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It’s Me: Action Bronson’s Continued Weight Loss Journey Is Inspiring
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PYMCA / Getty Action Bronson has always been a larger-than-life figure, both literally and otherwise. After years of throwing around his proverbial weight, the Queens, N.Y. rapper, author, and TV host spends more time in the gym than he does in the booth. The growth and maturity of Action Bronson, real name Ariyan Arslani, was present during a recent sitdown he did with Funk Flex last summer, including the slimmer figure although the bars and winning personality remained intact. In a new profile from The New York Times, Bronson lifts the veil a bit more and talks about why he began to take his health seriously after years of eating rich, heavy foods, bragging on record that his haircuts are Dominican folk art, and smoking heavy clouds of greenery. From Th...
Police Body Cam Shows Blac Youngsta Chill AF After Weapons Arrest In 2020
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty While he might be known for doing entirely too much Blac Youngsta has plenty of chill. New footage shows that he knows how to play nice with the law when need be. As spotted on TMZ the Memphis, Tennessee rapper was a class act when some local badges pulled him and his team over back in October 2020. Apparently he and his associates had just left a nightclub in Dallas but the driver made an illegal turn. At the time the authorities were responding to all the violence that happened to be following rappers. Upon the search the police found several guns and marijuana so naturally they booked everyone onsite. While he and his associates would eventually bail out the celebrity gossip site has acquired the body camera from the incident ...
PUMA & J. Cole To Unveil RS-DREAMER PROTO In April
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PUMA / PUMA J. Cole and PUMA already have established prominence in the sneaker space by way of the North Carolina rapper’s RS-DREAMER line. Now, the inspiration for the Dreamville honcho’s footwear, the RS-DREAMER, will soon be available to the masses early next month. The RS-DREAMER is currently available in a variety of colorways and the OG version of the basketball sneakers come in big to small sizes. The RS-DREAMER also comes in a red and white Blood, Sweat, and Tears line as well. For the new drop, the RS-DREAMER PROTO was the genesis for the shoe ahead of the preceding colorways and will get a limited run after some consideration to release the prototype. The shoe employs the same collaborative spirit of Cole’s ideas for the DREAMER along with PUMA...
Dwayne Johnson Reveals When Black Adam Will Arrive To Shake Up The DCEU In The Most Epic Way
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty Zack Snyder’s Justice League is currently the talk of the internet, but the DCEU’s future is still in limbo. Hopefully, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his Black Adam movie can help restore the balance. When it comes to anything Dwayne Johnson is involved with, he never half-asses the rollout of any of his projects, and his first DC movie is no exception. Sunday afternoon (Mar.28), before the UCLA vs. Alabama NCAA tournament game, the one time WWE superstar turned biggest action star on the planet announced that his film Black Adam would be smashing into theaters July 29, 2022. Johnson revealed the big news during a small spot on TBS, but that’s not all. The Rock also took over NYC’s Times Square in the most epic way possible using all of ...
7 Things We Learned from Jim Jones on The Breakfast Club
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Power 105 / The Breakfast Club Jim Jones is one of the most inspirational success stories in Hip-Hop having gone from Cam’ron’s hype man to rapper to entrepreneur. From investing in the marijuana business to creating his own crypto currency, Capo has been on his business grizzly while continuing to drop new music with Harry Fraud. Looking to make dough on everything from Charlamange’s book to the interview itself, Jones is a man on a money mission and he’s willing to impart his knowledge on listeners interested in flipping whatever they can online. Today the Dip Set capo sat down with Charlamagne Tha God while Angela Yee and DJ Envy zoomed in and opened up about his business ventures, Fred The Godson encouraging him to chase the rap bag and helping put Su...
Holla: Ja Rule Sells Fyre Festival Painting For $122K Via NFT
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Ja Rule is turning one of the biggest failures in his career into a bright spot. The rapper and actor has moved his last physical memory of the greatest party that never happened for some heavy change. As spotted on TMZ the Queens native made a power move this week after successfully unloading a reminder of one of the biggest jigs of the twentieth century. According to the report he sold a one of one painting of the Fyre Festival logo for a cool $122,000 dollars via a NFT, a non-fungible token. This means the buyer, whose name has not been disclosed, will receive a unique digital code that is specific to the image. The piece in question is a 48″ x 60″ oil visual that was commissioned by the Murder Inc. Records rapper and was done...
