Vibe asked French Montana about whether East Coast hip-hop is ready to return to prominence. As part of his answer, he mentioned that his album will be titled "Excuse My French."
XXL reports that Machine Gun Kelly will be featured on Tech N9ne's Hostile Takeover 2012 tour, which will do 90 shows in 99 days. Dates will be announced next week.
Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today.
This is a noteworthy week for Bad Boy. Machine Gun Kelly makes his Billboard Hot 100 debut with "Wild Boy." This is Bad Boy's first song on the chart since May 21, 2011, when Dirty Money's "Coming Home" appeared for the last time. Across the board "Wild Boy" hits new highs.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Greatest Hits" makes a big leap, as well, jumping to 152 on The Billboard 200. This is the first time a Bad Boy album has been on that chart since May 14, 2011 when Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris" took it's final bow.
Finally, French Montana is now showing up on Billboard as a Bad Boy artist, so he is included in these charts, as well.
At press time, two relevant charts had not yet been updated. Those are the Hot Digital Songs and Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts. When Billboard updates them, this article will be updated.
Update: Those charts have now been accounted for and Bad Boy did not hold a position on either of them.
Skylar Grey, who was featured on Dirty Money's hit single "Coming Home," has released a solo version of the song on her "The Buried Sessions" EP. It has premiered on MySpace. Her Twitter account dubs the song "Coming Home Pt. II."
Mike Posner and Blackbear have released an acoustic of Rick Ross' "Stay Schemin," which featured Drake and Rick Ross. You can watch them in the studio below and can download the track from the audio player beneath that.
French Montana's "Shot Caller" (featuring Charlie Rock) has been released digitally. You can pick it up on iTunes and Amazon.com. Check out the single cover below.
