Questlove Air Forces

?uestlove of The Roots got together with Nike to knock out this collaborative Air Force 1 as part of the 1World project.
These shoes are dropping August 1 at Alife in New York, August 5th at Ubiq in Philly, August 6th at the Nike Sportswear store, and other select retailers on the 16th.

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 7/27/2008

Lil Wayne is bumped down from #2 to #5, taking the backseat to Miley Cyrus, Sugarland, the Mama Mia soundtrack, and Kid Rock, respectively. But with total sales at 1,997,218 , Weezy is just on the horizon of double platinum with Tha Carter III [click to read]. After reigning supreme last week at #1 Nas' Untitled [click to read] holds down the #8 spot this week selling 63,200 this week. Rihanna's re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad comes in at #11 with 33,700 sold while Usher's Here I Stand [click to read] sells 23,500 and lands the #18 spot. Rounding out the Top 5 Hip Hop/ R&B artists is David Banner at #20. The Greatest Story Ever Told [click to read] sold 21,200 copies this week.

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
5	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter 3	85,166	1,997,218
8	Nas	Untitled	63,279	250,357
11	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad	33,708	1,516,282
18	Usher	Here I Stand	23,590	930,231
20	David Banner	The Greatest Story Ever Told	21,212	73,114

Plies grabs the #27 spot with 17,100 copies of Definition of Real [click to read] sold this week. At #33 Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk [click to read] sold 13,918 copies this week. Following right behind them with a deficit of only 37 CDs, G-Unit sold 13,881copies of Terminate On Sight [click to read], earning them the #34 spot. In the first full sales week since Rick Ross was exposed as a former corrections officer, the Miami "boss" dropped over 20 spots on the chart to #74 with Trilla [click to read] selling about 8,000 copies this week. Finally, Bronx rapper Hell Rell debuted Black Mask Black Gloves at #131 this week with just under 5,400 sold.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
27	Plies	Definition of Real	17,194	417,983
33	Three 6 Mafia	Last 2 Walk	13,918	170,753
34	G-Unit	Terminate On Sight	13,881	173,250
74	Rick Ross	Trilla	8,205	637,815

131 Hell Rell Black Mask Black Gloves 5,390 5,445

Will August heat up on the charts with new albums on the horizon from heavy-hitters like The Game, Ne-Yo and Nelly? Or will the youngins get schooled by new projects from Ice Cube and LL Cool J? Can femcee/ producer Missy Elliot come in for the sneak attack and shock the charts? Stay tuned as DX brings the play by play.

Lol at Hell Rell selling just over 5,000 there's gotta be dudes out there that sold more then that on just a mixtape.

You ain't a Gangsta homie

What you mean Plies and Rick Ross aren't real gangsta's I would have never known.

Damn it's been a tough week or so for fake gangsta's. First there were the leaked shots of Rick Ross as a correctional officer when he was 19 and now TheSmokingGun website has declared that our beloved thug Plies is not the menace to society that he wants us to believe he is. Now I can't really comment on Plies too much because I haven't heard any of his songs (and may i say i feel all the more liberated for it) so I'm not sure exactly what he's been claiming but according to TSG he has only been in trouble with the law since he became a rapper. Now that's not to say he weren't out there in the streets doing his thing, I mean maybe he just never got caught but it's highly unlikely.

And the "biggest boss that you've seen thus far" was actually a babylon before he became a rapper/drug dealer.


Now i know rappers have a history of let's say over exagerrating there criminal past somewhat but surley we have to draw the line for dudes that are just straight up lying bastards.

This is like the Boondocks episodes with Gangstalicious and Thugnifficent or some shit. Matter of fact i might just have to post them up after this blog.
Let this be a lesson to you kids little white lies are one thing but straight fabrication of your past will only lead to humilation when your card eventually gets pulled. And in these days of internet gossip and infomation you're bound to be aired out on some website by someoen dying to expose yo fake ass so watch out!



Boondocks-the story of thugnificent



The Boondocks(Story of Gangstalicious)

And of course N.A.S are the letters that spell....

Nas topped the album charts this week with his new album simply called "Untitled". It has already sold 186,000 in it's first week and what with him also joining the march against FOX news I thought I'd stick all things Nas into one blog entry so here goes

Nas & ColorOfChange.org Give 620,000 Petitions to Fox News


Bill O'Reilly responds (i really hate this fuckin guy)


Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report coming at FOX


Sly FOX


Nas Interview on Sirius Radio

EMC - The Show Album

I just got through listening to this and I must say it has made my fuckin day. Had to get up at 6 in tha morning and get my broke ass to work so this was a real good thing to come back to.
If you don't know already EMC consists of Masta Ace, Strickland, Punchline and Wordsworth (remember The Lyricist Lounge days anyone?) and if you are a die hard fan of real hip hop music then these names shouldn't be new to you at all.

Go and get this album the first chance you get trust me you won't be dissapointed.

The lyrics and beats fit together better then OJ's glove. This is hip hop that the purists can really get into.

Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/6/08 (HipHopDX)

Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 7/6/08 | Hip Hop News > HipHopDX.com

Lil Wayne is back on top this week as he sells 156,300 copies of Tha Carter III, putting him over the half ¾ mark to double platinum already. G-Unit's debut of Terminate On Sight grabbed the #4 spot with 101,600 sold. They were beaten out by albums from Coldplay and Camp Rock, respectively.

Usher's Here I Stand takes #8, while the re-release of Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad comes up one spot to #9 with 40,100 sold. Rounding out the Top 10 for Hip Hop/ R&B is Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk at #11 which sold 37,100 copies this week.

*Click On Artist Name For Album Review*

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
1	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter 3	156,370	1,681,885
4	G-Unit	Terminate On Sight	101,622	101,802
8	Usher	Here I Stand	41,461	847,317
10	Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad	40,166	1,394,188
11	Three Six Mafia	Last 2 Walk	42,893	114,013

Indie rapper Tech N9ne makes a surprise entrance at #12 with Killer selling 36,100 copies this week. Plies' Definition of Real still resides within the top 20 at #15 selling 30,700. Jim Jones and The Byrd Gang just barely managed to slip into the top 30 at #29 selling 17,100 copies of M.O.B this week. Rick Ross' Trilla grabs the #55 spot with 10,600 sold while The RZA tries to hold onto the Top 200 charts at #195 with Digi Snacks selling 3,200.

Other Notables

Rank	Artist	Album	This Week	Total
12	Tech N9ne	Killer	36,199	36,244
15	Plies	Definition Of Real	30,732	356,204
43	Jim Jones & The Bird Gang	M.O.B.	17,176	17,258
55	Rick Ross	Trilla	10,653	609,381
195	RZA	Digi Snacks	3,216	9,939

This week Killer Mike [click to read] declared his new album to be "classic." Will the charts reflect that? Will Nas' controversial new album live up to its hype? Stay tuned as DX brings the play by play.