HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Hulu / Prey It’s official Prey, the newest film in The Predator film is not W A C K. In fact, it’s being hailed as the best film since the original movie. The critics and fans all agree Dan Trachtenberg put his foot in Prey, the latest film featuring the iconic intergalactic big game hunter. The movie is currently sitting at a ridiculously good 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the must-see films of the year. Praise for the film mostly circles around Trachtenberg recapturing the magic that made the original movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger an instant classic with Sci-Fi movie junkies. But the biggest praise is going towards Amber Midthunder, who plays Naru, our newest Predator slayer, and the fact the film used Indigenous actors to...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: SOPA Images / Getty Fear not, HBO Max subscribers. Your favorite shows are safe for now. We can’t recall the last time the internet hinged on one earnings call, but on Thursday (Aug.4), that was the case. HBO Max subscribers were waiting to hear what plans David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had in store for the streaming service. Zaslav announced that HBO Max and Discovery+ will be merging into one service in Summer 2023 while staving off fears that the popular streaming service will continue to purge content that lured subscribers to it in the first place. Zaslav shared no details on how much a subscription will cost, but we expect a bit of a price hike. During the week, HBO Max subscribers began to worry when users pointed out that HBO M...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Prince Williams / Getty Caresha, aka Yung Miami going through it REAL BAD. The City Girls rapper has fans worried about her mental health after a series of cryptic tweets. Yung Miami has been the talk of social media, specifically Black Twitter, once her romance with Diddy came into the spotlight and was later confirmed by the mogul on her Revolt podcast Caresha Please. In a tweet’ the City Girl wrote, “I’m really having a mental breakdown right now.” Fans began worrying after she followed that tweet up, revealing she hadn’t been getting much sleep. “Haven’t slept in dayssssss like I’m tired af and don’t feel like doing nothing today my energy is off!,” her tweet read. As expected, her fans are worried and are sending the young Hip-Hop star som...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Rick Diamond / Getty Love is dead, again, for Crystal Renay and R&B superstar Ne-Yo. Renay put all of the singer’s business on blast accusing him of cheating on her for eight years. Crystal Renay is so sick of Ne-Yo’s philandering ways and decided to take her grievances to the pulpit of social media on Instagram. Renay claims she has been sharing her life and husband unknowingly for eight years, accusing the singer of having unprotected sex with all of them. “Eight years of lies and deception. Eight years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband with numerous of women who sell their bodies to him unprotected… every last one of them!” she starts off her statement. “To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is a understatement. To ask me to stay and ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Cole Burston / Getty Drake is being called out for his “creepy” ways after sharing a photo of a random woman on the gram. Drake Needs To Chill The Canadian Hip-Hop star is currently on vacation in St. Tropez, having the time of his life while snuffing out bees, but some people feel he overstepped his boundaries. Before the transgression of someone’s privacy, Drake happily shared a video of himself singing along with a cover singer. Things went left for Drake after he shared a photo of a random white woman in his Instagram stories on Thursday (Jul.21). In the caption for the post, he dropped a typical Drizzy bar, “Tried to airdrop this woman a pic of herself cause she’s a dime.” Drake might have thought posting the woman seated with an unknown male t...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: David Wolff – Patrick / Getty Megan Thee Stallion is making sure we have another hot girl summer with the arrival of her latest single, “Pressurelicious.” Megan Thee Stallion Teams Up With Future On “Pressurelicious” The leader of the Hot Girls has been quite busy this summer. Megan Thee Stallion has been hitting the music festival circuit with a fury showing off those knees and twerking all over the globe. At the same damn time, she has been pushing out new music at a feverish pace, kicking things off with her anthem for the ladies, “Plan B,” and her Dua Lipa-assisted single “Sweetest Pie.” Now, she is back and is teaming up with the king of toxicity Future on “Pressurelicious.” The HitKidd-produced song is pretty short, clocking in at just under 3...