Famous Dex Catches 19 Charges For Domestic Violence & Gun Possession
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Famous Dex is looking at a hefty involuntary vacation after catching damn near 20 charges. Thanks to six months chock full of struggle the rapper has been hit with charges for a litany of crimes including domestic violence and gun possession. TMZ reports that two of the domestic violence charges are due to altercations with ex-girlfriends. Reportedly, in November 2020 the cops found a woman with cuts on her in his home after receiving a domestic disturbance call. On brand, the incident allegedly involved a SWAT standoff and Dex holing up in the crib with guns after allegedly putting hands on the woman. Dex caught changes for domestic violence, weapon possession, dissuading a victim from reporting a crime and defacing property for t...
Man Suspected Of King Von Murder Goes Free On $100K Bond
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty Quando Rondo associate Lul Tim has been named the chief suspect in the shooting death of Chicago rapper King Von and is now free on bond. Tim, real name Timothy Leeks, posted a $100,000 bond over the weekend, and the video of his release has gone wide on social media. In a report from XXL, Lul Tim posted the bond last Friday (March 26) and was released on Saturday (March 27) with supporters recording the moment as he walked free from the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Ga. According to press statements made by Atlanta Police officials, Leeks apparently will be fitted with an ankle monitor but other details surrounding his release have been kept under wraps. Leeks was charged four months ago in connection with the fatal shooting of Kin...
Boosie Returns To Instagram With A New Page, Calls Mark Zuckerberg A “Racist”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Over the weekend a video of Boosie Badazz slapping fire out of a man’s esophagus made the rounds on social media. While the Louisiana rapper paid the man some good cash for the pimp slap, it was enough to get Badazz’s page suspended for a second. The video shows Boosie kicking it with DaBaby in a convenience store when a homeless man began to slander Boosie calling him a “punk ass” and cutting ass on his profession saying “You can’t rap. How you gonna tell me you’re a god damn rapper?” What followed was a slap that probably caused a richter scale in the South to jump a few points. Needless to say Boosie didn’t take the suspension too well as he’s used social media to cause all kinds of controversies and has kept his name buzzing se...
Kim Decided To Divorce Kanye After He Called Her A “White Supremacist”?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ricky Vigil M / Getty After what seemed like years of rumors that Kim Kardashian was planning on divorcing Kanye West, a few weeks ago she finally pulled the trigger decided it was about time to split from her embattled hubby of 6 years. Though there were many instances to point to that might’ve pushed Kim over the edge to finally take that jump to divorce court, Buzzfeed is reporting that Kanye “MAGA” West calling her a “white supremacist” was the straw that broke the camel’s back. According to them the up coming season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians will detail how Kim was already at her wits end when Kanye began his erratic and often controversial behavior a few years back and how things unfolded before their divorce proceedings. Things really star...
Freddie Gibbs To Star In Upcoming ‘Down With The King’ Film
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty Freddie Gibbs has an outsized charm that matches his formidable rapping talents, and now the Grammy Awards-nominated lyricist will grace the screen in his first major film role. Gibbs is the main character in the upcoming film Down With The King, which examines the journey of a superstar who hopes to escape the trappings and pressure of his fame. Complex exclusively reports that Gibbs will star as Mercury Maxwell, who goes by the stage name Money Merc who has had enough of the Hip-Hop world and wants to leave the game behind. Directed by Diego Ongaro (Bob and the Trees), the film’s plot centers on Money Merc being sent by his manager to record an album in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. While there, Money Merc becomes friends with his...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 3.26.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Five / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH opens with Buffalo’s Benny The Butcher alongside 2 Chainz chopping it up over some Harry Fraud production on “Plug Talk” from Benny’s The Plugs I Met 2 project. We follow up that joint with something fresh and innovative from FlySiifu, the dynamic duo of the wise nomad Pink Siifu and Richmond, Va.’s Fly Anakin. The pair dance like jazz soloists on the track “Rick James” and display styles infinite. Don’t sleep on them or their res...
