A couple new releases dropped this week, the biggest being T.I. who managed to capture the number four spot, selling 160K in his first week. Redman also dropped a new album and snagged the number 100 spot moving 11K. Nicki Minaj, Kanye West and Rihanna are still up towards the top. Check it out
Rank
Artist
Album
This Week
Est. Total
4
T.I.
No Mercy
159,000
160,000
6
Nicki Minaj
Pink Friday
82,000
561,000
9
Rihanna
Loud
71,000
496,000
13
Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
67,000
672,000
15
Black Eyed Peas
The Beginning
62,000
181,000
And the bottom
Rank
Artist
Album
This Week
Est. Total
100
Redman
Redman Presents…Reggie
10,000
11,000
120
Soulja Boy
The DeAndre Way
8,000
21,000
122
Rick Ross
Teflon Don
8,000
507,000
131
Lloyd Banks
H.M.F.2 (The Hunger For More 2)
7,200
63,000
151
Slim Thug
Tha Thug Show
5,900
20,000
Soulja Boy sold another 8,000 copies in his second week. Pretty Boy Swag!!!!!!!!! Nothing else too crazy. Until next week……
I’ve been bumping Redman’s Muddy Waters all day and figured everyone need to watch the video for Whateva Man a few times before the day was up. Redman teams up with his partner in rhyme, Method Man for a classic video. Check it out and take some time to listen to Muddy Waters again. Redman is one of the dopest. So, you ready to go to work and do endles paperwork?????
Classic Shit Fridays!!!!!!!!!!! Shout out to my man, my mellow @toddkharris for recommending a little Keith Murray for the ride to work this morning. It has been years and years since I have listened to this album so, it kind of feels like the first time, word to Immature(IMX). I have never been the biggest Keith Murray fan but I always liked Def Squad and Erick Sermon’s production. I wikipedia’ed The Most Beautifullest Thing in the World last night and it says Erick Sermon handles most of the production so, I was pretty excited to hear that. I’ll save the long explanation and just let the music ride out. Here are a few tracks including How’s That featuring Erick Sermon and Redman and the classic, Get Lifted.
It has been quite the eventful weekend with all that was going on in sports, music and pop culture. First off, shout out to Michael Jordan for being inducted into the basketball hall of fame. He was clearly the center of attention that night and his acceptance speech, or whatever it’s called, was pretty funny. He talked a little bit of shit and even joked(I hope) about coming back to play again. Tiger Woods DOMINATED the FedEx cup this weekend and the VMA’s sucked again. I’ll save my thoughts on Kanye, Beyonce and Taylor Swift for a separate post today. I was glad to see Eminem win best male hip hop, even though he didn’t have much competition. I was also glad to see Lady Gaga win best new artist over Drake, Asher Roth and Kid Cudi. No offense to anyone but Lady Gaga was the CLEAR winner. Shout out to Wale for holding it down with his band the whole show. I’m looking forward to Attention Deficit, I MIGHT even go out an purchase it. Jay Cutler’s debut was a TRAGEDY. I am sure the city of Chicago is stirring with disappointment towards the Bears new poster child. Happy Monday to all. Tomorrow, I will be releasing the first of two remixes featuring The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The Get Up Remix features verses from Add-2 and Adullessence. Make sure you tune in tomorrow to check it out. This morning for the drive to work, I took it back to the New Jersey Drive soundtrack. I have actually never listened to it except for Outkast’s Benz or Beamer, which is a classic cut. So far, on Volume 1, I am not too attached to any of the songs except for a few. My favorite aside from Outkast is Redman’s Where Am I? You can always expect Redman to drop heat especially back in the day. Dude is one of a kind and is a beast on the mic. That whole style thing that I always talk about, Redman OWNS that shit. No one sounds like FunkDoc. I got about 8 more tracks to listen to on Volume 1 and all of Volume 2 but I like a few songs. The Heavy D joint is cool and the Queen Latifah joint is pretty ill too. Once again, Happy Monday to all and make sure you tune in tomorrow for my new joint, The Get Up Remix featuring The League of OG’s.
