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HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Beanz Smalls / Bernard Beanz Smalls, The quasi-beef is on, and Jim Jones and Pusha T find themselves in a rap feud. Capo has dropped a  teaser of a freestyle or song (however you want to call it) with bars aimed at Push A Ton, but the reaction from

Summer’s too hot not to fuck it up. Just in time for the summer, Chris Brown turns up the heat on his new single, “Summer Too Hot”. On the bouncy-infused record, the R&B singer wets up the mood with his sultry vocals. “Shawty she discreet / She don’t want her business in the street /

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: XBOX / Porsche Xbox continues to roll out the sick custom Xbox Series X consoles. For its latest collaboration, the company is teaming up with Porsche. Legendary automakers Porsche and Xbox have a long history. Since 2005, Porsche and Microsoft’s Turn 10 studios have worked together to include some of

Grab your Gucci flip flops. Busta Rhymes takes BIA to the beach on his new single, “Beach Ball”. On the summer-ready anthem, BIA kicks off the track by ringing off on her competition and getting nasty abroad. “Give me backshots, now it’s back to D.R / Fly you out to P.R., can’t put you in

HipHopWired Featured Video The BET Awards takes place this weekend in Los Angeles, Calif. at the Microsoft Theater and the star-studded event is poised to draw large crowds online and in person to take in the festivities. American Express and BET are partnering to present The Watch Party at the House of BET ahead of

You can be just like we. Cole Bennett’s multimedia company Lyrical Lemonade bring their “Doomsday”, on their new single featuring Cordae and the late Juice WRLD. Over Eminem’s 1999 track, “Role Model”, the posthumous cut finds the rappers exchanging braggadocious bars and witty wordplay. “This industry has nothing to offer beyond fame / Time to

HipHopWired Featured Video Summer Smash, the annual musical festival curated by the minds behind Lyrical Lemonade, will be rocking Chicagoland this weekend with headlining acts Kid Cudi, Future, and Playboi Carti. Culture Kings, one of the leading streetwear since 2008, partnered with Summer Smash for a festival-ready merch line that can be purchased online and

We’re just living it. Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice are truly living in a modern day “Barbie World” on their first collaboration. The song, which is premiered with its music video, appears on the Barbie motion picture soundtrack, Barbie The Album. Over a flip of Europop band Aqua’s 1997 hit “Barbie Girl”, the Hanna Lux

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Taylor Hill / Getty XXL has just revealed its Freshman Class for 2023, and while many faces are familiar and well-deserving of the honors, one particular popular artist was noticeably absent and everyone’s wondering why. On Wednesday (June 21),  XXL magazine revealed their take on this year’s up-and-coming stars of tomorrow

Never forget. Just one year after his shooting, Lil Tjay saves the date and relieves it on his brand new single, “June 22”. In the accompanying video, which reenacts the the near-death experience, the Bronx rapper reflects on the incident, overcoming all the mishaps that came with it, and everything else in between. “Tryna sign

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Theo Wargo / Getty A new documentary series hosted by LL Cool J and Ice T follows them on the hunt for the most sought-after items in Hip-Hop culture. The two rap icons and television stars are the hosts of Hip Hop Treasures, a new documentary series that will air on

Just put it on Glo. Hot off the announcement of XXL’s Freshman Class of 2023, Memphis classmate GloRilla celebrates the occasion with her take on Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor”. Directed by Samuel Finley, the Memphis rapper puts her money on the floor and stunts effortlessly at the crib with her girls. “Put me

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Last week Boosie Badazz got himself pinched by authorities due to an IG live in which he inadvertently showed himself in possession of a firearm, and though bail was originally denied a judge has now granted him a $50K bond, but with no release date set in

Come spend the night with a stoner. Wiz Khalifa’s feeling nice in his new video, “Referral”. Shot by Braden Walker, the Taylor Gang frontman lights up a storm from inside his Kush Factory home studio. “Shrooms got me in the mood / We about to make a movie,” he raps while toting blunt after blunt.

HipHopWired Featured Video Babyface and Anita Baker looked to be one of the top tours of 2023 with the two legendary acts making their talents on the road of their legion of fans. Despite what headlines say, Babyface assured the public that there is no beef between him and Baker. Babyface, real name Kenneth Edmonds,

Baow! Young Nudy brings the freaks out in Atlanta in his new music video, “Peaches & Eggplants” featuring 21 Savage. Directed by Hiji, the racy clip centers the duo at a packed Atlanta park for a wild gathering filled with scantily-clad women twerking on one another. “Slut out a freak / Hit her from the

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez- Getty / Getty Taxstone has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for his involvement in the infamous Troy Ave shooting at Irving Plaza in New York City in 2016 at a T.I. concert. The Brooklyn native shot and killed Ronald “Banga” McPhatter, who was Troy Ave’s bodyguard, during

Gunna is not sure who to trust in his new video, “idk no more”. Held inside a padded room, Wunna weighs on disloyalty and former associates in the short clip, which runs just over a minute. “Remember we was cool / I gave you shit when I didn’t use it / Lemme get that money

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Courtesy VH1 / Black Ink Crew The Real World, oops, we Black Ink Crew is pushing on, and the shenanigans in the rookie’s mansion are already happening. Teddy Kinda Capes For Spyder Last week, Ceaser loyalist Spyder and Puma got at each other after Teddy made the dumb decision to

Queens! Doe Boy takes his shenanigans to New York in his “Rhude Boy” music video. Courtesy of Fast Life Productions, the Freebandz making moves throughout the South Jamaica area in Queens while delivering his minacious bars. “Ain’t no switching sides, pussy, you know what mine is / Pussy nigga hide, then we go where his mom