HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amazon / Amazon Representatives for YEEZY and YZY GAP are clearing the air on questions and confusion regarding what’s being done with the proceeds earned by the live-streamed “Free Larry Hoover” benefit concert put on in Los Angeles by hitmakers and beef squashers Drake and Kanye West. As previously reported, last week’s concert was named for Larry Hoover, the former Chicago gang leader and Gangster Disciples founder who is serving multiple life sentences in Colorado after being convicted of murder in 1973. The feds have gone full anti-Black ops in expressing their displeasure with Hoover being celebrated, but many prison reform advocates believed he isn’t the same man he was when he went inside and that his sentence was harsher than it should have ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty It looks like Kim Kardashian is over it. The reality star has filed paperwork to become legally single, even after Kanye West used his massive platform to beg for her to come back, repeatedly. Should anyone be surprised considering she was the one who filed for divorce, though? And you know it’s real since she’s reportedly going to formally drop “West” from her name. Reports TMZ: Related Stories Kim filed legal docs Friday … which if signed off by a judge, will make her officially single. She’s essentially asking the judge to separate issues of child custody and property from marital status. Kim is also asking that her maiden name be restored … aka, drop the “West.” It’s interesting … Kim’s lawyer is disso queen Laura Wasser, who has f...
HipHopWired Featured Video 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 the way. Since his arrest for a murder, Hoover claims he is reformed, and many think his sentence is OD. But the Ops are annoyed because they think the OG shouldn’t be anyone’s inspiration. Reports TMZ: Related Stories One federal law enforcement source — who is connected to Hoover’s case — tells TMZ … prosecutors are “surprised” to see Drizzy and Ye throwing so much support behind the #FreeLarryHoover movement, considering the facts of his case. For those not in the know … Hoover was convicte...
Kanye West‘s 2016 album The Life of Pablo was a transformative moment for one of the world’s most visionary rappers, and now an unreleased outro called “Can U Be/Forever Mitus” is being sold as an NFT. Held by Keyon Christ, who was ‘Ye’s producer at the time, the “2044: The Lost Kanye Files” NFT presents a song that has been lost in the deepest realms of the Internet. Previously debuted at a secret listening party, the track has been widely unheard and is incredibly hard to find in high-quality online — until now. Speaking on the NFT, Christ says, “Releasing this highly-coveted leak will serve as the generational foundation to fearlessly unveil the future of music in Web 3.0.” He adds, “Rules will be broken, risks will be taken.” The song itself never featured on TLOP because of Southside...