Dates, release dates!

A quickie today yes?

Here's some important release dates for this autumn, so flip up that calender of yours, click your little pen and write this shit down!

October 20
Fashawn - Boy Meets World
Stat Quo - Great Depression

October 27
Tech N9ne - K.O.D.
Triple C - Custom Cars & Cycles

November 3
Shwayze - Let It Beat

November 10
Wale - Attention: Deficit
The Clipse - Till The Casket Drops
DJ Kay Slay - More Than Just A DJ

November 17
50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct

November 24
Glasses Malone - Beach Cruiser
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The World's Enemy
Birdman - Pricele$$
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin'
Various Artists - The Ultimate Death Row Collection
Timbaland - Shock Value 2
Wiz Khalifa - Deal Or No Deal
Jay-Z - Greatest Hits

So, basically there's gonna be a busy couple of week in November. I'm especially looking forward to Wale, Clipse andfa Wiz Khalifa.

E-40's new album should be interesting too, his My Ghetto Report Card from 2006 was impressive to say the least.

50 Cent? Naaw, unless it's in the same spirit as his early G-Unit work, it wont be a hit.

Timbaland has got a lot to live up to. We all remember Shock Value with tracks like Apologize and The Way I Are right?

Also, I expect nothing but one of the best lyrics since the borth of the CD on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony new record. So please prove me right!

Track Of The Day! - J-Son

It's not really new, but with his debut album coming out soon, I thought it wouldn't be more than right to open up the eyes on as many as possible to one of Sweden's upcoming superstars, J-Son.

He has been working with some of the rap game's finest, such as Chamillionaire, Lil' Wayne and 50 Cent, before even having an official record of his own yet.

This is his first official single:

J-Son - Lookie Lookie

Mixtape! - Lloyd Banks

It's been pretty quiet from the Gorillas from Queens, NY, lately. The most we've heard about G-Unit has been about 50 Cent's upcoming album, set to make its way to the stores towards the end of the year.

But there's more to G-Unit than 50 Cent. The, in my opinion, most talented rapper of the crew, Lloyd Banks, released his last album in 2006. Since then fans around the world have been able to download a couple of mixtapes, and today, on his 27th birthday, he celebrates with a new one in the series.

Finally Lloyd Banks is back in the game for real. Now we're gonna have something to enjoy while waiting for his next official album.

Dowload the mixtape hear:
CD1
CD2

True Story!

It's 2006. It's spring. It's just another day in paradise(?).

I'm at work as usual. Sports shop. Selling shoes. Joggers, trainers, sneakers, take your pick. Me and my co-worker David are alone in the shop so what is otherwise known as "forbidden shop music" is streaming through the speakers, placed high up under the ceiling. It's one of those fresh spring days in the end of march. On of those days you can keep the door open and it feels like summer. On of those days when the tarmac in the shade is a bit damp, but the tarmac in the sun is as dry as my dads sense of humour.

A car with the roof dropped down, probably for the first time this year, stops at the red light. We can hear what music they're playing, D4L - Laffy Taffy, and they can hear the music we're playing, The Game - Hate it or love it (feat 50 cent). The volume in the store is probably to high but who is going to find out?

The day goes by in a slow pace. The customers who make the days go by are not customers today. They are out in the sun. But the slow pace is nice today anyway. No rush, no worries.

As I wrap up one of few sales, new customers step in through the door. The anoying "pling" doesn't go off because we turned it off. However, these customers makes themselves heard anyway. They're big, they're American. They all wear baggy jeans, New Era caps, some pieces of jewelery and similar jackets with the print Wu Tang on the back.

"Whaddup man!", the man in front say to me.
I can't really squease out a reply at first. Because it just occured to me that Wu Tang Clan just stepped in to our little store on Södermalm in Stockholm. I don't even have to make sure because I know it's them, they're performing tonight, but I ask anyway:
"Are you really Wu Tang Clan?"
"Fo sho", he reply, smiling and showing of his "grill".

The 'Killa Bees' start looking around the shop. David looks at me with a surprised, astouned and happy face. The music is not loud anymore. We can't even hear it. But we can hear our famous customers asking for Timberlands. I step down to the dark basement and bring them what they want.

As they walk out 25 minutes later, the music goes back on. A few new customers come in, and a few new customers leave. But I don't move. Neither do David. But yet we walk around in the footsteps of Wu Tang Clan. Then we realise; David's Wu Tang shirt is on the counter, completely forgotten, completely unsigned.

Unexpected!

Quick turns in life, and just as quick in the music business.

He barely just got started in the business, but KiD CuDi seems to be changing his mind as often as you would change your shorts. XXL reports that after the success with 'Day n' nite', which peaked at number 27 on Billboard's Hot 100 list, CuDi has simply decided he doesn't want to be a Hiphop artist any more. His debut album 'Man on the moon: The Guardians' will his first and last contribution to the charts.

Apparantely, people in his surroundings are saying that he has changed after getting the spotlight pointed at him. And this doesn't fly high with CuDi, who decided to quit and focus on his acting career.

First of all: If it's true, it's a shame for a young talent to throw the mic in the trash after just one album.
Second: Is it true? We have heard this sort of announcements before. And they have most often been false.

Been there done that. 50 Cent said that if his album 'Curtis' sold less than Kanye West's album 'Graduation', he would step back and enjoy the retired life with a walker, reading glasses and lots and lots of money. But despite losing the battle, his next album is set to come out later this year. This is just one example. The list is so long I can't be bothered mentioning any more of them.

Why would this be false then? It's simple. PR. KiD CuDi's debut album is highly anticipated, and if it will be the last album he ever makes, and by that the only album, sales will go through the roof. Then, a year or so later, he finds the mic deep down in the bin and everyone will want to hear the mighty comeback of the One Album Man.