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The Friday Hip Hop Report - (July 17th 2009)
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:

===TOP STORIES===
-The divorce between kelis and Nas is taking an ugly turn with Nas accusing kelis of fabricating his earnings & asking for too much child support!

-50 Cent & Jay Z are set to face off with album releases on the same day - Sep 11.

-and finally the recession continues to take its toll on urban brands. Ecko has put its 280,000 square foot manhattan head quarters on the market and Kellwood,the parent company of Baby Phat & Phat Farm may have to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.


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

Twista - Category 5
Joe - Signature
Chico Debarge - Addiction
CunninLynguists - Strange Journey, Volume 1
Krizz Kaliko - Genius
J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
PMP WorldWide - "HOME OF THE HEAT VOLUME 1"
and the DatPiff.com mixtape of the week is Drake "Heartbrake Drake Part 2"

===NEW MUSIC===
This weeks 5StarHipHop.com song of the week is the "Alright" by Twista ft Kanye West

Rakim - Holy Are You
Bobby Valentino ft Rick Ross & Jim Jones - Butterfly Tattoo
Fabolous - Lullaby
Young Buck - Pullin Me Back
Freeway - Bloggers
Rick Ross - Killer Instincts
Gorilla Zoe ft Ne-Yo - Echo Remix


===NEW VIDEOS===
Here are this weeks best new Music Videos:
Mariah Carey - Obsessed
Slaughterhouse - The One
Mack 10 ft Rick Ross & Lil Wayne - So Sharp




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




1. Michael Jackson - NUMBER ONES 348,507 - (CATALOG)
2. Maxwell - BLACK SUMMER'S NIGHT 319,000 - (NEW ENTRY)
3. Michael Jackson - THRILLER 263,803 - (CATALOG)
4. Michael Jackson - ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON 147,808 - (CATALOG)
5. Michael Jackson - OFF THE WALL 106,513 - (CATALOG)
6. Michael Jackson - BAD 97,201 - (CATALOG)
7. Michael Jackson - DANGEROUS 67,394 - (CATALOG)
8. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. 63,000 - (672,000)
9. Jackson 5 - ULTIMATE COLLECTION 34,031 - (CATALOG)
10.Eminem - RELAPSE 34,000 - (1.2m)

-And still at number 1 is Michael Jackson's Number Ones selling 348,000 units.
-Michael Jackson had 7 albums in this weeks top 10.
-Alchemist ended up selling 7000 units
-The closest sales prediction for Alchemist via twitter came from Substa with 11,500. Be sure to follow him on twitter.com/substa


===OTHER NEW RELEASES===
Karrine Steffans
"The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Keep the Man You Want"