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Photos of the latest news in Hip-Hop culture: music, sports, streetwear, and more.

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Artist Wil Fry (or Wilfry) has created an ultra-limited edition t-shirt of the Nike Air Yeezy 2. How limited? To paraphrase Jay-Z on “Show You How,” “this be a one of one, that means none before it, none to come.” But the price tag is the real kicker; it will cost you just north of $90,000. […]

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If you’re a longtime reader of The Source magazine, you no doubt remember The Last Word column that ran on the last page of the magazine for years. It was actually a timely illustration by artist/journalist André LeRoy Davis aka A.L. Dre that hilariously and wittily covered a Hip-Hop trending topic, before the advent of Twitter, […]

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It’s not every day that Hip-Hop Wired gets involved in trending topics, but the #UnansweredHipHopQuestions posts were just too good to pass up. All day tweeters  have been posting inquiries about Hip-Hop that have been boggling the mind for years. From questions about 50 Cent, Rick Ross,  Bun B to even little Willow Smith (okay, […]

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50 Cent has a lot of celebrate today. Aside from it being his birthday, 50 just dropped his 5:Murder By Numbers free album. Unfortunately it can’t all be fun and games, in fact the G-Unit rapper is under fire for making jokes about autism on his Twitter page earlier this week. According to reports, 50 […]

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It’s no secret that President Obama is not a hero in the Republican circle, but the matter of his race is where America should draw the line. Yes, Obama is the country’s first Black president, and political pundits, conservative cartoonist, and all around racists, love to jump and attack his skin color. At this point there’s really […]

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Will Batman catch the fade at the hands of Bane? That’s what anyone with even an inkling of Batman fandom, or a pulse, will be trying to find out on July 20th when The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters. Warner Bros. drops a bunch more stills from the forthcoming movie, which is sure to be […]

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Frank Ocean has been the talk of the news circuit this week, and it has little to do with his music, and more to do with his s-xual preference. The singer revealed his truth via a message posted on Tumblr Tuesday (July 3), garnering support from the music industry, and his mother, who took to […]

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Skateboard king, Stevie Williams, celebrated the release of his Supra S1W in Los Angeles this past week. He was honored with a celebratory toast at Club Hyde in Hollywood Wednesday night, surrounded by celebrity guests including Chris Brown, Tyga, Too Short, Sticky Fingaz, Keith Robinson and Co-Hosted By Dollicia Bryant and DJ Justin Credible. “The […]

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It’s a fact, when Patrick Ewing was patrolling the paint at Madison Square Garden, blocking shots and making that move that was probably a travel, plenty of kids (and especially Jamaican hard rocks) were sporting the Dream Team and Hall of Fame center’s signature sneakers religiously. So it should be no surprise that Ewing Athletics is back, and […]

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The woman at the center, figuratively, of the Drake versus Chris Brown bottle throwing debacle, Rihanna, is on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. For those that care, this is the same story were Rih Rih mentioned her busy schedule leading to a loss in cake-age. “I went way too far. I prefer myself a bit […]

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Carnival is in February, but don’t tell Nicki Minaj. The YMCMB rapper went back to Trinidad on July 4th to shoot the video for “Pound The Alarm” off her gold selling sophomore set, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

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Italian artist and photographer Allesandro Simonetti has self-published a book called IL Clan del Wu that documents the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2010 reunion. The project features no words, strictly fresh black and white images of the Staten Island super rap group doing what they do.