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HipHopWired Featured Video Source: HBO / HBO Even though he is a God MC Jay-Z isn’t perfect. On a recent episode of The Shop he admits he has forgotten his lyrics at live shows. As reported on HipHopDX the Brooklyn, New York native paid a visit to his long time friend and mentee LeBron James on the newest installment of his HBO talk

Usher has another one on the way. Just eight months after welcoming his daughter, the R&B superstar and his girlfriend, music executive Jenn Goicoechea, are expecting their second child together. The couple, who have been dating since at least October 2019, walked the red carpet at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards in L.A. on Thursday

Rematch! Swizz Beatz and Timbaland take it back to where it all started for this Memorial Day weekend special of their Verzuz. On Sunday (May 30), the co-founders and super-producers went head-to-head in front of a live audience at Miami’s LIV nightclub. Swizzy and Timbo shuffled back through their extensive catalog including their solo records,

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now learning just how much she can trigger her opponents as her office is hit with a lawsuit over her decision to only grant one-on-one interviews with journalists of color last week. This decision was spurred by her noticing the overwhelming whiteness

Eminem and Snoop Dogg remain “cool.” After going back and forth last year, the two are leaving the beef in the past. Their so-called feud started last July when Snoop omitted Em from his top 10 favorite rappers list, telling “The Breakfast Club” that he could “live without” the Detroit rapper’s music. Em clapped back

Bon appetit. Still fresh and hot off his Thank You For Believing mixtape, Toosii serves up his take on Drake and Rick Ross’ popular hit. Indulging in a batch of wings at the crib, Toosii delivers an introspective rap with in the company of his lady. He gets in his bag, showcases his jewelry, and

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Jay-Z and Beyoncé are sitting on at least a billion. So it only makes sense that the couple is rumored to have commissioned what is thought to be the world’s most expensive car. According to Page Six, the Carter’s are responsible for the Boat Tail convertible that

Future has more to say about his ex. Earlier this month, a snippet from 42 Dugg’s new single “Maybach” surfaced on which the “Toxic King” took aim at Lori Harvey. “Tell Steve Harvey I don’t want her,” raps Future. “One thing I never seen was a bitch leave.” [embedded content][embedded content] However, on his original

Ride or die. Joey Fatts is everlasting in the video to his latest single, “Immortal”, his first drop since his G Way 2 LP from February. Directed by Kiky, the Long Beach rapper coasts over a Nick Dow beat while referencing his hustle and legendary status from L.A.’s Cutthroat shop to riding shotgun in a

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty DMX‘s posthumous album, Exodus, is receiving praise from fans and critics. However, there were many raised eyebrows when a Pop Smoke feature long touted to be part of the album was nowhere to be found upon release. Swizz Beatz explained what happened during a recent visit to

JAY-Z is reflecting on his relationship with DMX. The Roc Nation mogul was a guest on the season premiere of HBO’s “The Shop: Uninterrupted” with LeBron James and Maverick Carter, during which he opened up about X for the first time since his passing on April 9. JAY-Z recalled their friendship and rivalry including the

Fuck your speakers! Too $hort turns up the bass and sets the speakers on fire in the latest video off his Ain’t Gone Do It album. Directed by Josh Fields, Short Dogg opens up his trunk and glides over a BossLife Big Spence’s knocking beat. Here, Oaktown’s O.G. parlays on set full of neon lights,

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Kanye West can’t go anywhere without being spotted, even when he’s technically in disguise. The multihyphenate creative was reportedly spotted out in Los Angeles late in the week rocking a full face mask straight out of a bootleg episode of HBO’s Watchmen. It was Page Six that

5.28.2021 New Music It’s been three years since Juice WRLD released his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance. To mark the anniversary, his label has re-released the platinum project with two new songs, “734” and the long-awaited “Lucid Dreams (Remix)” featuring Lil Uzi Vert. The Philadelphia rapper gets lost in his feelings on the Nick

We out’chea. Hot off his Motivated album, Klass Murda comes outside in his new video featuring Rah Swish. Filtered with partial animation and various backdrops, the Rochester and Brooklyn rapper detail their moves in the streets while mobbing with their cliques. Long live Pop Smoke and free Casanova. [embedded content]

HipHopWired Featured Video Many moons ago it seemed like Fetty Wap was superstar bound when he was rocking the charts when he dropped his crossover smash, “Trap Queen.” Unfortunately that potential was never realized and he’s since been trying to get back to that number one spot he occupied back in 2014. Continuing his quest

DMX’s posthumous album Exodus was released Friday featuring Alicia Keys, JAY-Z, Bono, and more. One guest who was noticeably absent was Pop Smoke, leaving fans to wonder what happened to his previously-announced feature. During an interview with the “Drink Champs” podcast earlier this year, X teased the collaboration with the late Brooklyn rapper, who was

Need for greed. After indulging in “Gluttony” with Lloyd Banks, Ransom spits with “Greed” on his new collaboration featuring Royce 5’9″. Flanked by harmonious trumpets by Lord Sear, Duffle and Nickle Nine detail the selfish acts in the streets and the desperate cravings for riches. The track is the latest offering off Ransom’s Se7en EP

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: blackCAT / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. 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

X gon’ give it to ya. Less than two months after his tragic death, DMX’s eighth album Exodus has arrived. Executive produced by his longtime friend and collaborator Swizz Beatz, the posthumous set–X’s first on Def Jam since 2003–features some of the biggest names in music–from Lil Wayne and The LOX to Alicia Keys and