Yeah yeah, another fucking Jay-Z post. I know, I’m a stan, Def Jam secretly owns Nah Right…whatever man. I guess I’m supposed to ignore news like this:

From HitsDailyDouble’s one day sales report:

He’s everywhere…and by next Tuesday, Jay-Z’ll make himself at home on top of the album chart, too.

Riding the wave of Black Friday and holiday dollars, the rapper looks headed for the year’s best debut week total of the year for his Kingdom Come-back on Def Jam, with our national network of retailers estimating a sales total of 850k, which will soundly defeat the previous high, Rascal Flatts’ 714k last April.

This website tends to be off by a few thousand when the actual Soundscans come in so I would say give or take 10 thousand up or down. Either way it’ll be the biggest debut, hip hop or otherwise, yet this year. I guess this means New York hip hop is back?

Disclaimer: Of course, as well all know, sales are irrelevant when discussing music.  

R.I.P. Gerald Levert  

Just last night me and a couple friends were weighing the odds of the Styles album actually dropping in December.

Styles P ft. Gerald Levert – For Real

From Time is Money (allegeldy) in stores Dec. 19th

The Game moves 358,000 units, and debuts at #1. Not quite the mil he predicted, but way more that some other releases this year.

New York’s "hip hop cop" (the other one) gets hit with 10 years on weapons charges.

New Era issues a J Dilla commemorative fitted. I’ve never seen one man honored with so much limited edtion clothing.  

XXL talks to DJ Premier 

Jay does the AMA’s 

Jay does 106th and Park and previews the Lost Ones video.  

Snoop does Rap City 

?uestlove talks to Reuters 

Rizoh has what appears to be the actual Styles P album cover.   

Jay got all the attention with the cover, but Lupe also gets love as GQ’s
Breakout Man of the Year. He’ll also be on Letterman tonight.

HHNLive presents the Larry Davis Story, which reminds me, I had put together this Youtube playlist of the Larry Davis DVD which I’ve been meaning to post.  

Last night Def Jam presented the latest Ghostface LP More Fish to the New York rap journalism  mafia up at Sony Studios in Manhattan. Ghost and the entire Theodore Unit including Trife Da God and Sun God were in the building and L.A. Reid put away the Chinese slippers and ascot and came through to show Ghost some love. Before I get into this, let me just say that the main thing to understand about this project is that it is technically not a Ghostface album. 

Continue reading this post…

Hip Hop is Dead…

Continue reading this post…

Nas: F*ck Hip Hop 

Check out XXLMag.com and Mixunit.com’s new mixtape report by Jason Rios.  

Zeeky’s home, but it’s like he never left…

My rundown of the Hangar Tour is up at Rocafella.com 

Jay appears on the new Fall Out Boy record. 

44 4′s. 

Ghostface and EPMD sign on for Rock The Bells which kicks off tonight in D.C.

Rizoh has the More Fish track list which I tried to compile last night at the listening session but got sidetracked. More on that later.

No link, but Foxy got kicked off Egypt and Ashy Larry’s morning show on Power 105 this morning for refusing to answer questions. I heard them talking about it after the fact.  

The Voice takes a look at ghostwriting.

Eminem – No Apologies (From The Re-Up)

Cam and Arliss @ the Knicks game

Cam’ron – You Must Now Know (Jay-Z Dis)

Whatchu done to me, you say they pulled guns on me?
That was fun to me, this year I faced a 1 to 3 (Rikers)
6 buillding, 4 main they placed the bull
To the left man you acting irreplaceable
You must not know ’bout me
You must not know ’bout me

He also takes a shot at Nas.

1. Shady Narcotics – Eminem Intro
2. We’re Back – Eminem, Obie Trice, Stat Quo, Bobby Creekwater & Cashis
3. Pistol Pistol (Remix) – Obie Trice
4. Murder – Bizarre & Kuniva of D-12
5. Everything Is Shady – Cashis
6. The Re-Up – Eminem & 50 Cent
7. You Don’t Know – 50 Cent, Eminem, Cashis & Lloyd Banks
8. Jimmy Crack Corn – Eminem & 50 Cent
9. Trapped – Proof of D-12
10. Whatever You Want – Swifty Mc Vay & Mr. Porter of D-12
11. Talkin’ All That – Cashis
12. By My Side – Stat Quo
13. We Ride For Shady – Obie Trice & Cashis
14. There He Is – Bobby Creekwater
15. Tryin’ Ta Win – Stat Quo
16. Smack That (Remix) – Akon featuring Stat Quo & Bobby Creekwater
17. Public Enemy #1 – Eminem
18. Get Low – Stat Quo
19. Ski Mask Way (Eminem Remix) – 50 Cent
20. Shake That (Remix) – Nate Dogg, Eminem, Obie Trice & Bobby Creekwater
21. Cry Now (Shady Remix) – Obie Trice, Kuniva, Bobby Creekwater, Cashis & Stat Quo
22. No Apologies – Eminem

As I reported earlier, ‘Ye is sponsoring a car in the upcoming Formula BMW World Finals in Spain. I know how much hip hop fans love Formula One racing, so…here are a couple of pics and some info.
Continue reading this post…