Posted by Mr.I Get It on September 30, 2010 at 5:23pm
We saw a number of Hip Hop and R&B releases on the 28th of this month and by the figures, it looks like most of y’all skipped copping most of them. Here are the first week sales estimates:Lil Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being (90-100k)Gucci Mane – The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted (60-65k)Lil Boosie – Incarcerated (25-30k)Ice Cube – I Am The West (24-27k)Jeremih – All About You (15-18k)Source:HHNMRead more…
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 10:03am
Ciara is speaking publicly about her ongoing beef with Keri Hilson.
In a recent interview with Boombox, Ciara insists she will be taking the high road from this point moving forward.
"In reference to the Keri situation, I'm so in a different space mentally I can't even bring myself to do that," she said. "It's not [important] to me. There's just so much stuff to get out of life than that. There's so much more for me to accomplish in my career. Personally, I've decided that it doesn't make sense to do that."
It's never been fully explained what got these two upset with each other initially. But it is generally acknowledged that Keri fired the first public shot on her "Turning Me On" remix.
"Your vision cloudy if you think that you da best/ You can dance, she can sing, but need to move it to the left," Hilson sang.
Ciara fired back with the song "Basic Instinct (U Got Me)."
"I was out buying Chanel bags/While I was doing that you turned up your swag. You caught me slippin/But get your hustle on shawty I aint trippin. I been in the game since '03/You can try but you still can't do it like me," Ciara rapped.
It was later reported that the two got into an argument last month at the Power Live concert on Governor's Island. Hilson reportedly refused to perform afterwards.
But now, Ciara is looking past the b.s.
I'm very secure in my place and what I've done over the years," Ciara told Boombox. "I'm just trying to be as successful as possible. I do believe that thinking about stuff like that and giving things like that energy -- it can get in the way. It's not necessary. That's just my point of view. When you read about people having differences, it's case by case. Sometimes there [are] songs that make people think like that, sometimes there are rumors. You just never know where they come from."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 9:34am
When Hotlanta rapper-turned-movie star T.I. was arrested on drug possession charges earlier this month, there was a feeling of "haven't we all been here before?" But also genuine surprise.From ODB to DMX, Kanye to 'Pac, hip-hop performers have a chronic habit of getting busted for stupid stuff. Identity theft. Cruelty to animals. Wearing a bulletproof vest after being convicted of a felony. Rappers behaving badly have become one of popular culture's most numbing constants. After all, T.I. was already on probation when L.A. County sheriff's deputies stopped his $600,000 Mercedes Maybach on the Sunset Strip for what they said was an illegal U-turn and then detected what they said was "a strong odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle"; earlier this year, he served a seven-month prison sentence for attempting to buy a cache of automatic weapons and silencers.
But celeb watchers began scratching their heads after deputies reported that Clifford "T.I." Tip Harris and his new wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, were also in possession of "a small amount of Ecstasy" (in addition to weed and testing positive for codeine).
Since when do gangsta rappers dabble in designer drugs?
His bust arrives at a moment of renewed public scrutiny of Ecstasy, just three months after teenager Sasha Rodriguez's apparent overdose death from the drug at downtown Los Angeles' Electric Daisy Carnival helped reestablish E's reputation as a potential killer. The recently released annual report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reveals that Ecstasy consumption has jumped 37% in America over the last year. Meanwhile, rave culture has made significant moves toward the mainstream, with bleary, Euro synth beats becoming the dominant sound of both hip-hop and Top 40 pop. Coincidence?
But T.I.'s legal case also underscores another cultural groundswell, coming at a time when Ecstasy is reaching a kind of critical mass in hip-hop.
In the last three years, it's been shouted out in songs more than ever and, increasingly -- if lyrics are any indication -- washed down in the VIP room by some of rap's best and brightest. Just don't go looking for them to shout out Ecstasy by name. Codified references to "X pills" and "double stacks" (as extra large tablets are known), being "geeked out" or "feelin' myself" allow them to hide the drug's usage in plain sight.
