Kanye West and Jay-Z, together known as The Throne, rule the charts for the second week in a row with their album "Watch The Throne."
The album moved 177,000 units to grab the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The two week sales total for the album now sits at 613,000.
Rounding out the top five are Adele "21" (No. 2), "Now 39" compilation (No. 3), Luke Bryan "Tailgates & Tanlines" (No. 4), and Jason Aldean "My Kinda Party" (No. 5).
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Prodigy of Mobb Deep put in a lot of work recording music and videos prior to going to prison.
Now back home, Illuminati P, lets loose one of those videos for "Serious (The New Message)."
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Rocksmith and Kendrick Lamar link up to provide a video for "A.D.H.D."
The song appears on Kendrick's new album 'Section.80.'
Despite not being part of the Shady Records camp anymore Obie Trice, has remained close to former mentor Eminem.
The two have been working together on tracks for Obie's upcoming album 'Bottles Up.'
Obie told XXL that at least two songs between the two will make his album.
“It could be more [than two Eminem-featured songs],” Trice told XXL.
Eminem and Dr. Dre will also produce tracks for the project, which is expected to be available January 2012.
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This story doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.
Yesterday reports surfaced of a split between Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. Not soon afterwards the Smiths released a joint statement denying the reports.
"Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false," the Smiths said. "We are still together, and our marriage is intact."
Rumors of an affair between Pinkett-Smith and her Hawthorne co-star also surfaced. Jada's rep also shot that notion down.
"Everything about Jada and Marc Anthony is false," Pinkett Smith's rep said yesterday.
However, new reports have surfaced this morning giving more insight into the situation.
TMZ is reporting that Will had become increasingly suspicious of his wife's relationship with Anthony. The actor supposedly left a movie shoot early only to find Anthony and Pinkett-Smith together. He then reportedly left the house crying.
TMZ is also reporting that a source tells them that a split between the couple is "definitely a possibility" but they haven't gone that route yet, although the couple has been living seperate lives.
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While Kim Kardashian was enjoying her dream wedding to Kris Humphries this past weekend, plenty of people were looking at a piece of her explicit history.
TMZ is reporting that over 2 million people watched Kim's sex tape with ex-boyfriend Ray-J, the day she got married and the morning after. Normally the video is viewed about 300,000 times a month.
The good people of Ireland topped the most viewed region list.
But don't feel too bad for Kim, she banked a reported $18 million dollars through licensing of video footage and photographs of her wedding, so she's probably not too worried.
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Mobb Deep has been hard at work in the studio since Prodigy's release from prison in March. The end result will be a brand new album by the end of the year.
Prodigy let the cat out of the bag during a recent interview with Bootleg Kev.
"We'll be dropping a single soon for the album," P said. "That's the only thing we're focused on is the Mobb Deep album. It will be [released] before the new year. Just know it's that hard sh*t."
Other than frequent collaborator The Alchemist, Illuminati P wouldn't reveal any features or guest producers on the project.
The new disc will be Mobb Deep's eighth studio album, their first since 2006's 'Blood Money.'
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Lil Wayne releases visuals for the third single off of his upcoming album 'Tha Carter IV.' which goes on sale Monday August 29.
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VladTV caught up with Illuminati P and French Montana as they laid down some new music.
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Jasmine Villegas was lucky enough to get her hands on a pair of 50 Cent's new SMS Audio headphones.
The 17-year old singer/actress posted a couple of pics of herself sporting the headphones and announced that she will be wearing them in her upcoming video for "Just A Friend."
The new headphones will be available very soon. We'll keep you posted.
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This morning news broke that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith were breaking up their 13-year marriage.
In Touch Weekly reported the story first and other news organizations picked up on it from there.
The story prompted Will's 18-year-old son, Trey, to take to his Twitter account to deny his dad was splitting from his step mom.
"Will and Jada getting a DIVORCE ..NOT TRUE AT ALL !!," Trey wrote. "No they did NOT split ! False information."
Shortly afterwards Jada and Will issued a joint statement.
"Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false," Smith's publicist said in a statement. "We are still together, and our marriage is intact."
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An earthquake centered 340 miles south of New York sent thousands of people running out of swaying office buildings across the city and briefly grounded flights at Kennedy and Newark airports.
It was the first major quake to hit New York in decades.
The initial government estimate was that the quake's magnitude was 5.9 on the Richter Scale with an epicenter located in Mineral, Va., near Richmond.
The quake, which hit at 1:51 p.m. and lasted only a few seconds, was felt up and down the Eastern Seaboard - as far north as Toronto.
"Wow, that was scary," said Nathan Buck, 41, a filmmaker who was editing an internet video on the 7th floor of a pre-war building in Harlem.
"I saw my globe start to wobble. At first I thought - is it me? Then a pile of CDs came crashing down."
In New York, City Hall and police headquarters were evacuated.
No problems were reported with the MTA's bridges and tunnels or the subway, but flights at Newark and Kennedy Airports were briefly delayed as a precaution.
Gov Cuomo said there was no damage to the power grid or the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
Thousands of frightened workers congregated on city sidewalks, afraid to return to their jobs for fear of aftershocks.
