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HHW Gaming: Pedro Pascal Will Play Joel In HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Series
Source: Rich Fury / Getty Pedro Pascal just landed another new gig to shine in. Deadline is exclusively reporting that Pascal will take on the lead role in HBO’s forthcoming adaption of the critically acclaimed PlayStation game, The Last of Us, by playing Joel. The news of Pascal’s casting comes on the heels of his The Mandalorian co-star Gina Carano got canned for being a bigot on social media. Pascal is no stranger to the cable network gaining popularity for his role as Oberyn Martell in the hit show Game of Thrones. The Last of Us HBO series will be directly based on the PlayStation exclusive game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog studios. The world is ravaged by a very severe brain infection that originates from a mystery fungus. The game opens up with Joel (Pascal), a single d...
The Jamaican Jig?: Safaree Is Accused Of Scamming A Rapper For $1K
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Covid-19 has taken away a lot streams of revenue from musicians. One rapper is claiming he got finessed by your favorite fur coat wearing bike enthusiast. As spotted on Hot New Hip-Hop The Breakfast Club recently had an in depth conversation about the recent news where it is alleged that Kevin Hart’s personal shopper helped himself to millions of dollars worth of luxury items. During the discussion the crew also discussed a recent story where an emerging rapper claims he got taken for a thousand dollars by struggle rapper turned reality television star Safaree. The man gave an explanation of how he got finessed. “This how he got me. He hit me up first actually on Instagram,” he said. “He was like, ‘Yo, your track is hot.’ This a big producer… ...
Al Sharpton Files For Divorce After Being Separated From Wife For 16 Years
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Al Sharpton has finally said he is going to head out. After much delay he is formally dissolving his holy union. As spotted on TMZ the famous reverend has filed for divorce from his wife of almost 40 years; well on paper. The two have been estranged from each other since 2004 but the outspoken media personality finally took the proper steps to legally terminate any connections to her. Apparently, the New York City native submitted the paperwork on Thursday, February 11. This is not the first time the activist has made the news due to his love life or lack thereof. In July 2013 The Daily News reported that the activist started allegedly dating fashion stylist Aisha McShaw while still married to his second wife Marsha Tinsley. That marriage lasted under a ...
Issa Rae Launching ‘RAP SH*T’ HBO Max Series, City Girls Co-Exec Producers
Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty HBO Max has been making some epic moves in the content wars and once again, they’ve scored what could be a major hit. The streamer has just announced a new series tentatively titled RAP SH*T with Issa Rae named as the lead executive producer with co-executive producing credits for JT and Yung Miami of the City Girls. The announcement shares that along with the aforementioned Rae and City Girls, writer Syreeta Singleton will serve as the executive producer and showrunner for the eight-show series. The logline reads, “RAP SH*T (wt) follows two estranged high school friends from Miami who reunite to form a rap group,” which, to us, reads like the City Girls are a possible influence on the story. Montrel McKay, who worked on A Black Lady Sketch Show and Road Tripp...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH Playlist 2.12.21 [Listen]
Source: JuiceBros / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH playlist opens with “What It Feels Like” featuring the late, great Nipsey Hussle and JAY-Z for the Judas & The Black Messiah soundtrack. Over some beautiful production from the production collective 1500 Or Nothin’, Neighborhood Nip and Hov sound amazing together, and their themes of Black empowerment sound even harder with the backdrop of the film along with the legacy of slain Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton, Sr. The soundtrack wave is u...
Personal Shopper For Kevin Hart Charged After $1M Credit Card Swindle
Source: NBC / Getty Kevin Hart is back in the news and not for his own legal woes, but this time those of someone who was once in his inner circle. A personal shopper hired by Hart racked up over $1 million in credit charges and was charged today in New York. In a press announcement from Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz, 29-year-old Dylan Jason Syer of Long Island City in Queens was indicted and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on grand larceny and related charges. Between October 2017 and February 2019, Syer made a number of fraudulent charges for personal gain while still performing the duties he was hired for by Hart. Syer was the owner of the Sire Consulting, LLC personal shopping business. “No one is immune to being targeted by fraudsters. This defendant, who owned a pers...
