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Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine Teaming With LAUSD To Open Possibly The “Coolest High School In America”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason LaVeris / Getty Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are backing up the Brink’s Truck to help Black and Latino teenagers get a good education in South LA. Monday (Jun.14), L.A. Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner and Beats By Dre founders Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, a Compton native, and Jimmy Iovine, announced they are teaming up to launch what could be “the coolest high school in America.” The school, currently known as Regional High School .1 until it is formally named, will help develop young leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs by offering students a unique curriculum of multidisciplinary, hands-on learning, with a strong emphasis on real-world projects with top companies and non-profits that is based on the USC Iovine and Young Academy’s approach to teachi...
Damn Shawty: FreakNik Is Returning To Atlanta In October
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: FreakNik / Freaknik One of the most beloved cultural moments in the south is returning. FreakNik is officially coming back to Atlanta this year. As spotted on The Grio the legendary event series will live again. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is reporting that FreakNik will occur over a span of three days in Atlanta, Georgia during the fall. Already confirmed for the festivities are the likes of Adina Howard, Project Pat, Lil Scrappy, Ray J, Pastor Troy, JT Money, Paul Wall, 95 South, DJ Unk, Field Mob and 8Ball & MJG. Commonly referred to as the “Black Spring Break”, FreakNik was originally started in the late 80’s as an informal celebration for college students throughout the area. I...
Virgil Abloh To Drop 50 “Different” Off-White Nike Dunks
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke Looks like sneakerheads are about to take all the L’s they can get as Nike and Virgil Abloh plan on dropping 50 pairs of Off-White low top Nike Dunks in the coming months. That’s right. 50. Maybe it’s to commemorate the $50 that Virgil donated to the Protest Bail funds last summer during the Black Lives Matter movement that saw countless protestors arrested for marching during the George Floyd protests. We kid we kid. Don’t blacklist us from the SNKRS app, Nike, please. Well, we lowkey kinda feel that way ever since the “Draw” system took over the app. Thanks a bunch, Joe Hebert. SMH. Back to the kicks. Dubbed the “Dear Summer” collection, each sneaker feature the same white and grey color bock for the base, each pair will feature different co...
Post Malone Drops $1.6 Million On Diamond Teeth
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Adam Bielawski/WENN.com / WENN Post Malone lives a life. He recently dropped a million dollars to add some color, cut and clarity to his smile. As spotted on TMZ the Grapevine, Texas native paid a visit to his dentist and apparently dropped off a very big bag for the work in question. According to the celebrity gossip site the “Rockstar” performer paid a cool 1.6 million dollars on a new grill. The set in question gives him all natural porcelain veneers to chew with. On top of that he added two diamond studded fangs to each of his top row cuspids (aka the canine tooth). He enlisted the help of cosmetic dentist Naoki Hayashi and Thomas Connelly, DDS, the self-proclaimed father of diamond dentistry, for the unique refresh. His mouth will now hold over ...
Beats Officially Unveils Its New Wireless Studio Buds
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Beats / Beats By Dre Wireless Studio Buds The cat is officially out of the bag. Beats new wireless earbuds are here. Back in May, the king, LeBron James, stunted all of us when he seemingly unveiled Beats’ newest product while showing off his pre-game drip and grill. Finally, the now Apple-owned company officially revealed the new Beats Studio Wireless Buds do, in fact, exist, and they will be arriving in three colors. Source: Beats / Beats By Dre Wireless Studio Buds The Beats Studio Wireless Buds are the follow-up to the impressive Powerbeats Pro, with Beats continuing to keep that high-quality sound experience energy by providing its Beats users a new sleek, lightweight, and comfortable experience with Beats Studio Wireless Buds. In addition, the compa...
