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Jay-Z Talks Legacy, Family & DMX In Rare Interview With ‘The Sunday Times’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Robert Kamau / Getty Jay-Z remains the top dog when it comes to Hip-Hop culture and though he’s not ruling the summers with music as he once did in the late ’90s and early ’00s, the man is a living icon who’s earned all the respect in the world. Recently, Hip-Hop’s first billionaire gave a rare interview to United Kingdon publication The Sunday Times where he opened up about a bevy of subjects including the power of social media, how he wants to be remembered, and those rumors about him and Bey paying $10 million for DMX’s masters to give to X’s 17 children. “No one has bought Earl’s masters,” Jay finally stated. “Additionally, we are not selling any merch or raising money for Earl’s funeral. If anyone is requesting for money for his funeral please be awa...
Swizz Beatz Called Out Fake Friends At DMX’s Memorial Ceremony
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty This past Saturday (April 24), DMX was laid to rest and at a star-studded memorial at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and while his rap peers took the mic to pay homage to the Hip-Hop legend, Swizz Beatz had some choice words for the fair-weather heads in X’s circle. Dressed down in camouflage attire in honor of X, Swizz seemed to take issue with people who’ve conveniently come in and out of the life of DMX over the years and who weren’t around when he needed them the most. Taking the mic during the ceremony, Swizz called out possible attendees who were M.I.A. while X was going through his struggles over the past decade and change. Swizz informed the crowd that he doesn’t “want y’all to show up to my sh*t when I’m gone, unless you we...
#Oscars: The Full Academy Awards Winners List, Snubs On Deck As Well
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Handout / Getty The 93rd Academy Awards have concluded and the winners, losers, and snubs are at the top of the discussion on Monday (April 26). While award ceremonies are always heavily debated, this year’s event landed mostly where it should have according to most. Like other ceremonies that have taken place during the age of COVID-19, the Oscars did their best to keep things socially distanced and safe for the attendees. Much has already been said regarding Glenn Close’s Go-Go viral moment, and Daniel Kaluuya’s awkward acceptance speech is getting a lot of burn on various airwaves. One moment that more than a few onlookers had some issues with was the late Chadwick Boseman not winning the Best Actor award for his final role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom....
HHW Gaming: The Video Game Industry Found Its Way Into The Oscars Thanks To Huge Win
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Handout / Getty Unfortunately, The Academy has yet to acknowledge video games as a medium worthy of an Oscar, but the video game industry might have just found its way in. Some video games are basically like films. Both have scripts, great stories, with amazing actors and actresses bringing characters to life. The only difference is you can directly interact with one, while viewers can only observe movies. That’s not enough to win a coveted Oscar award…yet, but video games did find a way to be recognized on Hollywood’s biggest night. Sunday night (Apr.25), during The Oscars, the documentary short Colette won an Academy Award, a huge first for the video game industry. The doc was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA’s Respawn Entertainmen...
CJ “Hit Up,” Boosie Badazz ft. DaBaby “Period” & More | Daily Visuals 4.23.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Miller / Warner Records Love him or hate him, CJ’s one of New York’s most popular up and coming artist but can the man repeat the success of his breakout single “Whoopty”? We’re not sure just yet but the Staten Island representative is gonna stay on his grizzly and comes through with a new clip to “Hit Up” where he hits the streets with his goons with toast, trees, and Carmine Jordan 6’s. Sneakerheads will say those kicks was the best part of the whoooole video. Down South Boosie Badazz calls on DaBaby to politic at a hypermarket for their visuals to “Period” where Boosie flexes the very pimp hand that got his Instagram page barred. That was a hard ass slap though. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Dadd...
Black Rob’s Former Manager Puts Diddy On Blast For Not Moving Faster
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Even though Diddy has offered to help with Black Rob’s funeral arrangements he is still being criticized. Rob’s former manager has called out the mogul for dragging his feet. As spotted on HipHopDX the Bad Boy Entertainment founder’s loyalty has come into question yet again this week. In an exclusive interview with Murder Master Music Show Kal Dawson made it clear that Puff’s help came too little and way too late. “Through somebody else that was affiliated with Rob, Diddy reached out and was gonna do something for Rob, this is when the video first went up when he was in the hospital,” he revealed around the 4:15 minute mark. “People dragging their feet and nothing got done. So now you gonna pay for his funeral, he dead and gone...
