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Young Jeezy’s Manager Denies Arrest Reports

(AllHipHop News) Young Jeezy’s manager has denied claims that the Atlanta rapper was arrested in the Bahamas last weekend. According to the rapper’s manager Demetrius “Kinky B” Ellerbee, the reports of Jeezy’s arrest in New Providence are false. “It’s not true,” Ellerbee told MTV News, dismissing a report by Bahama-based newspaper The Tribune, who claimed Jeezy was booked before a show in the tough, Fox Hills section of the island.According to reports, the rapper was simply “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was arrested and released, just before his performance at Club Luna, later that evening.Police in the Bahamas have yet-to-reveal any more details about the alleged arrest.

Rap Pioneers Create First Hip-Hop Bowling Team For Cancer

(AllHipHop News) A variety of rap legends are banding together to raise breast cancer awareness in what is being labeled as Hip-Hop’s first official nationwide bowling team. UTFO’s Kangol Kid, veteran female rapper Roxanne Shante and film executive Shaunda Lumpkin have formed the Hip-Hop Pin Drop, which is designed to raise funds and cure cancer “One Pin at A Time.”The first event is slated to take in January of next year, at New York City’s FRAMES Bowling Lounge. The first artists slated to bowl include Hip-Hop pioneer Kool Herc, Dana Dane, Doc Ice of UTFO, DoItAll, Sugar Hill Gang, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell and Jam Master Jay’s son Jason Mizell Jr. The event is part of the Mama Luke Organization’s efforts to raise funds to fight breast cancer. The organization was formed when Lumpkin, who manages former foes Kangol and Roxanne, lost her mother after a three-year battle with the disease. The first Hip-Hop Pin Drop takes place January 6th, 2011. 

Ray-J Hopes To Be Mayor, Comments On Kim Kardashian Sex Tape

Ray-J has been many things during the various phases of his career and life. These days, the R&B star is part singer and part reality star with his new show with sister Brandy. But, Ray-J revealed that later in his evolution he would like to be mayor of Carson, California, the city in which he was reared.

AllHipHop.com: Last time I saw you was at a mansion party and political rally for Kevin Powell. It was you, Brandy and Steve Rifkind. Do you have any aspirations outside of music and TV that you may want to do, like and community based functions?

Ray J: I’ma be the mayor of Carson. The mayor of Carson, California. Not now. I still got a lot of learning to do. Focusing and a lot of reaching back out to the community, and paying my dues. But in the future coming around the stretch you know, I do see myself doing stuff like that.

AllHipHop.com: Oh yeah? What makes you aspire for that?

Ray J: I mean I’m from Carson and I see the struggles that we going through in the community and I know what I can do and I know what kinda help I can be to that community. Not just with the press and just everybody coming along and coming onto the ride. But what I would do is show young African American youth or just young kids in general to go and aspire to be a mayor or go aspire to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because this Hip-Hop s### and this music industry has got alotta people clouded. And they think that’s the only way to go. Or to put out a sex tape to be successful. That s**t is wack. You gotta go out and use your true talent and read and learn and if I can inspire that throughout everything I been through then let me be a reason. Let me be the cause. Let me be the answer, to everybody’s questions you know what i mean? All in the future man. That’s just all future thoughts.

AllHipHop.com: Question: Why is there so much emphasis on rapping, and singing and sports even in the community?

Ray J: I mean you got people making hundreds of millions of dollars. Having fun. Who wouldn’t wanna follow in that footstep? You know what I mean? You got other jobs where you gotta read and learn and do essays and really put the time in, which I respect that. And I would say go for that. But if you got real true talent in the music industry go for that too. You know? But everything is work. Everything is hard work. Everything is blood sweat and tears so. Whether you get in the music industry or be a lawyer. it’s gonna be a rude awakening no matter where you go. 

AllHipHop.com: Right right. Do you regret the sex tape?

Ray J: I dont regret nothing that I ever did. I just learn from the things I’ve done. And I know how to grow from it. And use anything negative that happened in my life and turn that into a positive. That’s my only goals and wishes as a man but as far as taking s**t back, I don’t regret nothing. I’m good.

