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Rolling Loud Miami Founder Retracts Statement That Travis Scott Wasn’t Allowed To Perform
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty Rolling Loud Miami has a new headliner but even that came with a bit of drama. The CEO has retracted a statement saying Travis Scott wasn’t allowed at the venue due to the Astroworld tragedy. As per TMZ Tariq Cherif had a bit of explaining to do. Originally Kanye West was scheduled to headline Friday, July 22 but it was announced last weekend he had withdrawn from the bill. The music executive revealed that he tried his best to get the “All of the Lights” rapper to honor the booking but he wasn’t successful. “Tried to convince Ye to stay on the lineup but he wasn’t having it” he wrote in a since deleted comment. Naturally the news took many fans and ticketholders by surprise and the requests for another big name performer to r...
Kid Cudi Replaces Old Friend Kanye West As Headliner For Rolling Loud Miami
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rolling Loud / Rolling Loud Kid Cudi isn’t currently on the friendliest terms with Kanye West so best believe he’ll have no problem replacing him at the upcoming Rolling Loud Festival in Miami. The Man On The Moon artist has been tapped to take on the vacant spot that Kanye West left behind after backing out of his scheduled performance at the July 17th event. Naturally Kanye decided to pull out of the concert just days before it was set to go down, but luckily for the Rolling Loud people, Cudi came to the rescue and will fill that spot on short notice. Related Stories “We were looking forward to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022. We spent months working with him and his team on the performance. Unfortunately, Ye has decided that he will no longer be ...
Gap Money?: Kanye West Sued By Company Saying He Fleeced Them For $7.1M On Canceled Coachella Gig, Other Shows
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Kanye West seems to keep his lawyers busier than his accountants. The multi-hyphenate artist now known as Ye is being sued by Phantom Labs for a little over $7 million for what it says are payments he never delivered. According to TMZ, Phantom Labs is claiming it worked on numerous projects for Yeezy between June 2021 and March 2022, including Sunday Service dates, listening sessions for his DONDA 2 project and his canceled 2022 Coachella performance, amongst others. Related Stories However, Phantom claims that although Ye was initially good about making his payments on time, by February 2022, they were still owed over a cool $6 million. The lawsuit claims Ye told them he would get them their dough with the money he was set to make—re...
Cardi B Sports Call Of Duty Necklace In “Hot Sh*t” Video ft. Lil Durk & Kanye West
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cardi B / Youtube Who knew Cardi B was a gamer? Well, she probably isn’t but that’s not keeping her from rocking a one-of-a-kind Call of Duty Ghost Necklace in her latest visuals to “Hot Sh*t.” Designed by Omar The Jeweler, the piece was made specifically for Cardi in this video. As to whether or not she actually partakes in the popular game at home or online is anyone’s guess but the joint looks hella official. Y’all know gamers who balling gonna follow suit though. Getting her Matrix on and walking on skyscrapers before letting Lil Durk and Kanye West take over the clip, Cardi B slays it with her next level outfits and presence. For the record, though we think it’s Kanye West in the video, he never shows his face as it’s covered with a wild mask th...
North West Paparazzi Disdain Sparks Debate About Boundaries For Famous Kids
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: – / Getty In a viral moment last week, 9-year-old North West attended the Jean Paul Gaultier show and held up a handwritten sign which read, “Stop,” toward the paparazzi. The moment was one of levity for many, but for others—it highlighted the need for a conversation around respecting the boundaries of children. Even famous ones. Related Stories Her mother, Kim Kardashian, addressed the video with levity saying on Instagram, “For anyone who knows North knows how funny she finds this video! North I guess had it with the people taking pictures of her so she wrote on her invite STOP and held it up and wanted them to just focus on the show.” However, fans have pointed out, per Buzzfeed, that North has long expressed her disdain for the paparazzi and many wond...
Chicago House Music Legend Sues Kanye West Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Legendary house music artist Marshall Jefferson has launched a lawsuit against Kanye West on the basis of alleged copyright infringement. The complaint, filed in New York’s U.S. District Court, alleges West sampled Jefferson’s 1986 song “Move Your Body” without licensed permission. After producing under the alias Virgo, it was the first track of Jefferson’s career he had released under his own name. Billboard reports the lawsuit claims West sampled Jefferson’s song 22 times in “Flowers,” a single from his 11th studio album, Donda 2, which released in February 2022. Unlike its predecessor, Donda 2 was released exclusively on West’s own Stem Player platform. The lawsuit notes that West earned a reported $2.2 million in physical Stem P...
