BILLBOARD TOP TEN RAP ALBUMS. (16/04/09)

10. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

9. GORILLA ZOE- DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS

8. JIM JONES- PRAY IV REIGN.

7. SLIM THUG- BOSS OF ALL BOSSES.

6. BOW WOW- NEW JACK CITY.

5. MIMS- GUILT.(12,400)

4. T.I- PAPER TRAIL.(19,500)

3. UGK- UGK 4 LIFE(26,400)

2. FLO RIDA- R.O.O.T.S. (31,700)

1. JADAKISS- THE LAST KISS(134,900)

A look at the charts this week.

Jadakiss, one third of the rap group, the l.o.x,sits at the number one spot this week with his latest work, "last kiss". He moves a total of 134,900 in his first week. This is a success, concidering the state of hiphop sales, and the not too high radio spins of any of his singles. I think people are starting to aprreciate pure lyricism to gimicks in the rap game.
If you check out an artist like flo rida that had a single, "right round" that broke records in its first week in digital sales(over 600,000), and then the album drops and he sells just 50k. Or a rapper like bow wow with all his teenage fans, and he debuts with his latest album and sells just 30k. Then you have to respect jada for the numbers he did in his first week.

Elsewhere on the charts, "mims" second album(guilt) does very dissapointingly on the charts. If you can remember, i predicted it would do around bow wow numbers, which is around 30,000. He did worse, and sold just 13,000k of his second album.

MORE ON THE 50 CENT AND RICK ROSS BEEF.

50 and ricky have been going back to back for a couple of months now. Ricky dropping verses almost every week, and 50 dropping cartoon disses and documentaries. Is it that 50 can no longer rap? Because this is meant to be a rap battle. The only diss verse i heard from 50, "officer ricky" was so wack. I could not believe this was the same 50 that dropped "get rich or die trying" 6 years ago.
To all the 50 fans, you can not call me a hater, because i am only speaking the facts. 50 cent might be top 3 richest hiphop moguls, but he is on a downward slide. You can't be untop forever. His last group effort(g-unit abum), 'terminate on sight" sold a total of 200,000 copies. That is very poor for a group that sold 3 million copies about 5 years ago.
Nas said...,"yeah you sold plat, lets you do it three times, four times...". The truth is, 50's rap career is dead and he knows it. That is why he keeps replying ross, so he can stay relevant. His album is meant to have dropped since last year, but he keeps pushing it back. Now he wants to wait till em drops his album, so that he can ride on the success of the album.
And just for more information on the ross/50 beef, def jam has already shipped 350,000 copies of the album(rick ross's album) to stores. That means we can see him doing at least above 200k first week.
Ross also has the part two of his song, "maybach music" featuring old 50cent enemies, "the game", "fat joe", and "jarule". 50cent is getting a dose of his own medicine. They would run him in the mud. Karma is a motha....

BILLOBARD TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS (08/04/09)

10. PLIES- DAREALIST.

9. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.(9, 964)

8. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTELLEM.

7. GORILLA ZOE- DON'T FEED DA ANIMALS. (10, 862)

6. JIM JONES- PRAY IV REIGN. (13, 700)

5. SLIM THUG- BOSS OF ALL BOSSES. (16, 900)

4. T.I- PAPER TRAIL (21, 300)

3. BOW WOW- NEW JACK CITY PART 2.(30, 944)

2. FLO RIDA- R.O.O.T.S(ROUTE OF OVERCOMING THE STRUGGLE.) (55, 356)

1. UGK- UGK 4 LIFE. (76, 600)



The dynamic duo of pim c and bun b(ugk) sit at the top this week, although, sadly, pim c passed on a couple of years ago, but this album had already been recorded before then, so there is one half posthumous in the group.


Flo rida is at second place. Dissapointing if you would ask me. With all the air play his single, "right round" has been getting, and also breaking records of selling over 600,000 digital copies in its first single, you would think he would sell more than he did. He is an example of a ring tone rapper.


Another dissapointing artist debuting on the charts this week is BOW WOW. Releasing his 6th studio album since he debuted in 2000 with his first album, "beware of dog", which sold almost 250k in its first week in stores. Bow wow doing 30k, recession or not, is a flop.


Albums to watch out for next week, are albums from mims and jadakiss(the last kiss). I would put jada at between 60k-100k. As for mims, i am a fan, but i think he does not have enough promotion right now. I put his first week sales close to what bow wow did.

CAM'RONS TOP FIVE DEAD OR ALIVE.

Yeah, the harlem new york rapper, gives us his own version of the top five dead or alive rappers in the game.
Check it out.


“As for Big, I met Big about two or three times through Ma$e, you know Ma$e took me to his house, I rapped for him. That’s kinda how I got my deal because after he passed away like he had told Un [Lance Rivera] about me and Un signed me after that.”




Tupac Shakur











“I kinda appreciated ‘Pac after he died. You know, they always say stuff like that but I got the Makaveli album soon as he died. I was like, “Yo this album is crazy” and I started going through the archives of his old stuff and I was like, “Wow.” I wasn’t into him like that when he was alive, but after he died I started listening to all his s**t.” And, I was like wow this dude is amazing.”




