up by tempting them with apps features and the ab...
Gunman Shot & Killed Georgia Grocery Store Cashier Over Face Mask Policy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dekalb County Sheriff’s Department / Fox 5 Atlanta While much of the nation has eased COVID-19 restrictions and mask guidelines, many states and counties within are still mandating the wearing of face coverings inside their establishment. A cashier lost her life after she asked a man to don a mask while inside a Dekalb County grocery store, who left and then returned to gun the woman down. As detailed in a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Victor Lee Tucker Jr., a 30-year-old resident of Palmetto, Ga. in Fulton County, entered the Big Bear Supermarket this past Monday when he was met with a warning to wear a face mask by the cashier. Tucker left the establishment and opened fire, striking the cashier and an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working as...
HHW Gaming: Summer Game Fest Continues On Xbox With Another Massive Demo Event
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Xbox / ID@Xbox Summer Game Demo Fest E3 2021 is a wrap, but the Summer Game Fest continues on Xbox. Following its successful showing at E3 2021, Xbox is far from finished when it comes to showing what it has to offer in the form of games coming to the Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X consoles. [embedded content] Tuesday (Jun.15), the company announced it was teaming up with Summer Game Fest again to bring back its massive demo event. This year Xbox owners can look forward to taking an early crack at these 12 NEWLY ANNOUNCED Xbox titles: Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games) BattleCakes (Volcano Bean) Button City (Subliminal) Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware) Dreamers (PlaySys) Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box) Get Packed: Fully Loaded...
Jay-Z Sues Photographer Jonathan Mannion For Exploitation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jim Spellman / Getty Jay-Z is suing renowned photographer Jonathan Mannion over some classic flicks from early in his career. It seems Hova isn’t too happy about millions of dollars being made from his likeness if he isn’t getting a cut. The Brooklyn mogul filed a lawsuit accusing Mannion of profiting off his likeness without his permission. Mannion famously shot the cover and artwork for Jay-Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt. He’s gone on to shoot the covers of a lot of Jay-Z albums actually, including The Blueprint. And then when you throw in other artists (and not mention magazine shoots), the famed photographers credits are in the hundreds if not thousands. Apparently, Mannion has been making coins selling images of Jay-Z on his website, which the Bro...
Offspring Apologizes For Destroying Sneaker Boxes At Their Store
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke To help deter sneaker resellers and ensuring that actual sneakerheads get their hands on coveted kicks on release day, stores have done everything from limiting purchases to one per person to having customers actually wear recently purchased sneakers out the store. But sneaker boutique, OFFSPRING in the UK might’ve gone a bit overboard recently when they had employees literally crush the sneaker boxes of the Nike “Ambush” Dunks to keep them from making their way to the secondary market. To add insult to injury, the box was actually discarded and the sneakers were placed in a plastic bag and given to customers. The clip of an employee jumping all over sneaker boxes drew much criticism from social media. While the idea is, well, creative, many a...
Security Who Claimed Pooh Shiesty Shot Him Now Says He Can’t Remember
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Not too long ago Pooh Shiesty was arrested in connection of the shooting of a security guard at the King of Diamonds club in Miami, Florida. But now the alleged victim of the shooting is changing his tune. According to TMZ, the security guard in question is recanting his sworn testimony who’s now claiming he doesn’t remember what he told police who were investigating the May 30 shooting. Shiesty’s attorneys, Bradford Cohen and Saam Zangeneh, filed a new motion this week in court alleging that the security guard’s testimony is now in question as the guard is claiming he was on powerful pain killers when he was making his statement to authorities. “According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Frivin Dor‘s transcribed interview with Pooh’s...
Big Meech Wins Sentence Reduction, Granted Early Release
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MDOC / MDOC It appears that B.M.F. co-founder Big Meech is finally getting his wish for an early release. According to an exclusive report by Allhiphop.com, on Monday (Jun 14), U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson agreed to reduce Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory’s prison sentence from 360 months to 324 months resulting in a 3-year sentence reduction. Flenory, who was convicted of running a nationwide Continual Criminal Enterprise, and Conspiracy To Launder Money Instruments which raked in over $270 million in drug proceeds from the late ’90s until the Feds took down B.M.F. in 2007, reduction comes months after a judge denied his request for release four times after Flenory cited his request was due to his elevated risk of catching the coronavirus upon learni...
Braid Dragging Victim At Nellie’s Sports Bar Lawyers Up
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WRC-TV / NBC4 Washington Keisha Young, a 22-year-old student at Morgan State University, was taking in the festivities of D.C. Pride Weekend at Nellie’s Sports Bar in Washington‘s famed U Street corridor. Young was viciously dragged by her braids and roughly handled by security in what she said was a mistake on the bar’s fault and is demanding a better apology and accountability from the owners of the establishment. In a report from local news NBC news outlet WRC-TV, Young detailed the incident on Saturday in which bouncers, assuming that Young snuck in a bottle of liquor from the outside, ousted her from the club with force thus sparking a melee of sorts that was all caught on smartphone video cameras. Young spoke with WRC-TV alongside her attorney Brand...
Year Of The Black Woman: Taraji P. Henson To Host The 2021 BET Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: handout / BET BET has made the announcement that this year’s BET Awards will be hosted by Taraji P. Henson as it makes its return to being hosted with a live audience. The Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor will be the leading figure at the awards, which will have “The Year of The Black Woman” as its theme. Another major part of the show this year will feature Grammy-winning musician, critically acclaimed actor and Golden Globe-winner Queen Latifah being honored with the Lifetime Achievement BET Award. Ms. Henson has been consistently at work for the culture, finishing her iconic run as Cookie Lyon on the Fox musical drama Empire and devoting her efforts to combatting mental health issues within the Black community with creating the Bo...
