Kendrick Lamar has to lot to be proud of at the moment. His new good kid, m.A.A.d city album is projected to sell between 225-240K its first week out, which will be good enough to claim the No. 2 spot on Billboard according to early sales projections from HitsDailyDouble.
In most other weeks good kid, m.A.A.d city would top the charts, but it happened to come out the same week as Taylor Swift's monster fourth studio album, Red.
Red is projected to sell between 1.1-1.2 million copies. That number could surpass the 1.124 million sold by the entire Top 10 from the corresponding week last year; for the week ending 10/30/11. It could also push it's way past Lady Gaga'sBorn This Way 1st week tally of 1.1 million.
Somewhere buried deep in Dr. Dre's vault there's a treasure trove of unreleased records from many of your favorite artists. Dre is such a perfectionist he keeps recording new music looking for the perfect songs for his long awaited Detoxalbum.
Will any of the tracks ever see the light of day? Only time will tell, but one artist who probably has as many unreleased songs with the Aftermath boss as anybody is Lil Wayne.
"I've always worked with Dre," Wayne told MTV News. "I'm not sure if you guys know how Dre works, Dre always send you a song, so I done probably did like 90 songs for Dre. You just never know which one he gonna put out."
Shaquille O'Neal is not a fan of Dwight Howard. In recent weeks he's taken shots at the Los Angeles Lakers big man.
Shaq has called Dwight a fraud who should have stayed with the Orlando Magic. He also said Andrew Bynum is a better player and Dwight will never compare to great Lakers centers of the past like himself, Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem-Abdul Jabbar according to USA Today.
"I have three sons, and I always tell them that if you want to call yourself big then you have big shoes to fill. Anybody who calls himself big has big shoes to fill. Right now, he's off pace. He has to get himself on pace if he wants to call himself big," said Shaq.
Shaq was recently chilling with Loaded Lux and Cory Gunz when he filmed a funny freestyle where he jabs Howard again. Check that out below.
Detroit's Danny Brown releases a wild music video for "WitIt."
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Pleasure P for an exclusive interview.
He talks about his generation of R&B, possible Pretty Ricky Reunion, his regrets, new single "I Love Girls" , new album top of 2013, only supporting real fans & much more!
A man leading bible study was shot and killed this morning inside Creflo Dollar's mega church in College Park, Georgia.
According to WXIA, a suspect identified as 52-year old Floyd Palmer approached the 39-year old victim while he was praying and shot him at point blank range.
Floyd Palmer
Palmer, who is a former employee of the church fled the scene and has not been caught yet. Authorities don't know his motive for shooting the man who was a member of the church staff.
“I brought my mother up here to go to church — every Wednesday she attends Bible study. As soon as we get here I’m told someone has been shot,” Karen Webb told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He was one of the praise leaders.”
Webb said the victim was shot six times.
There were about 25 members of the church inside at the time of the shooting.
Creflo Dollar
Dollar started World Changers Ministries in 1986 with eight members. It now has 30,000 members. Services are held in the 8,500-seat World Dome.
With his long awaited eighth studio album, Trouble Man, now set for a December 18th release, T.I. hit up New York City yesterday for a listening session.
Tip played 12 songs off of the project which will have features from Kendrick Lamar, B.o.B, A$AP Rocky, Cee Lo Green, Andre 3000, R. Kelly, Lil Wayne and Pink.
The Grand Hustle boss has enlisted DJ Toomp, No I.D., T-Minus, Jazze Pha, Pharrell and more to handle production duties.
T.I. told those in attendance that he has recorded over 100 songs for the album so the final tracklist is not yet set. He described the disc as a mixture of “vintage T.I.” with more mainstream songs.
“One thing about my life is trouble,” Tip said about the album's title. “Trouble Man is that eloquent way of saying ‘F*ck you’ to those that deserve it.”
