Ludacris has signed a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with phone service giant AT&T, the first for a hip hop act. He will be featured in commercials for online and television advertising compaigns for the company. Those commercials were start airing next month.
He had just finished shooting the first commercial. “I had a lot a fun shooting this commercial,” Ludacris said. “If you like the AT&T commercials you’ve seen then you’ll love this one.”
Damn, it looks like G-Unit didn’t do too well their first week moving only 96,043 units. Lil Wayne is back up at the number one spot outselling G-Unit with 152,993. Also dropped was Jim Jones & Byrd Gang’s M.O.B. with only 14,989 units moved.
2 1 LIL WAYNE UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 152,993 -30%
THA CARTER III
1 2 COLDPLAY CAPITOL 150,121 -40%
VIVA LA VIDA
3 3 CAMP ROCK WALT DISNEY RECORDS 114,881 -30%
SOUNDTRACK
– 4 G-UNIT INTERSCOPE 96,043 –
T.O.S. (TERMINATE ON SIGHT)
– 5 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 80,117 –
WHERE THE LIGHT IS: LIVE IN L.A.
6 6 NOW 28 CAPITOL 59,300 -8%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
12 7 KID ROCK ATLANTIC 46,685 +31%
ROCK N ROLL JESUS
8 8 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 40,924 -20%
HERE I STAND
10 9 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJMG 40,551 -10%
GOOD GIRL GONE BAD
7 10 DISTURBED REPRISE 36,847 -29%
INDESTRUCTIBLE
5 11 THREE 6 MAFIA COLUMBIA 35,168 -51%
LAST 2 WALK
– 12 ALKALINE TRIO EPIC 33,885 –
AGONY & IRONY
13 13 KATY PERRY CAPITOL 33,464 +1%
ONE OF THE BOYS
– 14 TECH N9NE STRANGE MUSIC 32,625 –
KILLER
9 15 PLIES SLIP-N-SLIDE 29,145 -37%
DEFINITION OF REAL
4 16 MOTLEY CRUE ELEVEN SEVEN MUSIC/MOTLEY 29,134 -71%
SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES
14 17 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 28,712 -9%
TAYLOR SWIFT
15 18 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 27,737 -6%
SPIRIT
18 19 JOURNEY FRONTIERS 24,434 -15%
REVELATION
– 20 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE REPRISE 24,228 –
It’s been four days since T.O.S. dropped and it seems like everybody is waiting for next Tuesday when sales reports are in so they can scream, “G-UNIT FLOPPED!” There’s nothing official yet but we have sites claiming it’s set to do about 700,000 first week and sites saying it’s projected to do about 110,000.
If they do indeed only move 110,000 units, it’s safe to say that it’s a flop and G-Unit is no longer the super group that they used to be. But yall gotta remember that their first group album Beg For Mercy only did like 370,000 the first week and eventually went platinum. Group albums really never do that well anyway.
This is all pretty hilarious though. The Game and Buck fans are quick to claim credit for G-Unit’s downfall. The 50 Cent fans are all in denial about the possible 110k sales number.
Is this the end for G-Unit? Probably, if they flop. 50 Cent doesn’t look like he has much pull anymore over at Interscope. They’ve made too many enemies in the industry and they’re definitely feeling the backlash right now. I think we can all agree that G-Unit is just not as strong as they used to be. It’s a shame because they’ve been releasing nothing but good material since the start of 2008.
OTHER NEWS…
Coming out later this year is 50’s last album as an artist on Interscope Records entitled Before I Self Destruct. This will be his fourth solo album.
50 will also be dropping The 50 Laws of Power which is a spin of Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power.
PHOENIX (AP)—Shaquille O’Neal will lose his special deputy’s badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former teammate Kobe Bryant.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center’s use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice. Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in 2006 and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse later that year.
“I want his two badges back,” Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”
Shaq was seen in a video posted on the celebrity news and gossip Web site TMZ.com rapping that “Kobe couldn’t do without me.” O’Neal skewers the Lakers’ star, with whom he won three straight NBA titles from 2000-2002 while with Los Angeles, for not being able to win a championship without him.
“I was freestyling. That’s all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever,” O’Neal told ESPN.com Monday. A call to the Suns on Tuesday seeking comment from O’Neal was referred to his public relations firm, which didn’t immediately respond.
Arpaio, who describes himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and is best known for feeding jail inmates green bologna, clothing them in pink underwear, and making them work on chain gangs, said he didn’t expect his actions would teach Shaq a lesson. But he hoped he learns that as a role model who wants to someday be a full-time sheriff, he needs to know his words matter.
“Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t think that either conduct should be out there publicly, even if media wasn’t there,” Arpaio said.
O’Neal previously served as a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department while playing for the Miami Heat. He also volunteered with the Tempe Police Department after being traded to the Suns in February.
Source: Yahoo
Jacob Arabov, known as Jacob “The Jeweler” has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to federal agents.
He was indicted in Detroit back in 2007 for assisting the Atlanta drug gang, Black Mafia Family (BMF) launder over $270 million. He was senteced by Judge Avern Cohn and slapped with a fine of $50,000.
This statement was issued by Jacob: “I feel ashamed that I broke the law, I’ll carry that shame for the rest of my life.”
Here are the pics and a video from the G-Unit Terminate on Sight BBQ held at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens. It was pretty packed and everybody looked like they had a lot of fun in the video. G-Unit’s sophomore album Terminate on Sight is dropping on July 1st, 2008 so be sure to go cop that!
