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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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Azealia Banks hasn’t even dropped an official album yet, but she’s already done with rap. The 20-year-old pulled a “Nicki Minaj,” by using Twitter to prove that she means business.

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Note to rappers getting their humble brag on via these Internets; there’s a billionaire ready to stunt on you. Drake learned this on Twitter yesterday when he tweeted, “The first million is the hardest.” Peep how billionaire T. Boone Pickens got @ Drake, literally, over at The Urban Daily. But wait, isn’t Drizzy 25 sitting on 25 […]

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  A psychologist employed by the Jefferson Parish school system in New Orleans is causing controversy over a series of racist views posted on his Twitter page. Mark Traina became the focus of an ongoing investigation after his Twitter rants were put on display by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Similar to the comments made […]

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In case you didn’t know, Rihanna (sidenote: photographer Terry Richardson just dropped some sizzling photos of her) will share any and everything on Twitter. After a fan asked why the Bajan singer was being quite on the tweets, Rih Rih tweeted a picture of her arm, which happened to have an IV in it. Find out […]

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File this under WTF. Nicki Minaj was over in the UK with Tim Westwood and the radio DJ made it a point of asking her if she would make a return to Twitter after she chucked the deuce at her 11 million followers. The YMCMB rapper seemed steadfast in her refusal to re-enter the Twitter […]

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Now that the Mobb Deep breakup saga is seemingly over, with a hacker being blamed on Havoc’s inflammatory tweets, Prodigy sat down with Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg yesterday (April 17) morning to set the record straight. After being grilled by CS and Rosenberg to tell the truth and shame the Devil, P admitted […]

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Nicki Minaj’s eleven million plus Twitter followers got left in the cold today, wondering if and when they’ll get another 140 character or less missive from their muse. The YMCMB Barbie put the kabosh on her @NickiMinaj account. “Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good f-cking bye,” was her final message. […]

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Early this morning, the Internets were all in a huff over slanderous tweets that were thought to be coming from Havoc of Mobb Deep and aimed at his long time rhyme co-d Prodigy. In a series of tweets, Havoc’s @THEREALHAVOC account called Capital P everything but a child of God while alleging that he engaged in […]

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Prodigy and Havoc off Mobb Deep beefing with each other on Twitter? Nobody wanted to believe that the Queensbridge rap duo could call it quits and sully almost two decades worth of murderous hits like  “Shook Ones Part II” and “Quiet Storm,” and sinister album cuts like “Still Shining,” over a squabble that spilled over […]

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While George Zimmerman has been in hiding, his supporters are busy maintaining the racist practices that led to Trayvon Martin’s murder. A white supremacist—who is clearly itching to get retaliated against—admitted to hacking into Martin’s e-mail, and social networking accounts, and leaking his personal business all over the ‘Net. The cowardly hacker, who goes by […]

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Hip-Hop Wired presents a 4-part series entitled The Commission. The name derives from the Hip-Hop super-group that never came to fruition, which consisted of The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, & Charli Baltimore. The group was designed around two of the Greatest MC’s of All-Time, which would have represented Hip-Hop at the highest levels possible. The aim of […]