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Waka Flocka Presented With Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award From “His President” Donald Trump
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Waka Flocka got a round of applause in the form of an award from his mom’s favorite president. TMZ reports the rapper/ reality television star received a lifetime achievement award from former President Donald Trump, who apparently is a big fan of Waka’s charity work. According to the celebrity gossip site, the award is for “his humanitarianism and philanthropy as a volunteer for the Chicago non-profit Daughter of Destiny.” Waka was bestowed with the award that features Trump’s awful signature and official medal on Friday (Apr.16) in Atlanta by his pastor and mentor, Apostle Dr. Bridget Outlaw. The “It’s A Party” rapper share a photo of himself alongside Outlaw holding the award and rocking the medal with a huge Kool-Aid smile and th...
Derek Chauvin Found Guilty On All Charges In The Death of George Floyd
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bloomberg / Getty After listening to three weeks of testimony from 45 witnesses, and arguments from both prosecutors and Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, the 12 jurors in Chauvin’s murder trial have reached a verdict. GUILTY! It took about 10 hours for the jurors to reach their decision to find Chauvin on all three charges, second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, after being sequestered since deliberations began Monday afternoon (Apr.19). The short turnaround had legal experts trying to determine whether it was a good sign for Chauvin or certain doom for the former officer who killed George Floyd during an arrest by keeping his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds. Once word quic...
The First Trailer For Marvel’s Martial Arts Super Hero Film ‘Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings’ Has Arrived
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty The star of the upcoming movie Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, Simu Liu, got one hell of a present on his birthday on Monday (Apr.19), the trailer for the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will focus on an Asian superhero. Marvel’s Phase Four is looking very promising despite being unleashed in a very unconventional way. The trailer for Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings was a pleasant surprise for Marvel movie fans. It tells the story of Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), who was raised and trained to be an assassin in the Ten Rings organization but decides that is not the life he wants and escapes for a normal life in San Francisco. His past will eventually catch up with him leading him to confront his fa...
Kobe Bryant’s Nike Partnership Has Expired, Vanessa Bryant Didn’t Renew Contract
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke Kobe Bryant’s contract with Nike is officially over. The late, great future NBA Hall of Famer’s estate decided not to re-up the deal, leaving sneakerheads unsure what that exactly means. Per ESPN, Nike did offer an extension to the partnership. However, Vanessa Bryant, the Black Mamba’s widow, and the estate felt it was lacking. “Kobe’s Nike contract expired on 4/13/21,” Vanessa Bryant told ESPN. “Kobe and Nike have made some of the most beautiful basketball shoes of all time, worn and adored by fans and athletes in all sports across the globe. It seems fitting that more NBA players wear my husband’s product than any other signature shoe.” According to sources, Bryant and the estate were “frustrated” with the lack of availability of Kobe’s Nik...
Diddy To Help Pay For Black Rob’s Funeral
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Looks like Diddy’s heard all the criticism aimed at him in recent days and is taking some kind of action to quell those angry voices. After a hospitalized Black Rob took to IG to pay homage to DMX after his passing, social media immediately called out the Bad Boy Records honcho for letting his former artist end up in such dire straits. Though Mark Curry revealed that Diddy was in fact reaching out to Rob in an effort to lend a helping hand, Black Rob passed away before anything could be done. Looking to do something for Rob, Page Six is reporting that Diddy will be coming out of pocket to pay for the funeral of the “Whoa” rapper. We can confirm that Diddy — who called Rob “one of a kind” — reached out to Rob at hospital before his p...
Judge Removes Dr. Dre Lawyers From His Divorce Proceedings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Another day another change-up outta left field in the Dr. Dre and Nicole Young divorce proceedings. The latest twist in the bitter back-and-forth between the iconic producer/rapper and his soon-to-be ex-wife comes from the judge overseeing the case as Page Six is reporting that Dr. Dre needs to find new representation in his ongoing divorce. According to the report the judge ruled that power divorce attorney Laura Wasser and Howard King cannot represent the “Still D.R.E.” rapper due to King’s history of working with the couple throughout their marriage and instructed Dre to “obtain counsel as soon as possible.” With Wasser and King handling his divorce it seemed like Dr. Dre was going to have a pretty strong team handling h...
