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The Internet Is Being Weird Again: Jaden Smith Shuts Down Social Media Rumor That He’s Currently Dead
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jon Kopaloff / Getty There’s a reason why whenever a celebrity’s death is announced via social media, the first round of reactions includes people praying it’s all a hoax or that some internet reporter simply got it wrong and others ran with it—sometimes, that’s exactly what happens. Jaden Smith is not dead, y’all. According to The U.S. Sun, On Wednesday, a TikToker claimed the 23-year-old son of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith had passed away and because rumors spread far and wide like viruses during global pandemics, a lot of people believed it. From the Sun: Fans flooded Twitter, Instagram and TikTok with their concern, with some asking if the rumors were true and others taking them as fact. “RIP Jaden!” one fan tweeted, while another asked, “Why am I...
The Internet Is Being Weird Again: Jaden Smith Shuts Down Social Media Rumor That He’s Currently Dead
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jon Kopaloff / Getty There’s a reason why whenever a celebrity’s death is announced via social media, the first round of reactions includes people praying it’s all a hoax or that some internet reporter simply got it wrong and others ran with it—sometimes, that’s exactly what happens. Jaden Smith is not dead, y’all. According to The U.S. Sun, On Wednesday, a TikToker claimed the 23-year-old son of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith had passed away and because rumors spread far and wide like viruses during global pandemics, a lot of people believed it. From the Sun: Fans flooded Twitter, Instagram and TikTok with their concern, with some asking if the rumors were true and others taking them as fact. “RIP Jaden!” one fan tweeted, while another asked, “Why am I...
PUMA & DC Comics Collab For ‘The Batman’ Capsule Collection
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Puma / PUMA Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated The Batman starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader is only a week away from hitting theaters and to amp up the latest reboot, PUMA and DC Comics have come together to release a Batman themed sneaker for fan boys/sneakerheads who live and breathe the Dark Knight. Source: Puma / PUMA Puma has locked in with DC Comics to release a limited edition capsule collection themed around Reeves’ latest The Batman film with the attire being draped mostly in black (of course) to represent the dark and gritty atmosphere of Gotham City along with its heroes and villains. Sneakers like the PUMA Suede and an entirely black RS-X silhouette with red accents are set to headline the collection with other kicks getting the Dar...
Jordan Peele’s ‘NOPE’ Trailer Is Here
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / Universal Pictures “What’s a bad miracle?,” asks Daniel Kaluuya’s character in the trailer for Jordan Peele’s latest horror flick, NOPE. Yeah, we’re still sold on this one. Starting with some history of the first moving images being Black history, “Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a Black man on a horse?,” says Keek Palmer’s character—things soon and sure enough go left. Related Stories As in potential aliens, Keke Palmer representing all of us and a kid running for his life only to be jettisoned through the air. Again, we’re sold. NOPE, which also stars Steven Yeun, and is written and directed by Peele, is in theaters July 22, and we can’t wait. Also, the trailer featur...
Kanye West Comes For Kim Kardashian & Pete Davidson In New Song, Wastes Fivio Foreign Bars
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marc Piasecki / Getty Kanye West just can’t let that hurt go. In a newly released song called “City Of God,” featuring Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys, Ye aims some bars at his ex Kim Kardashian and her current boyfriend Pete Davidson. The verse isn’t all about the aforementioned, but he makes sure to mention them. “They act like they love you, they don’t even like you. They throw a party, won’t even invite you, I seen the same thing happen to Michael, you Black and you rich they say that you psycho,” spits Yeezy. He’s clearly referencing the time not too long ago when he took to social media to put Kardashian on blast for not inviting him to his daughter Chicago’s birthday party. Shortly before those bars he also mentioned “100 goons pulling up to SNL,” cl...
Allen Iverson Got Emotional Signing A Picture Of Himself & Kobe Bryant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JEFF HAYNES / Getty We’ve just passed the second anniversary of the tragic passing of NBA icon/legend, Kobe Bryant and while the thought of him not being here still hurts millions of his fans, Allen Iverson also seems to get all the feelings when memories of Kobe are brought up. TMZ is reporting that recently “The Answer” got lowkey emotional when a fan presented him with a picture of AI and Kobe Bryant standing side-by-side at a signing event last weekend. Seemingly surprised that the picture even existed, Allen paused to say “Daaamn! Whose is this? This is yours? After the fan said it was indeed his, Allen bluntly asked “Man, you going to give me one? You got another one for me? Man, I need one of these!” The fan said he had a few in the stash and would...
Rapper Leikeli47 Photographed By Hedi Slimane For Celine
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Kovac / Getty Hedi Slimane must be a Hip-Hop head, with good taste. The renowned fashion designer has photographed Brooklyn rapper Leikeli47 for a series of portraits for Celine. If you’re unfamiliar, Leikeli47, born Hasben Jones, is known for covering her face up with a mask when she performs, but moreso for the sharp bars. She recently dropped a new single called “Chitty Bang,” which was featured on EA Sports’ Madden 22 and an Apple iPhone commercial while her last proper album was 2018’s Acrylic. So props to Hedi Slimane aka the Creative Director of luxury fashion brand Celine, for featuring Leikeli in his latest set of portraits, outfitted in some mean Celine fits, too. Leikeli is seen rocking a Celine bandana scarf, naturally, as well as a tr...
Nike’s NBA All-Star 2022 Uniforms Celebrate NBA’s 75th Anniversary & City of Cleveland
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NIKE / NIke The NBA All-Star starters have been announced, so of course, the uniforms to be donned by your favorite pros have as well. Nike NBA All-Star 2022 uniforms will be performing double duty as they pay homage to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary along with the host city of Cleveland. Source: NIKE / NIke While NIKE, Inc. is holding down the uniforms overall, each of its brands—Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse— will deliver for specific games. Jordan Brand will handle the kits for the NBA All Star Game proper, and its typography is a nod to Cleveland’s bridges and its aesthetics are a tribute to uniforms from the 80’s and 90’s. The silver, blue and red colors are a call out to the NBA logo’s 75th anniversary design. Nike handles the Clorox Rising Stars unif...
Kanye West Says ‘DONDA 2’ Drops In February, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @kanyewest / Instagram Kanye West has been a busy man of late. Along with the media attention-grabbing behavior including his takes on co-parenting and styling his rebound, Ye has been working on DONDA 2, and says it will be out in February. The “Power” rapper took to Instagram to make the announcement. Per Ye, the album will be out on February 2, 2022, and is also being executive produced by star Atlanta rapper Future. This is where we point out that Ye’s career is marked with a bunch of sequel albums that never actually came to fruition including Yeezus 2, Turbo Grafx 16 and Watch the Throne 2. This rather tight timeline also makes you wonder if Ye is going to throw any elaborate listening parties like he did for DONDA. Nevertheless, it wasn’t stopped h...
