HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Future Publishing / Getty As the world is still reeling from the slap that Will Smith delivered to Chris Rock at the Academy Awards last weekend, a newly found video captures Jada Pinkett Smith’s reaction to the incident in real-time. According to reports, a clip…
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Erykah Badu set the stage in the late 1990s as one of the leading voices of her generation, and her sultry vocals and layered lyrics inspired a bevy of artists over the past two decades. In celebration of the 25th anniversary…
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Al Pereira / Getty One of Jay-Z‘s most underrated and overlooked songs is 1997’s “You Must Love Me” in which he revealed that he actually shot his own brother over some jewelry and while we never got a full story behind that scenario, Jaz-O recently…
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: David Livingston / Getty Kanye West and Drake held a whole concert, that streamed on Amazon, in support of Larry Hoover. Needless to say, the Fed ain’t feeling two A-list rappers supporting the founder of the Gangster Disciples, who is serving six life sentences, by…
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Lizzo and Cardi B may easily be the queens of the bad b*tch anthem and a new pairing between the two powerhouses proves that our assessment of their abilities is correct. On Lizzo’s new track “Rumors,” she’s joined by her Bronx…
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty Tupac Shakur, better known by his stage name 2Pac, left the world far too soon at the age of 25 just as he was making considerable shifts as an artist and individual. While it is shocking to ponder that Pac has…
[ArtByShake] With another seven days in the books, we’re catching you up on the best new music with the 237th installment of our Weekly Dope playlist. On the artwork this week, I ran with a healthy mix of Benny the Butcher and Harry Fraud for The Plugs I Met 2, Kota the…