
Jim Jones' fourth solo album,
Pray IV Reign, debuts at No. 1 on this week's 'Top Rap Albums Chart'.
Pray IV Reign, which features appearances from
Ludacris, Ryan Leslie and
Juelz Santana, reels in 42,900 copies in its opening week.
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Added by Black Widow on April 1, 2009 at 8:50am —
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Debuting at No. 1 on the 'Top R&B Albums Chart' this week is
Keri Hilson with her first album In A Perfect World.
In A Perfect World, which features appearances from
Kanye West,Ne-Yo and
Akon, scanned 94,400 discs in its opening week.
The Dream…
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Added by Black Widow on April 1, 2009 at 8:30am —
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Mobb Deep rapper and
G-Unit affiliate
Prodigy is suing
Vox Music Group for allegedly failing to pay him more than $30,000 and plunging his family into foreclosure.
Prodigy says
Vox Music Group agreed in August 2007 to pay him $10,300 a month but t…
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Added by Black Widow on March 29, 2009 at 8:30am —
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Despite recent reports that the rapper is so broke that his 2008 Lincoln Navigator was repossessed to pay back taxes,
Method Man — insists his cash flow is just fine. In fact, he says, his penchant for marijuana is to blame for the mishap.
Citing the
Wu Tang member for…
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Added by Black Widow on March 27, 2009 at 8:11am —
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DNA tests on
Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old boy who was alleged to have become a father when he was just 12, show that he not the baby girl’s actual dad.
The 300-pound test was conducted on him after half a dozen boys claimed to have slept with schoolgirl pal
Cha…
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Added by Black Widow on March 26, 2009 at 1:02pm —
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Kentucky police are seeking to question
Flo Rida and his entourage for allegedly killing a rabbit.
According to
WKYT, a witness told police they saw the rapper's tour bus stop on a road Wednesday afternoon (March 26) and two men got out of the bus and killed a rabbit…
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Added by Black Widow on March 26, 2009 at 7:48am —
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Gorilla Zoe's sophomore album,
Don't Feed Da Animals, debuts at the top spot of Billboard's 'Top Rap Albums Chart' this week.
The album, which features appearances from
Rick Ross and
Gucci Mane, scans 31,300 copies in its opening week.
Michigan rap duo…
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Added by Black Widow on March 25, 2009 at 8:30am —
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The Dream's Love Vs Money remains at the top of Billboard's 'Top Rap Albums Chart' by pushing 55,500 units this week. After 2 weeks, the album has sold a total of 206,900 copies.
Beyonce hits the double platinum target this week.
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Added by Black Widow on March 25, 2009 at 8:00am —
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C-Murder is home again. The New Orleans rapper made bail Tuesday (March 24) and returned to house arrest two weeks after he was jailed for allegedly leaving his house without permission.
C-Murder is charged with the second-degree murder of 16-year-old
Steve Thomas…
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Added by Black Widow on March 24, 2009 at 9:33pm —
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Jim Jones has rejected a plea deal that would have required 10 days of community service for allegedly attacking a rival recording artist's friend.
Jones, 32, was charged with misdemeanor assault after a fight with Javon Smith inside a Louis Vuitton store on East 57th S…
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Added by Black Widow on March 24, 2009 at 3:06pm —
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T-Pain got slapped with a lawsuit Monday (March 23) in Broward Circuit Court -- for canceling a major concert in Guyana last month because of alleged kidnap and death threats.
The plaintiff,
Hits and Jams Entertainment, says
T-Pain became a major pain by making g…
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Added by Black Widow on March 24, 2009 at 8:22am —
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He's got no money, but he sure does have mo' problems.
Roc-A-Fella Records and
Rocawear co-founder
Damon Dash has been slapped with divorce papers by wife
Rachel Roy, the
Daily News has learned.
The stunning fashion designer piled onto
Da…
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Added by Black Widow on March 24, 2009 at 7:32am —
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A volunteer firefighter was charged Saturday with setting a fire that ripped through a crowded apartment house, killing a woman and three of her children.
Caleb Lacey, 19, a volunteer member of the
Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department, set the f…
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Added by Black Widow on March 22, 2009 at 11:07am —
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Method Man's 2008
Lincoln Navigator was reportedly repossessed this week.
According to
The New York Post, the
Wu-Tang rapper had failed to pay $52,503 in personal income taxes and repo men swiped his vehicle on Wednesday (March 18) at 6 a.m. from his Stat…
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Added by Black Widow on March 22, 2009 at 9:23am —
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50 Cent will be replacing
Forest Whitaker in an upcoming
Sylvester Stallone flick titled
The Expendables.
Whitaker dropped from the flick due to a scheduling conflict and the
G-Unit rapper was
Stallone's next choice.
The film revolves arou…
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Added by Black Widow on March 19, 2009 at 7:48am —
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Los Angeles county prosecutors have charged
Kanye West with three criminal misdemeanors for breaking a paparazzo's camera during an altercation at the Los Angeles Airport last year.
West and his manager
Don Crowley confronted a paparazzo who was taking pictures of th…
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Added by Black Widow on March 18, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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Dipset affiliate
King Tut shot himself in the head on a New York highway last night (March 17) after being surrounded by police.
Police had been tracking
King Tut for
stabbing a wom…
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Added by Black Widow on March 18, 2009 at 11:30am —
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Debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's 'Top R&B Albums Chart' this week is
The Dream with his sophomore album
Love Vs Money.
Love Vs Money, which features appearances from
Kanye West and
Lil Jon, scanned 151,400 discs in its opening week.
Debuting…
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Added by Black Widow on March 18, 2009 at 8:26am —
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For the third week in a row,
T.I. remains at the No. 1 spot on Billboard's 'Top Rap Albums Chart'.
Paper Trail shelved off 23,300 discs this week, pushing the album's total sales to 1,796,000.
Lil Wayne stays put at No. 2.
Tha Carter III shifted 12,100 unit…
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Added by Black Widow on March 18, 2009 at 8:00am —
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An unreleased
Beyonce track is reportedly among the 10,000 songs that were acquired in the auction of
Deathrow Records earlier this year.
Death Row was auctioned off for $18 million to
WIDEawake Entertainment Group in January.
The initial reports…
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Added by Black Widow on March 16, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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