Detroit collective Doughboyz Cashout ink a deal with Young Jeezy’s CTE/Atlantic Records. Doughboyz Cashout consist of members HBK, Payroll, Doughboy Quis and Doughboy Dre. This is the modern Detroit version of the late 90s New Orleans’ Cash Money Hot Boys group. Congratulations fellas!
***UPDATED*** Announcement Video:
directed by Jack Stillz
#2. The Great Gatsby Soundtrack – 137,000 (137,000)
#12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 30,000 (703,000)
#22. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 18,000 (423,000)
#48. Talib Kweli – Prisoner Of Conscious – 9,900 (10,000)
#52. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 9,000 (887,000)
#83. LL Cool J – Authentic – 5,500 (20,000)
#93. The Uncluded (Aesop Rock & Kimya Dawson) – Hokey Fright – 5,000 (5,000)
#98. Snoop Lion – Reincarnated – 4,700 (35,000)
#109. Mike Stud – Relief – 4,200 (4,200)
#157. Rittz – The Life & Times Of Jonny Valiant – 3,200 (17,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
Rapper Drake leads the list of BET nominees with 12 nominations. View the full list after the jump. Read More
Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee takes to twitter to celebrated the 19th anniversary of his film Crooklyn.
The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York and the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant during the summer of 1973. Its primary focus is a young girl, Troy (played by Zelda Harris), and her family. Throughout the film, Troy learns life lessons through her four rowdy brothers, her loving but strict mother (Alfre Woodard), and her naive, struggling father (Delroy Lindo).
A distinctive characteristic of Crooklyn is its soundtrack, composed completely of music from the 1970s, except the hit single “Crooklyn” by the Crooklyn Dodgers, a rap crew composed of Buckshot, Masta Ace and Special Ed. A two-volume release of the soundtrack became available on CD along with the release of the film. Read More
Music video by Kendrick Lamar performing Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe (Explicit). (C) 2013 Aftermath/Interscope Records
directed by Cricket
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture unearthed a 1933 photograph taken in Harlem of a man that bears a striking resemblance to the Roc Nation mogul, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter.
“Your futures my past/ I been here before” – Jay-Z “Streets is Talking”
Watch 14 year old rapper Chris Miles.
directed by Rik Cordero
#5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 35,000 (673,000)
#12. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 22,000 (404,000)
#17. Kid Cudi – Indicud – 15,000 (183,000)
#23. LL Cool J – Authentic – 14,000 (14,000)
#25. Rittz – The Life & Times Of Jonny Valiant – 14,000 (14,000)
#37. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 10,000 (878,000)
#40. will.i.am – #willpower – 9,300 (39,000)
#47. Snoop Lion – Reincarnated – 8,600 (30,000)
#131. R.A. The Rugged Man – Legends Never Die – 3,500 (3,600)
#157. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons To Die – 3,000 (23,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
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