A LOOK AT THE BILLBOARD CHART.

Hello people? I have not done this in a while, as a matter of fact, i have been off my blog for a while now, and i know i have lost a lot of readers, but i'm back and better, and ready to continue serving you with only the best gist in hip hip/rap, and my take on them.

On the billboard chart, there are not really any new rap albums doing good, it's still same ol JAY-Z, EMINEM...

The YOUNG MONEY album "we are young money" did 21k this week, bringing it to a total of 232k after about a month. I am not looking at gold for this album, but i wish them luck.

Eminem re-released his RELAPSE album around the end of last year, and it gave the album a boost. I guess he is trying to get the album over 2 million copies sold in the u.s. This week, the album sold 17k, bringing the total to 1,777,000. I think it is still going to have a big problem going double platinum, because people hardly ever talk about the album anymore.

Jay-z on the other hand has a lot going for him; dropping two singles off his latest album in the last 4 weeks, which are getting heavy rotation on radio, and the videos also being played constantly on t.v. I think if he keeps on pushing, he might just make it to double platinum. This week, his 11th album, blueprint 3, sold 15k, bringing the total to 1,549,000.

The biggest disappointment to rap right now, 50 CENT sold just 7,300 of his 4th album this week, bringing the total to 365,000. I can't believe that an artist that was known for selling millions, and even once selling 1.1million in his first week, is finding it hard to go gold after just 4 albums in. I think people are just tired of the same old tactics that 50 cent uses to promote his albums; starting a beef with a well standing rapper, just before he drops his album.

the clipse are still on the charts, although they are not doing high numbers, but they have never been known to sell platinum, but they have always dished out quality rap music. Their new album, "til the casket drops" sold 2,900 copies this week, bringing the over all total to 62,000.

50 CENT EXPLAINS LOW PROJECTION ON ALBUM SALE.

I just knew 50 CENT would come up with an excuse for the low sales of his BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT album; why not just take the failure like a man. Me for one, i hate to blame anybody if i fail in anything.

50 has come out to blame the people that took the album overseas for leaking the album. Okay, even if they did leak it, every other person that is selling now had his/her album leaked before it was released. Jay's album was leaked, and it has gone plat, and hell it is still selling 30k plus a week; that would probably be what 50 would sell in his second week.

Eminem's album was leaked, and he has gone platinum, and we never heard him complain that the leak didn't make him sell like he planned to.

I predicted this in 2005; i said 50 would become irrelevant after his 3rd album. And just see how he is flopping with his 4th album; with all the promo he put behind it. I am sure JIMMY IOVINE would be tired of his ass by now. Or 50 is probably spending his private cash on his recent projects. I knew LLOYD BANKS and TONY YAYO didn't have their contracts renewed with INTERSCOPE records because they are no longer moving units like they used to. I wonder if JIMMY would want to re-sign 50 after this one.

I do not hate 50, i just like going in hard on him like this, because he was a very arrogant prick when he was at the top. He made more enemies than friends. Now he is selling the same amount of copies that the artist he used to make fun of. What a pity.

Below is what he had to say:


"With the actual outcome of the project, once the record leaks from the international plant, what more can I do,"
"I held the record long enough to get it to them, to mix and master it and for them to ship it and then it leaks from the plant internationally, I'm like come on, then that's it. They lost the ball. You know what I mean, if the numbers look funny to me, it's they fault,"

It is not your fault my ass...it is all your fault, and i hope you become humble after this.

NEWS ON 50 CENT'S BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT ALBUM.

I wonder if artist do not think of the power the titles to their albums have on the actual project before naming it. I remember when DMX named his 4th album, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, i just knew that the end of his career was not far away.

When 50 named his recent album, "before i self destruct", i wondered if he did not think of the impact of the title on the prject; i actually thought he was going to change the title along the way, but he stuck to it, and now look what has happened.

50 cent's album, which was finally released on tuesday, 16th nov 2009, after about 14 months of delay, has been projected to sell just about 160k. I think "what goes aroud comes around". I remember 50 making fun of artist that had this kind of first week sales. I pray for him that the album would atleast go GOLD, so he does not kill himself.

50 built his career on controversy, beefing rap veterans, because at the time he was selling millions; now that the chips are down, i wonder if he would still be as cocky as he is used to being.

OMG! I still can't believe this are going to be his actual numbers; and to think that JIMMY IOVINE had to pull some strings so that his 2 weeks itune sales could be included in the total first week sales, that is just a sorry case.

There are even sourses saying he might not even do up to 160k, maybe like 140k, OMG! I remember predicting his sales around 150-350k, i was actually thinking he would be somewhere in the middle. But i trust 50 and the machines behind him, they would make some further adjustments; buy some records to save 50's face.

I kind of knew all along that he wouldn't sell platinum(one million copies) with this album. I just wish him luck with his life after rap, because i know he would get frustrated and finally retire from rap.

Like an NFL coaching staff making in-game adjustments on the fly, Interscope's Jimmy Iovine and Steve Berman did some last-minute maneuvering around the release of 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct following worldwide Internet leaks weeks prior to the original street date. In rapid succession, they pushed forward the physical release date from Nov. 23 to Nov. 17 -- the soonest the CD could be manufactured and shipped -- while also working out a one-week exclusive with iTunes for the digital album, to take effect Nov. 10. In return, iTunes agreed to go against its standard policy and "locked" the album, with only the single available a la carte, selling 46k album downloads during the exclusive window. Additionally, the compilers of the charts agreed to include the initial iTunes sales in the total for first week of general release, which is now looking in the 140-150k range. That won't challenge Columbia's John Mayer, now a lock for #1 with 275-300k. (Hits Daily Double)

I think the tables have turned. And it is so funny that this is the same period that JARULE is trying to make a come-back in the rap game.

50 cent claims his album is perfect.

50 has been pushing the drop date of his latest album, before i self destruct, back for a while now. More likely because he knows he does not have the right buzz. But he has some words for the public.

"I feel like my album is as close to perfect as it's gonna get," he told MTV. "I'm reaching the point to where if I have to continue to write it, I'll be overkilling it."

"I could put lyrics to any melody. I can write a Rap song, I can write an R&B song, I can write whatever type of song. If you put a note on it where I can hear it, man, I can write that. We did that, and that's how I came up with that new cadence for 'Ayo Technology.' We did that a couple of times while we was on there working [on Before I Self Destruct]. It's fun that way to have him participate with me...Even if you ain't got the words. You're up there, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.' Tim will be like, 'I can't believe that. He was able to make everything I just made a noise into a real cadence.' I seen him take pens or pencils into a cup and put it into a shaker. I'm sure nobody else has shaker sounds like that. ... I seen some interesting things from Timbaland."