About Bernard "Beanz" Smalls
Meet Bernard Smalls, better known as Beanz. He is the Men's Lifestyle & Pop Culture writer for Cassius Life plus handles tech and video games for Hip-Hop Wired. Beanz has been with the company since 2019 and has been working as a writer for eight years. His favorite hobbies include video games, of course, and watching a lot of movies, mainly sci-fi. He also moonlights as a photographer in his spare time.
The ongoing and for the most part neverending debate old school vs. new school Hip-Hop debate always invokes passion from defenders on both sides. Wiz Khalifa who is a veteran in the genre chimed in and gave a very reasonable opinion on the matter.
Tired of Twitter’s algorithm choosing what Tweets you should see or reverse-chronological timeline? Well, we are happy to report this latest update will give users the ability to choose which way they want to view Tweets instead of being stuck with either or.
When it comes to being the “King of Rap” Atlanta Hip-Hop favorite Gucci Mane thinks Eminem doesn’t deserve to be in the conversation.
Hip-Hop and video game culture pretty much go hand in hand now. Soulja Boy just announced he is starting his own E-sports team and now Lil Yachty revealed at Rolling Loud that he is taking his video game playing talents to Global E-Sports Organization FaZe Clan.
*Update* TMZ is now reporting that rapper Backpack Kid popular is also suing the developers of Fortnite and NBA 2K for incorporating his dance ‘The Floss’ in the games. Per TMZ: Backpack Kid tells us his mom and manager feel Fortnite is taking advantage of him, and he’s letting the grown-ups handle the legal process. […]
Soulja Boy accomplished a life-long dream of launching his own gaming consoles, now he’s looking to start his own Esports team, and he’s gotten advice from one of the most prominent streamers in the world, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins.
Nintendo set the gaming world ablaze with the release of its two retro consoles the NES and SNES Classic. If you haven’t gotten your hands on one and still want to, this upcoming holiday season will be your last chance to do so.
The highly-anticipated collaboration between Nike and Fear of God drops this weekend. To get the hypebeast even more thirsty for the kicks, designer Jerry Lorenzo dropped an NBA2K trailer featuring himself wearing the futuristic-looking sneakers while getting buckets.
Kanye West is Tweeting again, and while some find it entertaining, a lot of other people thinks it is absolutely exhausting. Now if you are over Koonye’s Twitter-rants you can block the “genius” on Twitter but a new app called “SnoozYe” will allow you to cancel the rapper completely well at least digitally.
Your playlist for your party sets is getting a boost thanks to Serato’s latest update which will allow DJ’s to utilize your playlist from streaming services such as Tidal and Soundcloud.
Samsung had hypebeasts aka Supreme stans scratching their heads when it announced a forthcoming China collaboration with Supreme Italia. Looks like the confusion and backlash to the announcement has the company reconsidering the move.
Farfetch, the London based luxury e-commerce marketplace is looking to extend its reach in the every growing streetwear market. To accomplish this, the company has announced today (Dec 12) that it bought New York Based sneaker shop Stadium Goods.