HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ The opening scene of the final episode of Loki’s first season is amazing. It is peppered with various lines of dialogue from previous MCU films spliced in with historical figures such as Nelson Mandela. SPOILERS AHEAD Visually we are in the midst of a universe, then a sun, then possibly a black hole and we pop out seeing what we can only assume to be the flow of the time…The Sacred Timeline. Within all of this is a meteoroid where we center on our Lokis staring at a fortress like castle. Post title card we return to our, heroes? Anti-heroes? Uh, the Loki’s are walking up some stairs to a large door. Sylvie hesitates, hoping that Loki will ask her to temper herself. However, he does not. As she preps to bum rush the show, the door opens on...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kimberley French / Sony Pictures Entertainment The latest installment of Ghostbusters was supposed to have hit theaters last summer but like everything else, the pandemic caused those plans to be scraped and canceled. Now that things are getting back to somewhat normal (for now), Ghostbusters: Afterlife has gotten a new release date and a new trailer. The latest 2-minute peek once again introduces us to Egon’s grandchildren, Phoebe (McKenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), who move out to a small town and discover that their dearly departed grandfather was once a legendary ghost hunting scientist who saved the world from the apocalypse back in the 80’s. Revamping and tweaking some of his ghostbustin’ toys such as station wagon a.k.a Ecto-1, and gho...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @kanyewest / Instagram Kanye West isn’t doing anything the easy way nowadays. After once again pump-faking on the release of his Donda album (with no repercussions?), Yeezy has decided to hunker down in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to finish the project, and recently showed off his living situation. First, let us reiterate that Kanye West is in Atlanta, home to plenty of top-notch studios like Tree Sound or Patchwerk to name just a couple, that would surely be willing to accommodate his recording needs. However, the multi-hyphenate Rap star has chosen to complete the Donda album in the same place he held its fame listening session. while sleeping in what looks like a bare-bones dorm room in a college with a modest budget. West took to Instagram to...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike Basketball / NIke Ask some of his past teams or teammates, and they might say dealing with Kyrie Irving can be precarious. Nike is learning this first hand as the NBA superstar point guard aired out the brand over his alleged non-involvement in the design and marketing of his next signature sneaker. If Nike maintains its usual timeline, the new Nike Kyrie 8 would be released shortly before the new NBA season. An image of the new model recently leaked on Instagram (via @k11kicks), and the Brooklyn Nets point guard commented, and it was nothing nice. “I have nothing to do with the design or marketing of the upcoming Kyrie 8, IMO these are trash!,” wrote Irving. “I have absolutely nothing to do with them! Nike plans to release it without my okay regardl...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Maybe Kanye West is a big fan of MCU villains? We say this because Yeezy was at the Big 3 Tournament in Las Vegas on Saturday (July 17) and was spotted courtside dressed like Baron Zemo. Source: Marvel / Disney+ There was Mr. West next to Big 3 head honcho Ice Cube wearing an outfit that featured a mask that also could pass for Cobra Commander couture and what looks like a pair of those Yeezy Supply boots. There is where we point out that Vegas is in the desert, so it’s pretty much always hot outside. That didn’t stop Yeezy from donning winter-ready looking drip at the Orleans Arena to take in a game, though. Cube being comfortable in a t-shirt was a sharp contrast to West keeping on the black version of the Round Jacket that’s part o...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ Next on the Marvel Universe menu of series is Loki which began in spectacular fashion. Episode 1 first takes us to 2012 for a quick recap of events in New York City during the “Time Heist” portion of Avenger’s: Endgame. SPOILERS AHEAD Source: Marvel / Disney+ There is some new footage interwoven into the theatrical footage giving us a slightly different perspective of Loki acquiring the Tesseract and escaping into a black cloud portal thingy. We hear Thor calling for Loki as the Marvel comic pages turn. Post page turn we discover that Loki teleported himself to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Having landed in some sand, Loki dusts himself off and prepares to deliver his “conqueror” speech to the natives. At the same time, several armor-clad ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ Episode 3 of Marvel’s Loki was full action and plenty of character development. We learn a little more about… SPOILERS AHEAD — catch up with our Episode 2 recap right here. “Lady” Loki aka Sylvie. Source: Marvel / Disney+ C-20, dressed as a civilian shares drinks with “Lady” Loki, who is also dressed as a civilian. They are in a bar apparently not known for having a high sanitary score. Lady Loki is trying to coerce C-20 into revealing information about location of the Timekeepers. The scene feels like a memory, they are chilling in a futuristic Applebee’s, something is not right though. We pan out to see Lady Loki extracting the information she needs from C-20 as Loki and Mobius close in on her. The title card rolls. Post title, a time d...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ Episode 4 of Marvel’s Loki gave us plenty of insight into Sylive’s origins and what makes her tick. It goes without saying that there are…. SPOILERS AHEAD — catch up with our Episode 3 recap right here. The episode begins in Asgard, where an imaginative young girl plays with her toys, seemingly minding her own business. Behind her a time door appears and out steps Hunter A-23 who recognizes and arrests the young girl as a variant that has committed crimes against the Sacred Timeline. Upon arrival at the TVA we can tell from how the young girl is dressed she has to be Sylvie. She is processed and taken to a courtroom by A-23. When her case is called, young Sylvie attacks A-23 and takes her TemPad. A-23 can only watch on helplessly as...