Ab-Soul sells over 5,000 units in three days, as B.o.B. hits six figures. Meanwhile, TVT Records re-releases some vintage Pitbull to chart-worthy success.
There were two additions to the charts this week. Ab-Soul is the second Black Hippy member and Top Dawg Entertainment artist to crack the charts with a half-week digital release, following Schoolboy Q's January effort, Habits & Contradictions. Meanwhile, Pitbull's old home, TVT/The Orchard, hit the charts with a compilation of the Florida rapper's early '00s hits and feature work.
Ab-Soul Sells 5,000-Plus Units Digitally
Veteran TDE artist Ab-Soul sold approximately 5,300 units in an abbreviated week. On Friday, the Carson, California emcee released his fourth album, #ControlSystem. Now with Interscope Records backing, the veteran emcee who has toured and worked extensively with Murs worked with Black Hippy, BJ The Chicago Kid, and various other frequent collaborators on the acclaimed project. This is the follow-up to 2011's Longterm Mentality.
B.o.B.'s Strange Clouds Crosses The 100,000 Unit Mark
Following the gold-certified success of 2010's debut album, The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, Decatur, Georgia's B.o.B. has already hit six-figures sales marks with Strange Clouds. The May album which has been garnering mixed reviews in the media, mixes between Pop and Hip Hop, with appearances from Taylor Swift and Chris Brown, as well as T.I. and Playboy Tre.
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.
Lawda Mercy! Now rappers are beefing because of a blunt! How petty can one be. In a recent interview with MTV’s “POV“, Wacka Flocka says the beef with Wiz Khalifa started when the two were in a studio together, and Wacka claims he gave Wiz three ounces of weed and Wiz couldn’t hang.
Somehow the info that Wiz couldn’t keep up with Wacka’s smoking ended up on Twitter, and in his defense, Wiz tweeted, “nah lil’ homie” and Wacka though that was “disrespectful”.
Wacka also goes on to say that he is responsible for Wiz’s sound. Check out what he said below:
“I gave him [Wiz] a whole CD of Lex [Luger] beats and that’s how he got that sound.” “I ain’t personally give it to him, I gave Lex his stuff and that’s how they hooked up.”
Wiz must have heard about the interview with Wacka. Check out what he just tweeted below:
This all sounds a little petty to me. This can’t be the real reason Wacka is beefin’ with Wiz. This just can’t!
Grand Hustle rapstress Iggy Azalea was reportedly signed to a joint deal with Interscope Records and T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records, and was even quoted as saying that her deal at Interscope was “restructured” to include Grand Hustle. Well, now it seems like her deal with Interscope has fallen apart.
T.I was recently a guest on the MTV show POV, and said that his prodigy Iggy Azalea is a “free agent right now”. So I guess that’s confirmation that the deal with Interscope is no more, right? Man, we don’t know. T.I. or Iggy, holla at us and let us know what the real deal is!
There has been quite a shake-up at BET with their flagship show “The Game” announcing today that it has fired two of the main characters, Melonie, who is played by Tia Mowry-Hardict and Derwin, who is played by Pooch Hall.
Now, we are hearing that BET is not going to be stopping there and will allegedly be serving pink slips to both Terrence J and Rocsi of 106 & Park! The two allegedly only have three months left on their contracts, and BET is looking to go into a new direction for the show. With Terrence J’s blossoming acting career, we have a feeling he will be just fine. Rosci, on the other hand, may end up becoming another Free. Where is Free anyway?
The source inside Tupac’s estate says that the rapper was not homophobic, and points to his close relationship with the late designer Gianni Versace, who lived his life as an openly gay man. Tupac was also a huge public supporter of Versace, and even walked in one of his fashion shows in Italy back in 1996.
So, there you have it. Do you think Suge Knight is making up stories about Tupac to stay in the limelight? Is his hate for Dr. Dre that deep that he is lying on a dead man to get revenge? This is some sick stuff!
The legendary musician had been previously diagnosed with pneumonia about a week ago.
Brown is considered the man that pioneered Go-Go music, an art form that HIp-Hop has embraced through the years. Wale, a rapper on Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group, used to rap heavily over Go-Go beats. “RIP to the Legend …Chuck Brown. u will be missed worldwide,” Wale said from his Twitter account. Also, in the late ’80s “Da Butt”was a song Hip-Hoppers loved from the group EU.
But Brown was the pioneer of the accomplishments from the aforementioned artists, and his influence goes back to the 1970s. In 1978, he and his band The Soul Searchers scored a major hit in “Bustin’ Loose,” which hit #1 on the charts. Nelly sampled the song in his 2002 smash record, “Hot In Herre.”
At the time of his death, Brown had cancelled several performance dates.