Fivio Foreign Arrested in New Jersey On Weapons Charge
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Hip-Hop Police done got themselves another one. According to the Daily Voice, Fivio Foreign was arrested on Wednesday night (April 21) and booked for carrying a loaded handgun in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Apparently, the Brooklyn rapper got into a scuffle with police after he was approached outside of a Citibank in Lemoine Avenue at Bruce Reynolds Boulevard for leaving his Benz running in a No-Parking zone. At that point Sgt. Howard Ginsburg walked up and requested Fivio’s (Maxie Ryles III) drive’rs license to which the rapper asked if he was going to get a ticket. But instead of staying to figure out the situation, the “Big Drip” rapper walked away and left the cop standing next to the vehicle. Seemingly looking like he was free and clea...
Claudia Jordan Says Kanye West Tried To Get Entangled With Her While With Kim Kardashian
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gabe Ginsberg / Getty Claudia Jordan figures now is as good a time as any to spill some messy tea. The host and occasional reality TV star claims that Kanye West tried to get with her romantically, while he was still entangled with Kim Kardashian. Kanye and Kim are still married considering their divorce has yet to be finalized. But Jordan was vague with the details of when this supposedly went down. Complex has all the details you care about: In an interview on the Domenick Nati Show this week, Jordan recalled when Kanye made advances on her while he was in a relationship. She did not clarify when it might have happened, or whether this was when the former couple was dating or married, but she did express no interest in him regardless. Asked if she ...
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Honoring The Funky Legacy Of Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs [Playlist]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Leon Bennett / Getty The year has been especially brutal for Hip-Hop fans, and definitely those of us that are of a certain age. The news of Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs passing at the age of 57 has rocked fans worldwide, and Hip-Hop Wired has compiled a playlist of Shock G’s music to honor his life and legacy. Gregory Jacobs was born August 25, 1963, in Brooklyn, N.Y., bouncing around the coast until settling in Tampa, Fla. While in college in Florida, Jacobs studied music theory and connected with the late Kenneth “Kenny K” Waters and later formed the Digital Underground collective in the late 1980s along with James “Chopmaster J” Dright. As a producer, Jacobs didn’t shy away from the common practice of sampling older records but he was also a self-taught p...
Ultimate Rap League’s Ultimate Madness 3 Tournament Pits Rising Stars Against Vets
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Caffeine / URL The Ultimate Rap League is considered the toughest league within the battle rap circuit by many for good reason as some of the field’s top names have refined their art in that space. This weekend, URL and Caffeine continue their fruitful partnership to put on Ultimate Madness 3, a bracket-styled tournament pitting some of the game’s veteran voices against some of battle rap’s rising stars. The tournament format has proven to be a solid model of securing the best talent on the URL and Caffeine stages along with given opportunities for the hungrier battlers who have cut their teeth in lesser-known environs. This Saturday afternoon (April 24), 16 battle rappers, both men and women, will face off in combat for a chance at a cash prize of $100,0...
‘Black Ink Crew’: Ceaser Says He Was Heartbroken After Walt Stole $5k From Him, Reveals They’re No Longer Friends
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Ceaser Emmanual and Walt’s longtime friendship is dead… for now. On the season 9 premiere of Black Ink Crew: New York, the episode ended with some drama that looks like it will be the main storyline of the new season. After a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ceaser got the crew back together, and we eventually learned there was a thief among the ranks when it was revealed someone broke into the 125th street shop stealing merchandise, body jewelry, and cash. Immediately all signs pointed to the theft being an inside job, and Ceaser’s worst fears were confirmed when his best friend Walt copped to stealing $5,000 from the register after he was pressed by Ted and shown the surveillance footage. Walt, who definit...
New Basketball Africa League Unveils Official Wilson Game Ball
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Wilson Sporting Goods / Wilson After years of the NBA drafting players out of the European league, they’ll now be keeping their eyes on the talent that could be coming out of Africa’s new Basketball Africa League (BAL). Source: Wilson Sporting Goods / Wilson That’s right. Starting on May 16, the Basketball Africa League will begin their historic inaugural season at the Kigali Arena in Kigali, Rwanda—just 26 years after Kevin Bacon went to Kenya to recruit elite basketball prospect, Selah (The Air Up There movie reference). In all seriousness, this new league is decades in the making. Twelve teams will be participating in the new league with the Finals set to take place on May 30th. To get the ball rolling on the new league, Wilson has designed the officia...