HHW Gaming: Razer Makes A Huge Statement With Its New Ultra-Thin & Super Fast Gaming Laptop
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Razer / Razer Blade 14 Gaming Laptop Razer might have made a serious power move with its new gaming laptop. Monday (Jun.14), during its E3 2021 keynote presentation, Razer announced its new ultra-thin, 14-inch computer that is being described as “the ultimate AMD gaming laptop,” the Razer Blade 14. Under the hood, the Razer Blade 14 boasts an impressive 8-core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor allowing for a max boost clock of up to 4.6GHz. [embedded content] GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs are “built on award-winning Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd-gen RTX architecture—with new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and streaming multiprocessors” provide users with realistic ray-traced graphics and cutting-edge AI features while gaming and creating. Paired with 3rd-gen Max-Q tech...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Says “We Fell Short” In Response To ‘In The Heights’ Colorism Charges
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Noam Galai / Getty After much hype and excitement, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway play turned feature film, In The Heights, finally hit theaters and your HBO Max service. However, even before the film debuted many Latinos and woke brethren had a bone to pick with the casting choices as many felt that the film lacked one thing in particular: Afro-Latinos. While we can all nitpick about Puerto Rican actors playing Dominicans (Anthony Ramos a.k.a. Usnavi) and having Dominican actors play Puerto Ricans (Leslie Grace a.k.a. Nina Rosario), that’s lowkey expected given the celebrity a few of these actors already had going into this movie. But not having dark-skinned Latinos involved in any important roles and mostly relegated to dancing numbers (SMH) ultimately s...
Drake & Murda Mook Connected Backstage At URL’s NOME XI Battle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BG020/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Battle rap fans are well aware that Drake is very much invested in the culture and we mean that literally considering his backing of Caffeine and spreading the Ultimate Rap League to the masses. At URL’s NOME XI event this past weekend, Drizzy ran into his potential battle rap foe in Murda Mook backstage at the event. The Ultimate Madness 3 battle rap tourney that kicked off this year featured a strong bracket of some of the URL’s best battlers but it all came down to Geechi Gotti and Rum Nitty in the final with Drake ready to lace the winner with a major cash prize of $150,000, $50K up from the initial prize. What made the battle even more interesting is that Gotti and Nitty are both members of the same collective, Every F*cki...
Teenager Shoots & Kills Friend Over Air Jordan Sneakers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gulfport Police Department / Gulfport Police Department The violence over limited-edition Air Jordan releases continues to be problematic in 2021. Things got deadly when a Mississippi teen shot and killed his friend over a pair of the coveted sneakers. NBC12 is reporting that 16-year-old Cassius Vaughn Hanzy was arrested for opening fire and hitting a 17-year-old after the two got into an argument over a pair of Air Jordan sneakers earlier in the day. Police responded to the shooting on 100 block of 29th Street just after 11 p.m. on Saturday night. “During the investigation, police say they learned 16-year-old Hanzy shot a gun multiple times from a vehicle, hitting a 17-year-old. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he eventually died from...
2 Men From Louisiana Hip-Hop Group Suspects In Shooting Death Of Rival Rapper
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Yuri_Arcurs / Getty Two men who are members of a Louisiana Hip-Hop group have been arrested in connection to the shooting death of a rival rapper. Michael Brock, 19, was shot and killed after answering the door while attempting to stay low after receiving death threats on social media from the other crew. According to a report from local news outlet Fox 8 Live, Brock, a member of the Three-13 Hip-Hop crew, was hiding out at the home of an acquaintance in the Sunset Acres Housing Complex in Bogalusa, La. Police say that Tauj Chardez Taplin, 19, of Kentwood, was the shooter who gunned down Brock after he answered the door of the residence and Tyvon White, 19, of McComb, Miss. was the getaway driver. Taplin and White are members of The Fours, with police add...
Darnella Frazier Given Honorary Pulitzer For Her George Floyd Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EMMANUEL DUNAND / Getty Darnella Frazier, the Minneapolis teenager who stopped to record the tragic last minute of George Floyd’s life, was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize this past Friday (June 11th). The video was the spark behind a global activist movement denouncing police brutality and systemic racism, and it would be used as evidence in the trial of Derek Chauvin, Floyd’s killer. Frazier was given a “special citation” by the committee, who in the announcement cited her video as an example of “the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quests for truth and justice.” Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute and a former Pulitzer juror wrote a column that the teenager should receive the award for her recording. “There she was, at 1...
Quavo Says He & Pop Smoke Were Gonna Drop An Album Together
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 2020HHA / Getty With the release of Migos‘ Culture III, many listeners had their hearts tugged at when they once again heard the voice of the gone-too-soon rapper, Pop Smoke on “Light It Up.” Now that the Migos have the Hip-Hop world’s attention again, Quavo dropped a bomb on fans of both Migos and Pop Smoke by revealing that he and the Brooklyn rapper were working on a duet album before Smoke’s tragic death. During an interview on The Real 92.3, Quavo explained that he and Pop were tight and were actually in the studio cooking up what would’ve been a South meets East rap album that could’ve taken the culture by storm. “I had a relationship with Pop Smoke, we had a relationship with Pop Smoke, and it was just, important. We had so many records, ...
