Karrueche removing herself from Chris Brown’s baby mama fiasco may have been the soundest thing she’s done in their relationship but she’s still being slandered over it.
Azealia Banks is prepared to enter uncharted waters for the new generation of rappers by letting her birthday suit do the talking for her. However, the notion of Azealia Banks posing for Playboy magazine has a ton of people skeptical, and a lot more hurling hate mail in the controversy magnet’s direction.
Yes, Black Twitter exists, deal with it. We asked Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, who made Hip-Hop Wired’s Black Twitter 100, to give us their thoughts on the phenomenon, and whether it’s a good or bad thing.
Anthony Mackie caught the digital fade on Tuesday (Jan. 20) after he linked the wearing of the dreadlocks hairstyle with criminal activity. We couldn’t let The Falcon fly off into the corny brother sunset without mentioning a handful of Black celebrities and entertainers who wear dreadlocks without rap sheets to boot.
“Now question is every n***a with dreads for the cause?/Is every n***a with golds for the fall? Nah, So don’t get caught in appearance…” — André 3000 TheGrio may have picked a suitable actor in Anthony Mackie to talk about Selma’s Oscar snub. Too bad he apparently said all the wrong things.
Let the denizens of Black Twitter tell it, Lifetime dropped the ball yet again with last night’s Whitney Houston biopic, simply titled Whitney. To make matters worse, the late, great singer’s family were calling the film “disrespectful” before it was even viewed by the general public. Whitney Houston‘s sister-in-law and head of her estate Pat […]
If you still need further reasoning as to why Big Sean and Naya Rivera split so abruptly, perhaps the Glee actresses’ hygiene maintenance had something to do with it. Rivera appeared on The View today alongside Rosie O’Donnell and company and had some pretty outlandish things to say when it came down to taking daily […]
Black Twitter, a social media group so significant that even Wikipedia has it as an entry, is a powerful and unstoppable force. And like most popular things, there are ways to flourish as a member of this segment of the fast-moving social media network.
Kendrick Lamar defended Iggy Azalea and said Black people should be accountable for their own actions when asked about Ferguson in one fell swoop in Billboard‘s recent cover story. Bad decision. That’s essentially a recipe for slander on the Internets, and Compton’s resident good kid is feeling the web community’s wrath.
After most cast members from The Cosby Show were silent about Bill Cosby’s multiple rape allegations, Phylicia Rashad came forward to offer her opinion. It was not a particularly popular one.
In a series of tweets, a very loquacious T.I. defended Grand Hustle recording artist Iggy Azalea as he attempted to intellectually respond to Q-Tip’s comprehensive Hip-Hop history lesson.
In a surprising turn of events, Q-Tip extended a warm welcome to Lil Wayne has being the newest member of the Zulu Nation right before Thanksgiving. For those not in the know, the Zulu Nation is a longstanding Hip-Hop movement founded by Afrika Bambaataa. Their idealisms have brought forth strong symbolism of Afrocentricity and mottos […]
