Official Results via: BoxOfficeMojo
Title Weekend Gross
source: Forbes
1. Lady Gaga earnings: $90 million
2. Oprah Winfrey net worth: $2.7 billion earnings: $90 million
3. Justin Beiber earnings: $53 million
4. U2 earnings: $195 million
5. Elton John earnings: $100 million
6. Tiger Woods earnings: $75 million
7. Taylor Swift earnings $45 million
8. Bon Jovi earnings: $125 million
9. Simon Cowell earnings: $90 million
10. Lebron James earnings: $48 million
It’s going 2 be a Cold Summer as Young Jizzle is set to release his highly anticipated fourth studio album TM103 , this summer marks the 6th year anniversary of Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 which is certified Double Platinum by the RIAA.
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Harold Camping, the 89-year-old Family Radio founder, a California-based religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States, is predicting the world is going to end May 21, 2011.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a 60-year-old ex-MTA employee has dropped down $140,000, his life savings, to help spread the word that the world will end on May 21, 2011.
“I’m trying to warn people about what’s coming,” Fitzpatrick told the Daily News. “People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone.”
Fitzpatrick spent his money on 1,000 placards on subway cars and several more on bus shelters around the city. They read: “Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever – Judgment Day: May 21.”
The retiree’s beliefs are based on the predictions made by Harold Camping, who claims the rapture will take place on May 21. Fitzpatrick said the cataclysmic event will happen just before 6 p.m. Eastern.
Don H. Barden was born in Inkster, MI and started up his first business with only $500 in the 1960s, a record store where he began promoting bands and booking shows. From this humble entrepreneurial beginning Barden made it into the cable industry, eventually achieving success as the first African American cable-company owner in Detroit, MI.
In 2002 Barden took possession of the Fitzgeralds casinos. One was based in Tunica, Mississippi, another in Black Hawk, Colorado, and the third in downtown Las Vegas. With the Las Vegas casino Barden became the city’s first African American casino owner.
Barden Companies, with over four thousand employees, earned $347 million in 2002, 90 percent of which came from Barden’s four casinos, his Tunica-based casino being the most profitable.
Don Barden showed that he had great negotiating skills, whether for real estate or for licenses for new technology, and was a risk taker. With each new acquisition he gained more experience, and he continually used his new skills to move his companies forward.
Barden passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2011 of Lung Cancer in Detroit, MI.
R.I.P. Don Barden a true #GWOPSTAR and inspiration for GWOP Magazine.
(Don Barden pictured above with Bella Marshall and former Boxing champ Tommy Hearns)
*sidenote: We would like to see Terrance Howard playing a lead role as Barden in a biopic of his life.
via HipHopDX
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 3 | Lonely Island | Turtleneck & Chain | 68,000 | 68,000 |
| 5 | Tyler, the Creator | Goblin | 45,000 | 46,000 |
| 6 | Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 | 42,000 | 170,000 |
| 14 | Rapheal Saadiq | Stone Rollin’ | 21,000 | 22,000 |
| 17 | Bruno Mars | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 20,000 | 1,017,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 22 | Wiz Khalifa | Rolling Papers |
16,000 | 387,000 |
| 41 | Lupe Fiasco | Lasers | 11,000 | 379,000 |
| 45 | Eminem | Recovery | 10,000 | 3,853,000 |
| 83 | Lil Wayne | I Am Not A Human Being | 5,700 | 877,000 |
| 197 | Jim Jones | Capo | 2,500 | 45,000 |
Columbia Records will release “4,” the fourth solo studio album from Beyoncé on Tuesday, June, 28, 2011. The album was recorded over a year between the spring of 2009 and the spring of 2010, the title signifies the artist’s date of birth, date of marriage and her 4th solo album.
Directed by Francis Lawrence
These dayz Hollywood directors are not looking for thespians for lead roles, they are utilizing your favorite rap and music artists. This was made popular in the 1980s by west coast rappers, Ice Cube, Ice T and groups such as Kid N Play to name a few. GWOP Magazine staff has compiled a list of the best rappers turned movie actors or actresses past and present. Check the full list after the jump.
(Ice Cube pictured above in his first role starring as Doughboy in Hood #Classic, Boyz N the Hood directed by John Singleton)
WILL SMITH’s luxury, 53-foot-long, double-decker trailer that he’s renting for $9,000 a week while filming “Men in Black III” angered the residents of New York’s SoHo neighborhood so much that the filmmakers were told to move it to a private parking lot. The $2 million jumbo-sized trailer — it includes a full-service kitchen, lounge, a movie room with a 100-inch screen, marble floors, offices for his assistants, a large bedroom and a granite bathroom — was taking up too much space on the street.
Check out the cover for Eminem and Royce Da 5’9‘s Bad Meets Evil EP, Hell: The Sequel, which is due to drop June 14!
After ten years of illegal file-sharing, LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton have agreed to compensate the RIAA $105 million.
LimeWire was shut down by the RIAA in federal court over copyright infringement claims.
The case has finally been wrapped up with a jury deciding on damages against the service. The jury in this case opted to arrange a settlement between LimeWire and the RIAA legal team, which would call for LimeWire to pay $10,808 USD per track for the 9,715 tracks the RIAA claimed LimeWire infringed, for a total fine of $105M USD.
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