Kanye West Doesn't Have a Good A** Job Afterall

Kanye West announced the best commercial decision yet for his upcoming album, he is eliminating the title Good *ss Job. The title loosely followed the trend of his other rap album titles (College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation) mentioning aspects of higher education.

The title may have made sense to some but to many it was a little too edgy and may have discouraged parents from letting children buy the album. West has met the album sale expectations with the release of each of his previous albums and high record sales is among the goals for his next project so the label must eradicate any blemishes before the album hits stores.

Without a title there is a serious chance the untitled project will be pushed back from Sept 14 to allow more time to promote the project with its new title. This would also mean the ultimate demise of "G.O.O.D Music Day", which was supposed to stage the release of the label's most anticipated albums, Big Sean's Finally Famous, Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager and Kanye West's now untitled project. Cudi's album has already been pushed back two weeks so with the Man on the Moon 2 album definitely pushed back and possibly Kanye West's album seeing a similar fate, the minimal hype of this day will soon disappear.

Here is footage of Kanye West's performance at the 2010 BET Awards, his first televised performance of "Power".


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Bun B - Right Now featuring Pimp C, 2Pac and Trey Songz

Bun B f. Pimp C, 2Pac and Trey Songz - Right Now | New Hip Hop Music & All The New Rap Songs 2010

The most radio ready song that has leaked from Bun B.'s upcoming album titled Trill O.G. Many were waiting to hear this song to find out just how this song would work because half of the contributing vocalists are deceased.

The uptempo beat and partyesque chorus from the T-R-E-Y... Z make this a smile, head nod inducing winner.

Domonique Foxworth tears ACL and will be out for the season. Cornerback picture shifts once again.

The one cornerback who has avoided serious injury and given Ravens fans a little bit of hope for the injury ridden defensive back squad, six year veteran and starter Domonique Foxworth, suffered a torn ACL during one of yesterday's training camp practices. Foxworth started in all of the Ravens' 2009 games in both the regular season and postseason. He is widely considered the best cornerback on the roster and leaves a huge whole on the defense.

The news comes after the reliable cornerback was missing from morning practice. Foxworth tweeted the following message at 11:20am this morning,"There's nothing worse than letting down ppl you love and I love all the ravens players and fans. I'm very sorry." He will miss the rest of the 2010 season.

On the opposite side of the field, Fabian Washington has come off of training camp PUP and may not practice with the rest of the team. This news is sort of icing on a rotten cupcake. It saddens to me to hear about Foxworth but at the same time Washington's release from the list is a big stride on his road to recovery.

The array of cornerback activity makes the need for a great performance from the young cornerbacks on the roster ever more crucial. Webb is still not back to form and probably won't be until latter part of the season at the earliest.

Additional: I looked into the domino effect of a circumstance such as this earlier this summer. Check out my view on what would happen if Domonique Foxworth would have gotten hurt.

Wale- Eye of the Tiger

The title perfectly describes the angle Wale is coming from. He is showing people what may have been going on in Tiger Woods' hyperactive sexual life behind the golf tournaments and the emotional reasons for his escapades. Great cut from Wale's upcoming More About Nothing mixtape.

Tomorrow the pads are coming on.

The official start of the Ravens training camp is tomorrow morning when rookies and other select veterans who arrived in Westminster, Md on Wednesday will be joined by the rest of the physically able padded players on the team for grueling two-a-days.

Up to this point, there has not been too much contact because the players have not been practicing in the proper protective pads. Friday will initiate a lot more contact and reveal several things we have yet to see this year:

Can the Ravens' rookie tight ends really block? Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta have shown they are gifted pass receivers in their own ways. Dickson is faster but Pitta is a bit of a better route runner. We don't really know which player is better at protecting the quarterback and opening lanes for the running backs. This competition will be watched very closely because the better blocker will likely get more playing time in the upcoming season.

Is the combination of Haloti Ngata and Terrance Cody really a running backs worst nightmare?  The number of blocks these two colossal men eat (no pun intended) will be observed and compared to the expectations of the fans and media. The Ravens' offensive line is no pushover and is a good opponent to measure the defensive line's capabilities.

Kanye making his rounds to social network headquarters.

Kanye West is using social networking to promote his upcoming project, Good A** Job , but in an unorthodox fashion.

He has payed the headquarters of both Facebook and Twitter a visit to perform acapella verses in front of a small live crowd and a much larger cybercrowd thanks to cameras and youtube. The setting in which he chose is somewhat unique. I cannot recall anyone performing unreleased music acapella in an office before. Unlike the short footage him at Twitter, West tells the crowd at Facebook headquarters the name of the pieces he is performing.

Kanye West at Twitter headquarters




Kanye West at Facebook headquarters








This footage should convince clueless "fans" Kanye West has been working hard at his craft while away from the music spotlight and the world does have something to look forward to when his new album releases. He seems to be returning to the acclaimed form he was in during his College Dropout-Late Registration days many of us came to love. The verses are as charismatic as ever and the punchline are super-potent. West is pooring more passion into his versus, as seen in "Mama's Boyfriend".

The excitement for Kanye's new record is building. It is a comeback album of sorts for him and will be a very special page in the chronicles of his illustrious career.

Did the Teflon Don overtake the recovering juggernaut?

Many have kept their eyes on the album sales of this week to see whether or not we will see Eminem's insurmountable number one album in the country be outsold by Rick Ross' Teflon Don.

Unfortunately for Ross' Maybach Music camp and fans far and wide, Eminem will reign another week atop the Billboard 200 album charts. At the end of the first seven days of Teflon Don's shelf life, 176,700 copies have been sold. Recovery is still holding strong with 187,000 copies sold in its fifth week. This means Teflon Don is the first of Ross' albums to not debut at number one.

Usher- Hot Toddy featuring Jay-Z

"Hot Toddy", named after an alcholic drink served hot, is the song suitable for a moment where you find yourself ordering a drink in a dark, smoky bar with drunk women dancing around you (also known as the club). The Polow da Don produced collabo is the first song both Jay-Z and Usher done together since "Best Thing" on Usher's Here I Am album in 2007.

This may be a promotional single for Usher's next album currently being called Raymond but does not do Usher's momentum any justice. He is on the heels of an album full of relatively popular songs like "Hey Daddy" and spring hit "OMG". "Toddy" is not a radio hit but something people may be willing to play only because of the names involved. It does not touch on the main factor that makes his songs so popular, sing-along for the ladies.

Nice try Ush.