Nas











"As far as Nas is concerned, I grew up listening to Nas before we even started beefing. You know I wouldn’t say his latest stuff is my favorite even though I like a couple of things on there but you know like “NY State of Mind,” representing first album was one of the classics Illmatic."




Jay-Z











“Jay-Z’s first album also you know I liked his first two or three albums um as far as “Can I Live” stuff like that, you know vintage vintage Jay-Z definitely. He's (comparable to) Big, Pac of course they are two of the greatest. If somebody is rappin' or plays basketball or whatever and says somebody’s better than them, they don’t even need to compete."




Cam’ron











“With me, my word play is great. I could rhyme with anybody. It's like I did a song with Mariah Carey then next week with Ol’ Dirty Bastard or I could do a song with Bone Crusher and do a song with whoever you know, John Legend. I think that’s what makes me different also and then at the same time I been South like when I lived in Atlanta. I lived in Chicago. I lived in Ohio. I lived in Englewood, California for a couple years so me being throughout the United States you begin to see different things. I’ll be in Ohio and I’ll do a song with some people that you’ll probably never hear the song and never get to meet them but they take that like, “Wow we did a song with Cam.” Then on top of that, I’m just like a fly n***a too. Like you know my swag is a million like far as jewelry, clothes, anything. All that combined I think that makes me who I am."




Lil Wayne: Honorable mention











“Right now, (If I have to pick somebody other than myself), I would say Wayne, Lil Wayne. He gotta lot of versatility and a lot of stuff that he does, he rhymes off the top of his head. You know a lot of times people rhyme off the top of they head, but it doesn’t really make sense. They just rhyming of the top of they head. I think he’s one of the better artists that could rhyme off the top of they head and still make sense of what he’s talking about.”





On having highly publicized beefs with Nas and Jay-Z, but still respecting their skill:




“Is Kobe Bryant mad he gotta play Lebron James tonight? You know what I’m sayin? I’m not one of them people that’s beefin’ or battling with people and not gonna say who’s hot. That’s just a hater. Like if you think about like I said, not sayin that there stuff isn’t good now or whatever, but the vintage Nas and Jay’s first two, three albums was crazy. So definitely I would say (they are my favorites). It doesn’t bother me at all but I’m not gonna hate.

BILLBOARD TOP 10

10. YOUNG JEEZY.- RECESSION.

9. DOOM- BORN LIKE THIS.

8. GUCCI MANE- BIRD MONEY.

7. LIL WAYNE- CARTER 3.

6. SOULJA BOY- ISOULJABOYTEELEM.

5. PLIES- DAREALIST.

4. T.I- PAPER TRAIL.

3. GORILA ZOE- DONT FEED THE ANIMALS.

2. SLIM THUG- BOSS OF ALL BOSSES.

1. JIM JONES- PRAY 4 REIGN.

FAT JOE TALKS RECESSION AND HOW IT HAS AFFECTED RAP.

The bronx new york rapper, fat joe talks about how the recession is going to affect albums sales, and he also talks about the 50 cent rick ross beef. Fat joe is dropping his new album, j.o.s.e 2 may 19th.

"The recession has affected the whole entire globe," Joe explained. "Anyone telling you the recession ain't real is a liar. So the recession is too real, it's affecting everybody, you know, if people ain't got money how can they go to your show? If people ain't got money, how can they buy your record? Another way that it's affecting me is a lot of my friends are being laid off. They're coming to me like, 'Joe I'm messed up, what can I do' I try to help but I can't help the whole world...It really upsets me to know that so many of my friends are doing so bad during these times as well...In hip-hop, where do we draw the line...Notice he hasn't had a fight with nobody yet in every beef he's had in the universe. Disrespecting DJ Khaled's mom, that's not hip-hop. I haven't heard anybody that thought it was dope.


"Rick Ross is my brother," Joe said in an interview. "I'm just telling you [the battle] is a bit too much for me already...Nobody's scared of no 50 Cent. Are you nuts are something? 50's nothing, man. Nobody's scared of him, I mean, tell me one person 50 Cent has fought. All this hoopla and all this stuff he's doing, you tell me who he has fought one on one. Why should we be scared of this guy in the slightest way?"

"50 Cent just gotta make music," Joe said in an interview. "He does all these diversions and disses rappers to eliminate the fact that he's not really hot and relevant right now. So if two weeks ago we were talking about 50 Cent, what record or what would we really be talking about unless he disrespected Rick Ross...I'm tired of all these gimmicks and these games. This man's just gotta put out hit records. That's what we're doing...We making music. At the end of the day, we fell in love with hip-hop to make music and hit records."

The new project will have guest appearances by Ron Browz, Fabolous, Lil' Kim, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Raekwon, Akon along with production from Jim Jonsin, The Incredibles and The Street Runners. Cuts from the album include "One" and "Winding On Me." The album is slated to hit stores May 19, 2009.