It pained me this morning to take the new Raekwon album out of my tapedeck, so I opted for the next best thing, some old Wu. I can’t post Raekwon’s album every day for the next two months even though it will be listening to it that relgiously. I’m going to attempt to memorize every word on the album including skits. Deck’s verse on Black Mozart is my SHIT. I got the first 2 bars down pat. Okay, enough about OBFCL2, this morning I put in The Wu’s 3rd album, The W. I can’t say that I like every song on this album but there are some incredible joints, Hollow Bones being my favorite at the moment. I’m actually going back to listen a lot of Wu shit just to hear the production. Rza is the fucking man. The W has several classic joints and some awkward features too like Snoop Dogg!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not sure why that happened but Snoop didn’t do too bad. The Nas and Redman features are really dope though. I promise I’ll get off this Wu Tang kick by December unless Ghostface drops a classic but I’m not expecting much from his album seeing how it is all about females. I guess beaches need love too, I’m just not so sure about the features. I heard Ron Browz is on there. That is unfortunate. Ghost doesn’t need that. Anyway, Hollow Bones for that ass.
Speaking of Redman, peep these new Redman Adidas. I wouldn’t rock them but they are kind of tough. The shirt is REAL ill though. Shout out to Redman.
Happy Friday. It’s a beautiful day in Mr. Roger’s neighborhood, in fact it’s a particularly special day for The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The League’s Canadian emcee, Tona, has dropped another video from his album, Direct Deposit with producer Lyve. The song is called Face Pace and it features Saukrates and T.R.A.C.K.S. and of course Lyve on the beat. Tona and Lyve have been dropping nothing but straight heat with Direct Deposit. If you haven’t already picked up the album, do it now. It’s available on Itunes and Amazon. For those of you unfamiliar with Saukrates, he is a Canadian hip hop legend. He is down with Choclair and of course Kardinal. He was recently featured on the hook for Redman and Method Man’s single Ayo and has been down with both those cats for a while. Also, if you watch Nelly Furtado’s Get Loose tour with will see Big Sox. It comes on one of the comcast music video channels all the time. Once again, if you haven’t already picked up Direct Deposit from Tona and Lyve, do it now. Without further ado, here is the brand new video from Tona and Lyve, Fast Pace featuring T.R.A.C.K.S. and Saukrates.
BTW, I am glad I don’t spell my name in all caps with a period between each letter. That shit would get old VERY quickly.
Extra Happy Friday shout out to everyone. Another week down and another week closer to vacation. In spirit of the positive Friday vibes, I wanted to listen to some feel good music and who better for that than A Tribe Called Quest. Although not quite as good as their previous classics, The Love Movement definitely has some gems. Of course their lead single, Find A Way is incredible(one of my favorite Tribe joints ever) but cuts like Steppin It Up featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman showcase dope lyrics from all four emcees and Da Booty is a feel good dance joint. Other standouts are His Name is Mutty Ranks and Give Me. I really enjoy just vibing with Tribe. Their music just gives you a great feeling. The Love Movement still doesn’t touch Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders or Beats, Rhymes and Life but it is still dope. It has actually inspired me to give both Q-Tip’s albums Amplified and The Renaissance another listen. Once again, Happy Friday to all and enjoy a few of my favorite cuts from The Love Movement.
