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J. Cole Announces The 2024 Dreamville Festival
One of the culture’s most beloved outings is set to come back in 2024.
J. Cole & Usher Headline Dreamville Festival 2023, Drake Is The +1
Live Nation and Dreamville announced that J. Cole and Usher will be headlining the Dreamville Festival 2023, with Drake as a special guest. The post J. Cole & Usher Headline Dreamville Festival 2023, Drake Is The +1 appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Return Of The Dreamers: Dreamville Festival Is Coming Back For 2023
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Greg Noire / Dreamville Festival Dreamville Festival, one of the premier music festivals in the states, will bring elite talent back to its stages in April of next year. Under the guidance of Dreamville Records honcho J. Cole, Dreamville Festival will raise its flag in the city of Raleigh, N.C. in what is sure to be another can’t-miss event from the Dreamers and their cohorts. Hip-Hop Wired was in attendance for the first Dreamville Festival in 2019, which featured the aforementioned J. Cole, J.I.D., Bas, Ari Lennox, EarthGang, and 21 Savage among others. On April 1-2, 2023, Raleigh will once again host the fest at the spacious Dorothea Dix Park in North Carolina for two days of good music, good energy, and positive vibes. “Dreamville Festival wants to ke...
Racist North Carolina Sheriff Resigns During Removal Hearing
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sara D. Davis / Getty A Columbus County, North Carolina, sheriff—who was caught on tape saying he’s “sick of these Black bastards,” in reference to Black law enforcement officials (among a slew of other blatantly racist statements)—resigned from his job during a hearing that would have decided whether he was going to get the boot anyway. According to WECT, now-former Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene—the racist cop who ironically has one of the Blackest names ever—submitted his resignation in a county courtroom during the hearing, right before the first witness was set to be called. It’s almost as if the KKKop decided to take his spare noose and go home before people started taking the stand to testify about how he generally said he hated all his Black ...
Entire North Carolina Police Department Resigns After Black Town Manager Hired
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Town of Kenly / Town of Kenly Was the new boss really that bad? An entire North Carolina police department handed in their resignations, citing a “hostile environment” after a new town manager was hired. It just so happens that the new town manager is a Black woman. The town has two weeks to lock in another police force. Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson made the announcement via Facebook on Thursday July 20. “The new manager has created an environment I do not feel we can perform our duties and services to the community,” wrote Gibson about new town manager Justine Jones. WRAL reports that Gibson and his full time officers resigned, leaving three part-time officers in Kenly PD to serve about 2000 people. Reportedly, nearby Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizz...
DaBaby Will Not Face Criminal Charges For Shooting Home Intruder
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SMG John Paul Jones Arena / SMG John Paul Jones Arena After 12 months of incidents and controversy DaBaby is finally getting some good news. He will not have to face charges for shooting an intruder at his home. As per Page Six the “Suge” rapper won’t be in hot water for using a firearm on an individual who unlawfully trespassed at his North Carolina estate. On Thursday, May 5 the Troutman Police Department released a statement confirming that the case is “complete and close”. “Investigators have consulted with the Iredell County District Attorney’s Office and there will be no criminal charges filed at this time,” the release reads. Related Stories Local authorities say “Officers arrived on scene where they found one subject suffering from a non-life thre...
Here We Go Again!: NC School Under Fire Following Mock Slavery Auction Where Black Students Were ‘Sold’ By White Students
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JS Waters School / J.S. Waters School What is it about schools, white people and slavery reenactments? One would think that all the news stories about students getting in trouble for their Snapchat slavery auctions and racist prom-posals—or teachers getting fired or suspended for slavery activities—would deter all of these people and their return-to-Roots wet dreams from continuing to trivialize chattel slavery by reenacting Black oppression. And yet here we are—again. According to the Charlotte News & Observer, the Chatham County school system in North Carolina has some ‘splaining to do after it was revealed that students engaged in a mock slavery action during which Black students were “sold” by white students as staff members watche...
City Of Winston-Salem Sued For Cancelling Hip-Hop Festival Due To “Possible Violence”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: DenisTangneyJr / Getty The Tar Heel State may have to cut a check for fronting on Hip-Hop. A promoter has hit the City Of Winston-Salem with a lawsuit after officials cancelled a concert that they deemed may come with violence. As spotted on Complex the city representatives have a lot of explaining to do and will have to do it formally in front of a judge. The Carolina Summers Music Fest was set to be hosted in Winston-Salem on Saturday, July 31 but the event was cancelled. According to W12 News representatives contacted Starr Entertainment, the organizers, saying that they were worried that the talent might be the reason for violence to occuring. The local police authorities also conducted their own private homework on Moneybagg Yo, Pooh Shiesty, Bi...
Juul to pay US state $40 million for targeting teens with e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc will pay $40m to North Carolina and take more action to prevent underage use and sales, according to a landmark United States legal settlement announced on Monday after years of accusations that the company had fueled an explosion in teen vaping. A state judge accepted the first-of-its-kind agreement with a US state. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein had sued Juul, accusing it of employing unfair and deceptive marketing practices that targeted young people to use its vaping products, which deliver addictive nicotine. As part of the agreement, Juul will not advertise to anyone under 21 in North Carolina and will limit sales amounts of Juul products online to any state residents. It will also sell its products only behind counters at retailer...
Annual Durag Fest Continues To Celebrate Black Culture Despite Rapid Decline In Allyship
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Andrew Milligan – PA Images / Getty One year after Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, public interest in social injustice and awareness has significantly waned like a fad. It’s as if white allyship ran in tandem with the short but highly saturated news cycle of Black tragedy positioned across television screens and the front pages of newspapers. However, that hasn’t stop organizers like Dammit Wesley, one of the co-founders of the Durag Fest in North Carolina, from curating Black events to keep the proverbial torch burning. In a report by Blavity, Dammit shares his struggles of bringing the annual festival to life in Charlotte, where it has traditionally white-washed the presence of a “very Black city.” The event commemorates Juneteenth, ...
Black Councilman Catches Cop Urinating On Property After Calling Out Police Killings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty The police shooting incident which left Black North Carolina man Andrew Brown Jr. dead has raised tensions across the state, leading to a heinous act from authorities sworn to protect citizens. A Black councilman in the state has video footage of a police officer urinating on his funeral home property after speaking out against police who shot and killed Brown. As reported by local publication The Herald, Councilman Gabriel Adkins says that he has surveillance video footage of Pasquotank County deputy relieving himself at his funeral home property and alleges that the act was in retaliation for his outspoken views regarding the April shooting of Brown. It isn’t immediately clear from the report if it was one or more deputies who too...
US election: Republicans hold back Democrats, narrowing path to Senate control
The battle for power in the Senate tightened into Wednesday as Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama, and Republicans held their own in high-profile races in South Carolina, Iowa, Texas and Kansas, dramatically narrowing the political map. Republicans fought to retain their Senate majority by turning back a surge of Democrats challenging allies of President Donald Trump, and the Democrats’ various paths to seizing control were growing more limited. With several contests still too early to call, and one Georgia race heading to a January runoff, the final verdict is expected to drag on. Democrats gained a seat when ex-Gov. John Hickenlooper ousted GOP Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado, a must-win to flip the Senate, but couldn’t hold on in Alabama, where forme...
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