Videos After The JumpThe Hottest MC's In The Game list, voted on by MTV is completed. Was there ever any doubt as to who would be number one?Coming in at # 1 is Eminem
Eminem has dominated hip hop this year. His 'Recovery' album shot out the gate, selling 741,000 copies it's first week out, and is almost at 3 million copies sold in the U.S. alone.
At one point the album had an incredible 7 songs on Billboards Hot 100 Singles chart. With "25 To Life" # 92, "Talkin To Myself" # 88, "Cold Wind Blows" # 71, "Won't Back Down" # 62, "No Love" # 23, "Not Afraid" # 11 and "Love The Way You Lie" at # 2.
The Rihanna assisted "Love The Way You Lie" has dominated pop radio, spending four weeks in Billboards top slot.
Eminem also participated in what some have called the greatest hip hop concerts in history when he and Jay-Z paired up for the Home and Home shows at Detroit's Comerica Park and New York's Yankee Stadium.
The concerts featured guests 50 Cent, Dr Dre, D12, Trick Trick, Young Jeezy, Drake, Memphis Bleek as well as B.o.B., Kanye West and Beyonce. Proving that rap artists cauld sell out stadiums.
Coming in at # 2 is Jay-ZJigga simply shows no signs of slowing down.
The Brooklyn rapper didn't have an album out in 2010, but he rode the success of 2009's 'Blueprint 3', selling out concerts worldwide. He is regularly headlining shows that have traditionally been the sole territory of rock acts.
In November Hov is slated to open for U2 for the Australia and New Zealand legs on their 360 tour.
Add to that the success of the Home and Home concerts with Eminem, and it's easy to see why Jigga got the # 2 slot.
Coming in at # 3 is Kanye West.
West has really enjoyed a stellar 2010. In what has been a big comeback year for the Chicago rapper, following a 2009 that saw a lot of the media and some fans turn their backs on him after the Taylor Swift VMA incident.
While he doesn't have a chart topping song at the moment, Kanye has put out a number of fantastic joints via his G.O.O.D Friday campaign. He's also released two groundbreaking videos with "Power" and the short film "Runaway."
Add to that his great live performances at the BET Awards and Saturday Night Live.
West has proven why he is amongst the elite the game has to offer.
With a new album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' about to drop next month, 2010 will only get better for the Louis Vuitton Don.Coming in at # 4 is DrakeYoung Money has been very well represented on the Hottest MC's list this time around.
Drake is the third emcee from the camp to make the list, following Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj.
His debut album 'Thank Me Later' debuted at # 1 with 447,000 copies sold, and is closing in on platinum status.
Three songs from the disc, "Over", "Miss Me" and "Find Your Love" have achieved top 15 recognition on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The sky seems to be the limit for Drake as an artist. He is able to pull off the rare feat of making both R&B and Hip Hop joints, while keeping both audiences satisfied.
Coming in at # 5 is Officer Rick Ross.
Congrats to all the artists who made the list.
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Video After The JumpEver since BET dropped it's "Top Ten Rappers Of The 21st Century" list, it's been debated from coast to coast by critics, fans and artists, whether or not it is fair and accurate.St Louis rapper Nelly was left off the list. Even though his first two albums 'Country Grammer', released in 2000, and 'Nellyville' released in 2002, moved more than 15 million units combined.
Nelly sat down with Grapejuice.net to talk about BET's snub.
"It's a funny thing, you try not to take it seriously because obviously it is an opinion," Nelly said. "But when you look at things like that, what was the criteria? I don't get what it was being judged on. Some of it from what they were saying didn't make any sense. Cause it was like, they were judging one guy for this, then the other guy would come along and they would pretty much switch it around. I was pretty shocked, like one person told me, men and women lie, numbers don't. I wasn't expecting to be number one, but I thought I could have gotten mentioned."
Do you guys agree with Nelly? Should he have gotten a spot on the list based on his track record in sales and making hits?
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Video After The JumpKanye West's much hyped, highly anticipated "Runaway" mini movie made its debut tonight (October 23).
With a running time of 34 minutes, the clip, directed by Kanye himself is simply ill.
Visually dope, with a great soundtrack of songs that will be featured on Ye's new album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.'
So check it out below and tell us what you think about it.
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Audio After The JumpTony Yayo chopped it up with DJ Whoo Kid today (October 23).
The two talked about stars like Omarion, Ron Isley, Toni Braxton and Young Buck getting caught up with IRS problems.
"I think it's about having the right people in your corner," Yayo said. "One thing about G-Unit label is we always had accountants there to take care of the taxes. That's one thing I can say about 50 Cent is he taught us a lot about [how to handle] taxes. And that's one thing [Young] Buck did have. If you spend $100,000 in a matter of weeks. Of course your boss is gonna call 'yo you're spending a lot more money than I am, and I have a lot more money than you' I thinks that's what the issue comes down to is being with the right people."
