Even though there’s no album release in sight for Dirty Money, Diddy hit up Vibe for their annual JUICE issue cover with the “new” Bad Boy and Ricky Rozay was on the cover alongside Diddy. Followed by Cassie, Janelle Monae and others. Issue is hitting stores soon.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Rick Ross on VIBE magazine cover with Diddy and Bad Boy fam
As His CD 'Lasers' Sits In Limbo. Lupe Fiasco Says Record Companies Don't Care About Albums Anymore "They Just Want The 3 Singles. They Don't Care About The Rest"
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Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco understand the fans frustration, he feels it too. His latest album 'Lasers' has languished in limbo at Atlantic Records with no release date in sight although it's been finished for months..
Some fans have taken it upon themselves to start a petition to force Atlantic into putting the album out...now!
"I love to see progression," he told MTV. "I love it. I love to see this petition. It brought me to tears a couple of times like, 'these n---as really f--- with me. All these kids and these fans f--- with me and it's some positive sh--. Go to Wearenotlosers.com and see what Lasers really is. ... That's what they're petitioning for. Listen to 'I'm Beamin,' the song. It reaffirms what we're doing."
He says Atlantic presented him with choices of singles for the album. He turned them all down because he was told he wouldn't have ownership of or any publishing rights to the tunes.
One of the songs turned out to be B.o.B.'s smash hit "Nothing On You" featuring Bruno Mars.
The problem as Lupe sees it is that the record companies only care about 3 great songs off the album that they can market.
"I don't think the label cares about an album," Lupe told MTV. "I don't think n---as care. People just want their number-one record. They don't care about the rest of the album. I was talking to an engineer the other day and he said, 'These n---as don't even care about mixing an album no more.' They just want the first three songs. Three singles. They get them, one, two, three, they don't care what's on the rest of the album. I know this for sure. I've seen it. You can't blame them because of the attention span of the game and the attention span of music, how fast things are going. You only got them one, two, three shots. I'm not no fool. I'm looking at it like 'Yeah, you're right."
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Rick Ross first week sales
Rick Ross came into Teflon Don’s sales week with a lot of momentum. Tons of promos, tons of controversy and tons of DOPE records. But was it enough to have his 4th consecutive #1 album and beat Eminem in the process?
Rick Ross’ first week sales are…
Not enough to beat Eminem and his reign over the charts with Recovery. Eminem outsold Ross by a little over 10,000 copies…
Monday, July 26, 2010
“Wade Bosh James” t-shirt by Royaltees
This’ll probably be the last “Wade Bosh James” combo shirt I post. But shouts out to Royaltees. They sent me this shirt over the weekend, and I also saw it for sale over at Solefly. Its available in this black colorway and in white.
You can buy it in person at Solefly in South Miami or…online via Royaltees’ website, click here to do so.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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