It’s The Rizz-eal goes in on JD
Foreclosure for Roc-A-Fella founder Dash’s homes
Barack Obama And Hip-Hop: Does The Support Of Jay-Z, Nas, T.I. Hurt His Chances?
The Game: “Jay-Z Would Be A Piece Of Cake”
Hip-Hop Mogul Jermaine Dupri Closes Café Dupri
CIPHA/ROSENBERG: SHOW 22 - CASSIE
Game Vs. Bow Wow: No Rap Beef Here, Just A ‘Madden 09′ Face-Off
Former Source EIC Reveals Nas & 50 Cent Flings In Tell-All Book
1. 50 Cent
2. Jay Z
3. Diddy
4. Kanye West
It’s been some year for Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. In the past 12 months, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born hip-hop demigod released a platinum album, signed a 10-year, $150 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation and tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Beyoncé Knowles. Quite a record. But only good enough for a silver medal.
While Jay-Z topped Forbes.com’s inaugural Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne to Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who raked in $150 million over the past 12 months–almost twice what Jay-Z made.
Kanye West clocks in at No. 4 with $30 million. The pink-polo-sporting rapper and producer released his third solo album, Graduation, last September. After handily outselling 50 Cent’s Curtis in a head-to-head opening-week matchup, West’s album went multiplatinum and won four Grammys. West has penned hits for Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Diddy, among others. Earlier this month, he headlined the music festival Lollapalooza in his native Chicago.
5. Timbaland
6. Pharrell
7. Swizz Beats
8. Snoop
9. Dr. Dre
10. Ludacris
11. T.I., Lil Wayne
12. Eminem, Common, Akon (whoa, Common is rakin in as much as Akon???)
13. JD
14. Lil Jon, Outkast, Chamillionaire, The Game
Some hip-hop legends don’t need to do anything to keep earning outrageous sums of money. Andre “Dr. Dre” Young banked $15 million even though he hasn’t had a hit in years–he still gets rich on royalties from two decades of hits. A founder of the seminal rap group N.W.A he released his multiplatinum solo opus The Chronic in 1992 and has produced hits for the likes of Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem and Tupac Shakur.
Tupac himself pulled in a handsome sum this year–about $15 million–even though he’s been dead for over 10 years. Tupac is probably having himself a last laugh from beyond the grave, knowing that his onetime friend Suge Knight isn’t cashing in on the bonanza. Knight, the bodyguard-turned-president of Death Row Records, long rumored to have arranged Shakur’s killing, filed for bankruptcy and put his Malibu, Calif., mansion up for sale last June.
First signee to TAG Records
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Dupri Shooting — All Over VIP Access
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Remy Ma Working To Overturn Prison Sentence
Capone-N-Noreaga To Release Channel 10 LP In September
Rick Ross Says Lyrics Are Authenic; Squashes Trick/Plies Beef
This one’s on the uptempo tip. like take your fat ass to the gym and do some cardio. (yeah yeah i know, that would apply to me)
It’s not everyday you hear of a deodorant brand launching a record label. AHH reports that Tag has teamed up with JD for joint venture thru Island Def Jam.
Update:
JD explains
Hosted by JD f/ Usher, Young Jeezy, and of course Jigga
Named after my joint of the moment, this mixtape is chock-full-of exclusives like the remix with 50 AND Fat Joe, that crazy joint with Mavado and Jigga, that new fiyah from Weezy, the Superstar Remix with Jeezy and T.I. (I even left lupe’s verse in there). Shiiiiiiiit, why don’t you just peep the tracklist?
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…of Def Jam
JD mud slangin courtesy of The Real
See details for homes up for sale from Rev Run, Russell Simmons, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Suge Knight, Snoop, Eminem, Kanye West, and JD in the 8 Houses Of Bling
I think so. MTV talks to T-Pain about all his 07 collabos. Here are some excerpts:
Kanye West, “Good Life” “All I recorded for that song was hooks. We did five different versions [of the chorus]. And when you hear that [sings] ‘And my grandmama ain’t the only one calling me baby,’ that was a hook. Kanye put all them hooks together and created that song. When I heard the finished version, I was like, ‘This dude is a genius.’ ”
Chris Brown, “Kiss Kiss”"That song was originally for David Banner. I made that with him in mind, but Chris was in the studio with me and asked for some hip-hop beats. He heard it and asked for it. That song was originally called “Thick Thick.” [Sings] ‘That booty, girl, is thick, thick, thick.’ But then I remembered Chris Brown is like 12, and we changed it up.”
Fabolous, “Baby Don’t Go” “That already had the hook on it, actually. [I just had to] put my little part on it. I actually respect [Jermaine Dupri] for that because the song required Auto-Tune, and he was just like, ‘I don’t want to just use it. I’d rather have the person that’s famous for it right now.’ Because anyone can just use it, as you see everybody is doing that right now. But he was like, ‘I could have just used it, but that would have been disrespectful to somebody that’s bringing it back.’ I respect him for that, completely.”
Read more about his collabos with R. Kelly, DJ Khaled, Plies, and Bow Wow.
