=== MAIN STORIES === - TMZ reports that the booty call txt msg that triggered the assault of rihanna by chris brown was sent from his 40 yr old manager tina davis. It is rumored that the two have dated in the past.
- Coolio is facing 3 yrs in jail after being charged with crack cocaine possession following last weeks arrest at LAX Airport.
- 50 Cent has released stills from a sextape which features rick ross's other baby other - Brooke, the professional escort.
- Allhiphop.com's illseed reports there is a fake lil wayne from philly who is making a small fortune by booking shows as lil wayne.
2008 was definitely the biggest year for collaborations, here are the artists who put in the most work and the estimated number of tracks they recorded that saw a release.
The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Valerie Lora, this weeks show features:
=== NEW RELEASES ===
Ghostface Killah - GhostDeini The Great Plies - Da Realist Soulja Boy: iSouljaBoyTellem Freekey Zekey - Henny And A Cigarette Jamie Foxx - Intuition Keyshia Cole - A Different Me The Best Of Killah Priest and A Prelude To The Offering Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All Hear-It-First.net's Mixtape of the Week is "DJ Dave - The Boss (Pt. 2)"
=== BILLBOARD 200 ===
Last week’s album sales courtesy of NEILSEN’s SOUND SCAN:
1. Beyonce - I AM SASHA FIERCE 159,173 | 1m 2. Kanye West - 808s & HEARTBREAK 126,827 | 719,900 3. Musiq SoulChild - ON MY RADIO 91,498 | NEW ENTRY 4. Common - UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL 81,663 | NEW ENTRY 5. Brandy - HUMAN 72,772 | NEW ENTRY 6. Akon - FREEDOM 63,033 | 173,894 7. Ludacris - THEATER OF THE MIND 53,078 | 332,499 8. Avant - AVANT 51,971 | NEW ENTRY 9. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 46,292 | 1.3m 10.Rihanna - GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 37,106 | 2.1m
=== TOP FIVE ===
This week’s top 5 selling digital songs on iTunes:
# 5 Beyonce - "If I Were a Boy" # 4 T.I ft Rihanna - "Live Your Life" # 3 Kanye West - "Heartless" # 2 Kanye West again - "Love Lockdown" # 1 Beyonce's - "Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)"
1. Changes - Tupac 2. Black President - Nas 3. My Presidents Black - Young Jeezy ft Nas 4. Waiting To Change The World - Twista, Joe Budden & John Meyer 5. Letter To Obama - Joell Ortiz ft Dante Hawkins 6. Letter To Obama - Square Off 7. Change - Freeway 8. Mr President - LL Cool J ft Wyclef 9. Open Letter To Obama - Jin 10.Crush On Obama - Obama Girl
The whole world watched as a Record number of voters turned out to elect 47year old Barack Obama , the first African American President with 53% of the votes to John McCains 46%.
Celebrations took place across the universe, CNN featured a Will.i.am hollogram, Jesse Jackson & Oprah cried and every rapper made a youtube obama victory speech video. Earlier in the week in an interview with MTV, Sway asked Obama about his thoughts on banning sagging pants:
We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, getting health care, dealing with the war in Iraq. "Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You're walking by your mother, your grandmother, and your underwear is showing"
50 Cent teamed up with Bette Midler to Launch "The Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson Community Garden" in his hometown of Queens, New York.
and finally Jay Z is contemplating running for Mayor of New York City in 2009!