Lakers Will Not Visit Biden’s White House Due To COVID, Probably Later
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty NBA championship teams universally curved a White House visit the last four years due to issues with the former occupant’s politics—like blatant racism, sexism and such. The Los Angeles Lakers won’t be paying Joe Biden a visit at his new place but it’s due to COVID-19 considerations since we are still in the midst of a pandemic after all. Although the Lakers will be traveling to Washington, DC later this month to play the Washington Wizards, visiting the White House unfortunately won’t be on their schedule. According to ESPN, while a visit during April 27 to 28 is out, meeting with Joe Biden sometime in the future is still on the table. While that other guy was the alleged POTUS, no NBA or WNBA championship teamed visited the White House....
Memorial Service For DMX Will Be Family & Friends Only
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN.com / WENN Fans hoping for a public ceremony for the late Earl “DMX” Simmons will have to show their love and support from their homes according to new developments. While it was recently announced that the memorial service for the legendary rapper will be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, only family and close friends will be in attendance. Reports from both Deadline and TMZ confirmed the upcoming Saturday (April 24) memorial service but it appeared by way of earlier accounts that there would be a public service held. However, TMZ got the intel that the Barclays is still operating under COVID-19 restrictions and the 19,000-seat venue is only seating at 10 percent of capacity. The news may come as a blow to DMX’s legion of fans who hoped to pa...
Whoopi Goldberg Lands First Cover of “Black Cannabis Magazine,” Reveals She Is Launching Another Pot Company
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Getty Images / Getty Auntie Whoopi Goldberg is taking another pull at the pot game. For those who don’t know, before the white celebs like Jim Belushi and Seth Rogen “made it cool” to sell legalized pot, The View host and slayer of Meghan McCain, Whoopi Goldberg, has been long-time cannabis and entrepreneur when it comes to the magical plant. So it made perfect sense that Black Cannabis, a new magazine that focuses primarily on the people who honestly revolutionized the pot game at the expense of being unfairly jailed for it, tapped Goldberg to cover the first issue. Speaking about the cover, Goldberg added: “It’s an honor to grace the very first cover of Black Cannabis Magazine… As a long-time cannabis advocate and entrepreneur, I’m happy to support the ...
Kim K, Rick Ross, Future And Bad Bunny Attend Pharrell’s Miami Hotel Launch
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com / WENN Pharrell continues to push culture forward in new ways. He has finally opened his hotel project and the vibes look right. As spotted on Hot New Hip Hop the Virginia native and his partner David Grutman have successfully opened The Goodtime Hotel in Miami Beach. The property looks to provide patrons an all immersive experience to create emotional good. On Friday, April 16 the two moguls opened their doors to the social elite with a VIP only invite event. In the house were some of pop culture’s biggest celebrities ranging from music, sports and film. The likes of Rick Ross, Future, Kim Kardashian, Bad Bunny, Cuba Gooding Jr., Timbaland, Chris Rock, David and Victoria Beckham and more congratulated the duo on thei...
Benzino & His Daughter Coi Leray Make Amends On Social Media
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Benzino surely knows how to find himself in unnecessary drama doesn’t he? At least this time he acknowledged his fault and apologized, though. Recently the Made Men rapper from Boston got into a small social media back-and-forth with his own daughter, Coi Leray, but luckily the two are burying the hatchet and moving forward accordingly. Bossip is reporting that the two had been exchanging some “pleasantries” on Twitter with Leray having said she was “embarrassed” to be Benzino’s seed just a month ago. Naturally, that didn’t sit well with the “Boottee” rapper who called the comment the most “disrespectful” thing he’s ever heard. The man has been in all kinds of war of words with other rappers so that’s saying something. But it seems...
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Like WHOA: Honoring The Life & Legacy Of Black Rob [Playlist]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty The city of New York has lost two of its grittiest and grimiest spitters, first DMX and now the great Black Rob. The East Harlem native passed away Saturday (April 17) and we’ve tried our best to feature a bevy of songs from the former Bad Boy Records star. Born Robert Ross on July 12, 1969, Black Rob began his career in his early 20s after dabbling with the art form since grade school. His official debut album Life Story was released on Bad Boy Records in 2000, spawning the massive hit “Whoa!” and the single “Espacio” alongside Lil’ Kim. Like fellow street soldier DMX, Black Rob relied on his vocal instrument to communicate his pain and strife as he navigated an industry that wasn’t kind to an artist that was groomed i...
