Archive for the 'Akon' Category

Jay-Z needs to update his song 99 Problems, because it REALLY doesn’t seem like he has too many problems at all!

At earnings of $63 million for the past 12 months, Jay-Z gets the title of #1 Hip-Hop Cash King by far. The list is based upon numbers from several music industry sources, including Nielsen, Billboard, and Pollstar.

Jay-Z’s earnings derive from not only tremendous album sales, but also his earnings from his worldwide tour, the 40/40 nightclub chain, and his stake in the New Jersey Nets basketball team.

Trailing far behind Jay-Z is P. Diddy, who earned the #2 spot with $30 million through album sales, television and film roles, his liquor brands, and Diddybeats ear-bud sales.

Following behind Diddy is Akon at $21 million, Lil Wayne at $20 million, Ludacris at $16 million, Kanye West at $12 million, and 50 Cent at $8 million, who took a break from music work to take on film roles.

While she’s not a male Hip-Hop recording artist, Jay-Z’s wife Beyonce blew absolutely everyone out of the water this year, with $87 million in earnings! Pretty damn impressive…maybe they should give her an honorary place on the Cash Kings list just because she’s that awesome.

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Yes, that's right!

An all-new Michael Jackson album will be released this November.

According to Jackson's manager Frank DiLeo, Jackson had more than 100 completed and unreleased songs that were kept in his vault.

Former Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola said last year that Michael "over-recorded" every time he step foot in the studio, recording "anywhere from 20 to 30 songs for each album. Any of them could have been as big a hit as the ones that came out."

Many of the unreleased songs were recorded during the '80s, in which the King of Pop created some of his best work such as Thriller and Bad. He also collaborated with Akon, Will.i.am, and Ne-Yo before his death.

The album will feature 10 unreleased songs and will be first in a 10-project, seven-year deal the Jackson estate has with Sony Music. The $250 million deal will also include reissues of Jackson's classic albums, a new greatest hits set, a DVD collection, and even a karaoke and dance video game titled Michael Jackson: The Video Game.

We're excited about hearing the unreleased tracks, but is the Jackson estate going a little too far with the MJ merchandise? What do U think?

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Check out Kat DeLuna's music video for Push Push, featuring Akon, above.

Is anyone else having Rihanna deja vu???

Because you need some sick tunes to GTL by!

MTV and Universal Republic Records have announced that a soundtrack to the Jersey Shore will be released this summer, featuring so many fist pumping tunes, it'll make you sweat off your fake tan!

If you think you'll feel some shame when buying this album, save your pity for those actually on the album!

Artist featured on the soundtrack include Lil Jon, LMFAO, Taio Cruz, Akon and Enrique Iglesias (poor guy), who has record the first single to come off the album, I Like It, with Pitbull.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen…hard!

And what, Snooki didn't want to lay down a track?!

The disc drops on July 20th, the same say the first season DVD comes out. (Holy marketing, Batman!)

Who's going to pick these up?

OMG!

Watch this video where Akon fans go insane in Sierra Leone. As they yell and jump all over the car, Akon, who can't be seen, says, "They don't give a f— out here!" You can even hear the driver yell out, "I'm gonna hit someone!!"

Is Akon really worth it??

Hmmm, we don't think so!

Apparently someone out there wants to smell like Akon.

The rapper and so-called music producer is suing his former business partners for using his name on a bootleg perfume.

The business partners allegedly formed Konvict Cosmetics International and started selling a scent called "Konvict."

Hmm, okay…was that the wisest business move? Did they really expect anyone would want to buy a cologne with Akon's name on it???

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And we can't wait to hear them!

Akon has revealed that Lady GaGa is traveling with a mini recording studio during her "Monster Ball" tour and she's already come up with some new tracks for her album!

He says:

"She records while she's on the road. I'm flying out to Europe to work on some new records with her. GaGa's just like me. She has a tour bus with a studio in it. Some of the songs I've heard are going to be crazy. She's getting bigger and better.

"All I'm doing at the end of the day is listening to the tracks GaGa has written and approving them for her album. She has producers that she works with outside of myself and they are coming up with some incredible records. But the beauty of it is she knows exactly what she wants. So it just makes it easier for me."

She's such a professional, our Gagaloo!

And she's already proclaimed that her next album will be "the greatest" of her career and we cannot WAIT for it to drop!

She's amazing!

Girl, you ain't Beyonce! You're just Kelly Rowland! You've got no right acting like you are actually somebody!

Kelly arrived in Sydney this morning not such a happy camper. She started mouthing off to anyone who would listen, saying that the staff on her Qantas flight was very "shitty." When asked what was the problem, she ranted on and on about being treated like a child.

How awful! The solution is, of course, to then stomp your feet and have a hissy fit in the airport! That'll show'em!

Sources say that there were also issues with people in her entourage that was sparked with some mix-up over seat arrangements and the use of cellphones on board.

Funny enough, Akon, Eve and Sean Paul were all on the same flight as Kelly and none of them had a problem.

Guess when you have a lot more success you have a lot more class!

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