Not that all rappers -- or, at least, the "characters" in their songs -- take pains to cover his or her tracks.
In 2008, hip-hop's most crazily free-associative and prolific MC, Lil Wayne, was arrested on cocaine and Ecstasy possession charges. Facing possible incarceration, Weezy nonetheless made his penchant for the drug known in 2009 with the paean "Pill Poppin' Animal." "Stickin' on a double stack, you're rollin' wit a rich boy!" Wayne exclaims (in one of the song's few lines suitable for publishing on a family newspaper blog).
Likewise, Atlanta trap rapper Gucci Mane has never disguised his fondness for Ecstasy, extolling rolling on a number of different cuts over the years. On 2007's "Pillz," he instructs the listener to "put that bean on your tongue," adding later: "I'm off three double stacks and I'm lookin' for that action."
Meanwhile, on his 2007 collabo with Young Jeezy, "Geeked Up," rapper Fabo vividly describes the borderline hallucinatory effects of taking X while driving through one of Atlanta's most famous neighborhoods: "I'm startin' to see spaceships on Bankhead / I roll with gangstas, pill poppers and dank heads."
Jay-Z says he's never tried the designer drug also known by the call letters for its chemical name methylenedioxymethamphetamine. And yet on his smash single "Empire State of Mind," he gives Ecstasy an explicit shout-out: "MDMA got you feeling like a champion /City never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien."
Or consider the recent efforts of Queens rap Barbie Nicki Minaj. On her club banger (featuring Lil Wayne) "Higher Than a Kite," Minaj devotes a throwaway line to Ecstasy's accessibility as well as its ubiquity. "You getting ill, I bet, poppin' a pill again," she raps. "I'm the island and I'm lookin' for Gilligan."
Time was when the drug of choice for rappers was either weed or booze (or, in certain cases down South, sippin' on "sizzurp"). And the notion of ingesting a powerful love drug one known to overwhelm a person's inhibitions, eliciting bro hugs and feelings of cosmic interconnectivity that are distinctly at odds with rap's dog-eat-dog mentality -- would have been as improbable as an MC wearing tight jeans.
But things began to change when Eminem burst on the scene.
In a 1999 Rolling Stone interview, the hard-rhyming pill-popper consumed no fewer than three Ecstasy tablets in the presence of an interviewer and then bragged, "I wrote two songs for my next album on Ecstasy."
Within two years, more and more references to the drug had spread across the mainstream. On Missy Elliott's 2001 hit album "Miss E So Addictive" (um, get it?), the rapper devotes the slow-burn chill-out cut "X-tasy" to articulate certain conditions associated with consumption. Such as feeling "so energized" and describing the artificial love vibes that accompany the drug. "Ecstasy, I'm willing to do all the things I said I wouldn't do /On Ecstasy, the feelin' makes me feel like I'm in love with you," Elliott raps.
More recently, such hip-hop subgenres as Southern California's jerkin' dance movement and hyphy in the Bay Area made widespread references to taking Ecstasy ("thizzing" in hyphy parlance). And this year, on-again-off-again A Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip portrayed an Ecstasy dealer in the Sundance Film Festival official selection about Hasidic X pill smugglers, "Holy Rollers."
But when it comes to laying bare the swirl of physical side effects, social ramifications and potential health ills associated with the drug, Tech N9ne's chopped and screwed ode to Ecstasy, "T9X," comes as close to an exegesis on the subject as any rap song has to date.
"10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, feelin' butterflies /My eyes dilate another size /Overwhelming sense of love got this nut so sprung / Walk up to a stranger, 'Can I suck your tongue?' " N9ne raps over an ominous beat.
After detailing how he has taken "five pills" over the course of an eve, the rapper catalogs certain physical sensations: "Tingling baby, got me feelin' like mingling, baby /This is hella 'Higher Learning' than Singleton, baby /One minute I'm cold, the next I'm heat /Get me some Big Red so I don't grind my teeth."
In the end, though, Tech N9ne pays lip service to the inherent dangers of taking too much. "It's pills and mo' thrills," he raps. "I'm lucky if I survive. I'm high!"
