This may not be new, but I just noticed that on
Buckwild's MySpace, it says that he is working on a track with Aasim.
The
Making the Band 4 MySpace mentions that the venue for the NYC audition on March 24 will be rebel.
NobodySmiling.com has a review of "Ridin High:
This whole album is about whoopin a**, pimpin� h***, busting guns, strippers, cognac, blunts etc, etc but I like it. It�s well put together. The production presents a soundscape that is varied covering all regions of the south with crunk fight music, laid back chill music, downtempo seduction tracks, and bouncy club tunes. It becomes apparent Bad Boy South has a stable of producers cooking up heat about six tracks into the album. Lyrically, 8Ball and MJG won�t astound you or go over your head with complex similes and metaphors but provide simple straight forward lyrics but not so simple a 3 year old could spit them. The album could be about 4-5 tracks shorter but there�s enough heat on here to ride to through the summer. It looks like the living legends have found a cozy home with Bad Boy South and have managed to put together a dope down south album.
Via
8 Ball & MJG's MySpace.
Atlantic Street has new release dates for the B5 and Boyz N Da Hood albums, it looks like. They have Boyz N Da Hood listed as June 12 and B5 listed as June 19.
Via
boyzndahood at BadBoyForever.com.
Check out a couple of new tracks in our audio player to the middle right of this page. They are "Everybody Know Me" by Boyz N Da Hood and "Five-0" by Elephant Man featuring Wyclef Jean. Both tracks contain intros from Diddy.
Cheri Dennis will be
performing at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT on March 29. Tickets start at $20 and can be
purchased here. The show also features Joe and Ryan Leslie.
Via
Ryan Leslie's MySpace.
MP3.com has an interview with 8 Ball & MJG:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
We gonna do us. We gonna do us. No matter what, you know what I'm saying. I think it's like a bunch of our�it's like a compilation of all of our greatest underground s*** ever on this album, man. You know, the tracks are real big and the subject matter is just straight gutter, man, you know.
Nice. And who you guys working with in terms of production and features and stuff?
We got production from Lil Jon, Jazze Pha, Sean Dre. We got the title track "Ridin High," Big D from Miami did that. DJ Nasty from Orlando, he did the "Relax and Take Notes." Young Zo did the track "Clap On" with Yung Joc. Yeah. And we got Shorty Red, he produced a song called "Hickory, Dickory, Dock." DJ Toomp produced a song called "Worldwide." We got Juvenile on the album, Pimp C, Killer Mike. And just a lot of Eightball and MJG really, though, bro.
Via
their MySpace.
From
delawareonline:
Fire Eye Entertainment and the University of Delaware's radio station WVUD 91.3 will host the Battle of the Emcees April 20, an annual event featuring rappers from the University of Delaware and elsewhere competing for a $1,000 grand prize.
Fire Eye Entertainment has produced events for UD, New York radio station Hot 97, Spelman and Morehouse colleges, Honey magazine and others. Confirmed guests for this year's event include representatives from Bad Boy Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Circuit Tv, Sony Urban Music and other prominent entertainment companies.
Bad Boy's latest SoundScan numbers are as follows:
1. "Greatest Hits" by The Notorious B.I.G., 99,200 (99,500 overall).
75. "Press Play" by Diddy, 10,700 (564,900).
NR. "New Joc City" by Yung Joc, 3,100 (907,500).
NR. "Life After Death" by The Notorious B.I.G., 2,500 (4,483,900).
NR. "Ready to Die" by The Notorious B.I.G., 2,200 (35,700).
NR. "Danity Kane" by Danity Kane, 2,100 (896,700).
NR. "Cassie" by Cassie, 900 (306,600).
Two notes. First, don't forget that LAD was a double album. So, I believe that that just counts both discs as one. It's not as simple as multiplying it by two as the clean version of LAD was just one disc. Also, I believe the Ready to Die numbers are for the remaster. This is because of the
sample issues that ceased sales of the album. I am not sure if they released the original RTD again without the samples, but I know they did the remaster. So, they might just sell the remaster. In which case, that low number makes since, being that the remaster never appeared on the Billboard 200.
