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Foot Locker To Buy WSS and atmos For a Cool $1.1 Billion
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Inc. Foot Locker is extending its reach into the Asia-Pacific and Hispanic market. Today (August 2), the athletic retailer announced it is set to purchase WSS and Atmos for $1.1 billion. Reuters reports that Foot Locker is copping the California-based WSS for $750 million and Japanese retailer atmos for $360 million. The purchase of the latter, a well-regarded streetwear destination, will surely get the sneakerheads talking. “atmos is uniquely positioned through its innovative retail stores, high digital penetration, and distinctive products that have made it a key influencer of youth and sneaker culture,” said Richard A. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Foot Locker in a statement. “With atmos, we are executing against our expansion ...
Biz Markie Funeral Is Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton To Deliver Eulogy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty Hip-Hop is still mourning the loss of Biz Markie, born Marcel Theo Hall. The iconic rapper’s funeral service is set for Monday, August 2, in Long Island and the Reverend Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy. Sharpton and his National Action Network announced details of the Biz’s homegoing on Friday (July 30). The private service will be held at The Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts. Plenty of fellow legends plan to be in attendance. including LL Cool, Fat Joe and his Juice Crew partner in rhyme Big Daddy Kane. Reportedly, there will be a private viewing for family and close friends from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., followed by the proper funeral service from 1:30 p.m, to 3:30 p.m. According to TMZ, the Biz will be dipped in a custom Dap...
The Man Behind the Curtain Uncovered: ‘Loki’ Episode 6 Recap
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ The opening scene of the final episode of Loki’s first season is amazing. It is peppered with various lines of dialogue from previous MCU films spliced in with historical figures such as Nelson Mandela. SPOILERS AHEAD Visually we are in the midst of a universe, then a sun, then possibly a black hole and we pop out seeing what we can only assume to be the flow of the time…The Sacred Timeline. Within all of this is a meteoroid where we center on our Lokis staring at a fortress like castle. Post title card we return to our, heroes? Anti-heroes? Uh, the Loki’s are walking up some stairs to a large door. Sylvie hesitates, hoping that Loki will ask her to temper herself. However, he does not. As she preps to bum rush the show, the door opens on...
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Hypebeast Alert: A New Coach x BAPE Collaboration Is Here [Photos]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Coach / BAPE / Coach / BAPE If you thought monogram season was behind us, think again. Coach has unveiled a new capsule with BAPE. Source: Coach / BAPE / Coach / BAPE As spotted on High Snobiety the American luxury design house is taking things to the streets with their newest drop. Their second collection with the iconic streetwear brand meshes both of their signature marks quite nicely. Celebrating the shared optimistic and authentic attitude of their hometowns, New York and Tokyo, the collection of ready-to-wear, leather goods, footwear and accessories combines BAPE’s authority in streetwear with Coach’s legacy of craftsmanship. To bring the pieces to life Coach has enlisted the talents of Cordae’, Meg Thee Stallion, Michael B. Jordan and Selena G...
Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kimberley French / Sony Pictures Entertainment The latest installment of Ghostbusters was supposed to have hit theaters last summer but like everything else, the pandemic caused those plans to be scraped and canceled. Now that things are getting back to somewhat normal (for now), Ghostbusters: Afterlife has gotten a new release date and a new trailer. The latest 2-minute peek once again introduces us to Egon’s grandchildren, Phoebe (McKenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), who move out to a small town and discover that their dearly departed grandfather was once a legendary ghost hunting scientist who saved the world from the apocalypse back in the 80’s. Revamping and tweaking some of his ghostbustin’ toys such as station wagon a.k.a Ecto-1, and gho...
Kanye West Shows Off Dorm Set Up In Mercedes-Benz Stadium
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @kanyewest / Instagram Kanye West isn’t doing anything the easy way nowadays. After once again pump-faking on the release of his Donda album (with no repercussions?), Yeezy has decided to hunker down in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to finish the project, and recently showed off his living situation. First, let us reiterate that Kanye West is in Atlanta, home to plenty of top-notch studios like Tree Sound or Patchwerk to name just a couple, that would surely be willing to accommodate his recording needs. However, the multi-hyphenate Rap star has chosen to complete the Donda album in the same place he held its fame listening session. while sleeping in what looks like a bare-bones dorm room in a college with a modest budget. West took to Instagram to...