The two go on to talk about 50 Cent's just completed $200 million dollar movie funding deal for his Cheetah Vision Films, T.I's legals troubles and a lot more so check it out below.
Also be sure to cop Yayo's new tape with Danny Brown titled 'Hawaiian Snow' on Amazon or iTunes.
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Police activity outside of Harbin Hall on the Georgetown University campusWhen students at Harbin Hall were rousted from their beds by Georgetown University officials at 6 a.m. Saturday, some thought it might be a cruelly timed fire drill.
It was something odder still: Campus police had discovered a cache of chemicals for making methamphetamines inside a room on the top floor of the freshman residence hall.
Police arrested three male students Saturday morning, hours after evacuating 400 students from the nine-floor hall.
Students struggled to reconcile the discovery of a suspected meth lab with their image of Georgetown, a prim national university with a scholarly and somewhat preppie culture.
"I would understand if someone got caught doing it. Making it, that's different. It's shocking," said Gina Park, 19, a sophomore from Hong Kong.
A Harbin resident called campus police about 5 a.m. to report a strange odor coming from a room on the ninth floor. Officers went to the room and found "chemicals consistent with a meth lab, but no actual drugs," said Officer Istmania Bonilla, a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman.
By 6 a.m., "people were going around pounding on doors, saying, 'You need to evacuate,'" said Natalie Muller, 18, a Harbin resident. Hundreds of freshmen poured out in the chilly morning air in pajamas and were sent to the dining hall and student center. Students were briefly allowed back inside the building three hours later, then ordered to leave again.
"We didn't find out until 2 1/2 or 3 hours later what was going on," said Katya Funk, 18, a bleary-eyed freshman in a sweatsuit. "It's been so much fun."
No student was harmed, said Julie Green Bataille, university spokeswoman. Three unidentified male students were held for questioning as displaced Harbin Hall residents milled around among rescue vehicles and drug-sniffing dogs. Gawkers included the university's Bulldog mascot.
Georgetown students, as with many colleges, are known for occasional binge drinking and casual drug use. Hard drugs are less common, students said, and a meth lab in a freshman dorm room was heretofore unknown.
"For this campus, this is very out of the norm," said Kayla Bostwick, 18, a Harbin resident. "This should not happen.
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As if he doesn't have enough problems to deal with, rapper T.I. now has a lawsuit on his hands.
The Associated Press is reporting that T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr is being sued by an Alabama promoter for failing to show at a 'Welcome Home' concert in May.
Carl D. Davis claims he paid the rapper's agents more than $50,000 for Tip to perform, but the Atlanta mc failed to show up.
Davis says he suffered chest pains, nausea, emotional distress and hospitalization when T.I. didn't appear.
No word yet on the exact amount Davis is seeking in damages.
T.I. was just sentenced to 11 months in prison for violating his probation.
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1. Intro (Pray For Me)
2. Aftermath
3. Role Reversal
4. Come Along
5. Mop Salad (Skit)
6. Sober Up (Feat. Crooked I)
7. Dessert 4 Thought (Feat. Styles P & Pusha T)
8. 1000 Faces
9. Inseperable
10. The Shoes (Skit)
11. Remember The Titans (Feat. Fabolous, Lloyd Banks & Royce Da 5′9″)
12. Welcome To Real Life
13. No Idea
14. Black Cloud
15. Follow Your Lead
16. Stuck In The Moment
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Here's the official tracklisting for Kanye West's highly anticipated new album as listed on iTunes. The album drops officially November 22.1. Dark Fantasy
2. Gorgeous (Feat. Raekwon & Kid Cudi)
3. POWER
4. All Of The Lights
5. Monster (Feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)
6. So Appalled (Feat. Jay-Z, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce & Swizz Beatz)
7. Devil In a New Dress
8. Runaway (Feat. Pusha T)
9. Hell Of a Life
10. Blame Game (Feat. John Legend x Pusha T)
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Video After The JumpLebron James may have taken a major hit in the Publics Relations department when he left Cleveland, for what he hopes are greener pastures in Miami. But one NBA legend says you can't knock his basketball ability.
Hall Of Famer Oscar Robertson, known in his playing days as 'The Big O', disagrees with Charles Barkley's recent assessment that Lebron will never be in Michael Jordon's league as a player.