===NEW RELEASES=== Q-Tip - The Renaissance Big Shug - Other Side of the Game Fat Pat - I Had a Ghetto Dream Little Brother - Separate But Equal (Drama Free Version) Sadat X - Generation X J-Boogie - Jae Hood: The Book Of Joshua 2008 A.D (Life After D-Block) DJ Skee Presents: Evidence - The Layover Mixtape
===NEW MUSIC=== Top 10 Best Obama songs:
1. Changes - Tupac 2. Black President - Nas 3. My Presidents Black - Young Jeezy ft Nas 4. Waiting To Change The World - Twista, Joe Budden & John Meyer 5. Letter To Obama - Joell Ortiz ft Dante Hawkins 6. Letter To Obama - Square Off 7. Change - Freeway 8. Mr President - LL Cool J ft Wyclef 9. Open Letter To Obama - Jin 10.Crush On Obama - Obama Girl
===NEW MUSIC VIDEOS=== Ludacris ft. T-Pain One More Drink Jadakiss ft. Ne-Yo By My Side Consequence - Job Song Kool keith Featuring Denis Deft "Executive Suites" 50 Cent - Get Up Freeway Change Akon - Right Now (Na Na Na)
===WTF MOMENT OF THE WEEK=== Lil Obama
==BILLBOARD 200=== NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:
1. John Legend - EVOLVER 132,823(NEW ENTRY) 2. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 76,560 | 1million 3. Jennifer Hudson - JENNIFER HUDSON 31,752 | 386,719 4. Ne-yo - YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN 26,574 | 548,027 5. Lil Wayne - THA CARTER III 23,037 | 2.6m 6. Rihanna - GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 20,070 | 1.9m 7. Young Jeezy - RECESSION 17,412 | 578,973 8. Leona Lewis - SPIRIT 15,964 | 1.2m 9. Jazmine Sullivan - FEARLESS 14,972 | 192,078 10.The Game - LAX 14,121 | 545,974
==TOP FIVE SONGS=== Here are this weeks top 5 selling digital songs on iTunes:
# 5 TI - "Whatever You Like" # 4 Akon - "Right Now (Na Na Na)" # 3 Beyonce - If I Were a Boy # 2 T.I feat Rihanna - "Live Your Life" # 1 Kanye West - "Heartless"
===CREDITS=== A JumpOff.TV Production (www.jumpoff.tv)
The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Wahidah Fowler, this weeks show features:
===MAIN STORIES=== -Alicia Keys leads the American Music Award nominations with 5, followed by Lil Wayne & Chris Brown who have 3 each. -Beef has been sparked between Yung Berg & Ne-Yo, after Ne-Yo said that he'd slap berg and that his music was not original in an interview with Power 106's big boy. -50 Cent's new MTV reality show "The money and the power", which aims to find the next hip hop mogul will air next month -Comedian DL Hughley has a new saturday night comedy talk show on CNN starting Oct 25th -Comedy Central launched - Chocolate news -a new black comedy sketch show hosted by david alan grier. -Diddy adds 2 more names to his "Cross Me and I Will End Your Career" List. In the live finale of Makin The Band 4 he kicked out both Aubrey and D Woods from Danity Kane. -Suge Knights ex-girl friend is missing -DJ AM, survivor of the travis barker plane crash will be JayZ's tour DJ -Former 106 & park host Free will be joining ed lover as co-host for the morning show on new yorks power 105.
===NEW RELEASES=== Diamond D - The Huge Hefner Chronicles Trae - The Beginning Charles Hamilton - "It's Charles Hamilton" B.O.B - Hi! My Name Is B.O.B. DJ Green Lantern, Russell Simmons and Barack Obama- YES WE CAN: The Mixtape Killa Army Presents - 9th Prince - Prince of New York C-Rayz Wallz - Freestyle vs. Written Ticketmaster Tapes Presents: T-Pain - The Ringmaster Baby J - Babyfood
===NEW MUSIC=== Town Bizness ft Too $hort - "Redbull & Vodka" Maino feat. Soul ll Soul - However Do You Want It Lil Wayne Ft. Ashley Williams - Mrs. Officer (Remix) Cam'Ron- Oh No You Didn't Kanye West - Cold Winter Joe Budden,Twista,John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change 2008″ Eminem - "Im Havin a Relapse" E-40 ft. The Game and Snoop Dogg - "Pain No More"
===NEW VIDEOS=== Beyonce - Single Ladies Beyonce - If I Were a Boy Plies - Heard of Me T-Pain ft Ludacris - Chopped N Skrewed Q-Tip - Move Pitbull ft Lil Jon - Krazy Mike Jones ft Trey Songz & Twista - Cuddy Buddy
==BILLBOARD 200=== NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:
1. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 176,714 | 746,075 2. Jennifer Hudson - JENNIFER HUDSON 62,672 | 280,392 3. Ne-yo - YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN 46,904 | 450,356 4. Robin Thicke - SOMETHING ELSE 38,317 | 175,521£ 5. Lil Wayne - THA CARTER III 27,229 | 2.5m 6. Jazmine Sullivan - FEARLESS 26,963 | 134,872 7. Young Jeezy - RECESSION 26,801 | 516,476 8. Rihanna - GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 23,804 | 1.8m 9. The Game - LAX 20,809 | 496,829 10.Joe - JOE THOMAS NEW MAN 12,080 | 91,026
==TOP FIVE SONGS=== Here are this weeks top 5 selling ringtones on iTunes:
# 5 Chris Brown - Forever # 4 Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy # 3 is T-Pain ft Lil Wayne with "Cant Believe It" # 2 T.I - "Whatever You Like" # 1 T.I feat Rihanna with "Live Your Life"
===BRANDWATCH=== - Common & Microsoft - SubwayFreshBuzz.com Stereotypes
===CREDITS=== A JumpOff.TV Production (www.jumpoff.tv)
The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Valerie, this weeks show features:
===MAIN STORIES=== McCain's "That One" reference to Obama during the 2nd Presidential debate has angered many African Americans who have accused him of being a racist, here are reactions from Diddy & Scarface. Lil John has signed a multi-faceted deal with Universal Republic Records, where his role will range from Artist, producer and A&R exec for his own label imprint. Esquire Magazine has named 42 year old actress Halle Berry as the sexiest woman alive. Eminem beat Jay Z in the final of vibe magazines best rapper alive online poll. After weeks of denial Rick Ross has finally admitted that he used to be a corrections officer in miami. Jim Jones has dissed T.I stating that "he doesnt posses any swag, its all fabricated".
