Social media, gun runners and a foolhardy rapper led to the biggest bust ever of illegal firearms by the NYPD. Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed today that undercover cops seized what amounted to a huge arsenal of automatic assault weapons including machine guns, high-capacity assault rifles and handguns.
This dude just may be the realest rapper, ever. On Monday, August 5, while in a Fort Collins, Colorado rental home, a teenaged rapper sat down in front of a webcam to record himself rapping about the real life situation he was in. That predicament was sitting in the room surrounded by police, including a […]
There are still a few Harlem Shake videos floating around the atmosphere. Six officers in the U.K. were disciplined for filming themselves breaking into erratic movement, inspired by Baueer and Mad Decent’s viral hit.
Justin Timberlake made a big splash with his return to music after dropping The 20/20 Experience earlier this year. However, the former boy band star got a little too raunchy with his new video, which later got banned and blocked from YouTube.
A group of high school students at San Diego’s Scripps Ranch High School have been suspended and face possibilities of not graduating or attending their senior prom according to reports. In all, 33 students who called themselves the “Scripps Ranch High School Twerk Team” were accused of violating the school’s zero-tolerance s-xual harassment policy because […]
Diddy and Mark Wahlberg announced their partnership with AQUAhydrate water.
Billboard has teamed with consumer information company Nielsen and will now factor YouTube video plays when ranking songs on the “Hot 100” singles chart. Baauer’s smash hit, “Harlem Shake,” has already benefited, landing at No. 1 on the aforementioned chart.
Last summer, Hip-Hop Wired attended a Spotify event in which the music sharing company boasted about the amount of money its paid out to artists. Since 2008 Spotify has worked its way up to become a go-to destination for listeners who want to try out albums before making a purchase. Unlike illegal sharing entities like Napster, […]
34-year-old Korean Pop sensation, PSY, over took Justin Bieber as the artist with the most watched video in the history of YouTube with “Gangnam Style.”
Homos-xuality is quickly becoming one of the hot button issues that will effect this years upcoming presidential election, down there with legalization of marijuana, immigration, and the ever decaying economy. Pharrell’s iamOTHER, which is a series that he created as a celebration of the extraordinary, asks if homos-xuality has a place in Hip-Hop, society, and […]
Yet another example of buffoonery caught on tape, but instead of aspiring teen Internet stars, adults are sharing in the embarrassment. Mothers attending a preschool graduation at the Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School in South Central, Los Angeles last week, started fighting in a school classroom, as several children screamed in the background.
Jay-Z is selective about when and where he performs. YouTube has the clout, and money, to entice Hova to the stage as he conducted a surprise performance at the company’s Upfront presentation (Google Youtube Brandcast 2012) at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Jigga’s Life + Times website will be taking advantage of Google/YouTubes’ original […]