Tracklist:
1. “Intro” 2. “Somebody I Used to Know” feat. B.o.B and Kendrick Lamar (prod by Keno) 3. “Ball” feat. Lil Wayne 4. “Trap Back Jumpin’” (produced by DJ Toomp) 5. “Wild Side” feat. A$AP Rocky (produced by No I.D.) 6. “Trouble Man” feat. R. Kelly (produced by DJ Monte) 7. “Guns N Roses” feat. Pink (produced by T-Minus) 8. “Sorry” feat. André 3000 (produced by Jazze Pha) 9. “Hello” feat. CeeLo Green (produced by Pharrell) 10. “Who Wants Some” (produced by DJ Toomp) 11. “Address” (produced by T-Minus) 12. “How Wonderful Life Is” feat. Akon (produced by Sanchez)
Prince was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday. The Purple One rarely performs on tv so this was a special occasion. He played a bit of the old and new by performing his new single "Rock n Roll Love Affair" and the 80's tune "The Dance Electric" as the credits rolled to end the show.
Bobby Brown needs to either give up drinking or hire a driver because he's been busted for the second time this year for DUI.
TMZ is reporting that the 43-year old singer was pulled over by LAPD at 1AM this morning when police observed him driving erratically.
When police approached Brown's car they detected a strong smell of alcohol. Brown was told to get out of the car to perform a field sobriety test, which he failed. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
Brown was previously arrested for DUI in March and has a conviction for the same offence from 1996. The singer sought help in August of this year when he checked himself into a rehab center for alcohol addiction.
Mike Knox delivers a brand new music video for his single "Right Now." The Doe Pesci-produced track will appear on Knox's new mixtape, Me Against the World, which drops this Friday.
DJ Whoo Kid and Loaded Lux were the guest judges on The Howard Stern Show for the rap battle between Sal Governale aka "Pouchy G" and Jon Leiberman aka "2 Live Jew."
Both Jon and Sal were both hilariously horrible. In the end Whoo Kid and Lux gave the nod to Sal for being the least worst of the two.
Prior to the rap battle Whoo Kid gave a really funny interview about getting "n*gga slapped" by 50 Cent, hating his wife of 15-years, sleeping with 8,000 women, banging white chicks while on tour with Eminem, his two "Bruce Leroy" kids cursing his wife out, showering with both of his parents, being fired repeatedly by 50, his dad teaching him everything he knows and more.
Angel Haze pours her heart out over the instrumental to Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet." She describes being sexually assaulted at the young age of seven.
The song is tough to listen to, but Angel proves she's fearless and has a story to tell.
Trav is back with brand new visuals for "Boom Bye Bye." The track will be featured on Trav's upcoming mixtape P.U.S.H. (Pray Until Something Happens), releasing November 6th!
Taking a cue from some of its competitors, Apple on Tuesday announced a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet -- the iPad Mini. And the company that introduced the concept of tablet computers to millions didn't waste any time bashing those competitor in the process.
"Others have tried to make tablets smaller than the iPad and they've failed miserably," said Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller. "These are not great experiences."
At a media event, he unveiled the 7.9-inch tablet, which is 7.2 millimeters wide (the width of a pencil, Schiller said) and weighs less than 7/10ths of a pound.
It will have the same display-resolution specs as last year's iPad 2, not the high-definition "retina display" of the newest iPad, which also got an update on Tuesday.
The iPad Mini's display will be nearly an inch bigger than those of competitors like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7. It will also be somewhat more expensive.
The smaller iPad will start at $329 for a 16GB, Wi-Fi only version, ranging up to $659 for a 64GB model with cellular capability. Those prices are at the high end of what analysts had predicted. The new Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7 sell for $199.
Pre-orders for the Wi-Fi-only device begin Friday, and the iPad Mini will go on sale in stores November 2.
Models that have Wi-Fi and can connect over cellular networks will go on sale in a few weeks.
The device's screen has the same proportions as the larger iPads, meaning that apps designed for the tablet should also look good on the Mini. Apple promises 10 hours of battery life, and the Mini will have front- and rear-facing cameras like its bigger cousins. It also will have the "lightning" connector that came new on the iPhone 5 and new iPods.
"This isn't just a shrunken-down iPad," Schiller said. "It's an entirely new design."
As with other recent Apple events, today's main announcement wasn't much of a secret. Leaks ahead of the event sketched out most of the relevant details, from dimensions of the smaller iPad to what sizes it would come in.
