Hip-Hop Wired Video Exclusives

Producers come and go but it’s a virtual fact that Mike Will Made It is here to the stay.

As Mike Brown was laid to rest today, the unfortunate scenario coincidentally etched the unarmed teen’s name into historical context of tragedies that have become national learning tools.

It’s hard to believe that a MC as talented and formidable as Ludacris has released an official solo studio album in four years but here we stand.

[ooyala code=”t3N3Znbzp6rBQ7BhAZddt9Ywm0DDOtuv” player_id=”197711d5c76648c8a85c158abe654f39″]   Last night (August 5), Scarface held down the backyard of the ALIFE store in NYC’s Lower East Side as the headliner of their latest ALIFE Sessions series. Also on hand were Heavy Metal legends Living Colour for an intimate but knocking performance. 

Footaction and ScHoolboy Q’s “Own The Summer” campaign has given fans a chance to be immortalized in a new visual for his hit single, “Man of the Year,” one Vine submission at a time. With only week left to enter footage, Hip-Hop Wired had a chance to chop it up with the rapper about the collaboration […]

Hollywood has found a way to reinvent the sequel without directly remaking the movie, and it’s becoming the latest trend in the box-office madness.

It’s not often that a group of rookies can just successfully bogart their way into rap music, but Rae Sremmurd have already caught the attention of Nicki Minaj, Juicy J and Pusha T, among others. Such a feat proves that influence doesn’t always have to come with experience.

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Actress Keke Palmer recently added talk show host ( the youngest in TV history) to her list of job titles. In light of her achievement, Hip-Hop Wired recently chopped it up with the 20-year-old mover and shaker about her current relationship with TLC’s Chilli, who she played in the VH1 biopic, the emotional interview with […]

HS87 are among the more impressive collectives to impact Hip-Hop in 2014. In light of the major moves they’re making as a unit and independently, Hip-Hop Wired thought it important to make group members Hit-Boy and Audio Push the feature on the inaugural episode of our new video series, Games Rappers Play.

Los Angeles has a million DJs claiming to be curators and whatnot, but DJ Felli Fel actually lets the hits he stamps do the talking for him.

News broke of Nick Cannon potentially playing the late, great Richard Pryor in an upcoming biopic, but much of the details remain unclear about the film. Luckily, Hip-Hop Wired had a chance to sit with the actor, comedian, and pretty much jack of all trades to get some clarity.