There were once rumors circulating that because of the low responses to Chris Brown’s first single, “Wall To Wall,” from the R & B singer’s forthcoming album, “Exclusive”, it would be scrapped by his label, Zomba. Fortunately that turned out to be untrue.

Although his song “Wall To Wall” didn’t do as great as they would have wanted it to (79 on Billboards), the album looks promising especially with the song “Take U Down” which he let fans hear a snippet of on MTV’s TRL in June. Sounds like a chart topper.
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Kanye West reportedly will be putting down his songwriting writing pen to become a guest editor for the August/September issue of the magazine Complex. The rapper/producer will be a fashion columnist for the magazine and will also be conducting interviews and overseeing a section about his favorite designers.
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On July 7, 2007, “Live Earth – The Concert For A Climate In Crisis” will bring together more than 2 billion people to raise awareness about global warming. Started by former Vice President Al Gore and organized by Kevin Wall and Harvey Goldsmith — the producers behind Bob Geldof’s 2005 anti-poverty event, the event will feature more than 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world’s top musicians.

According to the official Live Earth sponsor, MSN, this year’s lineup will include Rap/Hip-Hop and R&B acts Snoop Dogg, Akon, Alicia Keys, Macy Gray, Black Eyed Peas, Pharrell, Kanye West, Ludacris, alongside artists such as Rihanna, Bon Jonvi, Dave Matthrews Band, Madonna, Kelly Clarkson, Pussycat Dolls, Metallica, Shakira, Joss Stone, and others.
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Within our “pro-gun” culture that’s also known as American culture, it is a high magnitude of casual violence within urban communities that is being exploited and glorified by hip-hop’s money men.

It was almost like it was yesterday when the super powers of Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane collaborated to form the hit single “So Icy” on Gucci’s debut album Trap House (Big Cat Records, 2005). Two up and coming hungry artists, thriving in the fruitful Atlanta scene, came together to create magic, “dope boy magic.” It was like it was their destiny to create the “Icy” song. To the untrained ear it sounded as if there was just one rapper on the entire song with no guest appearances. It sounded like both rappers were one in the same with the similar flow styles and illuminating swagger or to some; one rapper just simply outshined the other. From this song spawned a historic southern-bred beef that was unfamiliar to hip-hop fans below the mason-Dixon line. Diss records were thrown back and forth between each rapper violently with so much hate that the “Snowman” (Young Jeezy) resulted in ordering a bounty on Gucci Mane’s chain for $10,000 through a mixtape song called “Stay Trapped”, which was a playful remake of T.I.’s hit song “A.S.A.P.” The ending result of the lyrical quarrel ended with one of Jeezy’s assailants attempting to obtain Gucci’s “chain”. That was when Gucci was charged and sent to prison for murder after shooting the night stalker dead. While incarcerated Gucci found more trouble and witnessed the wrath of an affiliated gangster in Jeezy after reportedly being almost beat to death. The December 2005 issue of “The Source” magazine showed the after effects of this heinous act of prison violence where it showed a swollen faced disgruntled Gucci Mane. After appealing his murder case and garnering his freedom back, Gucci is back with vengeance on his sophomore album release, rightfully named Hard to Kill.
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While touring in Sydney, Kanye West, 29, happen to be checking out of the Opera House at the same time as a large media pack was photographing British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, also known as Borat.

It’s stated the rapper attempted to cross the road and appeared to be pushed by an Opera House security guard.

“I just thought it was funny because he didn’t even stop my friend and he stopped me,” West said after the incident. “Then he pushed me.”

Reports say that an onlooker stated that the security officer singled the producer/rapper out because he was an African American.

The Opera House spokesman states they will review the footage of the incident, and highly believe that guard was just doing his job.

The Game’s sophomore album entitled “Doctor’s Advocate” was made available before the expected release date but while downloaders were hoping for the original tracks, the album eventually turned out to be the censored version. The leak is stated to be a drug dealer move to make you want more or rather comparing a CD to food which inturn will feed the hungry public. The Game actually admitted that he was responsible for the leak of his new album inorder to try to beat illegal music downloaders.

“It’s like selling crack in the hood, man. Anybody that ever sold drugs in the hood knows you gotta give a n***a a taste before they buy,” states The Game.

The album is executive produced by “The Game” himself and with him being so excited about the album, he’s now calling himself Mr. Soundscan because he states he’s going to prove to everyone this is how you put records out and get real numbers. And this time around the album does not include beats by Dr. Dre or 50 cent on the album. The Game tell fans that everyone will see if The Game is the sh– or if his career will die due to the lack of having producer Dr. Dre or the G-Unit frontman 50 cent.

The official release date for the album is set for November 14 and contains 16 tracks with production by Scott Storch, will.i.am, Cool & Dre and appearances by Junior Reid, Kanye West, Nas, Marsha of Floetry and many others.

Currently The Game states that he is running his own company Black Wallstreet and has also started Black Wallstreet Films and has already brought on a number of producers. He’s also working on Black Wallstreet clothing line and Fly Boy which is an upscale line which will be coming out soon.