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It’s Really Up: Cardi B & JT Go At Each Other’s Sew-Ins On Twitter

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Cardi B and JT of the City Girls were previously thought to be good associates at the very least but apparently, that isn’t the case. The Bronx star and the Miami rapper exchanged some harsh words about one another via Twitter and the Barbz, among others, are seemingly enjoying the mess. It isn’t known exactly why this beef started but from what we’ve gathered from Twitter , Cardi B may have thrown the first subliminal shot and JT returned fire after a second tweet went up. The tweets reading “Lapdog” and “Go Fetch” was cryptic until JT responded with, “Cardi you go fetch a real talent! We DM’ing why you come back here to put on a show for these KIDS?” Cardi, not known for pulling punches, fired back with a Quote Tweet to JT ...

The Isley Brothers ft. 2 Chainz “The Plugs,” Lloyd Banks “Socialize” & More | Daily Visuals 10.3.22

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve been blessed with some true R&B music as the genre’s been relegated to booty twerkin’ grooves. But fear not for some OGs of the baby makin’ music era have returned and they brought some rhythm and blues to get y’all all in your feelings. Linking up with 2 Chainz for the visuals to “The Plug,” The Isley Brothers lay it down in the studio as only they can before Chainz swings through to drop his verse to compliment the track. This track gonna start a family or add to one somewhere out there, b. Speaking of OG’s, G-Unit capo turned solo artist, Lloyd Banks returns to the rap scene, and in his clip for “Socialize” takes to the streets on the dolo tip and stomps through the streets of Queens...

Rest In Power: New Court Documents Reveal PnB Rock’s Final Moments

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty The world now knows more details behind PnB Rock’s shocking murder. New court documents have revealed PnB Rock’s final moments. As per Vulture local police have pieced together what occurred that fateful day he was dining at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles with his girlfriend Steph Sibounheuang. On Thursday, Sept. 29 prosecutors filed a criminal complaint regarding the brutal incident that took his life. The documents claim a “man in a red shirt” saw the rapper walk into the restaurant apparently wearing hundreds of thousands worth of jewelry around his neck and on his wrist. Freddie Lee Trone then arrived shortly after in a black Buick Enclave and with his alleged son outside the dine-in spot. The unidentified young man apparen...

3.8 M People Entered Nike SNKRS Raffle For Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low ‘Mocha’

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan Brand / NIke Every sneakerhead and sneaker collector knows that whenever a Travis Scott x Air Jordan collaboration drops, it’s a guaranteed L 99% percent of the time. According to some number crunching that’s been done on the topic, that percentage is just about right. According to Nice Kicks, Kash Monitors have estimated that a mere 1.5% of people entering the SNKRS raffle for the highly-anticipated “Mocha” Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1’s won a pair as Nike CEO John Donahoe revealed that a record 3.8 million people entered the draw on that release date. Keep in mind only around 60,000 pairs of the sneakers were up for grabs on the SNKRS app and were never restocked a single time since that fateful day. Meanwhile, we’re getting restocks for the “Brot...

Too Soon?: YG Drops Visuals For ‘How To Rob A Rapper’

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Legato / Getty With the release of his latest album, I GOT ISSUES this past Friday (Sept. 29), YG is looking to get some buzz going but already he’s getting blowback from the Hip-Hop community as they feel he might’ve gone about it the wrong way. For his visuals to the Mozzy and D3szn featured cut, “How To Rob A Rapper,” YG basically breaks down how the murder of PnB Rock unfolded at Roscoe’s a few weeks ago and has many screaming “too soon!” as his bars seem too close to the actual situation. Dropping lines like “peep game, I’ma teach you how to rob a rapper, catch a ni**a lacking, he slacking on IG Live / He gon’ show his whereabouts by accidents, he be high / He gon’ show the jewels he wearing and the car that he drive,” some felt that it too clo...

Chrisean Rock Teased Blueface Breakup, Hops Into Toxic Pool After Leaking Sex Footage

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty Chrisean Rock and Blueface might be the most toxic celebrity couple around and it appeared all but over. However, it looks like the former athlete is ready to dive headfirst back into the toxic pool that is their relationship. On Sunday (Oct. 2), Chrisean Rock posted a not-so-cryptic tweet that read, “Y’all can have him . ChriseanRock is single. Chrisean you are enough” which was then followed by, “U gon wish u only kept this one tho.” A few more tweets followed the breakup announcement that all but signified the end of the Chrisean Rock and Blueface saga but all of that changed on Monday (Oct. 3). “I’m his best friend n bread winner till death do us part,” which could be assumed to be about Blueface. And if any mystery rema...

