Archive for December 16th, 2009

Here are the visuals for Styles P & DJ Green Lantern’s “Legal Money (One Shot)”. Courtesy of Nah Right.

On Monday, Chris Brown canceled his Twitter account, thanking his fans on it before deleting the account. In the days leading up to the decision to abandon the site, he had used Twitter to vehemently express his anger over his perception that retailers were not carrying his new album, Graffiti, and his general discontent with the music business. Although no official reason has been given for why Brown decided to cancel the account, when he spoke to MTV News last month, the singer said sharing his thoughts on the site had burned him a few times.

“Honestly, Twitter has done nothing but get me into trouble,” Brown told MTV News. At the time of the interview, he was speaking in reference to a fan-made video montage of him and former girlfriend Rihanna — Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting her on the eve of the Grammy Awards earlier this year — that he had posted, saying that he did so because it made him remember their good times together. But he added in the interview that he didn’t want the “backlash” that can come with having a Twitter account.

Read the rest after the jump! By Jocelyn Vena, With Reporting By Sway Calloway | Courtesy of MTV.

Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon accidentally ships 500 copies of long anticipated LP, but experts say Wayne can overcome this obstacle.

By Gil Kaufman For MTV

One of the reasons people love Lil Wayne is because he always does things his own way. But when news broke on Wednesday that Amazon.com had shipped 500 copies of Wayne’s serially delayed Rebirth album to pre-order customers despite the disc’s release date recently bumping to February 1, even hard-core fans had to wonder how the hip-hop game-changer was going to deal with this unexpected road hazard.

“I’ve never heard of major distributor making a mistake like this and allowing an album to come out before the date,” said hip-hop industry veteran Marc Byers, who has guided the careers of Eve and Beanie Sigel. “As big an artist as Wayne is, I can’t fathom how a mistake like that can happen. But, the beauty of what Wayne has created is that I think his fans will still show up and buy his records.”

Byers said the track record Wayne built up with his previous album, Tha Carter III — which also leaked early and still went on to be the top-selling album of 2008 — in addition to the tireless work the rapper has put into keeping his fans stocked with fresh music could help him overcome a situation that would seriously challenge a lesser artist.

Read the rest after the jump!

Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the latest of Travis Porter titled “A.D.I.D.A.S.”.

Download: Travis Porter – A.D.I.D.A.S. | Courtesy of OnSmash.

Here are the visuals for Raekwon’s “Pyrex Vision”. Courtesy of OnSmash.

Here is “Knockout” featuring Nicki Minaj off of Rebirth.

Download: Lil Wayne – Knockout Feat. Nicki Minaj | Courtesy of UHTN.

Here are three new tracks off of We Are Young Money.

Download: Young Money – Pass The Dutch / Finale / Ms. Parker | Courtesy of UHTN & YMHQ.

Here is a remix of Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind II” featuring Raekwon, Capone-N-Noreaga & Styles P, produced by DJ Green Lantern.  UPDATE: I have added a link to the dirty version, courtesy of the homie Sermon.

Download: Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind II [Remix] Feat. Raekwon, Capone-N-Noreaga & Styles P | Courtesy of 57th Ave & Sermon.

Get the Flash Player to see this content.

This clip is from the new George Lopez late night show that 50 Cent recently appeared on. Has anyone seen this this Lopez Tonight show yet? It’s so horrible, George Lopez tries way to hard. After the jump I have included a brief clip of 50 Cent’s interview on Lopez Tonight where he speaks on Tiger Woods along with his performances of “Baby By Me” and “Do You Think About Me.”

Read the rest of this entry »

Get the Flash Player to see this content.

While getting his Star Trak tattoo, Game shared his thoughts on the sales of 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct, which moved 159,747 copies in its first week. Fiddy’s rival claims to have bought 17 copies of the album himself. “I tried to help him over that 160 mark,” he tells Rap-Up TV.

“It’s sad and tragic that he didn’t do what he thought he was gonna do, but he’s 50, he’ll figure out a way to sell somebody some G-Unit maxi pads or G-Unit tampons or G-Unit douches.”

Courtesy of Rap-Up.