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The Friday Hip Hop Report - April 17th

The best weekly online hip hop show reporting all the developments from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Valerie Lora this weeks show features:

=== MAIN STORIES ===
- Lupe Fiasco & Justin Timberlake plan to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in africa to help raise awareness about the global water crisis.

- Producer Scott Storch was charged with Grand Theft Auto for stealing a Bentley, after not returning the leased vehicle for 7 months.

- Universal Motown has given Kid Cudi his own label imprint - "Dream On" records.

=== ALBUMs & MIXTAPES ===
Here are this weeks new album & mixtape releases:

Day26 - Forever In A Day
Pastor Troy - Feel Me or Kill Me
Tapemasters Inc & Fabolous - Loso's World Part 2
and the hear-it-first.net mixtape of the week is:
Rich Boy - Pacc Man

Get your first week sales predictions
for Day26 Forever In A Day to us via twitter
"@JumpOffTV I think Day26's "Forever In A Day" will sell x"

=== NEW MUSIC ===
This weeks AllHipHop.com song of the week is:
"Down South Hustlaz" by Rick Ross featuring Bun B,
Young Buck, Willie D and Trae

Other hot new songs this week are:
Asher Roth ft Keri Hilson - She Dont Want A Man
Chris Brown - "APOLOGY"
Rick Ross ft Ne-Yo - BOSS LADY
Nas - Legendary
Busta Rhymes ft Uncle Murda - "NEW TONE IN THE CITY"
Lil Wayne - Switch
Rick Ross - "VALLEY OF DEATH"

=== NEW VIDEOS ===
Here are this weeks best new Music Videos:

Joe Budden - Exxxes (starring Milani Rose)
Daz Dillinger - N My Neighborhood

=== BILLBOARD 200 ===
Here are last weeks top 10 album sales chart courtesy of NEILSENs SOUND SCAN:

1. Jadakiss - THE LAST KISS 134,921 - (NEW ENTRY)
2. Prince - LOTUS FLOW3R 66,492 - (234,950)
3. Keri Hilson - IN A PERFECT WORLD 32,713 - (164,340)
4. Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S 31,744 - (87,100)
5. UGK - UGK 4 LIFE 26,304 - (102,904)
6. Beyonce - I AM SASHA FIERCE 24,400 - (2m)
7. The Dream - LOVE VS MONEY 23,700 - (295,200)
8. Jamie Foxx - INTUITION 22,200 - (830,400)
9. T.I. - PAPER TRAIL 19,500 - (1.8m)
10.Bow Wow - NEW JACK CITY PT 2 12,900 - (43,800)

The closest sales prediction came from tshizzle with 145 thousand.
Be sure to follow him on twitter.com/tsh1zzle

=== BRAND WATCH ===
This weeks Brandwatch is the new Burger King Commercial "Square Butts" which features a reinterpretation of Sir Mix-a-lot "Baby Got Back"

This ad didnt go down very well with "The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood" who had this to say:

We wonder why a childrens television station like Nickelodeon would want to link one of its most popular and profitable characters to this sort of lechery and objectification of women,