Democrats Reveal Eugene Goodman Saved Sen. Mitt Romney From Trump Insurrectionists
Source: Pool / Getty In the days following the infamous and treasonous insurrection that Donald Trump incited on January 6th, America learned they had a new hero and true patriot in officer Eugene Goodman. Originally believed to have been running for his life from insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol and tried to hijack democracy from America, Goodman was actually leading them away from the senate chamber where our elected officials were sitting ducks for a murderous Trump mob. Now it’s been revealed that Goodman actually saved the life of Utah Senator Mitt Romney before he originally faced off with rioters at the Capitol. BuzzfeedNews is reporting that during the 2nd impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Democrats shared never-before-seen footage of the riot and in one of the video...
Michelle Obama Announces Children’s Cooking Show Set To Debut On Netfliix
Source: Netflix / Netflix Michelle Obama has always been passionate about ensuring kids eat quality and healthy meals and now she’s bringing that passion to Netflix. According to the announcement, our forever First Lady is launching her new children’s show, “Waffles + Mochi,” to Netflix this spring and it stars a couple of adorable puppets — and one very familiar face–her’s. Sharing the news via an announcement via Instagram, Michelle Obama revealed that she will be prominently featured in the upcoming food-themed adventure series alongside her puppet friends, Waffles, who is a blue puppet with her namesake breakfast sticking out of fuzzy white hair, and her pal Mochi is a smiling little pink rice cake; who go on adventures to cook and try new food. “I’ve got some big news for you! This is...
Need More People: Lil Uzi Vert Says Jay-Z Compared Him To Prince
Source: Prince Williams / Getty One of Rap’s most polarizing personas is about to get even higher on his high horse. The man who has recently affixed an ornament to his face was just given a gem of a compliment from one of the greatest. As spotted on Complex Lil Uzi Vert shared a very interesting moment from his recent travels. On Tuesday, February 9 he tweeted that he received a very big, scratch that HUGE, compliment from none other than Jay-Z. “OG and Hov said I’m Like Prince ..so I’m Lil Prince now” he wrote. Naturally the reveal soon went viral with his fans echoing the sentiment and others denying that the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native could ever hold a candle to The Purple One. OG and Hov said I’m Like Prince ..so I’m Lil Prince now ☔️🦇 — Uzi Lon...
Transracial Trickster Rachel Dolezal Can’t Find A Job After Lying About Being Openly Black
Source: Ray Tamarra / Getty Rachel Dolezal’s life has been in shambles ever since she was exposed of living as a white woman while pretending to be openly Black. It turns out that being transracial doesn’t pay the bills. These days she’s a social pariah who hasn’t held a job in six years. “I started with applying for all of the things I was qualified for, and after interviews and getting turned down, I even applied to jobs that didn’t even require degrees,” she revealed in an interview on Tamon Hall’s show, spotted by HotNewHipHop. Jobs like “being a maid at a hotel, working at a casino. I wasn’t able to get any of those jobs either.” In 2015, Dolezal lived in Spokane, Washington, working as a professor of Africana studies at Eastern Washington University wh...
Phife Dawg Drops New Posthumous Single “Nutshell Pt. 2”
Source: Al Pereira / Getty It’s going on five years since the culture lost the legendary MC Phife Dawg from the iconic Hip-Hop group A Tribe Called Quest (still one of the hardest group names in music, ever). And though the 5-Foot Assassin isn’t here in the physicla, his legacy is still revered, respected and remembered in the fondest of ways. Though many thought we heard the last of his work in the 2016 Tribe Called Quest album We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, in 2021 we’re getting some more lyrical bombardment from the Malik The Five-Foot Freak via a new solo album, Forever. Though details about Phife’s upcoming LP are being held close to the chest, for now, fans are now getting blessed with the first single off the upcoming project which features two of his triple-OG rap p...
Boy If You Don’t Getcho: Black GOP Candidate with Pushed Back Hairline Announces Mission To End Black History Month
Source: Austin for Governor / Austin for Governor As we approach the midway point of Black History Month, an upcoming Black GOP candidate running for Governor is calling for the necessary month to be celebrated no more. According to the official Instagram page of Michigan businessman and “deeply conservative” Governor candidate, Austin Chenge, part of his mission if elected is to “cancel Black History Month” because it’s “offensive” to non-Black students. “I will cancel #BlackHistoryMonth in #Michigan. It’s offensive, unfair, maybe illegal,” the emboldened yet confused candidate wrote. “Americans from all backgrounds deserve a revered history. I’ll declare American History Month.” Other problematic action items on Chenge’s political agenda include removing the accountable Dominion voting s...
