Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. It's a great week for Janelle Monae: her album "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" makes a big jump on the relevant album charts while "Tightrope" debuts on the Hot Singles Sales chart.
Albums
The Billboard 200
120. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae ("Pace Setter," up from 175).
Top Current Albums
114. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae ("Pace Setter," up from 150).
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
25. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae ("Pace Setter," up from 31).
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Gorilla Zoe and Red Cafe are featured on a new record from DJ Ill Will. You can
download it for free, care of
DJ Ill Will.
Back in May,
we learned that The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy" would be featured in the "Def Jam Rapstar" video game. Over on NetworkWorld.com,
Dave Rudden of GamePro writes about the latest confirmed tracks, and more Bad Boy or Bad Boy-influenced material has been added.
The big one is Diddy's "It's All About the Benjamins (Remix)." But, Nas' "Hate Me Now" featuring Diddy and Yung Joc's "It's Goin' Down" have both been added, as has the Diddy-produced Mary J. Blige cut, "You’re All I Need/I’ll Be There For You."
The game is due out in October and can be
pre-ordered on Amazon.com.
In the series of clips below, DJ Scream interviews Russell "Block" Spencer of Block Entertainment. The most interesting part is in the second clip, where he talks about
Yung Joc's departure from Bad Boy and gives his side of the matter.
This is Spencer's account of the events, and his side only (we have
covered Joc's side in detail previously): Joc wanted to dissolve his relationship with his long time manager Rico Brooks. But, Spencer told Joc that that wasn't fair, given Brooks' investment in him as an artist, instead suggesting he bring another person in as Brooks would be open to sharing the duties and, he says, the money.
Allegedly, Joc was not satisfied with that proposal and, in return, Block pushed Joc's album back and released Gorilla Zoe's album in his spot. Joc went directly to Diddy (Block referred to this as going "behind his back"). When Diddy declined to get involved, Joc went to Lyor Cohen, who also declined.
Block also spoke on his relationship with Diddy and confirmed that Gorilla Zoe was still signed to Bad Boy through Atlantic.
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Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today.
Albums
The Billboard 200
175. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 151).
Top Current Albums
150. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 138).
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
31. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 27).
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In the video below, Russell "Block" Spencer announced that he's doing a six mixtape series - the first of which is
"Braggin' Rights," which
we mentioned in July.
Last night,
Aasim released 11 tracks including
"Manhattan Pu***." That track, when downloaded, was tagged as Aasim featuring Cassie. But, upon listening, I found that it didn't really sound like Cassie.
Aasim
confirmed this and said that it was
Iyanna Dean, who had collaborated with him on his remakes of
Drake's "Successful" and
Rick Ross' "Here I Am."
I apologize for the confusion.
XXLmag.com has come up with their list of the five greatest interns in hip-hop history and, with no surprise, Diddy is number 1. But, Kanye West checks in at number 4 with ties to Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie during his Bad Boy days.
