Fabolous and Ne-Yo to Do Collabo Album

There has been a rumor for a while now that Fabolous and Ne-Yo were getting together for a collabo album, sort of like what Jay-Z and R.Kelly did with the Best Of Both Worlds thing, and it just got confirmed.

Read below for more info on it:
When Fabolous' 2007 track "Make Me Better," featuring Ne-Yo, was burning up the charts, the Brooklyn emcee announced that he was considering doing an entire album with the R&B singer.

Now, it seems as though Fab will follow up with the plan, which was then described as something similar to Jay-Z and R. Kelly's Best of Both Worlds project.

“I think this year too I might be doing this project with Ne-Yo finally,” said Fabolous to XXLmag.com. “We’ve been in talks for a minute. It’s really sounding like it’s gonna get done. Ne-Yo is really hyped about it. I just fell back on it, but now I see the wheels are turning a little bit. I think we need that for the game. Some of the allure from the game is gone. You see people doing less numbers, so now let’s do some vanity projects where people are collaborating together.”

The entire project will reportedly be produced by Ryan Leslie, who produced Fabolous' "You Be Killin' 'Em" from There Is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music Mixtape and Ne-Yo's "Crazy Love" from Libra Scale, which features Fab.

Game- Purp and Patron Mixtape, R.E.D Album, and more

Right now i am listening to the Purp and Patron Mixtape (Game's new mixtape that dropped a couple of days ago), and i can say i am hearing a lot of maturity on some tracks, and a lot of versatility. I heard some old tracks, even though game claimed all the tracks. The track, "children story", i have heard it on one of his previous blackwall street mixtapes. Anyway, the mixtape has a huge buzz on the internet right now and i am happy for him. I think he needs something like this for them to give him clearance for his R.E.D album at Interscope.

His album is long overdue, and he needs to drop it before people start forgetting him. Game is everywhere on the internet right now, so i am going to bring up some of the news on him-
Game maintains that R.E.D. will still be executive produced by Pharrell and feature production from Dr. Dre, and that he's only a week away from settling on an official single. "I got a couple singles picked out. I talk to the label in a week and I'll play them the whole album and we'll come to an agreement collectively on what we should go with," he explained. "I got shitloads of singles for the album. So we'll see what catches and we'll roll with it." As far as collaborations, the former G-Unit rapper did reveal that Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa will make the final cut. "Oh yeah, Wiz is on the album, Chris is on the album. Pretty much everyone is on the album," he shared. "Whoever you could think of. Except Jay-Z and 50." (Rap-Up)

Hmm! I don't know, but i really would like if game didn't have to keep bringing up 50cent's name. You got talent kid, you do not need all that publicity by shouting out 50 name (in a negative light)...or maybe i don't know how the music industry works.

More news from game below concerning the R.E.D album-
"The R.E.D. Album is pretty much 95 percent done," Game explained in an interview. "Until I find a record that is just so amazing to me, and it's next level and doesn't sound like anything that's out, makes me feel comfortable with it being played on the radio... I won't give R.E.D. Album a date. At this point, it's pretty much in my hands. I had a meeting with Jimmy Iovine and the label heads about a week ago, and they gave me the green light to pick a date when I want. The album is so classy, that I can't sell it short with any single man. I wanna come with the right song, and make sure it's a song that's classic and iconic, and then we'll know." (Complex)

I wish Game all the best- he still is in my top 3 for right now (Nas, Jadakiss, and Game).
Below is more news on the PURP AND PATRON MIXTAPE and the R.E.D album- in fact, it is a full-length interview.

Game chopped it up with AllHipHop.com’s Founder Grouchy Greg and went into detail about how the massive mixtape came together, the possibilities of a collaboration with 50 Cent, his thoughts on Bloods in Hip-Hop and how a monumental track with KRS-One, Doug E. Fresh and Big Daddy Kane came to fruition.

All of this is to hold fans over until his fourth official LP The R.E.D. Album gets a release date.  According to Game, the mixtape is a throwaway until the real thing comes along. Check out Part 1 of this 2 Part interview.

AllHipHop.com: Congratulations on the success of the Purp and Patron mixtape. Your reps told me it has done about 200,000 downloads since you dropped it. 

Game: Ni**as is congratulating me on the mixtape all day, like a Ni**a just won the NAACP Award or some s**t. (Laughs). I got three albums, all of them are platinum. I can understand it. They aint gravitating to some nobody in s**t. But I have to be honest, I didn't think it was going to do all this s**t. I can't even begin to understand it. 

