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Congratulations to Amy Winehouse and Kanye West for raking in the Grammy nominations! There’s been so much crap on the album charts, these two deserve it. But ummm….where’s Britney Spears? She DESERVES a Grammy even if she missed the deadline! Where’s MY album? Read the list of nominations while I get my agent on the phone.

Selected List of Grammy Nominations

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal · Bon Jovi - “(You Want To) Make a Memory” · Daughtry - “Home” · Maroon 5 - “Makes Me Wonder” · Plain White T’s - “Hey There Delilah” · U2 - “Window in the Skies”

Best Hard Rock Performance · Evanescence - “Sweet Sacrifice” · Foo Fighters - “The Pretender” · Ozzy Osbourne - “I Don’t Wanna Stop” · Queens of the Stone Age - “Sick, Sick, Sick” · Tool - “The Pot”

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal · Daughtry - “It’s Not Over” · Green Day - “Working Class Hero” · Nickelback - “If Everyone Cared” · U2 - “Instant Karma” · The White Stripes - “Icky Thump”

Best Metal Performance · As I Lay Dying - “Nothing Left” · King Diamond - “Never Ending Hill” · Machine Head - “Aesthetics of Hate” · Shadows Fall - “Redemption” · Slayer - “Final Six”

Best Rock Song · Lucinda Williams - “Come On” · The White Stripes - “Icky Thump” · Daughtry - “It’s Not Over” · Foo Fighters - “The Pretender” · Bruce Springsteen - “Radio Nowhere”

Best Rock Album · Daughtry - Daughtry · John Fogerty - Revival · Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace · Bruce Springsteen - Magic · Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Best Pop Vocal Album · Bon Jovi - Lost Highway · Feist - The Reminder · Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long · Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full · Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance · Mary J. Blige - “Just Fine” · Fantasia - “When I See U” · Alicia Keys - “No One” · Chrisette Michele - “If I Have My Way” · Jill Scott - “Hate on Me”

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance · Raheem DeVaughn - “Woman” · Musiq Soulchild - “B.U.D.D.Y.” · Ne-Yo - “Because of You” · Prince - “Future Baby Mama” · Tank - “Please Don’t Go”

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals · R. Kelly (featuring Usher) - “Same Girl” · Chaka Khan (featuring Mary J. Blige) - “Disrespectful” · Rihanna (featuring Ne-Yo) - “Hate That I Love You” · Angie Stone (featuring Betty Wright) - “Baby” · T-Pain (featuring Akon) - “Bartender”

Best R&B Song · India.Arie - “Beautiful Flower” · Rihanna (featuring Ne-Yo) - “Hate That I Love You” · Alicia Keys - “No One” · Musiq Soulchild - “Teachme” · Fantasia - “When I See U”

Best Contemporary R&B Album · Akon - Konvicted · Keyshia Cole - Just Like You · Fantasia - Fantasia · Emily King - East Side Story · Ne-Yo - Because of You

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group · Common (featuring Kanye West) - “Southside” · Fat Joe (featuring Lil Wayne) - “Make It Rain” · Shop Boyz - “Party Like a Rockstar” {<---Yeah RIGHT! Damn if they'll win anything *lol*-Slim} · UGK (featuring Outkast) - “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” · Kanye West, Nas and KRS-One - “Better Than I’ve Ever Been”

West was nominated twice in the Best Rap Song category, grabbing nods for his tracks “Good Life” and “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” which gives him the upper edge over fellow nominees 50 Cent (for “Ayo Technology”), T.I. (”Big Things Poppin’ “), and Soulja Boy “Crank That).” ‘Ye’s song “Stronger” will face off against 50’s “I Get Money,” Common’s “The People,” Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got,” and T.I.’s “Big Things Poppin’,” for Best Rap Solo Performance.

Nas’ “Hip Hop Is Dead” was also nominated *YEAH!!!!* I‘ll be sure to have a few Molotov cocktails ready JUST in case Soulja Boy wins. If he wins, the government better declare marshall law because the world as we know it will end……..

The Grammy’s will be held on February 10th!

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Well seeing as how Foxy is in jail, Lil’ Kim is struggling to stay relevant, Eve is damn near off the radar, Trina still sucks and all the others aren’t worth mentioning right now, it only makes sense that Kid Sister would have a shot. It’s better than talking about “bootylicious bubble yum.”

