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Five of ‘Pac albums (3 being his first 3 solo LPs) are now available for digital download purchases at iTunes .

Clayton Hill Confesses To Being An Accessory After The Fact To The Murder Of The Notorious B.I.G.

spotted: HipHopDX

Exclusive: An inmate has come forward with possible confirmation of the man who murdered Biggie Smalls while implicating members of the Nation of Islam, including himself, in the cover-up.

Former Nation of Islam member, and currently incarcerated federal felon, Clayton Hill has confessed to his role as an accessory after the fact to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.

After first contacting HipHopDX on June 8th, Hill disclosed to DX that in October of 2010 he met with Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy DePodesta and two agents with the F.B.I.’s Domestic Terrorism Unit and revealed that in May of 1997, while acting under orders as an official with Muhammad Mosque #15 in Atlanta, Georgia, he took possession of a semi-automatic handgun from a fellow N.O.I. member from Los Angeles, California who introduced himself as Dawoud Muhammad.

“[Dawoud Muhammad] stated to me that he was on the run for the murder [of The Notorious B.I.G.],” Hill wrote to HipHopDX via the CorrLinks email system for federal inmates. “He disclosed that he was the shooter of The Notorious B.I.G. because he (Dawoud) was a former Blood gang member and was paid to do so.”

In his forthcoming e-book, Diary of an Ex-Terrorist, Clayton quotes Dawoud bragging to him of that payment, “And I made twenty-five ‘g’s’ off that.”

Hill, who is currently residing in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago (inmate #61829019), convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Identity Theft, examined pictures of both the long-suspected gunman and mastermind in the Notorious B.I.G. shooting, Amir Muhammad and David Mack, that were included in a magazine upon HipHopDX’s request.

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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 7/3/2011

 

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1 Beyonce 4 310,000 311,000
3 Big Sean Finally Famous: The Album
87,000 87,000
5 Jill Scott Light of the Sun 55,000 190,000
9 Royce Da 5’9 & Eminem (Bad Meets Evil) Hell: The Sequel 42,000 276,000
14 Pitbull Planet Pit 28,000 83,000

 

You are looking at Kanye West & Jay-Z cover art for up coming LP Watch The Throne.  Pre-order a copy at www.watchthethrone.com

Canadian rapper from Edmonton Alberta Deezy tha Don presents “Gettin GWAP”

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[Directed by Court Dunn]

Tour Bus Performance

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Ann Arbor, MI -based bookseller Borders Group, reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since February, has agreed to be purchased by Phoenix-based Najafi Cos.

The reported sale price is 215 million dollars, with Najafi assuming another 220 million dollars in debt.

Najafi owns the Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Clubs and Columbia House.

The tentative agreement is known as a “stalking horse” bid, meaning a higher bid is possible at auction.  A federal bankruptcy judge has set a hearing date of July 21. Borders filed a motion to liquidate if the court does not approve an auction.

Borders, headquartered in Ann Arbor, began as a single store in 1971 and has grown to become the country’s second-largest brick-and-mortar bookseller after Barnes and Noble.

Borders has closed hundreds of stores since declaring bankruptcy and now operates about 400 outlets.