There’s THREE sides to EVERY story. Here’s Ray-J’s side.
SHIT. JUST. GOT. REAL. According to E!News, Mr. X (thanks for the heads up) who just texted me, and Sister LowKey who just texted me, Jay-Z and Kanye West are slated to perform tomorrow night at MTV’s VMA’s. Mark Macklin revealed the big surprise as he was snooping around the VMA set earlier this week (Look how close Beyonce and Wayne are sitting to each other).
Though MTV has yet to confirm the big surprise, this isn’t far fetched in the slightest. With Watch The Throne about 3 to 4 weeks old, it’s about time these two give us a preview of what’s to come this fall for their tour. Will Beyonce join them? God I hope not. I don’t want to see “Lift Off” performed, although I like it a bit more now for some strange reason. Will they open the show? Close it out? What if they perform “Niggas In Paris?” Will the Otis Mobile make an appearance? Is it even true? We’ll just have to wait and see. The VMA’s air live from L.A. Nokia Theater tomorrow night at 9pm.
RESPECT: E!
And I was JUST requesting some new Terius Nash material the other day. Singer/songwriter extraordinare The-Dream is gearing up to release a 10-track LP titled Terius Nash Est. 1977′ later this month to hold us over until his fourth solo effort The Love, IV: Diary of a Madman is released later this year via Def Jam Records.
Breaking the news via his Twitter page last night, Mr. Nash explained The Love, IV: Diary of a Madman is being held up due to contract negotiations over at Def Jam which in turn does not have a release date. Mr. Nash tweeted, “Also a free 10 song Internet album will be released by Aug 31st. LP 4 because of the Contract negotiations does not have a date but it will be released 4th quarter but i will give a 10 song Internet LP while you guys wait!!!! LOVE YOU.”
Mr. Nash also briefly revealed that the IDJ family isn’t happy about his non-profit offerings for Terius Nash Est. 1977. “BTW NO ONE AT DEFJAM IS HAPPY ABOUT A FREE ALBUM LOL…. they are trying to stop it!” Nash quipped. The Dream made it clear that the August release of Terius Nash Est. 1977 is a personal effort strictly for his advocates.
Terius Nash Est. 1977 is slated to hit before August 31.
Thoughts???
On August 28th Lil Wayne and R&B bad boy Chris Brown will take to the VMA stage at The Nokia Theater for the MTV’s 2011 VMA’s. Brown who is nominated for Best Hip Hop video and Best Collaboration said about his performance, “I am excited about my nominations and to be back on the VMA stage,” Brown said in a statement. “I have a special performance planned for my wonderful fans.”
Wayne, who will celebrate the release of his forthcoming effort Tha Carter IV several hours after the VMA’s is also nominated for Best Hip-Hop video for his ”6 Foot 7 Foot” visual. No word on what or who Wayne will be performing with for his set.
The VMA’s air live on MTV on August 29th, 2011 at 9pm.
SOURCE: MTV
Looks like Curtis ruffled some feathers. The newly anointed head honcho (Chairman and CEO as of March 17th) over at Island Def Jam and Universal Motown Republic spoke with Global Grind in regards to 50′s claim that Def Jam is a whopping $80 million in the whole. Kind of a stretch on Fif’s part, huh?
“I don’t know what the f*ck they’re talking about. Def Jam is not broke, it’s on fire!! We just did a deal with Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music and Big Sean’s album is a great success and will continue to garner a lot of attention. Kanye and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne has the whole world buzzing. Jeezy got an album coming out and his show last night in NYC has the whole industry excited. Rihanna just ended her amazing tour of her amazing album. Frank Ocean is on the verge of super stardom. Rick Ross and so many other great artists are part of our incredible roster. Of course we are looking to maximize our potential and are in search of additional African-American leadership to take us to the next level. But, let me be clear, Def Jam is on fire.”
RESPECT: GG
Eminem’s upcoming festival appearance at Ireland’s Tennent’s Vital, is apparently in jeopardy due to the proximity of the festival to a Missionary Convention at a church down the street. According to The BoomBox Blog residents in protest over Marshall’s vile lyrics have filed a petition with the local council to block the entertainment license for the event as long as he is on the bill. The town council is scheduled to decide on the matter in July.
“I have no issue with a family-friendly concert in a park but this is a performer who uses the crudest language — language that degrades women and has the foulest, most twisted content,” Ashworth explained. “I have been doing a survey to determine how far the lyrics will be heard and local residents tell me that they heard previous concerts at the park. The council should never have allowed this.”
I’m pretty sure the show will go on as scheduled, but the entire idea of a bunch of uppity church going folks having their prayers interrupted by the lyrics to “Kill You” just made me giggle.
According to the good folks over at HitsDD Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″‘s collaborative EP is on tap to bring in 150-160k in sales and has no guarantee of the coveted #1 ranking. Coming up close behind is 11 year old Jackie Evancho’s Dream With Me which is on tap to sell 140-150k.
While those numbers might seem good for an EP on the surface it’s stunningly low for an Eminem project. To date his lowest numbers on any project occurred in 1999 when the Slim Shady EP clocked in at 284k. The barely promoted Re-Up Mixtape sold 309k copies its opening week.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Eminem loyal will make a mockery of the early predictions similar to what they did last year for Recovery.
Sidebar: The duo’s Bruno Mars assisted single Lighters currently sits at #6 on the Itunes Singles Chart, a steep climb from it’s #150 position 24 hours ago.
This just in: the Watch The Throne tracklisting floating around this morning via DOTR is in fact real. The highly anticipated joint project between Ye and Jay, which was said to see the light of day around March looks like it’s getting the finishing touches because a source EXTREMELY close to the project just confirmed with me these song titles are legit, however more songs are said to be added.
The duo have been extremely quiet in regards to the project and music in general, but popping up together in certain spots over the past couple months and weeks. More recently in SoHo with VP of A&R at Def Jam, Bu Thiam (Akon’s brother). With this tracklist now confirmed, a July release date for the project seems a bit more feasible. Producers however, have yet to be confirmed for the effort. Well they have, I just can’t reveal lol. See the tracklist, below.
1. Lift Off (Feat. Beyonce & Bruno Mars)
2. Murder To Excellence
3. Illest Mother Alive
4. Why I Love You So (Guilt Trip)
5. That Shit Crazy
6. Living So Italian
7. Who Gonna Stop Me
8. Whole Lifetime
9. We Are Young
10. Anthem
Thoughts on the tracklist?
Looks like “John” featuring Rozay wasn’t picking up the steam it needed. The good folks over at Universal just let loose a new release date for Dwayne’s highly anticipated Carter IV which is now August 29th and not June 21st.
However, with his recently released left field single “How To Love”, I’m sure the Young Money leader will have plenty of leg room to work that as well as a visual for the effort. Hell, The Martian might be able to let go of another offering as well.
RESPECT: GK
Nas gave us some good news on his twitter timeline this morning. He announced the name of his 10th studio album, which with be entitled Life Is Good. This comes after he recently announced the indefinite shelving of Lost Tapes 2. Stay tuned for more details!