First off, I like Joe Budden as a rapper but I’m not a huge fan of his music. His first album was actually pretty dope and very underrated but he hasn’t lived up to his potential since. Recently, he has made a name for himself(via big booty Tahiry) with videos of him running off at the mouth and dissing everyone. The question “Who hasn’t Joe Budden dissed?” arises often. After Vibe magazine published a hypothetical “Rap Battle” ranking various emcees and placing them in brackets tournament style, Budden let his mouth get a little ahead of him and dissed Method Man. He caught a lot of flack from Meth, Red and Busta Rhymes even said Budden needed to be slapped(hahaha). Apparently he talked it out with Raekwon and Busta and everything is cool but Inspectah Deck just released a diss record going pretty hard on Budden. Budden, OF COURSE, had to respond by saying some shit that he’s gonna give it to Deck just for fun. I’m not saying that Budden won’t come hard at Deck but it seems to me that Budden needs to drink an EXTRA tall glass of SHUT THE FUCK UP and focus on making some music. If he is as NICE as he says he is then making dope records shouldn’t be a problem. However, his recent track record speaks a little differently than Budden does on camera. He is part of one of the most vicious groups in hip hop but he is only the 3rd nicest one in his own group. I think it is time for Budden to turn the camera off(or only show Tahiry), turn the other cheek and make some decent music. He put out a dope record call Who, about what and who killed hip hop, that was like 10 minutes long but since then Budden dropped a WACK album and has done nothing but irritate people. Maybe that is what he is going for but STOP dissing legends and focus on being better than Ortiz because right now Royce and Crooked are KILLING him. Where is that slap that Busta offered dude?????
Here is the Inspectah Deck track for your listening pleasure
Perhaps one of the most personal and emotional mainstream emcees, DMX’s career has recently been overshadowed by his legal troubles. His show on BET definitely did not help his image either. His charges range from gun possession to reckless driving to animal cruelty. The majority of his recent publicity has been far from positive. He appears to be a very troubled guy who battles with drug addictions and personal demons. However, DMX did manage to carve out a spot in mainstream hip hop alongside the likes of Ja Rule and Jay-Z back when Def Jam was on top. It’s been quite a while since I listened to X’s music so I decided to listen to his debut album, It’s Dark and Hell is Hot. It made me remember how dope DMX used to be. I used to listen to It’s Dark quite a bit back in high school and I liked it even more than I remember. Of course Ruff Ryder’s Anthem is a classic hip hop anthem and How’s It Going Down is another classic for the females but my favorite joint on the album is Let Me Fly. DMX is an artist that never shied away from addressing his own personal issues on the mic. DMX was definitely no slouch on the mic, he has held his own on features with LL Cool J, Redman and Method Man. Although none of his albums or singles had the same impact as It’s Dark and Ruff Ryder’s Anthem, DMX still has a spot of his own in hip hop. He also has some of the most notorious “Pause/No Homo” moments in hip hop history too. DMX used to go REALLY hard. Check out Let Me Fly and definitely relisten to the whole album.
What’s happening ye faithful? Happy Monday(if that is even possible) and happy holidays. I hope everyone made it through the weekend with all of their fingers, toes and extremities. It was a beautiful weekend in Chicago, minus the 4th. The city was like a warzone Saturday night with the constant barrage of artillery shells, bottle rockets, m-80′s and Black Cats. I can’t imagine how much the city wide cleanup is going to suck. I remember cleaning up my dad’s basketball court after the 4th. The clean up made shooting off hundreds of dollars worth of fireworks ALMOST not worth it. I did some “legal” downloading this weekend to revisit one of hip hop’s best duos, Redman and Method’s Blackout!(1). I used to listen to this album HEAVY in high school especially Da Rockwilder and Cerial Killer. I can’t say I’m a BIG fan of their movie OR TV show but their music has always been dope. This morning, I got hooked on their joint The ?. I’m not sure if it’s pronounced The Question or The Question Mark. Regardless, Red and Meth murder this song. Reggie Noble even produces the track. I was surprised to hear a Ja Rule sample in the hook too. I’m starting a “Where The F is Ja Rule” campaign. He had that joint with Lil Wayne last year that was actually kinda ill. “I’m a young Raekwon, a chef is hell’s kitchen.” Wayne USED to be so potent. I actually put both Blackout and Blackout 2 on an MP3 cd and plan on riding to both all day. I hate when rappers title their albums, Volume 1, 2, 3. That is some of the laziest shit ever but I’m am expecting a halfway decent album from Red and Meth. The first two songs are ill. Here is some classic Red and Meth along with their biggest song to date, How High, which got them a movie and a TV show. Enjoy.
