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• DaBaby Launches Mental Health Initiative In Honor Of Late Brother Who Committed Suicide

  27-09-2024 11:00
  
  DaBaby has introduced a mental health platform in memory of his late brother, Glenn Johnson, who tragically died by suicide in 2020.
  
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• Woman Says Matt Gaetz Had Sex With Her At 17 At House Ethics Committee Hearing

  15-11-2024 21:24 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman who resigned on Wednesday (November 13), found himself getting loads of attention after President-Elect Donald Trump named him as his Attorney General pick. The resulting fallout from Matt Gaetz being selected for the role has led to details of a House Ethics Committee probe against the AG hopeful, with a new report highlighting a woman saying that she and the congressman had sex when she was still in high school.
  ABC News reports that the unnamed woma
  
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• Xitter Sickened By RFK Jr. As Trump’s Health Secretary Pick

  15-11-2024 20:14 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: The Washington Post / Getty
  Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Health & Human Service Secretary, causing observers and those on social media to be outraged at the potential danger he poses.
  President-Elect Donald Trump is filling out his cabinet, and his latest pick has ratcheted up worry among the public, as he nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health & Human Services Secretary. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States
  
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• Diddy’s Legal Team Denies Shyne’s Claims He Was “Fall Guy” In Club Shooting

  15-11-2024 20:09 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  It seems Diddy is keeping tabs on everything even from behind bars. His legal team has denied he set up Shyne as the fall guy during the club shooting trial.As spotted on TMZ the Bad Boy Entertainment founder is fighting back against his former protege. Recently the rapper turned political has been promoting his upcoming documentary The Honorable Shyne via several interviews. While the film details his entire life story the unfortunate happenings of Dec. 2
  
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• Tech YouTuber MKBHD Apologizes For Sharing Video Footage of Himself Dangerously Speeding In A Residential Area

  15-11-2024 19:29 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: Ramsey Cardy / Getty / MKBHD
  MKBHD is feeling the wrath of social media for feeling the need for speed and filming the moment for which he is now apologizing.
  Popular tech YouTuber MKBHD, real name Marques Brownlee, has hit a speed bump. The Verge reports Brownlee is facing severe backlash after sharing a sponsored video for DJI titled “How My Video Gear is Changing!”  featuring himself torching the speed limit in a suburban area while driving an expensive sports car.Com
  
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• Mike Tyson Gives Jake Paul A Little Love Tap Before Big Fight

  15-11-2024 18:51 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Mike Tyson and Jake Paul will be locking horns in the squared circle Friday night (November 15) in a bout that will draw plenty of views as the former heavyweight champion takes on a much younger fighter. During the mandatory faceoff for photo opportunities, Mike Tyson gave Jake Paul a little smack on the cheek to let him know what will be in store for tonight.
  Mike Tyson and Jake Paul were in Texas at the weigh-in ahead of their super fight bout that will be held at the AT&T Stadium, which
  
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• NYPD Indicts 30 Alleged Gang Members Accused Of Causing Half The Shootings In Washington Heights & Inwood

  15-11-2024 18:25 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  It’s no secret that crime in New York City began to skyrocket during the COVID pandemic a few years ago. While it has since been declining, things might get a bit safer as authorities have rounded up 30 alleged gang members who turned Washington Heights and Inwood into a war zone.According to the Gothamist, the NYPD have announced that they have indicted 30 alleged gang members who they say are responsible for roughly half of the shootings in Inwood and Washin
  
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• Offset & His Crew Brawl With French Rapper Gazo & Company In Paris

  15-11-2024 18:09 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  Paris might be known as the “City of Love,” but it seems like Offset’s relationship with some of its residents got off to a rocky start as he found himself in a brouhaha during a recent visit to the home of the Eiffel Tower.According to TMZ, Offset and his entourage found themselves in a wild street brawl with French rapper, Gazo, and his crew outside of Hôtel du Collectionneur (sounds like a hotel in a John Wick movie or something). The incid
  
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• Governor Hochul To Bring Back Congestion Pricing In NYC

  15-11-2024 18:06 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  Living in the Big Apple is about to get even more expensive. Governor Hochul is about to bring back congestion pricing to New York City.As reported by the New York Times, the politician has announced she is reviving her plan for congestion pricing. Originally announced in April, state officials were aiming to impose an additional $15 dollar toll on vehicles that enter Manhattan below 61st Street. Commercial trucks, however, would face a higher fee of anywhere fr
  
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• Rudy Gobert Celebrates Our Health Potentially Going Down The Drain With RFK Jr. HHS Appointment

  15-11-2024 17:40 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: David Berding / Getty / Rudy Gobert
  Minnesota Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert has once again stepped into it. This time, he threw his support behind one of Donald Trump’s heada** picks for his presidential cabinet and is getting roasted for it.
  Felon 47, aka Donald Trump, is putting together what is easily one of the worst cabinets in the history of the presidency. His latest pick is Robert Kennedy Jr., a constant promoter of conspiracy theories related to health and vaccine hater
  