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:58am
Video After The JumpNew York (CNN) -- A Rutgers University student apparently committed suicide after an internet broadcast showed him in a sexual encounter, New Jersey authorities said.
Two other Rutgers students have been charged with invasion of privacy after they allegedly placed a camera in 18-year-old Tyler Clementi's dorm room without his knowledge and then broadcast Clementi's sexual encounter, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor's office.
Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton, New Jersey, are each charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for the September 19 broadcast, according to the prosecutor's office.
Dharun Ravi
Two more counts of invasion of privacy were leveled against Ravi for an attempt to videotape another encounter involving Clementi on September 21, the prosecutor's office said.
"If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity," Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick said in a statement Wednesday.
An attorney for the Ridgewood, New Jersey, family said Wednesday, "On behalf of the family of Tyler Clementi, I can confirm that Tyler committed suicide last week by jumping from the George Washington Bridge."
A status update September 22 on a Facebook page purportedly belonging to Clementi said: "jumping off the gw bridge sorry.""The family and their representatives are cooperating fully with the ongoing criminal investigations of two Rutgers University students," attorney Paul Mainardi added.
A law enforcement source confirmed to CNN that Clementi's wallet and cell phone were found on the bridge that spans the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York.
According to the New York City Police Department, the body of an unidentified male was recovered Wednesday afternoon from the Hudson River by the police harbor unit. The medical examiner will determine the race, age and cause of death, police said.
A Twitter post on the night of the videotaping believed to have been made by Ravi read: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."
It is unclear exactly how Rutgers campus police learned that a camera had been placed in Clementi's room and used to broadcast his encounter.
Both Wei and Ravi surrendered to campus police -- Wei surrendered on Monday and was released on her own recognizance; Ravi surrendered Tuesday and was released on $25,000 bail.
Ravi's attorney did not return phone calls from CNN.
According to the Middlesex County prosecutor's office, Wei apparently had not retained an attorney as of Wednesday.
If convicted, both could face up to five years in prison.
Raj Andeshna, 17, a senior at West Windsor Plainsboro High School North and a former classmate of both defendants, told CNN that the two were "terrific people."
"To know that two intelligent kids could get caught up in something like this is shocking to me," Andeshna said. "The only rationale I've been able to come up with is that they thought they were being funny -- but I really couldn't tell you.
"Without a doubt they must both be filled with regret and are distraught over what happened to Tyler, and as cliche as it sounds -- they are both good people," Andeshna said. "And they just turned 18 and they just went to college, and everyone slips up without understanding the consequences."
Molly Wei
But Parry Aftab, the founder and executive director of StopCyberBullying.org, disagreed.
"These young people had to have known the devastating effects of their actions," Aftab said. "And while they may not have foreseen death -- they had to have known how much pain that this would cause."
Police at the university, which has its main campus in New Brunswick, are investigating the case, university president McCormick said in his statement Wednesday.
"I deeply regret that today we learned from the family of one of our students that they believe their son has committed suicide. We are profoundly saddened by this report, and our hearts and prayers are with the parents, family, and friends of this young man, who had started at Rutgers this semester as a first-year student on the New Brunswick campus," McCormick said in the statement.
He added, "While there is a lot of information being communicated, we don't have all the facts in this case."
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 8:00am
Video After The JumpInterscope Boss, Jimmy Iovine and Aftermath Records CEO, Dr Dre held a press conference yesterday (September 29), in support of Doc's "Beats By Dre" headphones line.
Dre said it's possible 'Detox' could be done by Christmas."I'm working on it everyday," he said.
After the press conference, Soulja Boy, Lady Saw and Keri Hilson took the stage.
Soulja Boy made it rain while performing his biggest hit "Crank Dat."
Then Keri debuted her new single "Pretty Girl Rock" for the crowd. The song is scheduled for an October 12 release on iTunes.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 7:03am
In today's music world, hackers have become a big time menace to artists and record labels.
Full albums regularly leak at least two weeks before their release date, and various singles start hitting the net way before that.
