RIHANNA's NEW VIDEO "MAN DOWN" SPARKS CONTROVERSY !

HERES RIHANNA's NEW VIDEO FOR "MAN DOWN".
YOU DECIDE WAS RIHANNA TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE OR WAS SHE TRYING TO EXPRESS HOW SHE FELT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED 3 YEARS AGO?
SHOULD PARENTS BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS STATEMENT ? SHOULD PARENTS, PARENT THERE KIDS?IS THIS A STATEMENT THAT NEEDED TO BE MADE AND BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT ?





CHECK OUT THE VIDEO. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK, HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS NEW VIDEO?

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: BAD MEETS EVIL (ROYCE THE 5'9 & EMINEM)

Grammy-winning rapper Eminem and Royce Da 5'9's new Hell: The Sequel is reportedly set to dominate its competition next week with sales projections totaling up to 160,000 copies.Based on one-day estimates, the duo's joint EP will easily debut at the top the sales chart.The project features collabo's from Slaughterhouse and pop star Bruno Mars.



A few weeks ago, Eminem explained on getting into his 'Bad Meets Evil' rap alias with Royce.

"Me and Royce, ever since back in the day when we did records together, we always had kind of a chemistry," said in an interview. "It was fairly easy to play off what each other was doing, and I think we can [think] a lot alike...This record, the way it came together, it wasn't anything that we planned to do. We didn't get together and say, 'Hey, man, let's make a Bad Meets Evil record.' It was more so along the lines of us making amends and repairing our issues that we had, and then one day, Bad [Royce] brought asong to me and wanted me to jump on it, and the way it ended up coming out, it was pretty easy to do. It didn't take a lot of time. It was fun to do it. The way we knocked that record out kind of quickly ... it just morphed into this." (MTV)

THE WORLD's 25 HIGHEST-PAID MUSICIANs AS OF 2011:

Forbes just released it's 2011 list of the WORLD'S 25 HIGHEST PAID MUSICIANS and on this list there is only 4 African American artists on it. Those artists are Usher, Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs,Beyonce and Rihanna. I’m wondering where are artists like 50cent, Cee Low Greene, etc. I guess that those artists appear 26 and down…lol. The common thing or operative word in the whole list is PAID! You agree? To be on the FORBES LIST anywhere between the numbers of 1 to 50 would be a success…lol.

Heres the full list ...

01. U2 ($195 million)
02. BON JOVI ($125 million)
03. Elton John ($100 million)
04. Lady Gaga ($90 million)
05. Michael Buble ($70 million)
06. Paul McCartney ($67 million)
07. BLACK EYED PEAS ($61 million)
08. EAGLES ($60 million)
09. Justin Bieber ($53 million)
10. Dave Matthews Band ($51 million)
11. Toby Keith ($50 million)



12. Usher ($46 million)




13. Taylor Swift ($45 million)
14. Katy Perry ($44 million)
15. Brad Paisley ($40 million)
16. Tom Petty & the Heartbreaks ($38 million)



17. Jay-Z ($38 million)




18. AC/DC ($35 million)


18. Sean "Diddy" Combs ($35 million)



18. Beyonce ($35 million)


18. Tim McGraw ($35 million)
18. MUSE ($35 million)
23. Rascal Flatts ($34 million)
24. Kenny Chesney ($30 million)

25. Rihanna ($29 million)

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT THROWBACK : 2PAC ....HAPPY BIRTHDAY !

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996),known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur had sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In the United States alone he has sold 37.5 million records. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.



In addition to his career as a rap artist, he was also an actor.The themes of most of Tupac's songs are the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism, other social problems, and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur began his career as a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground.

On September 7,1996, Shakur was shot four times in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died 6 days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.



1991 2Pacalypse Now - Gold
1993 Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. - 4x Platinum
1994 Thug Life: Volume 1 (with Thug Life) - Gold
1995 Me Against the World - 2x Platinum
1996 All Eyez on Me - 9x Platinum
1996 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory - 4.5x Platinum
1996 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory - 4.5 x Platinum
1997 R U Still Down? (Remember Me)- 4x Platinum
1998 Greatest Hits - 9x Platinum
1999 Still I Rise (with the Outlawz) - 2.5x Platinum
2001 Until the End of Time - 3x Platinum
2002 Better Dayz - 5x Platinum
2003 Tupac Resurrection - 3x Platinum
2004 Loyal to the Game - 1 Platinum
2006 Pac's Life

LUPE GIVES HIS TRUE FEELINGS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA !!

Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco has taken notice of the backlash headed his way in light of calling President Barack Obama the United States' biggest terrorist this week and slyly responded to his critics.



LUPE FIASCOs TWITTER COMMENTS:

"Well if President Barack Obama is the "biggest terriost to America" @lupefiasco is the "biggest terriost to the hopes of Black people"," Fiasco re-tweeted.

"In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America," Fiasco said in an interview. "For me, I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's really just some oil, which we can really get on our own." (CBS News)

NEW MUSIC: DRAKE "MARVINS ROOM"

In June 2009, Drake signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment. In November 2009, Lil Wayne released a statement announcing that Drake's first studio album, Thank Me Later, had been completed. The album was released on June 15, 2010, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.[3] The album has since gone platinum. He will release his second studio album in March or April 2011 titled Take Care. Drake will release an R&B mixtape sometime in the future and will release a collaboration album with Lil Wayne.

Drake has worked with several other hip-hop artists such as Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Kanye West, Eminem, and Jay-Z. With the success of his mixtape turned EP So Far Gone, Drake has been nominated for several awards including Grammys, even being selected to perform at the 2010 Grammy award ceremony. Drake has also won several awards, including two Juno Awards in 2010 for Best New Artist, and Rap Recording of the Year.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT :BEYONCE - WHO RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS)