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E ‘past one year since the exit of contemporary album “Graduation” by Kanye West and Curtis “50 Cent had to light a challenge to the sound of copies sold, where, he had even declared that withdraw from the scene where Kanye had sold more discs him in the first week. The “battle” won the Kanye selling more than 1,100,000 copies worldwide in the first week (against the more than 900,000 of 50 Cent, as Mediatraffic) of which 957,000 in USA (691,000 against 50 Cent, since SoundScan).

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It Will Be in mid-September the new album by Mike Skinner, the white rapper (but is a definition that is close, is far dall’immaginario of Eminem) better known as The Streets. The album is intitolerà “Everything is borrowed” and will be distributed in CD and stick usb, a street that in Italy, if I am not mistaken, in the past having run only Elio and stories aimed.

Meanwhile, instead of the usual single, good Mike - who has always moved well into the new music business - has decided to distribute a free song extract dall’album: This is “The escapist”, and you must follow to obtain the usual drawing on this site (enter the mail and download the song, and already we are sending you a little ‘news group).

UPDATE: “Escapist” is also released video Journal, which you can see after the jump

KiD CuDi is a name new peak of U.S. hip hop scene. Osannato by Kany West, who on his blog defines it as the Best New Artis! Remixed by Crookers in one of the best songs of the duo Milan (go to seek Day ‘N’ Nite, already beautiful in the original version, and tell me). This is from Cleveland but by a little ‘has taken root in the fertile Brooklyn.

Mischia skilfully hip hop sounds with purely electronic or indie rock, heard the mixtape below there is also a sample of Band Of Horses, creating incredible loop on which enters its lyrics. Under the production of Plain Pat, already at work with Kanye West, has brought out this new mixtape in free download on its website. I am not a lover of this kind but I must say that this is really good.

Del new mixtape of MondoMarcio there have already discussed months ago when the young rapper in an interview he had announced for the end of April. The date of publication has been delayed and What Believe is available from July 11 days on International label Rec. (founded recently by the same artist). For the occasion, the official website mondomarcio.net was updated in content and graphics, please let us a tour because it is very pleasant.

It ‘just been also released the video of the first single extracted from mixtape, which is titled Everything can change and sees the participation of singer Roman Pier Cortese. The found after the jump, guardatelo and write if this unusual association has yielded good results.

The June 13 is released on disc that was expecting for almost a year. And I could hardly feel adequate in the face with trying to make a complete speech about it.

Dargen D’Amico with “Di Di Vizi Form Virtues” gives us an experience, a journey of 35 songs that advice to every lover of music. This is most likely a work that transcends the genre Hip Hop, and amending the royalties, managing to get anyone it wants to grasp the message and artistic validity, without prejudice, and appreciate the emotions that gives throughout the audience.

The Glastonbury Festival is a cornerstone of European summer circuit, which attracts around the British host hundreds of thousands of spectators from all over the continent. There is only music but also dance, cabaret, theatre and circus performances, the concerts are without doubt the highlight of the rich billboard, and year after year more and more artists choose to perform on one of the many stages of Glasto.

On the eve of ‘2008 edition is animated by a controversy involving large pieces of music-biz and triggered a chain reaction. The spark that inflamed the minds is the participation at as headliner of rapper Jay-Z: according to some the presence of a hip hop artist is inappropriate, little suited to the context and the rest of the cast, which has always been oriented sounds of mould rock.

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Every now and does well to look beyond border: I already talked about African hip hop (just last year and always dall’Uganda) and today I met this tariler a documentary about the rap scene in Uganda. Vedetelo and tell me what you think: to me personally as piaciono rhymes, I find much more interesting rap French. The details are in this post on Radar

Male artist: Fabolous, T.I., Young Jeezy
o Group and pair or collection: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Pretty Ricky, Shop Boyz
o Album: “Strength & Loyalty” (Bones Thugs-N-Harmony), “T.I. vs. T.I.P.” (T.I.), “The Inspiration” (Young Jeezy)
COUNTRY
o Male artist: Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith
o Female artist: Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Martina McBride
o Group and pair or collection : large and moneyed or Brooks and Dunn mischief Flats
o Album: “Let It Go” (Tim McGraw), “Me And My Gang” (Rascal Flatts), “Some Hearts” (Carrie Underwood)
character/RHYTHM & despair
o Male artist: Akon, Ne-Yo, T-Pain
o Female artist: Beyoncé, Fantasia, Rihanna
o Album: “B’Day” (Beyoncé), “Double Up” (R. Kelly), “Futures and Lovely Sounds” (Justin Timberlake)
POP/ROCK
o Male artist: Akon, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland
o Female artist: Beyoncé, Avril Lavigne, Fergie
o o Band, duo or group: Linkin Park, Nickleback, Maroon 5
o Album: “Daughtry” (Daughtry), “Minutes To Midnight” (Linkin Park), “FutureSex/LoveSounds” (Justin Timberlake)

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Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur-the various top pop stars in the worlds are face increasing pressure to maintain skimpy clothes and humid hip-hop move of dance the stage through their performance in Muslim popular of Malaysia.

The Wednesday event coordinator said, citing complaint by conventional Islamic critics think that such Western artist crooked youths.

via yahoo news

MTV 2007 music video Music Awards are been shown from Las Vegas. This MTV Video Music Awards will be take on 9th of September and it will also be much exiting when this event take place on 8pm EST.

The nominees of Video of the years are as follows:-

* Justice “D.A.N.C.E.”
* Rihanna f/ Jay-Z “Umbrella”
* Amy Winehouse “Rehab”
* Justin Timberlake “What Goes Around … ”
* Kanye West “Stronger”
* Beyonce “Irreplaceable”

Nominees of new artist are as follow:-
* Lily Allen for “Alfie,” “Smile,” “LDN”
* Peter Bjorn and John for “Young Folks”
* Amy Winehouse for “Rehab,” “You Know I’m No Good”
* Gym Class Heroes for “Clothes Off,” “Cupid’s Chokehold/ Breakfast in America”

* Carrie Underwood for “Before He Cheats”
(source-www.videostatic.com)