Between this and Lil’ Mama’s “Lip Gloss,” I’m set on the beauty shop rap. Maybe I could make money talking about a Brazilian Bikini Wax?

“I’m killin’ these hoes with their crotch all messy,
I go to the salon to brazilian wax my pu…..” I’ll leave it at that. I don’t want y’all to steal my verses!

It is unfortunate that Dr. Donda West isn’t here to see this. Kanye West was named one of GQ’s Men Of The Year. He will grace one of three covers with Daniel Craig and Bill Clinton on the other two.

I have not always liked this cat, but he definitely deserves it this year. An album that bested anything in mainstream hip-hop, save Talib Kweli and Common’s efforts, and a high profile. Can’t beat that!

It’s all over the net and my blog damned sure isn’t big enough to go all out so I will keep it simple. Rest in peace to Dr. Donda West, Kanye West’s mother. She died on Saturday of medical complications. My heart goes out to Kanye and his family. Bless up! The rain don’t rain forever.

I will say that I admire his mother for being the embodiment of a strong mother and strong black woman. She was no dummy. She was a teacher and although I may not always agree with Kanye, she raised a musical genius. That takes lots of hardwork and courage, especially as a single mom.

Kanye West’s new book!!!

According to his website, Chicago rapper Kanye West has co-written a book with J. Sakiya Sandifer called Thank You And You’re Welcome. The book, which will be released on December 18 and is set to cost only $10, will be “an entertaining volume of ‘Kanye-isms’— the creative, humorous and insightful philosophies and anecdotes used in creating his path to success. It captures the same wit, playful irony, and piercing insight found abundant in his lyrics.” Kanye adds, “My book is a guide to creating then celebrating your moment!”

Umm no thanks! Honestly I MIGHT buy it if it were for $5 and I had a birdcage to line. *SMDH*

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Soulja Boy couldn’t crank himself into the #1 spot on the Billboard charts this week. The Boss spanked him……

OWNED!

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With Magic, Springsteen’s 15th studio album and his first with the E Street Band since 2002’s The Rising, the pride of the Garden State freewheeled his way to Billboard’s peak, easily notching the eighth #1 opener of his 34-year career.

The Boss faced virtually no competition in his quest for #1, selling more than 335,000 copies of his latest during the record’s first week in stores, according to the latest SoundScan totals. The closest threat to the Boss’ chart domination, the parents of last week’s #1 LP, country trio Rascal Flatts, finished at #2 on next week’s albums sales chart, having generated sales of 167,900 (on the nose) for Still Feels Good. Following the Flatts at #3 is another new entry, Matchbox Twenty’s retrospective offering, Exile on Mainstream, which sold nearly 130,900 units.

He’s got the #1 single in the nation, but 16-year-old rapper Soulja Boy’s debut album, Souljaboytellem.com, will have to settle for #4 on next week’s top 200, thanks to sales of more than 117,000. That was one of 28 new releases to debut on the chart, and one of five to enter in the top five. R&B artist J. Holiday’s Back of My Lac’ was another, opening at #5 with 105,000 scans. Annie Lennox’s Songs of Mass Destruction is also new to this most recent chart, coming in at #9 with 78,300 copies sold.

Dropping four places to #6 this week is Keyshia Cole’s Just Like You, which scanned another 93,900 copies, cutting just in front of Kanye West’s Graduation, which slides two spots to #7 with 92,400 sold. Reba McEntire’s Reba: Duets takes the #8 slot, with sales reported at 79,600. Rounding out the top 10, with 76,600 copies sold for the week, is the soundtrack to “”High School Musical 2.” Surprisingly, 50 Cent’s Curtis has been bumped from the top 10 after just three weeks: The album sits in the #17 position, with sales of just under 50,600.

Damn Curtissssssssss!!! Damn! Maybe he’ll get more intelligence in his lyrics. Just a thought, Fifty!

Also, ummm….did anyone know that Bad Boy South’s Boyz N Da Hood released an album???? Neither did anybode else apparently.

Rappers Boyz N Da Hood return to the chart with their latest, Back Up N Da Chevy, which bows at #51 with 15,700 sold…

Well with Sean “Run Your Career Into The Ground” “Diddy” Combs at the helm, they’re lucky they sold more than 500 copies.

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50 Cent cried foul during an interview with Brit magazine Uncut, stating that Kanye West’s people cheated via Soundscan.

“He’s never had a fraction of the sales 50 Cent has,” the embattled rapper told the mag.

