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The Friday Hip Hop Report - (July 10th 2009)
The best weekly online hip hop show reporting all the developments from news and new releases to album sales and charts. Hosted by Wahidah Fowler, this weeks show features:




=== MAIN STORIES ===
Football player Steve Mcnair was murdered by his mistress who then committed suicide.

31million people in the US tuned into the michael jackson memorial, where the world got to see his daughter speak for the first time.

Ja Rule has launched a new blog RuleYork TV and is also planning a musical comeback.



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

The Alchemist - Chemical Warfare
Royce Da 5;9 - The Revival EP
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Cage - Depart From Me
J Dilla - Dillanthology 2
LMFAO - Party Rock
and the Hear-It-First.net mixtape of the week is:
50 Cent - Forever King

=== NEW MUSIC ===
This weeks AllHipHop.com song of the week is:
"Welcome To My Work Place" by Fabolous

Nathan - Superwoman
Inspectah deck - House N*gga(Joe Budden Dis)
Trey Songz ft Mase - I Need a Girl Remix
DMX - F*ck You B*tch
Mr Hudson ft Kanye West - Anyone But Him
Royce Da 5'9 ft Slaughterhouse - Warrior
Red Cafe - Heart and Soul



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

Beyonce - Sweet Dreams
Maino ft Swizz Beatz - Million Bucks
Kay Slay ft Ray J, Sheek Louch & Styles P - You Heard of Us
KRS ONE & Buckshot - Robot

=== WTF ===
This weeks WTF moment is Perez Hilton's Racist Jibe.



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




1. Michael Jackson - NUMBER ONES 339,000 - (CATALOG)
2. Michael Jackson - THRILLER 187,000 - (CATALOG)
3. Michael Jackson - ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON 121,957 - (CATALOG)
4. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. 69,800 - (609,000)
5. Jeremih - JEREMIH 59,000 - (NEW ENTRY)
6. Michael Jackson - OFF THE WALL 43,794 - (CATALOG)
7. Eminem - RELAPSE 38,600 - (1.2m)
8. Michael Jackson - DANGEROUS 23,907 - (CATALOG)
9. Michael Jackson - BAD 19,795 - (CATALOG)
10.Ace Hood - RUTHLESS 19,700 - (NEW ENTRY)

Maino's If Tomorrow Comes ended up selling 18,300