Fabolous Inspires Middle School Students In Queens, NY

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hops star Fabolous visited a group of middle school students in Jamaica, Queens yesterday (December 7th) to inspire the teenagers as part of the After-School All-Stars (ASASNY) program. Fab appeared at I.S. 192 yesterday, where he moderated a class debate on the subject of Facebook and parental controls over the popular social networking site.The Grammy-nominated rap star also designed graffiti shirts with the students in art class. Additionally, Fabolous shared his life experience with the students and spoke about the importance of after-school programming as an alternative to hanging out in the streets. The visit to I.S. 192 was the first school site visit for Fabolous, who is a National Ambassador for the After-School All Stars Organization, which was founded in 1990 by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other ambassadors include Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and others.

Rolling Stone Names Kanye’s Album Best Of 2010

(AllHipHop News) Kanye West was recently awarded the top spot in Rolling Stone’s year-end album issue.West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which came out November 22nd and received a five-star rating review from the magazine, sold almost 500,000 copies in the first week of its release.Rolling Stone’s review of  Kanye’s album said that his project was filled with “music as sprawlingly messy as his life” and that songs on the project are “hip-hop epics…full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off.”Akron, Ohio, blues-rock duo the Black Keys, known to work along side Dame Dash, scored the number two spot with Brothers, which featured one of the year’s top songs, “Tighten Up Rock”Drake’s Thank Me Later took the #6 spot and Eminem’s Recovery took the #9 spot helping round out the top 10.

ChartWatch: Soulja Boy Catches Bad Break, Kanye & Nicki Dip! T.I. & Redman Emerge!

ChartWatch for December 08, 2010

Last week Kanye West and Nicki Minaj held the first and

second spots but this week they get dethroned by Susan Boyle and Taylor

Swift.  That means the number one Hip Hop

(and I use the term Hip Hop loosely) album for the week is by none other than

The Black Eyed Peas.  The group’s sixth

studio album, The Beginning, enters

the charts at number six and sells 117,066 copies.  Unless there is some kind of a Hip Hop, Christmas

miracle, expect to see these guys on the charts for awhile.

Kanye West follows right behind them with his fifth studio

album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.  The Chicago rapper sells 106,003 copies bringing

the album’s totals to 602,003.

That leaves Nicki Minaj holding the number six spot.  Her debut album, Pink Friday, moves another 102,395 copies in its second week

release bringing the album’s totals to 477,395.

Rihanna lands at number ten with her latest album, Loud

The 68,992 copies sold by the album this week bring her totals to

202,654.

Leaving the top ten we have a debut from an R&B artist

and only two other entries in the top 50 for Hip Hop. 

Chrisette Michele enters the charts with her third studio

album, Let Freedom Reign.  The album takes the 24th position and

sells 48,874 copies. 

Michele is followed by Eminem and Lil Wayne who hold the 25th

and 44th spots respectively.  Eminem’s

Recovery continues to rack up sales

moving 43,736 copies this week.  So far

the album has sold a total of 3,099,414. 

Meanwhile, Lil Wayne’s I Am Not A

Human Being EP sells 25,528 copies. 

So far the New Orleans MC has sold a total of 537,943.

Now come a few artists I figured would sell better.  Slim Thug enters the charts at number 78 with

his latest album Tha Thug Show.  Even with the sales this is still a solid

album and worth picking up.  (I’m from

Houston so I may be biased although this isn’t the only album I believed is

worthy of better sales).  So far the

album has moved 14,000 copies.

Directly behind Slim at number 79 is Soulja Boy with his

latest The DeAndre Way.  The album debuts on the charts with 13,000

copies sold.  I know a lot of people were

expecting this album to perform much better.

Finally, Lloyd Banks, HFM2

(The Hunger For More 2) falls from 25 to 90 selling only 12,000

copies.  The album’s total sales rest

around 56,000.

 

Dropping This Week

I can’t tell if people are looking for this next album or

not.  T.I.’s No Mercy [click here for the review] drops this week. 

The recently incarcerated rapper’s new album features Kanye West, Kid

Cudi, Mitchelle’l, Scarface, Chris Brown, Rocko, Eminem, The Dream, Young Dro,

Trey Songz, Pharrell, Drake, Rico Love, and Christina Aguilera.  Catch the review of T.I.’s album here.

Redman releases Redman

Presents…Reggie this week with damn near no promotion.  I wouldn’t have even known this album was

coming out if it wasn’t for bootleggers. 

The album features DJ Kool, Ready Roc, Runt Dawg, Saukrates, Faith

Evans, Melanie Rutherford, Kool Moe Dee, Method Man, Bun B, and Pooh Bear.