The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Megan Thee Stallion, Tyler The Creator, and Leikeli47. What a busy week! While the year might be wrapping up soon, it looks like hip-hop is sending 2024 out with a bang. Just days after announcing the impending release of his new album, Chromakopia, […]
Matthew Perry’s family is speaking out nearly a year after his death. Perry’s stepfather, Dateline NBC correspondent Keith Morrison, and sister Caitlin spoke with HELLO! Canada to reflect on their grief and their efforts to continue his legacy and the creation of the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada. Per the organization’s official website, the foundation […]
Donald Trump’s history of sexual misconduct is once again being spotlighted, this time through a full-page ad in The New York Times organized by the “Survivors for Kamala” coalition. This group, composed of over 200 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, along with their allies—including celebrities, advocates, and seven of Trump’s accusers—came together to endorse […]
There are five categories devoted to R&B nestled in the R&B, rap and spoken poetry field at the 67th annual Grammy Awards. Yesterday, we previewed three of them — best R&B performance, best R&B song and best traditional R&B performance. Today, we preview the other two — best R&B album and best progressive R&B album. […]
Tha God Fahim still dumpin’ with his 24th LP. Starting as an affiliate of Griselda Records as well as being 1/3 of the Dump Gawds alongside Mach-Hommy & Your Old Droog, we also can’t ignore the massive discography that he’s managed to build for himself, some of the standouts include Breaking Through tha Van Allen Belts & Dump Assassins. But dude has been […]
Hit-Boy shared the unfortunate news yesterday (Oct. 23) that his father Big Hit is back in prison. The producer posted a video of Big Hit speaking from a jail phone and sharing appreciation for his fans. “It’s free Big Hit, my n—a,” he said. “You know what I’m saying, I f—k with my real fans, […]
Eminem took the stage at Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s Detroit rally ahead of the 2024 presidential election next month on Tuesday and it was quite a moment. The Detroit rapper introduced Obama at the event, telling the cheering crowd, “I’m here tonight for a couple of reasons. As most of you know, the city […]
Given that Rihanna is a massive global star, she’s collaborated with so many people at this point in her music career. That said, it’s been nearly a decade since her latest album, 2016’s Anti, and since then, a whole generation of music stars has emerged. One of these new icons has caught Rihanna’s eye: Billie […]
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Big Hit, the father of prolific producer and rapper Hit-Boy, was released from prison in May of last year and promptly dropped his debut album helmed by his son. According to a post on Instagram, it appears that Big Hit is back behind bars but Hit-Boy says that his father recorded […]
While Travis Scott and Live Nation are slowly getting out of the woods when it comes to the Astroworld Festival tragedy in 2021, things aren’t over. In case you didn’t know, the concert series resulted in ten dead and hundreds injured following a catastrophic crowd crush during Scott’s headlining set, prompting investigations and hundreds of […]
