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Lil Jon Gets His Own HGTV Show ‘Lil Jon Wants To Do What?’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: DISCOVERY / Discovery Lil Jon will be taking his talents to home renovation. HGVT has greenlighted the Lil Jon Wants To Do What? show. The famed producer is ready to reveal his passion for home renovation in a new HGTV show, Lil Jon Wants To Do What?. Alongside popular designer and expert builder Anitra Mecadon, a fan favorite from DIY Network’s Mega Dens, Lil Jon offers skeptical homeowners startlingly unconventional renovation ideas that seem impossible to execute. His undaunted team can take Lil Jon’s creative vision—to maximize features that homeowners overlook or never considered—and make it a reality. “I love walking into someone’s house and turning it upside down,” said Lil Jon. “When people hear my name, they automatically think… fun! That same en...
T.I. & Tiny Sexual Assault Investigation Closed In Las Vegas, But Not In Los Angeles
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Looks like those T.I. and Tiny sexual assault allegations aren’t going to be going away anytime soon. While a case against them in Las Vegas has been dropped, they’re still under investigation for allegedly violating a woman in Los Angeles. TMZ is reporting that the rapper and his R&B wife are in the crosshairs of the LAPD right after Las Vegas authorities announced they were closing a similar case against the reality TV couple. LAPD is looking into allegations made by “Jane Doe” who says the T.I. and his wife violated her after meeting them in a club back in 2005. Jane Doe alleges that after meeting the two at a club, she accepted a drink from Tiny and eventually she and two other women went back to the hotel with T.I. and Tin...
‘Lo Down: Ralph Lauren Launches Custom Polo Shirt Program
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: RALPH LAUREN / Ralph Lauren This spring, Ralph Lauren will reimagine its most celebrated product with a revolutionary new addition to the Create-Your-Own customization program: The Made-to-Order Polo, the ultimate expression of the iconic Polo shirt. The Made-to-Order Polo is the company’s latest offering using its on-demand manufacturing model — with no pre-made inventory, every product is individually created per each customer’s unique specifications. The Polo is crafted with flat-knit technology for a soft feel and a luxurious drape and remains the signature piece from the brand’s collection. Customers can create hundreds of designs by choosing the color or color-block of the body, sleeves and collar; and can customize the sleeve with letters, wor...
Casanova Dissed By Troy Ave For Complaining About Lack of Prison Visits
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty Troy Ave isn’t letting his “beef” with rival Casanova simmer down. Casanova is currently in prison. He is waiting to go on trial for drug trafficking and racketeering charges, but that’s not stopping fellow Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave from taking lyrical shots at him. Monday (May 17), the “All About The Money” rapper uploaded the very disrespectful cover art for his new diss record “Assanova,” aimed at the currently incarcerated Hip-Hop artist. The cover features a gorilla body with a rat head and tail wearing Casanova’s signature 2X chain. Troy Ave shared the lyrics from his track “Richer Than My Haters” off his mixtape Killed or Be Killed in the caption for the post. “Casanova crying folks he jus settin up stage to tell/...
Court Docs Reveal 50 Cent Is Ready To Seize Teairra Mari’s Assets Over Unpaid Legal Fees
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is a very petty man, so this news isn’t surprising at all. Those who didn’t know, 50 Cent and musician/Reality-TV star Teairra Mari have been engaged in an ongoing legal battle. Documents obtained by Radar Online indicate the “I Get Money” rapper, and his legal team is ready to start seizing Mari’s assets because she has not paid back the $30,000 plus interest in legal fees that she was ordered to by the court. In 2018, Mari filed a revenge porn lawsuit against 50 Cent and her ex-boyfriend Akbar Abdul-Ahad after Abdul-Ahad shared an explicit video featuring her on social media that the Queen’s rapper later reposted; with the caption “get the strap.” During the trial, 50 Cent argued that the ...
BET Awards Will Host Vaccinated-Only Live Audience This June
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BET Awards 2020 / Getty The annual BET Awards went to a virtual format last year due to the restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic but with numbers lowering by the day, the program makes a return. This coming June, Los Angeles will play host to the anticipated awards program with a vaccinated-only live audience. According to a report from Deadline, Microsoft Theatre will be the venue to host the 2021 BET Awards event, which should come as a relief to the many entertainers and creators who rely on live events to promote their artistic wares. For audience members who wish to be in attendance, BET said that a registration period for attendees will begin on May 27 and the network will be working in tandem with officials from Los Angeles County to ...