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• Nelly Won’t Be Charged After Casino Arrest For Alleged Ecstasy Possession

  15-11-2024 00:00 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: John Medina / Getty
  Back in August, rapper Nelly was arrested in the St. Louis area and was facing charges that included possession of ecstasy. Well, now it looks like the “Country Grammar” artist is out of legal harm’s way as a spokesperson for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office told TMZ Hip Hop, “We don’t believe the facts in this case warrant the issuing of charges.”
  As previously reported, Nelly, born  Cornell Hayne
  
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• In The Wild: SUPREME Releases Animal Print Timberland Field Boots

  14-11-2024 23:56 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: SUPREME / Supreme
  SUPREME is taking their newest collaboration to the jungle. The streetwear label is releasing animal print Timberland Field Boots.Source: SUPREME / Supreme
  The New York City based brand is taking the iconic shoe and giving it a very interesting remix. On Wednesday, Nov. 13 SUPREME announced they are dropping three versions of the three quarter feet pieces. Included in the collection is a zebra striped color way with black and white contrasting. It is complimented with b
  
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• Craig Melvin Tapped To Replace Hoda Kotb On NBC’s ‘Today’

  14-11-2024 23:51 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  It looks like NBC’s signature morning show Today will be having a new, yet familiar face co-hosting after Hoda Kotb steps down in early 2025.According to Variety, Craig Melvin will be stepping up to co-host the popular AM show after years of being a part of the show. Now that he’s been tapped to co-anchor the show from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., it shouldn’t be too hard of a transition as he’s been preparing for this role for quite some time. Still,
  
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• Journalists & Other Organizations Are Ditching X In Large Numbers Following Change To The Platform’s Terms of Service

  14-11-2024 23:23 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Elon Musk / X
  Elon Musk might have definitely screwed himself big time. It’s looking like the migration to other social media platforms like Bluesky isn’t a fluke; even journalists are bidding farewell to X, formally Twitter.The cesspool that is X is now experiencing a mass exodus of not just regular folks but journalists and other organizations who have finally had enough of Elon Musk and the dumb changes he made to the once uber-popular platform.
  The Dail
  
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• Journalists & Other Organizations Are Ditching X In Large Numbers Following Change To Terms of Service

  14-11-2024 23:23 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Elon Musk / X
  Elon Musk might have definitely screwed himself big time. It’s looking like the migration to other social media platforms like Bluesky isn’t a fluke; even journalists are bidding farewell to X, formally Twitter.The cesspool that is X is now experiencing a mass exodus of not just regular folks but journalists and other organizations who have finally had enough of Elon Musk and the dumb changes he made to the once uber-popular platform.
  The Dail
  
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• We Had To Hear It, So Now You Have To: Mark Zuckerberg, AKA Z-Pain, Links Up With T-Pain For A Trash Rendition of Lil Jon’s ‘Get Low’

  14-11-2024 21:00 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: picture alliance / Getty / Mark Zuckerberg
  Nobody asked for this, but it exists. Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has linked up with T-Pain to do a rendition of Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz’s smash hit “Get Low,” yes, it’s awful.
  We had to hear it, so now you do. Z-Pain, AKA Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain, decided it would be a great idea to turn the bass-heavy club hit that got us extremely crunk, into an acoustic song with mellow singing.
  Never in a million years
  
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• New Footage Of PnB Rock Shooting Hints At Set Up Plot

  14-11-2024 20:31 via hiphopwired.com
  
  PnB Rock was tragically shot and killed during a robbery while dining inside a Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant, leading to the arrest and conviction of Freddie Lee Trone to 31 years in prison. New footage of the incident has emerged and it suggests that PnB Rock was set up by a pair of patrons who presumably tipped off Trone and his teen son who carried out the robbery and shooting.
  YouTube channel True Crime News shared a video featuring footage of the fateful day when PnB Rock
  
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• ‘Ghostface’ From The ‘Scream” Franchise Phones In A Friend To Issue Fades In Latest ‘Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns Gameplay Trailer

  14-11-2024 20:03 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: Warner Bros. Games / NetherRealm Studios / Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns / Ghostface
  The Mortal Kombat franchise continues to bring your favorite movie characters into the fighting game world. Scream’s mute (except when he’s on the phone) killer, Ghostface, is the latest addition to the still-growing Mortal Kombat 1 roster.Mortal Kombat is becoming Smash Bros. but with extreme violence, as Ed Boon continues to make nerd’s dreams come true by allowing them to bring dream
  
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• Remedy’s Sam Lake Will Receive The 2025 Andrew Yoon Legend Award At 2025 New York Game Awards

  14-11-2024 19:04 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: 2025 New York Game Awards  / Sam Lake
  The next recipient of the Andrew Yoon Legend Award at the 2025 New York Game Awards will be Sam Lake, and we hope there will be a dance routine when he accepts the awards.
  On Thursday, Nov.14, the NYVGCC announced that Sam Lake, the chief of Remedy Entertainment, would take home one of the night’s biggest honors during the annual award show.
  Lake is the writer and creative director at Remedy Entertainment and is the man who gave us cl
  
