Chris Brown is facing legal action after his dog allegedly bit a cleaning lady. The woman, Patricia Avila, claims one of the singer’s dogs viciously attacked her sister while they were cleaning his Tarzana, Calif. house. In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Avila says she and her sister were hired to clean Chris’ home twice
Hip Hop
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty A new doc that will give more insight on the mysterious murder of Run-DMC’s DJ Jam Master Jay is coming this week. Deadline reports the new doc, Set the Record Straight: The Jam Master Jay Case, which focuses on the 2002 tragic killing of the DJ born
Super Dax. Keeping his word from last week’s “Beatbox“, Dax finally unleashes his “Whoopty” freestyle, his last remix of the year. In the playful clip, Dax doesn’t hold back with the bars and shifts through various costumes including the elderly, a martial artist, a janitor, Superman, and more eggciting characters. [embedded content]
DJ Mustard is putting his personal shopper on blast for allegedly stealing over $50,000. Taking to Instagram, the “High Fashion” producer claimed that Karissa C. Walker was hired to shop for him and his wife, but she ended up doing some shopping of her own, racking up over $50,000 and charging it to Mustard’s credit
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty It’s been a few months since the release of the PS5, and it’s finally getting its first big system update, and with it comes some much-needed relief for your console’s hard drive. Sony announced via its blog that PS5 owners could look forward to the console’s first
Bring it on. H.E.R. brought her Oscar-nominated song to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday (April 13) for an epic performance. Beginning on the drums, the talented musician took the mic and walked down an alleyway where she joined her band members including back up singers, a guitarist, pianist, violinists, and more. The
Drake and DMX buried their beef before his death. The OVO rapper reportedly plans to revisit his rivalry with the late rap icon on an upcoming episode of REVOLT’s “Drink Champs” podcast. Host Noreaga met up with Drake last night and revealed that he was instrumental in squashing the near-decade-old beef with some help from
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Did y’all really think y’all were going to go a week without some new work from the Buffalo hustler, Benny The Butcher? Nah bro. There’s bags to pick up and the man out here collecting every last one of them. This time around the Upstate New Yorker
Lift off. K Camp’s spreading good vibes in his K.I.S.S. 5 (Deluxe) album’s new video featuring Genius. Directed by Spike Ree, the two Rare Sound artist simply live it up on the road while turning up with the rest of the family, friends, and fans. [embedded content]
The Weeknd has found a buyer for his Hidden Hills estate. The “Blinding Lights” singer has sold his 13,391-square-foot suburban mansion to Madonna. He purchased the property in the gated community just outside of Los Angeles for $18.2 million in 2017, and initially listed it for $25 million. The price eventually dropped to $22 million
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty We can’t physically be at concerts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Tidal and Facebook have found a way virtually for us to enjoy some tunes performed live by 2 Chainz. Monday (Apr.12), global music and entertainment streaming platform TIDAL and Facebook’s virtual reality platform Oculus announced the “I’m
*Flex Bombs* Legendary hip-hop DJ and disc jockey Funk Master Flex certainly needs no introduction. And with an album on the way, Flex takes the hot seat in the latest episode of Cigar Talk. In the extensive interview, Flex discusses his new singles with Rowdy Rebel, King Von, meeting DMX, problem with JAY-Z, his role
Kid Cudi honored Kurt Cobain while making his “Saturday Night Live” debut. For his first solo performance as musical guest (he appeared with Kanye West in 2018), the rapper delivered a pair of songs off his latest album Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, released in December, on last night’s episode with host Carey
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Hip-Hop culture across the globe is in mourning after the untimely passing of DMX. Many were close with the rapper, but one longtime collaborator particularly close to Dark Man X was Swizz Beatz, who eulogized his late friend. Some of X’s most memorable hits were produced by
It’s lit! Things are turnt all the way up in the latest music video off Mo3’s posthumous album Shottaz 4 Life. In the Prophecy film, the late Mo3 and YFN Lucci hit up a ratchet affair at a night club full of money, countless bottles, and a bountiful of baddies twerking and making out. [embedded
Saweetie still has the keys to the Bentley. Earlier this week, a new song surfaced on which Quavo appeared to claim that he repossessed the car he gifted his ex-girlfriend for Christmas. “She slimy and she sneaky / Takin’ back that Bentley,” Huncho raps on the snippet. But Saweetie is having the last laugh. She
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Lil Mama still can’t shake the stink off that epic cringe-worthy moment when she crashed Jay Z and Alicia Keys’ stage performance almost a decade ago, and it’s not without effort. According to MadameNoire, a follower hopped into her comment section on Instagram after the rapper posted
KiD CuDi brought his Man On The Moon III to Saturday Night Live on Saturday (April 10) and payed homage to the late Kurt Cobain for his musical performance. On a stage amid laser lights with his band, Kid CuDi wore a cardigan and a t-shirt of Chris Farley for his performance of “Tequila Shots”.
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AleksandarGeorgiev / 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
DMX’s legacy lives on. The rap legend died Friday at 50 after suffering a heart attack. While hip-hop mourns the devastating loss, X is leaving behind a timeless catalog as well as new music. He had reportedly completed an album prior to his passing and was planning to release it this summer. Speaking with Lisa