Check out the latest shot from VladTV's new Star & Buc Wild Show! The two run a daily show over at VladTV, which they host as well as produce - and you've never heard more quote-worthy inflammatory go-offs than on this show. With incendiary clip titles like "Bow Wow Should've Gotten Ciara Pregnant," it's sure to be a unique listen.
The good people over at Rap Basement have compiled a list of Hip-Hop/R&B sales chart placements for the week ending May 10.
Ciara's new album Fantasy Ride opens at #3 this week with 80,990 copies sold. Jamie Foxx's Intuition drops 10 spots, while Keri Hilson's held at #20 by Beyonce's #19 slot.
Rick Ross keeps his presence known on the charts this week, despite dropping 5 spots down to 8th with just over 30,000 copies sold of his Deeper Than Rap album. The next rapper on this weeks charts, sadly, is Jadakiss at #33 with Last Kiss, while Asher Roth dropped again, this time all the way down to 39th.
Jay-Z is teaming up with Superwoman/Spider hybrid Ciara for a new tour, temporarily shelving his upcoming, highly-anticipated Blueprint 3 album.
Ciara took to her Twitter account Monday night to confirm the news. "I will say it because the information has been leaked. Me and Jay-Z will be doing a 10-city tour run together! More details coming soon!" Before the Jay-Z tour, Ciara will support Britney Spears on the European leg of the "Circus" tour in June.
Five dates have been confirmed so far:
July 3: Las Vegas, NV (The Pearl At The Palms Casino Resort)
July 4: Las Vegas, NV (The Pearl At The Palms Casino Resort)
July 7: Chicago, IL (Charter One Pavilion At Northerly Island)
July 10: Uncasville, CT (Mohegan Sun Arena)
July 12: Atlanta, GA (Chastain Park Amphitheatre)
Michael Jackson is four weeks into rehearsals in Burbank, CA, in preparations for the King of Pop's return to the stage for 50 shows at London's O2 Arena. Despite doctors' concerns, it appears that the shows will go on.
The shows, which begin July 8, will be Jackson's first in 12 years. Producer/promoter AEG Live has footed the bill for a $20 million production, and the show layout is coming together. "Originally we tried to keep the show down to 90 minutes, but Michael has so many must-do songs in his repertoire that the shows now will be two-plus hours," AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips tells Billboard.
The deal is set up where Jackson shares in net ticket revenue which, according to Billboard calculations, would make Jackson's take on ticket sales alone north of $50 million. That'll be good for another 5 or 6 out-of-court settlements.
Eminem and Jimmy Kimmel will fly about 200 laid-off autoworkers to Los Angeles for the May 15 taping of his appearance on Kimmel's show.
The Detroit-bred rapper says he and Kimmel want to remind everyone that real people are being affected by what's going on in Detroit. News reports ignore people who have lost their jobs without getting big payouts after dedicating themselves to the auto industry, Em points out, and it's time some original attention was brought to their plight.
Eminem will appear on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on May 19 and May 22. He's also set to appear on an episode of "Family Guy," this Sunday (May 17).
A batch of high-profile mixtapes have hit the scene recently, serving as the hype-bombs for some of the more anticipated Hip-Hop albums on the horizon, including Busta Rhymes and Kid Cudi.
Cudi’s mixtape, Dat Kid From Cleveland, presented by DJ E-V and DatNewCudi.com, is an update of Cudi’s latest work in the run-up to his debut album Man On The Moon: The Gaurdians. I’m not sure if a mixtape should get the proper album review treatment- (maybe a new subsection of its own? What do you think? Comments / suggestions welcome), but either way, this is one of the better ones I’ve heard lately, and it’s worth a mention.
Kanye "Gay Fish" West launched yet another Caps Lock tirade on his official blog Tuesday, this time lashing out against the people who create fake Kanye Twitter accounts and pretend to be the egomaniacal rapper.
And now, from the man himself (with a Caps-free prologue, no less):
(This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER… WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I’M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE. I’M ACTUALLY SLOW DELIVERING CONTENT BECAUSE I’M TOO BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME AND IF I’M NOT AND I’M JUST LAYING ON A BEACH I WOULDN’T TELL THE WORLD. EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF. THE PEOPLE AT TWITTER KNOW I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER SO FOR THEM TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO POSE AS ME AND ACCUMULATE OVER A MILLION NAMES IS IRRESPONSIBLE AND DECEITFUL TO THERE FAITHFUL USERS. REPEAT… THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHICH ACCOUNTS HAVE HIGH ACTIVITY ON THEM. IT’S A FUCKING FARCE AND IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHAT OTHER SO CALLED CELEBRITY TWITTERS ARE ACTUALLY REAL OR FAKE. HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW …. WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!