===NEW RELEASES=== Devin the Dude - Landing Gear Jake One - White Van Music Sway - the signature LP MF Doom - Operation Doomsday Cage - The Best & Worst of Cage Tapemasters Inc & DJ Envy - Purple Codine 19 DJ Krazee Rae & DJ Hitz - D-Block: Street Heroes
===NEW MUSIC=== Sophia Fresh ft. Kanye West - What It Is M.I.A ft Jay Z - Boys Remix Cassidy ft. Murda Mook - Expect The Unexpected Ludacris ft. T-Pain - One More Drink T-Pain ft. Chris Brown- Freeze Timbaland ft T-Pain & Missy Elliott - Talk That Shit Beyonce - Single Ladies(Put A Ring On It) Plies ft Chris J - Put It On Ya
===NEW VIDEOS=== Kanye West - Love Lock Down Ciara ft T-Pain - Go Girl COMMON ft Pharrell - UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows Pussy Cat Dolls ft Missy Elliott - Whatcha Think About Tony Yayo - Do It Right (Feat. Max B & French Montana) Nas ft Chris Brown & The Game - Make the World Go Round
===WTF MOMENT OF THE WEEK=== Sway Da Safo from the UK
==BILLBOARD 200=== NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:
1. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 568,383 (New Entry) 2. Jennifer Hudson - JENNIFER HUDSON 217,185 (New Entry) 3. Robin Thicke - SOMETHING ELSE 136,944 (New Entry) 4. Ne-yo - YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN 70,059 | 403,452 5. Jazmine Sullivan - FEARLESS 42,032 | 107,909 6. Young Jeezy - RECESSION 38,754 | 489,675 7. Lil Wayne - THA CARTER III 34,553 | 2.52m 8. The Game - LAX 28,105 | 476,020 9. Rihanna - GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 27,955 | 1.8m 10.Joe - JOE THOMAS NEW MAN 24,630 | 78,946
==TOP FIVE SONGS=== Here are this weeks top 5 selling ringtones on iTunes:
# 5 Chris Brown - Forever # 4 Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy # 3 is T-Pain ft Lil Wayne with "Cant Believe It" # 2 T.I - "Whatever You Like" # 1 T.I feat Rihanna with "Live Your Life"
===BRANDWATCH=== -"Black Sinatra" - Ciroc Vodka -"Stay on her mind" - Rocawear new fragrance for men "99".
===UNDERGROUND HEAT===== This weeks Underground Heat artist is Reef the Lost Cauze from Philidelphia. Check him out on myspace.com/reefthelostcauze
===CREDITS=== A JumpOff.TV Production (www.jumpoff.tv)
Master P's son Lil' Romeo has been forced to buy a cheap bike after 3 expensive ones have been repeatedly stolen on campus at the university of southen california.
The Game, has avoided jail time, but must undergo 36 anger management sessions by febuary 2009. for assualting a relative at a funeral back in july.
At the end of this month BET is canceling RAP CITY, due to weak ratings and replacing it with new show "The Deal".
Hip Hop hating attorney - Jack thompson, responsible for banning 2 live crew's album and time warner dropping ice t - has been banned from practising law in his home state of florida for making false statements.
Janet Jackson has cancelled all her shows this week after being rushed to hospital in montreal during a soundcheck. She has since been released and is thought to be suffereing from exhaustion. On the same night boyfriend jermaine dupri was out partying in nyc.
Outcasts Big Boi Is The New Face Of Coca Cola energy drink - Full Throttle Fury.
