On his Twitter, Aasim posted a message saying that he was in the studio working on a remix to Dirty Money's "Angels." Here's the message:


Thanks to Theo for the tip.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. Dirty Money's "Love Come Down" moves up, as does Day26's "So Good."

Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

96. "Don't Feed Da Animals" by Gorilla Zoe (down from 91).

Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

68. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (a new high, up from 74).
77. "So Good" by Day26 (up from 78).

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay

68. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (a new high, up from 74).

Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles

18. "Angels" by Dirty Money (re-entry).

Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop

37. "So Good" by Day26 (a new high, up from 40).

Last night, I was inspired to share some thoughts on the music industry, the mentality of blaming Bad Boy and Diddy for everything that happens to their current and former artists and the responsibility that artists have in general. I did this on the @badboyblog Twitter account. I received a lot of positive feedback and @TrueSplurge suggested that I post the stream as a blog entry here on the site. After @empirequeen asked for more details on what I posted, I decided to do so.

I recognize this isn't for everyone: it's basically a stream of my Twitter messages which are short and limited by 140 characters. So, please feel free to skip this post. But, if you'd like to hear my thoughts on these topics, please read on.

If you do choose to comment, please read my thoughts first and consider what you know as first hand knowledge and what you heard from someone else. As always, our User Guidelines apply to all comments. Here's the stream:

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Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released last Thursday.

Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

91. "Don't Feed Da Animals" by Gorilla Zoe (re-entry).

Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

74. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (down from 71).
78. "So Good" by Day26 (down from 77).

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay

74. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (down from 71).

Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop

40. "So Good" by Day26 (debut).

Speaking to XXLMag.com, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie revealed that Diddy and Ness will check in with guest spots on the second Madd Rapper album, which he is hoping to release at the start of 2010.

Malcolm Venable of The Virginian-Pilot has a feature on four artists in the Hampton Roads, VA area. One of the artists is Tifanii Songbird, a contestant from Making the Band 3.

She says that she lied about her age to get on the show, which required participants to be at least 18 years of age. She was 15 at the time and her real name is Dav'rielle Smith. She used her cousin Tifanii's ID to get past the restriction.

Once there, however, she injured herself during a challenge and was sent home. She says that Diddy called but that she was not able to return because she had not fully recovered. It was at this point that she admitted her true age.

AllHipHop.com is reporting that Block Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with Capitol Records to put out rapper Kollosus' first album.

It remains unclear exactly how Bad Boy's move to Interscope affects the deal that Block Entertainment had with Bad Boy to release albums as Bad Boy South. Diddy has said that any new artists he signs from this point forward will be Bad Boy/Interscope, which could indicate that there would not be an opportunity for Block Entertainment to put out new artists, like Kollosus, on Bad Boy.

During an appearance on BET's 106 & Park in October, Diddy also said that everyone who was on the Bad Boy roster is still on the roster. If this is true, then the artists that Block Entertainment distributed through Bad Boy would still be signed to Bad Boy. Namely, Boyz N Da Hood, Gorilla Zoe and Yung Joc.

Of course, Yung Joc has been publicly vocal about his unhappiness with his situation, with remarks generally targeted toward Block. In an interview on The Ed Lover Show Diddy said that he had washed his hands of the Yung Joc/Block Entertainment disputes and that it was between Joc and Russell "Block" Spencer. I don't know how likely another Boyz N Da Hood album really is at this point, so the primary remaining artist from the partnership would then be Gorilla Zoe.

The article also says that Block Entertainment severed ties with Bad Boy in 2007, which is incorrect. There were rumors at the end of 2007 that Atlantic had decided to no longer distribute them. But, Spencer himself came out and said they were false and that was in January of 2008.

Thanks Ricardo for the tip.

Speaking to Power99FM's Uncle O, Jadakiss revealed that Diddy has offered The Lox a one album deal on Bad Boy.

"It's about the evolution, it's about growing," he said. "We came into the business with him. Despite our differences we had over of our lack of knowledge of the game of publishing and what so, we still learned a lot from him and to be able to work all them things out and make a full 360 and possibly work again with him after ten years for the tenth anniversary of the third Lox album, that would be incredible. It shows maturity as artists, it shows respect as men and it's good for the outside - for he can do for us and what we can do for him. He got them networks on smash with the reality shows. Ciroc vodka. The sky's the limit."

In an interview with Ms. Drama, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (specifically Krayzie Bone, Flesh Bone and Wish Bone) was asked about working with Biggie and whether or not they were looking forward to Diddy/Dirty Money's upcoming album, "Last Train to Paris."

"To me, Puffy has always made good music," Krayzie said. "People may say they ain't really feeling him or whatever, but Puffy is responsible for a lot of people's lives today. ['A lot of hits,' interjects Wish]. For real. A lot of hits. And if he was that whack, I don't he would be as successful as he is today. You really got to give credit where credit is due. He real cool."

Check out the interview below. The Bad Boy related segment starts at 5:37.


Thanks Theo.

Twitter Lists are a new feature on Twitter that has not yet been rolled out to all users, but should be there soon enough. We just got access on the @badboyblog account and so we have started creating some Bad Boy related lists aimed at helping Bad Boy fans to get the most out of Twitter. So far, we have four lists:

Bad Boy Artists - follow current Bad Boy artists, including members of groups signed to Bad Boy.
Day26 - follow all 5 group members on their individual accounts, plus the main group account.
Dirty Money - follow all 3 group members plus the main group account.
Diddy - follow Mr. Combs along with his company accounts on Twitter: Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy Publishing, Ciroc, Sean John and Blue Flame Marketing and Advertising.

If you have an idea for a list, please feel free to let me know in the comments. Enjoy!