AllHipHop.com: How do you think the people at Interscope are feeling since the official album has been delayed? 

Game: The label, they talking about putting The R.E.D. Album out tomorrow (laughs). We had a conversation, I'm going to go play them the album next week. The label is already on board, that's why I put the mixtape out. 

AllHipHop.com: So Interscope had no problems with you dropping this double mixtape with all of those cameos? They gave you permission? 

Game: Gave me permission? Grouchy, Ni**as don't give me no f**king permission. I met with Jimmy Iovine himself, I told him what my ideas were as far as my project. Then he put the whole building at my disposal. 

AllHipHop.com: So there's like 30 some odd new songs out and that doesn't include this Hangover bonus you said you are going to drop. Didn't these songs take a lot of money to make, with the amount of guest appearances on this mixtape? 

Game: I'm from one of the most notorious cities in America. Over the years, throughout the early phases of my career, all the way up until now, I've developed friendships, so I can pretty much get anybody on a song as far as reaching out. Fab, Wayne, those are my dudes, along with Snoop. Me and Wiz [Khalifa] got tight in the last four or five months. It wasn't hard to put together the project, but the studio time, that was on me. I probably spent about $20, $30,00 working on this mixtape. But I just came off tour, I'm caked up, so we made it happen. 

AllHipHop.com: With all these guest appearances, what in the world can be left for your official album? 

Game: The album is nothing to be played with. It's killing the mixtape. The mixtape I threw that s**t out and Skee helped sequence in the right way. 

AllHipHop.com: Is there any conceptual theme to this album? I noticed the song you gave AllHipHop.com "The Kill," it seems like you are speaking to your fans a little bit different. To be honest it sounds more mature. 

Game: The album sounds like The Documentary on steroids. The only thing missing from this album is 50 Cent. As much as he don't like me and I don't like him - or we say that we don't like each other - it's the only thing missing. I worked with Dre again, Just Blaze is back on it, I worked with Swizz Beatz again, I worked with 'Ye (Kanye West) again, I got DJ Premier on the album, Pharrell is executive producing it. Snoop, Drake, Trey Songz, Chris Brown, E40, Big Boi, it's crazy. 

 

AllHipHop.com: You think 50 will ever go back and work with you? 

Game: I think 50 might. I think we might work together again one day. But I tell you what, it will be on his project first, not mine (laughs). 

 

AllHipHop.com: Has there been any dialogue between you guys or your camps in terms of figuring out a way to end the beef?

Game: There aint nobody to middleman the situation. It's going to have to be me and him. People would think it was a hoax or one of us was messing around with the other. We would really have to sit down, or it's going to be nothing. 

AllHipHop.com: It's obvious the fans are waiting for The R.E.D. Album. XXL Magazine did a poll among the fans to see what album they were waiting for the most in 2011. You won by a landslide, over a lot of rappers. 

Game: Of course. When it comes to albums, I don't disappoint. Like people can diss, bring up the "Change of Heart" s**t, say that I'm a fake blood. Like the "Change of Heart" s**t. OK, I went on there. That was me, I loved it, I had a ball. I was 17, that s**t was fun and I'd do it again today at 30. That was then. Ni**as say I'm a fake blood. But the Ni**as that think they are real bloods got their affiliation from me. I can dip in and out of any hood. Ni**as f**k with me man. I done paid my dues in the street. I don't have to try and be a "real" blood. I'm not out doing drive-bys, I'm at home with my kids. But as I elevate my life, my career, my family, I'm still the same person on the inside. If you push my button, I will break your s**t in half. Anybody will. If someone is testing your manhood, a f**king nerd will fight you. This album is me, I want it to see the light of day, not for me, but for my fans. They've been waiting on it. 

AllHipHop.com: You touched on you being a blood. And you dropped that cut "Soo Woo" with Lil Wayne, who also reps the bloods in his music. Do y'all ever worry about law enforcement messing with y'all since everyone is claiming one affiliation?

Game: I'll flip that question on you. Do you think the gang banging problem is realistically worse now than it was, when Ni**as like Snoop and N.W.A. was out? Why would anyone try to stop me or any of them Ni**as around the world who "think" they are bloods? Being a blood has become more a fad or a fashion for some people. Ni**as say blood and never seen it. Shit, I got Kim Kardashian and them on the mixtape yelling
"Soo Woo." It aint nothing. 

AllHipHop.com: How do you feel about that, seeing as though you come from the era and area when it was real? 

Game: I'm glad that being gang affiliated has become less violent. 

