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Megan Thee Stallion Celebrates ‘Traumazine’ With ‘GMA’ Performance, Hotties React To The Album’s Release
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Noam Galai / Getty Megan Thee Stallion isn’t letting her drama with her label steal her joy. The Houston rapper’s second album, Traumazine, has arrived, and it’s her most personal album yet. Traumazine is here, and it sounds like Megan Thee Stallion is relieved to get her latest body of work out to her fans. Before the project hit streaming services, the “Big Ole Freak” crafter took to Twitter to talk to her loyal fans and expressed how open she was on her latest project. “Hotties I opened up to yall on this album,” Thee Stallion tweeted. “So if you’re comfortable, how bout we have a conversation abt some things you might be going through or just want to vent about that you’ve been through that may help someone else.” The 18-track album features the...
Tattoo Papi: Drake’s New Face Ink Is A Tribute To His Momma
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images / Getty Drake is notorious for having the most random tattoos and shows no signs of letting up in that department. The Canadian superstar has some new ink, and it’s on his mug. The Honestly Nevermind crafter took to unveil his latest tattoo, a tribute to his mother. In a post captioned “Sandra Gale,” Drake showed off the face ink, an “SG” located right under his left eye. Related Stories The artist tasked with tattooing the “Sticky” rapper, @_n.a.l, shared a clip of a peaceful Drake getting his latest body art. Drake Clowned His Father’s Tattoo Drake’s new ink comes days after he clowned his father, Dennis Graham, for getting a rather obnoxious-sized tattoo of his son’s face on his body several years ago. For...
Nipsey Hussle Gets LA Metro Station Dedicated In His Honor
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz The city of Los Angeles is showing more love to its native son, Nipsey Hussle by announcing the dedication of one of its metro stations after him posthumously. According to reports, the city has dedicated the Hyde Park Metro station after the late rapper and entrepreneur. The ceremony was held last weekend at the station, which is located at the intersections of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue and 59th Street. This is in close proximity to Hussle’s Marathon Clothing Store, which was an inspirational staple of the community and where he tragically lost his life in March 2019. Related Stories Los Angeles City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson spoke about the rapper’s legacy at the dedication ceremony last Saturday (Aug...
Johnson & Johnson to Stop Production of Talc-Based Baby Powder
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty After being sued by cancer patients who claimed that its baby powder contained asbestos—Johnson & Johnson stopped using talc in 2020. Now, the company will switch to cornstarch in its baby powder by 2023. More than 40,000 lawsuits were filed against the company over the past few years with plaintiffs alleging they were sickened with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma. Further, they allege that the company continued to use talc even knowing the health risks. “It’s kind of the no-brainer solution,” Alex Scranton, director of science and research at the environmental advocacy group Women’s Voices for the Earth told The New York Times of the discontinuation. Nearly 200 organizations participated in a campaign led by B...
Insiders Ponder If Jared Kushner or Melania Trump Sold Out Donald Trump to The FBI
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: James Devaney / Getty A few days ago the FBI raided Donald Trump‘s Mar-A-Lago property in what now is being said was for Top Secret nuclear documents that could be sold for quite the King Kong grip, but the question still remains, “Who dropped dime on Donald Trump?” According to The Independent, many people are whispering the names of not only Jared Kushner, but even Trump’s often pissed off wife, Melania Trump. While a raid of the entire Mar-A-Lago establishment would’ve taken a few days to complete, the FBI completed it in a matter of hours seemingly knowing exactly where they needed to search to find the materials that Trump and his team lifted from The White House after the American people gave him and his administration the boot. In total the FBI too...
Danger Mouse & Black Thought Team Up For Excellent Cheat Codes LP
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Danger Mouse and Black Thought are two artists who shouldn’t need much of an introduction except for the newest Hip-Hop and music fans. The pair released their joint album, Cheat Codes, on Friday (August 12) and the results are as ear-pleasing as one could hope. Cheat Codes is a reunion of sorts between the pair after they first worked together on the DANGERDOOM bonus track “Mad Nice” which surfaced from the Danger Mouse and the late MF DOOM’s The Mouse and the Mask album sessions from 2005. The project was some years in the making with an announcement of the album surfacing recently as 2020. While the airy production of “Mad Nice” was prototypical Hip-Hop for all involved, Cheat Codes leans into a more atmospheric sound with neither ...