"Is Barkley trying to say he thinks Lebron is not as good as Michael Jordon?" Robertson asks. "Come on, Lebron is in a class by himself. All this legacy stuff people talk about before a guy is even finished playing, is just tv talk. They talk about you, they burn your jersey... just grit your teeth and go harder. Keep going as hard as you can and wear 'em out."Read more…
"You know in more than one way cocaine numbs the brain/All I did was think about how the funds once came. Then I ran across this memory and it stung the brain/How can you ever destroy the beauty from which one came. That's a savage, you're the reason why me and these beats make a marriage/why I rhyme above average and I ain't sh*t. Glad you got yourself together no thanks to me/Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be/You must love me." - Jay-ZWhen Jay-Z rapped about love on his 1997 song "You Must Love Me." He was talking about the kind of unconditional love only a mother, brother or girlfriend can offer a person who's doing wrong and knows it, but can't stay away from hustling.
Fast forward to today. Hov feels like the rap game is in a similar situation. A lot of rappers are just following trends. Making ring tone garbage most people won't remember ten years from now. With only a handful of artists still working hard to not just sell records for right now, but also doing their best to make songs that will stand the test of time.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jigga talked about what the rap game's been missing.
"For us, this is the music that saved a generation. So there's a big responsibility for those who it saved to make sure that thing is intact for the next generation. We're the first generation that really took advantage of it, starting with Puff [Daddy] and Master P, guys who really made a name and became successful as entrepreneurs,
Even more than that, when you're under attack so much as a genre [as hip hop is], you're forced to come together. But probably the last time we really came together on something was working for Obama, lending our voice and the people we had toward that campaign. Whether he does a great job or not is almost secondary to what it did for the dreams and the hopes of an entire race. Just based on that alone, it's a success, the biggest we've had. Period. To date. It's Martin Luther King's dream realized. Tangible. In the flesh. You can shake his hand.
We have to find our way back to true emotion. This is going to sound so sappy, but love is the only thing that stands the test of time. "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" was all about love. Andre 3000, "The Love Below." Even NWA, at its core, that was about love for a neighborhood.
We're chasing a lot of sounds now, but I'm not hearing anyone's real voice. The emotion of where you are in your life. The mortgage scandal. People losing their jobs. I want to hear about that."
Hip Hop is definitely not dead, even though Nas tried to bury it several years ago. It just needs a shot in the arm to get it going back in the right direction again.
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Video After The JumpProbably the greatest debate among hip hop heads is who the greatest mc of all time is. If you polled 100 people I would bet 90% of them could name a greatest rapper in their mind.
One rapper who would definitely get top 5 dead or alive consideration is Nas. He feels like rap hasn't been around long enough to definitively name one the greatest.
"Somebody asked me who was the greatest mc of all time. And I think it's too premature, it doesn't make any sense," Nas said. "Like when you ask most singers who do they like, who were they inspired by. They might not say Usher, they might not say Trey Songz, they might not say Justin Timberlake. They might say Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder because they had the opportunity to look at these guys' whole body of work. And even if I say [LL] Cool J was the greatest of all time, no doubt he's the greatest. But when you put that title on yourself, it's almost like burying yourself."
What Nas says makes sense in a way, but I think based on what we have seen throughout rap's history, it's possible to choose a rapper who is the greatest of all time. At least until now.
What do you guys think? Do you have a # 1 above all choice? If so, who is it?
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Video After The JumpLloyd Banks continues to make rounds promoting his upcoming album 'Hunger For More 2.'
The PLK sits down with Rap-Up to discuss his Boi-1da produced collaboration with Eminem, "Where I'm At" which will appear on the album.
"Me and Em got a record called "Where I'm At" and it's crazy," Banks said. "Lyrically it's taking you to another place. I've had records with Em prior to this. He's been on my records and I've been on his album, but this is a unique record and it's powerful. There are people that are going to like it for a few different reasons. Because the subject matter is one thing, and the overall delivery, just the fact of us going back and forth. It's gonna be crazy."
People this album is going to be epic. Make sure you cop it November 22 from iTunes, Amazon, FYE, Best Buy and all other retail outlets!
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Posted by Mr.I Get It on October 22, 2010 at 6:03am
Lloyd Banks shares what it was like working with Eminem on the Boi-1da-produced "Where I'm At" from his third album "H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger for More 2)."Read more…
Video After The JumpIt's a Queens, New York thing, as Nicki Minaj nabs the # 6 slot on MTV's Hottest MC's In The Game list.
The Young Money rapper lands one spot ahead of her boss, Lil Wayne and becomes the first female to ever grab a spot on the list.
Nicki's rise to the top of the game is simply amazing, when you consider the fact that she doesn't have an album or groundbreaking mixtape out.
Her buzz has been built around her animated looks and wordplay, as well as countless features, where she has often outshined the artists who's song she appears on.
One of her most impressive moments came on the Kanye West track "Monster." Not only did Nicki hold her own against Yeezy, Officer Ross and Jay-Z, many will argue she had the best verse.
Nicki has shown she can also do it by herself, with the hit song "Your Love.".
Her debut album 'Pink Friday' drops next month, so it will be interesting to see if she can continue build on the momentum she has going so far.
Congrats to Nicki for making the list at # 6.
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