AllHipHop.com: You have Lil Boosie on a track titled "187." Man of all the song titles, "187"? Wow. He's in jail facing the death penalty over a murder. What was it like working with Boosie? 

Game: When he was going through trial, he did that for me and he was like "you can hold that. You are going to have the only Boosie verse and you might have the last Boosie verse for a long time." He looked out and I want everyone to know I am doing it for him too. I remembered I had it and I was like let me give the dude some light. I know that where ever he is, he got wind of it and he knows what's up. 

AllHipHop.com: Well it's pretty dope how much balance this mixtape has artist wise, with cats from The Bay, West and the East. Why is this always so important for you to have this amount of unity? 

Game: When have I not been a universal artist. When have I not named dropped my favorite artists? It's just who I am. When have I not payed homage? I got KRS, Doug E. Fresh and Big Daddy Kane on this album, on one track! A lot of the younger rappers aren't grass-rooted in Hip-Hop. They don't even know who Digable Planets is. They would think that was a special on A&E about the stars or some s**t. Ni**as don't go back to EPMD, Strictly Business or The Geto Boys, Tela, they don't know about the first Blueprint. Ni**as think Jay-Z had the first Blueprint. 

AllHipHop.com: So on the "History" track with KRS, Doug E. Fresh and Big Daddy Kane, you actually worked in the studio with them?

Game:  We was all in the studio at the same time. I got it on camera. Outside of meeting Dr. Dre, that was the best night of my f**king life. I will never forget it, and I am forever in debt, first to KRS-One, cause he put it together. Doug E. for being a good friend of mine and coming to the studio and my other homie Dougie D. who was like 'You got them in the studio? Let me call my man Kane!' Even KRS said 'Us three never been in the studio at one time, never."

 


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Rap Albums on Billboard Chart

Nicki Minaj is till the top selling rapper on the billboard chart this week- her Pink Friday sold 28,000 this week, bringing the total to 951,000 copies sold so far. That is just like 50k shy of platinum status.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from Kanye West is up next, with 22,000 copies sold this week. The total of sales of kanye's 5th album now stands at 962,000 copies sold.

Eminem is at a total of 3,489,000 copies so far off Recovery. The album sold 20,000 copies this week. This album has shown strength so far.

T.I's NO MERCY album sold 14,000 copies this week, with the total at 382,000 so far. This can not be compared to any of his previous albums, which easily did more than this in their first week in stores.

Lil Wayne's I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING album is still selling, and it moved 6,700 copies this week.The total of the EP is now at 704,000 copies sold.

The Christian rapper, Lacre sold 6,700 copies this week, with his Rehab: The Overdose album. The total is now at 22,000 copies sold.

Duo Producers Sean C and LV Commented on The Nas And Reakwon Collabo Track

The track title is "Rich & Black2, and it is to appear on Raekwon's upcoming album- Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang scheduled to drop later this year. The duo producers (Sean C & LV) that worked on the production commented on it.

Read it below:
'It's a crazy feeling to be a part in those two getting back together--just straight forward, Boom Bap type hip-hop. It's real simple with no frosting," says Sean C. "We wanted to give the emcees room to move. They got more than two verses--that's all I can say. Yall will hear it very soon. Everything has been finalized." (VIBE)

"It's pure hard drums and a couple strings in there. I can only say that it's just a head nod beat (pause). It's just one of them shits that makes you look like you just got punched in the face." (VIBE)

Hmm! It is cool to know that this OG's of rap can still make headlines like this.
Below is what rae had to say about the whole collabo:

"It definitely sounds like vintage Rae and Nas again," Rae said about their leaked track. "I [saw] Nas across seas, we had a show together, and we talked about a lot of things," Rae explained about how the two linked up. "We went from "A through Z ", how we felt about things what was goin on at the time, and by thegrace of God we was able to get this thing happenin' again. That was definitely one of the surprise things that I wanted to alert the fans with, just to let em know that my brother came up [for] air for me and I know through his busy schedule, in the back of his mind he was like 'Yo I gotta come up for Rae.'" (XXL Mag)

Hey guys! Do you guys like how i put up that nas and rae pic from back in the day...lol! I think that was from when they recording tracks together back in the mid 90's.

Jay-Z and Will Smith Developing Remake of "Annie" With Willow Smith

Willow Smith is signed to Jay-Z's ROC NATION label, and her father is Will Smith, so it is clear this girl is going places. Her boss and her father are currently working on the Remake of the 80's classic movie, Annie, which she is going to be staring in. Hmm! I think Will Smith is really using his muscle in Hollywood to a stretch- first his son played in the Re-make of Karate Kid, which was originally played by a white kid, and now, this thing with Willow.