===NEW RELEASES=== T.I - Papertrail Robin Thicke - Somethin Else
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson
Dem Franchyze Boyz - Our World Our Way Heltah Skeltah - Da Incredible Rap Team Roots Manuva - Slim & Reason
Willie The Kid - Absolute Greatness
Murs - Murs For President
Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
Termanology - Politics As Usual
Cassidy - Back to the Problem
Remy Ma - Blasremy
Large Professor - Main Source
Blak Twang - Speaking From Experience
Big Kuntry King - My Turn To Eat
Q - I am Him
G-Dep - Deponomics Charles Hamilton - Staff Development
===NEW MUSIC=== Keri Hilson ft Timbaland - Return The Favor The Game - Compton Story 50 Cent - 50 For President Royce Da' 5'9 - Ya'll Must of Forgot John Legend ft Estelle - No Other Love New Kids On The Block ft Jadakiss - Summertime Remix Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana - Pick & Roll Q-Tip ft D'Angelo - I Believe
===NEW VIDEOS=== Joe Budden - Touch & Go Prodigy (Feat. Big Twins & Un Pacino) - Shed Thy Blood Alicia Keys (Feat. Jack White) - Another Way To Die Peedi Crakk - Sweet Dreams (Jay-Z Diss) Janelle Monae - Many Moons Sean Garrett (Feat. Rick Ross) - Six In The Morning
==BILLBOARD 200=== NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:
1. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman 82,614 | 333,215
2. Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless 66,000 (new entry)
3. Joe - Joe Thomas New Man 54,135 (new entry)
4. Young Jeezy - The Recession 40,479 | 450,863
5. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III 35,556 | 2.4m
6. The Game - LAX 29,241 | 447,877 7. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad 27,474 | 1.8m 8. Nelly - Brass Knuckles 25,559 | 109,564 9. DJ Khaled - We Global 18,054 | 67,627 10.Rapheal Saadiq - The Way I See It 12,264 | 35,887
==TOP FIVE SONGS=== Here are this weeks top 5 selling digital songs on iTunes:
# 5 Rihanna with Disturbia
# 4 Akon with Right Now
# 3 is Kanye West with "Love Lockdown
# 2 Christina Aguilera with "Keeps Getting Better"
# 1 T.I feat Rihanna with "Live Your Life"
===UNDERGROUND HEAT=====
This weeks Underground Heat artist is Reks from Boston. Check him out on www.myspace.com/reksmdiesel
===CREDITS=== A JumpOff.TV Production (www.jumpoff.tv)
Formerly known as the New Releases Show. The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and download charts. Hosted by Wahidah Fowler, this weeks show features:
===MAIN STORIES===
-DMX cursed at the judge after he was jailed in miami on drug charges with no bail. Surprisingly he has since been released after his lawyer worked out a plea bargain.
-At his show in New York, the game squashed his beef with joe budden, as the duo performed PUMP IT UP.
-Suge Knight was arrested in las vegas for attacking his girlfriend of 3 years. she claims that while they were driving he punched her in the back of the head, then a struggle ensued causing the car to hit the curb, after which she fled with Knight in pursuit. The police arrived to find knight weilding a knife and kicking her in the head.
-Snoop Dogg launches RICH & FAMOUS a new clothing line at the MAGIC FASHION Convention in Las vegas
-yung berg was assaulted and had his decipticon chain snatched last weekend in Detroit club Plan B, in retaliation for comments he had made in the past about Detroit rappers.
the UK's hip hop connection magazine celebrates its 20 year anniversary this monday at THE JUMP OFF in London. Launched in 1988 a few months before THE SOURCE, Hip Hop Connection is officially the worlds oldest hip hop magazine.
The Cool Kids became the first Hip Hop act signed to the Pepsi Mountain Dew backed, "Green Label Sound" imprint and unlike other artist brand deals they are not required to mention the brand message.
and finally hip hop purists will be pleased to hear that Soulja Boy's myspace & youtube was hacked, he has since regained control
====NEW RELEASES=== The Game -- LAX Solange - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams Bishop Lamont - The Confessional The Commission - Destroy & Rebuild: Jay-Z & Kanye West Your Favorite Suppliers Presents: Young Jeezy, T.I. & Gucci Mane - Trappers Anonymous
===HOT NEW TRACKS=== Royce Da 5'9 & Kid Vishis - Kill Em The Lox - Its Like That T-Pain - Like I Outta T.I ft Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne - Swagger Like Us Charles Hamilton - C Food LL Cool J ft 50 Cent - Feel My Heart Beat Chris Brown - Nasty Girl DJ Khaled ft Missy Elliott, Sean Paul & Busta Rhymes - She's Fine
===MUSIC VIDEOS=== Young Jeezy - Vacation Cassie ft Lil Wayne - Offishal Girl B.G. and The Chopper City Boyz "Bubblegum *BOOTY*** Common Feat. Pharell "Announcement T-Pain -Believe
===ALBUM SALES=== Courtesy of NEILSEN's SOUND SCAN:
===TOP 5 DIGITAL SONGS=== Here are last weeks top 5 selling digital songs across all platforms courtesy of Billboard: #5 Kardinall Offishall - DANGEROUS (61,103 770,290) #4 CHRIS Brown - FOREVER (71,064 1.5million) #3 M.I.A. - PAPER PLANES 124,538 1million #2 DISTURBIA - Rihanna 148,074, 1.2million #1T.I - "Whatever You Like" with 205.2
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