Rapper NAS untitled Def Jam release — originally set to be called “Nigger” — debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 113,000 copies during its first three days of sales as he leads the Nielsen SoundScan Friday Building chart.
NAS interim total is a tad behind the 116,000 that another rapper, Rick Ross, rang on “Trilla” on the Friday Building chart in March, on the album’s way to a chart-topping total of 198,000.
NAS last No. 1 album, “Hip-Hop Is Dead” dropped in late December 2006, selling 354,000 copies during Christmas week.
Rapper Lil Wayne currently leads the chart with “Tha Carter III” which sold 125,000 copies during the week ended July 13.
29 year old Bad Girl Rapper - Foxy Brown, Inga Fung Marchand, fresh out of prison is back with a new CD, “When The Lights Go Out” released on her own label Black Rose Entertainment. She appears on the September cover of XXL Magazine.
Rapper/Actor DMX ( Earl Simmons) recently Busted for Weed and Cocaine was Busted Again, this time at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court .
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Aaron Douglas says the rapper, 37, was taken into custody Wednesday morning after arriving from Florida.
DMX is being held on a $1,075 bond for driving with a suspended license and a $10,000 bond stemming from previous drug charges.
Bad Boy Rapper/Actor DMX (Earl Simmons) was arrested on Friday afternoon after approaching an undercover officer and asking for “30 Powder and 15 Weed,” meaning $30 worth of cocaine and $15 worth of marijuana, reports the Miami Herald. Simmons then handed the officer $45.
In order to Boost His image in the Black Community “Osama” Obama has hired Dr Dre (Fresh Out Of Detox) and Snoop Dogg to produce a Hip Hop CD for him tentatively called “The DC Gangsta Thug” .
Obama “DC Gangsta Thug”
The advise of his new producers… Dre said Lose The Suit, Snoop said Start Smokin Weed, “Drugs - No Problem” (Admitted Crack Cocaine Smoker) Obama was quoted as saying “I Inhaled, A Lot” ! After the success of Obama’s Rap Video this new CD should be a Hit!
Rappers P Diddy and Lil Wayne offer young Rappers advise and encouragement and share TheirSecrets To Success! A special language course may be required or a get translator!
Two brothers, Hosea Thomas and Padron Thomas, have been charged with Shooting four members of T.I.’s entourage after a performance on May 3rd.
Philant Johnson, T.I.’s Personal Assistant, was killed in a gun fight after the Thomas’ Brothers were refused entry to T.I.’s VIP section at a Cincinnati night club. Three others were injured in the incident.