I have studied the lives of both Jay and will smith, and the code they live by, which i also adhere to is that anything is possible as long as you put your mind to it. I am just really happy for the privilege this little girl has with a father like will, and THANK GOD  she has been living up to the hype

Below is the story:

Sony considering backing the movie-musical which would see Smith producing and Jay working on the music

Will Smith has already helped one of his kids become a movie star, producing last year’s The Karate Kid which starred son Jaden and took in over $350 million dollars in worldwide box office. Now, according to Variety, the former Fresh Prince has plans to develop another remake starring his daughter, Willow. The project this time out is Annie, the 1982 movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Shingle, is currently in talks with Sony.

Jay-Z, the head of Willow’s label, Roc Nation, is also involved. He is currently in conversations to work on the music of the proposed film. Jay would seem to have plenty of experience with the material having scored one of his most iconic hits when he teamed with The 45 King for “Hard Knock Life”, a song which sampled the song “It’s The Hard Knock Life” from the original film production of Annie.

Since the project is still in the early stages details are scant. But DX will keep you posted as more news becomes available.

Rap Albums On The Billboard Charts

This is the time of the year when album sales are the lowest, and it is evident on the billboard charts this week. Nicki Minaj still has the highest selling rap album on the charts, even though she sold just 32,000 copies this week. Her Pink Friday Debut is now at a total of 922,000 copies sold.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is next up- Kanye West's 5th album sold 25,000 copies this week, and he is now at a total of 941,000 copies sold. In just about 3 weeks from now, he would have gone platinum.

And the Great Pope of rap; the Elvis Presly of hiphop, none other than Eminem himself is up next. Recovery sold 21,000 copies this week, and he is at a total of 3,470,000 copies. From this, you can see that em is in a league of his own. It is like every other rapper is on on track, and he created another running track for himself. No other rapper has even gone double platinum in the last 24 months, and eminem is 3 times platinum going on 4.

The christian rapper, Lacre is up next with his new album, Rehab: The Overdose. Unfortunately, i know so little about this dude, apart from the fact that he is the highest selling christian rapper of all time. I guess i have to check him out.

T.I's NO MERCY album sold 15,000 copies this week, totaling now at 367,000. And Lil Wayne's I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING sold 12k this week, bringing the total sales of the album to 692,000.

Sheek Louch and Lloyd Banks are no where to be found on the charts; i guess gangster rap no longer sales. But i got to say that they did make lovely albums with their recent efforts.

Nas to Feature on Raekwon's Shaolin Versus Wu-Tang Album- Traclist Revealed

Yeah, Raekwon The Cheeef, one of the promiment members of the Legendary rap group, Wu Tang is about to drop his latest album, since his highly successful 2009 album, Only Built For Cuban Linx2. The new album is going to be titled "shaolin versus wu tang". I already know is is going to be just as good as the last one.

Read more on the album below:
Black Thought, Nas and Rick Ross give Chef Rae some surprises on his third project in the last two years.

Wu-Tang Clan emcee Raekwon is expected to release his latest solo album, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang on March 8, 2011. The Staten Island, New Yorker's latest album is heavy on guest appearances, which includes the likes of Def Jam stars Nas, Rick Ross and Black Thought. Wu features come courtesy of Inspectah Deck, Method Man and longtime collaborator Ghostface Killah.

The tracklisting to Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang is as follows:

1. Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang
2. Every Soldier In The Hood (feat. Method Man)
3. Silver Rings (feat. Ghostface Killah)
4. Ferryboat Killaz
5. The Scroll
6. Masters Of Our Fate (feat. Black Thought)
7. Rich And Black (feat. Nas)
8. Butter Knives [Prod. by Bronze Nazareth]
9. Crane Style (feat. Busta Rhymes)
10. Chop Chop Ninja (feat. Inspectah Deck & Estelle)
11. From The Hills (feat. Method Man & Raheem DeVaughn)
12. Last Train To Scotland (feat. Lloyd Banks)
13. Rock N Roll (feat. Jim Jones, Ghostface Killah, & Kobe)
14. Molasses (feat. Rick Ross & Ghostface Killah)
15. Dart School
16. Snake Pond
17. Wu Chant (Outro)

It is great to know that nas would be featured on the album...that, i would be looking out for. Anything new from nas, whether it being his project, or someone else's is always a blessing to me.