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HipHopWired Featured Video Swarm, the new Amazon Prime series from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, inspired a flurry of conversations around so-called “stan culture,” parasocial relationships, and the obsessive nature of some music fans. While the series doesn’t necessarily hide from running parallel to the fandom that surrounds a certain Houston, Texas superstar, the program

6LACK takes a moment to reflect with his “Preach” music video. Directed by Above Ground, the singer weathers the storm while moralizing new lessons on life. “I know they love it when I talk that shit / It’s really smoke, so you gon’ wheeze for a second,” he sings while isolated in a room flooded

HipHopWired Featured Video For a few years now Jim Jones has been the most active member of Dip Set. He’s been dropping off work on a consistent basis, and whether he’s dropping solo cuts or making guest features, Capo is staying on his grizzly. This time around the Harlem representative lends his talents to Loqui

Record label and production group Internet Money taps Roddy Ricch and Kodak Black on their brand new single, “I Remember”. Over the autotuned-infused record, Roddy Ricch and Kodak Black boast their rags to riches lifestyle. “Took losses in my trenches, I can’t cry no more / All this pain inside my body, I can’t hide

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gilbert Flores / Getty / Victoria Alonso Marvel’s 2023 is off to a rare bad start. First Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania didn’t make that much noise at the box office, then Jonathan Majors caught a domestic violence case, and now one of the company’s longtime execs is gone. The firing

With their The Great Escape arriving on Friday (Mar. 31), Larry June and The Alchemist pull up with “Porsches In Spanish” for the album’s latest offering. Over The Alchemist’s soulful and hypnotic production, Good Job Larry delivers his plush rhymes referencing his fly whips and his hustling demeanor. “‘Bout to make another play, looking for

HipHopWired Featured Video Hip-Hop legend, E-40 has been doing his thing in the rap game for three decades now, and while lately he’s been lending his talents to Mount Westmore, today The Ambassador of The Bay drops a solo cut and gets things poppin.’ Holding court with a marching band in tow for his visuals

Tyler, The Creator has announced the deluxe version for his Call Me You Get Lost album and rolls out one of its new tracks, “Dogtooth”. Along with the single’s debut, a self-directed video is premiered which centers Tyler at a dock riding an excavator, doing donuts in a vintage car, walking dogs, and on top

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Boston Globe / Getty / Pax East Pax East went down this past weekend in Boston, and Hip-Hop Wired was on the ground. The biggest gaming convention on the east coast returned to Boston, kicking off Thursday, March 23, until Sunday, March 26. This year, it was at full capacity for

As Coi Leray’s hit single “Players” continues its run, it is only right she taps the originator Busta Rhymes for the official remix featuring Busta Rhymes. Courtesy of DJ Saige, Busta brings his high-energy flow to the knocking instrumental, which samples his very own 1997 classic “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See”. “Yo

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WWD / Getty How the mighty have fallen. While trying to make a grand appearance on a horse Cee-Lo Green took a bit of a tumble. As spotted on Page Six the founding member of Goodie MoB was apparently doing the most at a recent tribute for Shawty Lo. On Wednesday, March

Lloyd Banks connects with Method Man on their new collaboration, “101 Razors”. Over V Don’s eerie production, the Punch Line King and Johnny Blaze bring their top-notch rhymes and their keen delivery. “Killer before the shine, I came up, that nigga / I’m born to rhyme, make more, the corporate line / These chumps operating

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty First, let me just say Joseph Foreman aka Afroman is still HILARIOUS! Last August, the “Because I Got High” rapper’s Adams County, Ohio, home was raided by deputies and other officers with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, who were armed when they executed a search warrant for

Lola Brooke revisits her break-out hit “Don’t Play With It” with the remix featuring Latto and Yung Miami. It comes alongside a music video directed by Starr Mazi. For the revamp version of the Dizzy Banko-produced track, the rising Brooklyn rapper keeps it gritty on her opening lines. “I just want a roughneck nigga on

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Jonathan Majors, one of Hollywood’s hottest stars at the moment, was arrested Saturday night (May 25) in New York on assault and other charges in the wake of a reported domestic dispute. As news of the arrest went wide, many on social media came forth adding to the allegations of abuse

E-40’s all about the “Bands” on his brand new single. Directed by Jae Synth, the accompanying music video finds the Vallejo, California legend rapping his love for money at Grambling State University. “Ladies like the way I play the field / They love my personality, I’m real,” he raps along with the school band. “Suckers

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Twitter Elon Musk’s mission to make Twitter hot garbage continues. Twitter, well, Elon Musk’s version of the app is now “winding down” its “legacy verified program and is giving people until April 1 to subscribe to Twitter Blue or risk losing their blue checkmark. The announcement of

TDE’s Ray Vaughn continues his momentum with the release of “Plot Twist” featuring London Monet. Anchored by Vinylz’s soulful production and a hook from songstress London Monet, the Long Beach rapper spews introspective bars referencing is success and life’s most valuable lessons. “Plot Twist” is the follow-up to Ray Vaughn’s previous “Sandcastles” with labelmate Ab-Soul.

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Newsday LLC / Getty / Frontier Airlines Another day, another passenger acting the hell up on an airplane. As seen on the New York Post’s website, a woman had to be dragged off an airplane by four cops by her limbs after threatening physical harm to another passenger and trying to

IDK is on top of his game in the video to his new single, “850 (We On Top” featuring Rich The Kid. In the clip, the pair deliver their braggadocious bars while cruising the city in a drop before linking up in a warehouse. “The watch is one of one, it came from Paris, it