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Ken Walker’s Urban Assault - Monday 03rd August 2009
Ken Walker’s Urban Assault - Monday 03rd August 2009
1. Written On Her
BIRDMAN feat LIL WAYNE
(Cash Money Records)
2. ALL EYES ON ME
THE CLIPSE feat KERI HILSON
(Columbia)
3. Worst Way
THE MAJORS
(First Rounders Entertainment)
4. All Drinks On Me
POL B
(Ace Group Entertainment)
5. You’re A Jerk
NEW BOYZ feat DOROUGH
(Asylum)
6. Bend That Ass Over
YOUNG DRO
(Grand Hustle)
7. Bring The Goons Out
GRAFH
(Koch Records)
8. Baby
GHOSTFACE KILLAH
(Starks Enterprises/Def Jam)
9. Fragile
CHRISETTE MICHELE
(Compound Entertainment)
10. Wastline Whine
VYBZ KARTEL & SHAWN STORM
(Adidjaheim Records)
#1 –Written On Her- Birdman feat Lil Wayne
The founder and head honcho of Cash Money Records Bryan Birdman Williams makes an interesting return to the hip hop arena with his new single Written On Her featuring label mate Lil Wayne. Like Flo Rida & Pitbull, he’s decided to try his hand at sampling a contemporary dance track and this time it’s Morgan Page’s 2007 masterpiece The Longest Road that get’s the butchers chop. It’s pretty good for what it is but it makes you wonder where all the originality has gone.
Big Pun’s grand finale.
In Big Pun’s lifetime, he was only alive to witness one album release, 1998’s critically acclaimed Capital Punishment. Just months after the iconic rapper’s 2000 passing, Yeeeah Baby was released. Both efforts were released on Loud Records, and both debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rap/R&B charts. After a 2001 greatest hits compilation, Endangered Species, 2009 promises to close the book on unheard music from the late, great Christopher Rios.
On September 15th, director Vlad Yudin will release his film Big Pun: The Legacy on Vladar/Czar, through Universal. In conjunction with the film release, The Legacy: The Best Of Big Pun will be released on CD through Columbia/Legacy. The soundtrack includes reportedly never-before-heard tracks in addition to liner notes penned by Vlad Yudin. The official track listing has yet to be confirmed. Officials close to the Rios family insist this will be the last music release ever from Big Pun.
Shakurspeare
Long-time fans of Tupac Shakur will soon get the chance to hear some of his earliest material produced before the rapper catapulted to fame. Thirteen years after his death, and a slew of 2Pac-inspired releases later, childhood friend Darrin Keith Bastfield and CEO of Born Busy Records is releasing Shakurspeare, a compilation of ‘Pac’s first rhymes. In addition to being a former friend of Tupac, the two also formed a group together in their teen years called Born Busy. In 2002, Bastfield released a tell-all book centered around Tupac titled, Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur. In both the book and the upcoming album, Darrin claims that his goal is to show who ‘Pac was back when he was known as MC New York. The title Shakurspeare comes from a conversation Bastfield recalls, that took place between the two friends in which Shakur expressed his desire to become a famous Shakespearean actor.
For sale – Eminem’s Michael Jackson outfit.
Several of Eminem’s most notable costumes have been put up for sale online for The Rock and Roll Pop Art Auction. Included in the list of items donated by Shady is a white suit jacket splattered with blood, which was made by Lucelli. Eminem wore it for a photo shoot for his 2004 release Encore.
For USD $1,000, a fan can take home one of the rapper’s black Nike Air sweatsuits; but perhaps the prize of the auction is the Michael Jackson costume Eminem wore in the hotly-debated video for Just Lose It. The video and song caused quite a stir, as Michael Jackson personally complained about it and several video music channels banned it from air. The Michael Jackson outfit, which includes a red sequined jacket, white glove and black hat, pants and shoes will starts at USD $6,000.
The auction can be reached on http://www.gottahaverockandroll.com and will run through til the end of this week.
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