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Beyoncé Drops Teaser For Visuals To “I’m That Girl”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty With the release of her latest album, RENAISSANCE, Beyoncé snagged her seventh Billboard chart-topping album as it moved 335,000 units in its first week. Looking to capitalize on the success of her latest project, Beyoncé dropped a teaser for her latest visuals to the album’s opening cut, “I’m that Girl,” and in the process made history for releasing the longest teaser for a music video ever. Coming in at 3:36, the official teaser is really just a minute and change of Beyoncé kicking it in the club with a horse (yes, a real horse) before the rest of the teaser is just the song continuing to play on. No word on when the visuals will actually release but best believe that when it does the Beyhive will be buzzing with joy. Check out the ...
Trump Shook Over FBI Probe of Documents Found at Mar-A-Lago
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: RONDA CHURCHILL / Getty The recent search of the home of former President Donald Trump last week by the FBI has apparently struck a serious nerve, as Trump is showing public signs of panic online. According to a report, the search of the private club in Palm Beach, Fka. by the FBI which was conducted last Monday (August 8th) and led to the procurement of several boxes containing highly classified government documents has Donald Trump, the former POTUS in a frenzied state of panic. His reaction? He’s now changing his position almost daily and is obsessed with trying to figure out who in his inner circle could be the person who is the informant that alerted the government agency on where to locate the boxes of documents at Mar-A-Lago. When asked about Trump...
Wack 100 Calls Out Blacc Sam After Removal Of Nipsey Hussle Verse On Drillmatic
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: KYLE GRILLOT / Getty Wack 100 is reportedly fuming after the estate of Nipsey Hussle demanded the removal of the late rapper’s verse from The Game‘s Drillmatic studio album. Wack 100 proceeded to call out Samiel “Blacc Sam” Asghedom while stating that the move from the estate was done from an emotional place. Taking to his preferred medium of Clubhouse, Wack 100 shared some strong words regarding Blacc Sam and the 11th-hour removal of Neighbor Nip’s verse from a Drillmatic track titled “World Tours” according to the tracklisting. Related Stories “I got an email from my attorney, at about 7:30, an hour and a half before it dropped. Nipsey’s brother put in a demand for it to be pulled,” Wack said, adding, “These n*ggas be in their feelings. You notice you g...
Megan The Stallion Dropped A $250K Bag For Future’s “Pressurelicious” Verse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Noam Galai / Getty Future is one of the hottest rappers out, but is his lyrical prowess worth $250,000? Megan Thee Stallion seems to think so, and that’s how much she paid to feature him on her album’s lead single, “Pressurelicious.” Megan Thee Stallion dropped her highly-anticipated sophomore album Traumazine, which features a slew of chart-topping singles. One of them, “Pressurelicious,” saw the leader of the Hot Girl movement link up with the king of toxicity. Before she delivered her L.A. Leakers freestyle, Thee Stallion spoke about the process she went through to get Future on the track that eventually cost her $250K. Related Stories “I had the beat for ‘Pressurelicious,’ right? I recorded the song, and I recorded it one way. And I’m like, ‘You...
HHW Gaming: Microsoft Confrims What We Knew All Along, PS4 Outsold The Xbox One
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty Microsoft has kept the Xbox One’s sales numbers a secret for a long time, but now the company is finally confirming the obvious, the PS4 outsold the Xbox One by a lot. During the PS4 and Xbox One’s prime, it was widely believed among everyone in the video game industry and by those who play games that the PS4 was the king of its generation. Spotted on The Verge, new documents detail how badly PS4 kicked the Xbox One’s a**. Per The Verge: Microsoft stopped reporting its Xbox One sales figures at the beginning of its 2016 financial year, focusing instead on Xbox Live numbers. The change meant we’ve never officially known how well Xbox One was holding up compared to the PS4 after the Xbox One’s troubled launch. Analyst estimates hav...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 8.12.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CoffeeAndMilk / Getty What up, Hip-Hop Wired Nation? We’re back with the last edition of CRT FRSH AKA Certified Fresh for July! 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 veterans puffing ...
NBA To Honor Bill Russell By Retiring No. 6 Across The League
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Bill Russell, the legendary NBA big man who triumphed mightily despite enduring racism and hardships, passed away last month at the age of 88. The NBA will honor Russell by retiring the No. 6 across the league. The magnitude of Bill Russell and his impact on the game of basketball can be measured by both his skill, but also his 11 NBA championships as a member of the Boston Celtics. As reported by NBA.com, Russell will become the first player to have his number retired league-wide. From NBA.com: Related Stories “Bill Russell’s unparalleled success on the court and pioneering civil rights activism deserve to be honored in a unique and historic way,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “Permanently retiring his No. 6 across every NBA tea...
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...