Count Kanye West among the many artists who have had to deal with this problem recently.
Yeezy is so fed up with leaks of material from his upcoming album, he's cancelled the popular G.O.O.D Fridays series, hopefully just for one week.
West had been dropping original music for the last several weeks on Fridays as a way to say thanks to his fans.
He took to twitter to vent his frustration.
"Due to blogs leaking unfinished songs from my actual album I've decided to pass of Good Fridays this week
It's messed up that one hacker can mess everything up for everyone... I love to take a year to finish my songs and deliver them to you guys in there most completed form.
It would have seemed like since I give free music every week even the lowest form of human being would respect that enough not to leak unfinished songs from my real album."
Ye' did deliver some good news a little bit later:
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 30, 2010 at 7:03am
In today's music world, hackers have become a big time menace to artists and record labels.
Full albums regularly leak at least two weeks before their release date, and various singles start hitting the net way before that.
Count Kanye West among the many artists who have had to deal with this problem recently.
Yeezy is so fed up with leaks of material from his upcoming album, he's cancelled the popular G.O.O.D Fridays series, hopefully just for one week.
West had been dropping original music for the last several weeks on Fridays as a way to say thanks to his fans.
He took to twitter to vent his frustration.
"Due to blogs leaking unfinished songs from my actual album I've decided to pass of Good Fridays this week
It's messed up that one hacker can mess everything up for everyone... I love to take a year to finish my songs and deliver them to you guys in there most completed form.
It would have seemed like since I give free music every week even the lowest form of human being would respect that enough not to leak unfinished songs from my real album."
Ye' did deliver some good news a little bit later:
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 5:12pm
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Director Masar takes us on a hip hop trip through Harlem.
Artists like The Diplomats, Aaarabmuzik, McGruff, Sheist Bubz, 40 Cal, DukeDaGod and more are featured.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 2:30pm
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Singer Ciara is about to release her new solo album.
Combining model looks with a great voice and sleek dance moves, she has been a fan favorite ever since her debut.
In this Colin Tilley directed clip for "Speechless", Ciara sings about about how special her lucky man is.
'Basic Instinct' will be the 24 year old's fourth album and is cheduled for a November release.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 9:06am
Video After The JumpCoaches are supposed to set an example for their players. Things like sportsmanship and being a team player are what kids should be learning, and what parents expect to be taught when they sign their kids up for Little
League sports.
Apparently the coaches from two Houston area peewee football teams forgot all about that.
After two players started to scuffle during a game, coaches from both teams are caught on camera throwing blows at each other.
The brawl not only set a bad example for the kids, but it has also dashed their hopes for going to the playoffs.
League officials have ruled that both teams are banned from post season play, even though the kids weren't the ones acting like damn fools.
"I don't think it's fair," says 11 year old player Justin Guy-Robinson. "What's the point of playing if you can't go [to the playoffs?] I still can't believe the coaches actually did that in front of us because that just sets a bad example for us."
Justin sounds like he's a lot more mature than the grown men who have ruined the season for him, and the other kids.
The league should find a way to punish the coaches. Maybe by not allowing them to coach peewee football again, or by fining them. But the kids don't deserve this.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 7:13am
Video After The JumpAmanda Ware has been crowned Australia's Next Top Model, but not before a major blunder on live TV which saw host Sarah Murdoch announce the wrong winner.
Model-turned-television host Murdoch originally named Kelsey Martinovich, 19, as the winner but minutes later she was told via her earpiece feed that the actual winner was 18-year-old Ware.
Martinovich had already made an acceptance speech before a close-to-tears Murdoch realised a mistake had been made.
"I don't know what to say right now. I'm feeling a bit sick about this," Murdoch told the live studio audience.
"I'm so sorry, oh my God, I don't know what to say.
"This is a complete accident. I'm so sorry ... It's Amanda. I'm so sorry."
Murdoch, holding her head in her hands, said the original name was fed to her wrongly.
"This is what happens when you have live TV folks. This is insane, insane, insane," she said.
Martinovich was gracious upon hearing the mistake and hugged and congratulated Queenslander Ware.