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• Pharrell Says He Didn’t Care Drake Threatened To Meltdown His Old Jewelry

  14-11-2024 18:00 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  We think it’s safe to say that 2024 wasn’t too kind to Drake as Kendrick Lamar basically turned a good portion of the culture against the Canadian crooner/rapper, but before that Drizzy was embroiled in a heated battle with Pusha T and his former producer, Pharrell caught a wild stray as a result.
  In a recent interview with GQ magazine, Pharrell was asked about a 2023 Drake “diss” when the King of The North threatened to melt down some of Skateboa
  
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• Salute: ‘The Guardian’ Cancels Elon Musk’s X Platform. Refuses To Post

  14-11-2024 17:55 via hiphopwired.com
  
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  It’s no secret to anyone who is regularly on social media and is not from the land of MAGA Delulu that Elon Musk has not only eroded the value of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, but he has turned it into a utopia of racial slurs, right-wing propaganda and shameless Trump-humping. Well, one media outlet is not about to pretend Musk hasn’t turned X into a MAGA fan page and it will no longer post on the platform because of it.
  The Guardian is havin
  
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• The Onion’s Parent Company Purchases Alex Jones’ InfoWars

  14-11-2024 16:19 via hiphopwired.com
  
  The Onion, the long-running satirical news website that began as a print publication, has caught on in the digital media world and its parent company made a brazen move seemingly pulled from its headlines. The Onion‘s parent company purchased conspiracy theorist Alex Jones‘ InfoWars, and the “CEO” of the parent company has issued a statement.
  The news was announced via The Onion and features words from Global Tetrahedron CEO Bryce P. Tetraeder, a fictitious CEO according
  
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• Boosie asks T-Pain for HELP

  13-11-2024 23:28 via youtube.com
  
  
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• PNB Rock was set up 🤯

  13-11-2024 23:26 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Does Hip-Hop still care about snitching?

  13-11-2024 23:25 via youtube.com
  
  
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• ‘GQ’ Names Pharrell Williams Designer Of The Year

  13-11-2024 23:13 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: NurPhoto / Getty
  There is no doubting Pharrell Williams had a historic fashion run in 2024. So it is only fitting that GQ Magazine has named him Designer of the Year.This week, the gentleman’s magazine started to unveil their annual Men of the Year selections. In it, the editorial staff have crowned Skateboard P as the style industry’s number one creative. Shot by Eli Russell Linnetz, GQ captures the “Happy” performer in his top eclectic luxury form. As expected,
  
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• Fear Of God Athletics II Basketball “Night Brown” Gets December Release Date

  13-11-2024 23:03 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: Justin Ford / Getty
  The second wave of Jerry Lorenzo’s Fear of God and adidas basketball collection is upon us and will be hitting the shelves before the year is out.
  View this post on InstagramA post shared by Shane Ward (@shanehenryward)According to Sneaker News, the second wave of the popular basketball sneaker line has gotten a release date of December 2024, and while adidas’ Samba silhouette has taken over the streets, the new Fear of God Athletics II Basketball “N
  
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• Bernice Burgos Claims She Made Up To $70K A Night While Bartending, Some Folks On Social Media Say The Math Ain’t Mathing

  13-11-2024 21:53 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: Jason Mendez / Getty / Bernice Burgos
  Bernice Burgos shared some information on her hustle, which took her from being a “startender” to a successful entrepreneur, but some people are not too sure about math regarding the amount of money she made slinging drinks.The 44-year-old social media influencer/ entrepreneur stopped by the Joe Budden Podcast to break bread with the former rapper and his crew of talkers.
  During the conversation, Burgos revealed she was making outstanding
  
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• Trump Picks Fox News Host As Defense Secretary, Xitter Explodes

  13-11-2024 20:57 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: Terry Wyatt / Getty
  The nomination of a Fox News host by President-elect Donald Trump to be Secretary of Defense caused social media to blow up over the “utterly unserious” cabinet pick.
  On Tuesday (November 12), President-elect Donald Trump issued a statement to Fox News announcing his pick for the position of Secretary of Defense – and it was one of their own hosts, Pete Hegseth. “I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to serve in my Cabinet
  
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• Donald Trump Appoints Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy To Head “DOGE” Office To Cut “Wasteful” Government Spending

  13-11-2024 20:54 via hiphopwired.com
  
  Source: JIM WATSON / Getty / Elon Musk
  Let the grift begin. Felon 47, aka President-Elect Donald Trump, is not wasting any time getting his corrupt administration together. Joining him on his mission to take us back to stoneage, aka “Make America Great Again,” will be Phony Stark himself, Elon Musk, who will head a new agency that already sounds like it isn’t nothing but a way to enrich himself.
  Donald Trump officially announced on Tuesday, via a statement, that Tesla chief and
  
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