Google Is On A Mission To Improve Image Processing of Photos Featuring Black & Brown People
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vladimir Vladimirov / Getty As the camera systems on smartphones drastically improve year by year, they still have one glaring issue, capturing and processing Black skin tones properly. During its I/O 2021 keynote, Google announced it was taking some steps to rectify this problem. Capturing Black skin and natural hairstyles in photos and properly processing them has been an issue dating back to when using film was the only option for photographers. Now that we are in the digital age, there have been some improvements, but even with flicks taken on smartphones, the images are still come up flat. Google is well aware of the issue and revealed that it would be making a valiant effort to address the issue in its cameras by focusing on photos of Black and Brow...
Michael Rapaport Remains Willfully Tone-Deaf As Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay Explain Harmful Images of Black People
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nicky Nelson/WENN.com / WENN Someone should give Higher Learning podcast hosts Van Lathan and Rachael Lindsay a humanitarian award for their valiant attempt to get through the thick skull of Michael Rapaport about his penchant to post violent videos of Black people on his social media. Be clear. We said it was an attempt, not a success story. According to Bossip. Lathan attempted to level with Rapaport about why posting the violent content is damaging to the Black community, “On my social media, I don’t post any of these videos. I post no videos of violence. No videos of violence against Black people, no police beatings. I didn’t post the Goerge Floyd video,” Lathan calmly explains. “I post none of that. The reason I don’t post any of that stu...
Clout Chaser Central: Rapper Bugzie the Don Faces Federal Charges In Connection To Capitol Riot
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Spencer Platt / Getty Among the many stirring and outright disturbing images of the attack on the U.S. Capitol building back in January, one Virginia rapper decided to immortalize the moment via an ill-advised photo session. Bugzie The Don was at the insurrection inside the hallowed federal building, and now faces charges after using one of the images for the cover of his album. The Washington Post published a report regarding the actions of Antionne DeShaun Brodnax of Sandston, Va., a town outside of Richmond. Brodnax aka Bugzie claims he was already in the Washington area for a video shoot and entered the Capitol building to take video footage and photos for reasons that aren’t immediately clear in the accounts described within the Post. Bugzie was arre...
Netflix Debuts Trailer For Upcoming Horror Trilogy ‘Fear Street’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Who’s in the mood for a horror film trilogy this summer? We know we are. Knowing many will be choosing to stay at home with the air conditioner on full blast instead of melting out in these streets come summer 2021, Netflix is premiering a brand new horror trilogy based off of R.L. Stine’s book series, Fear Street. The young adult horror series which debuted in 1989 has been known to feature ghosts and other supernatural phenomenon, but it seems like the Netflix adaptation will center around serial killers that run amok in the fictional city, Shadyside. Seemingly to be a mix of Scream, American Horror Story, and Friday The 13th, the Fear Street trilogy will be debuting split into three different years (1994, 1978, 1666) and will be premi...
The Walls Are Closing In: NY Attorney General Letitia James Joins Criminal Probe Into Shady Trump Organization
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Joshua Rashaad McFadden / Getty Things are getting quite serious for former President Donald Trump and his Trump Organization. Tuesday (May 18) revealed that the attorney general office’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization, which has been going on since 2019, will now include a criminal component as the civil probe continues. To make matters worse for the orange menace, Letitia James will now be joining the investigation. In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for James confirmed the last developments that should have Trump shaking in his oversized slacks. “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a crimi...
‘Attack The Block 2’ With John Boyega Is Officially A Go
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Samir Hussein / Getty Looks like John Boyega isn’t quite done taking on aliens from a galaxy far, far away just yet. And no, we’re not talking about another Star Wars film either. A decade after Boyega splashed on everyone’s radar in Attack The Block, Deadline is reporting that the sci-fi cult classic is finally getting the sequel fans have been clamoring for since 2011. According to the report, Boyega will be reuniting with the film’s original writer, John Cornish, to revisit the story of a group of friends who fend off an alien invasion in their London hood. The premise sounds silly but those who have seen the movie know it’s all kinds of dopeness. While Star Wars helped Boyega gain superstardom around the world, heads like us have been checking for him...