Cardi B Drops New Yet & Lil Durk Assisted “Hot Sh*t”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz What, y’all thought Cardi B was going to let Summer ’22 go by without some new work for her hardcore B-boys and B-girls? With the Hip-Hop world talking about Drake’s recently released album and Beyoncé’s upcoming project, Cardi’s decided to throw out a little something to get some buzz going for herself and with her latest single, “Hot Sh*t,” in which she teams up with Lil Durk and Kanye West to drop bouncy bars over the Tay Keith produced beat. Though the track was originally recorded back in 2019, the track has finally been taking out the vault as Yeezy offered up his services for the track and surprisingly enough didn’t have a Pete Davidson threat or even reference on it. Then again, Ye did say “Pinky swear you ain’t sca...
Watch Kanye West Salute Diddy With Surprise BET Awards Speech
Leave it to Kanye West to upstage pretty much any major music industry event, which he did again last night (June 26) during a Lifetime Achievement award presentation for Sean “Diddy” Combs. West delivered an unannounced five-plus-minute speech at the show while wearing a heavy leather jacket, baseball cap, sunglasses and a black mask covering his entire face, a bizarre look he began sporting in public last year. [embedded content][embedded content] West, who legally changed his name to Ye last year, mentioned Combs’ penchant for altering his nom de plume and saluted his influence on his own music. He recalled being present while Combs filmed the video for his hit 1997 song “I’ll Be Missing You” and said Combs was his “favorite artist at the time.” “Back then, there was so many rules to hi...
Hot As Hell Kanye West Make Surprise Appearance At 2022 BET Awards For Diddy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty Kanye West was the hottest rapper in the building at Sunday evening’s (June 26) BET Awards. Wearing a jacket, full face mask, dad hat and sunglasses, despite it being 80 degrees in Los Angeles, Ye was on stage to present Sean “Diddy” Combs with his BET Lifetime Achievement Award. But while making sure to give the man formerly known as Puff Daddy (he started by asking, “How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings?,”), you knew Yeezy had to make it about himself, at least for a bit, along with some head-scratching commentary. “To see Puff in real life at the ‘Missing You’ video, just like me tapping free like a little kid… I just need to meet this man,” said Ye. “This is my favorite artist. You see I’m saying favorite artist, ev...
Kanye West’s Former Publicist Trevian Kutti Called To Testify Georgia Election Meddling Probe
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Daniel Zuchnik / Getty Trevian Kutti, a former publicist for Kanye West and R. Kelly, now finds herself in the middle of an explosive matter unfolding in Georgia. Kutti has been called to testify in an election meddling probe in the state after the publicist threatened a worker to admit falsely that voting results were tampered with in support of Donald Trump. CNN reported on Georgia investigators calling on Kutti to testify in the probe on June 14, but the matter resurfaced on Twitter after Joy Reid mentioned the matter on The Reid Out show. Ruby Freeman was cornered by Kutti, who referred to the election worker as a “loose end for a party that needs to tidy up” and that she would face legal ramifications if she didn’t say that the voting process i...
Kanye West Calls Out adidas CEO For Biting Yeezy Slides Design
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production / Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production To The US A few weeks ago adidas unveiled their latest slipper silhouette dubbed the Adilette 22 slide. While many immediately compared the model to the Yeezy Slides, everyone figured Kanye had given the three-stripe brand his blessings to recreate his original vision. He did not. On Monday (June 13), Kanye West took to social media to chime in on the Adilette 22’s and evidently called out adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted for biting his design without his consent or insight and putting it out there for public consumption. In a IG post, Kanye vented his anger about the “blatant copying” that goes on in the sneaker culture a...
Ye Gets Around: Kanye West Spotted With Model Monica Corgan
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Monica Corgan rumored to be dating Kanye West / @monicac0rgan Kanye West lives his love life out loud much like how he approaches his creative endeavors, and it appears he’s moving on yet again. After rumors of splitting with model Chaney Jones, Ye was spotted on a movie date with model Monica Corgan. Monica Corgan, Mystery Woman Instagram user @mottafied snapped a discreet shot of Kanye and Corgan during a showing of Top Gun: Maverick, presumably somewhere in Los Angeles. A quick scan of Corgan’s Instagram page revealed that she definitely was at the movies earlier this week but it isn’t known if that moment was from the same day. Not a lot is known about Monica Corgan but what we found is that she’s 23 years old and has a moderately buzzing Instag...
