WorldStarHipHop is a content-aggregating video blog. Founded in 2005, the site averages 1.2 million unique visitors a day. The site, operated by Worldstar, LLC, was founded by Lee "Q" O'Denat, a Hollis, Queens–based hip-hop fan who attended Grover Cleveland High School before graduating. Described by Vibe as a "remnant of the Geocities generation", the site regularly features shocking events caught on video, music videos and assorted content targeted to young audiences. O'Denat who referred to himself as a "Haitian ghetto nerd", described WorldStarHipHop as the "CNN of the ghetto".
Lee "Q" O'Denat started the website in August 2005 with Ari Armani as a distributor of mixtapes. Shortly after the website's launch, hackers destroyed the website. O'Denat later restarted it as a content aggregator. Thereon, WorldStar focused on hip hop beefs which were previously popular through "street DVDs" such as Smack, The Come Up and others. O'Denat used the setup of OnSmash.com, a website which had already been distributing similar material. O'Denat said that this led to tension between the two websites. He added "Once we went 100 percent video, showing that original hood stuff, we prevailed."
The P. Diddy promotional video of Cîroc vodka premiered on WorldStar. By 2012, BET had voted WorldStarHipHop as the "top hip hop and urban culture website" for three years in a row. On August 5, 2014, Deadline reported that Paramount was working on a film based on the site with Russell Simmons expected to produce the film. However, the film was never materialized and is currently in development hell.
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