DaBaby “Tough Skin,” Royce Da 5’9 ft. Grafh “I Play Forever” & More | Daily Visuals 8.11.22
HipHopWired Featured Video The past year has been a struggle one for DaBaby as he found himself getting “canceled” on social media due to homophobic comments made last summer, but he’s taken all the backlash in stride as what doesn’t kill him can only make him stronger. Such is the concept in his latest visuals to “Tough Skin” where the controversial rapper finds himself tied to a crucifix (still iced out though) and tortured by some masked men who were probably involved with the storming of The Capitol on January 6th. Just sayin.’ Back in Detroit, triple OG Royce Da 5’9 continues to remind us that he’s one of the dopest MC’s in the game and for his Grafh assisted clip to “I Play Forever” holds his city down with some heavy bars and smooth flow. Give that man his flowers if you haven’t alr...
OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney Charged For Murdering Estranged Boyfriend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hawai‘i Police Department / Hawai‘i Police Department One of OnlyFans’ leading personalities is now the suspect to a major crime. Courtney Clenney is now charged with murdering her estranged boyfriend. As per The New York Post the model was booked on charges for stabbing 27-year-old Christian Obumseli back in April. On Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., 26-year-old Courtney Taylor Clenney, of an Austin, Texas address, was arrested without incident at an undisclosed location in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. Members of the Hawaii Police Department assisted and stood by while Clenney was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service. She was arrested on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida, for the offense of m...
The Game Drops 10-Minute Eminem Diss Track “The Black Slim Shady”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cooper Neill / Getty It’s new music Friday and though artists like Megan Thee Stallion, Rod Wave and Corde dropped off new projects, The Game has been the talk of social media. Not only because of his own latest album, Drillmatic, but because of a lengthy diss song featured on his lengthy LP. Months after challenging Eminem to do a Verzuz with him, The Game has taken things up a notch by dropping a 10-minute diss track dubbed “The Black Slim Shady” in which he mimics Eminem’s style throughout the cut while slandering him saying “And my d*ck stay hard when I see Lizzo on the internet (another BBM) / my d*ck get little on the internet / my intellect is NFT’s and crypto’s, I could never be a Crip though / I tip-toe with my red rag around 6-O’s.” Looks like W...
FBI Search Of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home Reportedly Connected To Nuclear Documents
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 15 mins ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
King Von ft. OMB Peezy “Get It Done,” Trapland Pat ft. Rick Ross “Big Business Remix” & More | Daily Visuals 8.10.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Today King Von would’ve turned 28-years-old and though the beloved Chiraq soldier is no longer with us (R.I.P.) his team released some new visuals to honor the memory of Chicago’s favorite son. Almost two years after his untimely death, we get the visuals for King Von’s OMB Peezy featured cut “Get It Done” in which we watch the two rappers flossing and shining through their hood during better days and enjoying the riches that this rap game afforded them. Rest in Power, King. Down South, Trapland Pat welcomes the Bawse, Rick Ross to his hood and in the clip to “Big Business Remix” the two men give the locals something to talk and tweet about as they turn up on the block and get things poppin’ for the Summer. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from ...
Four Men Indicted For Murder of Rapper Moneybagg Vontae
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Last June, LA-based rapper Moneygang Vontae was gunned down in the Bronx while he was in town for a performance in New York City and now authorities say they’ve indicted four men for the deadly shooting. NBC New York is reporting that Isaiah Garrett, Allan Algarin, Nayshon White and River Jones have all been arrested and hit with murder charges for the June 9 shooting at a Pharmacy in the Tremont section of the Bronx. Aside from murder charges the four men were also slapped with manslaughter, robbery, gang assault, and weapon possession amongst other charges. The 24-year-old Garrett, of Morris Heights, and 18-year-old Jones, of New Rochelle, were arraigned Tuesday; Algarin and White, both from the Bronx, had previously been arr...