The Apple event started off with upgrades to the Mac lineup, and a joke about expectations for the day.
"You knew there would be something called 'mini' in this presentation, didn't you?" said Schiller, while presenting an update of the company's smallest desktop computer, the Mac mini. It starts at $599 for 4 GB of RAM.
Schiller opened by unveiling the new version of Apple's top-selling MacBook, the 13-inch MacBook Pro.
The new version has a high-definition "retina display" screen for the first time and is 3/4 of an inch thick -- 20 percent thinner than the current 13-inch MacBook Pro. It weighs 3.5 pounds, making it the lightest MacBook Pro ever, Schiller said. Its price starts at $1,699.
Both the Mac Mini and the new MacBook Pro begin shipping today.
Schiller also showed off a sleeker and more powerful version of Apple's iconic desktop, the iMac. It starts at $1,299 and begins shipping in November.
Released only six months ago, Apple's newest full-sized iPad also got an update, getting a faster A6X processing chip, an improved camera and, like the iPhone 5, 4G LTE capabilities.
Apple's full-sized iPad has been a huge success and still dominates the overall tablet market, so why go small now?
The biggest demand for non-Apple tablets has been for less expensive 7-inch devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Google's Nexus 7 and Barnes and Noble's Nook. A smaller iPad would challenge these competitors head on, combining their popular size with Apple's killer features: the iOS operating system, Apple's app and media ecosystem, and quality design.
The Kindle Fire is great for buying books, movies and shows from Amazon, and the Nexus 7 has Google's well-stocked Play store for media and apps. However, tablets have proven they can do more than just entertain, and customers might be drawn to the quality and quantity of Apple's App Store selection. Developers have been creating top-notch apps for the iPad for more than two years. The smaller iPad's screen is expected to have the same aspect ratio, so those apps would work the same on the new device.
When the iPad came out, it was intended to be a consumption device. Ads for the tablet showed people reclining in various environments, clutching the iPad like a book. The spacious 10-inch screen was ideal for watching movies and TV shows, playing games, surfing the Web and otherwise consuming content.
That's how most tablet owners use their devices. Tablets are homebodies, used most often in the living room (30% of the time according to Nielsen) followed by the bedroom (21% of the time).
"Fully half the time they're using tablets, they don't leave the couch or the bed," said Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. "If you can do everything on the smaller iPad you can on the larger iPad -- that plus the added convenience of being able to take it with you more places could take the wind out of the sales of Amazon."
A smaller, lighter device is more portable, and people might not be as afraid of taking a cheaper tablet out into the big bad world where it would be less protected. That would also be a boost for Apple in the education market, which it has been courting heavily.
Machine Gun Kelly just released his Bad Boy debut album, Lace Up. In this documentary the Cleveland rapper gives us a behind the scenes look at the making of the project.
Meek Mill sits down with The Warner Sound's Shaheem Reid to decode track No. 2 "In God We Trust" off of his upcoming Dreams and Nightmares album.
"It's just about surviving in the streets - in God we trust for the love of the money," Meek says. "I seen a lot of young guys go to war. It was even times we was in positions where it was at war with the guys because they wanted to do something to us. If anybody wanted to do something to us we wanted to do something to them. And it might have been over one of the smallest money transactions that had nothing do with me, probably one of my friends. You gotta survive and participate in it. I just wanted to give them that one street joint nobody really giving out no more."
Lil Wayne will be releasing his I Am Not a Human Being II album just in time for Christmas on December 11th. It's the Young Money rapper's tenth solo studio album and he's calling on some big guns to handle the production.
During a recent sit down with MTV, Weezy ran down the list of beat makers on the project.
"Production on the album — I got people like Juicy J, Cool & Dre, David Banner on down to... I mean there's so many, shoot - StreetRunner, 'Ye," Wayne said. "It's crazy, actually I don't want to give too much up, but Yeezy got a big hand in the album, you'll see."
The last album Kanye produced on for Wayne was 2008's Tha Carter III when was behind the boards on "Let the Beat Build" and "Comfortable."
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