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Married life for professional athletes is already tough, considering the union is on public display for all. Through the good and bad, pro ballers and their wives face constant evaluation of their nuptials. Unfortunately, some marriages aren’t meant to last and in rare cases, the men are better off without their wives, for safety concerns.

Kirk Frost is a lunatic. It takes a special kind of man to not only cheat on his pregnant wife, but to do it on a reality show. No chill.

It’s safe to say that the love between Hip-Hop and strip clubs is reciprocated these days. Nicki Minaj seems to think so —cue her verses on 2 Chainz’s “Luv Dem Strippers” and Wale’s “Clappers”— and last night, she organized an excursion to Perfection Gentleman’s Club in her native Queens, N.Y.

50 Cent has been known to go to war with words against rival rappers, but allegedly he aimed some vicious words towards his 16-year-old son. A series of alleged text messages between the Queens rapper and his first born, Marquise, have been leaked publicly and reveals 50 disowning the teenager.

An Asiana Airlines aircraft crash landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday (July 6) killing two people, and injuring 181. The plane was returning from South Korea.

Imagine if a soccer match had Game Of Thrones type consequences. A referee stabbed a player to death in Brazil. The dead player’s friends, family and we guess some fans responded in kind by beheading the murderous (albeit in self-defense) ref.

Holiday festivities, turn ups, and events of the like may have the lot of you out of the musical loop. If so, don’t worry; Hip-Hop Wired has your back. On this fine Friday evening, we present to you this weeks installment of The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Songs Of The Week.

Rappers can be a surly bunch. When not extolling in rhyme the extent of their riches, prowess with the ladies or skill at putting words together, they’re complaining about something.

Justin Timberlake made a big splash with his return to music after dropping The 20/20 Experience earlier this year. However, the former boy band star got a little too raunchy with his new video, which later got banned and blocked from YouTube.

Last night (July 3 & July 4), Jay-Z celebrated the release of his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The exclusive shindig was limited to 500 people that included Beyoncé, Raekwon, Nick Cannon and Timbaland.

Hip-Hop music has always had an independent spirit. Plenty of prominent, and major, rap labels of the present day started out indie (see: Cash Money, for one example). The truth is plenty of your favorite artist are rocking right now because they didn’t let a corporate label sleeping at the wheel dim their vision.

Hip-Hop has made a fair departure from the respective golden eras of the 80s and 90s, but crying about it will get you nowhere. The upside is that the culture has made a change for the better in recent years. We’ve also seen a resurgence in lyrics and a clear spark in individuality — some instances […]