HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @50Cent / Instagram For years now 50 Cent has established himself as a respectable TV producer/actor with hits like Power and well, the Power spinoffs, but now the G-Unit general is ready to tackle the horror genre and show the world how scary he can get with it. Recently we got our first teaser trailer to Skill House which centers around a group of social media influencers who find themselves trapped in a house where getting “Likes” on social media is the only thing that can keep them alive. Anyone who doesn’t keep their followers satisfied with their posts or isn’t on or near their phone at all times will ultimately find themselves getting hacked to death one way or another. Related Stories Directed by Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw) and produced by 50 Cent, Ski...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz 50 Cent is taking his talents to the podcast game. Lionsgate Entertainment is launching a new division and have signed him up to be one of the their celebrity talents. As per Deadline the Southside, Queens rapper will be hosting his own audio show as the newest face of Lionsgate entry to the surging category. Curtis will curate the Cuate/twin/: the downfall of El Chapo (working title) which will detail how Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera AKA El Chapo was finally taken down. “Speaking publicly for the first time ever, Chicago-born identical twins Peter and Jay Flores will take listeners on a journey through their meteoric rise to becoming two of the biggest drug traffickers in America,” the overview reads. Rel...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz It seems 50 Cent’s plant based beef with Lala Kent is a thing of the past. The reality television star and the rapper have been spotted being super friendly this week. As per TMZ the Vanderpump Rules star has no issues with the “I Get Money” rapper. Fif is currently shooting his horror film in Los Angeles and Kent has pulled up on him several times to show some love. On Monday, August 1 they posed for photographs and made it clear they are very chummy with Curtis planting a kiss on her cheek while hugging her. For those unaware the two celebrities had a very high profile spat online when she was still dating her ex-fiancé Randall Emmett back in 2019. 50 claimed he owed him $1 million dollars and used a clip of her from the ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty The legal and financial dispute between 50 Cent and former G-Unit rapper Young Buck is still going on. If you’re unfamiliar with the dispute, Buck has claimed that he had to file bankruptcy multiple times due to Fif’s business practices and, for the most part, 50 has responded by being petty and ridiculing Buck and implying that he’s homosexual. “Once he stopped me from being able to make money, I filed another bankruptcy,” Buck said of 50, as we previously reported. “They stopped him from being able to cease-and-desist in regards to me being able to, you know… I included what he claimed that I owed him in the bankruptcy to be able to say, ‘Well hey, if you’re owed this and present whatever receipts or whatever… You will be paid ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Looks like 50 Cent’s Snoop Dogg series, A Moment In Time: Murder Was The Case is no longer going to be going into production and Curtis isn’t too happy about STARZ pulling the plug on his idea. Taking to social media to break the news and vent his frustration, 50 wrote “Murder was the case is no longer in production at STARZ. I give them the alley-top, they drop the damn ball.” As successful as 50’s been over at STARZ, he’s never been shy about calling them out whenever they do something he doesn’t agree with. Can’t be mad at that at all. Related Stories A few months ago 50 announced that he and STARZ would be producing a mini-series around Snoop Dogg’s famous 1993 murder trial in which Snoop Dogg found himself fighting for...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The struggle continues for Benzino with no foreseeable end in sight. He has responded to 50 Cent after the king of petty put his alleged romantic dealings with a transgender individual. As per Complex the Boston, Massachusetts native had a lot to say when he spoke on his latest snafu. Last week footage of Shauna Brooks talking to The Almighty RSO member about their supposed romantic dealings leaked online. The actress and model is an admitted transgender woman so naturally the clip quickly went viral online. This landed on 50 Cent’s petty radar and he posted it on his Instagram account. “LOL OH MY GOD , THIS IS GUY IS CRAZY. @iambenzino” he wrote. Related Stories Benzino joined QueenzFlip on The QuietRoom to discuss this inciden...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz There seems to be no end to 50 Cent’s pettiness. All signs are pointing to him alleging that Young Buck is gay in a new social media post. As per TMZ the spat between the G-Unit Records founder and his former artist rages on. Earlier this week the “Stomp” rapper spoke on his longstanding issues with Curtis on the most recent episode of It’s Tricky With Raquel Harper; specifically him having to file for bankruptcy for a second time because of 50 Cent. It seems the interview landed on Jackson’s radar. On Wednesday, April 13 Fif shared footage of what seems to be a trans woman speaking about her romantic affairs with Benzino. He took the opportunity to slight both Benzino and Buck in the caption. “Young Buck, Benzino...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty The bad fortune continues for Young Buck. He claims that 50 Cent’s lack of compassion has forced him to file bankruptcy. As spotted on TMZ the Nashville, Tennessee talent said he had file chapter 13 so he could cancel any business ties to his former record label CEO. Recently the man born David Darnell Brown recently participated an interview with It’s Tricky With Raquel Harper podcast. During the virtual Q&A he basically revealed that his hands were handcuffed when it comes to releasing new projects. According to his original contract with G-Unit he owes 50 Cent one more album but has been unable to fulfill his obligations. Related Stories “We at a standstill, I’m definitely not looking to go down a whole long drawn-out...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty Remember when 50 Cent got attention because of his bars and beats? That’s still in the past but he was sure to comment on Will Smith’s now infamous slap to the jaw of Chris Rock during Sunday night’s (March 27) Oscars telecast. Apparently, Ferrari considered the ramifications and staging of the incident, the Oscars with the entire world watching, as the best and most opportune moment to smack people he may have issues with. “You have to win Oscars to do this kinda sh*t. after i win i’m gonna slap the sh*t out of a few people. LOL,” was Fif’s caption of a photo of a teary-eyed Smith’s acceptance speech after winning Best Actor in a Male Leading Role category. Just 50 Cent getting his troll on, which is on brand. He’s also running r...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Is 50 Cent really going to leave Starz and take all his hit shows with him this time? Or is he once again trolling? The G-Unit general and social media troll is fed up with the television home of his “drug dealing cinematic universe,” better known as the Power Universe, and is allegedly leaving. Taking to Instagram, the Queens rapper shared a gif of a man packing a suitcase voice his displeasure with Starz for renewing High Town, but not Power Book IV: Force, despite it being the highest-rated show on the network. Related Stories “This is me packing my stuff, STARZ 😵🍆Sucks, my deal is up over here I’m out,” the “Wanksta” rapper writes. “They Renewed High town and FORCE is the highest rated show they have it sitting i...
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HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Curtis 50 Cent Jackson’s television empire continues to expand with the help of Mona Scott-Young. Per Deadline, 50 Cent’s G-Unit Television is teaming up with Mona Scott-Young, and her Monami Productions tentpole plus Lionsgate Television for a new unscripted series for WEtv called Hip-Hop Homicides. Former TMZ personality Van Lathan will host the show. It will shine a light on the “staggering number of unsolved murders in the hip-hop community in an attempt to uncover details of what really happened,” the website reports. The series will be broken up into eight parts and will also air on AMC Networks steaming service ALLBLK as well as WEtv. Scott-Young’s Monami Productions will tackle physical production, while...