The weekly show that reports all the developments in Hip Hop from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Valerie Lora, this weeks show features:
=== MAIN STORIES ===
- TIME Magazine has named kanye's "Love Lock Down" song of the year and lil waynes "Carter 3" as the album of the year.
- Chamillionaire has been chosen as the Co-Grand Marshal of the 15th Annual Martin Luther King Grande Parade in his hometown of houston.
- The recession continues to take its toll on entertainers as Mos Def was sued this week by his own divorce lawyers for $60,000 in unpaid fees.
- Doug E Fresh faces 3 foreclosure actions by banks looking to collect more than $3.5 million in unpaid mortgages.
- The Game's anger management classes have proved to be a big help, as this week during a show in Norway after a fan pulled the rapper off stage, he remained composed and instead of beating his ass, he invited the fan onto the stage.
- And finally Lil Kim has been in Europe this week, partying with billionaires and performing Akon & Rihanna's songs???
=== NEW RELEASES ===
Ghostface Killah - GhostDeini The Great
Plies - Da Realist
Soulja Boy: iSouljaBoyTellem
Freekey Zekey - Henny And A Cigarette
Jamie Foxx - Intuition
Keyshia Cole - A Different Me
The Best Of Killah Priest and A Prelude To The Offering
Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All
Hear-It-First.net's Mixtape of the Week is
"DJ Dave - The Boss (Pt. 2)"
=== NEW MUSIC ===
Our picks from the weeks new songs.
The Dream - Stripper Love
Swizz Beatz - Represent Things You Do
Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - If I
Styles P. SnypLife & Bully - Ride Or Die
Busta Rhymes - Cant Take It
Red Café feat. Fabolous & Paul Cain - There He Go
Plies ft Ashanti - Want It Need It
Freeway - Street Music
=== NEW VIDEOS ===
Young Jeezy - Who Dat
Sway (Feat. Akon) - Silver & Gold
Soulja Boy ft Sammie - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
=== BILLBOARD 200 ===
Last weeks album sales courtesy of NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:
1. Beyonce - I AM SASHA FIERCE 159,173 | 1m
2. Kanye West - 808s & HEARTBREAK 126,827 | 719,900
3. Musiq SoulChild - ON MY RADIO 91,498 | NEW ENTRY
4. Common - UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL 81,663 | NEW ENTRY
5. Brandy - HUMAN 72,772 | NEW ENTRY
6. Akon - FREEDOM 63,033 | 173,894
7. Ludacris - THEATER OF THE MIND 53,078 | 332,499
8. Avant - AVANT 51,971 | NEW ENTRY
9. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 46,292 | 1.3m
10.Rihanna - GOOD GIRL GONE BAD 37,106 | 2.1m
=== TOP FIVE ===
This weeks top 5 selling digital songs on iTunes:
# 5 Beyonce - "If I Were a Boy"
# 4 T.I ft Rihanna - "Live Your Life"
# 3 Kanye West - "Heartless"
# 2 Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
# 1 Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)"
=== BRANDWATCH ===
This weeks Brandwatch is the latest series of Mcdonalds Commercials which feature an R&B ballad about Chicken McNuggets.
So what do you think, good fit or another out of touch corny attempt by a major corporation to reach their audience through stereotypes?
=== OUTRO ===
This was the last show for 2008, we'll be back on January 9th 2009, however you will be seeing me and wahidah before then as starting from this Monday we'll be dropping our 2008 Top 5 Lists, with two new videos every day.
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=== CREDITS ===
A JumpOff.TV Production
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Presented By: Valerie Lora
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Camera Op: Hector Gonzalez
Editor: AKC'Ent.
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