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| December 02/08 | December 2nd - Today's Audio & Video | 
| Debuting today is a new video for Jay-Z’s “Brooklyn (Go Hard)” track from the upcoming “Notorious” soundtrack that features animated text creating images of Jigga and Notorious BIG. EPMD also released their video for “Listen Up” while DC rapper Wale strapped up his “Nike Boots.”
Our videos section today features some very cool footage starting with Lil Wayne’s highly popular performance with Kid Rock at this years Country Music Awards plus check out the video that shows you, song-for-song, all the old tracks Kanye West has sampled in his career. Kanye also held a press conference in New Zealand where he discussed being quoted as done with hip hop while Steven Colbert talks about Ye’ on his show. Akon talks to XXL about the greatest hook singers of all time, Joe Budden interviews D12 on tour and Ludacris takes you backstage of his concert for radio personality Big Boy. Finishing up today’s video is Scarface in a new video where he says he hates rap.
Lil Wayne is featured on three new songs today including the solo joint titled “I Feel Me” and a collaboration with Jae Millz called “Bang Bang.” Busta Rhymes gets “Blown” with T-Pain while Soulja Boy wants you to “Kiss Me Thru The Phone.” Flo Rida releases a new freestyle, Trick Trick drops his “Hold On” single and Charles Hamilton teams up with fellow new rapper Max B to talk about “The North Pole.” Two new songs from EPMD hit the net, one featuring Redman and the other featuring Method Man.
Check them all out below!
Music Videos
Jay-Z ft. Santogold - Brooklyn (Go Hard)
Scarface ft. Bilal - Cant Get Right
EPMD - Listen Up
Wale - Nike Boots
Videos
Lil Wayne - CMA Performance With Kid Rock
Kanye West - Original Song Samples
Kanye West - Press Conference In New Zealand
Steven Colbert - Talks Kanye West
Akon - Talks Greatest Hookman Of All Time
Joe Budden - Interviews D12
Ludacris - Theater Of The Mind Backstage
Scarface - Hates Rap
Young Chris, Papoose - Freestyle
The Cool Kids, Don Canon - In Studio
Audio
Lil Wayne - I Feel Me
Busta Rhymes ft. T-Pain - Blown
Lil Wayne ft. Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda - Bang Bang
DJ Wich ft. Glasses Malone, Lil Wayne - What We Need
Soulja Boy - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
Trick Trick - Hold On
Flo Rida - Hotter Than Me (Freestyle)
Charles Hamilton ft. Max B - The North Pole
Yung Joc ft. Big Kuntry, Trae - It Aint Nothin
EPMD ft. Redman - Yo
EPMD ft. Method Man - Never Defeat Em
Gorilla Zoe ft. Trae - Caddy
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| | December 02/08 | Album Sales Chart - Week Ending 11/30 | 
| Kanye West debuted number one this week as expected, selling over 443 thousand copies of his new "808s & Heartbreak" album while Ludacris landed at number 5 in his "Theater Of The Mind" first week. Last weeks top selling rapper, T.I., only lost one spot with "Paper Trail" at number 16 plus T-Pain dropped 10 spots to land at 22nd after his "Thr33 Ringz" album sold just over 48 thousand copies.
On the R&B tip, Beyonce lost the top spot, dropping to 4th place with another 254,555 copies sold while Rihanna gained one spot by selling just under 35 thousand copies of her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album.
Other notables include Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" at number 37 (32,067 copies sold) and E-40's "Ball Street Journal" debuted behind Weezy in 38th.
| | December 02/08 | 50 Cent Says Nas Is Finished | 
| Nas threw a jab at 50 on his "Untitled" album saying "My assignment
since he said retirement," referring to 50 saying he would retire if
Kanye West outsold him last year, continuing "hiding behind 8 Mile and
The Chronic, Gets rich, but dies rhymin, this is high science."
In the new issue of XXL Magazine, 50 Cent spoke on the shot, kind of. When asked about the rhyme on the song "Queens Get The Money," the G-Unit general first praised the rapper saying "Man, Nas is cold as ice. Nas is the block of ice that sunk the Titanic." Being 50, he did continue on by saying "I think he's at one of those points to where his career's finished, to be honest. He's had some great moments and made good music in the past, but he no longer has the interest of the general public or myself."
| | December 02/08 | Is Kanye West Done With Rap? | 
| With the release of his new auto-tune singing filled album, many rumors have started that Kanye West is done rapping, but are they true? The Observer newspaper quoted Kanye saying "hip-hop is over for me now" after a press conference in New Zealand [watch here] but Kanye quickly squashed that rumor.
"What does that mean," Ye' asked. "Hip-hop is over for me? I never said that." Kanye says the paper took him saying he didn't listen to rap at his apartment, out of text. "That quote is like so wrong," West responded. [watch here] "I never said that. I still listen to hip-hop in my car. I listen to old Wu-Tang or something while I’m designing and stuff like that. I really don’t listen to new hip-hop albums that come out like that. I really don’t learn the lyrics the way I used to learn the lyrics when I was 18 years old and stuff like that. Even albums like Lil Wayne‘s album, which I love, I couldn’t recite the raps for you. I’m just not in that position. Maybe I’m just busy. It disturbs me that they paraphrase me." [watch here]
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