Ken Walker’s Urban Assault - Monday 28th July 2008
Title Artist Label #
Everybody Fonzworth Bentley feat Kanye West Sony BMG 1
American War Pitbull & DJ Noodles 305 Inc 2
High Price Ciara feat Ludacris Sony BMG 3
Comfortable Lil Wayne feat Babyface Cash Money 4
I Love You Girl The Dream feat Fabolous IDJMG 5
My Life The Game feat Lil Wayne Interscope 6
I Like It A Lot Bubba Sparxxx New South / Koch 7
Big Balla Mack 10 feat Birdman Hoo Bang 8
My Girl Santino Seven Star 9
Lay Away Love Notch One Stop Music 10
#1 – Everybody – Fonzworth Bentley feat Kanye West, Sara & Andre 3000
Fonzworth started his illustrious career as the personal assistant to Sean Diddy Coombs. He’s also a top notch fashion designer and he currently hosts “From G’s to gents” on MTV. He’s also the dude that plays the violin in the music video of “Yes We Can” put together by Will I Am in support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. This joint is highly infectious and the more you listen to it, the more you wanna hear it! He’s inlisted the services of a couple of his all star celebrity friends to help him out on it and his debut album C.O.L.O.R.S has been penciled in for an October release. Watch out Henry Winkler, there’s a new Fonz on the block!
Nas gets nasty with Fox News.
After topping the charts with his latest album, Nas took teamed up with political groups Move On and Color of Change to deliver a box of petitions to Fox News. “We’re here to make a stand,” Nas told a small crowd as he delivered the more than 600,000 flyers to the network. Nas called out Fox News labeling Michelle Obama “Barack’s “baby mama” and O’Reilly’s “lynching party” references as “racist.” “Stop standing behind a desk and dictating this bullshit to the public. Come outside with the people and let’s see what kind of man you are fool,” Nas later said. According to reports, Fox News declined to accept the petitions, but Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report accepted them instead.
Fiddy sues Taco Bell
In late June advertising representatives for Taco Bell made what they call a “good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent.” In a written letter, the company propositioned 50 to change his nickname to either 79, 89 or 99 Cent for a day while rapping his order at one of their restaurants. In return, the company would make a $10,000 donation to any charity the rapper chose. The Mexican-style fast food chain released the following letter to the national press in June, before the original copy eventually reached the 50’s offices. “Dear Mr. Jackson: We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change. We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates of change. In fact, for just a few spare coins, we’re giving consumers more variety for less money with our new 79-89-99 Why Pay More value menu . . . So here’s our offer of change to you: For one day this summer, change your name either 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent by showing up to one of our more than 5,600 locations nationwide and rapping your order in the drive thru with your new moniker.”
According to legal documents filed in a New York federal court, 50 and his legal team allege “Taco Bell made him the star and focus of its nationwide advertising campaign by using his name, persona and trademark to promote Taco Bell’s business and products.” Currently 50 has deals with Right Guard, Vitamin Water/Coca-Cola, Steiner Sports, Reebok and other major corporations. Fiddy’s asking for a cool 4millon bucks in damages!
Finally Dre speaks on Detox.
According to Dr. Dre, his long-awaited third studio album “Detox” is nearing completion - and could be here before the year is up. “I’m just now — over the last couple of months — starting to feel that it’s going to be right and it’s something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it,” said Dre to USA Today. “In a perfect world, I’m shooting for a November or December release.” According to Dre, who does not often speak on the project, his goal is not necessarily to raise the bar for Hip Hop production values, like 2001 and The Chronic before it. “I’ve never set out to do that,” says Dre. “I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel and I don’t put it out until I’m totally happy with it. Then it does what it does.” Since he first hinted at the project in 2002, Dre’s Detox has been a subject of speculation ever since. The project was slated to some out in 2004, yet faced constant delays. Mentions of the project appeared on albums by Eminem, The Game and Snoop Dogg, yet never amounted to anything. Further speculation was fueled by mixtapes like Pretox, hosted by Mick Boogie, as well as countless artists and producers revealing they had contributed to the album in some way.
“We have an entirely new thing going with the drums that’s incredible, and we’re still developing that.” says Dre, who revealed all “the usual suspects” will make guest appearances, including Nas, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne.
And if you thought Detox was a long wait, the next one (if there is a next one) will be even longer. “I’m going to put this record out, promote it, tour and then become a hermit. I’m going to stay in the studio and produce.” As for future plans, Dre, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent, is interested in working on new artists rather than established ones. “All I want to do is sit in the studio with that person for a year and try to create another masterpiece.”
