Bet you guys are thinking.. NOT ANOTHER FIFTY’ POST!!
I just wanted to get your opinion about 50’s new music video “Ayo Technology” featuring JT & Timbaland.

courtesy of: 50CentMusic

Personally, I’m not feeling this song at all. I think the theme, rhyme, lyrics are all played out.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect 50 to come out with anything deep anytime soon..
but the move was cheap to use JT/Timba hype to promote the new album.

Before I start getting hate mail, I do listen and enjoy some 50 Cent songs.

So let me know what you think. I just wanna hear your opinions.
No hate mail!  Just your opinions.

I had fallen fast asleep last night playfully replaying Kanye West’s “The Good Life” over and over in my head. I thought to myself, “Wow, this right here, is the good life. After months of speculation that the world was ignorant and would surely let 50 Cent win in the battle of the hip hop titans, that belief was kindly put to rest after Kanye clearly was the victor on Tuesday’s releases.”

But, then I woke up. I turned on my computer. I looked at my iTunes preparing to once again overkill “Stronger” and what did I see? Under top albums, 50 Cent’s “Curtis” is number 1. How did this happen after 2 full days of Kanye at the top?

My guess is that come next week, when we find out who the number 1 seller is, 50 Cent (that wirey little scamp) and his team is going to have already bought up many of his albums that didn’t sell to put him over the edge. This goes for buying up iTunes songs too.

So America, I call you to duty, go and pick up 10 Kanye West albums today (along with the new Hot Hot Heat!), distribute them to your friends, loved ones, and even your pets. We all benefit from a little more Kanye and a little less 50. Let’s put our money where our mouth is and show America that we want more music like Kanye.

I have some illegally downloaded copies of “Curtis” if anyone would like one.

-Keep rocking the movement-

The MTV VMA’s 07 in a nutshell: Organized chaos.

The network seemed to hand their flagship awards show over to drunk and egotistical artists and cross their fingers that it would end up a diamond in the rough. Well, the show ended up a massive party of rockstar proportions, encompassing debauchery, jealousy, infighting, tension, and frenetic pandemonium. Audience members seemed no more than sheep given jugs of alcohol to curry into pretending to have the time of their lives while sedated on cutaway shots.

Highlights: Kid Rock and Tommy Lee gets into a fight during Alicia Keys set. Kanye West and 50 Cent coming out together. Kanye West and T-Pain rolling around the Good Life Suite and finishing off their set on the overhanging balcony to sweeping helicopter shots. And Timberlake pleading MTV to “play more videos…enough with reality shows around the Simpsons”. And Nelly Furtado…so hot…

The Bad and the Ugly: everything else. Who thought cramming a rock band into a small hotel suite would be cool? Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes and the Foo Fighters deserved better. Fergie winning Female Artist of the Year? JUSTICE losing out to Rihanna for Best Video of the Year? Beyonce and Shakira as best collaboration? I guess, anything happens in Sin City.

And Britney. Poor girl. She tried for a comeback. Lackluster performance, combined with a very tepid reaction from the celebrity audience; it merely reinforced the waning faith of that and the loyalty in fans. There’s that adage, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. It’s truly unfortunate for Britney that the VMA’s were nationally televised.

And POOR Hayden Panetierre stuck in the Neutrogena lounge. Cutting from the flashing lights and drunken stupor of the Southern Hospitality suite to the tame, sparsely filled Neutrogena lounge was reminiscent of those junior high school dances, socially awkward, contrived and without spark. Lastly, Kanye West seen throwing a childish tantrum, reminiscent of previous awards shows for not picking up any Moonmans. Hey, best of luck tomorrow buddy. Maybe you’ll be able to beat the Cent.

Ahh, the 07 VMA’s.. better than previous, but still not the jolt from the defibrillator they needed to come back from its 3 year slump. But haterade aside, I think they’re onto something. Watching the show definitely made me want to go out and party. Which I did, only to end up at a practically empty bar talking to a bartender named Annie.

Now, by now, everyone’s heard of the infamous rivalry between 50 Cent and Kanye West. 50 went so far as to claim he would retire from the hip hop game if he would be beaten out by Kanye on the sales charts. Initially, buzz off their respective singles put Kanye’s Stronger out in the lead with pure quality and noise. I’m sure 50 and his label were a bit worried. Until now.

Kanye West’s album has leaked, huge…
A perfect copy of it was leaked onto the web late last week and now it’s made itself onto eBay, album cover and all. How much is it selling for?

$5.
Check it.

Yes, half the selling price of the album that will be in stores this coming Tuesday. A little counter intuitive for me, seeing that the demand of the album coupled with supply should drive the price higher, but what do I know, I hated econ.

Either way, Kanye and Island Def Jam are worried about this. Not a great indicator of how the album will do in stores on the 11th next week, but you never know. It’s a crazy world we live in where a movie like Underdog or Mr Bean’s Holiday gets made.

PS: if judging purely on the album covers as a metric for success. I’d give it to Kanye. That mouse is blasting off into the universe while, 50 seems worried, that he’s been left on the ground, while the mouse is circling the planet on his jetpack. I need a jetpack. Then I can battle it out for 1 too.