Frightened New Yorkers flood the downtown streets
Mayor Bloomberg said he thought his desk in City Hall began shaking because of major construction in the historic building.
He and staffers hurried from the building, pouring down the iconic front steps and urging each other to run faster from what some feared was a building about to explode.
As it became clear that the shaking was not just limited to City Hall, the mayor and his aides relaxed and began joking.
"It could have been an exploding story in a tabloid for all I know," the mayor quipped.
"We so far have no reports of any damage any place and let's just hope that nobody got injured or killed in this."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly was in the NYPD's 14th floor executive command center planning a 9-11 memorial service.
"We felt a rumbling and the floor shaking underneath," said his spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.
Mary Lupoli, 64, a supervisor in the NYPD's public inquiry office at 1 Police Plaza, said she thought the worst when the evacuation order came
"I kind of thought it could be a terrorist attack. It's THAT time," she said.
The 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan began swaying and hundreds of people fled into the street.
There were no initial reports of serious damage.
The FDNY was investigating a report of a partial collapse of a water tower on a rooftop in Red Hook.
In downtown Brooklyn, office workers streamed out of buildings and big crowds formed on the sidewalks as people milled around, confused or scared to go back inside.
Cell networks were overwhelmed, so people lined up to use payphones.
"Everything was shaking - your desk, the doors, the windows. We just ran out," said Denise Bluger, 40, an administrative worker from Queens Village.
"It was the first time I ever felt anything like that. It was like, 'Oh my God, is this building about to fall down?'"
Marc Lieberman, 50, a paralegal who lives on the upper East Side, felt everything sway in his 23rd floor office.
"The room moved. I moved. It was just weird," he said. "So we just got the hell out."
Belinda Bryant, 48, of the Bronx, who works on the fourth floor of 16 Court St. in Brooklyn, said she wasn't going back inside.
"You know there is an aftershock, so I know I'm not staying around here," she said. "Now I'm glad we practice fire drills."
In Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Ted Lewin, a 76-year-old children's book illustrator, said he still queasy 20 minutes after the sickly swaying stopped.
"I still can feel it in my stomach a little bit. It's really funny what it does to you," he said.
In Washington, DC, the Pentagon and Capitol - along with most of the downtown buildings - were evacuated.
People stand in the street in downtown Washington after office buildings where evacuated following an earthquake in the Washington area
The quake was also felt on Martha's Vineyard where President Obama was playing golf when it hit.
The last big earthquake felt in New York was in 1992, when a 4.7 magnitude quake shook buildings.
The biggest earthquake to ever hit New York was a 5.2 temblor on Aug. 10, 1884. It knocked down some chimneys.
Sources: New York Daily News, CNN and USA Today
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A bride in her wedding dress runs from the courthouse in Lower Manhattan in New York
Office workers gather on a sidewalk after their building was evacuated following an earthquake in New York.
People who came out on the street after an earthquake look up at a window that cracked during the quake on Market Street in Philadelphia
People gather outside of their buildings after being evacuated following an earthquakein New York City.
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The Codeine Cowboy aka Tity Boi 2 Chainz, recruits one of the south's best young rappers in Big K.R.I.T. and one of it's all time greats in Bun B for this latest video.
The trio give a lesson in pimping 101.
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Families attending a championship soccer match at Santos Laguna stadium in Torreon, Mexico on Saturday (August 20) had to duck for cover as a violent gun battle took place just outside the stadium.
The game between Monarcas of Morelia and Santos Laguna was halted at the 40-minute mark as players and coaches ran for the dressing rooms.
"This doesn't sound good," the announcer says in Spanish according to the L.A. Times. "Let's hope this doesn't get out of control."
People in the stands can be heard whimpering as the gunshots continued. Luckily nobody was injured, but the incident further illustrates Mexico's continued battle against gun violence.
The Mexican Soccer Federation issued a statement Monday trying to assure fans that going to games is still safe.
"It is clear that the incident that occurred on Saturday at the stadium had nothing to do with internal matters or soccer," Decio de Maria said. "Although it can be improved,[the security] was very effective in controlling a situation that could have turned out much more disastrously,"
Over 40,000 people have been murdered in Mexico over the last five years. Almost all of the killings have been drug related.
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T.I. still has several weeks to go before he is released from prison, but according to DJ Drama, the Atlanta rapper has been keeping busy while behind bars.
"TIP's good, I talked to him via e-mail about 2 weeks ago, told him I have a record for him," Drama told Montreality. "He should be home in a couple weeks, he's ready to get back to work. I know he has a book in the works, and definately the music, expect some good records."
Tip's plans to write a book were first revealed last July by Sandra Rose. Those plans were temporarily derailed by his latest trip to prison, but it looks like everything is still a go.
In a letter to his fans last week, the Grand Hustle CEO promised to start from scratch once he's released.
"Next time you hear from me I’ll be back out there with you. Doing for those who can’t do for themselves and speaking for those whose voices are never heard," he wrote. "When I touch down, I’m going all the way back to square one, like I’m fresh in the game and never sold a record. Back on some I’M SERIOUS, TRAP MUZIK sh*t… But until then RESPECT to all who deserve it. I’ll be back at you in a minute."
No word on the type of book T.I. is writing, or a release date. We'll keep you posted.
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