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Nike / Dunk Low Jackie Robinson SNKRS is a crappy partner that we just keep on forgiving. The Nike Dunk Low Jackie Robinson slid onto the app, and, of course, nobody “GOT EM.” Sneakerheads Swung & Miss While Trying To Cop The Nike Dunk Low “Jackie Robinson” Did you get em? Of course, you didn’t. Tuesday (Jul.19), ahead of the MLB All-Star game, Nike dropped another pair of crispy Dunk Lows, this pair paying homage to late but forever great color barrier-breaking Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson. While the sneakers would make a great buy for baseball fans, lovers of sports history, and Jackie Robinson, we all know not many care about the sneaker’s symbolism. Instead, they will end up in the hands of resellers who will just throw up on GOAT, and sket...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: NurPhoto / Getty Twitter had a major service outage, and users reacted hilariously to being without their favorite social media platform. What’s Going On With Twitter? If you just opened up Twitter right now, you can’t tell that it suffered another service outage. For about 40 minutes early Thursday morning (Jul.14). Things went south for the platform at about 8:05 am ET when users began complaining about receiving “over capacity” and “this page is down” messages. Per The Verge, issues plagued users trying to tweet using the mobile app, web client, or even TweetDeck. DownDetector received thousands of reports about Twitter at the time, but when you checked Twitter’s status page, “all systems operational.” Users noted that Twitter.com loaded as...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Stefanie Keenan / Getty If you thought Omarion was the spokesperson for being unbothered, you need to see this latest video featuring music star Kehlani. Kehlani Didn’t Have To Do or Say Much To Put Christian Walker In His Place. The apple has not fallen far from the tree regarding the latest buffoon running for political office, former NFL star Herschel Walker and his son Christian. Walker’s son has become a notorious right-wing loud mouth on social media and recently tried to troll Kehlani. The walking oxymoron’s latest shenanigans went down in a Starbucks parking lot where the LGBTQ alt-right TikToker, harassed the “You Should Be Here” crafter in a video he shared on social media. “This LOVING TOLERANT INCLUSIVE woman told the baristas that I was...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin Winter / Getty When Bow Wow opens up Twitter, he’s going to find out Orlando Brown said something real complimentary about him that left Twitter collectively scratching their heads. Orlando Brown Says Bow Wow Has That B.A.P Former child actor, rapper, and singer turned absolute mess Orlando Brown turned Twitter upside down after an interview with Funny Marco went viral. In the clip currently making its rounds on Twitter, Brown had some very eye-opening things to say about Mr. 106 & Park himself, Bow Wow, real name Shad Moss. Marco asked the former That So Raven star when was the last time he watched the popular BET Show music video countdown show, 106 & Park. Brown responded when the show was hot when “Bow Wow was on air.” He didn’t st...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: David Livingston / Getty O’Ryan, the brother of fellow watermelon chomper Omarion, is either throwing the culture a distraction or shifting the momentum after Mario fumbled the proverbial bag. The singer had a nude workout video of him shared on the Internet and on Twitter, the thirst has reached dangerous levels. O’Ryan, 35, is the younger brother of Omarion and has a child with his ex-girlfriend, Jhene Aiko. O’Ryan made waves in the Omarion and Mario VERZUZ event, joining his brother on stage in an interesting display of consuming watermelon slices. The reactions to the viral moment still live in the heads of many and it was definitely a tough night for the Browner brothers. With Mario sinking all of his goodwill with the announcement of a new tra...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Shirlaine Forrest / Getty Megan Thee Stallion reminded the world that her twerking skills are still top-tier. Megan Thee Stallion Had All of Twitter Thirsty Earlier in the week, Megan Thee Stallion had everyone on social media saying DAMN when she decided to hop on camera and show off her legendary twerking skills. Rocking some Nike biking shorts and in the company of some close friends shook what her momma gave her. One of her friends got a personal invitation to the Megan Thee Stallion body party when the 27-year-old Houston rapper decided to bless her with a lapdance that made everyone jealous. As expected, the thirst reactions poured following Thee Stallion’s twerk fest from her hotel room. “The first thing I saw when I logged onto IG. My day is...