Joe Budden Admits To Having Faked Putting On Condoms During Sex

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Joe Budden has a whole lot of explaining to do. The New Jersey rapper turned podcast impresario recently admitted to having faked putting on a condom before having intercourse with a partner. Just so we’re clear, telling your partner you have a condom on when unbeknownst to them you don’t actually do, is sexual assault. There is no gray area. There is even a term for it—stealthing. “Even I done walked in the corner and faked like I was putting a condom on before,” said Budden in a recent podcast which has since been deleted from streamers. He even laughed while adding he “1000 percent” did what he said he did. Budden was adamant that he no longer practices his egregious act, not that it matters. It goes without saying that Twitt...

Joe Budden Admits To Having Faked Putting On Condoms During Podcast

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Joe Budden has a whole lot of explaining to do. The New Jersey rapper turned podcast impresario recently admitted to having faked putting on a condom before having intercourse with a partner. Just so we’re clear, telling your partner you have a condom on when unbeknownst to them you don’t actually do, is sexual assault. There is no gray area. There is even a term for it—stealthing. “Even I done walked in the corner and faked like I was putting a condom on before,” said Budden in a recent podcast which has since been deleted from streamers. He even laughed while adding he “1000 percent” did what he said he did. Budden was adamant that he no longer practices his egregious act, not that it matters. It goes without saying that Twitt...

Time For Battle: Red Bull Batalla USA Finals To Take Place In Miami

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Red Bull / Red Bull Content Pool Red Bull Batalla is the largest Spanish-language freestyle competition in the world, and 16 MCs will bring their respective talents to the Magic City of Miami, Fla. Judging the festivities will be past Red Bull Batalla champions and pure proponents of the Spanish freestyle battle culture. Red Bull Batalla is now in its 16th year and the culture of Spanish freestyle has expanded and thrived over the last decade and a half as a result. This coming Saturday (Oct. 8), the USA Finals will go down at Soho Studios as the MCs lock horns in a bracket-style battle in front of a panel of notable judges deeply embedded in the culture. At the end of the battle, the Red Bull Batalla USA Champion will be crowned and head to the World Fin...

Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 9.30.22

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: damircudic / Getty What up, Hip-Hop Wired Nation? We’re a little late updating our last edition of CRT FRSH AKA Certified Fresh by one day. 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. The CRT FRSH playlist is a labor of love. We don’t take payments nor do we do favors. We only add joints to our playlist that fit the theme and vision we’re going for and don’t seek to waste the time of the listener. Further, we don’t stick to one lane of Hip-Hop. We believe that all aspects of the music should get some light, whether it’s young lions in the trenches or those hoping for that one shot to blow up to grizzled veter...

Antonio Brown Slammed On Twitter For Exposing Meat & Booty Cheeks At Pool

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Antonio Brown, in some eyes, has fallen far from the heights of his storied football career after a zany exit from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021. Since then, the free agent wide receiver and part-time rapper made news for reasons outside of sports, this time landing in hot water for exposing his junk and booty cheeks in a hotel pool. Antonio Brown, 34, was captured on video back on May 14 at the Armani Hotel Dubai according to a report released Saturday (Oct. 1) by the New York Post. In the censored clip, Brown is seen roughhousing in a pool with a white woman with cornrow braids then slamming her in the water after flashing his buttocks in the woman’s face. There is also an image that didn’t make it to the video of Brown sho...

Cardi B Wants The Apology To PnB Rock’s Girlfriend To BE VERY LOUD, Twitter Agrees

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: DENNIS A. CLARK / Getty Following the senseless murder of Hip-Hop star PnB Rock, many social media detectives got on Twitter and claimed it was a harmless post by his girlfriend, Stephanie Sibounheuang, that tipped off his killer to his location. One person, Cardi B, called C A P on that, and following the release of new developments in the case, she wants the apology to PnB Rock’s girlfriend to be VERY LOUD. It didn’t take long for Twitter sleuths to falsely determine that PnB Rock’s girlfriend gave away the couple’s location when she shared a photo of the meal she was enjoying while at Roscoes Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles on Sept.12. Sibounheuang was subjected to harsh bullying and accusations from people like Kodak Black and a rappe...