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HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 We all knew 50 Cent had it rough growing up but now we get even more detail on his harsh childhood. In a recent interview he revealed his mother used to make him weapons for protection. As spotted on Page Six the G-Unit boss recently spoke to the celebrity

Trippie is here. Trippie Redd brings his “Supernatural” powers in his Trip At Knight‘s new music video. After fighting off zombies from “MP5“, Trippie Redd takes center of a remote junkyard at night where he turns up with his crew and races cars on the property in the midst of special effects. [embedded content]

3 hours ago News Kanye West no longer wants to be known as Kanye West. According to TMZ, the rapper has filed documents to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just “Ye,” the nickname he’s gone by for years. He’s asking an L.A. court to make it official by signing off on the

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bungie / Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Destiny 2 is still going strong 5 years after its launch, and with its next expansion, the game is showing no signs of slowing down. Tuesday (Aug.24), Bungie unveiled Destiny 2’s biggest expansion yet, The Witch Queen that will finally see players put their

Pray for Haiti. Mach-Hommy brings “No Blood No Sweat” in the latest vignette off his Pray For Haiti album. Donning a OJ Simpson throwback jersey and waving his Haitian flag, the Griselda rapper unleashes his complex raps throughout his Newark stomping grounds with his crew. What’chu got going on? [embedded content]

August 23, 2021 News Lil Uzi Vert is calling out Kanye West. Amid Drake and Kanye’s reignited feud, Uzi took to Twitter to share (and quickly delete) his opinion of the Jesus Is King rapper. “Kanye a fake pastor,” he tweeted along with the laughing face emoji. It’s unclear what prompted the comment, but it

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty The saga for the release of Kanye West new DONDA album continues. In the latest publicity grab—it is what it is—for what’s become a traveling tour, Yeezy is recreating his childhood home for the listening event at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Apparently, the “Power” rapper is building up

RMC Music is back and gives thanks on Smoke DZA, 183rd, and Nym Lo’s joint project, Thanks Again. Produced by 183rd, the Kushed God and Nym Lo release 12 new tracks including “365”, “Chin Music”, “Nicholas Cage”, “Truck On Fire”, and more. Guests include Dom Kennedy, Steven Young, and Big B’z. This is DZA’s first

2 hours ago News Tory Lanez’s bail is going up. A judge has increased the rapper’s bail after prosecutors say he violated a protective order to stay away from Megan Thee Stallion when he came within 100 yards of her at Rolling Loud Miami last month. Lanez appeared in an L.A. courtroom on Monday (Aug. 23)

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Tory Lanez’s Rolling Loud Miami appearance has come back to bite the miniature rapper in the a**. TMZ has learned that after being used as a prop by DaBaby to troll Megan Thee Stallion, a judge has barred Tory Lanez from attending any events that Megan Thee

Happy Yachty Day! Hot off the release of his Birthday Mix 6, Lil Yachty celebrates his BDay with his mixtape’s new video. In the clip, the 23-year-old rapper and his collaborator DC2Trill celebrate the occasion by turning up in the studio with friends and getting some new body ink. [embedded content]

August 22, 2021 New Music News SZA Sundays are here. As fans await her long-delayed sophomore album, the R&B songstress surprises with a trio of unreleased tracks described as “random thoughts.” The songs, which were uploaded to a random SoundCloud account, include “Nightbird,” “I Hate You,” and “Joni,” for which she previously teased an alternate

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Will / Getty Kanye West and his soon to be ex-wife if not yet Kim Kardashian were spotted having lunch together in Malibu. Nope., we still don’t now when that Donda album will actually drop, for real for real, though. TMZ has the tea if you still care about these two:

Tune in. Megan Thee Stallion interrupts are regularly scheduled program with her “Tuned In” freestyle. Inside her home studio, Thee Stallion cracks the mic and twerks to her Hot Girl raps in a neon green outfit and a glass of bubbly. Cheers! “Tuned In” follows the rapper’s previous freestyle, “Outta Town“. [embedded content]

A plane carrying world champion boxer Gervonta Davis and several others crashed shortly after takeoff on Saturday (Aug. 21). Kodak Black was among the 10 passengers and four crew members on board when the private jet experienced nose gear failure as it was heading down the runway at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport en route

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty The Kardashian Kurse is nasty business if you’re a Black artist or athlete in their orbit. With that said, pray for Devin Booker since the NBA star has been spotted kicking it with Kendall Jenner. The Phoenix Suns point guard and Kim Kardashian’s sister have been romantically involved

Dump. As the world continues to wait for more new music from SZA, the singer kicks treated her fans with three unheard records. Over an eerie beat, a vulnerable Solana vents on a toxic relationship on the track, “I Hate You”. She does the same on a bouncy production for “Nightbird”, while she overcomes through

Trippie Redd’s album Trip at Knight dropped Friday, but his Drake collaboration “Betrayal” was noticeably absent. Later in the day, the song was released as part of the 18-track Complete Edition. On their first collab, the Certified Lover Boy takes a moment to bask in his glory while seemingly taking shots at Kanye West. “Like

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: via UNCENSORED / TV One Lamar Odom says one of his worst nights is wasn’t completely his doing. He claims he was possibly drugged the night of his overdose. As spotted on Buzzfeed News the former NBA power forward is now speaking openly about the evening where he almost lost his