Rumble young man, rumble............



“(My career in boxing) is no different than Jay-Z’s," Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2-1, 34 KOs) boasted just before beating Jean Pascal yesterday to become the oldest boxer to win a world title.

“People said he should have retired at 40, just like people say I should have retired at 40, six years ago. I said I will retire when one of these young boys can embarrass me to the point where I need to retire. I can’t speak for Jay-Z, but none of these young rappers are embarrassing him in hip-hop and that’s no different than me in boxing.”

Shouts for the Jay-Z reference, and congrats to Hopkins for retaining his title, at age 46, as the best!

To the charts we go........

The Hot 100 saw Adele (surprise, surprise) at number 1, and familiar names rounding the top 5:

1. Adele- Rolling in the Deep
2. Katy Perry ft. Kanye West- E.T.
3. Lady Gaga- The Edge of Glory
4. Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo- Give Me Everything
5. The Black Eyed Peas- Just Can't Get Enough



The Billboard 200 saw Adele at the top as well:

1. Adele- 21
2. Various Artists- Now 38
3. The Lonely Island- Turtleneck & Chain
4. Christina Perri- lovestrong.
5. Tyler, The Creator- Goblin



Shouts to Tyler, The Creator, for dropping what is already his second album at age 20, and who is getting mad respect from artists such as Pusha T and critics alike.




Remember "Come and Get Me" from Vol. 3? Well, Jay's website Lifeandtimes.com put a little something together from the first verse to that song:



Raw.........



She's Back. Here's the video for the new single Run the World (Girls):



LOVE IT. And her.

Beyonce will be receiving the Billboard Millennium Award at the Billboard Music Awards tonight, which air live on ABC from 8-11 PM EST. Rihanna, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, and others will all be performing so go watch!


Mary Mary visited Billboard.com for an interview and a Mash-Up Monday song............The award-winning gospel duo covered Bruno Mars' Just The Way You Are, with their daughters in mind.



Good stuff!

And I'll leave you with that. Come back next week for a recap of the Billboard Music Awards and any other news that presents itself!

Later.......

Final ProjectFor Ernay

Untitled from gabriele J. Dow on Vimeo.

This will be the last blog post for a grade, so I will attempt to make it as perfect as possible. I will, however, still upkeep this blog for my own musical health and knowledge during the summer so stay tuned!



Pusha T is gearing up for the release of Fear Of God 2 (EP), which will be his official G.O.O.D. Music label debut after dropping his critically acclaimed Fear of God mixtape.
The newly released video for My God off the mixtape is below:



Push talked to thebvx.com about the upcoming EP, and released the info on a new track with Odd Future:

“We got some surprises. Ye is there. Odd Future’s there. That's a couple gems. The beat just sounds so demonic. But I actually have to give it an [official] title. I tweeted the news the other day, when I finished it. I think we got one. It's the three of us -- Tyler, Hodgy Beats and me."---Pusha T

Push also reported that he has a song with Kanye West on the EP, as well as some other new songs. It’s supposed to drop June 21, 2011. Can’t wait to hear it!

Heading to the charts………..

Adele continued her reign on the Billboard 200, with Katy Perry and Kanye holding number one for another week as well in the Top 100.
Top 5 of each are below:

Billboard 200:
1. 21-Adele
2. Wasting Light- Foo Fighters
3. Sigh No More- Mumford and Sons
4. Femme Fatale- Britney Spears
5. Lemonade Mouth-Soundtrack

Top 100:

1. E.T.-Katy Perry ft. Kanye West
2. Rolling In The Deep-Adele
3. Till The World Ends-Britney Spears ft. Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha
4. Just Can’t Get Enough- The Black Eyed Peas
5. The Lazy Song- Bruno Mars


In some uplifting news, the album put together by the major record labels entitled “Songs For Japan”, has raised $5 million dollars to date to help the people of Japan recover from their devastating earthquake and tsunami 2 months ago.

The album has sold over 500,000 copies already, with the album featuring artists such as Eminem, Cee-Lo, Rihanna, Sade, and many others.

Speaking of Rihanna, she tweeted this earlier this week:

@Rihanna: Just met a cute rich guy....but I can't fuck Benjamin's

Nothing substantial, but mildly funny.

Jimmy Fallon tweeted:

@jimmyfallon: The unemployment rate went up last month. On the bright side - I hear a senior management position just opened up at Al Qaeda. #FallonMono

A bit more funny.



Dre and Em leaked a preview of another song from Detox, entitled “Die Hard”. Any song with Eminem is hot, and this one will be no different. I can’t wait to hear the real thing!


To close it out, Chrysler is thanking Eminem for helping supply them with their first profitable quarter since it filed for bankruptcy two years ago.

They credit part of their recent success to the 10.5 million YouTube views received by this commercial:




Happy Mother’s Day!

Later.