Ware said she was ecstatic about the win, but admitted the situation was "like a bizarre dream".
"I was like really gracious for Kelsey, I was so happy she'd won," Ware said.
"And then she's like, 'Actually, Amanda's won' and I was like, that's a bit weird but woo hoo.
"I'll just go with the flow.
"[I'm happy] as bad as that is. Live television's always got mistakes. That was a big one, but it's all right, we got through it."
Murdoch said the competition was so close and the final tally literally came down to just a few votes.
Foxtel has confirmed Martinovich will be given a $20,000 cash prize and a trip to New York as compensation for the bungle.
As the winner of the show, which is broadcast on FOX8, Ware receives a modelling contract, a $20,000 cash prize, a car and a trip to New York.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 7:13am
Video After The JumpAmanda Ware has been crowned Australia's Next Top Model, but not before a major blunder on live TV which saw host Sarah Murdoch announce the wrong winner.
Model-turned-television host Murdoch originally named Kelsey Martinovich, 19, as the winner but minutes later she was told via her earpiece feed that the actual winner was 18-year-old Ware.
Martinovich had already made an acceptance speech before a close-to-tears Murdoch realised a mistake had been made.
"I don't know what to say right now. I'm feeling a bit sick about this," Murdoch told the live studio audience.
"I'm so sorry, oh my God, I don't know what to say.
"This is a complete accident. I'm so sorry ... It's Amanda. I'm so sorry."
Murdoch, holding her head in her hands, said the original name was fed to her wrongly.
"This is what happens when you have live TV folks. This is insane, insane, insane," she said.
Martinovich was gracious upon hearing the mistake and hugged and congratulated Queenslander Ware.
Ware said she was ecstatic about the win, but admitted the situation was "like a bizarre dream".
"I was like really gracious for Kelsey, I was so happy she'd won," Ware said.
"And then she's like, 'Actually, Amanda's won' and I was like, that's a bit weird but woo hoo.
"I'll just go with the flow.
"[I'm happy] as bad as that is. Live television's always got mistakes. That was a big one, but it's all right, we got through it."
Murdoch said the competition was so close and the final tally literally came down to just a few votes.
Foxtel has confirmed Martinovich will be given a $20,000 cash prize and a trip to New York as compensation for the bungle.
As the winner of the show, which is broadcast on FOX8, Ware receives a modelling contract, a $20,000 cash prize, a car and a trip to New York.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 6:30am
Video After The JumpA suspected pedophile was murdered by a girl of 14 who claimed he had pestered her for sex since she was 11, a court heard yesterday.Robert Daley, 45, was stabbed to death at his flat by the girl and her sister's boyfriend - hours after charges against him were dropped, an Old Bailey jury was told.
When arrested, the girl branded Daley a "dirty pedo". She told police the boy, also 14, had repeatedly stabbed him after he tried to grab her.
Daley was on bail after the girl's 16-year-old sister accused him of molesting her. On the morning on his death he was told there would be no charges.
That afternoon the alcoholic crack user phoned the elder girl - and she told him to stop pestering her.
The sister and boyfriend, now both 15, deny murdering Daley at his flat in Brixton, South London. The trial continues.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 6:14am
Videos After The JumpDrake hit up New York's Radio City Music Hall last night (September 28), and brought a few friends along with him.
Fans had to be thrilled as Young Jeezy "Unforgettable", Tyga and Jae Millz "Bedrock" and J. Cole "Who Dat" came out to perform with Drizzy.
This was the first of two sold out shows at Radio City. If fans are lucky they might get more surprise guests at tonight's show.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 29, 2010 at 6:14am
Videos After The JumpDrake hit up New York's Radio City Music Hall last night (September 28), and brought a few friends along with him.
Fans had to be thrilled as Young Jeezy "Unforgettable", Tyga and Jae Millz "Bedrock" and J. Cole "Who Dat" came out to perform with Drizzy.
This was the first of two sold out shows at Radio City. If fans are lucky they might get more surprise guests at tonight's show.
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