Kyrie Irving Airs Out Nike, Says New Kyrie 8 Is Trash & He Had Nothing To Do With Them
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike Basketball / NIke Ask some of his past teams or teammates, and they might say dealing with Kyrie Irving can be precarious. Nike is learning this first hand as the NBA superstar point guard aired out the brand over his alleged non-involvement in the design and marketing of his next signature sneaker. If Nike maintains its usual timeline, the new Nike Kyrie 8 would be released shortly before the new NBA season. An image of the new model recently leaked on Instagram (via @k11kicks), and the Brooklyn Nets point guard commented, and it was nothing nice. “I have nothing to do with the design or marketing of the upcoming Kyrie 8, IMO these are trash!,” wrote Irving. “I have absolutely nothing to do with them! Nike plans to release it without my okay regardl...
Homecoming: Kanye West Premieres New Momma-Dedicated Album DONDA In His Birthplace, Can The Sinner Be Saved?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Last night (July 23), it seemed as if the entire city of Atlanta gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to hear what Hip-Hop’s most polarizing character, Kanye West, has cooked up for his tenth solo studio album, DONDA. It goes without saying that general public sentiment toward Yeezy has been soured significantly after several years of incoherent rambling, his entrance into Kardashianville, his stating that “slavery is a choice” and his full-throated support of MAGA miscreant Donald Trump. None of that even takes into account the fact that the music Kanye has released during this tumultuous time period has been lackluster, to say the least. We’ve certainly seen more than one musician maintain their status as an elite artist despite the...
Charlamagne Tha God To Host Late Night Talk Show On Comedy Central
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nick Fancher / Comedy Central Charlamagne Tha God is returning to your late-night television screen. The media personality and host of The Breakfast Club is getting late night talk show on Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey is set to premiere on September 17 at 10PM ET on Comedy Central. The series is being executive produced by Stephen Colbert, who besides hosting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, happens to share South Carolina roots with Charlamagne. Colbert also came to fame on Comedy Central hosting The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014. Source: Scott Kowalchyk for CBS / Comedy Central The weekly late-night series is being billed as a “culturally fluent take on social issues” as Charlamagne offer his tak...
Drake’s OVO Air Force 1 Is For The Lovers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @levibentlee / Instagram Drizzy’s latest album, Certified Lover Boy has still yet to get a confirmed release date or even a first single released, but already we’ve gotten pics of what his upcoming OVO Air Force 1 exclusives will look like and while they seem like some average white-on-white 1’s, the devil’s in the details. Featuring little hearts on the bottom sole instead of the average stars Air Force 1’s tend to boast, the silhouette also replaces the customary “Air” logo on the side heel of the sole with “Love You Forever” in script. Not bad for the hardcore Drake fan who want to show their allegiance to the King of The North. Though rumors have the kicks dropping this Fall, no official word yet on when the sneakers will drop or if they even will. Do...
Baron Negro: Kanye West Hits Big 3 Game Dressed Like Baron Zemo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Maybe Kanye West is a big fan of MCU villains? We say this because Yeezy was at the Big 3 Tournament in Las Vegas on Saturday (July 17) and was spotted courtside dressed like Baron Zemo. Source: Marvel / Disney+ There was Mr. West next to Big 3 head honcho Ice Cube wearing an outfit that featured a mask that also could pass for Cobra Commander couture and what looks like a pair of those Yeezy Supply boots. There is where we point out that Vegas is in the desert, so it’s pretty much always hot outside. That didn’t stop Yeezy from donning winter-ready looking drip at the Orleans Arena to take in a game, though. Cube being comfortable in a t-shirt was a sharp contrast to West keeping on the black version of the Round Jacket that’s part o...
A Variant’s Guide to the TVA: ‘Loki’ Episode 1 Recap
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ Next on the Marvel Universe menu of series is Loki which began in spectacular fashion. Episode 1 first takes us to 2012 for a quick recap of events in New York City during the “Time Heist” portion of Avenger’s: Endgame. SPOILERS AHEAD Source: Marvel / Disney+ There is some new footage interwoven into the theatrical footage giving us a slightly different perspective of Loki acquiring the Tesseract and escaping into a black cloud portal thingy. We hear Thor calling for Loki as the Marvel comic pages turn. Post page turn we discover that Loki teleported himself to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Having landed in some sand, Loki dusts himself off and prepares to deliver his “conqueror” speech to the natives. At the same time, several armor-clad ...
