Jay-Z’s, “Empire State Of Mind,” has become his first single to becoming number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 (Source). In others news 50 Cent’s new album has early first week estimates at 150k(Source). 50 Cent’s album was on sale digitally November 9th and in stores November 16th, both weeks will be added to the official total which should be released Wednesday.

Do you think that 150k will be accurate? I think 50 Cent will do more than the early estimate.

Surprising this is Jay-Z’s first number 1 record, shows he is still on top of his game with one of if not the highest selling album in Hip Hop this year.

The Game’s thoughts via twitter:

#whitethoughts 50 used to be my nigga #blackthoughts this sucka n!gga album only sold 150,000 the 1st week… you can go head & destruct now – IHateGame

We all seen this coming, he gave Tahiry too much shine and it was a matter of time until it all came crashing down. The quote is followed by Joe Budden’s, “Russian Roulette,” freestyle where he comments on Tahiry’s picture.

Joe Budden – Russian Roulette Remix

Over/Under what you expected? Overall thoughts on Wale?

All Gucci Mane had to do was:
1. Take drug and alcohol classes.
2. Do 600 hours of community service.
3. Don’t travel without permission from probation officer.

@bowwow614 lemme know if they need a camel or a gorilla in ya movie & I’ll have somebody call Jay & 50’s owners to bring them down

My grandma jus hit me said she dont like that 50 cent talkin bout her daughter on his songs. I said, dont worry I’ll get that nigga grandma

via Game’s Twitter

This should be good lol.

Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Thursday (November 12) for probation violation and taken away to prison in handcuffs, according to a rep from his label. The sentence is a blow to Gucci’s career. The ATL rapper has a album coming out — The State Vs. Radrick Davis — on December 8 and is arguably at the height of his career; in terms of his sentence, he may be out of prison in six months.

Source: MTV

Why can’t rappers stay out of jail, DAMN! He is at his peak and about to drop and album and now he will be in jail wtf. How will this affect his upcoming album release?

The source said Tyson told investigators that the photographer struck him in an apparent attempt to provoke him. The photographer told investigators that Tyson punched him in the face and tried to take the film from his camera, according to the source, who spoke on condition that he not be named because it was an open investigation.

Both men wanted to press battery charges against each other, so police placed both under arrest, the source said.

Full Story: LA Times

RubyHornet: Recently you’ve released various freestyles. Some sites have put them up with, ‘Lupe put this out because he’s upset he wasn’t named to the MTV Hottest Emcee List.’ Is that output of new freestyles related to the list?

Lupe Fiasco: Definitely the Emcee list. For me it was like, I guess you feel a certain way like, ‘I hope these people aren’t forgetting about me. Are they forgetting about me? Is this what the status quo is right now and I’m not in that? That’s unacceptable.’ I feel like I’m nice or nicer than all of them, and it’s not taking shots at anybody. It’s the same situation where if there’s competition and this is what it is, it’s like, ‘OK, I can do that. I can play ball with you guys.’ And if this is the criteria of what it needs to be, I can do that easily. It’s just putting myself into it. When they didn’t put me on the last list, when they first starting making the list I was really pissed because I didn’t make the list and I could understand, if I’m not the hottest dude right now, cool. But then they did an honorable mention list, and I didn’t make the honorable mention list. And I know those dudes over at MTV. It’s not like a beef or I was tripping, but it’s like, ‘come on man, what are you talking about?’ And then I just had to go on a tirade and start destroying stuff and you got “Superstar” and got all that other stuff. Put me in arenas where they say if you want to be hot, this is what it is. You have be murdering it over here, you have to have the clubs jumping like this, you have to have this over here.’ I can do that. I feel like I got enough accolades and enough of a foundation laid where I can go and do these things and my fans won’t look at it like ‘Lupe’s selling out.’ It’s more so… this is just fun for me. It’s ‘Lupe’s on parade almost.’ That kind of exclusion this time around was like, ‘oh, OK. I really have to go back in and start destroying. Really go in and just show that you won’t ever forget about me in that realm.’ I’m not a fame hog, but that’s kind of like the last competition for Hip Hop. I got massive competition. It’s like the Olympics of Hip Hop. I’m at the Grammy’s every year. Every album’s been nominated for a Grammy. On the music side I’m satisfied, but when it comes back to fun in Hip Hop, that’s the last real competition. The 5 Mics has kind of fell off, that’s not inspiration or drive anymore. That top Emcee list is, ‘OK, this is the Olympics now? This is the Final Four, the World Series.’ I’ll be there.

Full Interview: Ruby Hornet

Thoughts?

Eminem is at 1.5 million and dropped May 15th while Jay-Z is at 1.2 million records sold after a September 11th release. “Relpase,” opened with 618k while, “The Blueprint 3,” sold 476k in its first week of sales. “The Blueprint 3,” still has steam with, “Empire Stand of Mind,” getting major play during the World Series and selling 38k last week. In other news Triple C’s is at 17k, Ryan Leslie debuts at 12k, Lil Boosie is now 100k+ and Tech N9ne is at 40k.

The real money in music is touring, that’s why Jay-Z is damn near performing everyday.

Is Fif gonna revive Beanie’s career or is this just another marketing deploy?