Rihanna has been nominated for three BET Awards, which are set for a June 28th ceremony. The show will be hosted by Jamie Foxx and feature a performances by Maxwell, Foxx and Ne-Yo.
Beyoncé leads all nominees with five nods. The 27-year-old singer is up for female R&B artist, actress, the viewer's choice award and video of the year, where she has nods for both "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" and "If I Were a Boy."
T.I. has two nominations for best collaboration, first with Rihanna for "Live Your Life" and also with Yung L.A. and Young Dro for "Ain't I."
The future jailbird is also up for male hip-hop artist, the viewer's choice award and video of the year.
Lil Wayne, T-Pain and Keri Hilson follow with four nominations each. Other multiple nominees include Jennifer Hudson, Jazmine Sullivan, Kanye West, Keyshia Cole and Jamie Foxx, who is set to host the show on June 28 at the Shrine Auditorium.
Foxx is up for male R&B artist, along with best collaboration and video of the year for his hit with T-Pain, "Blame It."
For a complete list of nominees, click this.
M.I.A. has made a plea for Oprah Winfrey’s help in drawing attention to the bombing of civilian camps in her native Sri Lanka.
In a post on her MySpace page, the singer described how she met the TV superstar at an event honoring Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the year:
“SHE SQUEEEEZED MY HAND SO HARD , I WAS CONVINCED SHE CARED,” she blogged. “MICHELLE OBAMA GAVE A SPEECH AND THERE WAS MAD SECRET SERVICE IN THE AIR SO I DIDNT GET TO THROW A PAPER PLANE AT HER SAYING " STOP THE BOMBING OF THE TAMILS IN SRI LANKA"
A camp created to shelter 150,000 civilians was bombed earlier this year by the Sri Lankan air force. The civilians were feeling the fighting between the army and the Tamil Tigers.
“I WASNT SURE ABOUT MY INFLUENCE BUT........IF I DO HAVE ANY INFLUENCE, I WISH I COULD GET THE MEDIA TO SPOTLIGHT THIS,” M.I.A. wrote, before appealing to Oprah for her help.
“OPRAH CAN YOU DO SOMETHING BOUT THESE CAMPS PLEEEEEEEEEEASE?”
Anyone got Oprah's phone number?
Akon has been tapped to record the official anthem for next year's soccer World Cup. He's been asked by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) to co-ordinate the song as well as music for the opening ceremony at the South African tournament, which starts next June.
Akon said: "I've been hired as musical director for the World Cup. I will be overseeing the World Cup anthem and music at the ceremonies and I'm off to South Africa this week for meetings. "I love soccer so it's a great honour."
Pharrell says fans should look forward to a return of The Neptunes.
"We got a lot of new treats," Pharrell says, "I know I’ve been out doing the rock n’ roll thing, but know that the empire strikes back."
So what's on the horizon? First, The Neptunes has the new Clipse album "Till The Casket Drops" coming out, which Pharrell says he produced a "sizable amount" of. Then there's talk of his work with Cam'ron.
Pharrell went on to talk about the new N.E.R.D. album stating "If you were to ever go on the road with us, and see 80,000 people jumping at festivals, you’d know that there’s room for a hip-hop element — but those kids wanna jump," finishing "And we’re absolutely hooked on it."
Well, that's nice, but the last N.E.R.D. album sucked. Hard.
Louis Vuitton recently hit up XXL about Rick Ross wearing fake LV sunglasses on the cover of their magazine, and now the rapper's backpedaling his way through excuses.
Ross says that the glasses he wore on the cover were customized, with solid gold accents by Jacob Bernstein, also known as "The Sunglasses Pimp."
"It’s the same thing as buying a Rolls Royce and having it tricked out; just because the product has been customized by me doesn’t take away from the fact that the frames are authentic Louis Vuitton Millionaires," Bernstein says, who has customized glasses for Jay-Z, Kanye West, Beyonce, Fergie and even Brad Pitt.
Michael D. Pantalony, a Louis Vuitton Malletier, countered the statement by saying "We were dismayed to see the cover," continuing "Because the photo has generated considerable confusion among your readers and Louis Vuitton customers among others, we feel it is important to clarify several points.”
Pantalony went on to say "The first is that the sunglasses Mr. Ross is wearing were not made by Louis Vuitton, and in fact, are counterfeit." He continues "Louis Vuitton did not grant permission to Mr. Ross or to whoever did make the sunglasses to use our trademarks. The second is that no affiliation, sponsorship or association exists between Rick Ross or XXL and Louis Vuitton. The third is that counterfeiting is illegal."
Pwnd.
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