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Kanye, Jay-Z, & T.I. Top Billboard Year-End, Decade Lists

source: AllHipHop

Today (December 11), Billboard announced their completed year-end and decade recap lists which featured many prominent Hip-Hop and R&B stars.   Kanye West was named music’s Top Male Artist of 2009, a distinction shared with his female counterpart Taylor Swift.   The two had a memora...

Published 16 hours ago

For This Hip-Hop Band, It's '1500 Or Nothin'

source: slavismyname (WordPress)

From Jay-Z to Nipsey Hussle, these guys add the live music element. And you should be up on them. Read the story From Jay-Z to Nipsey Hussle, these guys add the live music element. And you should be up on them. Re

Published 20 hours ago

What Has 50 Cent Learned Since Coming Into Hip-Hop?

source: BET.com

This is probably one of the best 50 Cent interviews I read in a long time! I’m not going to do tooooo much talking on this one because I really think 50 does enough of it during this interivew. For an interivew with Esquire Magazine about some of the most important things he’s learned in [...]

Published Thu, Dec 10

My Decade in Rap, Pt. 3 [2006-2007]

source: XXL

For some reason, I get this depressed feeling when I start thinking about ’06. Maybe it’s because I pretty much bought into Nas’ whole “Hip-Hop Is Dead” campaign. I mean, how could I not? Share: waxes nostalgic in Pt. 3 of our decade in rap recap...

Published Thu, Dec 10

Tiger loses Endorsement/Hip Hop doin' big on Itunes Bestsellers/ Em. named Best selling of the Decade/

source: jmouth (WordPress)

Meanwhile, Jay-Z scored the highest rank for hip-hop on iTunes’ Top Selling Albums list. The Blueprint 3 nabbed the no. 8 slot, with Eminen’s Relapse and B.E.P.’s The E.N.D. following at no. 9 and 10 respectively. Several other Hip-Hop artists made lasting chart imprints.:

Published Wed, Dec 9

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 12/6/2009

source: HipHopDX.com

The pied piper of R&B takes the charts back, Juvenile squares off against Birdman, and 50 Cent outsells Jay-Z, for this week anyway.

Published Wed, Dec 9

Hip-Hop Rumors: Jay, Nas..and 50 On "Empire" Remix? 50's New Gal! Nicki & Rem? Nicki & Kim?

source: AllHipHop

DISCLAIMER:   All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on. JAY-Z, NAS….AND 50 CENT ON EMPIRE STATE OF MIND?   For Beani Sigels’ sake, I hope this one doesn’t happen. But they are saying that 50 Cent...

Published Wed, Dec 9

Hip-Hop Dominates iTunes 2009 Top Sellers List

source: XXL

Meanwhile, Jay-Z scored the highest rank for hip-hop on iTunes’ Top Selling Albums list. The Blueprint 3 nabbed the no. 8 slot, with Eminen’s Relapse and B.E.P.’s The E.N.D. following at no. 9 and 10 respectively. Share: Jay-Z, Eminem and the Black Eyed Peas among iTunes' top selling albums of '09...

Published Tue, Dec 8