“They could have only one scan and have it count four times. West’s entire career hasn’t sold half what I sold on my first album.”

As it stands, Kanye West has already bested “Fiddy” in the UK and is expected to lead in the US by 200,000 sales. Preliminary numbers place West at 800,000 sold and 50 Cent at 600,000.

Whatever! I just wish both of these broads would shut the hell up. I haven’t heard this much bitching since I was in basic training and a bunch of us were PMS’ing hardcore at the same time.

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While 50 Cent may not be pleased with his sales right now versus Kanye’s, the reality is neither of them have much cause to rejoice when it comes to the bigger picture. This Reuters article on Yahoo talks about how hip-hop is basically dying before our eyes and may go the way of disco.

Rapper 50 Cent has pledged to retire if Kanye West’s new album outsells his, generating much-needed publicity for a flagging musical genre that may go the way of disco.

Like the hyperbole of rap itself, 50 Cent’s promise was a joke. But with both superstars expected to post weaker sales than their last releases, industry insiders say hip-hop needs new artists if it is to maintain its recent dominance.

“This is the most talked about and anticipated single release day in memory. I certainly can’t remember one this big,” said Jonathan Cohen, Billboard magazine senior editor. “They have been ubiquitous.”

Both albums were released on Tuesday and the first sales figures are due Sunday at midnight. Billboard said three major record labels, which it did not name, projected a first week win by West.

Billboard said West’s “Graduation” was forecast to sell between 575,000 and 700,000 copies — in stores and digitally. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, would likely move between 500,000 and 600,000 copies of “Curtis,” it said.

In 2005, 50 Cent’s “The Massacre” sold 1.14 million during its first week of release, while West’s “Late Registration” sold 860,000 copies in its first week, according to Billboard.

The rappers’ forecast diminished first week sales come amid a 31 percent slump in sales of rap music so far this year in a music industry where sales have fallen 15 percent.

If I were the two of them, I’d be concentrating on keeping afloat with the next album. I’m wondering if it will be like Craig Mack said: “You won’t be around next year…..”

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This is from a video blogger Jay Smooth at XXL. And basically he’s on point. I’m sorry. I can’t wrap my mind around spending money on two men who are just really f*cked up human beings. That’s like me buying President Bush’s album ONLY because Timbaland produced it. I mean….he sucks as a person right? So why would I spend money on that guy? Same thing goes for Kanye and 50 Cent as far as I am concerned. Check it out!
Personally buying $18 worth of double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s is more worth it.
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My dream isn’t to interview George Bush or Prince William or even Tavis Smiley or Cornel West. No! Those are whack interviews. If you want a real good interview with an articulate speaker who makes sense, you need a little Pimp C in your life!!!

Such nuggets of wisdom on……….

Having protected sex?

You’ve conducted some interviews recently that expressed some pretty offensive opinions, but you only apologized for your “Atlanta ain’t the South” statement. Any other apologies you wanna make?
Let me say this: That statement about Russell Simmons had nothing to do with his sexual orientation. It had more to do with a disagreement [we had]. I don’t know if the man likes Martians, squirrels or whatever, so I ain’t gonna speak on something that I didn’t see. It’s no gay-bashing with me. It’s just, be proud of what you are, instead of hidin’ in the closet. And if ya fuck boys in the ass, then don’t be tryna fuck with the girls, too, poisoning the pussy population wit’ ya shitty ol’ dirty-ass dick.

On who’s real in rap and who’s not….

Do you ever feel any compassion for Bun B, for being in a group with a man like yourself, who is unfiltered and can be bullheaded in his ways?
You been programmed to think I’m bullheaded. I just know what the fuck goin’ on. I know who’s a faggot (Let me guess Ne-yo? T.I? KANYE? I need answers! I know! Souljah Boy?????), I know who lettin’ them girls fuck ’em in the ass with them dildos (Oh that’s 50 Cent for SURE!!!), I know who really sold dope (Ummm NONE OF ‘EM *lol), I know who didn’t (Jeezy for sure!). I be in Houston. The only nigga I see [in Houston] goin’ to the mall by himself is Slim Thug. Other niggas, when I see ’em, they got bodyguards around ’em. How you gonna be scared of the neighborhood you supposed to be reppin’? All them [Houston rappers] that think they stars, guess what, bitch? Ain’t no stars down here. Only stars is in the muthafuckin’ sky!

For more of the interview, and believe me it’s a riot, Click Here!!